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AFRAID? WHO CARES?
"Students no longer are content to accept what
is taught them without protest," Dr. Karl Wettstone,
president of Omaha university, stated in i an address
at Omaha Monday in which he expressed the fear that
student bodies may gain control of colleges and univer
sities "When they fail in their examinations they are
loud with their alibis, and to make matters worse, par
ents often side in with them." ,,int
Dr. Wettstone decried modern "5-and-10-cent
store" education where students are allowed to take
what they want, which usually, he remarked, is just
enough subjects to entitle them to their degrees.
Ill of which goes back to the old question of
whether students are mature enougn vo uc
a (Hnra Hurinir tneir ctniegmw:
ment to his practice. He is firmly convinced that it is
the result of vaccination.
It has been my privilege to come in contact with
a number of psychopathic cases in the past six years.
One which impressed me most was a young man who
had been honorably discharged from the service during
the war by reason of "shell shock". The fact of the
matter is that the fellow had never left the training
camp, and had seen no active service whatsoever. His
mental condition is attributed to the after effects of
vaccination.
A member of my family suffered more from vac
cination than I did during both my attacks of smallpox.
She not only had temporary suffering but ever since
her acquisition of that filthy virus she has suffered
from heart trouble of no slight degree-.
Three years ago a group of physicians, one of
whom I know personally, bought three samples of the
best virus on the market and analyzed them. All three
of the samples showed strong traces of syphilis and
tuberculosis germs. A child might be inoculated with
such "purt"' virus and if in perfect or near-perfect
health might be able to throw off these germs injected
into his system; on the other hand, if the child's resist
ance were low, the chances for the germs to work
would be much greater and several years later physi
cians would be at a loss to know where the child con
tracted syphilis or tuberculosis. Of course they would
not think of blaming the cause on vaccination.
This is my last contribution on this subject. I only
want other students to know that there are two sides
to the vaccination question and to realize the serious
conditions which may result from thoughtless accept
ance of the vaccination plea. Of course, I may be asked
to prove that the cases set forth here were caused by
vaccination. In that respect I wish to' say that a study
of the histories of these cases offers much stronger
proof for the fact that they were caused by vaccination
than that they were not. E. BURKE SMITH.
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... v.o ti,ow shnnld be held to rigid
not. It IS necessaiy mat w.w
rules and strict requirements-and the conditions that
Dr. Wettstone laments would be worthy of serious
consideration. .
But if the average student taking work in a uni
versity, is capable of individual thought and self-control,
such a situation would be a good indication that
students are becoming more interested in their studies.
Is it necessary that students snould be conte' t to
accept what is taught them without protest? Is it even
advisable? If so, dangerous propaganda is being spread
by members of our own faculty who impress students
with the fact that they should not placidly accept or
agree with everything merely because the text or in
structor says so. Individual investigation and research
is urged. In fact, one of the chief faults with the aver
age student is that he is content to take what is pre
sented in the classroom and let it go at that.
The complaint against the tendency to allow stu
dents to take what they want is rather unique. For
the usual cry is that universities still adhere to too
many requirements that they are mills wherein indi
vidual tendencies are twisted and shaped to a stand
ardized pattern established in the registrar's office.
The general trend among the leading universities is to
allow the student greater freedom in the choice of the
subjects he is interested in.
As a university president, Dr. Wettstone should
know whereof he speaks. But if anyone else had made
such a statement we would be liable to' assume that he
had been reading modern fiction depicting college life.
At any rate the faculty at the University of Ne
braska is not losing any sleep over the fear that stu
dents are plotting to gain control of administrative
affairs.
Speaking of Scotchmen, we are reminded of the
college student who killed his fraternity brother so it
could be charged to him. Intercollegiate Press.
VACCINATION
Just when comment on vaccination for smallpox
was considered a past issue, several letters on the sub
ject appeared. Some were merely opinion. Others were
filled with facts showing, for the most part, the benefits
derived from vaccination. Nearly all were too long for
our limited amount of space. In order to show no par
tiality one letter hag been picked from each 6ide of the
discussion. The others contained practically the same
arguments.
Mr. E. B. Smith's statements are not necessarily
to be doubted. Eut the general impression is that he
has singled out an exceptional case or two rather than
considering comparative percentages and the field as
a whole. In Bpite of every precaution, unfortunate in
cidents are linked with the progress of every medical
venture. But vaccination, is no longer a venture. Sta
tistics 6how that the dangers from, vaccination have
been so minimized that they can hardly be compared
with those from the disease itself.
