MAY 1, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Chemistry Student Tests Kansas Coals For State In His Own Laboratory
Jack H. Waggoner, Returned from Service, Doing Valuable Research Work
A complete coal gas plant in miniature,exactly duplicating the processes of manufacture of coke withatus for testing coal products at all stages of manufacture,is the result of two months work by Jack H.Waggoner,graduate student,who is making exhaustive analyses of all Kansas coals under the direction of the Department of state Chemical Research,in a special laboratory in the basement of the Chemistry building
A large calorimeter for testing the heat values of coal, and a special gas analysis apparatus designed by Mr. Waggoner and Roland J. Clark, also of the department of chemistry, have important places in the laboratory, which is in a room specially set aside for this work.
The first two months have been taken up in designing and setting up apparatus and the real work of analyzing the coals of Kansas has only been started in the last two weeks.
To make complete analyses and survey of the Kansas coal situation, by the new methods, Mr. Waggoner estimates that two years would be necessary, but by having the laboratory, at least some of the American chemists at KU, it will be possible to do the job in somewhat shorter time.
The most important feature of the work, the part which places it in a new and important class, is the coke tests to be carried on, when the ordinary process of chemical analyses is completed. In the usual tedious processes, the gases, coal tar products, and the original coal as mined from the earth are analyzed as to quality and amount of each content. It is also necessary, in industrial experiments to determine the quantity of heat units necessary to convert a ton of coal into coke.
This process, all carried through in one operation involving about 7 hours actual work and several days of calculation, determines all these and also the amount of coke derived per ton of any coal, the quality of the coke, and its practicability for use in iron blast furnaces.
Mr. Wagoner attended K. U. from Topeka until last year, but stopped school last spring to enlist in the service. He was with the Chemical Warfare Service in this country for some time, doing special test work in government chemical plants, and was sent to an Officers' Training Camp, from which he was discharged immediately after the signing of the armistice.
Mr. Waggoner expects to analyze about fifty samples of coal from all parts of the state, and to make complete returns in a complete survey of the Kansas coal situation. He will work on this during the summer, and expects, to turn it over to the Department of State Chemical Research next fall.
By The Way
Ensign George Bailley of Salina is visiting at the Beta house.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Hearty E. Brown, of the department of English, to Dr. C. F. Nelson, of the department of chemistry.
Doris, Drought, e'20, is spending today in Topeka.
Herbert Barney, c21, visited friends in Kansas City this week.
A chicken dinner was served to the faculty of the department of geology and the students who are majoring in that department, Wednesday evening in Haworth Hall by Mrs. E. H. Haworth and Miss Margaret Haworth. Mrs. Haworth's sister, Mrs. Cochran, assisted. After the dinner, woodbines were planted around Haworth Hall.
Margaret Matthews, Spencer Gard, and Gus Lauterback were elected to membership into the Dramatic Art Club Wednesday night at the monthly meeting. They were admitted in a try-out with the play "The Best Man." Miss Augusta Taylor was put on the waiting list. Another meeting will be held before the end of the School term, for election of officers and another try-out for the club.
Willis: Did your son have a good war record?
were there?
Gillis: He was a rank failure. He didn't bring back a German prisoner or a French wife.
BigJobs That Are Aching To Be Licked
Greatest Employment Agency In The World In Special Training For The Man Or Woman Who Can See With Their Eyes
By Harry Bennett
Going down the road the other day I stumbled onto one of the best jobs just begging some K. U. man to take it. Me? I'm a cripple. I had to pass it up, but I hasten to give the word, hoping some Hill man will grab it. It's a prize. The man who gets it needn't work any more about money or fame, for the job is nothing more or less than the developing of a real paving material.
ing more of test buildings we boastful moderns have been following along behind Caius Julius Caesar. We've done practically no more than he did. We have been as honesty in developing knowledge on road building as is possible. A durable paving, that is not expensive and that is cheap and easy to repair is one of the biggest needs of now. Where is the he-man coming from to do it? From the Hill, or are all the Hill men planning on using $125-a-month job holders?
Stumbling along that rough road with my stick, I saw another big job waiting for some K. U. man or woman. It was a withering fruit tree. It had blight, a bacillary disease. The orchard owner said it was almost impossible to grow pears in this region because of blight. He said scientists were helpless before it and that it had caused millions of dollars' loss. Some job? Indeed! During the war the government needed plant pathologists, but there weren't enough specimens of that individual to meet even the government demands.
Stepping aside to let a motor car go by, I thought of fortune and fame that await the man or woman who perfects a method of cracking crude oil so that more gasoline may be produced. That made me think, too, of the need of better analytical methods in chemistry, that oil cracking and a thousand other great needs of industry and humanity may be solved. Better allways always will be needed, a better method is in demand right now for extracting metallic magnesium, because of its lightness, in airplane construction and with aluminum to form an inactive alloy.
