BUG
NUMBER
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BUG
NUMBER
VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 141.
Cold Spring Reduces Bug And Pest Danger To Crops In Kansas
Development of Insects Arrested by Unfavorable Weather Conditions
Means a Saving of $4,000,000
of State
Canker Worms Present in Large Numbers in Parts of State
The cold, backward spring which Kansas is now having is just as bac on the crop of bugs in the state as it is on the crops themselves, according to Prof. S. J. Hunter, state entomologist and the head of the department of ontology at the University of Kansas Ordinarily the insect damage to the field crops in Kansas amounts to approximately $4,000,000 annually.
The outlook for small insect damage in Kansas this year is one of the brightest in history. Besides the climatic conditions, another reason why the insect damage is being reduced is the farmers are paying more and more attention to the advice given them by entomologists about the proper planting time for their crops, Professor Hunter says.
One of the oldest offenders in the state is the common grasshopper. He will be in smaller numbers than us使用, but he was one of the few who were laid last fail have not had the right kind of weather for development. Fate dealt the same cruel blow to the Hessian fly, when it was deceived that it was to have a cold saring this year.
NO CROPS THREATENED SO PAR
The usual pests which cause the most damage in the state are the grasshopper, the chinch bug and the Hessian fly. So far the Hessian fly has been reported to the state in over 500,000 numbers in the northwestern part of the state. The reports indicate that the damage will be practically unnoticeable.
The absence of injurious insects this year in the state is one of the most remarkable in history, Professor Hunter says. The reports on practically every ordinary damage indicates that no particular damage is expected. No crops are threentime infested, and individual pest arrivals later, Kansas is to have undisturbed crops this year that will not the farmers millions of dollars.
The only pest that is showing up in appreciable numbers in the state is the canker worm. It has been reported as being present in Kansas City, Topeka, Alma, and the woods around Lawrence. During the present week g survey of the canker worm conditions at the country club district in Kansas City has been conducted by Professor Hunter.
In contrast, the woods around Lawrence contain considerable numbers of the destructive pest, showing that the banding of the trees is a positive prevention. Professor Hunter predicts that in the state use the banding system that the canker worm will be exterminated entirely.
CANKER the worms are NUMEROUS
The canker worms are found in
exceptionally large numbers in certain
portions of the Country Club district
in Kansas City, but no great damage
is predicted, providing the banding
system, which when employed in
Lawrence for the last four
years, is adopted immediately. The
banding system is by tar the best pre-
vention, Professor Hunter believes, as
is shown by the absence of the canker
worms in Lawrence.
Announcements
Purchasers of Electra tickets should have their seats reserved immediately at the Round Corner Drug Store or at the Registrar's office. Neglect to do so may result in disruption pointment at the last minute, for the tickets are going rapidly.
All band men are requested to bring their instruments at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday as the band will play.
J. C. McCanles, director.
The women's baseball teams will elect their captains this week. The sophomore, junior, and senior classes will meet Thursday at 4:30 for the election and the freshman Friday at 3:30.
A photograph of J. C., McCain's class in telegraphy, taken at Marvin Hall last year during the training of the vocational section, is reproduced in the report of the national director of vocational instruction, a copy of which has been received at the School of Engineering.
The Pan-hellenic track meet will be finished Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Bug Chaser Disturbs Poor Studies Studies
They had seen the Bug Chaser pursuing a white butterfly in the back yard all afternoon, but did not expect to see him enter their room in search of prey. But now, while two played cards in the corner and another stalked at the table, he entered, cyanide bottle in hand.
"I hate to disturb you fellows," he said, "but you haven't any screen on your window and ought to have lots of bugs up her."
Such was the case, but the occupants of the room had never considered it an asset. In fact, considerable damage was done on the 'landlady' because of the lack.
"There goes a scarabadee," said the entomologist, serambling over the desk and trying to reach a large June berry. He rescued a bottle of ink just in time.
