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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1948
The Long, Long Trail
By Daniel Bishop, St. Louis Star-Times
Caution Needed
The Editorial Page-
Democratic spokesmen now are prediting that major social reforms will be carried out by the 81st Congress when it convenes early next year.
It seems certain that several changes in the nation's laws are just around the corner. The Taft-Hartley act probably is doomed, a form of socialized medicine may be enacted, and social security benefits will be broadened, according to Democratic officials. It is also reasonable to expect some changes in the taxing structure, with increasingly high corporation profit and income taxes.
Home district voters should caution their representatives and senators to view with disdain any radical swings to the left. A slight revision in the labor law probably should be made, but it is clearly evident that there should be some check on the workers. Labor has little respect for wealth and would like nothing better than to wedge itself into all-powerful shoes in dealings with management.
Perhaps the old congress went too far, but it would not be in the best interests of the country to do a complete about face. Nothing could be more disastrous in these days of uncertainty than to create a stalemate between labor and management. Thus, it is urged that the incoming lawmakers practice restraint in this and other forthcoming proposals. —Fred Kiewit.
- Letters To The Editor -
Theater Seats
Dear Editor:
From what I have heard, the production "Hamlet" given by the University players was very good. To my knowledge, however, there were at least ten persons, including myself, who were unable to attend because seating was not available.
If I am forced to pay for a seat to these productions, it seems only fair that seats should be available.
Name withheld by request.
Editor's Note: Allen Crafton, professor of speech, who is in charge of University productions has pointed out that tickets for Hamlet were on sale five days before opening night and that approximately 170 seats were vacant at this performance. A few seats
Mr. Crafton said he regretted that anyone was unable to see a performance but added that in the past, attendance had not justified more than four nights.
were vacant the second night but the other two nights were sold out.
(The amount added to the cost of the activity book for dramatics is approximately 32 cents which entitles the holder to presentations.)
A Correction
Dear Editor:
9? If so, the following corrections are in order:
"We plan to put on five or six performances when attendance is sufficient," he said.
1. No statement was made to the effect that the "Pro-Republican results in public opinion polls can be pinned on several causes." I did not pretend to know the answer but did discuss the functioning of several factors that are known to distort poll results in the direction indicated.
May I have the opportunity of clarifying a "news" article entitled "Tells Why Polls Failed" that appeared in the Daily Kansan Nov.
2. It was not stated that presidential polls, i.e., Roper, Gallup, and Crossley, are now conducted by mail. Earlier mail surveys were demonstrated to be very inadequate and the majority of survey organizations have discarded the approach. Mention was made, however, of Dr. Whan's mail survey on the repeal question to demonstrate the errors involved.
3 The statement that "the polls of the recent election were taken almost two months prior to the election" is also reported incorrectly. Roper did conduct his only survey about two months before the election. However, Crossley and Gallup continued polling until immediately before the election.
4 It is not true, nor was it stated in class, that the "Pollsters wrongly assumed that political opinions do not change once the mind is made up."
Inidentally, was this "news" story turned in as an assignment for a reporting class or for a class in creative writing? If it is presumed to be "reporting" is it too much to expect that these articles might be checked for accuracy?
The remainder of the article appears to be accurate.
Anthony Smith,
Assistant Professor,
Psychology
We Got More Than Gold As Result Of Seward's Folly
New York—(UP)—Alaska, which the United States bought from Russia "for a song," promises to give scientists the answers to many mysteries of the early American man.
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The most recent find has been reported by Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr., archeologist of the Smithsonian Institution, who reported the excavation
of a prehistoric, partly subterranean Eskimo village along with evidence of two ancient cultures.
The village, according to Dr. Collins, consisted of one-room houses with walls of stone and whale bones, and with whale bone roofs. The dwellings, he said, were erected in excavations two to three feet deep in the permanently frozen soil, with the roofs above the surface. The scientists entered the dwellings through underground passageways. They surmise that through the long Arctic winter the ancient inhabitants must have lived buried under the drifting snow.
The evidence of ancient cultures—or artifacts—were arrow points, harpoon heads, skin scrapers, and other instruments made of stone, ivory, bone, and antlers.
Dr. Collins said that by far the greatest number of finds were large, somewhat crudely fashioned implements which are characteristic of the so-called "Thule" culture, the prehistoric Eskimo culture ancestral to the modern in much of Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and Alaska.
The Thule culture is believed to have originated in Alaska and to have spread eastward along the Arctic coasts, probably about 800 years ago.
However, the Smithsonian scientists found other implements, mixed with the Thule artifacts, that apparently were made by the people who preceded the Thule people. Some of the implements may have been made by the earlier migrants from Siberia.
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Fire Lashes Farms More Than Cities
St. Paul, Minn.—(UP) If you are a farmer, fire is a greater potential danger for you than it is for your cousin in the crowded city.
At least, that is the story told by statistics at the University of Minnesota agricultural extension service here.
Only about one-fifth of the people in this country live on farms, yet fully one-third of the number killed each year by fire live on farms, the statistics show.
In 1947, 11,000 persons died by fire in the U.S. Of these, 3,500 were farm residents.
Monetarily, fire loss last year came to $700,000,000. Twelve per cent of the loss was on farms.
According to extension officials, the main reason for the higher toll on farms is the higher number of fire hazards to be found there than in cities. Farmers store larger quantities of gasoline and kerosene; improperly cured hay is another hazard not common to the city.
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