The chemistry of oil, or of metals, dyes and a hundred other substances furnish an unending employment bureau that always has jobs, big jobs with riches and fame as a reward. Any chem lab is the vestibule of an employment agency far better than anything the Department of Labor ever conceived. Let some Kansas boy put together three or four common substances to make an ink that can be taken off as easily as put on, and the pinching print paper situation is solved, for all the old magazines and papers can be bleached, repulped and made into paper again.
I can't help but think how badly our great Uncle Sam was licked in the world war. No, not by the Hun; by the cockroach and in every engagement Uncle Sam had with him. Despite all Uncle Sam could do the cockroach continued his damaging tactics practically unretarded. Entomologists have done huge economic and scientific good, but there isn't among
But Seven Ph. D. Degrees Have Been Granted Here
The number of degrees of doctor of philosophy granted by the Graduate School since its organization, has not been many, only seven, beginning with one granted to Clarence E. McClung from the department of zoology in 1902. Three have been from the department of chemistry, two from mathematics, one from sociology and one from zoology. The last Ph.D. was given to Dr. Stanton Ollinger in 1916.
While it is impossible to gain access to the necessary material for the research work involved in the study required for a Ph. D. here, there are other schools with more extensive libraries and laboratory equipment and instructors who possibly are not more capable, but who have more time than faculty members of K. U. whose time is so largely taken up with duties to freshmen and sophomores.
The reason for the lack of candidates for the degree is not because of rules against the department giving a degree to any graduate student majoring in that subject, but simply that it has been the policy to encourage students who have taken their A. M. at the University to obtain fellowships in other institutions for any further work they wish to do.
"There is no reason at present who more Ph. D. degrees," said Dean F. W. Blackmar of the Graduate School, "should not be granted and each department should urge and encourage students in that direction. There are several prospective candidates this quarter."
The master's degree has been especially well developed in the K. U. Graduate School, in fact to a larger extent than in many institutions where more attention is given to the Ph. D.
the best of them one can tell how to protect overnight, from the clothes moth, the Sunday pants of the nation's manhood. The man or woman who licks the clothes moth will belong among the immortals. But it and that little paving job will be done some day. Who wants a real job? Or, is it that everybody would be a police court lawyer, a drafting-room stool pigeon, a calemel doctor or a newspaper hack devoid of originality or ambition?
I've never become impatient with the failure of science to find the fungm. That's another big job aching to be licked. They've left the discovery of the measles germ for you youngsters, too. Oh, the world haven't been stung in leaving you jobs, lots of them, big ones, just aching to be licked. Bacteriology is crammed with them. You may attain fame through their accomplishment, or possibly money, although it is more that after your work has made possible the use of cholera serum, some pans of livestock man comes and cleans up millions on it while you go on to the next job, content with the tin lizzie salary the packer and the livestock man and the rest of a loving constituency permit you to have.
Oh, they're all about, in every schoo,
on the Hill, these big jobs just aching
to be licked. There are more of them
in medicine than will ever get done,
only they won't be done by the type
of kid who hates chemistry and anatomy
and expects to establish his practice
on 5 per cent knowledge and 95
per cent of that illusive and tricky
compound called "bunneln."
but while you are looking into this greatest employment agency, remember it wants doors, men who can see beyond the holding of a $150 job. The Hill's full of these big jobs, no bigger anywhere, only it takes a clear eye to see them. And while you are looking for them, young fellow, while you are specializing and trying to get an eye full, remember that the best eye medicine for you is a little broadening with the humanities as well as that special training. It will make the big job all the easier to lie the better,
Graduate Student Talks to Botanists on War
Representative Ticket
Defeats Snappy Service
(Continued from page 1)
"Everybody knows that the Germans were well qualified for air service. They were better prepared than either the Americans or the British. In some of their flights they left a group of our planes, as a big car leaves a Ford. However, our military plans were superior."
"I think the Americans were the best fighters," he declared. "They were always quick. From all I have read or seen the French and English were too slow.
"The principle of warfare used by the Germans was mass formation," said Charles Sperry, a member of the 89th Division, and now a graduate student in the University, addressing the Botany Club Wednesday evening on army life.
Edgar Hallis and Basil Church finished arrangements with the Burger Engraving Company of Kansas City, Mo., Monday to furnish the engravings for the Honor Book for Douglas County which the two University students are working on. The book will have eight division pages in three colors and the pictures will be individuals according to present plans.
After luncheon was served initiation was held for the following: Pauline Kimbell, c'19; Ruth Rouse, c'19; Annette Garrett, c'20; Eulalia Dougherty, c'22; and Bert Hess, c'23.
