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fcdiiohhrili Spooking
An Anli-Sypliilis
Measure
In answer to the plea to include the Wns
serman blood test as part of the regular physi
cal examinations carried on by the student
health service comes a statement from Health
Director R. A. Lyman to the effect that for
the past two years the health department has
given blood tests to any student who desired
them. Appearing in the student pulse col
umns today is a discussion by Dean Lyman
on the control of syphilis.
The health department is to he com
mended in so far as it has made provision
for giving these blood tests in its depart
ment, hut it is our feeling that such a pro
vision does not go quite far enough. Under
the present system it would be virtually im
possible to find those on the campus who
were infected with the disease, since only a
few people are likely to take advantage of
the opportunity offered under the present
set-up." In fact it is rather unlikely that
many students, in their lackadaisical man
ner, are aware of the existence of the blood
tests in the health service at the present time.
It is realized that the inclusion of the Was
serman test in the regular health examinations
would not be a cure for syphilis. but it cer
tainly would be a preventive plan in that
those infected would be discovered and meas
ures taken to cure them and keep them from
infecting others. Many are not aware that
they are victims of the disease and only thru
the'testinc process may they receive assurance
of their freeness from or affliction with syphi
lis. Thus, it would seem necessary that the
health department take steps to test all stu
dents for indications of the presence of syphi
lis. Naturally such a procedure would neces
sitate giving the Wasserman test to a large
number in order to detect a diseased few, but
if these few were discovered and treatments
betrun to affect a cure, the project would be
worthwhile.
At present, "blood samples are taken at
the student health departments and sent to
the state health department for testing. As
long as the state department has agreed to
make the necessary test, it would seem logi
cal that students should be made to take
advantage of the opportunity offered, and
that the tests should become a part of the
regular examinations.
Dr. Lyman points out the fact that nega
tive results on the test would not be adequate
assurance that a student would not become
infected with the disease later on in his college
days. However, it would discover those al
ready affected and if the tests were civen to
all students every year some check would
be kept on new infections. These regular
checks would at least keep syphilis from pet
tine too great a start before the student dis
covered the infection and began to take treat
ments for the affliction.
The plea on the part of Dr. Lyman to
check alcoholism and promiscuity as pre
ventive measures agains syphilis is perfectly
legitimate and true. Dr. Lyman sets forth
an excellent idea when he asks students to
set an example and lead the parade against
these evils. It must be remombered. how
ever, that the student cannot be safe from
this disease because of his personal cleanli
ness and moral conduct alone. Unfortu
nately, syphilis does not respect social boun
daries. Morally and personally clean indi
viduals can and do pick up the germs of
these diseases without being connected with
the evils of alcoholism and promiscuity.
Because many who are infected with
syphilis do not realize it and because only a
few students take advantape of the blood tests
offered at the present time, it would seem
lopical that there is a need for some testing
measures. One of the best and surest man
ners of contacting all students would be to
include the Wasserman test as a part of the
regular physical examinations given upon
entering the university, and if this did not
seem often enouph it could be incorporated
as an annual student test in the student health
department.
Bombs Destroy Centers
of Chinese Cultural life
(Continued from Fage 1.)
feneration and more. Tn many of
them were gathered fome of the
finest teachirg staffs to be pro
cured anywhere in the world. And
approximately one-half of all Chi
nese universities and college! are
already out of commission.
What is lost in cultural value to
was only recently rebuilt on Its
new site at a cost of wore than
10,000.000 Chinese dollars. Since
1935, material additions had been
made to many Institutions.
The fact that, what Chins built
in a (feneration is being destroyed
in a day, should leave an impres
sion on the minds of American
university students. We cannot
baugh has spoken in no less than
38 universities in 19 different
states. He figured prominently in
the national Methodist student
conference held In St. Louis, Mo.,
last December.
Served As Missionary.
Brumbaugh was educated in the
east, served a year over seas,
being discharged a second lieuten
ON CORN COBS,
AND MICE
Chinese education is inestimable.
As to the actual material damages j Only time may give the answer to
suffered, it is difficult to give even j those queries,
a rough estimate at present. But
It is known that the aggregate val-1 MINISTER VIEWS
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answer uic quesuoiu, " u mu- nU v g MulXry and was active
rn hip-her education he lout tn i . . . .
China?" or "What must be done?"
ue of thse new demolished Insti
tutions was. in 1935, about 67.
