THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STEINMETZ_PREDICTS ELECTRICAL EXPANSE
Great Inventor Says Electricity Will Be Used More for Motive Power
Schenectady, N. Y., Feb. 21—Water and highway transportation, well as railways, eventually may depend upon electricity for motive power because of its great value. By Dr. Charles P. Steinmeier, the "wizard of electricity,"
The famous inventor called attention, in an interview with the United Press, to the success of the electric drive on American warships and the fact this method of propulsion is best used in heavy aircraft. As regards automobiles, he said:
"When the gasoline engine was first used for automobiles people protested they would never come into general use because the fuel was not more expensive than it was overcome by the simple process of producing more gasoline and establishing supplies in every part of the country. The use of electric automobiles for touring will grow in just a few years, and storage battery are extended."
The use of electric engines for airplanes will never become feasible, because of the prohibitive weight of the batteries, considering their power as compared with the power of gasoline engines of correspondent weight, he said.
Dr. Steinemt declared that water-power could never completely replace coal and petroleum products for generating electricity, saying that "if every drop of rain which falls in the world is converted directly into power it could not replace our present coal consumption." He similarly characterized the use of the sun's rays, tides and the wind for solution of our power problems under present conditions. "I dreams," contending that the expanse of our seas would far outweigh the value of the power derived.
Communication with other plants by radio was said by Dr. Steinmeir to be "possible, but not probable." He said a plant of only 100,000 horsepower might be sufficient to send an electric wave to Mars, but that the establishment of actual communication would dwarf not only upon the earth but on instruments to record the waves, on but there being Martina.
"We are still very limited in the art of harnessing and energy," he said. "Our use of coal and other fuel is extremely wasteful. Our progress from being machines to being machine tenders. We have undergone a corresponding mental growth. What we have learned from these limitations are the laws of nature."
"No one can see into the future. But, judging from our remarkable mechanical advance in the last century, it seems certain that the time will soon come when every household in every civilized community will enjoy the benefits that can only come from electricity."
Doris Van Noy, c21, visited friends in Kansas City this week-end.
Miriam Lechtman, of Kansas City,
Mo., is a guest at the Alpha Delta
PI house this week.
Engineering Laboratory Receives New Generator
A new direct current motor-generator set has been received in the electrical engineering laboratories in the basement of Marvin Hall. The new motor generator was manufactured by the General Electric Company, and will cost the University approximately $300.
The motor of the set has a power of 10 kilowatts, and the generator has a power of 7 kilowatts. According to the instructions given in the department of electrical engineering, the motor generator is of the most modern type. Although it is only about one-half as large as the three motor motors, it has twice the power
"This remarkable development of power in a smaller motor," said Mr. Neumann, "simply shows how fast electrical machinery is being perfected. To keep up with the times we have to be continually adding to our stock of machinery. However, we now have about all the machinery that we can handle until we are full. With the laboratory class that we have in the laboratory class this semester, our rooms are already filled to capacity."
The new motor generator will be used in generator tests, according to Mr. Neumann. Belted machines have been used for these tests, but this is not the case without the use of belts. The new piece of machinery cost the University about $300, but this price includes a starting box and some other apparatus. Mr. Neumann pointed out that this was a special price to educators, and that the motor would cost an individual considerably more.
BY THE WAY
Chas, A. Walsh, Ll. B.'20, of Esbon, Kansas, was the week end guest at the Phi Kappa house.
William P. Conroy, 122, of Topeka,
was the week end guest at the Phil
Kappa house.
Walter Gage, '121, at Washburn visited his brother, George Gage, c'23 last week
Robert E. Embleton, ex24, who is working in Tonaginco for a photographic concern, spent Sunday at the Sigma Phi house.
Lolin Greff, c'22, and Gladys Porter,
c'24, spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City.
Joe Schneider, c24. Albert Kerr, c24,
c24, and Charles Crews, c24 spent
the week-end in Topeka.
Amyne Applegate, c'21, spent the week end with Helen Bibert, A. B. '20, in Kansas City. They attended La Scala orchestra concert, Sunday.
Acomas hold a Washington's birthday dance at the house, at 9 o'clock Monday evening.
R. R. Hibbs, e22, suffered a sprained wrist and a dislocated elbow when he fell off of the beam of
Bones of Physical Giants And Other Hawaiian Curios Donated to Dyche Museum
A collection of bones and other curiosities from Hawaii was recently donated to the Paleontological department in Dyche Museum by L. A. Walworth who for some time has been a Y. M. C. A. worker with Orientalis and other tropical races in Hawaii engaged in the sugar industry.
The bones in the collection consist of a skull and other parts of skeletons which were found on an old battlefield, in eastern shore of the island of Kauai.
