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WELCOME BACK, VAN WINKLE!
Rumors indicate that the Varsity Party committee
is finally arousing from its lethargy of the , past .few
months. At least a general chairman for the second
cmcster was appointed by the Student Council yester
day afternoon. When the date for the next party
announced we can safely conclude that the committee
is once more functioning.
This action is welcomed by. the student body
Working against opposition and indifference last fall
the committee succeeded in enticing the students to
their parties. The students attended, enjoyed them
selves, and were led to believe that Varsity parties
might be a pretty good idea after all. Just when the
student body was beginning to drift into the habit
of attending the dances, the parties were discontinued
for an indefinite time. .
The blame for the period of inactivity during the
winter months does not rest entirely upon the com
mittee. Certain conditions arose which made it inad
visable to continue.
Now these conditions have been removed. The
re-organization for the second semester marks another
attempt to place Varsity parties at the social promin
ence which they deserve. This time the student body
is in a more favorable frame of mind.
Success or failure it now depends upon the com
mittee. "Used to be that two was company and three a
crowd. Nowadays two is company and three is a wit
ness." Wisconsin Cardinal.
TO CONCLUDE THE ARGUMENT
Since interest in the discussion of vaccination for
smallpox was greater than at first anticipated we are
devoting another day to "Soap Box" contributions on
the subject. The article today was written by Herbert
II Waite, professor of bacteriology and pathology,
whose investigations and instruction on disease pre
vention makes his discussion an appropriate and au
thoritative ore.
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Hmlt of si? hundred word. ... been placed on all con-trlbutlon..
To the Editor:
In an article on "Does Vaccination Prevent Small
nox'" which appeared in the "Soap Box" of The Dady
Nebraskan on Thursday, February 16, 1928, statements
are made which should not go unchallenged since they
are both misleading and contrary to facts. TftJ writer
start out by quoting from something written by Sid
ney E Smith, a prominent M. D. of New York City,
who he claims, made tho statement that "Smallpox
vaccination docs not prevent smallpox; if anything it
increases the susceptibility to the infection and lowers
the chances of recovering from the disease." In the
next ser.tcnce he accepts this statement as a fact though
he offers no evidence in support of his conclusion.
The quotations from Herbert Spencer, Alfred Rus
sell Wallace and John Burns are unsupported state
ments by laymen who did not have, nor did they at
tempt to secure statistical data to support their im
pressions. Tho quotations from Ruata, Ward and Bake
well do not furnish any evidence from which the con
clusion could be drawn that vaccination is both in
effective and harmful.
The writer makes the statement that James Phipps
died of tuberculosis from vaccination. Ho would also
have us infer that Jenner's son died of tuberculosis
as a sequel to vaccination. According to the Mortality
Statistics of the U S. Census Bureau for the year
beginning July 1, 1879, and ending June 30, 1880, the
number of deaths from tuberculosis (all forms) in the
United States was 326.2 per 100,000 of the population.
For the year Jan. 1, 1924 to December 31, 1924 the
rate was 90J5 per 100,000 of the 'population. The rates
for the years 1925, 1926 and 1927 will probably be
slightly lower than for the year 1924. For every per
son per 100,000 of the population who died of tubercu
losis in 1924 there were 3.6 persons who died of this
disease in the year 1879-1S1. Previous to the year
1879-1880 the yearly death rate was still greater
than it was during this year. The number of persons
in the United States who have been vaccinated is great
er today than is ever has been in the history of the
United States and yet tuberculosis is decreasing in
prevalence and in mortality year by year. There is no
direct evidence that tuberculosis was ever caused by
vaccination. That tuberculosis may lave been trans
mitted through vaccine in the distant past, when arm
to arm vaccination was practiced, is possible. All the
evidence certainly appears convincing that instances of
. such infections must have been extremely infrequent if
they ever occurred. Tho argument in any event has no
weight since all smallpox vaccine Is obtained today
from bovine sources. Mo eover, none can be produced
or sold in the United States without the approval of
the United States PuLlic Health Service.
