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Newspaper Work In Dark Continent Unlike That In U.S.
Africa
Frank L. Snow Relates Experiences on Paper in Rhodesia, South Africa.
Newspaper work in Africa is very different from newspaper work in this country, according to Frank L. Snow, now head of the department of journalism at Oregon State Agricultural College. Mr. Snow, son of ex-Chan Chang, a journalist, journal classes Monday of his experience as a reporter in Rhodesia.
"Pepty style is lacking in the newspapers of South Africa," said Mr. Snow, "When I came back and started to work for an American paper my stories had to be rewritten. They did have the pep. In Salisbury the advertising of a paper appears on the front page. The stories are all long and dry and are uninteresting as we regard news. The stiff formal way of writing is typical of the English newspaper."
Mr. Snow went to Africa as an over-seer on the farm of William H. Brown, a graduate of the University. Later he secured a position on the Rhodesia Herald. His most recent visit to Africa was in 1006.
Overseer on African Farm
"I had the job of reporting teh police court in the morning. The work consisted mainly of ironing out native troubles, such as that occasioned when one native steals a blinket from another. After this was over, I was exchange editor, and reported the athletic events in the afternoon. In the evening I read all the proof for the paper."
"People there looks up to anyone who wears brass buttons or any sort of uniform," Professor Snow told the class. "In the courts that the most rigid discipline is enforced, the judges wear robes and white wigs. Each year the governor gives a ball, which is a great event. The governor is known as "Hits" because of the violence of such a function is a difficulty because of the necessity of describing the gowns worn by the women."
Women of no Importance
mother.
The women of the South Africa regard women as of little value, Mr. Snow said. The women cook the food for the men and leave it, not ranking a place at the table with their husbands. They are bought and sold. Most of the men have only one wife, because there are not enough women.
In a short sketch of the history of the country Mr. Snow told of the settling in 1889 by 450 British pioneers. William Harrow Brown, a taxidermist employed by the Smithsonian Institute, led the first group of war that year to collect specimens for the Institute, and enlisted with the pioneers at Cane Town. He was awarded 3000 acres of land for his services, and sent for Mr. Snow to act as assistant in the managing of the estate. Mr. Snow, the son and daughter of Mr. Brown, are students in the University this year.
"Grasshoppers are considered good food," declared Mr. Snow in discussing the customs of the country. "When boiled and fried they are eaten very much as potato chips are here. I ate a part of an eggplant and then asked what it was. They told me it was mashed peanuts and caterpillars."
Honorary Biological Society Elects Eighteen Members
Phi Sigma, national honorary biological society elected eighteen new members at their meeting last night, Hermey Farris, president of the society, announced. Two members of the society, H. Hill and F. of the department of zoology, and Dr. Forest Anderson, of the department of bacteriology, were elected.
Other members from the department of bacteriology were: Donald Meederlich, Alexander Marble, Kenneth Gooder, Helen Converse; from the department of zoology, Daniel Lea, Bruner, C. E. Sanborn, W. G. Garlie, Raymond Beamer, and William Brown; from the department of botany; Dorothy Vaughan; from biology; Cyrum Bucierza; from the department of zoology; John D. Scales; Raymond Hall, and Jean Linsade; from the department of anatomy; Amandi Angulo.
Paul B. Wileo, of East Cleveland, Ohio, who was former executive secretary of the City Managers Association, was in Lawrence Friday and Saturday talking over the transfer of the secretaries to Lawrence. He was the guest of John Stutz and Harvey Walker.
If Bakeries Made a Perfect Staff of Life, We Would Need Laws to Make People Eat
If legislation were passed requiring all bread sold to contain all vitamins and nutritive elements to make it a complete staff of life, it would be necessary also to pass legislation to make people eat it, in the opinion of Prof. H. Werner in charge of the State Food Laboratory here.
Professor Werner has received a letter from Milo Hastings, director of the Food Research Laboratory of the Physical Culture Magazine, calling attention to an article in the November issue of that magazine and asking Prof. Werner's opinion on the subject discussed there, deficient bread.
