THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PACE FIVE
Red "Star" in Southwestern Sky Is Planet of Contention With Astronomical Observers
High in the southwestern city these evenings can be seen two red objects. They are of nearly the same brightness, and fairly close together, so they would simply refer to them as "two elephants" or "two astronauts who call Ala Tauri, because it is the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus, the bull. The common name for it, Abelbear, an Arabic word and means the "followers."
Of the most popular interest when we speak of Mars are the so-called "canals." They were discovered in 1863 by a German astronomer, amedellii, and have since been a bone of contention among astronomers. One group has supported the views of the Italian, while another has routed them. At least three of those who thought they saw them
The other red object, however, is not a star at all. It is the planet Mars, which last October was only a little more than 42 million miles from the earth, and was one of the most brilliant objects in the heavens. Now, however, it has receded to several times that distance, and is still moving toward us. It also shines brightly at a bright star. The map above shows its position with respect to Aldebaran, and also the neighboring constellations of Aurigna and Percusa.
J. Grisham Kreamer, CEd, Aba, was operated on for appendicitis at the Lawrence Memorial hospital Sundy in Kansas City, Doctor Daird尔 of Kansas City, Mo.
Kremer became sick Saturday, according to a fraternity brother, but did not consider his trouble anything serious until the following day. The operation revealed a ruptured appendix.
were victims of an optical illusion.
However, a photograph is often accepted in a court of law as the best possible evidence and when one sees
a photograph of the "canals," it would appear that there is no further question of their existence, but good photographs of Mars, even with the finest instruments, are not easily made. While the photographic plate has replaced the human eye to a great degree in most branches of astronomy, the images still are still best performed visually, and the best photograph of Mars that has ever been made shows but a small fraction of the detail that can be perceived by a trained observer, when looking through a powerful telescope.
Kreamer Resting Easily After Operation Sunday
At noon today he was resting wel and apparently recovering rapidly.
Read the Kansan want-ads daily.
Extension Division Hears Notting
O. F. Nolting, secretary of the municipal reference bureau, spoke at
the regular monthly staff dinner of the extension division at Wiedemann's
tea room, Tuesday, March 15. The com口and of the secretaries of
the departments of the extension division.
A French summer colony is to be instituted next summer at the Pennsylvania College as an experiment. During the six week period, students enrolled in this course will not be allowed to speak to any one except in French unless special permission is given.
Apes Can Be Taught to Use Sign Language, Psychologists Declare
Experiments on Chimpanzee Show Animals Tendencies
to imitate
Dalmore, March 17. A chimpanzee might be taught to talk with its fingers, as deaf people talk, more easily than it could be taught to imitate sounds of human speech, in the opinion of Dr. Robert M. Verkeris and Margaret S. Child, of the Institute of Psychology at Yale University.
Several scientists who have observed and studied higher apes have tried to teach them to say words, but without much success, these psychologists report in *Biology* Quarterly what is known about anthropos behavior.
"Perhaps the chief reason for the age's failure to develop speech is the absence of a tendency to imitate soundly." Doctor Yerkes explains, "This always stimulates to imitation, but hearing seems to have no such effect."
He believes that the sounds made by apes are not language, but are primarily emotional expressions, which are not learned by imitation.
A French scientist, Louis Bontan, who observed a female gibbon for five years, has concluded that a young child who has not learned to spend, works like the gibbon. A child who is beginning to talk no longer works like the ape but directs its efforts along a definite line, like a man. The difference, according to this investigator, is that gibbons, like the child, but to the development of language, which we look
Both scientific and popular interest in the higher apes has increased steadily and greatly in the first quarrel century, the psychologists report.
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Skilton in Minneapolis, Hears Own Composition
Prof. C. S. Skilton, head of the organ and theory department of the School of Fine Arts, spent Friday in Minneapolis where he heard the presentation of his latest orchestral work, A Symphonic Legend" played by the public symphony under the direction of Ivan Verbringen.
The work was received with enthusiasm. Professor Skilton was called to how many times and was finally called to the platform. "This is very much a joy," he said of his work, "aid D. M. Schwartzhoff on the School of Fine Arts.
Youth Suicides Decreasing
Life Insurance Figures Show Fewer Minor Deaths
Sulce among minors is not on the increase as many persons believe, but rather on the decrease, and has been so for some time, according to figures just compiled by the Metropolitan Police Department, that murders from their investigations show that suicides among minors constitute a very small fraction of the total number of deaths from that cause in the United States. Two per cent of all suicides occurred in code in the United States since January 1 were among minors, while it
1928, the rate was five per cent.
Among children, that is, under 15 years of age, the rate is only three.
Among children, one per cent of the total number.
Since 1911, the rate among white boys has fallen from 6.7 per cent to 3.3 per cent last year. For girls, the improvement has been even greater, falling from 10.1 to 2.9 in 1925, and 3.4 last year.
Ages between 15 and 20 years are the most common in suicides among minors, and the rate for girls is usually higher than that for boys. It is interesting to note, however, that during the years 1921, 1924, 1928, and 1928, self destruction among boys was more common than among girls.
"Thus, in spite of the recent furry, the general tendency of the suicide rate among young people has been distinttely downward during the last 10 years," the industrial department of the company states.
Four Mile Relay Tryouts Friday. There will be a four mile relay tryout Friday afternoon at 4:30 in preparation for the state championship, held the 25th of March at Austin, Texas. This is the first time in a number of years that Kansas has had a four mile relay team and to date has been an unusually good material.
Freshmen at the University of Colorado present their outstanding man with a brown derby each year.
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DOWN the formal lanes of fashion, the boiling highways of business, the primrose paths of fiction . . . peep over their shoulders and see where their minds are going. Here's one reading the daily column on cooking, another puzzling over a football diagram, others deep in the market reports, in editorials, reviews. stories. news . . . open roads for people's minds . . . cleared by the newspapers and magazines themselves to strengthen their positions and to retain their claims to the interest of the public.
These roads lead people to new views of life, to vistas opening on the problems of the day, to close-ups of sport, to fresh perspectives of pleasure. But there is one road that has been cleared, not particularly for individuals or classes to follow, but for everyone—the broad highway of advertising that leads to things.
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Here's a washing machine (Did you ever do a week's wasting?) ... Here's a musical instrument (Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in your living-room) ... Here's a delicious breakfast food (Bowls of health from the corn lands) ... Here's a smart and beautiful frock (If you can sew only a very little, it yours) ... Here's a perfume, heart of a lovely flower ("You're marvelous tonight") ... Here's a motor-car (Why not the Yellowstone this summer?) ... Advertisements whose headlines alone invite. interest and arouse new ambitions and desires.
Do people's minds really travel down this highway of advertising? . . . Ask the big stores to tell you of the people who come to buy, not with a question upon their lips, but with a torn-out newspaper advertisement in their hands. Ask the manufacturer who received more than eighty thousand coupons from a single advertisement. Ask the schools that advertise, all of whose returns are directly traceable. Ask the sales managers of many of our largest business organizations who watch their sales curves rise up and up as their advertising diverses a flood of buyers into the stores where their goods are sold.
Do people read advertising? . . . Well, here you are . . at the bottom of this one.
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