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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1948
The Editorial Page
Road Of Misgiving
Last August the Department of the Interior opened 2,750,000 acres adjoining the Alcan highway in Alaska for homesteads. Veterans applications were given a 90 day preference. Along with this announcement came the warning that little of the land is suitable for agricultural use and that no government funds or facilities are available to migrants.
Regardless of the words of wisdom offered by the sourdoughs, the trek long the Alcan highway has been undertaken by many rugged individualists who expect to find a profitable life in Alaska. With the coming of spring, an even greater number of people are expected to make the journey.
The road which is largely responsible for this influx of pioneers was constructed during 1942 as a military route to northern American outposts. The cost of the highway, 13 million dollars, was the subject of an investigation ordered by the House rules committee in July of 1945. On March 20, 1946, the House sends committee reported that it had been built without fraud or corruption. Convinced that the taxpayer had received his money's worth, the government then began to look around for a peace time use for this connecting link between Dawson Creek, B. C. and Fairbanks, Alaska.
The section of the road which is in Canada was turned over to that country on April 1, 1946 under the terms of a previous agreement. Canada is responsible for the maintenance of her share of the road and presently requires a travel permit for all users of the road.
Further inducement to establish the highway as a valuable route to laska occurred last summer when was opened to commercial freight. Settlement is needed along the route lessen the distance between truck trips if the road is to be a paying proposition.
People will continue to go to Alaska regardless of the advice given by those who are able to exist under such rigid conditions. With the promise of a few acres of virgin territory, the lure will be too great for many.
The government, in its desire to people the undeveloped Alcan area, should adopt some form of regulation to help these people and to insure the proper development of our natural resources. Great sections of our western states have been depreciated by just such ventures. The opening of public lands has always attracted speculators and corrupt business men who are interested in the lands only for the personal wealth they can produce.
Can we hope that the Interior department will profit from other experiences and protect these lands for the use of honest, well-meaning homesteaders who are willing to risk their savings for a new life along the Alcan highway? It is doubtful. The struggle for existence along this war-bred highway probably will leave no time to consider conservation measures for future generations.
Dear Editor
'Who's Smiling?'
Dear Editor:
Congratulations are in order for the splendid, 100 per cent American red-blooded (or should one say white?) direct action of our liberally-educated students and football team members who courageously met the challenge of the subversive and violent action of CORE!
Healthy Sign
You pay fees to get in and you pay fees to get out of the University. Now the seniors are paying what is called a diploma fee. Paying $7.50 for a diploma made some seniors wonder if it would be done in gold leaf on blue ribbon sheep skin.
Actually, this is a commencement fee and the diploma is merely printed on parchment with printer's ink. This involves some expense, but not all of the $7.50.
The rest of it goes for all the commencement expenses. In the past, this fee has not covered all the expenses, Karl Klooz, University bursar, explained. Since the graduating classes are getting larger, he expects the books to balance better.
Senior class dues of $4.50 (another fee) includes rental of cap and gown, 50 cents; senior breakfast, 55 cents; class gift, $3; and class dance, 45 cents.
The fee covers the cost of the alumni luncheon held the day of commencement; the senior-alumni ball held the Saturday before commencement; and all expenses necessary for a commencement.
The money has to go someplace and students are never satisfied until they find out where their hard-earned shackles go. Every year the activity book fee, athletic tickets, or the concert courses are printed in itemized form because of student curiosity. It is a healthy sign. Good businessmen like to know where their money is being spent.-Marion Minor.
The two N.R.O.T.C. midshipmen who will make the three-day visit to Annapolis are Theodore Wendel Tober, pharmacy sophomore, and Paul Yuh Glil, College sophomore it was announced recently by Capt J. V. Peterson, professor of naval science. They will leave Wednesday
Tober, Uhlig, Chosen To Visit Annapolis
The two men were chosen for the trip in recognition of outstanding academic and aptitude work.
Arrangements have been made by the navy department with the superintendent of the academy to have a limited number of N.R.O.T.C. midshipmen from universities all over the country visit the academy.
During the three-day visit the students will live in Bancroft hall with the academy students, attend classes and drills with them, and become acquainted with the grounds and history of the academy.
W. G. Clugston, author of "Rascals in Democracy," an account of Kansas politics, and Marco Morrow, former manager of the Capper publications at Topeka, will be guest speakers.
The American Veterans' committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union ballroom.
To show our appreciation of vigilant action to save our freedoms, I think it would be most appropriate to nominate these heroes as honorary bellringers. Hitler, why dost thou smile?
AVC TO Meet Today
Definition of a super-salesman: Any man who can sell a double-breasted suit to a Phi Beta Kappa.
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Hospital Members Attend Convention
Three Watkins hospital staff members attended the 29th annual Midwest hospitals convention in Kansas City April 14. They are Mrs. Orpha Kiesow, secretary to Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson; Mrs. Isadore Winget, Watkins dietician; and Williamson T. Hough, graduate student.