"Deficient bread injures the whole population, particularly the children, and more particularly the children of the poor, who as a practical proposition cannot escape the evils of a deficient diet as long as the only staff of life available is a broken stick." In reply to the request for his idea of the necessary composition of a leaf that will best overcome the known
"If bread is more deadly than alcohol, and more destructive to national health," queries Mr. Hastings, "why not protect our people, especially our children, by prohibiting the sale of bread, the essential chemical elements?
High School Scribes Express Desire For Active Organization
tentencies of present breads, Profes-
or Werner states very clearly seven
reasons why he does not believe that
the institution would be possible
at this time.
In the first place, bread is bread, and is considered by the Federal authorities as such. To make it a combination of all the food stuffs necessary to satisfy our needs to some applications if the resulting product were still called bread.
Editorial Association Holds Business Session for Purpose of Electing Officers
That the Association be native and active organization, was it general desire expressed by the candidates who attended the sixth annual business session of the Kansas II School, Editorial Association, in Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Journalism Building.
After some discussion it was decided to hold a newspaper contest this year for members of the Association, only. A committee composed of the Winfield delegates was appointed to make definite arrangements for this contest. It was announced that Mr. Flint, head of the department of journalism, would index the various papers submitted.
It has been claimed that lack of vitamins in food is a danger to the public, but Professor Werner points out that it has never been definitely proven that vitamins, as we are to know them, are not killed by the temperature at which bread is baked; so that the enforcement of the sale of vitamins containing bread might be futile.
According to those present, the original constitution of the Association cannot be located. The delegates of Winfield were named a committee to draw up a new constitution and have it ready for presentation at the next regular meeting of the organization.
Bud Johnson, of Winfield, the retiring president of the Association presided over the meeting. The other officers were more Maynard, a retired professor, president and Paul Murphy, of Hutchinson, secretary and treasurer.
For the term beginning with this meeting, the editor of the "Hutchinson Burz" was elected as president of the Association. As the editor might change from time to time, by custom the officers are not named. Eldorado was elected vice president and Winfield, secretary and treasurer.
It is already possible to get wholesome whole-wheat bread at almost any bakery, yet it is evident that the majority of the people prefer the white bread. Should a bread be made which would be complete and efficient food that will alone support growth, it would no longer be of longevity, it would no longer be an article which the Federal authorities could define as bread.
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Geology Class Studies Oil
Students Make Field Surveys For Peerless Oil
A class in oil and gas geology is studying the holdings of the Poerless Oil Company of Kansas. This company has a section of country based southeast of Bailwin. There are twenty wells now completed and several others are being drilled as fast as possible.
Members of the class are making surveys of the field preparatory to making maps of different formations and their relative positions regarding the thickness of the different sand formations, and the places where the oil will occur. On the basis of this information the members of the class are preparing maps for further drilling, predicting depths at which present wells will find oil producing sands and the probable amount produced.
Before the end of the semester the class will figure the depreciation and depletion on leases and make out income tax returns for the company. Students in this work practical experience which is not gained in most schools.
Some time in the future the twenty-eight members of the class will begin twenty-four hour hours. This is to give experience in work on the equipment and to maintain it in keeping records, and to observe in detail the methods of drilling.
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Acacia Mother Goes to Denver
Mrs. Halderman, Acacia house-mother, left last night for Denver where she will attend a luncheon given by the supreme president of The Boscant, an organization of the wives and widows of Knights Templar. While there she met with many former students of the University. Mrs. Halderman will visit her sister in Colorado Springs enroute home.
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Home economics laboratories will be open Saturday morning, from 9 to 12:30 o'clock, for all students who have taken a University course in foods, in order that they may have extra practice in cooking.
Special assistance will be given advance students in the preparation of puff pastry, meringues, coffee breads, and candies. All are advised to cook in large quantities whenever they can dispose of their products.
Students may cook any dish which interests them, providing their plans are approved by an instructor. Students must sign up on the bulletin board to receive nominations for the nominee offices, for the time that they wish to use the laboratories. A complete market order must be given to an instructor by Friday morning.
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