Friday, April 23, 1937.
THE SALEMITE
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SCIENCE NEWS
Professor Boy Campbell has been
named a member of the committee
on the teaching of science in the pre
paratory school by the president of
the North Carolina Academy of Sci
ence. The North Carolina Academy
of Science will hold its annual
meeting at Catawba College on Fri
day and Saturday, May 7th and 8th.
In conjunction with this meeting,
the North Carolina branch of the
American Chemical Society will hold
its meeting on Saturday, May 8th.
Professor Charles H. Higgins will at
tend this meeting and will bring up
the matter of establishing a western
division of the North Carolina sec
tion 0 fthe society.
THE COLLEGIATE
REVIEW
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Because he cribbed on a two-hour
exam, a student at Nebraska State
College stood up before the 100 mem-
l>ers of his zoology class and apolo
gized to them, the instructor and
the school.
Medals, cups, plaques and miscel
laneous awards won by Don Lash,
Indiana University’s great distance-
runner, during his track career total
up to 117.
By cutting the shells of hens ’ eggs
and glueing a small glass pane over
the hole with petroleum jelly, experi
menters, under the direction of Dr.
Howard Kernkamp, of the University
of Minnesota’s farm, can watch the
actual growth of baby chicks while
in the shell.
The 10-year contract which In
diana University recently granted
Bo McMillin, football coach who haa
directed the Hoosier grid teams to
first division births during the last
three years, will replace the prev
ious five-year pact.
For the third successive year, the
Illinois College swimming team sub
merged all opposition in a flood of
firsts and seconds and won the cham
pionship of the Little Nineteen Con
ference.
“Hair-raising” was the comment
of Prof. Anthony Zeleny, of the phy
sics department at the University of
Minnesota, regarding the passage of
million-volt current through his
body. The current, at 100,000 cycles,
changes direction so fast that it can
do no harm, he explains.
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New York, N. Y.—“IT’S TRUE! that six years ago director
W. S. Van Dyke spoke to a group of school children. One of the
youngsters wanted to know
motion picture actress,” sa:
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When lessons, meetings, plays and
outside activities pile up on the cal
endars of the girls at Stephens Col
lege, the president calls a ‘ ‘ Stop
day,” 24 hours during which stu
dents can do what they please.
A new “entrance-exit” course in
matrimony has been added to the
Utah State Agriculture College cur
riculum. “Marriage and divorce”
is the name of the study.
A “Thank-God-It’s-Priday Club,”
Intercollegiate chapter 2, has been
established at Washington Univer
sity to promote “ end-of-the-week
relaxation with temperate beer
drinking and scholarly discussion of
the week’s events.”
The 63-year-old freshman, Julea
Lebegue, who enrolled at the Uni
versity of Illinois in February, has
left school to help his son on the
farm. “Getting rid of the rust
^nd putting on a little polish ’ ’ is still
iis policy, for he is studying by
correspondence.
The atomic theory is not new. It
^as advanced 2,000 years ago by
Epicurus, the Greek philosopher, and
Lucretius, the Latin poet, say pro
fessors at the University of Michi
gan.
Having a girl during spring quar
ter, calculates a math -wizard at the
University of Minnesota, is equiva
lent to carrying 10 extra hours, for
which you get some credit but no
honor points.
The Peace Council of Columbia
College has presented the motion
picture “All Quiet on the Western
JVont. ” It hopes that the picture
had a real educational value. Pro-
eeeds go to financing the campus
peace magazine.
Eide-thumbers at the University
of Colorado will have to curb their
technique. The chief of police has
promised a ticket to anyone who
thumbs from the street instead of
the curbing.
A woman is like a can of paint—
she has to be stirred up before she’s
any good and she’s hard to get off
your hands.
New York, N. Y.—(ACP)—If the
large numbers of people had higher
purchasing power, they could in
crease their life span by at least
seven years.
That is what Dr. Henry C. Sher
man, Mitchell Professor of Chem
istry at Columbia University, told
the Academy of Medicine.
