UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
HELPS CLAY INDUSTRY Laboratory Examines Products and Makes Investigations
Most everyone will ask what the clay industry has to do with the Pharmacy Department. The clay industry to the Pharmacy department is what it is to the whole University. In the laboratories of the University there is practice in crafting an incandescent like a thousand dollars a year in apparatus for the making of which a clay is necessary.
The University has a very intimate connection with the problem of supplies which have for their basic material, clay. During the last few years the University has established a laboratory to investigate the production of Kansas. This laboratory is constantly engaged in making analyses and collecting statistics with regard to the quality of Kansas clays tending toward the production of just such material as is consumed in chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories. Another duty of the laboratory is to describe how capital to utilize their products in the parts of the state where clay abounds.
If the clays can be found they can be used in the direction indicated, will interest capital, bring a return to the state in the form of advantages to the University and all the industries that use these clay products. Brick is not the only product which can be made from clays for in-ground use as porcelain ware, and vase materials. It can be said that Kansas ranked seventeenth in the order of clay production in the United States.
DECREASE IN KANSAS PRODUCTION
According to the last Geological Survey of the United States, the production of clay products in Kansas for the year 1913 was valued at $1,919,910. This shows a decrease in value of 573 per cent from 1912 to 1913, compared with the product of Kansas, closely followed by common brick. The difference in value of these products for 1913 being only $2,188. Front brick, sewer pipe, fireproofing and tile bricks, produced by the active firms in operation in the state.
Montgomery, Wilson and Crawford are the most important brick producing counties. In 1913 they produced $8.91 per cent of the total profit; Montgomery also the leading clay-working county, its products being valued at $64,413, or more than one-fourth of the state's total.
The beds of Hoisington clays porcelain industry in Kansas, are a which were expected to open up a false alarm, according to the men of the company Hall. It was thought when the Hoisington beds were first located, that a fine porcelain clay had been discovered. Though this clay will make a very beautiful and durable finished product it can never be used for porcelain.
"Clay, as you know," explained Paul Teeter of the clay laboratory, "is composed of decomposed marble, and lies where it forms. The Kankakei clay is also found between Dakota limestone. For some reason, all the clay beds so far located, are too sticky and elastic to make good porcelain clays. We have tried many experiments, but even when we were not using them when made into a vessel much larger than a stein. We can bake this clay, however, in solid blocks into a very beautiful brick for interior finishing, that shows excellent lasting quality. It is a white ename with well which is making it very popular with builders.
The Great Bend beds have a very good deposit, and show signs of producing the best burning brick in the state. It shows every sign, accord- ing to the original corkery. Corkery made from Heisington beds, warps in the burning.
Most of the Western Kansas clays are good for common building brick. The Pawnee beds give the most durable brick in the state and are fairly extensive. It is the most dependable of the Western clays. The beds at Elsworth are white clay that burns a deep red. The beds at Elisworth are fairly good, and make a good building brick, and one that is good for paving.
There are many other beds of clays in the Western part of the state, but most of them are only medicine, and are not worth opening. The beds at Hoskington, Great Bend, Pawnee and Ellsworth are the ones that are really of any lasting value.
The water analysis and milk analysis in connection with te state board of health is one means utilized by the University to give the whole people the benefit of its laboratory equipment.
Sixteen of the University buildings, are used for purposes of instruction, remaining two being the building plant and the Chancellor's residence.
The tuberculosis exhibit sent out through te state by the University in connection with the state board of health had an incalculable influence in stimulating intelligent measures to stamp out this disease.
In the modern movement among universities towards rendering direct services to the state, the University of Texas has done so, having began such work in 1866.
The testing of Kansas brick, cement, and concrete is a part of the daily work of the engineering testing systems maintained for service to the state.
The University faculty has 210 members, but the number of students to each teacher is larger than in almost any other university.
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WATCH FOR FRAUDS!
State Drug Laboratory at K. U Uncovers Many Glaring Dacentions
Deceptions
"To maintain the dignity of the drug business by keeping out all fraud," says L. E. Sayre, Dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University is the object of the State Drug Laboratory at Kansas.
