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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BLUE
VOLUME XIII.
NUMBER 112.
SERVES ALL KANSAS
Bett Memorial Hospital Cares For Blind, Deformed and Diseased of State
4000 TREATED
Ideal Is Efficient Service to Citizens, Says Dean Sudler
The Bell Memorial Hospital (built in 1906) attempts to fill the modern needs of the state. Through its provisions, it treats those cases that would otherwise be left without care or with inadequate care. The preventive treatment hydrotherapy is given here; various cases of deformity and diseases that demand surgery, the chronic and obscure cases that cannot receive proper attention with the facilities provided in their homes or by the local profession are all cared for in this hospital. So far, this is the only hospital supported by the state for this character of work. All of the money used for its support comes directly from the state; the remainder coming from the counties and from the private individuals who pay their expenses.
Since October, 1911, 3,853 patients have received treatment in the hospital. During the past years, 1,053 patients have been cared for in it. These figures do not include those receiving the preventive treatment for hydrophobia or any dispensary patients. During the last year 10,018 visits have have made an out-patient (dispensary) department; and 868 hospitals and dispensary hospitals have received surgical treatment. There has been a constant increase in the demand for this service each year; so that neither the facilities nor the funds are adequate to meet them at present.
The hospital is also used for the broader purposes of education. The students of the school of medicine see and study cases here, and thus the experience and studies are usually combined with communities and institutions. That the association of hospitals of this character with educational institutions is of great value has been recognized by such representative institutions as the Presbyterian Hospital of New York University (Boston), Hopkins University (Hopkins University) and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Harvard University).
As medical knowledge has increased, as new methods and instruments of precision have been invented, making possible the definite diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the expense and difficulty of its practice have become much greater. A longer and more exacting training became necessary for the physician. For this reason it was necessary to reorganize the medical school by providing a faculty in office equipment of the physician and the attention of members of the family to the needs of the sick were both inadequate. Hence hospitals with fuller equipment and trained nurses have replaced the looser methods of medicine and the need for medicines becomes more exact, physicians become less and less numerous. (There are approximately 14,000 medical students in the entire United States, 1915, as compared to 28,000 in 1904.) If the sick were private endowment must supply more centers for their proper care.
Kansas is not a pioneer in maintaining a hospital for the purposes served by the Bell Memorial Hospital. It is a "late-comer" in providing for this class of patients, just as it does in providing the victims of tuberculosis. Michigan supports a hospital for the same purposes at Ann Arbor which has nearly five hundred beds; Iowa one of two hundred beds; Minnesota one of like capacity; and similar hospitals exist in Missouri and in Wisconsin. In these states, the hospitals are controlled; statewide hospitals are control and well-equipped hospitals are maintained in most of the older states for the same purpose with and without association with educational institutions.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1916.
The relation of this hospital to the state is to provide care and attention for a class of the sick for which no other provision is made. The child with hobbies, needs help in need of a surgical operation, of X-ray examinations; the chronic and constitutional diseases in need of study and treatment; in short, the poor of the state who are neither insecure, feeble and ill, nor need treatment here through the operation of some of the laws or regulations that have been made to cover the circumstances of the individual seeking such treatment. This is the aim and contribution of the medical Hospital to the cause of suffering and mercy. This is its relation to the state of Kansas, whose ideal of service and civilization is high and to whose service it is devoted.
STATE MATH TEACHERS
WILL MEET SATURDAY
The Kansas Mathematical Association, organized for the improvement of the teaching of collegiate mathematics, will hold its second annual meeting at the University on Saturday, March 9 at 9:00 a.m. in the Administration Building.
"The Kansas association was the first organization to be admitted to the Mathematical Association of America," says Prof. U. G. Mitchell, of the department of mathematics. A member of the national association, which was founded in 1915 at Columbus, Ohio, will be given by Professor Mitchell.
"Geometry for college juniors and seniors" is the subject of the speech to be given by Prof. J. N. Van der Vries. Prof. M. W. Newson of Washburn will lead a general discussion on collegiate mathematics.
The committee in charge is composed of the following: Prof. A. J. Hoar of Fairmount College, Wichita, S. Lefschetz of the University faculty, M. K. Pappas of State Agricultural College, Prof. T. E. Mergendahl, of the College of Emporia and Prof. W. A. Harsbarger, of Washburn college.
SOCIOLOGISTS AID M. D.S.
State Service Workers Cooperate in Prison Work, Says Dean Blackmar
That there is a big field for practical cooperation between sociologists and doctors is the opinion of Dear Frank W. Blackmar of the Graduate School.
"A branch of sociology deals with sanitation, crime, poverty and defectiveness," said the Dean when asked as to the relation between medicine and sociology, "and those questions are of importance to medical students and health officers generally. As we have been in this field for several reasons, Preventive medicines and social medical service are practically new to the medical profession and are still being experimented with. Sociologists have been lacking in equipment to carry on work along these lines. Progress is now being made however and actuarial progress is sure to come. Eventually these two branches of education and social service will have to work together for success."