They would be able to take full
advantage of new knowledge in the
field of nutrition, he said — ad
vantage that could aid them in ward
ing off disease as well as senility.
“Undoubtedly the great majority
of all people will be benefited, the
general level of the public health
will be raised, and the averages of
our vital statistics improved at many
points by the simple taking of a
larger proportion of the needed nu
tritional calories in the form of the
protective foods.
“Naturally, we also hope that a
larger proportion of people will soon
have ampler purchasing power. We
realize that right relations between
purchasing power and the general
level of prices is essential to the
abiltiy of any community to get the
full benefit of jiny new knowledge of
nutrition,” he explained.
“For it is now clear to any one
who will study the evidence that nu
trition has greater constructive po
tentiality than science has forseen,
and that even in the everyday choice
of food we are dealing with values
DO YOU KNOW?
1. What word in the English lan
guage contains all of the vow
els in their consecutive order t
2. Do the abbreviations A.D. and
B.C. come before or after the
datef
3. How much did the United States
pay for Alaska!
4. Who wrote the “ Heptomeront ”
5. Who wrote the opera ‘ ‘ Carmen? ’ ’
(Answers on Page 4)
which are above price for the health
and efficiency, duration and dignity
of human life.”
Washington, D. C.—(ACP)—Mrs.
Franklin D. Eoosevelt got a big
“kick” out of her visit to a “cer
tain college,” for she referred to it
recently humorously in a talk to the
150 Congressional wives who came
to Washington with her in 1932i.
“I went to a certain college,” she
said, “to speak twice — in the aft
ernoon and evening. The college
president was anxious that I shake
hands with the audience after both
programs.
“I explained that I didn’t make
a practice of it. But the president
said, ‘If you have to cancel any
thing, I’d rather you shook hands
and didn’t g^ve the lecture’.”
Cambridge, Mass.—(ACP)—When
St. Petersburg, Florida was named
the sunniest spot in America by Har
vard University meteorologists, Cali
fornia cities were put in the shade—
at least relatively.
Data of the scientists ended the
long controversy between Hoijda
and California by showing that St.
Petersburg averages fewer than five
sunless days a year.
The sunniest spot in the west is
the California-Arizona border, which
has more than 300 clear days a year.
Bones That Bleach: Procrastina
tion and hesitation Me the twin de
stroyers of many a success. Some
unknown poet put it this way:
On the Plains of Hesitation bleaeh
The bones of unnumbered thousands,
who at
The dawn of victory sat down to
wait — and
Waiting, died.
THIS COLLEGIATE
WORLD
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Lip-rouge second-hand — that’s
the only way University of Wiscon
sin men will smear it on.
An emphatic “phooey — sever,”
went up on the Badger campus in
answer to the appeal of the Colum
bia College Men’s Make-Up Society
that men use lipstick in order to
prevent winter-chapped and summer-
dried lips.
“There can be hardly any doubt
about the fate of potential lipstick
users at Wisconsin,” said one stu
dent, “They would be hooted en
masse. ’ ’
It used to be the clock-watcher
who was prodded to work with both
eyes on his task. Now the clock-
unwatcher is being warned.
If you become so engrossed in do
ing atheme or any other kind of
work that you skip meals and glances
at a time-piece, you may be headed
for one of two things — geniusdom
or a padded cell.
So says Prof. G. D. Higginson, of
the psychology department at the
University of Illinois.
It is a well-known fact, explains
the professor, that there isn’t much
difference between a genius and an
insane person. Both have intense
powers of concentration for a certain
subject. But a genius can think of
other things when he tries; an in
sane person can’t.
Sit-dow(n strikes can be tiraced
back to Jonah, the Biblical character
who was swallowed by the whale. At
least that’s what a writer in the
Michigan Daily proves from the
scriptures.
Jonah didn’tbelong to the CIO,
nor was he troubled with labor dif
ficulties. He was displeased be
cause his prophecy that Ninevah
would fall because of its iniquities
didn’t materialize.