"Here one hundred and fifty years ago," said Mr. Walworth, "a band of invaders from Oahu crossed the sixty mile wide channel in the night and effected a landing at a sheltered point known as Malapalu. But their arrival did not escape the notice of outpost stationed on the mountain tops who quickly spread the alarm. In a short time the defensive army was forced to move back as riding hordes, worn out by their many hours of rowing, were taking a morning nap before attempting hostilities, the army of Kaulu, in defense of its homeland, fell upon the invading ar my and exterminated it.
"The bodies of the enemy were never buried," continued Werm-Walworth, "so that visitors at Mahalapu at the present time will ascribe bones
Mr. Walworth stated that some of the bones are still in a good condition for scientific purposes as traveling sand dunes have kept them covered for long periods of time. A remarkable feature of four femur bones in the collection is their roughness along the points where the muscles were attached, showing these men must have been physical giants.
profusely strewn along the beach for half a mile."
Other specimens in the collection are a box of shells and coral; a lump of red clay soil, a lava formation, which the natives mix with ocean salt and use as a seasoning for the food; an early achievement out of a type of stone which is probably an uneval of the ocean bottom as there are many species in the bottle of barking sand. This porous sand when dry and blown by the wind makes a peculiar sound like the barking of dors a long way off.
Mr. Walworth, who is a senior in the college, has collected many mammals for Baker University where he received his first two years of college training. In 1014 he came to K. U. and mounted a specimen of American bison under the direction of C. D. Bunker for the Hays Normal.
MARGEURITE ADAMS as "Cecily Cardew"
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a testing machine in the laboratories in the basement of Marvin Hall, Monday afternoon.
Louise Reckind, c'25, was called to her home in Topeka Monday, February 21, on account of the death of her uncle.
The Botany Club had a birthday
uprise on Professor Stevens, Sunday
afternoon, February 20. The guests
were entertained by Professor
Stevens and the members presented the Professor with flowers and a birthday cake.
Dr. E. A. Edwards hold his last Bible Class Monday, February 21, at Myers Hall. A successful and inter-mental event in progress for the last few months.
Delta Tau Delta, held initiation Saturday for Donald Postlewite, c24, f mankate; Eimer Garrion, c24, f of J. and J. Arthur Wolf, c24, f of Vichita.
The inquest has been postponed until Saturday so that further analysis may be made.
Topека, Feb. 23—Dr. S. B. Damer K. u. Reported to Dr. H. L. Clark county coroner, today that no tracers f strychnine were found in the concoction of his daughter Kathleen. The Tomaika boy met a mysterious death here last week.
Comanche's Remains Now Rest in Dyche
"Commanche," a horse whose mounted remains are on the first floor of Dyche Museum, was the only survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, more commonly known as Custer's Massacre, which took place June 25, 1876.
The horse was ridden by Capt. Myles W. Keoch, Troop I. Seventh Cavalry. After the battle he was wounded in seven different places.
General Sturris issued a regimental order that he never again be redden and that he should be paraded at every regimental parade, draped in mourning. He remained with the North Cavalry until his death in 1828.
After his death the officers of the Seventh Cavalry arranged with Professor Dyche to have the remains of the mounted standing at the mounting was $400. The remains were mounted and exhibited at the World's Fair at Chicago, by this time the personnel of the Seventh Regiment had so channeled that the remains had been left rotten and the mounted remains have been here ever since.
ARMENA RUMBERGER as "Gwendolyn Farifax"
Electrical Engineers To Meet Thursday Night
The large special feature meeting of the University Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, which was first announced on Friday at 7:30 a.m. to be held at 7:50 o'clock Tuesday evening in the Auditorium, Marvin Hall.
The officers of the society announce that they have a good program arranged, and that they expect every electrical engineer student to attend. They must give a special effort to get the freshmen of the department interested.
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An exemption privilege for special exercise is only good for the semester for which it was given.
Dr. Naismith.
Dr. Green's classes in sexual morality will not meet this week on account of the holidays. The women's classes will meet at 2:30 and 7 o'clock in the morning. The men's classes will meet at 7 o'clock at the City Hall in police court, rooms, Feb. 29.
The Sociology Club will not meet this week. Next regular meeting will be March 8.
Don't forget the big Dramatic Club play next Monday, Feb. 28. It is the last one this year. The important coupon in Kaanan—adv.
There will be no orchestra rehearsal Wednesday night. Prof. Kendrie is out of town.
The class in Commercial Geography is in need of copies of Smith's Industrial and Commercial Geography and Bartholomew's Atlas or Economic Geography. Will students owning copies of there books place them on sale at the aok Exchange in Fraser one—Andrew J. Newman.
Max Ryan spent the week-end in St. Louis.
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Lieut. Harold Chapman from Camp Benning, Georgia, was the week-end guest of Eulalia Dougherty, c'22.
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