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When Is East West Of Us And Where Is The Middle?
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By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
UP Staff Correspondent
Washington—(U.P.)—When is east more west than east, and which is more middle than near? In short, why do we call it the Far East when it's west of us?
Wednesday, March 5, 1952 University Daily Kansan
Our kids in school rooms are confused, after looking at the map, and so was I until I did a little looking in. I paged a few school marmos in these parts and they are fuzzy on the subject, too.
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But the state department, the Library of Congress, the National Geographic society, and the Encyclopedia Britannica finally solved the problem- or at least crystallized it.
On the map there are three Easts. The near, the middle, and the far. The map makers report all of them accurately, for purposes of the map, but in the cutlines under the maps they put in the East stuff. And in the East department none of them have had any official status and none of their boundaries ever has been too clear.
The term "East"—near, middle and far—came into use in Europe long ago as a matter of convenience. We have accepted them and they remain that way today in name—in spite of the maps.
The outlines first began to appear distinctly when Portuguese explorers, soon after America was discovered, aimed their sails at the southern end of Africa, crossed the Indian ocean, rode the waves into the Pacific, and edged toward the Indo-China and China coasts.
At that time, these coasts and their far-reaching outlying areas became known as the "Far East." They remain as such today, even though they are west of us. We just conform to that early designation.
And here we get to the reason it is called the Far East.
"They were considered 'far' from a Europe that considered itself the center of the world," observes the State Department.
Also about that time, by contrast, writers of the day began to use the term "Near East." These fellows were talking about the fringe of countries along the Asiatic mainland closest to Europe.
The "Middle East" did not come into such common use at the time, but was used by a few writers in a period of time to cover parts of the intervening East.
Actually the terms "Near East" and "Middle East" never have been used in connection with regions north of the mountain wall formed by the Caucasus, (the hills of northern Iran), the Hindu Kush, and the Himalayas.
In the Far East, as of now, fall the lands of the Asiatic mainland washed by the waters of the Pacific from the Malay Peninsula through China. Japan and the Philippines are regarded as part of the Far East.
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Miss Esther E. Twente, professor of social work, and Dr. M. Erik Wright, professor of clinical psychology, are in Parsons today as members of an eight-member committee to evaluate the State School for Epileptics.
Professors Visit Epileptics' School
It has previously examined the Winfield State Training school at Winfield.
The committee, the institution evaluation team of the Kansas council for children and youth, has been invited by the state board of social welfare to visit each institution under its jurisdiction.
The school at Parsons is the second institution to be visited by the committee.
The program of visiting institutions is part of the state-wide inquiry on how Kansas is meeting the urgent needs of underprivileged children.
New racks to file KFKU's record collection valued at $7,000 were installed in the library and audition room of the radio studio this past weekend.
These racks enable the station to handle all types of recordings from 16-inch transcription discs to five-inch tape reels. A card file, classifying each record as to composer, title, and type of presentation, will be kept of each record.
KFKU Builds Racks For Record Library
A table to hold transcription and tape recording playback equipment will be installed in the room.
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We'll Take The $32 Million Of Trouble
Washington—(U,P) —The United States may be headed for 32 million dollars worth of trouble.
At least, superstitious persons and other enemies of the $2 bill think so. An anti-$2 bill group failed to block the printing of 16 million more of the notes planned for the coming fiscal year.
During a House appropriations sub-committee hearing, Rep. Benjamin F. James (R.-Pa.) said he had received only 10 of the bills in 25 years and has kept them all. He suggested it would be cheaper to do away with the $2 notes and save on engraving plates, forms and records.
Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, a Kansas and treasurer of the United States, came to the rescue of the bill which bears the portrait of Thomas Jefferson. She and Walter L. Funk, budget chief in her office, said the bill is still in demand, especially in New England and that 33,742,133 bills are in use.
Although there are more more—exceeding one billion—$1 bills in circulation, the $2 backers won the day after explaining it "just costs half as much to issue one $2 bill as it does two $1 bills."
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