Tn nearly all countries the manufacture of small-r-.,
vaccine is under government control. In the United
- -.? ? "he U. g I'u'.iie LiesUh Sarvict luw v.pcrviaion
rri control cf all the smallpox vaccine which ia pro
duced nt home cr imported from other countries. Be
f viiivl.itj cmu js manufactured, the plant where it
. i.. 1-f' h Liij-'tttsJ fcy rpre;if s.iy of
the U. S. Public Health Service. If the plant upon in
spection meets the requirements of the Service, a
permit is granted; if it is lacking in any of the require
ments, a permit is denied. The Director of the Hygienic
Laboratory it furthermore required to purchase on the
open market at stated intervals samples of all vaccines
manufactured or used in the United States. He is re
quired to test them and if any are found to be unsatis
factory in any respect they must be at once withdrawn
from the market and destroyed. Such close and careful
supervision insures a continuous supply of safe and
reliable vaccine.
Rosenau, in "Preventive Medicine and Hygiene,"
1927, p. 27, says, "The distinguished mathematician,
Bernouilli, estimated that 15,000,000 people died of
smallpox in 25 years in the eighteenth century. It has
been estimated that 60,000,000 people died of smallpox
during that century. Haygarth gives an account of a
smallpox epidemic in Chester, England, population
14,713. At the termination of the epidemic there were
but 1,060 persons, or 7 per cent of the population, who
had never had smallpox. Many similar instances are
cited in the literature. The French physician, De la
Condamine (1754), said that 'every tenth death was
due to smallpox and that one-fourth of mankind was
either killed by it or crippled or disfigured for life.'
Sarcone (1782) estimated the number of persons in
Italy who suffered from smallpox as 90 per cent of the
population.
"Smallpox was introduced into the Western Hem
isphere by the Spaniards about fifteen years after the
discovery of America. In Mexico within a short period
3,500,000 persons are said to have died of the disease
(Chapman). Catlin (1841) states that of 12,000,000
American Indians 6,000,000 fell victims to smallpox.
In Iceland, in 1707, 18,000 perished out of a popula
tion of 50,000; that is smallpox killed 36 per cent of
the total population in one year."
In the epidemic of 1752 Boston had a population
of 15,684. Of this number 5,998 had previously had
smallpox. During the epidemic 5,545 persons con
tracted the disease in the usual manner, and 2,124 took
it by inoculation. 1,843 persons escaped the city to
avoid the infection. There were, therefore, left in the
city only 174 persons who had never had smallpox.
Statistics might be quoted indefinitely, all of them
confirming and extending the citations already given.
A single illustration of the seriousness of smallpox in
recent times will suffice. During the five years, from
1893-1897, 275,502 persons died of smallpox in Russia.
Practically all of these lives might have been saved
through vaccination.
During the pre-vaccination period one out of
every 10 or 12 deaths was due to bmallpox. Today the
death rate has fallen so that only one out of approxi
mately every 2,500 deaths in the United States is due
to smallpox. This represents a rate of 0.6 per 100,000
of the population in 1920. The following quotation is
taken from the 1920 Mortality Statistics of the Bureau
of the Census of the United States: "The danger of
smallpox, however, among an unvaccinated population
must not be lost sia-ht of nnH tVm Vin-v. ,.f. or? o
for the colored of New Orleans should serve as
a warning." There were 362 deaths from smallpox in
the United States during the year 1926, approximately
one out of every 3,500 deaths; 0.33 per 100,000 popu
lation, j.
It is sometimes asserted that smallpox vaccination
is unnecessary today since smallpox is of so mild a
character. That it is not always mild is confirmed by
modern and therefore recent statistics. In Kansas City,
Missouri, during the year 1921, there were 943 cases
of smallpox with 159 deaths, a mortality rate of 47.59
per 100,000 of the population. Of this number only
one had ever been vaccinated. This individual made
the statement that he had been vaccinated 33 years
before but there was no scar anywhere on his body to
furnish evidence of a successful vaccination. In 1922
there were about 100 cases with a mortality of 63, or
18.31 per 100,000. The death percentage of those hav
ing the disease in 1921 was nearly 17; in 1922, 63.
There was only one death among those who had been
vaccinated in the 222 fatal cases. ,
. In a smallpox epidemic which occurred in Denver,
Colorado, in 1921 and 1922 therts were reported in
1921, 924 case3 with 37 deaths; in 1922, 802 cases with
247 deaths. The death rate in 1921 was 4 percent; in
1922, 30 percent.
