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Friday, March 15, 1957
Campus Chest Aid-A Challenge
(Editor's note: The Campus Chest drive begins Tuesday. The following is an appeal for that cause by Jim Steerman, co-chairman of the drive.)
Great thinkers of the past came up with the fact that man is basically selfish. If we class ourselves as men, then you and I have this trait in common with all mankind. Herein lies our challenge.
We are challenged in this world to overcome this basic human weakness, challenged to give some of what we have to others who are less fortunate.
We live under the principle that all men are created equal. In the same breath we realize that this is not materially true. The environment into which we are born, our spot on earth, may not give us an equal chance for material opportunity.
But by our basic premise, every man must have or be given this equal opportunity to do what he can with what he is naturally given by his Creator.
You and I can do it with our dollars or the government can do it with our dollars.
Thus we ask you to help put the KU campus on top in service to mankind, as it is in athletics and education. We ask you to support your 1957 Campus Chest.
If every person on campus would give just one dollar, the total would send us skyrocketing toward the top. Add it up for yourself and see what just a little help from each member can do for the entire group.
We ask you to give to a charity which supports student aid groups, organizations which only you support and which never ask your parents for a cent. The biggest percentage goes to the World University Service which works to give students in all parts of our world an equal chance at education.
It is your challenge; we know that you will not fail yourself, your school, and your world.
Wish You Were Irish?
Jim Steerman
It has been said that there are only two types of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish that they were Irish.
While this generality may be a bit too sweeping, St Patrick's Day would be the least opportune time to challenge it. For among those who don a shamrock or a green tie in memory of Ireland's patron saint, there will probably be only a few whose grandparents came from places as far away as Galway, Dublin or Cork.
The strange and touching thing about St. Patrick's Day is that not only those who associate themselves with St. Patrick take part in the observance, but that practically everybody else, no matter what his racial origin or religious sect, also welcomes it.
While traditionally a time for those of Irish lineage to assert a pride in their history and culture, St. Patrick's Day is now observed across the world.
Sons and daughters of Ireland have always gathered to honor St. Patrick's memory and keep it bright. His day was celebrated by shivering American troops at Valley Forge and it was recognized in General Washington's orders of the day in 1780. It is now an old and friendly American custom in which all can join with mutual understanding and respect.
It is good to know that the observance of St. Patrick's Day does not honor any dictator and was not ordered by law, but arose out of the joy in the hearts of all men and women. We can all warm to that thought, even those who are neither Irish nor of St. Patrick's faith.
St. Patrick would understand. He wasn't Irish either. The dear, good man was born, some say in Scotland, some say in Wales, but not by any chance in Galway, Dublin or Cork.
Source Of Cancer In Mice MayBeSameForMen—Smoke
Marilyn Mermis
A substance in cigarette smoke which invariably causes cancer in mice when injected into them was discovered recently by a French-educated Vietnamese scientist.
Dr. Nquyen-Phoc Buu Hoi has been conducting lengthy experiments with the help of American money at the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. The chemical substance he discovered develops only when tobacco is burned in smoking. It is one of the chemicals making up the tar in tobacco that has long been suspected of increasing the number of lung cancer victims in smokers.
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Several doctors at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis concluded in 1950 that something in the composition of cigarettes contained a cancer-forming agent. In 1,100 cases of lung cancer they found that the great majority had at one time been excessive smokers. They defined "excessive" as smoking more than one pack a day.
They found there were three times as many deaths in victims who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day than in those who smoked less than one. In 188,000 cases they found the death rates high among smokers and very low among non-smokers.
In 1955 the American Cancer Society completed an investigation of the lung cancer death rate in men between 50 and 70 years of age.
A doctor in East Orange, N.J., did autopsies last year on the lungs of 117 men who had died of lung cancer. He found a progressive change in the lung tissue almost parallel to the amount of smoking they did. The lungs of those who had smoked a pack of cigarettes a day or more showed severe changes.
The Medical Research Council in Britain sent a questionnaire to all the doctors in the United Kingdom to determine the relationship these doctors had found between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Among the 40,000 men and women there was a "marked and steady increase in the death rate from lung cancer as the amount smoked increased."
In another massive study British scientists found that only one half of 1 per cent of men with lung cancer were non-smokers.
Smokers using a pack of cigarettes a day have a chance of dying from lung cancer 14 times higher than non-smokers, the American Cancer Society reported last year. For those smoking two packs a day the chances
Also, they found no difference between smokers who inhale and those who do not.
25 Years Ago
Tuesday, March 15, 1932
HOPEWELL, N.J. — (UP) — Fear for the safety of Charles Lindbergh Jr. was felt in some quarters today as the two weeks mark neared in the mystery of his kidnapping and police chased down blind alleys for real clues to his abductors.
Tuesday, March 15. 1932
From an editorial: "Oklahoma University has banned slung. Use of it in classes is to be reported by faculty members, and those students who are so inerudite to employ it may not receive their diplomas."
Ad: "Sales day special. 12 dozen soft collar shirts, 65 cents each. Carl's."
Want ad: "Employment with large manufacturing firm. $20 weekly guaranteed to those who qualify."
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce was host this noon to Dr. Forrest C. Allen and his Big Six championship basketball team at the Eldridge Hotel of which the principal event on the luncheon program was the awarding of seven letters by Coach Allen to the members of the Kansas team.
Ad: "Special this month. Chocolate malts or chocolate milk shakes, 10 cents. Egg sandwich, 5 cents."
are 27 times higher. The society also reported that regular smokers have a death rate from all causes 52 per cent higher than non-smokers.
There are the facts. Although no one has come right out and said that cigarette smoking definitely causes lung cancer, there is a correlation between the two that cannot be dismissed lightly.
The Vietnamese scientist has proved that a substance in cigarettes invariably causes cancer in mice. Whether it also invariably causes cancer in humans has yet to be proved, but the evidence seems to point in its favor.
Lawrence was burned in 1963 by William C. Quantrill and his guerilla band.
—Peggy Armstrong
A town called Rough and Ready served as the county seat of Drew County, Ark., from 1846 to 1950.
Fort Smith, Ark., has one of the largest livestock markets in the Southwest.
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