THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN VOLUME II. NUMBER 6. ASEPTIC TANKS ARE BETTER THAN GRAVES Dr. W.E. Rucker Tells How to Get Control of Disease COUNTRY HOMES A MENACE Sanitation There More Primitive D. W. C. rucker, assistant surgeon general of the United States Health Department at Washington, D. C., lectured for two hours Tuesday afternoon on how to get control of the two main causes of disease dissemination: waste products from country homes, and common insect carriers. an in the Days of Moses—Get Garbage Can. Decayed vegetation and the excrement from out-buildings, Dr. Rucker says in brief, are a menace to health and especially is this true in country homes where sanitation is more primitive now than it was in the days of Moses. Seldom does a person reared in the country reach the age of twenty-five without having had malaria or typhoid fever, or dysentery. The annual death roll in infant mortality due to improper sanitation on the farm is appalling. Dr. Rucker urges the health officers to give great attention to this phase of their work. Good sanitation on the farm may be easily gained by installing a concrete vat and by getting a good garbage can. Any farmer can build a cylindrical concrete vat in two days and one that will last a hundred years. It need not be large and should be built in the ground. The excrement from out-buildings, which are breeding places for myriads of flies, after passing through the vat process, of sterilization, is made harmless. It may then be used as a fertilizer for trees and bush but never for vegetables. It is a fact almost incredible that the stuff is today being shipped out of our large centers, such as San Jose, Cal., and the city of Washington, for the purpose of vegetable fertilization. This is a grave menace to public health. The garbage can also, Dr. Rucker continued, is necessary to good sanitation—not the old fashioned kind but one made of good metal, water tight, and with a lid that fits over the top and not into the top. There are two general methods, Dr. Rucker says, my which insects carry disease; the mechanical and the biological. To the mechanical belong the insects that communicate disease organisms in various ways. This communication need not be caused necessarily by biting and the insect carrier need not belong to one species. The cock-roach may carry tuberculosis just as easily as the fly. In the second class, the biological aq `'kpq` aq `'ɔnbsou` aq `Suoppe` flee, and in fact all insects that convey disease by biting. Only one species carries one particular disease, however, as distinguished from the fly and other insects class as mechanical. Three other dangerous disease carriers are the stable-fly, the tick, and the flea. How shall we control the spread of disease? By the application of plain every day common sense, says Dr. Rucker. Throw rock salt into pools where mosquitoes are bred. It will kill them. Clean out the cesspools and clear away the garbage. Since the annual loss in the United States due to typhoid fever is fifty million dollars, we must make war on the mosquito and the fly. See that the house is well screened. Have an air-tight manure box and use plenty of Paris-green or lime. In conclusion Dr. Rucker told the health officers that disease must be taught as environmental and that the control of it means the control of environment. The control of environment means the sanitary disposal of human waste and the protection of disease transmitting insects. Dr. Rucker concluded with: "Sanitary out-buildings are better than tomb-stones. than tomb-stones. Aseptic tanks are better than graves." DR. LUMSDEN TELLS HOW TO SAVE 15,000 LIVES A YEAR Dr. L, L. Lumsden of the United States Public Health Service addressed the physicians and Health Officers at two o'clock Tuesday aftrenoon at Snow hall on Typhoid an dits Prevention." "There are 35,000 deaths from typhoid every year," said Dr. Lumsden, "forty-five