TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1925
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Isolates Organism Which Produces "Sleepy Sickness'
Germ Changeable in Size
Woman Bacteriologist
First Tags Him
Definitely
Washington, Dec. 1.- The tiny organism that can cause septic sebourosis, or encephalitis lethargia, and has mystified scientists since the first appearance of the disease in Venus during the world war, has at last been definitely tagged and identified by Miss Alice C. Evans, of the U. S. Hygienic Laboratory. The organism belongs to the streptococcus group of bacteria, various in color, but varies through the finest filters derived by science, and yet is grown so large at other times that it can easily be seen with the ordinary microscope.
Unlike African Disease
The disease is not the same as the African "sleeping sickness." That is caused by an organism carried by the tsetse fly. Uncertainty lethargic has been thought by some scientists to be due to the same organization that causes influenza because it has followed influenza epidemics.
Just as we have been streptometer, with which the experimented, from the brain of a patient who had died of sleepyness at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Finance at the University, were cultivated in test tubes and used to inoculate rabbits. The animals contracted the same disease, and after death the identical organisms were found in great quantities in the brains of other rabbits, given to other rabbits by means of perms recovered from the brains of the ones that had died; this was continued until a succession of seventen rabbits were collected, all having traces of the original streptometer taken from the brain of the human case.
Germs Not Hardy
The organisms are not hardy, and when kept for a long time under artificial conditions they lose virulence. Miss Eyes also noted that when very small doses of spreng streptococcus were injected into rabbits they do not contract the disease immediately and when they become ill to die. In other words small doses gave them a partial immunity.
Sleep sickness has been more prevalent in the United States than is commonly believed. Amongst, since 1918, not far from a thousand cases have been registered in cities with a total population of about 225,000,000. The disease causes invariable injury and discomfort to the body; it cover are generally minor, abnormal. The three cases that occurred in 87 Elizabeth's Hospital for the Fiancee were of persons who had had an infection from four to six years before.
Fatality 29 Per Cent
The fatality of the disease is about 29 per cent and the sparing 70 per cent have a root of chronic cases, some doctors maintain. Whether or not these cases are contagious and are able to spread the disease to others has not been determined. Miss Evans said.
The work of Miss Evans is definitely identifying the causal factor of sleep sickness will enable future in vestigators to continue experiments which it hopes will lead to the discovery of a preventive or cure.
Delegate to Be Selected
Petitions for Candidates Must Be in Tomorrow
"All positions for the nomination of candidates for delegate to the Student Conference on the World Court to be held at Princeton, Dec. 11, must be fit the hands of any member of the executive committee, and the hands of any conference at 4 p.m., said Dick Matthews, chairwoman of the executive committee this morning.
The executive committee, composed of representatives of W. S. G. A., the Men's Student Council, the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., the Kawanan, and faculty will elect the delegates from each school. The plan was adopted as the most just and equitable one, according to those in charge.
Members of the executive committees include: Paul Riemiott, Richard Beasty, Katherine Hancox, Richard Baird, Mary Raine, Dick Hannon, Teisha Shulman, John D Ryan, Prof. W. W. Davis, Plidim Schmitt, Agnieszka Bison, and Beck
Plans have been made to care for all expenses of the delegates to the conference. The committee will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. in the journalism building to select the delegate.
Scientist Tells Us Irish Sprang From Eskimo
(United Press)
Dublin, Dec. 1.—Irishmen are de-
scended from Eskimos.
Not all Irishmen are so descended, said Doctor Polorny, professor of Celtic Philology in Berlin University, in an address here, but in certain out-of-the-way parts of Ireland and Scotland also—were to be found groups of features preserved them unanticipated of the Mongol true.
As much, he said, this strain could only have been connected with the Eskimor.
Moreover, there were many things pointing to the sociological connection between the Arctic culture and the early Irish culture. The subterranean dwellings in Ireland, for instance, he declared, have exactly the same ground plan as the snow houses of the Eskimos of today.
U.S. Manufacturers Co-Operate With Army on War Preparations
Industries Are Taking Interes in Work of Industrial Preparedness
Preparedness
(United Press)
Washington, D.C. I—Commercial manufacturers throughout the United States are giving almost universal cooperation to the army's peace-time plans for utilization of industry in time of war, according to the annual report of Major-General C. C. Willey, who ordinarily made visible here today.
countries are taking a vital interest in the work of industrial preconditioned," Williams says. "They are assisting in the army procurement lans even to the extent of expending considerable sums of their own money; the preparation of factory plans or emergency production."
