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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1948
The Editorial Page
Case For The Tidelands
While the internationalists are quibbling over how red you can get before you are considered a Communist, the national scene is spotlighted with the federal vs. state probe of ownership of the tidelands out to the 3-mile limit on the coasts.
Nearly 70 state officials, headed by 11 governors, have lined up to tell congress that the states should be given out-right ownership of oil-rich offshore lands within their boundaries. Their argument is that the federal government had made no claim on inland submerged lands. Inland and offshore lands have the same basis in law, and, if the government can claim one, it can claim the other.
States Sponsored Bill
The states urge passage of a bill, sponsored by the National Association of Attorneys General, to surrender and federal claim to the ownership of lands beneath navigable waters. This includes the beds of inland rivers and lakes as well as offshore coastal lands out to the 3-mile limit or to the state boundary line where it extends beyond 3 miles.
Two years ago congress passed a similar bill to give the states the tidelands and other submerged lands. President Truman vetoed it to give the supreme court a chance to decide a test suit brought by the federal government against the state of California. Last June the court ruled that California does not own the lands off its coast between low tide and the 3-mile limit. The court said the federal government has "paramount rights" in the area. Government Court Decision
supreme Court Decision
The states now contend that the supreme court decision did not set the question of ownership. They claim it "cast a cloud over titles to billions of dollars worth of port and harbor developments, oyster beds, shrimp fisheries, sand and gravel deposits, and residential and industrial property erected on filled land once covered by the ocean."
Again Uncle Sam finds himself in business but this time he received more than he bargained for. In an effort to control legislation of offshore oil and gas deposits, he now finds himself in the fish and resort business.
The government has a sound proposal to lease the offshore areas, returning $37\frac{1}{2}$ per cent to the states for roads and 52 1-2 per cent for reclamation projects in 17 western states, but a democracy requires that government be divorced from business. Owning the tidelands is one step in the wrong direction for Uncle Sam to take if he intends to follow this principle—Harlan Lill.
Publisher William Randolph Hearst lost another crusade when he backed a bill to keep women out of bars and saloons. He should have realized that the saloon round was already lost and concentrated his efforts on man's last retreat, the pool hall.
Married students wish that there were more $2 bills in circulation. They could use them to buy $1 worth of food.
The South has forgotten the mint julep. Instead, it is trying to slip a mickey finn to President Truman.
With World War III clouds gathering, applications for the jobs as underground guides are coming into Carlsbad caverns in great numbers.
Dear Editor
In Memoriam
Dear Editor,
For persons, or peoples, or the world to accomplish anything worthwhile, we must get away from the petty bickerings of humdum living and plan for a better world.
This is the realization I felt as I walked down the path towards the stadium the other day. I stopped by the Rock-Chalk cairn and glanced out over the Kaw valley. It was a beautiful sight, and my eyes came to rest on the Memorial stadium.
As I glazed down upon the stadium, the name, Memorial stadium, kept racing through my mind. Just what were the intentions of the builders of this structure? Of course, it was a dedication to the memory of those who gave their lives in World War I; however, it was also a dedication to the ideals and beliefs for which they died.
Think of the thousands of fine young men who have competed in that stadium in friendly strife. Many of them have since made the supreme sacrifice for the world's shortsightedness. We go to an athletic event in the stadium with intense interest and enthusiasm in the contest which is to follow. But let's not lose sight of one thing. All of us should dedicate ourselves to the proposition that none of these athletes we view on the field will have to give up their lives because of world turmoil, and that those honored dead of World War I and II "did not die in vain."
Robert Roy Moore Graduate student
Walk Talk
I am seriously considering a letter to the chancellor with the suggestion that the members of a largeish faculty department (the size of the English continget coupled with the recognized acerbity of its staff should make it a likely contender) be appointed as part-time policemen for the season of printemps (a fancy French borrowin')
Dear Editor,
To the members of this administration - approved police corps would be delegated extraordinary powers—principally the complete stopping in mid-passage with a subsequent stricture to re-trace their steps of those offenders, both student and faculty, who traipse across sodded areas of the campus.
Since winter has incontestably come, Shelley must be right (a literary allusion) and spring something like imminent. If the Oread lawns are to have more reason for being than to serve as short-cutting passageways, something stronger than that polite monosyllable "Please" is needed.
I recently took to task (to coin a phrase) a friend who is habitually guilty. He replied that concrete (or do I mean cement?) walks should be placed wherever people want to ambulate.
That set up a thought chain with frightening potentialities. Eventually the whole of the Hill might become a vast nob of cement (or concrete?). Then we could inform Secretary Marshall of our pourings, and an atom - bomb shelter would be aborning. If there is a single such shelter, I've yet to read about it in adjectival, K. U.-shunning ("allergic or oranges?"）Time.
William B. Bracke Instructor of English
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Courses Offered In Four Towns
University Extension is now offering courses of study to people in four Kansas communities.
Two courses are in session at Topeka night school. E.C. Buchler, professor of speech, is conducting a class in "Voice and Speech in Business and Industry." The Shawnee County Bar association is sponsoring a course in "Precedure and Practices of Administrative Law."
A class in "Salesmanship for Employees and Employers" will start today at Osborne in the Community hall. This program is designed to stimulate the interest of sales personnel.
A six-week course in "Interior Decoration" has started at the Dickinson theater in Mission. It is emphasizing the "New Look" in modern homes.
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