per cent of them preventable if reasonable sanitary precautions in the care of the water and food supply were taken. The unsanitary conditions found in some localities will be considered a high crime 30 or 40 years from now. "The greatest problem is in the rural districts. Why the average farmer" said Dr. Lumsden, "gives more attention to protecting his buildings from lightning than to safe-guarding the health of his family." "The cause of such neglect is lack of education. If we would have sanitary conditions we must begin to educate, and our greatest opportunity lies in educating the children in the schools. By teaching them the effects of poor sanitation we lay the foundations for a better system." UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 27, 1913. In closing, Dr. Lumsden complimented Kansas on the clean prosperous appearance she presents and the advance she has made in the promotion of intelligent means of escoring public health and right sanitary conditions. THIRTY-EIGHT COUNTIES AT S. S. HEALTH SCHOOL The following members of the Kansas State Board of Health have enrolled at the present time: Stewart McKeen, Leavenworth Co; C. F. W. Clausen, CityKA, Mo; Alfred O'Donnell, Ellsworth Co; C. F. Witzpatrick, Republic; J. A. Miligan, Garnett; J. A. Pinkston, Montgomery; John W. Reid, Greenwood; Geo. F. Babb, Shawnee; Merwin T. Lawrence, Sawrence; S. T. Gillispie, Douglas; G. E. Eye, Marion; Henry E. Goodrich, Haskell; S. J. Crumbine, Topeka; F. E. Harvey, Minneapolis; J. A. Simpson, Salina; W. F. Schoor, Reno; W. N. Wye, Brown; J. S. Cummings, Bourbon; H. L. Aldrich, Montgomery; Hattie B. Aldrich, Montgomery; W. L. Hopper, Ft. Scott; T. C. Kimble, Cloud; Wm. Timpton, Douglass; W.m. F. Milee; Geo. J. Thacher, Marshall; E. O. Humphrey, Chicago; J. C. Montgomery, Riley; F. A. Ganvin Butler; John J. Sippy, Summer; W.F Richardson, Paxico; W. H. Wells, Coffeyville j. L. Everhardy, Leavenworth; W. V. Stephenson, Osage; Jessie Thomas Orr, Johnson; Milton T. Evans, Chautauqua; Stewart McKeen, Leaventown; Frank W. White Emporia; W. H. Addinton, Altoona C. S. Kenney, W. H. Shook up Health Officers in Session at the Time---- Other Damage LIGHTNING HITS SNOW Considerable damage was done on the campus by the storm Tuesday afternoon. Lightning struck Snow hall while the health officers were in session there and damaged the northeast corner of the building. Superintendent Crocker estimates the damage between twenty-five and fifty dollars. Storm Ties un Street Cars. "The heavy rains caved in a number of the ditches which have been dug on the campus for new heating conduits, which will delay work several days. Much extra work was made for the University workmen, but," said Mr. Crocker this morning, "we are not complaining. The damage which the rain did at the University is slight compared to the great good which it did for the state." Workmen are repairing the cave-in under the car track south of the Journalism building that was caused by Tuesday's heavy rain. J. F. Brown, assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds said today that the damage could not be repaired in two weeks. Meanwhile a temporary trestle supports the car track. A large branch fell and broke off one of the brackets near the Chemistry building, and for a time cars could run only as far as the station at the Law building. WHO'S WHO. AND HOW. AND WHERE HE LIVES A Directory of the Students in the Summer Session of the University of Kansas, 1913. Ackers, Frank C. Archer, Robert L. Albertt, L. H. Anderson, R. Alexander Winifred Bleeman, Marian A. Blankenship, A. J. Bian, James P. Benton Myrtle, Burney, Givine May Burrell, Magna Ancaster, FF Ancaster, Warren F. Andrew, Carrie Babb, Alvin LeRoy George R. Bear Bald, Maude Maule Baird, William Reuma Baird, William Reuma Baird, George R. Baird, William Reuma Baird, George R. Baumgartner, Rachel Benedict, Frank G Bell, Becky Gladys, Bell Beckel, Bessie Belle Bennett, Emmel