PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1948 The Editorial Page Votes Behind The Mountains Like Lochinvar a new economic, political, and social factor has come out of the West to tilt with the forces that comprise the American scene. Its charger is a fondness for the superlative and a war-born boom that has rattled the ballot boxes and jingled the till as a signal that the fray has begun. During the war, restless Americans headed West, and the census bureau today cites a population gain of 33.9 per cent for the three Pacific Coast states since 1940. The remaining 45 states can tally up only a 3 per cent gain. California leads the nation with a gain of 36.2 per cent or a whopping 2,484,666. Reapportionment in 1952 The real effect of this population spurt will come in 1952 when re-aportionment on the basis of the 1950 census will give California seven more electoral and congressional votes to rank it third in the nation. Oregon and Washington will each gain one. Five normally Democratic states will lose one vote each, and every vote lost to the Democrats and shifted to the doubtful column is a help to the Republicans. Politicians, with their ears traditionally to the ground, realize that the influence of the West will be substantially increased. be substantially. Economically, the West's outlook is as lush as a dollar sundae. It has a large and expanding market represented by people with incomes above the national average. California's per capita income was $1,441 in 1946, compared to $737 in 1939 and it is expected to climb to $1,500. During the war, the government invested five billion dollars in war plants in the West. Among them is a steel plant, aluminum reduction plants, an aluminum rolling mill, and nine shipyards. The postwar period has added other plant projects totalling $750,000,000. Box Office Poison However, there's one aspect of the Western boom that might turn this supercolossal, technicolor picture into box office poison. To keep going, the West needs water, more electric power, and lower freight rates. Power is short now. Water and water storage is always a problem in that area, and facilities need to be expanded. It costs more to ship materials out of the West than into it. These problems need federal aid for adequate solutions, and a pinchpenny congress has a lot of excuses for not putting up the ante. However, with the West's political potential, a Republican congress will probably see its way clear to foot the bill. With that hurdle out of the way, we'll be hearing more from the bustling Americans west of the Rockies. Money, Money There is something startling about the name of Samuel Insull and the news of suspicious fluctuations in the present day commodities market appearing in print on the same day. The association must have caused persons with long memories and gray thatches some moments of panic about their financial security. It seems that the legal tangle caused by the collapse of Mr. Insull's utility empire has finally been unraveled after 15 years. Samuel Insull was a financial wizard who reached his heyday in the booming '20's. He pyramided holding companies that controlled holding companies upon other holding companies. It was financial razzle-dazzle—all on paper—that not even Mr. Insull understood. The collapse that quickly followed left the hapless stockholders buried in a debris of worthless securities. Shares of stock that were worth $565 dipped to 4 cents a share. The '20's were the days of the plunger and the speculator. The future was rosy, the skies were bright, and money jingled in every pocket. The description sounds ominously like the '40's. Are there any Samuel Insulls today who are steeped in the alchemy of changing paper into gold at the expense of the investors? Today's trembling market quotations should cause us to think about it. Our complex financial structure could get out of hand in spite of controls. Some woolly lambs might get a fleecing. Bowl Movies Dear Editor Dear Editor. I am a student who attended all the home football games last season and cheered myself hoarse for dear old Kansas. I attended all the rallies and supported the team as much as I possibly could. Now I read that free showings of the Orange Bowl movies will be shown to students Feb. 13 and 14. But I have to present a basketball ticket to get in to see the football pictures. Not knowing this last semester when basketball tickets were on sale, I didn't get any basketball tickets. Now just what is the deal, K-club? I supported the football team wholeheartedly last semester. Do I have to support the rest of the athletic program, too, to get to see the Orange bowl movies of the football team? Doesn't the football team belong to all the students and not just those who bought basketball tickets? Name withheld by request (Editor's note: According to Otto Schnellbacher, K-club president, activity tickets will admit students to the movies on both nights. Basketball tickets were specified at first to insure that only students be admitted to see the films, Schnellbacher said.) Here's a second in your extension of good luck to George Sauer. He did much for K.U. and helped put Jeyhawkier football on the map. However, I believe there should be some reservations made in the well-wishing. If and when Navy meets Midwestern teams, particularly those from the Big Seven, all Midwesterners should hope that the Middies take a sound thrashing. In some respects George Sauer's departure was a slap at football as played in this sector. Navy Blues Dear Editor Mr. Sauer cannot really be blamed too much for his jump to the East. After all, when your team only has to win one game a season to be placed in the top ten teams of the nation by the sportswriters, Alumnus Appointed To Science Mission Dr. Warren H. Cole, '18, head of the department of surgery at the University of Illinois, has been appointed Senior Scientist attache to the United States Mission to Britain or Science and Technology. The mission is designed to promote cooperation with British scientists in various fields, including medicine, engineering, and chemistry. Dr. Cole, formerly of Clay Center, received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Kansas in 1918 and his doctor of medicine degree from Washington university. He has served as a professor of surgery at the University of Illinois since 1936. what have you got to lose? Writers all over the nation, even in our own backyard, placed Navy ahead of Kansas in their final analysis of last year's football play. During the war, the military academies had great drawing powers as regards college athletes. They issued numerous invitations to outstanding athletes throughout the country to attend their great institutions. The military academies at Annapolis and West Point have now lost their grip—both on the athletes they acquired during the war and possible replacements for them. So what is the next most promising field for these academies to invade? At the present time, it seems to be the coaching profession. The naval authorities at Annapolis knew that George Sauer had just signed a four-year contract with K.U. If we must blame somebody for Mr. Saucer's departure, let's blame the naval authorities of the Annapolis school. They should have some sense of honor or respect for ethics. If they don't, why don't athletic officials of the nation adopt a new athletic code that will make them conform to better principles? Rob Roy Moore Graduate Student Burglaries that occurred at the rate of more than four a day last year in Kansas City have produced angered protests from Kansas Citians. More convictions in burglary causes are being demanded. Let's hope that this civic pressure won't bring about hasty convictions of innocent people. . . as it has many times in the past. Call K. U. 251 With Your News Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Assn, Nati- tional Assn., and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Ad- dress Service, 420 Madison Ave. New York, NY Editor-in-Chief William C. Von Maurer Managing Manager Alan J. Stewart Asst. Man. Editor Cooper Rollow Asst. Man. Editor Larry Lee City Editor Gene Vigney Asst. City Editor James Robinson Telegraph Editor • Wallace W. Abbey Asst. 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