UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 1, 1879
Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of History, University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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students of the University
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1921.
OVER THE MOUNTAIN
How many students are there who have passed soe of the buildings on this Hill for nearly four years and have never been inside them?
There is a senior electrical engineer here who will be graduated in June and who has, ever since he was a freshman, walked to and from his boarding-house past Sponer library on the average of four times a day. And this same student says that he has never been inside old Spooner.
It seems that curiosity to know what is behind those walls where so many are studying, what is beyond those steps where do dozens of students are gathered nearly every time he goes, has never appealed to him enough to make him walk up the four steps and peek inside.
THE DOUBTIVIKI
And it is also said that there are college students, fine arts students, and members of other schools, who have never visited the engineering building.
One night "The Soviet Totters" and the next morning "The Reds Crush Revolt."
What an excitement life the Russians must lead. Empires rise and fall over their heads every night. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are raised in the twinkling of an an eye and literally sweep their enemies from the face of the earth. In another twinkling of an eye the enemies recruit an army and obliterate the opposing mushroom army. Those who crave adventure should be in their element in the land of caviar, vodka, and Trotsky's Bolshevik and Moushevkii.
Profiters still in this country ought to take a tip from the news dispatches, for the Russians can generate more wars per day than even Mexico in the crime of her belligerent days. And war is what the profitiers thrive on, so people say.
Napoleon in his palmest days could not smash empires in less than five days, and some historians rate him as a military genius. Alexander sighed for more worlds to conquer but the Russians conquer the same world two or three times a day.
At least that is what the news dispatches tell us, and of course, they can be relied upon.
PROFESSOR HONORED
To hear the current sidewalk conversation of students is to decide that the most non-wanted element in the student life is the faculty. Such phrases as—"that awful prof is giving another quit" and "I always sleep through his class" seem to indicate an antagonistic cynical attitude in the student body. But this is merely surface chaff, the students really like and appreciate the majority of the instructors, are proud of them, and rejoice in their achievements. Many letters to the home folks say 'my prot the one
that wrote that book about," and so on.
Professor John Frazier head of the art department, is one of the latest among university professors to receive honors. Professor Frazier has accepted membership on the jury of selection and award of the Sixth Annual Exhibition of Artists of Kansas City and vicinity. This exhibition, held at the Kansas City Art Institute, is one of the most important of the season. The work exhibited will be by western artists among whom Richard Miller and Frederick Green Carpenter are nominee.
Professor Frazier has also been very successful in exhibiting his own paintings. Last year he had some very striking water colors in the exhibit and was awarded second prize. Since then he has been awarded first prize at the Philadelphia water color exhibition. This time he will exhibit three more of his own paintings, all water colors.
STAR-GAZING
"By Jupiter, I never thought Venus was so big when you looked at her through a glass!"
This exclamation will have a dual interpretation to the lucky man who has tasted of the wonders of the nebular world on that eventful next week when the little, white-painted shack by Haworth Hall will be open to visitors.
Where is the mortal who has not secretly, at some time in his life, longed to have at his site on a delightfully starry evening a powerful telescope, with which to peer long and wonderingly at the moon, the evening star, the tail of Halley's comet and the canals of Mars? And where is the red-blooded young college buck who has not at some time wished that he had a long, double-barreled instrument in which two could gaze simultaneously at the ringed Saturn? We are all curious about the things we never will know much about, and the astronomical world is no exception. So we will all reilish the opportunity to pay the white shack a visit next week, and have the powers that know tell us about the satellitic mysteries as we peer with binking orbs into that "no man's land" which will be smollared.
FAMINE IN CHINA
China in a long way from Kansas but nevertheless Kanans are occasionally reminded that there are forty-five million Chinese that are facing starvation. Not long ago President Wilson issued a proclamation calling the American people to contribute to a fund to help the starving peoples of China. Several periodicals have taken up the cause and are gathering in funds to alleviate the famine conditions. But even these funds will be inadequate to meet the needs of the country.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The famine zone covers about one hundred thousand square miles in the northern provinces of Chili, Sheni, Hansi, Shioni and Shantung. In all forty-five million people are affected by the failure of crops and fifteen million people are facing immediate starvation and will undoubtedly die if America does not help them. America is the only country that has the food-stuffs to spare and America must contribute to the starving country. America has a chance to help a friendly nation and save the lives of millions of human beings who will die without her aid. Furthermore she has a chance to strengthen existing ties and to expand her foreign trade; though these are only secondary considerations. China is in the grip of the worst calamity of her history, and naturally turns to America as her best friend and the one country in the world best fitted to succor her starvation.
ALUMNI NOTES
Austin Balley, A. B'15, is employed in the chemical department of the Corning Glass Works, at Corning, N. Y. He recently had an article in the Chemical News on the "Improved Form of the McLeod Gauge."
O. F. Strauff, A. B. 700, has been granted a leave of absence from the University of Oregon, where he is at the head of the chemistry department, and is doing research work for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation.
R. K. Bailley, A. B. 11, who for the past eight years has been conducting a potash investigation for the United States Geological Survey, was recently elevated to the position of associated chemist.
He is working on a problem dealing with products that may be derived from the distillation of various kinds of wood.
All members of the Ku Ku Klan must be present at a special meeting of the Klin which will be held at the Kappa Sigma House at 3:30 5pm afternoon, March 6. At the last registration that all members not at the meeting Sunday will automatically forfeit their membership unless valid excuse for absence at Sunday's meeting is given in advance to Assistant Chief of Staff and/or a representative of adoption of constitution. By order of Arlo Eats, Assistant Chief Ku Ku.
