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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1950
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
I just can't understand, Worthal, Prof. Snarf gave me an "A" on that theme last semester!"
Stack Confusion
Should the library stacks be open to upperclassmen as well as to graduate students? The suggestion that upperclassmen have access to the stacks has been thoroughly knocked about for some time.
If stack privileges were given the 1,773 juniors, 2,290 seniors, in addition to the 1,212 graduate students who already enjoy the privilege, what effect would this increase have upon the library facilities?
In the first place, the library's construction does not permit an additional 4.063 students to meander up and down the aisles. If the upperclassmen were allowed in the stacks books would never be correctly replaced on the shelves, whereas calling for them at the desk maintains some form of order. The librarians complain now about the number of books which disappear annually. Imagine how this number of losses would skyrocket if 4.063 more students were turned loose in the stacks.
The suggestion sounds good, but in theory and practice there would be such a flagrant disregard of library rules that the disadvantages of open stacks to upperclassmen would overshadow the advantages.
K. U. is too large a university and with too many students dependent upon the books to allow such rights. For these reasons stack privileges to upperclassmen would be highly detrimental to the rapid and efficient function of the library.
Bud Rodgers.
Letters And People
People are crazy! It takes all kinds to make a world! How true, how true, and one of the best ways we know of finding out just what kinds of people it really takes is to read letters addressed to the editor. We say this without any great fear of contradiction.
There are all kinds of letters, each one representing some unknown personality hovering in the background. These shadowy beings emerge on paper as ogres, angels, beasts, and what-nots. Some twist the language beyond any recognizable form. Some clutch at our heartstrings starting great blobs of tears to stream uncontrollably over our faces. Some are just plain nasty. Other letters are couched in careful terms of praise, but alas, these are too few.
One letter we received was addressed to the editor of the "Daily Kansasan." Hah, we thought, the poor boy can't type, but inside the "Daily Kansasan," was referred to five times. We, of course, were so taken with this strange affliction on the part of the writer that what he had to say was overlooked.
We even got one letter requesting that we cancel the reader's subscription. The man was positively irate. He didn't like what was going on down here. He didn't like us. Well, we don't like him!
The letter writers seem to tend to flowery language. Indeed, we received several poems commenting on mercy killing. Most of them we could understand and chuckle over appreciatively, but one was past any comprehension. With a premonition of promixia to greatness, we hurriedly dispatched the "thing" to the English department. No word has been received.
But of all the letters we have received, the one we cherished above them all is one that after discussing at length and with some erudition a ticklish subject ended with an abrupt "Go to hell!"
We're going.
-W.F.S.
Workers Find No Tunnels
Attention cloak-and-dagger fans: one of your secret passageways is missing.
It is the underground escape tunnel from the White House to the banks of the Potomac, supposedly built at Dolly Madison's request as the result of her experiences while fleeing the capital during the War of 1812. Civil War legends had it figuring importantly in a plot to kidnap President Lincoln.
Renovation of the executive mansion, in progress since November, has failed to turn up a trace of any such subterranean burrow, notes the National Geographic Society. Lorenzo S. Winslow, White House architect, believes the origin of the myth probably is a prosaic brick sewer, in existence since the early days of the famous residence. A durably constructed conduit, about four feet in diameter, it is still being used for its original purpose.
Conspirators looking for underground passages in Washington today will have to be content with modern, well-ventilated corridors running underground between government buildings. The swampy land on which much of the city is built does not encourage subterranean tunnel construction.
In other parts of the world, wherever limestone, chalks or sandstone abound, numerous buried galleries exist. Some wrought by nature, some of human construction, they have been utilized by man for a variety of purposes.
The English city of Nottingham, built on rock, is said to be laced with underground passages, the most famous being Mortimer's hole. Through the Hole, King Edward III and his friends slipped into a locked castle to capture Sir Roger Mortimer, the Earl of March, who had been in league with Queen Mother Isabel to usurp the powers of the crown.
A number of French towns—Saint Macaure on the Garonne river, Alban in Tarn, Bourg-sur-Garonne, and Aubeterre, to mention a few—stand above an intricate network of underground corridors and rooms often provided a safe haven for entire populations during the ravages of the Hundred Years War.
