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LBJ's Fiscal Budget Called a 'Guesstimate'
By Lyle C. Wilson
President Johnson's reduced 1965 fiscal year budget will be distributed to news bureaus Saturday and will be presented to Congress and published Tuesday of next week, Jan. 21.
University Daily Kansan
Let this essay be a warning to the taxpayers: don't believe everything you read next Tuesday about the budget. Everything? The sad fact is that you are a sucker if you believe much of anything about the budget. President Johnson will report it next week to Congress.
THIS IT NOT a reflection on President Johnson. It is simply a fact of life. Most citizens next Tuesday will read some of the budget headlines and a few paragraphs of the budget stories. Friends, do not be conned by the majestically rolling cadences of the President's budget message nor by the piously prim accounting in billions of dollars and odd cents on the cost during fiscal 1965 of this or that function of government. Be not sold, either, on the government income figures which will be set down precisely as so many billions from this tax, so many billions from that tax and so on.
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There has been a big boom in graduate study in engineering at the University of Kansas.
Since 1957, the number of candidates for master's degrees has tripled to 272 and those working for the Ph.D. degree soared from 12 to 65.
"This increase in graduate study contrasts sharply with the national decline in undergraduate enrollments in engineering that is only beginning to reverse itself in Kansas and elsewhere." John S. McNown, dean of the KU School of Engineering and Architecture, points out.
The surge in graduate enrollment at KU has brought about a corresponding increase in graduate degrees awarded: 11 master's degrees in 1957, 67 in 1963. The one or two Ph.D. degrees granted in prior years may jump to 15 next June.
"The nature of engineering education is changing." Dean McNown believes. "At KU we are making the first few years of undergraduate education more general and the later years more specialized. Graduate degrees in engineering, which were rare 25 years ago, are now required in many fields."
By contrast, undergraduate enrollments across the nation dropped from a peak of 268,761 in 1957 to a low of 230,730 in 1962. In 1963 they increased nationally by 1.3 per cent—at KU by 3.6 per cent—perhaps indicating a change in student attitudes toward engineering as a career. The jump in high school graduates due in 1964 should cause further growth.
Bachelor's degrees awarded in engineering also declined-from a peak of 38,134 in 1959 to 33,200 in 1963. The increase in graduate enrollment indicates that an increasing proportion of engineering students are choosing to continue their formal educations.
Dean McNown has a guess about the ups-and-downs of the enrollment chart: "Increases in engineering enrollment seem to occur when the number of veterans on the campus is high. Their experience in service attracts them to engineering, and their maturity carries them through the stiff program."
BRYAN, Tex.—(UPI)—State Rep. David Haines of Bryan became a little worried yesterday when he heard the Texas prison system needed 150 more guards, and was going to call on the legislature to get them. There are exactly 150 members in the Texas House of Representatives.
Legislators Drafted
This whole budget business is guess work. At best, the estimate of what government will cost in fiscal 1965 is no more than a guesstimate. The experts always are wrong. Consider! The budget message going to Congress next week is an estimate of government income and outgo in fiscal year 1965 which will not begin until July 1 of this year. It will end about 18 months hence on June 30, 1965.
"Please don't take them all from the House," said Haines, "take some from the Senate too."
EVEN WITH the best of intentions, the politicians and budget bureau numbers sharks can do little more than guess what revenues and expenditures will be. Much will depend on what Congress does or does not appropriate; on what Congress does or does not vote in the way of tax cut.
Moreover, there probably will be supplemental appropriations sought and obtained from Congress as fiscal 1965 wears away. Projects budgeted for $1 billion will be found to be costing $2. Or income will sag or an emergency will arise.
The Bureau of the Budget, like another famous hot spot, is paved with good intentions. The budgeteteers do their best, usually tempering their best when necessary to give the man in the White House the best of any close decisions. Thus, the budget estimators enabled Franklin D. Roosevelt to predict a balanced budget and a surplus through the first six or eight years of his presidency. It never came off and, finally, FDR quit even hoping for a balance.
THE HORRIBLE example, perhaps, was in fiscal year 1959 during Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. Ike was an honest man who wanted a balanced budget and to reduce government spending. He estimated for fiscal 1959 a budget surplus of $466 million. Not much, but a surplus. When the returns were all in at the end of fiscal 1959, Ike had a deficit of $12.4 billion.
The late President Kennedy was in the habit of estimating for a surplus and ringing up a deficit. President Johnson now estimates '65 fiscal year expenditures at $97.9 billion, half a billion below the Kennedy budget for the current fiscal year. Johnson estimates for a deficit of $4.9 billion. His estimate of fiscal '65 revenue is $93 billion. These are mere guesses until the books close in June 1965.
Three KU students have received general scholarships of $125 each from the All Student Council Social Committee.
ASC Scholarships Awarded 3 Students
The awards are for the spring semester at K.U. and cover enrollment fees. Recipients are Carolyn Eymann, Atchison sophomore; Raymond Germonprez, Topeka sophomore; and Thomas A. Shortlidge, Park Ridge, Ill., sophomore.
Graduate Tests Begin Saturday
Graduate Record examinations will be given at 8:45 a.m. Saturday in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
William P. Albrecht, dean of the graduate school, said the exams are for seniors who plan to enter graduate school next year. "The exams cover not only the student's major field, but also his aptitude for graduate work," he said.
The test is in two parts. An aptitude test and a test covering the applicant's special field of study.
DEAN ALBRECHT said the test is not required by the University for admission to the graduate school, but certain departments require it.
Robert D. Michal, guidance service counselor, said the general aptitude test would be given from 8:45 a.m. to noon. The tests covering the fields of specialization will be given from 1:45 to 5:15 p.m.
MR. MICHAL said 80 students were signed up for the exam, and that aside from KU applicants, there were several from Kansas and surrounding states. He said the exam was one of several given during the year.
The test that will be administered is distributed by the Educational Testing Service on a national scale. The testing service tabulates the grades and returns them to the graduate school.
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) — The San Francisco police department is temporarily out of horsepower, with its 27 horses under treatment for sniffles, runny noses and other respiratory ailments.
Horse Detail Grounded
Members of the Mounted Patrol detail have been assigned to radio cars and foot patrol duty on a temporary basis.
Contentment is your own apartment second semester.
And at such a modest cost . . .
One or Two Bedrooms
$75 and $85
These units have been newly decorated — with new drapes, carpets disposals, etc.
All Units Air-Conditioned
Provincial Furniture Available
Friday, Jan. 17, 1964
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1912 W. 25th
Opinions Forum Shows Film On Communist Plan
Day or Night
"Communist Encirclement-1961," a film showing the Communist plan for world domination, was shown at the Minority Opinions Forum Wednesday to about 200 students and faculty members.
The film, which has aroused controversies across the nation, outlines V. I. Lenin's timetable for the ultimate conquest of the United States. The Communists, the film says, intend first to gain control of eastern Europe, then Asia, Africa and finally Latin America, until the United States is surrounded by the Communist power.
The Communists have carried out their plan by infiltrating countries, putting themselves into power through coalition governments and finally paving the way for complete Soviet domination. Presently this country is in more danger than the people realize, the film says.
Laird Wilcox, Lawrence freshman and chairman of the Minority Opinions Forum, said more than 15 million people have seen the film.
It has been shown by the military, the American Legion, women's and
However, at the University of Wisconsin 92 faculty members signed a statement that said, in part: "Having seen this film...we are shocked by its irresponsible mingling of fact and falsehood and its gross distortion of historical events. As scholars concerned with the truth, we protest against this harmful and misleading propaganda."
THE FILM has drawn both praise and criticism. Vice Admiral Charles M. Nelson, commander of the Navy First Fleet, has been quoted as saying it's an "excellent film." Senators Barry Goldwater, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and George Smathers of Florida have echoed this opinion. The Birch Society has shown the film at Wichita University; it also has been presented in Kansas City, Salina, Topeka and Leavenworth.
THE PENALTY SHOT WAS ADDED to the National Hockey League rules during the 1934-35 season.
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