"Look at that, little fellow!" exclaimed the Bug Chaser. "Into the eyediane bottle he goes." Then he ended up carrying the bag and scattering cards in all directions.
So it went until he had overturned several chairs, scattered books all about and broke a window. Then, in spite of his protests that it was all in the interests of science and a good trade, they threw him out.
Written for students who are too busy or too
lazy to read a paper from outside the campus
Beyond The Hill
A split in the Hun peace delegation is reported and it is doubtful as to whether Count von Brochoff-Rantzau, head of the German delegation will return to Caniles. The break between us used a difference of opinion over the peace terms.
Vinson Walsh McLean, 9-year-old son of Edward Deal McLean and also richest boy in the world was killed when he was struck by an automobile at the country home of the Mccleans near Washington.
Harry Hawker, Australian aviator, is now on his way to England in a Sopwith biplane. He expects to land on the Irish coast in twenty-four hours thus beating the Americans in the trans-Atlantic flight.
Fear that members of the crew of the NC-3 are lost, as they have not been heard from for forty hours, is expressed by navy officials, who have almost given up hopes of rescuing the crew. The NC-1 was badly wrecked while trying to land in the rough sea, but its crew was saved. The crew of the NC-3 started is now awaiting at Horta, Azores Islands, for the weather to clear before starting on the last leg of the journey to Lisbon.
Governor Allen declares that the War Department has hushed up the report of Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, chief of staff of the first army of which the 35th Division was a part. He also declared that he sized the fact that the 35th was not properly officered or sufficiently equipped while in the Argonne.
Fighting between the Turkish and Greek troops followed the landing of the Greeks at Smyrna.
Study of Bugs Reveals Life Secrets to Science
Even the most common and meanest little bug that people bother with every day and perhaps kill by the dozens are valuable to the entomologist in his study of the "bug world." He uses his thousands of insignificant little bugs to study great biological problems. Bugs are so valuable in this sort of study because they grow and develop normally under artificial conditions and can be easily observed and handled, but it is actually impossible to make as easy and comprehensive a study of any of the higher animal forms under unusual conditions they must be subjected to during experiment.
"This figure is not simply the estimate of some entomologist," said Prof. S. J. Hunter, "but is actually the count observation in the laboratory here."
Some bugs multiply so rapidly the evolution of the bug through countless generations can be observed in one season. The offspring of one green bug from the first of April to October count up into the sextillions.
In striking contrast to this rate of multiplication is that of the elephant. The average life of a female elephant is about 70 years, while the will probably have three offspring.
So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller still to
bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
—Swift.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19, 1919.
The Abilene highs took the Manhattan meet the week before the Invitation affair here.
Mrs. Doutht Collecting Bird Calls to Set to Music
"Contrary to the general opinion, birds have a variety of calls and not just one particular call as so many people believe," said Mrs. Bessie Douthitt of the department of zoology today.
will Compare Calls of Birds in Different Localities This Summer
Mrs. Douthitt is studying the various calls of the different birds and putting them down in music. She is making a complete collection of the birds in this locality. This summer she will go to Illinois and make another collection of the calls of the birds there and compare them with other localities where they hapes the birds in different localities have different calls and the only way of making sure of this is to write the calls in music and then compare them
This is practically a new field of work for ornithologists. Several meager collections of bird calls in music have been made but no complete record. Neither has anyone experimented on the theory that birds in different localities have somewhat different calls.
She hopes after she gets her collections made to have them put into form so that they could be whistled or played on several musical instruments. This could be used especially when you want to illustrate the calls because it is almost impossible for an instructor to describe them just in words.
Striped Beetle Quits Useful Life To Become Potato Field Bolshevis
Colorado Pest Becomes High Fastidious After Living on Nettles for Centuries
The Colorado potato beetle is an example of a bug that bad a useful life and turned Bolshevki. His original and natural food is the Santa Fe burr, which grows abundantly in Colorado. This burr belong to the potato family and is used for making potato beetle will select the Santa Fe burr in preference to the potato vine.
