FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1924 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN PAGE SEVEN Howe Will Speak to Dads at Dinner Saturday Evening Famous Paragrapher 1 Author of Many Books Receiving Wide Recognition E. W. Howe of Akchena, "Snow at Potato Hill," will be the principal speaker on the program for the Dal's day dinner Saturday over the hill in Palmyra, known the world over, as a mounteflict "institution." When he visits New York, it is mad and just more college at the Walden-Akchena than an eighth grade literacy people up and trick tale literature. Jalapene paragraph comes to town. Elizabeth Smith and of Howe in the New York Sunday Telegram "It isn't every day that the Librarian the Illuminati, the Intellectuals, and the Sophisticates of the biggest city in the world take notice when folk come to visit out of Kansas may value the work of Howe in his new paper, magazine and books, the writer continued. Born On Potato Hill Farm Howe was born on Potato Hill farm near Atchison in 1862. There he has spent practically all of his Far years he won the Atchison Globe. He graduated in the Globe were widely noted. He is now publishing a magazine which he calls, "Ed Hewo's Monthly A Farner's Ma taraine for Town Trees" and the magazine is entirely written by himself. "Nothing Like This Magazine" It has been raided of his magazine that "There is nothing like it on earth, in the heavens up and the waters under the earth. It is composed of four newspaper style pages unrevised by publication, headlines, illustrations, italics or capitals." "Daily Notes of a Trip Around the World" is a book by Howe, easily described by its title. It's a book *travel notes of the persons he met and the places he visited on a trip around the world.* (1987) Among his other books are: "The Story of a Country Town," "Country Town Sayings," "Ventures in Confrontation" and "The Blessings of Business." Epidemic Starts in West Contagious Pneumonia Break Out in Los Angeles Washington, Nov. 15, 2013. The only preventive of the plague, a virulent pneumonia, which has troweed out in Los Angeles is the complete isolation "Careless disposal of the discharges of the patient is the main way of spreading the disease" said Dr. John Spencer, director of the Public Health Service. The people infected with the disease in the present outbreak have been ranch workers. They were ranch workers and doubles were infected by ground squirrels. Unlike the bubonic plague, it was carried by droplets but through droplets of spore given off in the air by the panther. It is almost impossible to detect the diff. sound in the early stages except that it is more virulent from the first. An examination of the sputum of the patient will show the presence of In 1910 fourteen cases were recorded in different parts of California. Ground aquirrels were examined and found to be infected with the disease. The death rate in this slight epidemic was 100 per cent. It was not recognized definitely until the last case where an autopsy proved it to be plague and not pneumonia. It can never be particularly severe, so need we a cold, damp atmosphere to thru. Under favorable conditions they can lie dormant for years and still spread the plague. Two specialists in contagious diseases, Dr. J. C. Berry and Dr. M. E. Wayson, have been sent out to the coast by the U.S. PUBLIC Health Service to study the conditions leading up to the plague. The situation in California is not alarming to any except the ground squirrels as a war of extermination is under way. The precaution is being taken to prevent new cases. Rats are also suffering in the war. They have been in bad odor to carriers of plague for centuries, so they are being observed as in diptheria. The germ was discovered and isolated by the Royal Academy of Science of Austria in 1809. The grem were brought over from India and Dr. Muller was put in charge of the experimental work. BEAT OKLAHOMA! Pen and Scroll Tryouts Open Till Saturday Night A short literary program was given at the meeting of Pen and Scroll Thursday night. It was announced that three members of Pen and Scroll will be appointed to postmaster positions and缩短 short time. Pen and Scroll tryout managerrs will be accepted up to Saturday night. Anyone who has not attained Junior standing and who wish to submit managerrs will be sent to Scroll Scroll in France him immediately, according to James Crow, e26, president. Kansas Child Research Bureau Has Five New Projects Under Way Under Direction of Dr. Sherbon Examination of Children Will Be Made The Kansas Bureau of Child Research, under the direction of Dr. Diane Brown Sherron, professor of psychology under students at the present time. First, records are being kept by college graduate mothers of the individual growth of normal children from birth to 18 years. The second project in the bureau is a tabulation and study of the examinations of 100 families who have had complete physical and mental examinations at the eunuchs building at the Kansas Free Fair during the past five years. These records are the subject of an investigation by the committee of the United States. An Annual Event - - The Jayhawker Energily availed by K, U. Student—and one that brings yearly return in happy memories. YOUR up-to-date photograph should be there. Make the appointment for the sitting now, and remember that a portrait is the most delicate gift you can bestow at Christmas time. Lawrence Studio 727 MASS. ST All on the Ground Floor Third, the bureau is examining a few non-typical children who are brought in from over the state for this purpose. In the fourth place, n study of the best methods of preparing girls for college being taught by burial students. About college graduate mothers are making their observations at the present time, also two graduate students are working on the project. the recreational facilities of Lawrence, with a correlation of recreation and delinquency. Two graduate students are working on this survey now, with the co-op operation of a number of interested Lawrence people. All of this work is being done by volunteers. Lastly, a recreational survey of Lawrence is being made to discover At a meeting of La Cercle Français in Fraser yesterday afternoon, Sigma Kemp, c27, read a French letter from an American student in Paris, describing conditions of school life there and pointed out the contracts with school life in America. He also discussed their discussion and other things of interest, according to the president, Frances Patterson, c26. A great thinker has written a great book. He has named it "RELIGION AND THE MIND OF TODAY." 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