The following quotations are taken from the
American Journal of Public Health", Vol. XIII, No. 11,
Nov. 1923, pp. 950 and 951: "Is it right for the guard
ians of the people's health to allow to pass unchallenged
the false declarations of the anti-vaccinationists? -Shall
they be content to put out fires which have gained
headway through the highly inflammable material for
which the anti-vaccinationists are largely responsible?
Such a course is not in accord with modern nublic
health practice. The producers of smallpox tinder-boxes
should be publicly branded as destroyers of the race.
Why should innocent children be needlessly exposed
to disfigurement, blindness, or death, because a few
fanatics, ignorant of medical science, proclaim their
false doctrines from the housetops? i.In Denver,
the chiropractors vociferously proclaimed the useless
ness of vaccination as a protection against smallpox
ani' for a time succeeded in winning a large section of
the public to their point of view, but just as surely as
a shaving will burn when a match is applied, just so
will the unprotected contract smallpox when exposed
t ocontagion. As time went on it became increasingly
apparent that the unprotected were furnishing all the
victims, while the properly vaccinated were escaping.
Finally the unvaccinated chiropractors began to con
tract the disease; one who fled in his shame not only
died himself, but started the disease in a town, which
had previously been free. In December last, among 21
deaths from smallpox in Denver, 16 had never been
vaccinated and not one of the remaining five had been
vaccir.utcd for 25 yearn. The protection afforded, and
the importance of the observation that vaccination,
to be effective, must be repeated every five or six
years, will be apparent.
"Childhood furnishes the smallpox reservoir. Suc
cessful control in a country like the United States is
therefore simple. If the health officers and the medical
profession can create favorably public sentiment, it
will be comparatively a simple matter to vaccinate all
the children. In our efforts to utilize the public health
knowledge which is daily coming into being, we are
prone to neglect some of the measures that have been
productive of so much good in the past. Smallpox vac
cination falls in this category. It is a true and tried
friend that has never yet been found wanting. In the
pursuit of the refinements of public health we should
not forget the old and true measures that have done
so' much in the past to promote health and happiness.
"The anti-vaccinationists should be attacked
everywhere as a menace to the welfare of - mankind.
The disfigurement and death for which they are re
sponsible should be brought home to them. Their false
doctrines are too costly and should not b allowed to
spread. It is the duty of those who are trained in science
to aeo that tlio truth prevails, tj the end that this fair
land of ours may protect itself againat diseases, and
serve as a beacon light that will guide otrur countries
not so fortunately situated."
(Coneltir!;d Sunday) J
Notices
Friday, February 24
Awwan Contributor.
All copy for the Automobile number of
Awgwan must be in the office by 6 o'clock
Friday afternoon, February 24.
Lutheran Club
The Lutheran Club will meet Friday eve
ning In Temple 204. Reports of delegates
to the Regional Conference will be given.
Afterwards a pie .oclal will be held. All
ladies are requested to bring pies.
Saturday, February 25
Cosmopolitan Club
There will be a social meeting of the
Cosmopolitan Club of the University of Ne
braska Saturday Fib. 25, at tie Temple
building room 202. 8:15 o'clock. Professor
Oldfather will speak on "Syria".
Sunday, February 26
Student Volunteer
Sunday, February 26, at Vine Congre
gational church 25th and S St.. there will
be a young people's meeting at 6 o'clock.
Church services will be from 7:S0 to 9
o'clock. Delegates to the Student Volunteer
Convention will talk at the first meeting.
Other talks will be given in church by Club
members. Second semester dues, $1.00 are
payable.
Social Calendar
Friday, February 24
Sigma Alpha Epsilon formal,
Lincoln hotel.
Sigma Nu house dance.
Alpha Delta Theta, ( house
dance.
Saturday, February 25
Kappa Alpha Theta formal,
Lincoln hotel.
Alpha Theta Chi formal, Scot
tish Rite Temple.
Theta Chi, house dance.
Phi Kappa Psi, house dance.
Cosmopolitan club social, Tem
ple. Kappa Psi, house dance.
Alpha Phi, leap year party.