When the early settlers went to Colorado in 1850 they began planting potatoes and as the Santa Fe burr is scattered over the prairie and the beech trees, it becomes another, it cannot take time between hustling for foo to raise a family. So the beetle then chose as its food the potato plants because they were planted in close patches and he could give more time to looking after a large fam-
Up to that time the potato beetle had been confined to the region of the Santa Fe burr. It then spread to the region of the potato. It spread to the Atlantic Coast and from there into Europe on the potato plant. This distribution would not have been possible had it not changed its food plant.
When the potato beetle first came to Kansas the only means the early settlers knew of combatting it was to pick it, the eggs and the young off the plants. That was regular work for the children and had to be repeated every morning. But But now since the invention of the spray pump, one application of a poison spray readily poisons almost all the insects.
Prof. Frank E. Kendrie and the University Orchestra will go to Kansas City to accompany Miss Helen Topping in the recital which she will give there May 26 with her Kansas City high school puns.
Professor Kendrie is to accompany Miss Topping and her thirty dancers in her recital here Tuesday night, which is for the benefit of the French orphans. At the dress rehearsal, in preparation for the Lawrence performance, the dancers worked so well with the help of Professor Kendrie in City Orchestra, that was asked to accompany the Kansas City racial.
K. U. Orchestra to Play for Helen Topping Recital
Solo dances will be given at the recital Tuesday night by Helen Clark Vivian Hoeman and J. B. McNaughts with soprano, soprano, will give musical numbers.
Some Bugs Aid Growth of Plant Life—Hunter
Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine, secretary of the State Board of Health, has been commissioned a major in the interest of the United States Public Health Service. The other officers of the State Board of Health have been recommended by Dr. Crumbine and are now designated nation-wide and the officers of the state board of health all over the country likewise will be commissioned for their work in fighting epidemics, plagues, and any contagious diseases.
Instructor Says There's a Little Bit of Good in Every Bad Little Bug
"When speaking of insects we at once think of some troublesome little pest made chiefly to destroy plant life and make life unpleasant for the human race," said Prof. S. J. Hunter, State Entomologist, today. "But it is a mistaken idea, for there are many insects that live in the humble bees; Take for instance the humble bees; They help in the cross pollinization of the clover bloom."
"Alfred Wallace the well known naturalist says, 'Bumble bees build their nests in the deserted nests of the field mouse. Cats play on mice old mads are found of cats; the more omaids the more cats, the more bees the more clever, the more蜜 honey the more sweetness h life."
There are other bees, such as the parasitic bees, which destroy harmful bugs, which kill useful plants. The caterpillar is one of the most injurious of all bugs. The parasitic bees lay their eggs on the backs of the caterpillars and when these hatch the caterpillar dies.
Lady birds eat up the harmful plant growth which grows on pansies, lettuce and wheat. There is a great green beetle, sometimes called ground beetle, which helps the flowers and vegetables of parasitic growths which stunt the development of plant life, according to Professor Hunter.
Infantile Paralysis Carried By Stable Fly Investigators Learn
Scientists Fail to Find Toxin to Counteract Poliomyelites Germ
lites Germ
"Stomoxys calcitrans, sometimes known as the common stable fly, has been indicted by scientists recently as the cause of the most horrible disease of modern times, infantile paralysis, called by the scientists epidemic poliomyelitis" said Prof. Paul B. Lawson, from the department of entomology, today.
This disease was first discovered by physicians in Norway in 1887, and has spread to such an alarming extent in the last few years that extensive experiments and investigations have been made in the hope of Discovery of a toxin to counteract ther效 effects of the germ. The experiments proved that the stable BY was the result of the actual bacillus or organism causing the disease has not as yet been identified.
