Fungi Have More Important Part in
Daily Happenings Than We Suppose
Of all the known fungi, our
giant puffball that grows so common
ly on our Nebraska prairies, probably
produces the greatest number of
jpore97,600 billion," stated Dr.
Leva B. Walker, associate- professor
of Botany in the university, in a ra
dio talk broadcast over the radio
yesterday.
"That fungi do abound is a very
obvious fact. Probably everyone has
had the experience of putting some
thing away in the damp and a little
later finding it mildewed," said Miss
Walker, "or of opening a jar of jam
and finding it covered with mold. So
common are such experiences that we
take it for granted that things kept
damp will mold. Many are parasites,
take their food from living plants
while others live on non-living sub
stances such as clothing and so on.
"The foods for the variuos fungi
are about the same as for an animal.
The fungus must have carbohydrates,
proteins, and even vitamines for its
development, but many forms require
only minute quantities for growth.
Some few fungi are highly special
ized and can only get food from cer
tain plants or substances. Some few
fungi have power of making food
from the nitrogen in the air and so
require little but water; such may be
found growing on strong acid or poi
sonous solutions. They are seemingly
able to protect themselves from in
jurious substances in the solution and
yet make uso of the water.
Fungi Highly Developed
"Fungi have developed highly spe
cialized structures for producing
spores and getting them into the air.
One of our common amiif.
wheat forms about twelve million
spores where each kernel of wheat
should have developed. It would take
aDout one hundred spores placed end
to end to reach across the head of a
pin but the spores from a single
fruit body were placed from end
end would extend forty-one miles.
wnen one considers the enormous
numbers of spores produced, one can
hardly help feeling that it is strange
fungi, molds and SO on I1X nnf. mnva
abundant than they are. It is only
the keen competition between various
forms for the available food that pre
vents their mutiplication. The mul
titudes of spores may so thoroughly
cover the earth that where ai hna
a chance for growth the spore may be
present to grow, and so perpetuate
itself."
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Fellow" Dog Almost
Gains Admittance to
Columbia University
NEW YORK The fact that he
walks on four legs instead of on two
is about all that kept ''Fellow" a
dog, from matriculating at Columbia
university here recently.
Fellow, who belongs to Jacob Her
bert, of Detroit, was Drought before
Columbia psychologists, where he
was put through an intelligence test
which astonished the learned pro
fessors. The dog is a German shepherd,
five years of age, and his master in
sists that he displays the intelligence
of the average eight year old boy.
Herbert claims that Fellow knows
between 300 and 400 spoken words.
He obeys a number of intricate com
mands, given in the ordinary con
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for names of people. Introduced to
several in the room, he later picked
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When his master asked him to see
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the dog amazed the professors by
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Professor Hertzler Says College
Suicides Caused by Imitativeness
Former Champion In
Stanford Class Fight
Palto Alto, Calif. (IP) Tb
S tan ford university freshmen, led by
the ex-champion flyweight boxer Fi
del La Barba, were defeated las.
week in the annual "mud battle" with
the sophomores on the campus. The
sophs were led by Eric Fienz, who
holds a record in throwing the dis
cus. Krenz once in the fight threw
La Barba in the mud pond when the
two met personally.
Concord, N. H. (IP) The first
lap in her race for the mayorality
of Concord was won by H. Gwen
dolen Jones, 21, pretty university co
ed, when she overwhelmingly de
feated Representative Edward D.
Haskell and ex-Mayor Willard, K.
Flint at the Primaries this week.
Miss Jones now will face Mayor
Fred M. Marden in the final election.
A course in present day fashions
will be given at New York University
this year.
"Suicide as I understand it is simply
an illustration of a significant fact
in sociological principles of sugges
tion and imitation. The thing imi
tated ia either something unique or
popular or something a superior has
done," asserted Professor J. 0.
Hertzler, Professor of Sociology in
the University, in talking on student
suicides.