"The problem of maintaining the authorized war reserve of ammunition, however, is becoming more difficult as the stocks on hand increase in age. A constant inspection is made of materials and a study of the records reveals some serious problems with design or burden war production, while others are due to deterioration of the adhesive elements."
Williams called attention to his for-er pleas for funds to provide repairs or arsenals and • shared that sufficient funds should be appropriated to grant reasonable maintenance of arsenal facilities and • a decision on through lack of care.
Insomnia Affects Senses
Eyes Play Tricks on Student After 40 Hours
(Defence services)
Washington University is often staying two nights in succession, an individual may still be captain of his machine and reasoning powers, but his eyes and ears may begin to play him queer tricks. This is shown in one tiny video from a Washington university experiment *George Washington University*, which will shortly be published by professors of the medical school and psychology department who conducted the tests.
The eight students who took part in the experiment could make as good records in tests of their mental alertness after two sleepy nights as they made at the beginning. But tests of their senses showed that efficiency of sight and hearing fell off as fatigue increased. But the results that after 40 hours of wakefulness he happened to be on the street at night and clearly saw a man watering some plants, though he realised at the time that no one would try to stand up or move. The appearance of this illusion and others similar to it turned into posts, and other familiar objects when the student approached them, but the illustrations continued to trouble him, even in full daylight. Another disturbance of vision from the vigni.
A number of practical tests can be used with automobiles were tried on the subjects of the experiment. The report states that students were able to park automobile in an amphitheatre or a parking lot, wakefulness. But when they trie driving along a road, effects of fatigue became evident.
Former Student Married
Virgil E. Williams, LL.B. B2., was married to Miss Bessie Roberts of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Williams were recently appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson County Missouri. He is a world war veteran, a member of Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Fiat Associates, and a president of the Pachyphora organization.
Former Student Married
Corrections of the student director; will be published this week.
Alpha Sigma Nu Chapter Planned for University
A chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu, national honorary women's athletic organization, will be installed in the next few weeks in the University of Kansas, according to Miss Margaret in the department of physical education.
The entire earth has 44,000 thunder storms a day or 15,000,000 a year.
"We expect to have about eight women for the first chapter here," Miss Barta said.
Soy bean oil is not merely a partial substitute for lined oil, but actually is superior in certain uses, notably in the manufacture of white enamel, according to L.C. Bradley of Bloomington, Ill., who addressed the sixth annual meeting of the National Soy Bean Grower's' Association at Washington recently.
The original chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu is at University of Illinois and the second is located at Ohio Wesleyan. The third chapter, Mista Barzo was a member of Alpha Sigma Nu at Illinois will install the new chapter
The organization is for juniors and seniors who have a scholastic average of B with no grade in gymnastics below an A, who have made three first teams, and who exhibit good sportsmanship and fair play with team members.
Vacation Dreams Die When Alarm Jangles
Ding, ding, ding, the alarm clock jangles discontinuity; ding, ding, more insistently and with disconcerting persistence. Something must be done. Slowly the sleepy "stude" disengages himself from his warm covers and steps from his dream world of pleasant vacation memories into the cold world of stark reality. Thanksgiving vacation is at an end and he must make that 8:30.
What's the use of it all anyway? How jibbitbub he had been last Tuesday. What anticipation! Next Monday seemed at least a month away. He would greet all the home 'Folks, perhaps go to a real old-fashioned party or two, eat the wonderful Thanksgiving dinner that only his grandfather could handle. A few hikes or a hunting trip around the familiar countryside. Then he would have so much time to study. It was so quiet and secluded at home; no more conferences with unreasonable profs after Thanksgiving. He'd
show them that he could do real work after Thanksgiving.
Now it is after Thanksgiving. His vacation has netted him one case of indigestion, one short report written up haphazardly, and one rabbit shot sweet mamma is down on him because she has heard that he dated an old home town girl three nights straight. Pilgrim Fathers, What's the use?
A huge artificial lake is to be formed in the Ozark Mountains to generate power for Kansas City.
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