"We only handle those samples sent in to us by the inspectors from all over the state and then report on them." The State Board of Health at Toncka.
In 1906 the federal government passed an act, making it necessary, for its perfect execution, for the establishment of state drug laboratories to test and analyze drugs. In the same year the Kansas legislature passed an act requiring that each state such a laboratory at Lawrence. No appropriation was provided however and it was not until the 1907 session that the act was made effective by the necessary funds to finance the affair. Section four of chapter 266 of the Act required that the establishment of a state drug laboratory at the University of Kansas be under the supervision of the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, the work of which shall be the testing and analyzing of all drugs and food accessories such as spices, coffee and finned oil is also included in the list.
Since its establishment, the laboratory, situated in the northwest corner of the basement of the Chemery building, has been the age of 1000 samples each year. These samples come from all parts of Kansas. Pure food and drug inspectors gather them in all places where医械 is for sale and send them to Lawrence.
They are tested and the results are sent to the State Board of Health office at Topeca. If the case demands prosecution the Topeca office sends a statement of the case to the county attorney of the county from which the sample originally came and he proceeds to prosecute.
The orchard pests of Kansas must reckon with one powerful enemy in planning a campaign against the orchards of Kansas farmers—that enemy is the entomological department. The disease that afflicts the state is constantly under the inspection and supervision of University entomologists.
Many glaring frauds have been uncovered by the laboratory. One of the most noted of these was the case of Dr. Samuel's Eye Preparation. This preparation was advertised to cure all ailments of the eye, as well as other skin conditions like kidney trouble, diabetes and many others numbering in all about twenty, by merely applying it to the eye ball with a dropper. The concern was forced out of business after an analysis by the State Drug Laboratory had the preparation to consist of nothing more than water, salt and sugar.
The University believes in putting Kansas stone on Kansas roads and maintains a testing laboratory to assist in road work.
Proprietary medicines, patent medicines, coffees, teas, and spices have been tested by the laboratory. Some deficiencies have been found in these preparations. Samples of witch hazel, tea, coffee, orange juice, absolute alcohol, have been tested that showed only 7 per cent of that drug. Bay rum which should contain 56-58 per cent alcohol has been found to run as low as 30 per cent and one sample of hydrogen peroxide, which should contain $ \mathrm{H}_{2} \mathrm{O}_{2} $ , contained only 0.11 per cent.
There are eighteen University buildings, thirteen of which were erected by the state and five by private gifts.
The staff of the Drug Analysis department is L. E. Sayre, director; L. D. Havenhill, chief; G. N. Watson, analyst; C. M. Sterling, microscopist.
Much has been saved to the people of Kansas through the University's work in the inspection of weights and measures.
All but three of the Kansas counties are represented in the student body of the school.
ADVERTISED PRODUCTS LEAD IN DISTRIBUTION
Advertised drugs and toilet articles lead in distribution and sales says a recent issue of Judicious Advertising, commenting on Today's Magazine's drugstrict advertising statistics. Today's Magazine lists 10,000 people fifty in each of twenty states, doing business in towns of less than 5,000 population and rated at $5,000 or over, and sent them a letter asking them to answer certain questions and check a long list of trade-marked products. They included more than 11 from any state indicated the leaders in the various drugsist lines were the products most widely advertised.
FAVOR WOMEN DEBATERS Dean Templin And Others Wouldn't Draw Sex Line in Forensic Activity
Dean Olin Templin believes that women can and should compete on equal terms with men in intercollegiate debating. Since the recent receipt of an invitation from Kansas to take up the matter of a women's team for inter-collegiate debating, the Kanans has sought to get expressions of opinion on the matter from several differen- tious sources, and presents them herewild.