L Bernett, Berthot, Stephenia Berthot, Stephenia Boyer, Adolph H Boyer, Adolph H Bibbom, Joe B Bixby, Bejp I Black, Donald R Black, Donald R Artiema Magnol M Artiema Magnol M Boyles, Bernice Boyles, Eohand Eohand, Eohand Bryfield, Charance C Brown, Alice L Brown, Lois Roe Brown, Susan Bushey, David and Calderhead, Iris G. Carpenter, Jerton Craig,竖ight J Capps, Murf T Carpenter, Wim, Weston Cage, Curtis Case, Case Margaret Mary Cate, Florence M. Alvin Abel Chaves, Lissie B. Chaves, Gales R. Chaves, Thomas K. Clark, Eva C. G. Colbentz, Luther J. Colbentz, Jerry J. Coleman, Herbert R Coleman, Aaron Coleman, George A Collett, George A Combe, Vilma May Cool, Commodore F Ewing, Easing Conrad, Agnes Cook, Julie E Corvornor, Marguerite Corvornor, Marguerite Craik, Elmer Lehok Crohn, Ada Corynne, Ada Dague, John F. Ford, Richard F. Hodgson, Oscar Danielle, A. Allen Danovich, A. Mrs. Danovich, Mrs. Davis, Leo L. Lewis, L. Davis, Shila L. Shelia, L. Davin, John A. Driven, Mary J. Driven, Mary J. Doddlerdeer, enchm Douthart, Lela F. Draper, Eleanor Dresher, G. S. Dressler, Edna Duston, Arthu Edna Douglas, Louis Dupre, Rose ogan, Magnard L. Gray, Jr. Ellenberger, Rush Walter. Elliot, James Ryan. Rossman, Kendall. Elias, Ralph. Emery, Walter Titus. Emery, Walter Titus. Emick, W. Earl. Eping, Iydia C. Eping, Iydia C. Evans, Kassim Ann. Evans, Kassim Ann. Farrellch, Chas. Element, Finn, Vera R. Flinn, Ruby V Forbes, Vivian Forbes, Glass V Fowler, Wynne Fowler, Wynne Frank, Wynne Frank, Magnolia W. Zella, Dena Hague, Florence Hampshire, Kneuk Hamshire, Levi W Hand, Hugh, H Hammersley, Dodge Harder, Oscar E Harper, Lester Hageman, John W Harsel, Luke Estale Harrison, Florence Hayro, Elaneus Hayes, Heten Mary Haynes, John M Haynes, Iliannl Haynes, Iolet M Haynes, Elkein Hazirling, Vivian Martha Haynes, Flora Barbara Haynes, Elizabeth Herrick, Marrian Ellen Himpel, Ellamae Hinsley, Elizabeth Edith Hindman, Eda Lora Hinsley, Elizabeth Gatekil, Jo E. Garbett, John K. Garcett, Viviettahe Glison, Chuck K. Garrett, Viviettahe Glison, Charlie Garrett, Viviettahe Glaroc, Milred E Glaroc, Helen E Goldman, Irma Goldman, Irma Gooding, Harned Gooding, Harned Green, Harned Green, Aurelius Green, Hatak E Green, Aurelius Gregory, W. R Greens, Theodore Greens, Theodore Gregory, W. R Greens, Theodore Greens, Theodore Gregory, W. R Gregens, Theodore Gregory, W. R Gregens, Theodore Gregory, W. R Attleboro 1236 Tenn. Wiltona 1236 Tenn. Pittsburgh 1301 Vt. Lawrence 1301 Vt. Clarence 1223 Ohio. Thayer 1223 Ohio. Shelby 1200 Tenn. Independence 1200 Tenn. Edwardville 1145 Ind. Kansas City, Ks. 1145 Ind. Columbus 1333 Vt. Whitfield 1333 Vt. Snake Island 1334 Oread. Sugarland 1334 Oread. Lawrence 1611 Mass. Buffalo 1611 Mass. 1245 Oread. 1140 La. Lawrence 1334 Ohio. Lawrence 1344 Ohio. Lawrence 1101 Ohio. Clay Center 1332 Vt. Peoria 1360 La. Rosedale 1637 Ky. Lota 1618 La. Toroka 1324 Ohio. Halstead 1309 Ohio. Lawrence 923 Tem. Ohio 1602 La. Kansas City, Ks. 1184 Ky. Henderson 1340 Tenn. Macksville 1144 La. Lawrence 1346 La. Lawrence 1230 Miss. Le Loup 1652 Ky. Lake Huron 1341 Ohio Inman 1141 Ky. Lawrence 1343 Ord. Lawrence 736 La. McPherson 1345 Vt. Huntington 1328 Vt. Columbus 1469 K I. Lawrence 1111 Ohio Kansas City, Ks. 1208 Ky. Silver Lake 1324 Ohio Lawrence 1409 Tom. Peru 1120 Conn. Lawrence 1209 Ord. Lawrence 707 W. Haneck Lawrence 1225 Ord. Troy 1324 Tennessee. Oklahoma 1602 La. Musecotak 1637 Mass. Marysville Marysville, Mo. Lincoln, Ark Larne Lawrence Peabody Kansas City, Kansas City, Ks Winnfield Merriam Merrimack Macksville Alma Junction City, Topeka Honor Lawrence Castleton Augusta Ottawa Dighton Lawrence LaHarp LaHarp Kansas City, Mo. Altamonte New City Lawrence McPherson McPherson Lawrence Eldridge Hotel 1435. Vt. 1400. Tenn. 1400. La. 1424. La. 1328. Oread. 1324. Oread. 1324. Oread. 1324. Obo. 1324. Obo. 1300. La. 1300. La. 1829. N. 1135. Tenn. 1113. KJ. 1113. KJ. 1101. Ky. 1101. Ky. 1121. La. 1121. La. 1632. Tenn. 1632. Ind. 1300. W. 1300. W. Adams. 