J. H. Morse, A. B. '91, had a very interesting paper in the Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer on a new system of case juice clarification. Mr. Morse is now living in Louisiana.
The Ames Aggies are a hungry bunch, according to a story in the Iowa State Student, which states that the University caterer serves 2000 meals daily. The average price is thirty-five cents.
On Other Hills
Preacher of Kins P.'s *K. i* to shoot.
The motto of the mentor, which has a
meaning of "be is good," is: "When he
is good, he is very good, but when he
is bad he is horrid."
Cornell college has a unique organization, recently formed, called Releasing Youth for Realty. The
Dr. Richard F. Scholz, new professor of history in the University of Washington, will become president of Reed College, in Portland, April 1.
Plans for the new gymnasium at the University of Virginia, for which the financial campaign is now under way, shows a floor space which will be occupied also in the United States by President Obama and to spend $300,000 on the building.
TWILIGHTS
Men should be very grateful for twilight—for that quiet debatable land between the empire of the sun and the regency of the moon. It is a world in which we speak, "the guzy, blabbing, and remorseful day is creep into the bosom of the son." Or it is that hour, also sung by the band, when 'nights' can be burnt out, and jocund day itclipse on the misty mountain tops.
Action is good, and healthy movement—all that feverish incessance of the ant and the grasshopper and the buoy civilized man. But the quiet of the changing time is also good. Exhilaration gives place to peace, or sleep to half-dreamful waking; and twilight is often the best period of the day. The ledger of the day is closed and put away for the night. Some tasks are finished, and those unfinished are left for the activity of the Tried man who has crawled his two legs if he is tired by nature that he must cease from crawling. Or the active day comes rolling into the house and tumbles a sleephead out of bed, reminding him to chores to be done.
Happy the human beings who live where twilight comes twice in every twenty-four hours. There are places where the dawn comes up like a thunder and the curtains of night fail to disappear. The villagers tell us other lands where twilight is three months long and nature moves cold and sluggish and glacier-like. But man is caked in regions like these. He lives where nature is aloof and indifferent, cruel and disdainful of the needs of mere human beings. They are stronger men where her twilights are most kindly—San Francisco Call.
Phi Mu Alpha will entertain with an informal dance at the chapter house Friday evening.
Harry O'Brien, c23, will visit his parents in Leavenworth over Saturday.
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Kathryn Strong, c24, spent Friday in Topeka.
LOST—Shenffer Pen on campus. Call
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FOR RENT—Roommate space—Modern house 1345 Vermont St.
FOR RENT—South rooms for boys 1228 La. One block from campus.
FOUND—Fountain pen,between Chem, bldg. and Green Hall,Friday morning.Call at 1341 Ohio.
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FOR SALE - Oliver typewriter No. 5,
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FOR RENT—New Oldowne Canoe.
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L O S T—Large haiippin set with brilliants. Finder please return to 1244 La, or call 268. Request 105.2-387
FOR RENT—Roem for 3 boys in modern house. 1216 Tenn. 105 5 338.
WANTED—Student barber, Stadium Barber shop 1033 Mass. Phone 1501, 107-5-389
Full dress suits? Boy, we know exactly what to do with them to make them look the miffest. May weedease you? We'll phone Dryo, Phone 70k...adv. 106-tf
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We have one of the most expert spotters in the state at the head of our cleaning department. We know that we can find him in Launtry, Phone 701—adv., 100-ft
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DR. H. L. CHAMBERS, Suite 2 Jacksonbury, bungalear. practical education. Special attention to nose, throat and ear. Telephone 217.
DR. FLORENCE J. BARRONE - On-
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Mass. Street
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DR. J. R. BECHTEL. Rooms 3 and 4 over McCulloch's Drug Store. Office Phone 343. Res. Phone 1342.
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MARION DAVIES IN "THE RESTLESS SEX" By Robert W. Chambers
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THE air is composed of molecules. They constantly bombard you from all sides. A thousand taps by a
What Is Air Pressure?
thousand knuckles will close a barn door. The taps as a whole constitute a push. So the constant bombardment of the air molecules constitutes a push. At sea-level the air molecules push against every square inch of you with a total pressure of nearly fifteen pounds.
Pressure, then, is merely a matter of bombarding molecules.
When you boil water you make its molecules fly off. The water molecules collide with the air molecules. It takes a higher temperature to boil water at sea-level than on Pike's Peak. Why? Because there are more bombarding molecules at sea-level—more pressure.
Take away all the air pressure and you have a perfect vacuum. A perfect vacuum has never been created. In the best vacuum obtainable there are still over two billion molecules of air per cubic centimeter, or about as many as there are people on the whole earth.
Heat a substance in a vacuum and you may discover properties not revealed under ordinary pressure. A new field for scientific exploration is opened.
Into this field the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company have penetrated. Thus one of the chemists in the Research Laboratories studied the disintegration of heated metals in highly exhausted bulbs. What happened to the glowing filament of a lamp, for example? The glass blackened. But why? He discovered that the metal distilled in the vacuum depositing on the glass.
This was research in pure science — research in what may be called the chemistry and physics of high vacua. It was undertaken to answer a question. It ended in the discovery of a method of filling lamp bulbs with an inert gas under pressure so that the filament would not evaporate so readily. Thus the efficient gas-filled lamp of today grew out of a purely scientific inquiry.
So, unforeseen, practical benefits often result when research is broadly applied.
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