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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1950
The Editorial Page-
Dear Mr. Pre-Med
Congratulations! By the time many of you graduate National Health Insurance will be an accepted institution in this country. And for the first time it will be possible for you to live up to the great ethical standards of your profession. N.H.I. will make it economically possible for you to live and work in those areas where you are needed most and serve those persons who need you most.
Just what is this new health insurance plan that may solve the nation's health problem? Well, a lot of persons from many different groups of our society got together in Washington, D.C., and decided that health insurance was the only answer. They were Republicans and Democrats, business and labor, teachers, clergy, and others. The most important feature of N.H.I. is that health protection will be extended to the family of every gainfully employed person in the U.S.
You see, Mr. Pre-Med student, the nation's health isn't very good. There is no need to quote to you the number of rejections in the past and recent drafts because of poor health. And you are probably aware too that as many persons die needlessly every year—deaths that could be prevented—as live in Kansas City, Mo.
Some of you, when you are doctors, may not want to treat N.H.I. patients. Fine, you will not be compelled to join the plan. Studies have proved that doctors go where the money is. That is why there is a doctor for every 500 persons in New York and only one doctor for every 1,500 persons in Mississippi. That is why nearly twice as many mothers die at childbirth in the poorer southern states. With N.H.I. you will be able to practice as profitally in Mississippi as in New York. You, Mr. Pre-Med, will be given the chance—painlessly for you—to bring some real meaning into this word "equality."
Objectors to N.H.I. call it socialized medicine, but the nomenclature is faulty. Participation by doctors in the program would be purely voluntary. The critics say derisively that everyone would rush to receive "false teeth, eyeglasses, and wigs." Experience in other countries does not bear this out, but even so, if a person's well-being is increased with these things, then why should he be denied them? Critics assert that the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are adequate substitutes. Yet only $2\%$ of the population has been able to afford comprehensive coverage under these plans. Subscribers to the substitute plans are receiving only 72 cents return on each dollar they pay in. Under N.H.I. the family will receive 92 cents.
When N.H.L is incorporated as a part of Social Security, you, as future doctors, need not worry about the tyrannical domination of the American Medical association. In 1943 the supreme court in upholding a conviction against the A.M.A. described it as a "medical monopoly."
Why do we think that National Health insurance is inevitable? Because there is a need for it. Why is N.H.I. the plan? Because it is an intelligent compromise between socialized medicine and our present system.
—Edward Chapin.
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
Please don't let it be bruited about too loudly, but I believe that I have blundered into an answer for the "missing seat" problem.
Student 'Solves' Seating Situation
The width of the seats in the student section is 16 inches. After careful (and at times, dangerous) observation, I have discovered that thethe average width of male student bottoms, from beam to beam, is 16.25 inches. This figure was obtained by averaging the measurements of 46 male students.
The average span of female student bottoms is 15.5 inches. This figure is the average of 30 representative girls' posterior measurements, and is probably optimistic, as girls tend to be that way about their dimensions.
"An' so th' travelin' salesman said to the farmer's daughter—."
Dear Editor:
According to Mr. Lonborg, there are 7,095 seats in the student section. Actually, there are only 6,996 I counted them.
The typical all student posterior, then, allowing for the 2.8 ratio of men to women, is 16.05 inches.
These 6,996 seat are figured on a basis of 16-inch posteriors. If 16.05 inch seats are used, only 6,974 seats remain. This, of course, is allowing a bare minimum of space, as the 16.05 inches does not allow for coats, etc. Allowing 5 inches for coats, and 1 inch for elbow room, the space needed by the average student is 17.55 inches. Computed on this basis, there are only 6,378 student seats.
By crowding 210 students into aisles (one student per row in each aisle), and by standing 352 more students along the aisle at the top of the stadium (the equivalent of adding two rows to each section).
the capacity of the student section can be increased to 6,940.
There are 7,685 persons who may legally sit with the students. Mr. Lonborg says that approximately 300 of these people work in the stadium, and that another 270 won't attend the game. Just think -6,940 from 7,115 is 175, which means that only 175 students will see the game from the tunnels or the hillside.
My computations, of course, could be wrong, but I doubt it. Also, I might be extravagant in allowing 17.55 inches of space per student. (The "Architects' and Builders' Handbook" lists a minimum seating space at 18 inches.)
I can't offer any solution,however. We could reduce the enrollment,but that would reduce the income,too.
Oh, well, I'm going to the game early and get a seat. If you see me coming your way, duck! A conservative estimate of my posterior expanse is 22.5 inches.
James Brunson
Journalism Senior
Free Franchise
Dear Editor:
Yesterday I became a real citizen for the first time. Even though I am a natural born citizen, I could never before consider myself as such because I had not expressed my opinions on a ballot.
The joy that this great occasion should hold for one was ruined, however, because of the very apparent incompetence of the polling clerks. Due to having lived in Douglas county (not in Lawrence) for the required amount of time, I did
not need to register. Upon entering the polling place they asked my name and name only. They had no listing whatsoever of my legal right or age but they allowed me to vote without question.
This seems to me to be a wonderful breeding place for machine politics as even Joseph Stalin could have voted under an assumed name without a single method of stopping him. If the other polling places are no more careful of their voters I don't wonder that Pendergast, Capone and others were so successful.
Raymond Stevenson Engineering Senior
Band Marches On
Dear Editor:
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the football game last Saturday in Lincoln between Nebraska and Missouri, and one particular thing impressed me a great deal. Before the game, when the University of Nebraska marching band first entered the field, the entire student body cheering section rose to its feet and gave a resounding ovation for the band. To me this merely seems to be giving credit where credit is due. A university marching band works hard and patiently in order to put on a good show for the fans at the game. Since the game with Oklahoma Saturday is our last home game of the season, wouldn't it be a fine gesture of school spirit and appreciation if the cheerleaders would lead the student body in rising and giving the band a tremendous ovation when it marches onto the field?
Court Ernst College Sophomore
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