THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Speakers at the Annual Merchants' Short Course This Week
W. E. KOCH, KANSAS CITY, MO.
PRYOR IRWIN, CHICAGO
NORTH CHINA FAMINE INTERESTS STUDENTS
Fanine Comes Close Home Five Chinese Students in University
"Innocent and hard-working farmers in North China have been disappointed three times in succession. The spring crop last year was a failure. The autumn crop fared no better. In five provinces the average of the crops for the entire year was only 8 per cent or less of normal.
"Seed for sowing the winter wheat was impossible to obtain under the prevailing conditions of food demand in a developing country, the despairing paests have been lost.
"The result is that a realization of their desperate condition has swept over the people with startling sadness. Already fodder for animals has given out in many places, and donkeys, cows, mules, etc., are being offered at one-tenth their normal value. But worse than that is ability to retaliate against them. The communities are practically foodless, having exhausted all their grain in the long months since the last croat was gathered.
"People are wondering about aimlessly to be decimated by hunger and cholera. Roads are swarmed with melancholy streams of hunger-pinched humanity and are in some places sprinkled with corpse. How severe the coming crisis is, it may be to one extent that is certain, is that more than 90,000 square miles of territory and 35 million people are involved."
The Chinese famine may seem far away to most people in Lawrence, but to a certain half dozen students at the University it means that homes of friends and relatives are and need. Wilson Chang, p.24, said this morning that the present famine is the worst since 1878.
Several of the larger schools in the East have already raised funds for this purpose, the appeal says. Chicago raised about $1,900 and Purdue secured $1,300, mostly from individual pledges.
The above description of conditions is quoted from an appeal recently received by the Chinese Students here from the Chinese Students Alliance, the national organization of Chinese Students in America, for aid in their campaign to raise a fund for the relief of the starving victims.
Mr. Chiang said that the final details of what would be done here had not been completed, but that some sort of a program or entertainment
would probably be put on in the very near future.
D. T. BARTLETT, WICHITA
There are five Chinese in the University; S. Y. Yang, grad.; C. Tien c24; Harry Lee, c24; Benjamin Yap, c21; and Willison W. Chipper, p. 24.
Would Put a Heavy Tax. On Professional Sports
New York, Feb. 7.-Highly commercialized sports in New York will be forced to pay a handsome toll toward the maintenance of state government by the new administration, and to bear the belief in political circles here.
Gov. Miller has announced the intention of calling sport writers of the state together for a conference on the advisability of putting all professional sports in the state under one head and levying a substantial per centage of the receipts to help pay the expenses of government.
From other circles it is learned that while the box law will not be fundamentally changed, amendments will be adopted to change its governing rules. This will increase the number of the sport and increase the state axes from five to fifteen per cent.
CIVILS APPLY TO NATIONAL
Petitions to American Society of Civil Engineers
The Civil Engineering Society of the University sent a petition to the American Society of Civil Engineers, Friday, asking to be accepted as a member according to Prof. C. C. Williams, head of the department of civil engineering, the society here will probably not receive an answer to their petition.
The Civil Engineering Society here was founded in 1885, by F. O. Marvin, formerly dean of the School of Engineering. At present the application for membership meetings are held twice a month. At these meetings efforts are made to secure speakers who are familiar with the engineering profession, and who will furnish something instructive as training to the members of the society.
"I feel sure," said Professor Williams, "that the added dignity resulting from an affiliation witthe American Society would make its efforts even more effective and enhance its value in every way."
The American Society of Civil Engineers is primarily an organization for the men in the civil engineering profession throughout the country, but they have a special arrangement for student branches of the society
Also Favors Reducing Navies One Half
SIMS STRESSES AIR SERVICE
Washington, Feb 7—The fleet with the most powerful air service can defeat the world, Admiral Simms told the House Naval Affairs committee today. Simms' opinion came in a declaration by Chairman Butter that president-elect Harding planned to call a defense summit and summon the sumption of the committee's hearing on the disarmament and naval organization.
K. U. alumni at Pittsburg, Pa celebrated Kansas Day with their anual dinner at the University Club A Kansas Club was formed to include all Kansans in and near Pittsburg. The K. U. Club has been organized for some time and Ernest Stater 17, is the secretary.
The Admiral did not favor disarmament, but he said that the navies of the world could be cut in half. But it is well to keep a gun in the house, he said, urging a continuance of the 1918 naval building program.
Dr. Marie A. Green of Kansas City, Mo., will give a hygiene lecture to women in Meyer's Hall, 7:30 p. m. Monday night.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Any persons wishing to take baxing lessons from "Dutch" Wildmer, see him this week.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
WANTED—A student, domestic science student preferred, to assist with house work from 4 to 7 p. m., on Sunday, Call 2120 88-3-338
LOST—Pair brown gauntlet gloves.