000.000 Chinese dollars. That did
not Include the National Sun Yat
sn university at Canton, which
represented by itself a fortune and
JAPANESE BIDS
FOR SUPREMACY
(Continued from Page 1.1
Japan, the Orient and the christian
movement tn the far east. Brum-
Information
What birt on th market abaolutely defies
ahrinkage is known for high style, end is
reputed to give lasting wear?"
"Why, Arrow, of course. Your Arrow dealer
has a large assortment $2. and up."
-.ARROW SHIRTS
A new thlrt U one tver ahrlnVi.
in young peoples work in Ohio
and Massachusetts before he took
up missionary work among the
youth of the Japanese empire. His
work there has brought him into
contact with Kskawa's program.
The meeting at Grace church
will begin at 7:30 with Beula Brig
ham, president of Kappa Phi, club
for Methodist girls, presiding. De
votional services will be directed
bv Winthrop Darlington: Verne
Giessinger singing. The gathering
is open to any who wish to come.
Speaks Twice.
Saturday afternoon Brumbaugh
will be available in the Wesley
foundation building for personal
conferences which are already be
ing arranged. In the evening
Brumbaugh will lead a discussion
group at the foundation centering
attention of the topic, "Youth of
Japan Facing the Present Crisis."
Sunday morning he will address
the Trinity Methodist church on
the subject, "Why Japan is Not
a Christian Nation." The mission
ary will probably show slides de
picting the work of the Wesley
foundation In Japan following his
speech at Grace Sunday.
While In Japan his literary acti
vities have made Emmbaugh
Japan correspondent of the Chris
tian Century and the Zion s Her
ald, author of "A Son of the Rising
Sun A Biography," "Religious
Values in Japanese Culture, " and
editor of the Jspan christian year
book for 1937.
Phi Clii Tlielfl Sponsors
Display of Silverware
Phi Chi Theta, honorary bizad
sorority, has issued an invitation
to all senior women stuilfnls to
come to Ellen Smith hall between
3 and 5 o'clock any afternoon this
week to inspect a silverware dis
play sponsored by Toole silver
smiths and to Indicate their prefer
ences in silver patterns.
Students at tha Vnlverslty of
Kansas City are such sleepy heads
that Dean Glenn G. Battle hd to
nlist the aid of the student coun
cil to keep them swaks tn th
university trowstaj' room."
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Our mouse-like tendencies are
gnting the best of us. Like the
best of mice, like the best of Ne
braska's pseudo-activity men, we
like to squeak. To find a fault,
we are led to believe, is our ulti
mate desire. To criticize destruc
tively, that is to run down with
out suggesting any solution, we
have been told, is our supreme
purpose. Perhapa this is true.
We wonder, however, if the
squeaking spirit isn't in trend with
the times. In this democratic age
of liberal mindedness, we wonder
if our present generation aren't
prone to refute the old because it
is tried, tested, and proved to be
ineffective in places? Likewise, is
it not true that members of our
generation like to accept the new
because it is such, and because
it will provide something ditferent,
and, perhaps, sensational?
TO THE CUCLS:
In keeping with the times,
then, 60 (more or less) Corn
Cobs have approved an effective
reorganization for Pi Epsilon
Pi, The majority, we hope, have
finally realized the present in
effective status cf the organiza
tion and have endorsed their ef
forts toward revision for one
purpose advancement. There
are, however, a number in the
present organization who look
Ttoward the realignment only as
a change, something new, dif
ferent, and sensational for them,
never have done the. club any
good. They are the ones who
should be eliminated from Pi
Epsilon Pi at the outset.
VALUABLE MICE-PLAY.
We have felt justified, then, for
squeaking just as justified and
sincere as those present members
who really want to see a new deal
for student activities start at the
bottom with a reorganization of
Corn Cobs. Likewise, we feel that
the plan of revision which we
hazarded more than a week ago
is the only one feasible method in
which to make the organization
noteworthy. Squeaking might b
mice-play, but sometimes it proves
valuable.
The Corn Cobs are going to
take a big load on their shoul
ders. Whether they realize it or
not, their task is not going to be
a simple one. Their first step In
securing a new sponsor Is a good
one. But reorganization goes a
lot farther than that. The Social
Student Council and even the
Innocent's society will be con
cerned probably enough so that
they can throw a dead mouse
into the burning wires or strings.
