5.2.3.1.1.1.1.1 PAGE TEN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE KANSAS MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949 As The Kansan Sees It KU Desperately Needs Science Building Noted Industrialist Tells Legislature Editor's note: Following are excerpts from a talk by J. E. Shaefe, vice-president of Boeing Airplane company. He spoke before the Ways and Means committees of the Kansas state legislature Feb. 15. Since it is directly concerned with science facilities at the University, we thought it might interest the students who are so vitally affected. (6) It would seem that scientific methods of prognostication have been somewhat discredited after one recalls the recent presidential election. In spite of this we must not be disheartened. Science must go on, particularly in our universities and colleges. Many times since the war I have been asked why Boeing remains in Seattle. The best answer I can give is the University of Washington. Many of our designers and scientific men come from the University of Washington. So it is with one industry, but it is equally true of many. Our agricultural predominance in Kansas can be, in a large measure, traced to the effectiveness of Kansas State. The University of Kansas makes similar contributions in other fields. For the past year I have been unusually close to some of these fields through directorship of the University Daily Kansan Member of the Kansas Press Assn. National Editorial Assn., Inland Daily Press Assn., and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service,420 Madison Ave., New York City. Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Editor-in-Chief Anne Murphy Managing Editor Bill F. Mayer Asst. Man. Editor Richard D. Barton City Editor Nora Temple Asst. City Editor Horace Reddy Asst. City Editor Gerald Fetettero Asst. City Editor James Morris Boat Editor Martin Rowlands Sports Editor David Patterson Sports Editor Bud Wight Society Editor Naomi Redoch Asst. Soc. Ed. Virginia Frost Business Manager Don Welch Manager Christine Charles Nat'l Adv. Mgr Bob Bohloth Circulation Mgr Dean Knuth Bachlor Willie Willey Promotion Mgr Ira Gassen Kansas Research Foundation Board. After receiving this assignment I spent some time studying the scientific and research facilities on the campus of the University of Kansas. The student congestion and the antiquity of these facilities profoundly impressed me. Later, when the board surveyed these facilities, they were as much concerned as I was. So the following resolution was unanimously adopted: In view of the severe shortage of laboratory and class room space for teaching and research in the fields of the physical sciences, and in view of the excellence of the staff, and the effective teaching and research program now underway at the University of Kansas: Be it resolved, that the Board of Directors of the University of Kansas Research foundation express its strong endorsement of the University's need for a new science building, to take the place of the long-outmoded and fire hazardous chemistry and physics buildings, both built before the turn of the century, as a first step in providing adequate research facilities. Every member of the legislature wants Kansas to excel in industry, agriculture, and in the fields of social science and business. The excellence to which we aspire can only be attained through knowledge. The basis for this knowledge is work and study. I am not going to tell you that our state university and college are irretrievably behind other universities and colleges—they are not. The New York Times several years ago listed K.U. as second, in proportion to numbers graduating, in achieving starred (first rank) names in "American Men of Science." Only Johns Hopkins was ahead of the University of Kansas. K.U. is also well up toward the top of "Who's Who in Engineering," once ranking first, and once second. The University of Kansas is well provided with many of the tools for scientific research and progress. The physics and chemical laboratory equipment by and large is good, but it is housed in buildings that are fire traps. 4 "First With the Finest for Over Fifty Years" Chalk Talk When members of the state legislature visited Bailey Chemical laboratories and Dyche museum recently, one student suggested: "They are probably trying to figure out which of the monsters is more prehistoric—Bailey or the dinosaur." As he entered the lecture room in Bailey Chemical laboratories one legislator asked, "In case of fire, how do we get out of here?" A question a lot of students have been asking for a long time. One of the high school students who attended the art conference at the University the past weekend was overheard saying "I sure am glad that our school board doesn't let our high school get as run down as the buildings here." Wise observations are often made by the younger generation. The first school for the deaf and dumb in the United States was started in the year 1817, at Hartford, Conn. JUST LIKE MOM'S- Home made PIES SWEET ROLLS WAIT FOR THE CALL OF K U FOOD SERVICE Phone 3405 three wonderful pieces that multiply themselves into a whole Spring wardrobe. The classic man-tailored coat and suit combination . . . detailed with saddle-bag pockets, button,tabbed for feminine charm. Tailored with integrity in Ames menswear sharkskin ... Gunmetal Grey and Ginger Brown. Sizes 7 to 17. 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