Spanish is Language of Peace Enrollment in Spanish has risen from 189 the first uarter to 307 at present. Five graduate graduates are now graduating. The language of the war," said Prof. Arthur Owen, commenting on the increased enrollment, "but Spanish is the language of peace."
The vote by Schools is as follows: SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Spanish is Language of Peace
*Student Council*
Montith, pres. 1
Blazier, pres. 2
Stewe, vice-pres. 3
Kinkel, vice-pres. 4
Cox, treas. 1
Banker, treas. 5
Schwarz, cheerleader 6
Bitter, cheerleader 7
Harms, at large 8
Rodley, at large 9
(Two elected)
Patty, rep. ...
Tyner, rep ...
(One elected)
Athletic Board
Clift 12
Miller 10
Bennett 9
Gottlieb 10
Lynn 11
(Five Elected)
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
al Officers
Eagles, pres ... 220
Beisner, vice-pres ... 220
LaMer, secy-treas ... 220
*Student Council*
Monteith, pres ... 110
Blazier, pres ... 146
Kinchel, vice-pres ... 151
Steuwel, vice-pres ... 103
Banker, treas ... 146
Cox, treas ... 102
Schwarz, cheerleader ... 140
Ritter, cheerleader ... 180
Harms, at large ... 204
Rodkey, at large ... 202
Wells, rep ... 178
Pendegrast, rep ... 145
Googins, rep ... 151
Lynn, rep ... 114
Williams, rep ... 160
Wahlstedt, rep ... 158
(Four Reps.Elected)
Athletic Board
Lynn ... 199
Gottlieb ... 186
Clift ... 208
Bennett ... 216
Miller ... 212
(Five Elected COLLEGE
*Student Council*
Montiie, pres. ... 243
Blazier, pres. ... 140
Steuew, vice-pres. ... 130
Kinkel, vice-pres. ... 242
Cox, treas. ... 118
Banker, treas. ... 255
Harms, at large ... 290
Rodley, at large ... 261
Schwarz, cheerleader ... 232
Ritter, cheerleader ... 137
Hockenhull, rep ... 227
Hollis, rep ... 247
Leach, rep ... 245
Church, rep ... 239
Dodderdige, rep ... 239
Kugler, rep ... 234
Nettels, rep ... 170
Oyster, rep ... 141
(Six Reps. Elected)
Linsky, rep. (Medic) 24
*College Officers*
Slawson, pres. 290
Blair, vice-pres. 278
McNutt, treas. 352
*Athletic Board*
Gottlieb 215
Lynn 235
Clift 228
Bennett 243
Miller 230
K. U. Graduate Patents Photography Developer
One of the most important discoveries in chemistry in recent years has been made by Rolla N. Harger, of Topeka, graduate of the University three years ago, who has patented an important photography developer of which Germany had a monopoly before the war. An official copy of the patient has just reached Prof. F. B. Dains, of the department of chemistry.
in the aerial photos and has been dedicated to the free use of all the people of the United States. It has been patented only to foreign nations because Harger wishes to give the people of the United States all the benefits to be derived from the new invention.
The new developer is used mostly
Zoology Club will meet Friday at 4:30 instead of today. Nell Henry from the Westport High School will speak on "Teaching Zoology." All members have been urged to be present.
Laws May Take Advanced Work Three courses in law are offered for credit in the Graduate School, according to Uncle Jimmie Green, Constitutional Law, Common Law Pleading, Jurisprudence and Roman Law, but the school does not confer advanced degrees. Some of the larger American universities, as the University of California, Harvard, and Yale, grant the degree of Master of Laws, Doctor of Jurisprudence, and Doctor of Civil Law.
Try our soda fountain for a refreshing drink. Rankins...Adv.
IDE COLLARS Sold By
SKOF STADS
ELLING SYSTEMS
Where
QUALITY and SERVICE
are
PARAMOUNT
Von's Candy Shop
Betty Wales Dresses
"You Certainly Should See Them"
THE new Betty Wales models are ready and this is the only store in the city that sells them.
SUCH VARIED STYLES!
You will be sure to find just the dress you want among the Betty Wales assortment. Every occasion has been provided for, every taste considered. The newest materials, the smartest trimmings, the most becoming colors have been combined in a masterly way.
AND WHAT CAREFUL FINISHING!
Betty Wales Dresses are made under the brightest and cleanest conditions. They are finished with painstaking care. And inside of each dress you will find the Betty Wales label, which signifies that the dress is a genuine Betty Wales and is the symbol of its unqualified guarantee as to style, materials, finish and satisfaction.
Innes Bullene Nackman