When asked as to the relation between the sociologists and doctors in Kansas, Dean Blackmar told of the work that is being done by the department of sociology at the University for the state board of health. The secretary of the board finds that the work them by the sociologists of this institution is invaluable. The big questions before the board at the present time are those of preventive medicine and sanitation, especially in regard to prisons, and it is here that the two branches are working together, the medical men in an institution with inmates and the sociologists trying to discover what effects poverty, disease and defectiveness have on crime.
To better care for the convicts in the Kansas State penitentiary who need such care, plans have been drawn up for the construction of two new hospitals at the institution. The larger one of them will be the prison. The first floor of the building will be taken with a medical laboratory for the study of physical diseases and a psychiatric laboratory for the study of mental diseases. On the second floor will be located the wards for those suffering from common diseases and injuries and the third floor will be used for other ward. This ward will be isolated from the other departments.
The smaller of the two new buildings will be a hospital for the insane. Here the diseased minds of convicts will be studied and the staff will try to find out the reasons for the varia- tions. They must be treated with the inmates with activities that will tend to cure them as far as it is possible to do so.
Dr. F. B. Dains, professor of organic chemistry, has published in the Journal of American Chemical Society with the paper "On the Actions of Certain Acids Re-agents on the Substituted Urens and Thinazole." R. C. Roberts and R. G. Brewster, follows in chemistry Dr. Dains in the research work.
A plot of ground, apart from the housing and industrial departments of the penitentiary, has been selected as the site of the buildings.
Publishes Research Results
The scholarship granted to a Washburn student for the University of Kansas next year was won by Ray Carpenter. The scholarship has been granted to some students in the department of chemistry.
Proposed Plans for New Medical School
This the proposed plan that was drawn up before the last legislature to take care of future buildings and extensions. Owing to the state's inability to get the new foreground of the picture, the new building is left, where the old, left, one of the proposed buildings, the dispensary, has just been finished.
SHOW TEACHERS WORK MUSICAL TREAT COMING
Domestic Scientists Plan "Home Warming" For St. Patrick's Day
"Just the happiest time that ever was" is the way the senior women in the department of home economies describe the coming "house warming" moments. March 17, in the rooms occupied by the department in Fraser Hall.
And the good time isn't to be limited to a few—it is for the people of the State of Kansas. More than 500 invitation-announcements are to be sent out, and they include education of schools, domestic science teachers, and members of the women's clubs in Lawrence will receive invitations—but you and I and the others are just as earnest invited—special stress is laid on the personal invitation to you through the columns of the Daily Kansan.
The day chosen is the last day of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of School Principals and Superintendents who will be here from all over
SHOW WORK TO TEACHERS
Experience has shown that frosting often goes wrong, one second too long tells the tale—and the cook has to throw it out and try again—but there is also a way that is sure to work. If you do the right thing, visitors will learn Friday so that they can go home and repeat the demonstration. These little talks are not merely for show and entertainment. Underneath there is a wealth of material that has been gained by experience. It is scientifically too, not in the usual hit and miss method, but with a careful thoroughness that has brought some scientific facts to light in relation to different brands of flour, fat temperatures, coffee granulations and the testing methods used in special problems that the senior women have solved through research work.
The program will include four half-hour illustrated lecture talks (we used to say "demonstrations" but that word is now used only for cooking range recipes demonstrated in shop windows) to begin at 2:30 p. m. These will include lectures of puff paste (and if you know anything about puff paste you will know that it is the hardest thing in the world to make), a buttery, turtle-shaped deep fat, the latte and most scientific method of making coffee, and boiled frosting brought to the finest point.
Curtains have been hung in front of the door leading to the panoramic exhibits on the first floor of Dyche Museum. This prevents the reflections from the outer room, which is being installed was suspended while the workmen were required to carry out the plans for the University party.
CHARTS WILL EXPLAIN
Charts of various kinds that will explain the work accomplished by the women who will be displayed. Miss Kate Daum, a graduate student, will have charge of these and she will explain to anyone who is interested in the scientific research work done by the department. There will also be an exhibit of bread and pastry. The different methods making it will be explained and the general results obtained will be shown.
Elgie Luce, freshman College, has missed chapel only seven times since school started.
CHARTS WILL EXPLAIN
A reception for the guests will be held in the Women's Corner, Fraser Hall, immediately following the lectures. In honor of St. Patrick, green hats are given to refreshments and for the refreshments. Oh yes, that is part of the good time, the guests are to be given an opportunity to appropriate some of the good things of the department to themselves. A musical program on will be formulated by Dony Bell, a student in the School of Fine Arts.