Finder call 2577. 88-2-337
The History club will meet Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 4:30 in Fraser Rest Room. All history majors are urged to attend.
Dr. Marie Greene will lecture on Sex Morality to all men interested at 7:15 every Tuesday evening in the Unitarian Church.
Kappa Phi will meet Wednesday evening Feb. 9, at 7 oclock at Myers Hall. Important!
The Mathematics Club will meet Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 9, at 4:30 o'clock in Room 101 Fraser. Robert will discuss the "Fourth Dimension"
Christian Science Society will meet in Myers Hall at 7:30 o'clock, Tuesday evening.
"On With The Dance"
MAE MURRAY
In the Fitzmaurice Production
VARSITY Wednesday and Thursday
BOWERSOCK Wednesday Only
LONBORG AND REID ON SECOND AMERICAN
Collegiate World Uses New Method in Choosing Men For Teams
An echo of this year's football season that sounds good to K. U. athletes and fans comes from an article in the January issue of The Collegiate World, headed "Football in browns" in boyish form, a quarterback, and "Tad" Reid as an end, on the second All-American eleven. It is interesting to note in this connection that neither Marsh, of Oklahoma, nor Shanley, of Washington, who were placed on the official All-VaValley seven team, are mentioned, are mentioned in the first three teams as given in this article.
Snapshot Judges Chosen For 1921 Jayhawker
Judges in the Jayhawkman snapshot center at were announced by Ferdinand Gottlieb, editor, this morning. These are: Charles D. Bunker, assistant curator of the museum; L. M. Peace, demonstrator in the department of botany; Burt Cochran, business manager in an annual; Gib Swenson, associate editor, and Harold Roberts, steff photographer.
must bt those taken during the present school year or the last summer's vacation. Subjects should be suitable for the Jahawkhe snapshot section."
"We expect a large number of entries, due to the good snapchat weather the last week," she said. "The more money, the more need we be in new ones, however, but
The contest will end February 13.
First prize is a deluxe edition of the
1921 Jayhawk, and the second prize
is a copy of the regular edition.
While the awards will be made for the
best single snapshots, each contestant
must enter at least five pictures
in order to receive consideration.
A winning picture will be displayed in the Jayhawk bulletin board near the
east entrance to the campus or turned
in at the Jayhawk office in Row- and Annex.
Nima Kanaqa, '15, who has been teaching music in a Methodist school in Concepción, Chile is in Lawrence her mother, at 1025 Kentucky street.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Metcalf announce the birth of a daughter. Mr. Metcalf, c18, is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and Mrs. Metcalf, who marries Martin her marriage, is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Designs Sent to New York Four members of class A project in architectural design sent design
in architectural design sent design problems, for judgement, to the Beaux Arts Institute of Design of New York City, this morning. The name of the competition is "A Storage House," and is the third problem of this year for the class A students. Those submitting drawings are D. K. Frohwerk, W. Icenhower, L. F. Soxman and Samuel Bihr
How is a Wireless Message Received?
EVERY incandescent lamp has a filament. Mount a metal plate on a wire in the lamp near the filament. A current leaps the space between the filament and the plate when the filament glows.
Edison first observed this phenomenon in 1883. Hence it was called the "Edison effect."
Scientists long studied the "effect" but they could not explain it satisfactorily. Now, after years of experimenting with Crookes tubes, X-ray tubes and radium, it is known that the current that leaps across is a stream of "electrons"—exceedingly minute particles negatively charged with electricity.
These electrons play an important part in wireless communication. When a wire grid is interposed between the filament and the plate and charged positively, the plate is aided in drawing electrons across; but when the grid is charged negatively it drives back the electrons. A very small charge applied to the grid, as small as that received from a feeble wireless wave, is enough to vary the electron stream.
So the grid in the tube enables a faint wireless impulse to control the very much greater amount of energy in the flow of electrons, and so radio signals too weak to be perceived by other means become perceptible by the effects that they produce. Just as the movement of a throttle controls a great locomotive in motion, so a wireless wave, by means of the grid, affects the powerful electron stream.
All this followed from studying the mysterious "Edison effect"—a purely scientific discovery.
No one can foresee what results will follow from research in pure science. Sooner or later the world must benefit practically from the discovery of new facts.
For this reason the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company are concerned as much with investigations in pure science as they are with the improvement of industrial processes and products. They, too, have studied the "Edison effect" scientifically. The result has been a new form of electron tube, known as the "pliotron", a type of X-ray tube free from the vapories of the old tube; and the "keronet", which is called by electrical engineers a "rectifier" because it has the property of changing an alternating into a direct current.
All these improvements followed because the Research Laboratories try to discover the "how" of things. Pure science always justifies itself.
General Electric
General Office Company Shenectady, N.Y.
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