“But it displeaseth Jonah exceed
ingly, and he was angry.” (Jonah
4:1). “Then Jonah went out of the
city and sat on the east side of the
city, and there made him a booth,
and sat under it in the shadow, till
he might see what would become of
the city.”
A salary for conducting a sit-down
strike is something that Jane Pick
ens, Ann Caldwell and Pauline Nol
and, co-eds at Wesley Jr. College,
Greenville, Texas, didn’t expect.
Tired of seeing the typical leg-
flying of modern musical pictures,
the girls walked into the lobby of
Greenville’s best theatre, sat down
and declared they wouldn’t move un
til they were permitted to see
Doanna Durbin, the 14-year-old song
bird.
Snapping up the chance to get
lively publicity, the manager got the
coeds comfortable chairs and set
up signs explaining that the girls
were sitting there until they saw a
Deanna Durbin picture, put them on
the payroll and moved up the playing
date for “Three Smart Girls” to the
next week-end.
Hopes of becoming wealthy over
night prompt people to send sam
ples of well-water, rocks and metals
to the University of Minnesota’s ge
ology department for analysis.
An envelope received not long ago
by Dr. George A. Thiel, associate pro
fessor of geology, contained a piece
of metal and this letter:
“I found this in the gizzard of
the goose I was cleaning. Is the
yellow material gold!”
The “yellow material” turned out
to be a piece of ordinary brass.
Another specimen that came thru
the mail was a bottle of water with
a film on the liquid surface. The
sender said he took the water from
his cistern: “Does it contain oil?”
Dr. Theil answered that the water
did contain oil — Number 1 fuel
oil.
Because he wanted to know wheth
er or not the piece of rock that crash
ed through his house window was a
meteor, a man sent the specimen to
Dr. Thiel.
It was only a clinker that had
been blown out of the chimney of a
nearby house.
Another person hoping for fabu
lous wealth wrote this letter to the
geology department.
‘ ‘ I dreamed that there was gold in
a gully near Dayton. I -went and
MILESTONES
(With Apology To Time)
Lost. One piece of a perfectly good
( ?) mind belonging to Annette Mc-
Neeley. It was voluntarily given
away Saturday night, and is
thought to be in the vicinity of
Davidson, but now the owner is
anxious to make amends.
Pound. A future career for Mary
Thomas to help her while away
the next eight years. She can be
a nurse in a hospital, and be a
little help-mate to some interne.
Born. New faith in the breast of
Evelyn McCarty when she saw
the proof of her recent photograph.
Said Miss McCarty of this beau
tiful likeness: “Ye Gods! I’m
an angel! ’ ’
Shocked. Several in the audience let
out a good, healthy gasp during
the performance of “The Purple
Rim,” Saturday night, when
“Widder” Trotman lit up.
Engagement. The engagejment of
Frank Gerard to play for the an-
ual Junior-Senior frolic is looked
forward to with interest. Orches
tra funds for future entertain
ments should suffer a few pangs
of regret.
Donated. One gardenia boutonniere
to B. C. Dunford by Miss Virginia
Lee in return for the rendition
of the “Rhapsody” number in
his recital. The community appre
ciates Miss Lee’s service.
looked and found a nugget. Do you
think there is more gold there?”
The fellow got a snappy answer in
two words: “Dream again!”
A “Work Needed For Success”
item designed to forewarn young
hopefuls is the statement of William
LeBaron, production head of Para
mount, that over'night success in
motion pictures, without preliminary
training is impossible.
A survey of the major studios dis
closed that all recent “discoveries”
have backgrounds of training and
struggle.
“In the silent days overnight dis
coveries were possible,” said Le-
Baron, “however, such phenomena
are not probable now.”
The Negro was being examined for
a driver’s license.
‘ ‘ And what is the white line in the
middle of the road for?” he was
asked.
“Fo’ bicycles.” was the reply.
United States. Only 698 of the vic
tims were white.
3,628 lynchings reported in the
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