Proof of the advantages of vaccination seem to
so overwhelm the dissenting opinions that, unless a
new point of view is to be stated, further comment will
be considered unnecessary.
Notices
A. I. E. E.
There will be an A. I. E. E. meeting at
E. E. 204, at 7:30 p. m. Thursday.
Social Calendar
Thursday, February 23 1
Y. W. C. A. Staffs dinner.
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 Psl, house dance1.
Alpha Phi, leap year party.
Big Sister party, 3-5 Ellen
Smith Hall.
assasination of an Austrian arch
duke." War was great and peace was ig
nomiously little. The typo of peace
that we have is like that forced by a
big brute, down the throats of the
beaten foe; I am proud to say that
the League of Nations is an Amer
ican ideal. Its name is immaterial
but it represents the only practical
sense of guarantee against war in
the future.- When we turn our faces
to the first gleam of light of the
morning, we will hope at dawn, for
a warless world. America should be
first, not only materially but spiritually."
Rabbi Talks at
World Forum
Dally Nefaraskaa readers are cordially Invited to contri
bute article to this column. This paper, however, assumes no
responsibility for the sentiment expressed herein, and ro
sorves the rifbt to exclude any libelous or andesirable matter.
A limit of sU anndrod words bas been placed on all contributions.
To the Editor:
In your issue of February 16th you published a
letter from Mr. E. Burke Smith opposing vaccination
against smallpox. This is a pertinent question at this
time as there are cases appearing in the University
and in the public schools. In the article mentioned he
quotes a number of persons who oppose vaccinations
but unfortunately does not give the date' when his quo
tations were written. He quotes from Jenner, the orig
inator of the vaccination, who introduced it about 130
years ago. If we accept his statements we must ack
nowledge that medical science has made no advance
ment in its application of the prevention of disease.
Medical science has advanced so that the production of
smallpox viru3 is perfectly safe-guarded against any
impurities in the virus. The knowledge of sterilization
in its application prevents any complications arising.
My txperience has conclusively shown me the value
of protective measures against disease. Any one who
ha3 lived through the period of the Spanish-American
War recalls the great loss of life because of typhoid
fever in the concentration camps. Then compare that
with the situation in our camps during the World War
and he can readily see the advantage of typhoid innoc
ulation. There can be no better evidence of thevalue of
vaccination against smallpox than that shown by the
figures of our Army in the World War. There were
4,128,479 men in our Army with a record of 13,703,191
admissions to the hospital of men eick, 794 of whom
had smallpox and six deaths from it. There is no record
of any deaths from vaccinations. Unquestionably if the
facts were available the cases of smallpox and deaths
therefrom were in unsuccessful cases of immunization.
A very illuminating article on the menace of the
unvaccinated is published in The Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Association, September 29, 1923, Vol. 81,
Pages 1070-1072. This is an address by Dr. Victor G.
Heiser, M. D., of New York before the1 American Med
ical Association. I desire to quote some of his state
ments: "Those who are indifferent and who fail to have
their children vaccinated are also contributors to the
continuance of smallpox that disgrace to civilization.
The catastrophe that recently occurred in the Philip
pine Islands, when more than 50,000 persons lost their
lives from smallpox, should be a warning to the people
of the United States. The conflagration in the Phil
ippines was made possible by a huge group of unvac
cinated children, and the heat of it was intense enough
to affect those who were semi-fireproofed because their
vaccination was of too long standing.
"In Russia, where vaccination never has been
widely employed, the disease prevails continuously.
From 1890 to 1914 an average of more than 100,000
cases occurred yearly. Reports by the League of Nations
indicate that in recent years, with lessened vaccina
tion, the rate has been even higher. For the thirteen
year period from 1902 to 1914,vl,397,338 persons were
attacked by smallpox, of whom 542,138, or 38.8 per
cent., died.
"Before the American occupation, Porto Rico was
constantly afflicted with serious outbreaks of smallpox.
Thorough vaccination was carried out, and since then
the disease has occurred but seldom. In the recent small
outbreaks, the disease was mild in character.
"In the history of physicians, nurses and . attend
ants who throughout the years have served the un
fortunate victims of smallpox, there ig no record of
any attendants dying of the disease if properly vaccin
ated, and there are numerous instances in which the
disease would have been contracted if vaccination had
not been performed. I well recall the case of a nurse
in Manila who was on duty at the smallpox hospital
She did not believe in vaccination, but before permit
ting her to serve in the hospital, I insisted on vaccina.
tion, and was led to believe that it had been properly
done. Several weeks later she contracted smallpox. She
confessed that after being vaccinated she had immed
iately rubbed off the virus with alcohol, and conse
quently had had no protection against the disease. In
my experience in dealing with thousands of cases of
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that I ever heard of."
