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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1927
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Editorial Staff
Editor-in-chief
Associate Editor
Campus Editor
Night Editor
Robin Mite,
George Roncez
Alice Gollan
Haley Tatum
Reporters
Stanley Packard
William Griffith
Frank Tijgman
Business Staff
Advertising Manager... Lee D哼婷
Ast. Advertising Mer.. Tom McKenna
Ast. Advertising Mer. Lacie Ruppert
Foreign Advertising William Clark
Telephones
Business Office. K. U. 54
News Room. K. U. 55
Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday mornings, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Illinois Press of the University of Journalism.
Entered as second secretary, mail matter September 17, 1010, at the post office at Lawrence, Kauai, under the art of March 3, 1897.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1927
WHY EAT YEAST?
Yeast has no more cosmetic value than Huekleberry Finn's charm to cure warts, according to L. M. Hussy's article in a recent edition of the New Republic. The explosion of the yeast body-building theory comes as a lightning blast to University of Kansas athletics who are fed yeast daily to keep them in trim.
"Worse than the sour milk fad is the current enthusiasm for yeast as an adjunct to the diet," writes Mr, Hussey. "Yet in recent twelfmonths we have been astounded to hear—from the assertions of copious advertising copy—that yeast was a semifoodstuff of outstanding therapeutic value. For one thing, yeast is especially rich in one of the vitamins, and is, consequently, a superb tonic. The first half of this statement is true—the second false. Yeast is rich in a particular vitamin, and vitamins are, assuredly, most necessary in the diet. Fortunately, nearly all dyes contain them in ample amount. An excess of vitamins serves no purpose and has, so far as is demonstrable, no tonic value.
"But what of the mysterious power of yeast, so freely advertised, to cure skin eruptions—boils, pimples, funnies?" In this instance its power扑纷 of the same mystery as the cascara pills formerly swallowed in lieu of yeast. In other words, yeast is for some individuals an effective laxative; and, in a few instances, where the cause is related to the intestine, a laxative will free the skin of its blemishes. Otherwise, yeast has no cosmetic value.
"That, indeed, sums up the character of most of the foot fads, past and present. They are charms, they are amulets, they are the products of the witch doctor."
A bit of pseudo-scientific abracadabra and thousands are ready to believe and eat accordingly.
TABOO WITH DEATH SENTENCES
The world has often laughed at Kansas's legal measures. But proud should we be of many of them. One of these is the abolition of the death sentence.
Within the past year, definite efforts to restore the death penalty have been made in the state legislature. These measures have all been defeated, and Kansas, fortunately, still remains one of the eight states in which legal executions have been done away with.
Crime is not a *matter* of deliberate choosing. It is rather a social disease. Its victims should be treated, not killed. The only justification for punishment is, that by teaching the individual to associate pain with wrong-doing, he may learn not to repeat the wrong. When society puts a man to death for purposes of punishment, it is acting no more intelligently than if it had put him to death for contracting tuberculosis.
Contrary to popular opinion, murderers are not the worst criminals. Prison wardens unanimously say that prisoners who are serving life-sentences for murder are the most trustworthy men they have. Murders are committed by emotional persons who do not weigh the consequences of their acts. They are driven forward by impulses so overpowering that they blot out all other considerations.
Dead penalties do not necessarily deter others from crime. The punishment is neither swift nor certain. Statistics show that not more than one out of every eight homicide is ever punished by execution. A penalty less severe, but more swift and certain, would be more likely to have the desired effect.
If the advocates of the death penalty are right, murders should be more frequent in those states which have abolished capital punishment than in those where it is still retained. Such is not the case. Murders are not more frequent in Kansas, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and other statuses where there have been no executions for many years than in nearby commonwealths where criminals are frequently put to death.
Society must remove the conditions of it which crime grows, and not severely its wrath on the criminals.