Kay Kyser, honorary vice-president of the North Carolina Good Health association, was one of the guest speakers at the convention. The subject of Kyser's talk was "Hospital's Inside and Out."
If You See, You Understand Fred Montgomery Believes
If you can see it you will understand it much better than if you only hear about it.
It Is Hard To Keep Your Military Fame With Double Trouble In Your Surname
This is the theory used by Fred S. Montgomery, director of the Uni versity bureau of visual instruction.
Camben, Mich.—(UP)—Neighbors marvel at the tamed ways of Sandy, pet red fox of the Lester Laphams.
He has plenty of evidence to back up his theory.
By RUTH KELLER
Lapham took the fox from a litter of year ago and ate its cepa. He took food and bones.
Besides his fine bushy tail and sandy red coat, Sandy's only fox-characteristic is his refusal to live in a kennel. He has dug his own tunnel in the ground.
Quick Red Fox Has It All Over The Lazy Dog
Mr. Montgomery further explained, "Instructors find that students do more voluntary library reading when they know what they are reading about. They ask more
"Movies, for example, can bring the wonders of the world to the classroom and explain them better than any instructor," he commented. Teachers Agree
Sandy romps with his young master Jerry Lapham, 7, paws with his foretress to greet him. Stands in front of a family courtyard to town and buries bones like a dog.
The films, models, maps, charts, and blackboard illustrations, which his bureau can furnish, help students learn more and retain information longer than when they see the actual object before them. Mr. Montgomery said that visual aids are the answer to dull lectures and misunderstood explanations.
"It is a fact that the eyes do 80 per cent of the work of the senses. So why shouldn't visual aids make things clearer?"
All the teachers who use visual aids emphatically agree with him.
Robert G. Foster, professor of sociology and home economics, believes that visual education is so important it should be included in the budget of every department.
Pocahontas would really have a time of it trying to save all the John Smiths listed in the files of the Veterans' administration. There are 12,000
Raymond Stuhl, assistant professor of violin, said, "I think it is extremely important to have the presence of a guitarist and an instrumentatic fingering. A movie enables the student to actually see the method as employed by a great artist and at the same time he can see a goal to work toward."
Hobart Hanson, director of University Extension, explained their enthusiasm.
"I regret that visual education is a fee service." he added.
Other instructors praised the accuracy, clarity, and informational value of the various visual aids.
Twins, on the other hand, can tangle reports like seaweed in a battleship's screws.
Laughn and Vaughn Massey, twins from Choudrant, La., made the records appear like duplications of one person. They entered the army the same day, were issued serial numbers with only one point difference and were assigned to the same units. Everything on the records that hap-
Encourages Reading
"Sorting out" names is a headache and an everyday occurrence to the clerks who buck the cataloged records of 217,000 Smiths and 130,000 Browns. Thumbing through the files and searching to straighten out mixed to avoids them, find a curator. $
The "record thumbers" have discovered the names of 100 Eisenhowerers and 20 George C. Marshalls but have little trouble in confusing them with the tabulations of the nationally known figures.
"Sorting out" names is a clerk's who buck the cataloged recc Brown's. Thumbling through the files a up records they find a superabun-dance of Adams, Joneses, Johnson,s and Millers. Yet all these names are swallowed like sardines inside a whale in the 130 million administrative and 100 million insurance records.
Only Mr. Montgomery explains his theory in a more formal manner. He says, "Visual aids give a student $ \textcircled{4} $ basis for understanding which he may be unable to get from classroom explanation." questions in class And give the
penched to one happened to the other. After being in the same camps together and shipped to France on the same boat, they fought side by side. A shell burst wounded both and they were hospitalized together.
The climax came when both applied for disability compensation. Trying to determine who was who and tabulating details of their experiences was too much for the clerks.
Laughn and Vaughn were called into the office to straighten out the records themselves.
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Certain films are designed to equalize environmental differences, he added. A student who has never been outside Kansas can have little conception of how the fishing industry operates in Newfoundland.
"Films help push back the horizons of our narrow worlds. We may find it difficult to understand the motives of the framers of the Constitution. But if we see a movie emphasizing that phase of American development, we can understand better the Constitutional convention."
Training films serve a different purpose. They must instruct. Seeing a method of administering artificial respiration or assembly of a machine makes each step clearer.
"Movies have a language of their own. They can show animation, time lapses, and whole processes, and make these larger or smaller, faster or slower."
Veterans Like Films
Students themselves prefer movies. Veterans especially favored instruction films.
Thomas King, a navy veteran, said. "A picture is more easily understood than any amount of word explanation."
Shirley Wampler, former member of the coast guard, agreed. "Service films certainly helped to make instruction easier, and I think they could be used to an even greater advantage here."
Non-veterans were almost evenly divided on the question. "It's a good idea" was the general opinion.
Those who disagreed thought that for most students "it's just a chance to pick up some extra sleep!"
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