HOFFMAN SENDS BACK
STORY OF SUFFERING
Former Y. M. C. A. Secretary
Writes Concerning Plight
of European Students
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Takes of the great suffering that European students are now undergoing and the attempts of the International Y. M. C, A. to alleviate these privations are told in a letter from Conrad鸿丰 to friends here.
Mr. Hoffman was former University Y. M. C. A. secretary and is now in Berlin as executive secretary for the European Students' Relief. He tells of a trip in the interests of the fami ne relief movement as follows:
"The trip for the relief of European students; which we have just completed has been very successful." The letter states, "It included Berlin, the largest cities of Sweden, London, Warsaw, Prague, Vienna and Budapest, and in all places around the world." The emtiamism. The Capenhagen students pledged 1000 Dunish crowns and the rest as much and even more.
"We are trying an experiment here at Prague which is proving very successful," says Mr. Hoffman. "Barracks have been erected to serve as dormitories for the students of the faculty, only those students who have helped in the building live here. The serving of one meal a day is also being attempted. The lack of flown is making this difficult, however faculty and students are paying low prices. Many eminent professors and scientists partake of these meals and their wives are taking a special job in serving and managing them. Mr. Hoffman will be leading the faculty clubs in Europe and that they will prove very popular.
"In Budapest, Hungary, besides furnishing the students with sleeping arrangements and one meal a day, books, hospital conveniences, and clothes are being provided free to those judged worthy by the courts. The kitchen will be provided by the produce from government gardens which the students will cultivate. The necessary farm implements must be provided by the relief committee," Hoffman continued. "Also we are offering rooms in order to make the manufacture of woolen material possible.
"Germany and Asia Minor are asking for funds it is impossible to meet now, but we are hoping for more contributions from the United States soon. As it is, we will only be caring for fifteen per cent of the students in these districts. I know you of America will help us, and that you will do your utmost to make the funds necessary for this work available. The realization that we have your cooperation means everything to us."
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Playlet of Student "On Boards" Tonight
"The Fourth Angle," a playlet by Paul W. White, c23, will be given as a curtain riser in the Little Theater of Green Hall, Wednesday night at 7:30 to "The Elpers," a Dynamic Club tryout production.
The cast of White's play is composed of Merton Akers, Phil Darley, Reid Pinkston, on the conventional marital triangle of eastern social circles.
STUDENTS HEAR K.C. AD MAN
Heads of Club Discussed Truth in Advertising
Mr. Clinton Oliver, president of the Kansas City Advertising Club, and George Husser, secretary of the Club spoke Tuesday afternoon before the advertising classes in Room 102, Journallism Building.
"Organized truth in advertising do not start as a moral movement," said Mr. Husser in opening his talk. "It started because business men saw advertising was being used as marketing and that business men were suffering as a result, who can lie in the advertising business, but it takes a smart man to tell the truth attractively."
Mr. Husser stated that the protective advertising bureau in Kansas City, which is a branch of the Justice Department, uses three laws to enforce truthfulness and dependable advertising among erring dealers; first, the law of self-respect; second, the law of diminished responsibility; third, the law of the land.
Mr. Husser closed his talk by saying that the public has a right to be able to leave every word of advertising it reads, that honest business is important, and finally that the newspaper that publishedlying ads should be punished.
In his speech Mr. Oliver especially emphasized the practical side or the Ad Club and its willfulness to be of interest for students in the department of journalism.
"Advertising is the same as salesmanship," said Mr. Oliver. "The salesman who gets the business is the one who gets the business man's confidence by honest representation, verifying it in a pro-terrorism journalism," he concluded, "for it is the power which makes the wheels of industry go round."
G. W. Smith to Boulder
G. W. Smith, assistant instructor in mathematics, will teach in the University of Colorado at Boulder again this summer.
covers a period of eleven weeks and gives the student is given for the work that is given in the fall and spring semesters.
Helen Olson, c'21, and Dorothy Stanley, c'22, left last for Madison, Wisc., where they will attend college for Women's Self Government.
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Thirty-seven years ago Dr. E. H. S. Baller became head of the department of chemistry of the University of Kansas, He started with one student assistant, Dr. L. M. Powell of Topeka. At this time there were only three buildings on the campus; the library and the Journalism Building. The latter was finished after Dr. Bailey came, and was named the Chemistry Building. This building cost the state of Kansas $4,000, and the University $8,000. It contained about $100 worth of apparatus. The entire faculty of K. U. consisted of twenty-one students living, and two of them are still teaching in the University. Dr. Bailey and his assistant taught two ordinary chemistry courses, besides toxicology, materia medica and physiological chemistry. All University students were required to take chemistry classes, but there were no afternoon classes. The periods were fifty-five minutes long. At the end of each period the librarian in the south part of Fraser rang a large gong which was connected to a smaller one in the Chemistry Building.
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Renz recovered his voice and made the announcement to his mother over the field telephone.
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The curative value of airplane and balloon flights in the rarified air regions was brought forcibly to the attention of the medical world by a recent incident in Washington. H. A Renz, Jr., who was rendered viseless during the world war, was advised by Dr. Charles A. McEneryne of the Public Health Agency. Renz was taken up by a government airplane at Bolling field and reaching an altitude of 14,000 feet was brought back to the field.
