UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THEATRE VARSITY Music carefully selected and played by Mr. Dan Childs
TONIGHT IN THE Palace of the King
with Richard Travers and Lillian Drew supported by all star cast.
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Do You Remember
when the pure out-door air dried your washing how fresh your clothes felt when you put them on, and how luxuriously fresh the bed linen was?
You Grieved This Loss
when the dust, coal smoke, and other impurities of the urban atmosphere made this outdoor airing impossible. But again we have caught up, even improved upon nature; our clothes are dried by pure warm air forced through them. This gives them that same oxidized cleanliness of the old-fashioned clothes-line dried clothes that our grandmothers enjoyed so much. Remember this is at
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Pharmacy and Medical Students Suffer Because of Dependence on Germany
WAR BOOSTS DRUG COST
Potassium Iodide $2.75—$ 6.25
Bismuth Subnitrate 1.25—3.75
Bromide of Pot. 1.45—3.75
Oxalic Acid 1.12—55
Carbolic Acid 1.14—2.05
Acetanilide 2.35—1.35
Asperin Tablets 3.50—12.00
It looks as if the students over in the pharmacy department of 'the University will be forced to use glass dishes to eat with. Soup plates for porcelain receptacles.
The above table shows the rise in prices in chemicals during the year. All are used in the experiments at the Pharmacy laboratories—in fact the pharmacy has no drugs without these drugs. Carbolic acid is the most used and gone up in price 1500 per cent. The average increase of all drugs is 100 per cent.
The warehouses are becoming depleted and many order blanks are returned with the simple statement, "all out, will let you know when the first blockader gets by the British coast in Germany." Crawling upon German commerce on all possible sides, few ships get by the lines.
Besides the difficulty of getting the chemicals beyond the lines, the Germans need all the compounds of phenol for the manufacture of explosives. Oxalic acid is used for the same purpose. Most of the above tabulated drugs and chemicals are compounds or distillates of phenol.
The rise in prices has been steadily since the outbreak of the war. Carbolic acid, which is used probably more than any one chemical in Medicine and Pharmacy, has jumped from 41 cents to $2.05. Moth balls contain phenol and their price has jumped to nearly a cent a piece.
The expense of these drugs falls on the students as they pay for what they use. However the department must pay for the illustrative apparatus which has advanced even more than chemicals.
The appropriations of the different educational institutions throughout the U. S., for these materials is falling far below the sum which will be needed to cover the expenses for the year. Those institutions which depend on the legislature for their acts on the school board should "If the faculty of the School of Pharmacy had put in a bill that carbolic acid would be over two dollars," says Dean Sayre "the men of the legislature would not have believed it."
“But that is exactly what has happened. The fair estimates put in the budget of expense are now completely off. The department will either have to secure more funds in some way or cut off the instruction, because they cannot go into debt. Education will have to suffer at the expense of war and the lack of funds appropriated. If worst comes to worst,” says Professor Havenhill also of the School of Pharmacy, “we can use tumblers for beakers. The only trouble is when you heat them up they will break. We can get our porcelain ware from Japan, a new field, and use their cups and soup plates for our experiments. As for aparatus we shall have to substitute and borrow. We can do as they did in the Civil war—use dandelion roots and chickweed for cogee.” Colleges and schools are relieved of paying duty by getting their material by the custom officers free in accordance with a ruling made by the government several years ago. But now the material is not forthcoming for the schools and they need forced to buy material from the drug and chemical concerns, and consequently paid uty charges which are high, in addition to the extra expense involved on account of the war.
Will this scarcity in supplies mean a regression during the war period of scientific experiment and research? Dean Sayre thinks it will depend on the course of the war and the new resources developed during the period.
Why does not the United States develop her own plants for the manufacture of these different commodities? "The United States will have to," thinks Professor Sayre, "if the war keeps up much longer. In fact a new plant has been built at Millville, New Jersey, for the manufacture of glass ware, which will supply the deficit of beakers, test tubes and other glass products brought about by the war. The plant will cost $200,000. Now is the moment to start this industry because the competition from Germany has been done away with," thinks Dean Sayre.
The reason for the dependence on
Germany for chemicals and apparatus has become a matter of habit and custom. Formerly German labor was cheap and these products could be made in the working nation cheap enough to compete with the United States, in face of a ten to forty per cent duty. As for the porcelain ware coming from Germany there is a partial explanation, for the clay found in that country is of a better quality than that found in the U. S. Recent investigations show however that the clay mining has been better developed in Germany but that the United States has the same resources.
"There is no reason why the United States cannot manufacture her own materials," observes Prof. L. E. Sayre. "Already many of the scientists have realized this, and are attempting to adjust matters to make it possible. It is only because of our long dependence on Germany that we have neglected this industry. Edison is manufacturing carbolic acid, and is making it cheaper than he can buy it from abroad. Several plants have been started and I think it is one of the coming industries. It will take time, and likewise support from the druggists of the U. S."
The sugar industry of this country has been built up in the last few years. At present the United States is one of the largest sugar producing countries in the world. Formerly this country depended almost entirely on other countries. By subsidy this seemingly impossible task has become possible. What else could be done with the drug and chemical manufacture in this country.
For Universities to establish individual plants for the manufacture of chemicals, drugs and apparatus would be too large an undertaking. An efficient plant would be as large as the University, according to Dean Sayre. The suggestion has been made however that the Universi- tion will devote its resources to building in forming a factory of this sort. This would lower the prices considerably and help this infant industry to get on its feet.
"Miniature plans to teach students the manufacturing processes would be of great value. If an appropriation be made to establish facilities to teach this," says Professor Sayne, "we could do much to help remedy conditions. In western Kansas a new deposit of clay has been found which would prove excellent for the manufacture of the requisite dishes."
Richard C. Travers, supported by E. J. Radcliffe, Airline Hackett, Sidney Answorth, Nell Craig, Lillian Drew, Thomas Commerford, and William will be shown in the Palace of the King" at the Varsity tonight."-Adv.
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. Owing to the presence of diphtheria in Lawrence, all students with sore throat should call at the hospital between 9 and 12 a. m. for bacteriological examination.
The Publicity Committee of the junior class will meet in the Medic Building at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening.
Kansan Board To Meet
A meeting of the Kansan Board is called for this evening at 7:15. Important business.
Meeting of the sophomore girls Friday Oct. 29 at 12:20 in lecture room of Snow Hall to elect a representative to the W. S. School. The candidate must be handed to the secretary twenty-four hours before election, Ethel Sec. sec.
The Stevenson club hiked to Woodland Park Friday evening, where they had games, a campfire and refreshments.
Florence Hear was a Kansas City visitor last Saturday.
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