Zoellner Quartet, Due Thurs day, Will Play Compositions by Skilton and Nevin
The appearance in Robinson Gymnasium next Thursday of the Zoellner Quartet will be an event of unusual interest to Lawrence music lovers for the reason that the program is intended to be performed by Professors Skilton and Nevin of the School of Fine Arts. The selections which will be given are Nevin's "Quartet" and Skilton's "Indian Dances." Neither composer has as yet written a program, but will have that experience on Thursday along with the rest of the audience.
Mr. Nevin's "Quartet" was in the repertoire of the company last year, and was played in most of the leading cities of the country. The "Indian Dances" by Mr. Skilton, however, are not as popular as those for the first time. They have already attracted much favorable comment in all parts of the country.
This will be the fourth appearance of the Zoellner Quartet in Lawrence. The Quartet consists of a father, daughter and two sons,—all Americans, though they lived for many years in Brussels, Belgium, where the family is situated at high altitude. During the last few years they have attained phenomenal popularity wherever they have gone in their annual coast to tour.
GRADUATE WILL SING
Edith Bideau. Who Appears Wednesday. Has Great Talent
"Miss Edith Bideau, who sings at the Bowersock Wednesday, is one of the University's most talented graduates," Prof. Charles C. Skillen, O'Connor.
She was graduated from Baker University six years ago with the degree of Bachelor of Music and came back to college two years later. Two years she took the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After spending a year in concert work after her graduation she went to Europe to study and remained there until the war
Before leaving the University Miss Bideau appeared in a song recital which many of the faculty and older students remember.
She is talented for the stage as well as for music and had intended to spend several years in Europe studying English. She will her to abandon this idea temporarily.
Three new instruments for removing membrane from the inside of the eye have been invented by Dr. E. J. Curran, professor of ophthalmology at Rosdale. These instruments have been used in thirty-one operations at the clinic at Rosdale. All of the operations were highly successful.
At present Miss Bideau is living in Chanute where she teaches voice and music. She has given many recitals over Kansas and the central states.
That I will be loyal to the profession of medicine and just and generous to its members;
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH
I do solemnly swear by whatever I hold most sacred;
That 1 will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and honor:
Students of the School of Medicine take the following oath: I do solemnly swear by what-
That unto whatsoever house I shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick to the utmost of my power, I holding myself far aloof from wrong, from corrup-tion from the tempting of others to vice;
That I will exercise my art solely for the cure of my patients and will give no drug, perform no operation for a criminal purpose, even if solicited, far less suggest it;
That whatsoever I shall see or hear of the lives of men which is not fitting to be spoken, I will keep inviolably secret.
GEORGE HOUGH PERRY
TALKS TO JOURNALISTS
George Hough Perry, of New York City, addressed the class in advertising this morning on selling problems and the relation of advertising and sales manager. He gave examples of his work on the vigilance committee of the Advertising Club of New York and presented the ultimate elimination of the old doctrine of "caveat emptor" in the advertising columns.
Mr. Perry enjoyed for many years the reputation of being the highest salaried advertising man in New York. He was advertising and sales manager of John Wanamaker, Gimbel's and Greenhut and Company for ten years. He founded and was the first editor of Everybody's magazine. Later as manager of a large agency he created Dutch Cleanser, Regal Cigar Co., and initial company of the United Cigar Stores. As specialist in selling problems he was retained by twenty of the country's big concerns until he went to San Francisco to act as director of exploitation of the exposition.
Mr. Perry is a cousin of Prof. Bliss
Perry of Harvard University.
WOMEN HAVE A PARTY
Mere Man In The Background at First Women's Athletic Association Jollification
One half of the 800 women enrolled in the University attended the banquet and leap year dance given by the Women's Athletic Association Saturday evening in Eckhinson gymnasium. The team, Carroll cup by the sophomore basketball women contesting the freshmen aspirants, the banquet with its spicy toasts, the big leap year dance, and lastly a farce entitled, "A Proposal under Difficulties," all featured in this first big success of the W. A.
At seven o'clock Coach Hazel Pratt brought on her basket ball team. The freshmen fought hard in their determination to break the winning habits of the all-victorious sophomore team. The sophomores played with the team after halting weak work and the safety of aim which all their opponents have been unable to block, and easily took the long end of the 30 to 9 score.
The names to be engraved on the first trophy ever won by any athletic team of the W. A. aare: Captain Ruth Dendacott, Irene Then, Dorothy Tucker, Margaret Hodder, Lucy Richards, Sara Trant, Joyce Brown, Dorothy Querfeld and Katherine Reding.
The 420 women descended to the women's gym room after the game for the banquet that began at 8:30. Mrs. Herman Olcott, Mrs. L. Butt-rupert, Mrs. B. Campbell, she is coaching the women's upperclass hockey teams, Marjorie Hires, tennis champion of the Missouri valley in '15, and Ella Hawkins, who is especially interested in archer Archery. Ella Hawkins acted as tattomistress.