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The air service pointed out that Miss Grace Ford, a Roanoke, Va. girl recovered her singing voice in a similar manner. Miss Ford was one of the first to volunteer for her mission. Early in 1918 her voice failed her. Every effort to find a remedy failed until in the fall of 1918, she made an airplane trip. This was while she was in Lima, Peru. She went on to sing. She was preparing to send her regrets and an explanation when a former army officer asked he
nucenza.
The nerve specialist may find a wide field of operations, the air service experts said.
a accompany him on a flight.
When they reached an altitude of 8,000 feet, Miss Ford felt a curious tension in the throat and she said the sensation was akin to nosebleed. At 10,000 feet her throat and nose lost the peculiar sensation. She immediately thought of her voice and essayed a few notes. To her surprise her voice seemed clearer than the propeller. Miss God that evening sang at the palace.
to accompany him on a flight.
Physicians attached to the public health service believe there is a tremendous field of possibilities in the investigation of flying for curative purposes. We know from experience that the effects of qualified air on certain diseases.
The near future was held likely to produce the aerial sanatosium and the acro-therapist.
He advised scientific investigation of the physical and mental reaction to tastes and odors at different altitudes, and suggested the possibility that the tonic effect of change from hot and impure air to cool, pure air, impregnated wood or glass with acidic acetic acid might contribute without the aid of heat to the sick and invalid.
A surgeon in the Royal Air Force, England, called attention to a number of cures of different aliments affected by flying. These cures ranged from the cold to phthisis, neurologia and influenza.
Back in 1786 the "Aeropadila" the first handbook on aeronautics in the English language, was printed. It contained balloon ascents for concoctaes.
The Phi Delta Pi honorary legal fraternity held initiation in the district court rooms on last Friday night for the following men: Judge Huek Means of the Missouri College; Kluwer Kemper, 32; Hilary Mahtin, 23; Norman Moore, 23; Bryan Perrault, 23; Earl Howell, 23; Freed Prabble, 23; Wilmer Harms, 23; Alex Wilson, 23. The annual banquet for alumni and alumni was held at the Congregational parish house.
"The spirits are raised by the purity of the air and rest in this clearful atmosphere" the author wrote.
Martion Moody, fau 20, spent Saturday and Sunday in Ottawa.
Wallace Williams, 122, spent the week-end at his home in Ottawa.
Phi Kappa fraternity will hold their annual Mother's Day on May 8. A lunch会 be served and a program has been arranged for entertainment.
BY THE WAY
Helen Jaka, c24, of Leavenworth went home for the week end.
Irma Borgolte, c'24, spent the week end at her home in Kansas City.
Misa Grace Schwankbeck of Wakekeney was the week end guest of his sister, Myrtle Schwanbeck, c'23, at the Achoh house.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Alpha Omricon Pi will entertain with a dinner-dance at the Country Club, May 6.
Margaret Cooper, of Kansas,City, was in Lawrence Saturday night to attend the Kappa Sigma house dance.
Mildred Glmore, A.B.20*, visited her mother, M. G. W. Glmore, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Glmore is teaching English in the Junior High! In junction City. She had as he guest, Evelina Watt, A.B.20*
Professor Chubb's class study in Social and Political Problems will not meet tonight, but will meet in Myers Hall next Thursday night.
Agnes Taylor, c24, spent the week end at her home in Hutchinson.
Theta Tau, professional Engineering fraternity, will hold Founders' Day Banquet tonight, May 4.
The last meeting of the year of the society of Sigma Xi will be held Saturday at 8 o'clock in room 205 of the Chemistry building. Professor Franklin will speak on "The acids bases and salts of ammonia." All former friends of Prof. Franklin are invited to attend this lecture.
On account of the French talk Thursday afternoon there will be no meeting of the Woman's Form. Instead it will meet next Thursday after its presentation, there will be an election of officers. Also a constitution will be adopted.
There will be an Owl meeting Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Delta Upsilon House. It will be a very important meeting and any Owl is
requested to be there. Election.—President Blaker.
Everyone signed up for the May Fete report for practice immediately.
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What Makes the Firefly Glow?
YOU can hold a firefly in your hand; you can boil water with an electric lamp. Nature long ago evolved the "cold light." The firefly, according to Ives and Cobentz, radiates ninety-six percent light and only four percent heat. Man's best lamp radiates more than ninety percent heat.
An English physicist once said that if we knew the firefly's secret, a boy turning a crank could light up a whole street. Great as is the advance in lighting that has been made through research within the last twenty years, man wastes far too much energy in obtaining light.
This problem of the "cold light" cannot be solved merely by trying to improve existing power-generating machinery and existing lamps. We should still be burning candles if chemists and physicists had confined their researches to the improvement of materials and methods for making candles.
For these reasons, the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company are not limited in the scope of their investigations. Research consists in framing questions of the right kind and in finding the answers, no matter where they may lead.
What makes the firefly glow? How does a firefly's light differ in color from that of an electric arc, and why? The answers to such questions may or may not be of practical value, but of this we may be sure—it is by dovetailing the results of "theoretical" investigations along many widely separated lines that we arrive at most of our modern "practical" discoveries.
What will be the light of the future? Will it be like that of the firefly or like that of the dial on a luminous watch? Will it be produced in a lamp at present undreamed of, or will it come from something resembling our present incandescent lamp? The answers to these questions will depend much more upon the results of research in pure science than upon strictly commercial research.
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