The experiments further showed that the bedbug was another conveyor of the disease, and that where it was exposed to matter infected with poliomyelitis, it would hold the infection several days, and infect other organisms.
Manure is a chief breeding place of flies and the successful combatting of infantile paralysis means the clean maintenance of all stables. Manure, say sanitarians, should be spread out so that it will dry quickly as the fry move with minimal disturbance. Where it is impossible to spread manure, it should be placed in a tight box or pit so that flies cannot reach it.
There is only one animal on earth besides man that uses tools in building its home and in caring for its young, according to Prof. S. J. Hunter, state entomologist. That animal is a little winged insect in making cone-shaped its home.
Insect Carpenter Uses Tools in Home Building
McCanles was out with his 35-piece band making the crowd jazz around while the athletes stepped out on the track.
This wasp digs a hole in the ground by biting and scratching the earth to a depth of about two inches. After this hole has been cleaned out it covers the entrance by laying a flat pebble over the hole and then the wasp flies away and finds a small green worm. It stings this worm in the middle of the back, not enough to kill it. Then it carries into the hole and pounds it down with hole and drags the worm to the bottom of the little den.
Just What Is A Bug If Bugs Are Bugs?
Then the female wasp lays an egg on this dormant worm so that when the egg hatches the little larva will crawl into the soil and emerge. The male wasp then pushes the dirt back into the hoe and pounds it down with the little rock until the ground looks perfectly smooth, thus covering all the whereabouts of the egg and food.
A bug is a wrigly, creepy thing that has a hard back an' two long whiskers and stick feet that get hold of your finger and won't let go. Most girls don't like bugs. Boys say they isn't scared of bugs, but they are, 'cause—well—'cause a bug's a bug, and that's all there is to it. They bite.
There are lots of different kinds of baby big bugs, little bugs, fat bugs, skinny bugs.
In the plain pest kind of bugs there are many human bugs; bugs that have only two legs and wear pant and coats. This kind of bugs have whiskered ladybugs, too. Most of this kind of bugs are professors, deans, chancellors and school teachers. They try to bug up little boys and girls who go to school, and make them go buggin'. I don't like any kind of an old bug, anyway, but I'm scared of this kind of bug, especially at this time of the year.
They're buggy
Plain Tales From the Hill
BUG DICTIONARY
According to Webster and some others.
Bug—in popular language an insect of any kind but often an animal that resembles a bug. Verb—to hunt bugs, to study, to cram, to bone.
Bug-up—incentive for bugs.
Bugs—to go or to—enthusiastic about most anything. Synonymous with nuts.
Bugology—popular science term for the study of insects and men.
Bug-house—to be in a state of uncertainty and amazement approaching insanity. A place to put those in that state.
Buggy—a two-wheeled one horse vehicle. Scattered brained and worthless. The state of the person who is trying to write this.
SONG OF THE BUG STUDENT
Femora, prothorax, coleoptera,
Antennae, jassidae, lepipodera,
Frenulum, mantidae,
Clypeus, battidae,
Phaedomes, anidae, hymenoptera
The season is here when the small beetle bursts out to wound-bites or his bigger-tsel.
Phasmidae, apidae, hymenoptera.
Say everybody, this is the "bur" and "Sleefer." Wyft is editor. And "Sleefer." Wyft is editor.
HOWZAT?
Dr. Horace Reddish is being held for questioning in the cello, ill. He must have a, strong case.
CAN ANYBODY TELL ME?
Why the lightning bug lights up?
How the moon illuminates them?
Why the moth likes madas?
Where the ant is going all the time?
Why the butterfly just jazzes around?
CAN ANYBODY TELL US
Why the cootie likes company?
Why the june bug comes in?
May?
Why is it that the entomology department explains all about bugs to the erudite student, while the matter its is handled by the botany profs?
He enlisted from his home in California. He septa a year overseas and met the cootie in his native habitat. Now he is at K.U. They don't have her but she entreats, and he expects the worst bouts of all when he goes on his first picnic.