1288. N. Y. 1288. N. Y. Clifton Lawrence Lawrence Hiawatha Chapman Chapman Leona Colby Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Fort Scott Fort Scott Lawrence White City Lawrence Lawrence City, Ks Lawrence Awesome McPherson Hanover Washington Miltonvale Topska Radwinm Glirard Lawrence Springs. Lawrence Lawrence. Klipperman. Plitzmann. Kansas City. Rs. City. City. Mo. Wichita. Vila. Vola. Holton. Holtton. Lawrence. City. City. Mo. Lawrence. Lawrence. Lawrence. Lawrence. Lawrence. Kansas City Mo. Lawrence...Bassini...Linn...Lawrence...Lawrence...Wetmore...Wetmore...Lawrence...Lawrence...Lindborg...Tromba...Lawrence...Lawrence... 618 Elliot. 615 Ind. 615 Ind. 1145 Ind. 1006 Miss. 1006 Miss. Lawrence Lawrence Laurentia Parsua Ottawa Lawrence Lawrence Ivonne Lawrence Kearney Independence Winteld Lawrence Salebach Ottawa Emporia Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Emporia Independent Mo. Andrew Ind. Tonganoxie Tonganoxie Tonganoxie Lawrence Lawrence Garden City Chance Watsonland Lawrence Lawrence Chance Timed Lawrence Topkaid Winfield Winfield 1238 Vt. 1249 Ky. 1823 Barker. 1823 Ky. 1217 Ky. 1257 Ky. 1250 La. 1633 Vt. 1633 Mise. 1140 Mise. 1101 Ala. 1100 Ala. 1100 Ala. 1354 Ohio. 813 Maine. 1133 Maine. 1245 Ored. 745 La. 154 La. 140 Tenn. 1409 R. I 1409 R. I 913 Ind. 1541 Ky. 1541 Ky. 1832 N. H 1832 N. H W. Adams 304 W. Adams 1137 Ind. 1137 Ind. 1237 N. H 1155 Tenn. 1247 Ky. 1247 Ky. 1633 Vt. 1333 Conn. 1333 Conn. 1145 Ind. 1755 Lrurd. 1755 Lrurd. Y M C. A. (Continued on page 3.) 10 W. Adams. 119 W. Adams. 1116 Tenn. 630 Ohio. 1080 Ohio. 1151 Oread. 1143 Tenn. 1141 Tenn. 1247 Ohio. 1247 Ky. 1260 Ky. 1501 I. K. 1501 Ky. 014 Ky. 1603 Miss. 1603 Miss. 1333 Tenn. 1333 Tenn. 1333 Tenn. Bi-Chloride Tablets For The Holy Water Dr. W. C. Rucker in his lecture on "The Control of Common Insect Borne Diseases" told a story of an experience in New Orleans as health officer. He had been severely censured, he said, because cases of yellow fever kept cropping out in his ward. What in the wide world caused it? It began to get on the doctor's nerves. 1209 Ohio. 1233 Orend. 1041 Vt. 1041 Lindd. 1041 Miss. 1116 Ind. 1011 Gbi. 1140 Miss. 1140 Ky. 1050 Ja. 1400 Bk. 8 1602 La. 1705 W. 1705 W. Hancock 922 Miss. 713 Jay. 1137 Ind. 1137 Ind. 1022 Ohio. 1400 Tenn. 1022 Ohio. 618 Ohio. 1109 Vt. 1109 Vt. One morning, acting on a happy thought, Dr. Rucker went around to the Catholic church and examined the holy water fount. It was from this parish that fever cases were coming into the hospital. There, sure enough, were hundreds of mosquitoes drinking in the holy-water. They were in the habit of feeding on the worshippers during the prayer service and were causing all the mischief. The priest was immediately consulted but he courteously replied that he was sure the holy-water fount mosquito could not possibly be engaged in so far nefarious a work as the spread of yellow fever. There was only one thing for Dr. Rucker to do. Early each morning before the priest was up he paid the holy water fount a visit and dropped in a bi-chloride tablet. DR. NAISMITH ANNOUNCES NEW COURSE IN FOOTBALL Athletics have received such an impetus in the University this summer that an impromptu course in "Football From the Coach's Viewpoint" has been instituted. The class, under the direction of Dr. Natalmith, meets each evening at 5:30 in the gymnasium and all interested are invited to enroll. Thirty law students who have been studying for the bar examination will leave Monday morning for Topeka where the examination will be held. SEATS GOING FAST FOR COBURN PLAYS And Prof. Campbell is Looking For Ten Good Male Supes Friday night 8:15 Canterbury Pilgrims. Saturday afternoon. 4:00 Twelfth Night Saturday night . 