Before more than seventy-five stu
dents Rabbi Starrels voiced his ap
proval of the League of Nations and
attacked those men who are secretly
trying to plunge the nation into an
other war. He began his talk by de
claring that we are living in a period
when Americans must consider fheir
national problems.
Urges Common Sense
"There should be quite a large
mixture of common sense in political
thinking," stated Mr. Starrels. "Our
nation is facing a growing menace,
namely that of war, which is the
cause of no end of heart-breaking
and anguish. Recently the repre
sentatives of the Red Cross met in
an international conference at Brus
sels. They handed out their advice
in the following resolutions: first,
the nations of the world should pro
vide themselves with gas-proof shel
ters; second, they must take every
precaution against attacks; third,
these shelters must be provided with
various kinds of chemicals which
combat the presence of gas. The
directions for the operations of mo
tors for the dispelling of thi3 gas, and
the regulations regarding the hand
ling of these chemicals be written on
paper upon which gas cannot act
The fourth resolution was that fire
brigades should be organized and
nurses trained and organized; fifth
all new buildings must be built with
gas-proof passages and stairways:
sixth, all gas and water pipes must
be laid at a greater depth in the
earth; seventh, stores of oxygen must
be kept for the removing of gas dur
ing an attack.
Says Document Is Crazy
Rabbi Starrels, upon completing
the reading of this document, shout
ed, if this isn't crazy, I wish some
one would give me a definition of
insanity! What is our country com
ing to? Often times we hear some
people and soldiers say that we have
always had war at some time or
other, and it is here to stay. Hu
manity has marched forward pro
gressively. At the time "When the
slave question was brought up in the
minds of the people, Benjamin F.1
Palmer, noted politician and states
man of Louisiana, declared tha
some are masters and some are
slaves. It is a blessine to mankind '
This same Mr. Palmer warned th
people that the Confederacy was
God's chosen institution.
Sooner than we expect, the whole
system of war will be utterly discred
ited and relegated to the dark ages
where it belongs. The reason why
we had the late World War was to
end war. When brave men gave
their lives on the battlefield, they
lougnt with the idea that they were
going to remove the scourge of war
from civilization. Woodrow Wilson
was an accredited idealist who lived
and worked for humanity. When he
sailed across the ocean to sit in the
peace conference at Versailles he wap
wont to face men who sat around
with scissors and a map to divide the
loot.
He Lands Wilson
. i ne trouble with the treaty of
is mat tnat magnificent room is
Poor Weather Halts
Andrews Hall Work
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en brick layers employed alone, put
ting in the brick walls on the first
floor. At present about fifty-five men
are at work on the structure.
Besides completing the brick work
on the ground floor, the Bedford
stone trimmings have been extended.
These fluted columns, or pilasters,
will extend to the cornice work.
Something can be seen of the beauty
of the building already. The south
entrance stone work has already been
placed.
Contracts for plumbing and heat
ing have not yet been let. Earnest
ment is accurate.
In smaller distances, however, tne
astronomer is able to make very ac
curate measurements, according to
Professor Swezey. Two different
students have determined true north
and south on the campus with a pos
sible error of less than a millimeter
in one block. The sidewalk and
street are out of line about four feet
in the same distance. They have
also determined the latitude and
longitude of the observatory with a
possible error of not more than one
hundred feet in either direction.
"Science has methods of determin
ing its own possible error," he de
clared, in speaking of the applica
tion of mathematics in astronomy.
"Measurements are made, mathemat
ics is applied and conclusions are
formed with facts as a basis."
'Irish Ireland Tries
Ponies in Practice
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gers without bending either knee.
Catastrophe Averted
The big feature of the evening
was the running in place race. With
eight University men running at top
speed on the second floor of the
Temple a catastrophe seemed inevit
able. However, even Bill Mentzer's
frantic attempts to push the floor in
on someone below were of no avail.
the ambitious Cornhusker chorus
men. The chorus work will be quite
difficult, and, as Paul Burgert ad
mitted last night, "You have to be
something besides a little hoarse to
be a pony!"
Fourteen men were chosen 'from
the applicants, and competition will
be carried on in all workouts to see
what eight men are chosen. The ex
ercises closed last night with four
teen tired ponies and room 202 of
the Temple filled with that vague
undefinable something usually COn'
nected with the Y. M. C. A.