He pointed out that the first two
students to commit suicide were col
lege students who were studying ab
normal psychology, stating that their
acts were possibly due to a peculiarly
morbid state of mind resulting from
this study. These boys were univer
sity students, and because of this,
were given a large amount of news
paper publicity which would not have
been given to ether persons under
the same circumstances.
"This was a unique occurrence and
was followed by quite a wave of sui
cide by partly unbalanced young
folks pushed to the point of desper
ation or otherwise unbalanced," said
Professor Hertzler adding that, "If
you 'have an unusual form of sui
cide with much publicity, it will be
imitated."
He made the statement that sui
cide among students is really nothing
unusual. The students, because of
their position which puts them more
or less before the public, receive
publicity which others do not. In
vestigations show that there is as
large a percentage of young persons
not students committing suicide as
there is of students.
"The newspapers are responsible
for a large amount of the suicides
among students," he declared. "A
unique form of suicide at a time
when that type is getting publicity
will enable relatively unknown peo
ple or people with what psychologists
know as an inferiority complex a
chance to gain a certain amount of
publicity, however dubious it might
be."
This latter form of suicide takes
place more often among high school
students who, because of their home
life or other non-harmonious envir
onment, do not have the opportun
ity of expressing themselves. Be
cause of this they develop a morbid
or unbalanced state of mind, to which
this oportunity presents itself in an
appealing way.
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by a morbid and unbalanced mental
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Professor Hertzler has made a
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His opinions are based on scientific
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Ph.D. Degree Does Not
Produce Men Who Are
True Scholars, Is Found
New York (IB) Declaring that
loss than twenty-five per cent of the
holders of the Ph. D. degree are pro
ductive scholars, the American His
torical Association laid the blame on
college and university presidents who
seek degrees for their professors for
advertising purposes.
The social sciences and particularly
the departments of history show an
amazing lack of scholarship, accord
ing to the report which was the re
sult of a nation-wide survey for the
purpose of finding the best way to
expend income from the million dol
lar endowment of the association.
Nebraska Alumnus Is
Acting Dean of Botany
Ernst A. Bessey, graduate of '93,
is now acting Dean of Botany at the
Michigan State Agriculture College.
He is the son of former professor
Bessey of the Nebraska department
of Botany.
. Amherst, Mass. (IP) Two forms
of freshman hazing at Amherst col
lege were abolished by the students
here this week that of capturing
freshman for performance at sen
ior meetings and that of attempting
to disrupt the annual frosh banquet.
A proposal to abolish the annual
class scrap between the sophomores
and freshmen was defeated.
The Silver Medal Bull, Sulton Tel
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and her dam is Varsity Ultimo Norma.
The Harvard law school is the
largest of its kind with an enroll
ment of 1508.
Middletown, Conn. (IP) Frat
ernities are to be put on their honor
to report to proper officials any cases
of intoxication at fraternity dances
at Connecticut Wesleyan university,
according to a new ruling passed by
the faculty this week.
The annual convention of the
Rocky Mountain Interscholastic Press
will meet on the University of Colo
rado campus in November. Silver
loving cups and ribbons will be given
to publications who stand first in
their respective divisions.
A new women's dining hall has
been opened at Ohio State which will
seat 600.
Three O'clock Closing
Time for Boston Prom
Boston, Mas.. (IP) Three
o'clock in the morning is the time
for the closing of the junior prom at
Boston university next spring, ac
cording to a new ruling just made.
By the same ruling interdepartmen
tal functions must close at 2 a. ra.
and fraternity parties must cease at
the early hour of one past mid-night.
Careless smokers are blamed for
$50,000,000 worth of the large an
nual fire losses of the United States.
Half of the students enrolled in
the University of Wisconsin summer
school were teachers.
Since the war, divorce is becoming
more common in England. Latest
figures show that one marriage out
of every hundred ends in the divorce
court.
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