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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Mr. Citizen And Liquor
County and city attorneys got together recently down at Wichita to hear the attorney general brief them on the new liquor control law. What they heard probably didn't cheer them up much.
law. What they need Their job is going to be a tough one, perhaps even more so than during the prohibition era. We can't, however, go entirely with the attorney general's statement that "it seems reasonable to assume that since liquor may be soon lawfully sold in Kansas . . . gamblers and syndicates will invade our state."
Lawful liquor and crime may be first cousins, but bootleg liquor and crime were brothers. We don't think the law enforcement officers' primary trouble will be with criminals and syndicates.
Their biggest headache will continue to be Mr. Average Citizen. He's going to drink his liquor in a lot of places where the law says he can't. He's already talking about how the new law can't be enforced properly, and we doubt whether he's going to go very far out of his way to help enforce it.
The liquor control law may not give Mr. Citizen all the drinking freedom he wants, but it does give him a lot of privileges he didn't have before. And before he gets any more privileges, he'll have to respect the present law.
The opponents of repeal are not dead, nor are they idle. They are looking for a chance to prove that repeal won't work. They have plans to "dry up" Kansas again. Mr. Average Citizen, through his drinking practices during the next few months, may give them unintentional, but valuable, aid.
Statehood For Alaska
Statehood for Alaska was approved this month by the territories sub-committee of the House public lands committee. The disclosure of the North American Security pact has given new emphasis to the question of statehood for Alaska since it is a strategic necessity to American defense. It is time for statehood action NOW.
Recently the territory's biggest boom has been in military construction. Uncle Sam has been pouring millions of dollars into the land which is only 52 miles across the Bering Straits from Russia.
Statehood is indispensable for the progress and development of the land. A populated, thriving, strong Alaska is a necessary northern and western rampart. Ernest Gruening, the territorial governor, said "that objective has not been, cannot be, and will not be achieved under territoriality."
With an area twice the size of Texas, Alaska has abundant resources and a climate and physical condition which compares with the Fenno Scandic countries. Yet there are only 90,000 Alaskans as compared to 13 million persons in Fenno-Scandinavia.
Governor Gruening has well stated that the failure in Alaska arises from the lack of continuity among the remote rulers of her destinies and the circumstances inevitably surrounding far away control. He added that Alaska suffers from and is throttled by every variety of absenteeism: absentee industry control, absentee labor control, absentee government control. Less than 2 per cent of the land is homeowned. Is there any wonder why this rich country needs roads, health centers, people, lower living costs, and even a territorial police force?
The population will not grow by mass migration, but only through development of commercial, industrial, and agricultural wealth. Her potential assets are vast. She has some 80 billion feet of virgin forests, abundant waterpower, cheap transportation by inland waterways, and great untapped oil and coal reserves are known to exist. Commercial quantities of other important minerals are also present.
Alaska has been the scene of spectacular economic exploitation, especially in fur, fish, and gold. But despite all this, the country remains our last great frontier with no evidence of compact, intensive growth. Yet only 870 miles of Canadian land lies between Alaska and the United States.
The handful of laws that Congress has enacted since 1867 are totally inadequate to develop this rich country. Since she became a territory—a period of colonialism longer than that of all but five of our states—Alaska has been a victim of gross discriminations.
Congress has turned a deaf ear to the territory's voteless delegates for more than a quarter of a century. Only as a state with the rights, privileges, and power thereof, can Alaska really develop. Alaska needs to be a part of the United States, and the United States needs Alaska—NOW. Leonard Snyder.
KU Band, Orchestra Will Give Concert
The University band and orchestra will give a concert Thursday, at the Music hall in Kansas City, Mo, Russell L. Wiley, associate professor of band, announced today.
The band gave four concerts March 20 and 21 in three central Kansas towns. Soloists were James Sellards, cornet; Neill Humfeld, trombone; Roger Butts, piano.
About 80,000,000 or more acres of undeveloped land in the United States are estimated to be suitable for farming.
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Spring practice has illustrated to the football players how really out of shape a winter of mad night life gets a man. One player has worked out a schedule whereby in a week he will taper off his beer drinking, and in a month he will try to stop smoking. He was unable to set up a schedule for getting the kinks out of his muscles.
The setting up of a brass spittoon as a prize for the fraternity having the lowest grade average will undoubtedly do more to improve grade averages than anything previously suggested. There seems to be something distasteful about being forced to brag to rushees and parents that the fraternity has the lowest grade average on the campus.
This kind of weather should bring the Gamma Phi's outside in force. Although the view of the girls sitting on the front steps is impressive, it's that backyard sand pile full of sun worshippers that intrigues us most.
A senior has paid his way through the University by bringing great carloads of liquor across from Missouri for the purposes of K.U.'s fabulous parties and night life. Reports are that although his business is still very good, the excitement is gone now that he is not forced to watch behind every tree along the road for highway patrolmen.
The proposed loyalty check has caused the local stores to experience a rush for red sweaters. It appears that the students are so disgusted by the check that they are going to wear red clothes as often as possible in an effort to bring about a check of the loyalty of students.
Research Director ToSpeakThursday
Dr. George E. Ziegler, director of the Midwest Research institute, Kansas City, Mo., will be the guest speaker at the annual engineering banquet, which is to be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas room of the Union.
The banquet is given annually by the School of Engineering and Architecture in honor of the graduating seniors.
Dr. Ziegler has done research in electricity, electronics, X-ray, and holds a patent under which most Evershard high altitude fountain pens are manufactured. He also has patents pending on magnetic recording devices.
He received his bachelor and master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees from the University of Chicago. During the war he supervised the development of the magnetic wire sound recorder.
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