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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 1940
The Editorial Page Pittsburgh Plans
Pittsburgh's Allegheny conference on community development is an experiment which should bring new life into our capitalistic system.
Richard K. Mellon and his associates are attempting to inject civic pride into a community which has never had the time to think of such things. Pittsburgh has been likened to a grandiose mining town which has never outgrown its brawling frontier days. Slums, murky office buildings, and Bessemer chimneys have always characterized the city's appearance. Sunlight rarely has penetrated the poisonous smog which envelops the area.
The business of supplying a nation with iron and steel has kept Pittsburgh too busy to think of little else.
kept Pittsburgh too busy to think of. Only recently has the city's livability been questioned. In the days of the empire builders, it was largely populated by immigrants fresh from the villages of central Europe. The mills supplied only subsistence wages to these workers; but they were accustomed to nothing more. Exploitation of this labor source contributed to the prominence which Pittsburgh's industries have held for the past 50 years.
The city's laboring class is now largely composed of second and third generation Americans. They are accustomed to a higher standard of living and have been exposed to public education. Labor unions have provided a lever by which the worker can deal with industry on equal terms.
With the rising importance of other industrial areas, Pittsburgh industrialists have sensed their inadequacies. Emphasis is being placed on increasing the attractiveness of the Pittsburgh area. For this purpose, the Allegheny conference was formed.
Thousands of younger citizens have migrated to healthier regions.
Three years ago, a clean-up campaign was launched to rid the community of smoke and smog. Today, Pittsburgh's air is relatively smoke-free. The business section is being cleaned up, and new skyscrapers are past the blueprint stage. By 1970, 60,000 citizens will be housed in a municipal development which is designed to replace the city slums. These measures are primarily designed to bolster the city's, industrial attractiveness, but a city of which Pittsburghers may be proud will also be the result. —Bill DeLay
The Wrist Gadget
The number of gadgets designed to be worn strapped to a man's wrist is on the increase. One can now wear a calendar watch which tells at a glance not only the minute and hour, but the split second, the day, the month and even the phase of the moon. There's also a wrist compass. And, it is reported, a wrist radio is to appear soon.
What puzzles us is: how do you wear them? One on top of the other?
The disadvantages of the layer-cake method are readily apparent, aside from the unsightly bulge under the sleeve.
And, of course, this isn't the end.
Any man so meticulous about his particular position in time and space at any given moment isn't going to be satisfied for long with a calendar watch and a compass and a radio strapped to his wrist.
What about wind and drift? And why not know how high you are, literally, that is, with an altimeter?
Certainly there will be a watch-like affair with a sensitized back which will give the wearer's temperature and blood pressure.
Undoubtedly, it is only a matter of time until we have a wrist Geiger counter.
And before space runs out at the elbow, how about a strapon utility kit, containing a drink-dispensing unit and perhaps a drawer for aspirin?
In fact, it's exactly 5½ seconds past 8:38 a.m. . . . and the moon is entering its second quarter.
It's later than you think, America.
'Small Things'
—The Des Moines Register.
After weeks of blasting and scraping the old, dingy, gray-brown paint off Fraser's fire escape, the thing is at last repainted—with new, dingy, gray-brown paint.
"Prehistoric Man will meet in the projection room in Fraser hall today," was the cryptic blackboard note which greeted a sociology class the other day. Stone axes are to be checked at the door.
Why all the wailing about Shirley Temple's divorce? After all, the girl is 21 years old, and she didn't want her Hollywood friends to stop speaking to her, did she?
Optimist: "Most are real."
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