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LECTURES BY RADIO
IOWA CITY, la., Mar. 26.—(AP).
—A lone Texan in a cabin many
miles from a railroad glances at liis
clock at 7:30 Monday or Wednes
day nights, kicks a stool over to a
table, mobilizes pencil and paper
and tunes his radio receiving set
to 4S4 meters to attend class at the
University of Iowa.
He is only one of 75 from Ohio
to California, in age from IS to 50,
from busy cities to outlying points
of civilization, who will search the
air for WSUI, the university’s sta
tion, and prepare to earn university
credits without moving from the
hearth. Others may listen in, not
for credit but for the information
to be gained from the lectures.
. As a -method of taking education j
to the people, University of Iowa i
officials believe the radio holds un- !
usual possibilities. Test papers sent
in by the regularly registered radio
students indicate, according to the
officials, that the pupils have grasp
ed the radio lectures as readily as
if they had been sitting in the lec
turer's Classroom. The only two
students who have had difficulty
were Iowans, and attributed their
trouble to their sets.
To those students who experience
difficulty in receiving the lectures,
the university extension department
mails, upon request, copies of the
I talk the student was unable to hear
distinctly.
According to Miss Helen Williams,
director of the correspondence study
division, a great many of the regis
tered radio students are teachers.
In some cases a school superintend
ent and his teachers have formed
a class so they can hear from the
same loud speaker and use the same
text books.
“The value of the radio as an edu
cational medium,” Miss Williams
said, “is touchingly demonstrated
in sevedal cases where the students
are invalids, and often times bedfast.
At least one of these students
will be able to receive a bachelor
of arts degree from the university
in June, thanks to the radio courses.
This student was forced to take to
his bed when he needed but three
credits to graduate.”
Misses Tessie, Katherine and Eli
zabeth McLean, sisters, are sole
owners of the Daily Post of La
Salle, 111. Katherine is vice presi
dent of the Illinois Press Associa
tion.
Miss Ruth Evans, a graduate of
Agnes Scott college, has been se
lected as queen of the Georgia peach
blossom festival to be held the lat
ter part of March.
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Ten Year Dispute Ends
in Kansas Selecting Flag
TOPEKA, Kan., Mar. 25.— (AP).
—Kansas, the last of the states with
out an official flag, is now ready
to add its standard to the collec
tion on display at the Postoffice
Department in Washington. After a
controversy extending over ten long
years, the state legislature has adopt
ed a design proffered by the Wom
en’s Relief Corps.
The new state banner is of solid
blue, bearing at its center a sunflow
er, whose petals enclose and sur
round the state seal. Above the
sunflower is the word Kansas.
Thus was the sunflower given of
ficial approval as the state flower
along with the state baner, and this
year, too, the meadow lark was elect
ed state bird by the school children
of Kansas. Wheat and the sunflow
er vied with each other for the hon
or when the legislators debated the
adoption of the flag, but the house
of representatives upheld the name
of the Sunflower State despite the
popularity of Kansas’ motto: “Kan
sas Grows the Best Wheat in the '
World.”
Selection of a flag design has been
a controversial issue in every leg
islature for a decade. The two riv
al patriotic organizations, the D. A.
R. and the Women’s Relief Corps,
G. A. R. auxiliary, have contended
with every legislature for the adop
tion of their designs.
Sports Discourage Drinking
JENA, Mar. 26.—(AP).—Jena Uni
versity, taking the lead among Ger
man institutions of learning, has
made physical training compulsory
for all students. One of the argu
ments advanced for athletics is that
they discourage drinking.
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Ravaged by Wild Rabbits
France Seeks Security
PARIS, Mar. 26—(AP).—Protec
tion against the ravages of wild rab
bits is another phase of the security
problem which recently has occu
pied the attention of the French par- '
liament.
A bill declaring the rabbit “a nui- j
sance and a noxious animal, (’ signed |
by Premier Herriot, Minister of Ag
riculture Queuille and Minister of
Justice Renoult has been introduc
ed. It is touched in similar lang
uage to that aimed at the wild boars
infesting Normandy and Auvergne,
passed by the chamber some weeks
ago. It gives authority “to any one,
at any time and anywhere, to des- ;
troy rabbits by any and all means.” !
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Campaign Against Tobacco
Began Three Centuries Ago
LONDON, Mar. 26.—(AP).—Some
of the first books ever published on
tobacco, for and against its use,
are to be sold in March when the
Britwell Court Library will be of
fered to the highest bidders.
The defense of tobacco is repre
sented by a copy of a book which
came to light in 1602 entitled “Dr.
Bellamy’s New and Short Defense
of Tobacco.” Attacks on the use
of the newly discovered weed for
smoking purposes were frequent in
those days and simultaneously with
Dr. Bellamy’s defense, there appear
ed another book, “Work for Chim
ney Sweepers,” designed as a warn
ing to tobacco users. In this work
consumers were informed that it
was "better to be chokt with Eng
lish hemp than poisoned with Indian
tobacco.”
Mrs. L. T. Glencross of Duluth,
Minn., who weighs 220 pounds, at-1
tacked a burglar in her home and
held him until police arrived.
Mile M. Quiie, discoverer of the j
ancient city of Mallia, Crete, with
its statuary and other relics 4,000
years old, has been asked by the
French Academy to make a report
of her labors.
Dr. Koppanyi of Vienna has trans- j
planted th eeye and optic nerve of
a dead man into the head of a liv- !
ing man, but whether sight will be !
restored cannot be known for sev- •
eral months.
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Storms Seem to Conspire
to Keep Old Ship Afloat
LIVERPOOL, Mar. 26.—(AP).—It
has often been said that ships some
times appear almost human, and this
has been illustrated off the British
coast during the last six months.
Repeated efforts have been made to
clear the iron bark Hippen from her
native land lor a foreign port where
she was to be broken up as junk,
but all in vain, for she still ride*
English waters.
The Hippen, formerly the Anger
ona, of Liverpool, left Fowey for
Genoa last summer, but a few days
out encountered a storm and pur
into Falmouth with much damage
done to her sails and rigging. The
repairs required some time and
early this year she started out
again, supposedly on her last voy
age, but was driven back by stiff
winds two days later. A third at
tempt to steer the bark to Genoa
was made in February, bur this
proved no more successful, heavy
seas being met which pounded the
sides of the vessel to such an ex
tent that the captain returned to Fal
mouth where she is still at anchor
awaiting favorable weather. For
the last 20 years the Hippen has
been under the Norwegian flag. She
was built at Whitehaven 51 years
ago.
James Newton Owens is a high
school sophmore at Shawne, Okla.,
at the age of 8, and is one of the
leaders in his class.
Miss Margaret Naylor, of Lon
don, who has been a deep sea diver
engaged in- hunting treasure of
sunken ships, has given up her oc
cupation to marry a naval officer.
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