MEMBERSHIP A QUESTION
In the first place, the Cobs face
the questin of choosing their mem
bers. Those who have exerted their
best and sincere efforts toward
keeping the Club active at all say
that this will not be difficult. Their
solution is to choose 20 active
members for next year from the
pledges who have worked the
hardest this year. With a know
ledge that no one has done any
thing, this will be difficult. An
other short circuit will be caused
when about 15 pledges who were
not chosen for next year's group
appear before the club to demand
their pledge fees.
Examination of the present
Corn Cob constitution will show
Immediately why reorganization
will be difficult. The club, for
example, to be effective, should
have leadership centered in its
own group. Its officers, in other
words, should not be chosen by
the Innocents society and faction
politics. An organizstion, as
such, always likes to choose its
own officers. This can be no re
flection, however, on the guid
ance of the PI Epsilon Pi's this
year.
And so, we feel that if the Corn
Cobs have enough mouse-like
men tn their organization, they
will succeed in their reorganiza
tion. The Social-Student Council
and the Innocents, too, will bs
forced to exert some of their
mousey characteristics.
WELL DRILLERS'
OPENING SESSION
ATTRACTS CROWD
(Continued from Psge 1.1
Into the well In one piece. Lights
sld night work.
Exhibited by a local company
was a windmill operating auto
matically, utilizing the wind to the
utmost. "A roller bearing worm
drive" shaft helps eliminate fric
tion. A number of the machines
shown were constructed to oil the
moving parts automat icslly so that
while a windmill had formerly to
be oiled monthly, now only an
nual attention is needed.
Another local company showed
water pumps with the latest auto
matic features including the in
novation of a mechanism for con
trol of the air supply In the wster
tanks. A compound leverage
wrench which gives s leverage of
10 to 1. enabling on man to ap
ply as much pressure as several
could normally, was outstanding In
the wrench display. End wrenches
permitting workers to work In
tight corners were shown as was
a 48 well casing used to keep soil
and gravel out of water pumped
for irrigation.
Dr. Ernest F. Wltte, director
of the graduate school for social
work, was elected to the executive
committee of the council of social
sgencles at the annual meetlrg of
the council held recently. He will
serve for s three year term.
Bring Syphilis
Under Control
To the Editor:
Recent articles and editorials about syphilis
which have appeared in the Nebraskan lead
me to believe at least a brief statemn should
be made concerning the disease so that stu
dents may see what it will take to brinp the
disease under control and eventually wipe it
out.
Dr. Thomas Parian, surgeon general, U.
S. public health service, is the moving spirit
behind the present anti-syphilis campaign.
In the Feb. 18th issue of Science he makes
the following statements "Our problem
therefore simply resolves itself into a find
ing of new cases and treating them. Infec
tions occur singly from person to person by
intimate contact. There are no explosive
epidemics as occur in typhoid fever thru
pollution of water supply. We know today
that syphilis is primarily a disease of youth;
that more than half of all those whom syphi
lis strikes, it strikes before the age of 25;
that more an a fifth are infected with the
disease before Ihey reach the ago of 20,
and that more than 11,000 per year are in
fected before the age of 15. We know that
in addition to these figures for acquired in
fections, 60,000 babies are born in the United
States every year with congenital syphilis."
The very facts about venereal diseases are
themselves spectacular.
From the statements in the press one would
think "blood testing" was a cure for syphilis.
1 note in a local paper one restaurant is al
ready commercializing the blood test by adver
tising that all their employees are "blood
tested." This means nothing, since every em
ployee of any firm might give a negative blood
test tonight and every one of them contract
syphilis before breakfast tomorrow morning.
The blood test is important because it
locates the infected. Each infected person
has long months or even years of painful
costly treatment ahead of him before a cure
is accomplished.
Two factors that are scarcely being men
tioned in this campaign must be considered if
syphilis is to be conquered. They are alcohol,
ism and promiscuity. Alcohol is the great ally
of prostitution. If alcohol could be eliminated,
fewer men would contact infected persons. If
only the non-syphilitic would marry and their
sexual contacts thereafter be limited to the
married, the syphilitic parasite could not find
new fields to grow in and would die and be
buried with the infected. Prncticallj' all pros
titutes are infected with syphilis. In the large
cities of our land there are 500,000 prosti
tutes, 40,000 of them die annually. If from
this time on, we could save every girl from
becoming a prostitute, in approximately 12
years prostitution would disappear and with
it the chief source of syphilitic infection.