Big Sister party, 3-5 Ellen
Smith Hall.
later pursued graduate work at the
University of Chicago and at the
Columbia University Teachers' Col
lege. Visitor Was Traveling Secretary
In 1910 ho took a position with
the Y. M. C. A. at IJenver and two
years later became traveling secre
tary for student work in the Rocky
Mountains region, which embraced
Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah,
Wyoming, and New Mexico. He
continued in this capacity until 1913,
when he went to China.
Mr. Nipps' work in China was pri
marily connected with the govern-,
ment school students prior to his re-?
turn to this country last year. He
intends to resume his work there
next summer at which time he will
go into the industrial department,
with headquarters at Shanghai.
Huskers Have Two
Week-End Games
(Continued from Page 1)
the last few practice drills, and al
though he may start the Kansas
game,' Munn will undoubtedly take
the pivot position against the lanky
Holt in Saturday's contest. Olson has
been getting the call lately at a
guard position and works well with
Lewandowski or Gohde.
The Kansas game will give the
Varsity plenty of opposition but the
tussle with the Sooners will be of
the most interest to the Nebraska
basket fans. Featuring a Jeam made
up of six foot players, the Sooners
have compiled a record of fifteen
consecutive victories over Valley op
ponents and .are far out ahead of
Missouri, ranking second with four
defeats marked up against them.
An abundance of material is on
hand to take the place of the reg
ulars if they leave the game. Harvey
Grace and Tom Elliott will get a
chance to work in as forwards and
so will Othmer, provided he is not
already holding down a center posi
tion. Lewandowski and Gohde who
have been used in many games
throughout the season, will probably
relieve Holm and Krall during the
week-end contests. Olson may play a
guard position but his old position is
the center position. With Munn and
Othmer being used in that capacity,
however, he has little chance of start
ing the play for Nebraska.
A chance to end the season in a
burst of glory is the Huskers. If the
Varsity can pull out a win over the
Sooners, hitherto undefeated in the
Valley, the 1928 season will not be
as disappointing as has been antici
pated. The stage seems set for a
possible upset and the team mem
bers can be depended upon to play
the best game of the season against
the Sooner invaders.
Dogmatism Depends
On Person-Engberg
(Continued from Page 1)
case of fundamentalism in science.
On the other hand, he said, there is
danger of a person becoming so lib
eral that he has no convictions or
beliefs at all and is unable to accom
plish anything. It is necessary to
guard against the two extremes in
any subject, he said, expressing the
opinion tha some fundamentalists'
have accomplished great things in
science.
"Of course, scientific controvers
ies are not necessarily caused by
dogmatism," Professor Engberg said.
In his opinion a man may have strong
convictions regarding his subject
without being dogmatic.
National Officer
Speaks to Y. M. C. A.
(Continued from Page 1)
in Cairo. He is one of a Btaff of
seven workers in the Egyptian field,
having the position of social secre
tary.
Last year he was very in.trument
al in securing the erection of a new
building for boys' work in Cairo and
since then has been in chartre of
that kind of work.
Wis Active Student Worker
Mr. Holcombe was in this country
on a sixteen months' furlough a few
years ago and while he was back
visited this city. As a student here
he was very active ia "Y" circles,
being president of the university as-so-:iatioa
fo; a term. Ho was also
state secretary for several years.
Mr. Nipps took his undergraduate
work at WubliLura Ctilkurc.
his A. B. from that institution. He j
Prom Favors
Are Selected
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the intermission, after the Prom Girl
is presented. The Prom Girl will
make her entrance just before in
termission. A dinner dance given by the Lin
coln Hotel, from 6:15 till 8:15
o'clock will precede the prom. Ran
dall's Royal Fontenelle orchestra,
which will play for the prom, will
furnish music at the dinner dance,
giving all who are unable to attend
the prom, an opportunity to hear
Art Randall and his musicians. Tick
ets for the dinner dance can be se
cured from Charles Bruce at the
Cornhusker office or at the Lincoln
flotel.
Wisconsin Man Says
Old Cities Beneficial
i
(Continued from Page 1)
pies of government by the people, the
great vocation is intelligent citizen
ship, and that whatever contributes
to this is worthy of the approval and
support of the Republic."