8:15 Iphigenia in Tauris. Single Admission $1.00 and 75c Season tickets $2.00 and $1.50 PUBLICITY NEEDED FOR MEDICAL FRAUDS . . . . . . . . . . The stage, from which the Coburn players will present their classical plays on the campus, is nearing completion. The stage is located just west of Snow hall and faces the south. There will be 800 seats all facing the north. Around the seats will be a nine foot canvas wall. The seats are selling fast. Dean Walker says that all of the seats will be occluded so that the stage will be visible. The players can be heard from the back seats. White Light Will Banish Vice, Says Dr. W. A. Evans of Chicago Professor Campbell is still looking for some would-be Thespians. The plays will require 38 supers and he needs ten more men. The co-cods have all been selected. The supers will have one rehearsal. SAYS HE'S PROUD OF KANSAS R. M. Horner of Sterling is attending the Summer Session, and is specializing in the chemical laboratories. This is the last day you will be able to swim in four feet of water. Monday the water in the pool will be raised to seven feet and those who cannot swim will find wading difficult. Marine Intelligence J. W. Twente, who is superintendent of schools at Baxter Springs is attending the University. He is taking graduate work in education. A Person Here Three Times as Safe From Tuberculosis as Man in Chicago or Berlin. "Turn on the common white light of universal publicity and fraud vanishes like other vicious things of the night." This is the message Dr. W. A. Evans, the noted health officer of Chicago, gave to the summer students in the chapel last night. "We have frauds among us in the shape of quack medicines and advertising doctors. They are frauds because they offer false a supporting crutch to the sick, and doubly frauds because they only rob and do not cure. The remedy for this is the disseminating of information throughout the community. The time is past when information for public good can be kept in laboratories and libraries. They must be scattered over the halls of humanity. 'New methods for solving these national questions are not needed. The popularizing of the things we have will do the work. Advancement comes as the result of knowledge. If the people of America are made to feel these dangers they, will remove hemt." Dr. Evans declared that he was proud of the progress Kansas has made in the reduction of tuberculosis. "A person in Kansas is three times as safe from tuberculosis as a citizen of Chicago or Berlin," he said. GOVERNMENT HONOR TO PROF. HOPKINS Appointed dy Commissioner Claxton to Position in Bureau of Education Prof. E. M. Hopkins of the department of English has been appointed by Commissioner P. P. Claxon a special collaborator in the United States Bureau of Education. The appointment is in recognition of work done in the past three years as head of a committee representing or endorsed by three national organizations of teachers, including the National Educational Association; and carries with it the acceptance and publication of the results of that work, as far as completed, and the authority to continue it at the expense of the Bureau, with the franking privilege and that of all necessary printing. RUG FACTORY VISITED BY ECONOMIC STUDENTS Miss Elizabeth Norwell of the home economics department took her class of girls, Wednesday, down to the Johnson rug factory on Indiana street. The class studied the construction of the loom and its relation to the primitive hand loom. It also made a study of the materials used in weaving as to the texture and the weave of the weaver. Prof. Charles C. Cochran and Mrs. Cochran will leave about August first for Colorado. They will go first to Denver, but later will journey to the mountain resorts, and also visit Dean Marvin at Boulder . J. C. Anderson arrived Wednesday from Winona. He will specialize in education while attending the Summer Session. J. D. Berwick of Winfield, Kansas, is attending the Summer Schol. He is specializing in machine work. Guy Marpe, principal of the Dodge City high school, is taking graduate work in the College this summer.