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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1948
The Editorial Page
In Our Own Backyard
Another boost for Kansas comes from the State Geological survey of the University. Their publication "Scenic Kansas" is one more proof that our state offers more striking scenery than even most native sons suspect.
Sometimes upon visiting such spots for the first time, we are a little embarrassed to find out-of-state visitors there, and we keep rather quiet for fear of showing our ignorance of places within the borders of our own state.
A total of 40,000 copies of "Scenic Kansas" have been distributed since it was first issued in 1836. The booklet is published to give Kansans a better idea of the scenery of the state and its origin, and to stimulate travel within the state.
Kansas has 21 state parks, 17 county parks, and 19 large city lakes the booklet points out. It contains photographs and descriptions of such familiar Kansas scenes as Hell's Half Acre in Comanche county, St. Jacob's Well in Clark county, Rock City in Ottawa county, the Smoky Hill valley of Logan county, and the many outstanding topographical features of Gove county.
The State Geological survey is only one of many groups that publish information about scenic spots in Kansas. If this work continues, perhaps some day the people of the state will realize they are living in an area made up of many interesting places.
—Ralph Hemenway.
- Letters To The Editor -
Spain-Pro And Con Dear Editor:
I am not familiar with the kind of reasoning used in a recent editorial by James Scott, but should he continue to use such logic as he employed in his Franco article, he may win a seat in the Kansas or Mississippi legislature. The expert view of defense officials about Spain is that the lifeline of America, in the broad, true sense of the whole Western Hemisphere, runs through the Mediterranean with Spain a natural bastion behind the Pyrenees.
President Roosevelt decided 10 years ago that the present Spanish administration is the only rightful government in that country. According to Dr. Finch, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law, Spain was kept out of the United Nations by the mere whim of the Soviet Union.
Mr. Scott might do well to take a few courses in history and perchance to separate truth from propaganda. As for denial of religious freedom to minorities, Mr. Scott would do well to investigate the truth of his assertion. At the same time, he might do well to investigate such matter in the Scandinavian countries, especially Sweden
And should he have a few seconds to spare, he might muse on the "mere accident" that the three most devout peoples in the world—the Irish, the Spanish, and the Portuguese—are blackballied in the United Nations. Those who believe in God, as opposed to those who pin their faith in dialectical materialism, whether Stalinists or Nazi-minded followers of Karl Marx, will champion the cause of Spain.
Business senior (Name withheld by request)
Editor's note: James Scott defends his editorial in the following reply.
1. What the "lifeline" of America is doing over in the Mediterranean is rather hard to understand. We always thought it ran through the isthmus of Panama.
2. F.D.R. recognized the present Spanish government as the only existing government in Spain—not the rightful one. He was correct. Franco's opposition was either dead or, at that time, in the concentration camps.
3. In April, 1945, at the San Francisco conference, it was resolved that provisions of the charter concerned with membership "cannot apply to states whose regimes have been installed with the armed help of countries which fought against the United Nations."
At the Potsdam conference, the governments of Britian, Russia, and the United States announced that they would not support a request by the present Spanish government for admission to the U.N. The General Assembly endorsed both of these statements in February, 1946.
4. Pulitzer Prize winner Homer Bigart, just back from Spain, wrote in the New York Herald Tribune (hardly a communist sheet) that a protestant church in Spain must not display any exterior evidence of worship; it cannot advertise its existence; it cannot be listed in the public directories. Marriage and baptism by protestant ministers have no legal recognition. A Spanish protestant cannot hold a governmental office.
5. It would be difficult to prove that the Portuguese, Spanish, and Irish are the most devout peoples in the world.
6. Not quite everyone who opposes Franco is a follower of Marx or Nazi-minded. (How could they be Nazi-minded?) Not quite everyone who believes in God will champion the cause of Franco Spain.—James Scott.
KU Loses In Vote For NISA Location
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The University missed having next year's convention of the National Independent Students Association by a narrow margin, Maxine Holsinger, L.S.A. president, said today. Miss Holsinger has just returned from the national three-day convention at the University of Illinois. The group finally decided to return to Illinois next year after two votes ended in ties between Illinois and K.U.
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Others who attended the convention were Donald W. Giffin, Charles R. Krimminger and Walter Brown, College sophomores, and Jacob B. Sperry, College junior.
A constitution submitted by a committee headed by Betty van der Smissen, first year law student, was adopted with little change.
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Still Worth $400 After 62 Years
Denver—(U.P.)—In 1887 William Raine was high-pressured into buying 10 lots about $1½ miles south of the present Denver city limits.
He paid a total of $400 for the lots and paid the taxes on the land, about 60 cents a year, for 12 years. Then he deeded the property to his son William McLeod Raine, a well-known author.
Like his father, the younger Raine kept up the taxes. A few years ago, though, they jumped to about $2 yearly.
So now Raine has the 10 lots up for sale for $400.
But the land remains little more than worthless. There's no way of getting water to it.
Oregon's Crater Lake was discovered in 1853.
Three-Cornered Pants Perfected
Cleveland, Ohio—U (R). A wealthy Cleveland inventor. H. James Rand III, has come up with something new in three-cornered pants.
The new-type diaper is specially designed to keep baby dry and unsoled, and already has passed rigit tests at Babies' and Children's hospital here.
Mr. Rand's diaper has a lightweight built-in waterproof container. He said an infant could go through a night in its crib without a change and without suffering any discomfort. His creation utilizes more intricate use of highly-absorb-
Portland, Ore., April 25- (U.P.)Dr. C. Anders Hubbard of the biology department at Vanport college today named his 24th American flea.
Flea Gets A Fancy Name
day named his brother. The new insect is named "Perimyscopsylla Hamifier Markworthi" after the scientist's son, Mark Worth Hubbard. It was found in the fur of an arctic whitefooted mouse.
ent material than the average diaper now on the market.
Mr. Rank said the diaper prevents infection and is in the process of large-scale production by a pharmaceutical house. He said it will be used in hospitals before being placed on the public market.
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