PAGE TWO THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansai Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW "NCE", KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHIE ...WESLEY McCALLA Lena Wyatt Joe Doctor MANAGING EDITOR ... MAX MOXLEY Comms Editor FORM Makeup Editor Carolyn Harper Sunday Editor J.D. Evans Buddys Editor John D. Evans Business Editor Charles Brown Society Editor Charles Brown Alumni Editor Denry Pry Alumni Editor Vicki Rowe Business Man F. Quentin Brown Clerk Ellen Carter Kansan Board Members Telenhones Lona Wyatt William Decker Ruth Foster Wesley McCalla Carolyn Harper Joshua Harper F. P. Harper Iris Olson New Boake Rutherford George Lererrig Julia Mukamal Business Office K. K. 68 Midwest Plaza Midwest Plaza Night Bridge Business Office 2011K Night Bridge Published in the afternoon of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 10 a.m. at The University of Kansas, from the Press of t Subscription prices, per year. $3.00 cash in advance, $3.25 on payments. Single copies, be Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1919, at the post office atLawrence, Kansas. URSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935 THE ED IS NOT FOR CAUTION "Do the women students of this campus think a joint student council with a proportion of three to one in favor of men sounds like a fair proposition?" asks a campus opinion printed in the Kansan last Tuesday. And that brings strange thoughts to mind. Picture, if you can, a group of women of twenty years ago when the woman suffrage question was being fought out, standing around on street corners moaning that they couldn't be expected to compete with men politically because the old meanies would just overwhelm them and they wouldn't have a chance. Evidently the women of the campus have a great deal of respect for masculine vigor. They have not thought that it might be possible, through sensible argument and vigorous campaigning, to overcome the men's superiority in numbers and swing a great part of the men of the Hill over to their side on questions where there is apt to be difference of opinion between the sexes. What the women need is not warning of the perils of political equality, an incentive to set up a clamor for more voice in student government. The authors of the letter, however, haven't much confidence in the men's honesty. They are afraid the men will appropriate the $6,.000 the women have accumulated, taking it for granted, evidently, that all men of the Hill will vote for their sex, regardless of right and wrong. Then there's the one about the bright co-ed who said she supposed if a number of sheep was called a flock and a number of cattle was called a herd, a number of camels would be a carton. "THE WORLD GOES ON ANYWAY" "I don't have much faith in reformers," declared James H. Harkless, speaking to a meeting of Native Sons in Kansas City. "Some people have the idea that as son as they get out of college they give it to humanity to reform somebody; but I say leave 'em alone; they are all right." It all depends on what kind of reformer Mr. Harkless has in mind. If he means the tight-minded moralist who sets out to "save" a drunkard, he's perfectly right. But the real reformer is the one who finds out what is pushing that man toward drink as a means of escape, the one who sees an undesirable condition and "reforms" that. Knowing the type of individual who generally wins the title of reformer, we'll concede Mr. Harkleck a point there. But the opinion he goes on to express, "that the human race hasn't improved a bit since it crawled out of the swamps a million years ago," is a bit ridiculous. It may spring from a fanatical belief that everything was created perfect in the beginning. But more likely it's just that same old indifference that has such a devastating effect on all attempts at progressive action. Too many people settle down in their rocking chairs and, with say, Mr. Hawkess. "The world goes on anyway." Of course the world will go on anyway—but it will probably be the worst possible way. When people become contented there's no hope for them. A certain so-called scientist has advanced the theory that electrons are the hole that fill up empty space. If his theory can be put to no other use, perhaps it will help explain the mysterious hole in the doughnut. INCOMPETENT JURIES A letter from Dr. J. R. Bunch, acting superintendent of Missouri state hospital No. 2 at St. Joseph, recommending the release of Mrs. Grace Wynne, who last September shot and killed the wife of her former husband, has been received by the Jackson county probate court. Mrs. Wynne was never tried for murder. She obtained, through her lawyer, delays in criminal proceedings on the grounds of ill health, until a sanity hearing was held in the probate court. Before a jury of twelve men, her mother and Dr. T. S. Blakelys testified that Mrs. Wynne was insane. No evidence was offered by either side. She was adjudged insane by the jury, and was committed to the state hospital. Since her incarceration in the institution Mrs. Wynne has shown no indication of insanity, yet a jury of twelve supposedly intelligent men held that she was insane and coolly let her change her address to that of the hospital where she would be well treated and taken care of, while other murderers are sent to penitentiaries to spend the rest of their lives at hard work. Judge Henderson states that it her release is applied for it will have to be tried before a jury and that he intends to notify the prosecutor's office and the criminal court of the matter. Thus twelve more intelligent and incompetent people will again decide on the woman's sanity. The case is just one more bit of evidence of the need for the use of experts in the judicial system. Juries may be able to decide impartially whether an accused person has or has not committed a crime, but they cannot be expected to perform competently a task that requires such specialized training as does the judging of a person's sanity. "No more window-washing hazards! With this new device you can clean your windows by remote control," reads a bit of copy by a budding advertising student Such ingenuity should sell elec tric fans from Eskimos. The question of compulsory military drill at Kansas State College, Manhattan, appears to have been settled, for a time at least, by Judge Otis Hugate's denial of a student's application for an order enjoining the school from compelling him to take military training as a part of his course there. So, whether they like it or not, students at that college will shoulder their muskets with an air of resignation until some future hero takes their cause to court in a new test case or until the regents relent in their ruling. It's Still Compulsory Garden City Telegram. There's no curing this rebellion by any action short of retracting the rules which make drill compulsory. The objections may be trivial, but on the other hand, there seems to be no reasonable excuse for endeavoring to make peace-time soldiers of college students against their will. In schools where military While there is possibly a growing demand for peace and the abandonment of all things militaristic in nearly every American college and university today, it is not this tendency which spurs the strongest rebellion against compulsory training. That arises from the natural distaste for anything compulsory, the desire to have as many hours as possible free from routine work of any kind and the reluctance to stand long hours at an office for a fellow student silly enough to continue his military training beyond the required two years and obtain a commission which puts him in to inflict his commands upon his juniors. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Noticees due at Chancellor's office on 11 a. m on regular afternoon publication days and 11 a. m, 11 a. m, Saturday for Sunday issues. Regular meeting at 7:30 this evening at 210 Marvin hall. Installation of off- fice and motion pictures. G. R. WARREN, Secretary. No. 77 Thursday, Jan. 17, 1935 A meeting will be held at 7:30 this evening in the Council room of the Memorial Union building. Actives and pledges be present. KAYHAWK CLUB: A. SCHWERDTFEGER, Regent. KAPPA PSI: All present and past members of the Keyhawk club are urgently requested to attend a special meeting at 7:30 this evening in room 5 of the Memorial Union building. An important change of policy is involved. Paddling of freshmen was abandoned at Grinnell College this year but hazing, it appears, is to be continued. In lieu of the paddling, each first year man was required to appear at a dinner with a data to learn table manners and such. NEWMAN CLUB: WAYNE PARCEL, Secretary. NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman club will have its last meeting of the semester this evening at 8 p.m. at the usual place. Frank O'Neill will review Rev D'Arcy's "Thomas Acuinas." T. C. LAWRENCE, Secretary. EXPERIMENT PROVES GLASS A CONDUCTOR OF ELECTRICITY Work of Edwin Harper Lane, Showing How Pyrex Can Be Made to Carry a Current, Is Important Contribution to Knowledge of Physics By Allen Merriam, c'36 High school physics students are taught that glass is a non-conductor of electricity. Dissillusionment, however, would have awaited any prep scholar who might have wandered into a cereal box in Blake hall a few months ago. Edwin Harper Lare, a graduate student in physics, was in this laboratory hard at work on an investigation which proved conclusively that a certain type of glass will conduct electrical current. The evidence now lies on a shelf in Watson Library in the form of a thesis entitled, "Variation of the Surface Conductance of Pyrex Glass With the Vapor Pressure of Water and Alcohol." Mr. Lane's work was not the first in this field. Physicists had for some time been aware of the electrical conductance phenomena in connection with Pyrex glass. They attributed it to the accumulation on the surface of such glass of a layer of vapor which had electrical properties different from the training is optional, there are enough student soldiers enrolled to form a parade of impressive proportions and that is about the only function of a college R.O.T.C. unit, after all. Two Michigan fraternity men ran a little short of funds recently and announced that they would stage a floor show which all brothers willing to shell out the admission price might attend. The show consisted of a contest to determine which of the two performers, each provided with a pair of scissors, could do the most damage to the other's hair within a given interval of time. The decision was a draw and each contest netted $1.25. The campus barber shop did its best to reclaim the wreckage the next morning. On Other Hills SANTA FETRAIL SYSTEM A Minnesota law student has this career business all figured out. "A] men, he thinks, make the teachers," "B] men make the lawyers," "C] men make the legislators, and "D] men make the money." aave hours and miles to Chicago—New York. New modern buses, individual reclining chairs, hot-water heat, every convenience. Shortest direct route from the Southwest to the Great Lakes. Graduating from the University in 1938. Lane returned to the campus in the fall of 1933 to secure an M.S. degree in physics. An investigation of these interesting electrical phenomena in connection with Pyrex glass was suggested to the graduate student by Prof. J. D. Stranathan. AKRON, OHIO $13.35 CHICAGO 7.80 DETROIT 1.02 NEW YORK 20.55 PITTSBURGH 15.15 WASHINGTON 18.30 glass itself. LOWEST FARES Lawrence Bus Terminal (Back of Weaver's) 111 W. 9th St. Phone 82 Assembling the necessary apparatus for this work represented quite a task in itself. The field of experiment lay far from the beaten path. Special apparatus was required to create the changing vapor conditions under which Lane intended to test the conductance of Pyrex glass. PATEE At last the work got under way. Current from an alternating current bridge was sent through a test element which consisted of a coil of copper wire wound to regular spacings around a bar of 'pyrex glass'. A metal pipe container Today 10c - 15c Dick Powell - Al Jolson Kay Francis - Ricardo Cortez In 1934's Mightiest Musical ("WONDER BAB") "WONDER BAR" Plus—Ben Blue Comedy "HERE COMES FLOSSIE" Those Were Wonderful Days' over the test element created an air-tight chamber in which vapor could Water and alcohol vapors were developed in a vapor system and sent into the chamber at varying temperatures and pressures. The decrease in volume of the current from the bridge after it had passed through the coil showed the amount of electric current that had been conducted from the circuit by the adsorbed vapor coating on the Pyrex glass. Hours were spent in making accurate observations and notations of the results. M. Lane's experiments were made under conditions different from any ever attempted before. His data, which included the first ever obtained in the absence of air from the test element, showed that the surface conductance of alternating current by Pyrex glass increases with increasing water vapor pressure. The direct current conductance was shown to depend on electrode polarization as well as the vapor pressure. When ethyl alcohol vapor was substituted for water vapor, Lane found that the time of exposure in the test element was predominant in determining the alternating current conductance rather than the vapor pressure. This was the first investigation which has been out that important finding. Future research on this subject will probably continue from this point. While Mr. Lane's tireless work on this job lacks the spectacular aspect which bring popular acclaim, his finding has received considerable knowledge in his chosen field. 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