Think of the tragedy of it 11,000 becoming
infected before they are 15 (mere children)
and half of all infections occurring before the
25th year. That means most infections occur
before the marriageable age. In other words,
science alone cannot "lick syphilis" altho we
do "drive it into the open." Science can do
a great deal but it needs the help of the human
intellect and right living on the part of every
man and woman. If the present generation
wants to do some pioneering, here is a field
which offers an opportunity that will put their
intellects and courage to a greater test than
our ancestors experienced in wresting the Ne
braska prairies from the virgin sod. The con
trol of syphilis is the job of men and women
under 25. It is not the job of men and women
of middle life. He who thinks it a job that
can be accomplished if he keeps on drinking,
or keeps on practicing promiscuity, is doomed
to disappointment. It would be a great thing
for the university, if her students could set an
example and lead the parade.
The student health department has beeu
making blood tests for all students who desire
them for the last two years and will continue
to do so for those who wish to report to room
208, Pharmacy building.
Rufus A. Lyman, Director
Department Student Health.
OTIumcoL
Wednesday's convocation was
the contribution of Phi Mu Alpha,
formerly known as Sinfonia fra
ternity, an organization for stu
dents of music throughout the
nation. This group has chapters
in most of the universities, and
numbers many famous musicians
among its members and alumni.
The program went very smooth
ly, as one would expect of a pro
fessional type honorary, and should
enhance the reputation of the fra
ternity, already recognized as one
of the more worthwhile campus
organizations. Only one correc
tion needs to be made in our re
porting of the manner in which the
program was presented. Duane
Harmon, though a very capable
trumpeter, did not play on the
convocation. Mr. Harmon is also
a student cf William Tcmpel,
voice instructor, and the numbers
programmed were sung.
There was one faulty perform
ance in the scries of selections. Due
either to poor arrangement or to
lack of practice among the per
formers, the performance of "Va
terlandisches Lied" was very weak.
There was considerable faltering
and lack of agreement among the
players. We should like, however,
to have the opportunity of again
hearing this number on some fu
ture program when these faults
may be corrected.
Music Is evolved in strange
ways. Alexander Borodin's Sec
ond Symphony in B minor is a fit
ting example of this phenomenon.
originally. Borodin had intended
to write an opera which would be
truly Russian in story and flavor,
After he had commenced work
thereon, he discovered that the
words and the mood of the work
did not fit: therefore he followed
the usual procedure and Junked
the whole affair, and started over
again.
However, the discarded music
was not to be forgotten so easily.
It haunted him haunted him till
he rewrote it into the first move
ment of a new symphony, which
required six years to complete. The
length of time thus required brings
to light another fact; that Boro
din, in addition to his composing,
wss also professor of chemistry
at the St. Petersburg academy of
Medicine and Surgery.
By the time Napravanik wanted
to conduct the premiers of this
queerly conceived symphony, in
1877. Borodin had lost the first
movement, contsining the origins!
musical idea, and the lsst of the
four. Tho sick In bed at the time,
he managed to rewrite both these
movements and completely re-orchestrate
the whole work.
Chromium Furniture Marks
Last Step in Program
Entailing $500.
With the arrival of 55 new
chronomium chairs the latter part
of this week, the last improve
ments for Talladlan hall will have
been installed.
Palladian, the oldest organiza
tion on the campus, has taken over
$500 from its sinking fund this
winter to purchase new improve
ments for the hall on the third
floor of Temple j
Scarlet Stage Curtain.
Yesterdsy a new coat rack ar
rived and was set up. During; the '
last week Venetian blinds were in-1
suited. Drapes, at all the windows, 1
have been a recent addition. A
red velvet stage curtain has also;
just been hung. A drinking foun
tain has been lately installed as ,
well ss a ping pong table for the
recreation of the members.
The hall has an entirely new
lighting system. In addition to the
installation of six new floor plugs
and the purchase of three new
floor lamps, the newest style of In
direct lights have been installed. I
In former years the alumni1
members of Pailadion have been
called upon to asist with all major
expenditures, but this year aU of
the money was taken from the
sinking fund of the organization.
About five years ago a carpet wss
bought at a cost of 11.400. Before
that a grand piano was purchased.
Baptist Student Group
to Hear Music Teacher
Mrs. Altinus Tullis will address
the Roger Williams club at their
regular meeting next Sunday night
on the History of Church Music."
Clinton Sturdevant is in charge of
the social hour which starts at
8 p. m. The meeting will be held
at the First Baptist church.
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UNIVERSITY NOTES
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of school administration, left
Thursdsy to attend a contention
In Atlantic City of the American
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