However, the four-mile cave of Lombrive near Ussat in Ariege, France, proved a deathtrap rather than a place of refuge for the unfortunate Albingenses. Several hundred members of this sect went into hiding there in the 14th century hoping to escape religious persecution. Their enemies sealed up the entrance to the cave and all within died of starvation.
In the main, underground caves and passageways have been a friend to man, rather than his enemy. From Bible days when Elijah took refuge in caves to World War II when Britain set up complete underground hospitals, man has felt that underground, at least, he has a chance of escaping the vengeance of his oppressor.
Richmond, Va. —(U.P.)A bill passed by the Virginia house of delegates providing for the correction of typographical errors in legislative bills and printed matter appeared this way in the cumulative index: "H.B. 7. Connection of typographical errors."
No One's Always Right
At least six students drowned in Potter Lake between its origin in 1911 and a decree banning swimming in it in 1927.
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In today's model cities, rising out of the ruins of war, are more parks, stadia and community centers.
That goes for our own country, too. The National Geographic Society points out that made-to-order, model cities are getting a new lift.
Factories wear the new look and are being tucked out of sight, away from the landscaped residential areas; shopping centers, churches and schools are being conveniently grouped for all, with plenty of recreation centers.
Washington—(U.P.)—The post-war world isn't any bigger but youngsters and big people have more room to play.
Here in America, city planners learned a lesson from the tailor-made atomic bomb centers at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Richland, Wash., and Los Alamos, N. M. In Forest Park, Ill., a 2,500-acre garden city to take care of 30,000 people is one of several American post-war projects.
One of the largest model cities in the world is scheduled for India. It is to be located in East Punjab on a bare Granges Valley plain 140 miles north of New Delhi. A city of half a million is envisioned, complete with its own government, administrative unit, university township, and industrial section.
Britain's ministry of town and country planning has started the development of five towns near London to take care of the big overflow of more than 250,000 people from the metropolis.
Near Mexico City an ultramodern community of 5,000 is being constructed by a Mexican manufacturer who may or may not have an eye on new business. Another is being built in Brazil to take care of 25,000 workers in the tractor and airplane engine industries there.
The Egyptian city of Kahun, buil about 3000 B.C. for workers con structing the Illahu pyramid, wa among the first recorded example o a planned city.
Oddly, the planned city is nothing new.
The planned city was not unusual in 500 B. C. in Asia Minor and Greece.
Boston—(U.P.)—When Howland P. Hall of Brookline became ill, he promised fellow members of a Columbia university choral group he'd soon be singing with them again. Hall, it developed, had infantile paralysis. So the choral group traveled from New York to Hall's bedside, where the 23-year-old patient joined them in a concert.
Around the equator the earth is larger than around the meridian.
'Willie The Actor Makes FBI List
Washington, March 23 —UOP—The FBI, today put its finger on William F. (the actor) Sutton, suspected leader in the $63,000 New York bank robbery, as one of its "10 most wanted men."
Sutton, a 48-year-old native of Brooklyn, replaced William Nesbit on the F.B.I.'s list. The 51-year-old Nesbit was smoked out of a cave near St. Paul, Minn., March 18 by seven young boys with sharp eyes and memories.
Sutton, who has a long criminic record, escaped two years ago from a Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. He is believed by police to have been involved in several holdups since then. Employees of the New York bank picked him out of a police rogues gallery as the leader of the gang that staged the recent spectacular daylight holdup there.
rite is known to the underworld as "Willie the Actor" and "Slick Willie". At times he has gone under the aliases of William Bowles, James Clayton, Richard Courtney, Leo Holland, and Julian Loring. He is five feet eight inches tall, weighs 155 pounds and is of medium build. He has blue eyes, a medium dark complexion, and dark brown hair, possibly graying.
Federal complaints charging him with unlawful flight from Pennsylvania and with armed robbery are on file in Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Anyone knowing his whereabouts should contact the nearest F.B.I. office.
Madison Portrait Missing
Philadelphia, — (U.P.) — Independence hall has an art mystery on its hands. Officials of the shine, checking portraits in historical collections, discovered that a picture labeled "Dolly Madison" isn't the famous Dolly at all. The portrait is of an unknown blonde.
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