UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE SIX MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1948 The Editorial Page Education - Boom And 'Bust'? There's a boom on in education, and it's setting a fast pace for college students all over the country. Those of us who have just finished one semester and find another to start before we catch our breaths can attest to that. Many educators have a glint in their eyes like crafty land speculators. They're thinking about new buildings, bigger departments, and improved facilities. However, there's $^{2}$ Optimists have assumed that the present record enrollments are indicative of a long-time trend. The applications of five million veterans for benefits to be invested in higher education have been approved by the Veterans administration. This backlog of potential students plus increased enrollments of non-veterans provides the basis for this anticipatory rubbing together of the palms. However, thousands of these prospective students may never shove an enrollment card over a registrar's desk or stand in a registration line. expanded faculties. However, there's a trend in the new enrollments that suggests it's time to say "who" and let's take a look around. In many colleges more non-veteran than veteran students are enrolling this winter. Veteran students who have not yet taken advantage of their eligibility entitlements are working at various jobs. They'll think hard before giving them up. Jobs are getting scarcer—and veterans are getting older. A man 25 years old, and that's the average for veterans, is likely to be reluctant about jumping into four years of college work. At that age The years 1930-1936 were a period of exceedingly low birth rates. Children born during that time are now the ones who are entering the nation's colleges and universities. They will account for a large part of our college population for the next five or six years. Thus there will probably be fewer new students entering school than in the pre-war boom year 1939. he is probably thinking about marriage, a home, and a steady income. The prospect of giving up a good job and bringing his wife to college to live on $90 a month will cool the ambitions of thousands of other veterans. That leaves the non-veterans to bolster enrollment statistics. That there will be a continued high enrollment in schools at the college level is not questioned. But plans based on boom time conditions must be discarded when a recession begins. It is better to proceed with the prospect of a setback in mind. Booms do burst. The one in education probably will. Lower taxes will cure inflation like capital punishment stopped murder. COURT HOUSE LUNCH Meals Short Orders Malts Sandwiches Air Conditioned Open 5:30—12 p.m. RISK'S HELP-YOURSELF LAUNDRY Maytag Machines Line Space Reasonable Rates Weekdays 9-6 Saturdays 9-3 1900 Ill.—Phone 623 Try Our College Special Chicken Fried Steak 85c Under New Management, Student Operated Reservations Ph. 3339 Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 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. Editor-in-Chief William C. Von Meurer Managing Editor Alan J. Stewart Asst. Man. Editor Cooper Rollow Asst. Man. Editor Lance City Editor Gene Vignery City Editor Richard Jones Asst. City Editor James Robinson Betty Bacon Robert Alderson Otto Meyer Paul Warner Business Manager ... Advertising Manager ... Circulation Manager ... Classified Adv. Man. ... Something New- TIME Magazine 4 Month Subscription $1.50 LINDLEY'S KANSAS CLEANERS 12 East Eighth Quality Cleaning at Reasonable Prices Men's Suits, Cleaned and Pressed...65c Ladies' Plain Dresses, Cl. and Pressed...69c CASH AND CARRY ONLY BILL'S GRILL QUICK COURTEOUS SERVICE 1109 Mass. Across from Phone 2054 the Courthouse -Latest- VAUGHN MONROE HITS! BALLERINA HOW SOON NINA NANA - PASSING FANCY Complete stock. Come in today! BELL MUSIC COMPANY 925 Mass. Patronize the Advertisers in the University Daily Kansan. Bored? Sad? Dejected or Lonesome? -then come and have fun! At the "GET-TOGETHER" DANCE Wed., Feb. 4. 8-11 p.m. UNION BALLROOM Kass Kassinger And His Orchestra It's only 25c per person Sponsored by: STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES