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University Daily Kansan Friday. Sept. 16; 1955
Have We Solved Parking Here?
Parking conditions are getting tough all over
←even for the campus police.
Oklahoma A & M gendarmes have been foiled by the rules they must enforce. They can't park next to headquarters.
This brings up a problem on our own campus. How can you find a place to park in the emergency 30-minute zone on Jayhawk Boulevard?
Since the ban on south-side-of-the-street parking, spaces on the north side have had to take a double load.
We agree that something had to be done about crowded parking facilities. We also agree that stiffer fines are in order, and we will admit that a lane wide enough for one and one-half cars is better than a lane wide enough for one car
But what if we have business in Strong Hall?
Lawrence is widely spaced and largely down hill from here. Conversely KU is mostly up hill from Lawrence. In short, it takes a lost of steam to walk up to the campus, especially if you must walk down again in two minutes and your abode is two or three miles distant down-hill.
We don't know what will relieve this dilemma—we wish we did. One student suggests the city dig up the streetcar tracks along Mississippi Street and start the line to the hill again.
There may be some merit in the idea, but where is the streetcar going to park? Maybe we should have drive-in education. Who knows?
There is one thing for sure, however, the automobile is here to stay regardless of what the buggy makers union has to say. The number of cars is not going to diminish, it will increase.
Let us realize that we can't fight progress. Let's work toward more parking space instead of fewer cars.
-Ted Blankenship
Action by the Russell County Farm Bureau in endorsing a 2 per cent severance tax is likely to stir up a familiar Kansas tax storm. For Russell County is one of the most prolific oil-producing counties in the state.
Severance Tax Tries Kansas Again
Now Kansas needs tax money. Its needs run into many millions of dollars. Among the possible sources being considered by the revenue study committee of the legislative council is— you guessed it—the severance tax.
For years the oil industry has contributed munificently to the Republican party in Kansas. Whatever the connection may be, legislators through the same period have wrecked all severance tax proposals, unmoved by the fact that neighboring oil states flourished with a tax on oil and gas production.
Oil men holler that Kansas wells now pay a property tax based on their productivity. True. Four other oil states have a severance tax in addition to the property tax. The council's studies show that if Kansas applied the rates in these other states to its 1953 production, the tax return to Kansas would be:
A straight 2 per cent rate "in addition to" the property tax, as proposed by the Farm Bureau, would net Kansas $7.613,000 on its 1954 production of gas and oil, the study shows. All this points out that if Kansas oil taxes were in line with those of nearby oil-producing states, there could be considerable relief for most taxpayers, and the oil industry wouldn't be harmed. It's something for lawmakers to think about.
—Kansas City Star
Arkansas rate, nearly 13 million dollars; Louisiana, 26 million dollars; New Mexico, $12 million dollars; Texas, 17 million dollars.
The University aims for life in the "Atom age" by learning to crawl in and out of the rubble caused by the new construction.
Well, at least the KU population can be filled with "boosters" this year. But, after all, what's 8,000 students.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
A State speed law is recommended. But the people who like to kill themselves in cars will defeat it again.
..Oh Well..
By JON
Ah hah! We thought so!
Those college kids have started running around in male and female type groups again. .it's these modern means of transportation that cause...Take the automobile for instance.
No, better still, take a Pogo stick.
You can't imagine the necking that is done on those things.
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Besides, there aren't any automobiles at KU anymore! They've been fined out of existence. Already?
Literary Department: This one was on Jack Benny's program back when most students still listened to the radio: Thirty days Hath September, April, June, and No Wonder. All the rest have butter brickle. Except Grandma, and she can't ride a bicycle anyway... Oh Well.
We see those University Theater people are having a "Picnic" already...or should that one have gone in this one's class?
Phi Delt: I had a rotten date last night.
Teke: What did you do about it?
Phi Delt: I spit it out.
Yeke. On.
Now as we were saying "We can promise you nothing but blood, tears, toil, and sweat...we eat at the Student Union, too."
Again we urge all fraternity lads to read Dick Tracy. He goes from a fraternity pin to a little black book. Oh these college educated cartoonists! At least Smilim' Jack is authentic. Take such dialects as this one in Russian, "Ho Hum—Oh, vot a headache."
You, too, huh—Oh Well. . .
Present Facilities Should Be Utilized
OMAHA, Neb. (U.P.)—Many college educators worried about getting space for expected heavy classes in the next few years should take lessons in how to utilize the space they have, a California educator says.
Donavon Smith said there are very few colleges in the country that could not stretch their present facilities to accommodate more students.
"If classrooms were used at a full capacity schedule, they would be filled eight hours a day for all week days." he said.
He predicted that most building by colleges in the years ahead will emphasize expansion of non-classroom facilities.
'Good Old Days'
Hard On Autos
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (U.P.)—A California highways magazine commented recently that traffic regulations have come a long way since the first horseless carriages spluttered and roared along U.S. streets and highways.
The magazine, California Highways and Public Works, said one Pennsylvania law at the turn of the century required motorists to send up signal rockets at night every mile of the way.
The car was then to wait until the road cleared. If a team of horses should approach, the motorist was obliged to pull off the road and cover his vehicle with a large canvas or painted cloth that would blend with the surrounding landscape.
And if the horses refused to pass, the driver had to take his vehicle apart piece by piece and hide the parts under the nearest bush.
In Green Bay. Wis., a fine of $5 was levied for every drop of oil from cars found on the pavement.
In Cleveland, Ohio, they passed another law to "curb the new-fangled monster." This statute prohibited driving with someone on your lap.
In Memphis, Tenn., it was unlawful for any motorist to drive he he was asleep. In Utah, they passed him and birds always have the right of way.
And there was the sheriff who posted the sign that read:
"The speed limit is a secret this year. Motorists breaking it will be fined $10."
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Democrats Plan Farm Price Issue?
It looks like the Democrats are finally developing a real, old-time, honest-to-goodness issue for the 1956 elections—farm prices.
Farm prices occur as an issue about every other election—from Washington's day to Eisenhower's. The farm problem boils down to the fact that U. S. farmers are too efficient for their own good, or at least for their collective good.
The government in recent years has allowed farmers some respite from the terrible efficiency of competition by buying farm surpluses. Now the nation has a surplus products problem on its hands. And this depresses farm prices even further.
The Democrats are plugging for rigid price supports—which means that surplus farm products would be bought up a 90 per cent of what Congress establishes as a fair price.
The Republicans maintain that "flexible" price supports are the answer. But farm prices are falling, and to farmers this is going to look like the Democrats have the answer.
But the fact remains that both parties are plugging for what is basically the same system —surplus buying.
Not long ago the Republicans came up with the idea of leasing land from farmers to take it out of production. It is a good idea, but the Republics probably will not carry it far enough.
The land should, in fact, be bought directly from the farmer, freeing him for needed production. Then the land should be planted in forest or grassland, and only the government can afford to do this.
The Republican party has an idea. The question is whether they will be scared enough of the Democrats to implement it.
—Ron Grandon
New Policy Needed
After a slow start the United States finally learned how to win the Cold War. The Cold War was something new to Americans, but after a few painful lessons, the nation learned such defensive tenets as Marshall aid, the resistance of aggression, and defensive alliances.
But the new "peace offensive" of the Soviet Union has made some of these hard-learned tactics obsolete.
The agreement between Bonn and Moscow does not necessarily mean the downfall of the hardwon European Defense Community. But if such tactics by the Soviet continue, countries now pushed hard to meet EDC commitments may find it easier to-relax these with confidence.
Tuesday's announcement of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Russia and West Germany is a case in point.
Probably the most effective of the West's defensive reactions to the bull-headed, blustering tactics of the Cold War Soviet was the unification of the arms and power of Europe.
But as long as the Soviet will not permit inspection, the world cannot disarm.
And there is little doubt in the minds of most Americans that now is not the time for a relaxation of defensive measures.
To make the rest of the world realize this in the face of the Soviet peace offensive will require a new foreign policy slant by the United States.
Dr. John Ise used to tell a story in his Principles of Economics class illustrating the value of children to a full life.
Sympathy Extended To Dr. And Mrs.Ise
He told of the time one of his two young sons approached him with an economic question of sorts. The boy asked him why Dr. and Mrs. Ise had had children when life is a lot cheaper without them.
Dr. Ise answered, "Son, I wouldn't take a million dollars for you or your brother, and that's the only way I can make two million dollars."
Charles Ise, one of Dr. Ise's sons, was found dead yesterday, the victim of an airplane crash near Lakeport, Calif. The University Daily Kansan extends heartfelt sympathy to Dr. and Mrs. Ise.