Excavations Are Described
He describes the digging up of
old cities such as those destroyed
by eruptions of Mt. Vesuvious in
Italy, and the interesting life of the
times which this work uncovered.
Following recent lectures on a
tour of western cities, Professor
Showerman is giving a public series
at the state university. The lectures
are based on his life-long study of
ancient city sites, and his association
with excavators and explorer in the
field.
Large Staff of
Reporters Work
(Continued from Pare 11
who have contributed feature articles
are Fritz Daly who covers tho inter
fraternity council; Maxine Hill; and
Pauline Bilon. Miss Bilon covers Uni
versity Night news and also reported
the Co-Ed Follies.
Ruth Palmer, former assistant
managing editor, has been, reporting
news from the Student Council and
the Cornhusker. University Players
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portable typewriters monthly payments.
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are being covered by Florence Sew
ard. Ag College Has Reporter
Agricultural college- news is sup
plied by Elvin F. Frolik, Harold Mar
cott, Kenneth Anderson, and Madge
Brinton. Anderson also covers the
Awgwan. Farmers' Fair will be re
ported by Gordon Hedges.
Others handling regular runs are
Helen Day, who has handled the bulk
of Ellen Smith news including Ves
pers and Y. W. C. A. meetings; Ar
thur Schroeder, military; Dean Ham
mond, Andrews Hall; Joyce Ayrea,
glee club; Leon Larimer, band and
College of Business Administration;
Alice Petersen, historical society;
and Lyman Cass, Chicago Opera
company.
Reporters who have helped in the
writing of The Daily Nebraskan to
date this semester include: F. E.
Stibal, Gordon Larson, Mary Louise
Freeman, Lee Vance, G. N. Fader,
Eloise Keefer, Paul Nelson, Harl
Anderson, Boyd Von Seggern, Naomi
Henry, La Verne Hans, Dorothy
Nott, Doris Minney, William West
fall, W. K. Myers, V. C. Byers, Aud
rey Musick, and Frederick Hufsmith.
Eddy Is Head
Of Committee
(Continued from Page 1)
A committee to investigate traffic
conditions in and about the Univer
sity was also appointed atthe meet
ing by James Jensen, president of
the Student Council. Richard F.
Vette is chairman of the committee.
The other members are: Karl
Schminke, Marjorie Sturdevant, and
Charles O. Bruce.
Cinder Team Will
Contend on Saturday
(Continued from Page 1)
Zook and Zorn of the Peru Bob
cats show promise of good marks in
the sprints, while Fort, Prc, will b
a strong contender for honors in the
broad jump.
i
Due to lack of indoor track facil
ities the college entrants will prob
ably not provide strong competition
for the Huskers who have been tr
ing for some time and have
ienced one big meet at Kansas IT
this season. The official list 0fj ?
C. entrees has not yet been annou
ced, according to Coach Henry p
Schulte, Husker mentor. '
v,unt otuuiie sent his Hwt
-""mice
men through a 2:15 hu .....
Thursday afternoon to 0f .! run
ahim fnr tfco 4. o. "lem 111
- Saturday. The
icinaiiiuci Ul LflH I fimhii.l...
,. " . . uow team
took their regular trainin- ..,eani
The indoor track under the east T"
dium was sprinkled down Th.,J
so that it wilj be in sh
Chinese Theme Is
Keynote of Dinner
(Continued from Page 1)
so it was that she offered herself
1900," said Miss Piper. 1 ln
Mrs. GolT Also Talks
Mrs. R. G. Gold, who has been .
missionary in China for twelve year,
described Miss CoddocIc
root and foundation of the Y W r-
A no 5 i- J -IV! " U
f. on lu Butnua in knina today
"The Chinese are not, after all
such far-away neighbors," declare
Mrs. Gold, "and they want ouri
spiration and sympathy to help them'
carry their loads; they do not want
us to carry their loads. No one ever
reached closer to the hearts of the
Chinese people than did Grace Cop
pock 'for this very reason."
A short skit written by Harriet
Davis was presented by Hazel Sut
ton, Geneva Davis, Pauline Ei'on
Faye Williams, Kathcrine Williams'
and Lillian Faytinger. '
Nearly a hundred girls attended
the dinner which was sponsored by
the publicity staff of the Y. W. C. A.
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