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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1922
Page
5
A Friday gym reception at the University will welcome all, not just summer session attendees, in honor of Prof. Dudley Buck and Prof. Louis Victor-Saar. The program starts at 8:15 p.m. with music, followed by dancing featuring modern and old-time styles.
Personal visits and short trips across Iowa and Kansas are reported. J A Sprague visits his mother in Cedar Rapids. Miss Maude and Miss Harriett Hunter go to De Soto to visit Mr and Mrs E F Hunter. Mrs Jerry Curtis and baby return home to Baldwin after visiting her mother. Lena Maness returns to Eudora after visiting Lawrence over the Fourth. Kate Caldwell and E J Holland spend the day in Eudora. J Edmondson returns to New York City after visiting her mother. Mrs David McGreath returns to Emporia to resume school after a visit home. W R Ingham goes to Topeka after a day in Lawrence. Ted Burnett heads to Topeka for survey work with engineers. Thelma Stoddard and grandmother visit Kansas City. Ray Vincent and Nina also mentioned in passing.
Dr M J Exner of the American Social Hygiene Association urged colleges to adopt sex education as an integral part of general study not as separate courses. He cited a study of 948 college men showing early, often misinforming impressions shaping sex consciousness and affecting achievement. The plan favors natural integration with broader subjects to normalize attitudes and provide social framework. Also noted were radium state monopoly plans in Czecho Slovakia and a Swedish farm colony proposal to tackle unemployment.
German workers, paid meager wages amid high prices, increasingly favor chocolate candy once reserved for the middle class. Clara Bohm-Schuch cites shortages and profiteering, noting wages barely cover basics. An industrialist confirms workers receive about 1,150 marks weekly, with families surviving on that sum amid widespread hardship.
A fragment discusses a family budget of 3,800 marks a month and a rural shift to river power to boost electricity, reducing coal imports. It notes one twelfth of US manufacturing within New York vicinity and estimates telephone property value at over $2 billion. The sea urchin is described with five jaws each bearing a tooth, and a misquoted medical term is mentioned.
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