When Dean Templin was asked to express his views on women as possible debaters, his eyes twinkled. "I remember," he said with a chuckle, "how, when I was a student here, Lina beat me to a braid in one of the debate batches. I never took a hand in. The teams in that day were strictly co-educational. There was no question about women going "out of their sphere," and all that—though there were times when the men debaters would have been very glad to have had them out of the audience. Miss Gano came right at commencement; and like a good many other young men, I was inclined, after that, to be conservative on the "woman's sphere" cant, I had my reasons—Miss Gano made me plenty of trouble; and now she making the same product up in New York by writing a fuss about making a fuss about the equal treatment of men and women in the city schools.
WOULD GIVE NEEDED TRAINING
"Why draw the sex line in debating when we have abandoned it in the case of other university activities? I don't like to see the women take the attitude that they must be pushed off into a corner by themselves. The institution makes it easy for nationalization. Of course," he continued, "the present condition of things is a result of the disposition men have always shown; and I understand, too, that the women may feel some diffidence about joining a club composed of both men and women, but there isn't any necessity for it; and if women are to become political actors in the world and one which I expect I shall live to see—why, debating gives them just the training they need.
"You know, if I were in the place of these girls who are interested in debating, the next time the men's basketball game up and knock on the door and say, 'We want in' and then I'd proceed to give them some much needed training. Of course, I know it hurts a man to be beaten by a woman; for example, wouldn't let me in, I'd tell them that it was just because they're afraid to. No, there isn't any reason why the women, as well as the men, shouldn't debate and I don't see why they need have a separate organization to do it."
Chancellor Strong expressed himself in favor of an organization for the women. "There can be no objection to it," he said, "and if women are to take a part in political life, you should not do so. You selfes consistently and readily in debate. I think a debating club for the women would be a good thing."
THE CHANCELLOR AGREES
"There should be such an organization," said Prof. H. Hill of the department of Public Speaking. "Two women," he continued, "have suggested to me that we ought to have a club; and we have recently had a meeting in our university of Oklahoma proposing an inter-collegiate debate for the women. Last year, we had a similar proposal from K. S. A. C."
Dean Blackman approved the plan for an organization of the women. "I think it may be good," he said, "but make it a student activity or a class we have at home. Make it inter-class, if you like, but keep it at home."
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Write It to Campus Opinion.
Pharmacists do Not Have to Become Tradesmen Observes Professor
C. F. Nelson, Associate Professor of Physiological Chemistry,
The modern pharmacist, especially in America, is today too much of the tradesman. Not that this makes any vital difference to him in his place in business, but that it means measure, becoming professionalized and the old lines of demarcation between business, professions and trades are rapidly disappearing. But from the nature of the materials he handles he must be able to transition to medicine and the public health, the pharmacist should progressively abandon the sale of all commodities that do not directly relate themselves to drugs and chemi-
Granting that the pharmacist is willing to do this, we might ask—Are there any possibilities for his medical care? Is he chemical and how is he to realize them?
The answers, in a word, are clearly there. There are tremendous possibilities, latent now because there is the presence of a pharmacist along these lines, and they may be realized by the establishment of small chemical and bacteriological laboratories in connection with the average retail drug store.
MANY OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED
The time is coming, and soon, when each municipal will elect its own chemist and bacteriologist. The pharmacist is already on the ground, has his store, stock of chemicals, and technical training, especially if he has taken the three or four year course in pharmacy, and why should he not be not this position? The physician is continually needing to have his diagnosis checked and confirmed by chemical and bacteriological means. Does the swab contain diphenyl bacilli that they may infect bacilli in this sputum? Is this sample of blood positive or negative for typhoid fever? Hundreds of similar questions, which a pharmacist with a small laboratory and a large company as great as the average physician daily exercises, could answer.
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Again, manufacturers will have their boiler water, coal, and raw products of all sorts subjected to high pressure so there once in one's community do it. The milkman, the ice cream manufacturer, the grocer and butcher will find it profitable to have certain of their products checked chemically, or algorithmically, or even macist can do, and profitably too. Examples might be multiplied indefinitely. The young man that leaves college should be alive to these possibilities and, rather than being content to travel the old road into the countryside him, set out along the modern highway with its larger possibilities.
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