At this time the constitution of the W. A. A. was presented to the members of the organization in booklet form.
After the banquet the dancing on the big gym floor began. The leap year dates who were admitted at this time by presenting their leap year invitations were willing victims of a pre-arranged舞会 schedule. For the next week, those reigned supreme. The K. U. orchestra furnished the music.
While the skidding on the dancing floor continued the non-dancers and the dateless enjoyed a little farce, "Proposal under Difficulties," as it was demonstrated effectively by Annette Garrett, Gerhart Berg, Mary Palmer and Henry Jackson. Miss Garrett, who took the part of the character, confessed cuffed while Mr. Jackson, playing the role of the man in love, interested the audience by his various devices of trying to "pop the question."
ROOSEVELT CLUB MAY
BE ARRANGED HERE
The announcement of a proposed Roosevelt Club to be organized by Coach Olcott, is expected to result in numerous other presidential clubs, particularly with the Kansan campaign on. C. A. Randolph, senior class president, admits that he would not be averse to helping out on a Wilson election campaign, but several others thinking of pushing the claims of their favorite candidates. While reading the Kansas between sprints several of the track squad declared for organizing a Bryan club if anyone could be joined.
The new hospital at the School of Medicine at Rosedale has sixty-six rooms. The old hospital, which is connected with the newer addition, connects with the main museum rooms. There are twenty rooms in the clinical laboratory.
CITY OFFICIALS TO MEET
Short Course for Engineers and Health Officers Starts Next Tuesday
OFFERED FOR FIRST TIME
inquiries Indicate Much Interest in Four Day Session
the merchants and editors of the state have enjoyed the courses offered at the University in their respective lines for two years, but this is the first year that the city health engineers and others have been invited to a regularly instituted course in the University.
Over one hundred and fifty invitations have been sent out to the city engineers and the commissioners of public utilities in the towns and cities over the state requesting their attendance at the Institute for City Education Pulp and Paper World Of Work" to be held here under the auspices of the University on March 14-18.
TO STUDY PAVING AND WATER
The principal subjects to be considered at the meetings are those of pavement supplies. All of the invited engineers and officials have been asked to bring samples of their city water and what ever materials for paving that they may want to have tested. The laboratories of the School of Engineering at Waterway Bureau in Snow Hall will be turned over to the work of examining these materials for the visitors.
There will be two meetings every day during the course. The morning sessions will be given over to the regular lectures and discussions of the various buildings will be spent in the laboratories of the various buildings making tests of the materials submitted, and showing the visiting city officials the methods of taking water on a daily test series of water plants and on paving jobs. The model water softening plant in Blake Hall will be used to demonstrate the most modern means of filtering and watering water, according to the basis of water and the history of water.
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE AND PICTURES
In addition to the technical lectures and demonstrations there will be several numbers on the program of interest to the general public. The first of these will be an Illustrated Lecture by Prof. W. C. McNown of the University. This lecture will show the definite planning of an up-to-date city with parks and boulevards.
On Thursday afternoon and evening two series of moving pictures will be shown. The first will show the mining and manufacture of asphalt in the city, the second will show the complete construction of a concrete road from beginning to end. These pictures are complete in every detail, very clear, and well made. They depart from the more technical enough to make them of interest to the reader. Everybody is invited to see them. They will be shown in Fraser chapel.
A lecture of interest will be given by Prof. M. S. Ketchum of the University of Colorado who will speak on the nature of institutions which will have a general interest will be "Manufacturing as a Factor in City Development," by Dean P. F. Walker scheduled for Wednesday morning and "Street lighting and Power," by Prof. C. A. Johnson, to be given on Friday morning.
"The Engineers of the state are taking an unusual interest in the movement considering the fact that this is a movement authorized by the Board of Administration about a month ago," said C. A. Haskins, associate professor of civil engineering and state sanitary engineer. "We know exactly how many will be here this year for the meetings, but the good derived from the meetings will be shared by everyone in the community that cares enough to send a man."
OREAD HIGH WINS DERATE
OVER LAWRENCE HIGH
Oread High School won by a unanimous decision the debate with the Lawrence High School Saturday night in Fraser Chapel, on the suburban campus where the States should immediately increase its armament." Oread had the negative side. The debaters were Ewing Stumm, Louis Fink and Lawrence Lamb for Oread, and Cooper MacColloch for Oread and Clark McColloch for Lawrence.
Prof. Blain C. E. Moore, Prof. Will-
liam Watties and Prof. Carl Backer
launches the course.
Oklahoma probably holds the record for forming unique clubs. Its astest is a two-in-one Club—a club twins. We wait to see their next next.
The Weather
Cloudy and colder tonight and Tuesday, probably unsettled tonight.