IT'S VERNON L
It isn't often the esteemed Literary Digest pulls one, but last week on线 137 it mentioned "Bernard" Robie of Hoover's aids, a former K. U. Man.
Pete Gross objects to being called a "boxer a la rotten" in the Sour Owl. Several others on the campus would like to object to what they were called in the edition but chose silence.
If this issue of The Kansan is intended for a publicity number for the chigger, the mosquito, et al., it*s going to do their own advertising these days.
The humble cocteau called many soldiers to lose souvenirs, according to a returned Yank. At the delouising of the town, they ordered to dump out all their souvenirs and other possessions. Then they took off their clothing, which was steamed and disinfected while using a special composition soap, using a special composition soap.
But when they got back to their treasures, this ex-soldier says, they usually found other souvenir hunters had been around.
FAMOUS LAST LINES
Oo-oo-oo, step on it.
Read the Daily Kansan.
The coming of the "Taran of the
K. U. kidders with a
new nickname.
University Convocation Called By Chancellor For Tuesday At 10:30
Students Will Discuss Honor System and Outline its Mode of Procedure
Classes Will Be Dismissed
Senate Has Approved System and Studehts Will Have Vote May 28
Chancellor
There will be an All-University Convocation Tuesday morning, May 20, at 10:30 o'clock in Robinson Gymnasium, to discuss the 'student honor system. FRANK STRONG,
A special University convocation will be held in Robinson Gymnasium Tuesday morning at 10:30, for the purpose of discussing the honor system and student government. All 10:30 classes will be dismissed.
A plan that has been drawn up, a committee from the men and women of the University will be presented at this convocation and in the plan, the students will be given entire charge of dishonesty and other student problems; the chart move taken by the students toward improvement this year. The entire plan will be the approval of the University Senate and it is now up to the student body. The honor system will be explained in detail by representative students and members of the faculty. They will tell about the system as they have seen it, explain its roles and as they believe it will work on university of Kansas. Vice-Chancellor W. L. Burdick will preside at the meeting.
May 28th each student will vote on the honor system. Severity-five per cent of the student body must be in the honor system before it can be put into effect.
REPORT OF COMMITTEES
The two committees selected by the men and women students of the University of Kansas for the purpose of considering the establishment of the honor system, submits the following report:
After obtaining information from different institutions, the committee decided that the following points were important to proper working of the honor system.
1. Written pledge to be given at each examination.
2. Student agreement to report all dishonest work.
3. Presence of the instructor at the examination to be optional with the instructor. (only for purposes of information).
4. Honor Court composed of students to assess all penalties, with right of accused student to appeal to disciplinary committee.
The University Senate at a special meeting May 14, 1919 delegated its disciplinary power in regard to dishonesty in academic work to the students. The university provided that the honor system is established on the basis of the four points contained in the committees report, and provided that at a special election to be held for the purpose, by the student body, 75 per cent of students enrolled in the University in favor of such an honor system.
TO ESTABLISH COURT OF HONOR
Upon the adoption of such an honor system, the committee recommends that an honor consultant redeem five members be appointed from the Junior and Senior classes at once, and hereafter each year in September, not later than the Friday following enhonesty in academic work to the stupeff of three men appointed by the president of Men's Student Council and two women appointed from the Women's Student Government Association, no one of the appointees to be a member of either council. Begining October 1920 each of the two presidents shall appoint their delegation on the honor court. The committee further recommends that the honor court shall develop its own rules, regulations and procedure.
Trips Net 300,000 Bugs for University Museum
Three hundred thousand varieties of bugs have been collected by the department of entomology at the University and mounted on display in Dyke Museum. This is the result of thirty-six collecting expeditions that have been carried on in Kansas, Colo-ronia, Texas and a few other states. These collecting expeditions are made every year and sometimes several in one year, under the direction of some member of the entomology faculty.