Rokahr & Sons, contractors, hope to After an especially strenuous spurt
complete the building by the middle
of July. Their contract date calls for
August 20.
"We Have Facts to
Back Our Statements"
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showed that there were about a hun
dred lines in the spectrum of the
sun which represented iron. Tests
in the laboratory have proven that
these lines always represent iron
and it is one of the several tests for
iron. "I would hesitate less to make
the statement that iron exists in the
sun than to say that it exists in this
knife or this key," was the way he
expressed his confidence in the ac
curacy of the method used.
Measurements Are Accurate
In speaking of astronomical dis
tances, Professor Swezey made the
statement that the larger distances
coutti not be as accurately measured
as the smaller ones. A star which is
estimated to be nine hundred light
years from the earth, he pointed out,
may be 950 light years away, but
within certain . limits the measure-
Mentzer fell to the floor exhausted
where he was trampled on by the
oncoming ponies (we went to the
Sun last week). Five minutes later
everything had ceased vibrating and
all was well.
"I think we have some exception
ally good material for the chorus,"
replied "Irish" Ireland when ques
tioned concerning the possibilities of
Burrill Gets Summer Appointment
Miss Helen Burrill, formerly an
assistant in geography and who re
ceived her Master's degree in 1927,
has been appointed to teach during
the twelve weeks summer session at
the State Teachers College at Kirks
ville, Missouri. Miss Burrill is now
teaching Geography in the Junior
high school at Fremont, Nebraska.
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To the Editor:
In the Thursday issue of "The Daily Nebraskan"
I find an answer to my letter, regarding "Vaccination",
which appeared in the same issue. In defense, I wish to
state that it is true that many of the facts presented
are nineteenth century facts, but, nevertheless, I main
tain that I am living in the twentieth century as much
as anyone. The 20th century is still in its infancy
and 20th century facts, on the whoe, are unavailable.
How can anyone stand up and say that "Practically
all the evidence presented is erroneous or misled .!ing,
either ic part or whole" when my evidence is simply
a group of quotations from men' who are reputed to be
rrea cf knowledge and authority on the subject?
Eut, if it is 20th century facts that are wanted,
I relate a few cases Bath which I am personally
c. "v.iirted. The first case is a man from the western
; . rt cf the elite who was vaccinated at the age of ten
v.V.hin a y?Rr he developed a case of Psoriasia.
;-..-- tr-jw wrc;l UscKssnds of dsiisi's to been
. t try; to f.r;d relief but without avail.
A T;l k'jown professional man of Lincoln suffers
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smallpox, no one connected with their management! 7:", 17 mirr?rB' Dm lnel
. .... iuijuuiiuii.a raw memseives glorified
m them. The only one who saw hu
manity in those mirrors was Wood
row Wilson. To him the League of
Nations meant the heart of the
worm. Communication and tele
graph have brought the world closer
together, much more, in fact, than
it was when the law was made pro
viaing that the President of the
United States, who was elected
oven.Der have until March the
fourth to make the trip to Washing
ton."
Rabbi Starrels exclaimed that too
many people point to thai well
known saying of Washington's,
avoid entangling alliances." Today
tne nation has outgrown such a con
wition as this since we have ad'
vanced with industrialism, and we
must not turn back to that ancient
document for such advice, Mr. Star
rels stiid. "WLat we need today
is an inter-national organization that
will keep pace with the problerj of
today, b a Wcrld war tAa never
who was effectively vaccinated ever contracted the
disease.
"Force and Leake (Pub. Health Rep. 36: 1975 1
(Aug. 19, 1921) ) show that the incidence of smallpox
in the United States is directly related to the public
attitude toward vaccination. In New York, where the
sentiment against it is not very strong, the rate is
0.05 per thousand, whereas in Minnesota, where senti
ment against vaccination is more pronounced, the rate
is 2.46 or nearly fifty times as great" (End of quo
tation) The history of smallpox is that when an epidemic
appears a large portion of the population is vaccin
ated and the disease dies out Then the people become
careless and are not vaccinated. The disease then ap
pears and the same cycle is gone through. Those op
posed to vaccination receive their protection from the
fact thai the disease cannot become an epidemic when
most of the population is vaccinated and protected.
One merely has to visit those countries where vac
cination syainst smallpox is not used to see the terrible
results of the disease left on those who survive, to say
riotmng ol the appalling number of d-nitbf, be con
vinced of the value of vaccination.
Very truly your, .
F, w, JEWETT.
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