Discarded in a ditch along a side street in the north end of town is a dejected old Ford: Its tires are gone, its hood rusted, and its top disfigured. On its back is written, "I do not choose to run in 1928."
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John Foster, editor of the Jay hawker, was pressed by an ardent
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ONVOCATION:
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. IX
14  Thursday, September 15 1927  No. 5
The first all-University convention of the year will be held in Robinson gymnasium at 10 cclock Friday morning, Sept. 15, 1987. Chancellor Lindley
JOHN R. DYER, Chairman Convocations Committee.
ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS:
8:30 section of Accounting 1 will meet in room 369, central Administration buildings.
All laboratory sections in Accounting I will meet in 300 central Administration building.
Economies 89. Market Administration, will meet in room 111. east Admiration building. F. T. STOCKTON.
GLEE CLUB FIRST TRIALS:
First trials will be held Thursday, Sept. 14, as follows, in room 10,
central Administration building basement;
4 p. m., G. Blackman, V. Bulber, F. M. Bush.
5 p. m., R. W. Creaman, C. R. Cruickshank, E. E. Haight.
430 p. m., J. McJuggage, D. M. McPierland, J. A. Minger.
445 p. m., A. C. Schrecier, D. Selgk, E. L. Stone.
450 p. m., H. Abbott, F. K. Broeker, J. K. Brown.
730 p. m., H. Abbott, F. K. Broker, J. K. Brown.
745 p. m., J. D. Dudley, O. A. Esplund, D. L. Ewart.
8 p. m., W. W. Filkin, jc. C. Foster, L. C. Hahn.
815 p. m., D. E. Jensen, A. R. Kottman, F. A. Manley.
830 p. m., R. M. Mcoy, O. M. McKiley, B. A. Nell.
840 p. m., O. S. McKiley, O. S. McKiley, B. A. Nell.
9 p. m., E. B. Youngstrom, W. Woodward, J. H. Wrenchey.
915 p. m., G. K. Meusner, M. A. Morrison, J. N. Myers.
930 p. m., G. L. Norris, D. K. Rankin, E. R. Sloan.
945 p. m., M. J. Steinhardt, E. W. Sutherland, C. B. Trees.
10 p. m., V. Traylor, G. L. Fenice (or Pennel).
salesman in the central Administration building to "Buy a 1928 Jey-hawker."
"I don't need to buy an Annual," Foster replied. "I'm the editor-in-chief."
"Yes," came back the salesman,
"and I'm Napoleon."
THOMAS A. LARREMORE.
September Vignettes
A freshman hopped out of an automobile in front of Carle's clothing at yesterday an uppermenass urged him to "Hurry, and return that
suit for me," Looking in at the front window of the store was a man dressed in knickers. As the freshman passed him, the man grabbed at the suit of clothes under the freshman's arm. The freshman snatched them away. The stranger grabbed them again. Finally, each gaining a hold on a pant-leg, the two went round and round on the sidewalk—in a veritable tug-o-war. A shout from the upperclassman in the car broke up the struggle. "Give him the clothes, you nanny," he yelled. "That is Mr. Carl."
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Ethylene Gas Is Used to Stimulate Plants
where Society Brand Clothes are sold
Balance Report
Dertel, Sept. 18—Bethylan, one of the ingredients of common illuminating gas, is in working a revolution in the fruit and vegetable industries. Poisonous to plants when present in high concentrations, in small quantities, it can be fatal. A variant is being taken of this recently discovered fact. Dr. E. Denny of the Boyes Thompson Institute, Yonkers, N. Y., discussed fruit ripening by attack here with the most expert of the American Chemical Society.
It had long been known that when the rooms where citrus fruits were stored were heated with kerosene to change the green rind to the desired golden hue was reduced to about one-fourth. Doctor Denny's experiment involved the active agent in the combustion gases was ethylene. Now this gas in use instead of old oil stove in the treatment of hundreds of carcasses of fruit was used as a fire risk and smoky odor, Doctor Denny said today.
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