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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPT 26, 1947
Guest Editorial -serve rather than by a desire to pro- fit.
Housing Situation BY IRVIN YOUNGBERG
Again, the University owes its thanks to the city of Lawrence. In an already crowded community, an increased enrollment of students has found living quarters with rooms to spare. That an estimated two or three thousand married students can attend the University seems incredible in view of wartime and prewar housing problems which confronted the city. Yet, despite shortages and high prices, they have been "squeezed in."
True, many situations exist which need correction—high rental rates, crowded conditions, poor facilities. For the majority, however, housing appears to be adequate. This has been made possible in large part by the spirit in which Lawrence residents have accepted the challenge of an increase in enrollment.
Persons to whom the privacy of their home is of far greater value than the net returns of renting rooms to students have made space available to returning veterans and others. This is true of many if not most of the more "well-to-do" citizens who are moved by a desire to
Sunnyside, built for an estimated five years of use, would have to operate for 21 years to return principal alone to the Federal government. University dormitory operation has proven to be anything but a profitable venture.
Many landlords have been forced to offer rooms for rent in order to continue to make Lawrence their home. Rental properties, once plentiful, are now scarce and former renters have been forced to buy homes at inflated prices. To finance such purchase, some room rental income is often necessary as the buyer's salary has frequently not justified the price paid. To compare the rates charged by such individuals with the pre-war levels is hardly fair, for the buyer, too, is a victim of circumstances.
Well Begun
Think twice before you criticize Lawrence landlords in general. Give thought to the conditions they must face. Thank them as a group for making it possible for you to attend the University.
Meanwhile, a steady improvement in living conditions in Lawrence is to be expected as the emphasis turns from quantity of living quarters to quality.
The All Student Council in its first meeting this week went far to toward making this right some of last year's mistakes. It also swallowed some unpleasant pills gracefully.
The motions made to keep the publishing of the student directory in the hands of students were steps in ASC realization of responsibilities It was a move to erase the group's mishaps with the directory last year. The move was made although the job could have been "shucked off" on the administration. This makes the decision even more praiseworthy.
The hardest pill the A.S.C. had to swallow was the Bitter Bird insolvency. This humor magazine ended last year without publishing its last issue and with a list of debts.
The A.S.C. admitted that its auditing committee was in great part to blame for such a situation's developing. It accepted its responsibility by assuming all the debt except for a certain amount personally signed for by last year's Bitter Bird editor.
The move by certain Council members to keep the affair quiet was unwise. The Council as a whole saw this and blocked any such plan. The A.S.C. has started well by facing squarely its mistakes of the past and moving to make amends for them. If it can face the many other problems which come up with as much frankness and dispatch, the A.S.C. will have a good year.
35 Years Difference
On Sept. 26, 1912, the French government decided to arm dirigibles "just in case" there might ever be an air element to warfare. Today we read of the 2,400-mile flight of an army robot plane carrying 11 fliers and observers which was guided solely by a mechanical "brain." Much lies in between: The glamor and risk of the "flying coffins" of World War I. The slow development of aviation between wars, with interest centered mostly in such flights
as Lindbergh's solo across the Atlantic ocean.
Then came the zoom into the stratosphere which aviation took before and during World War II. The development included greater range, finer performance, and heavier armament. Aircraft was specialized to meet different requirements of combat flying.
Now the future of aviation lies with the military needs of the great powers of the world and to a certain extend with its commercial airlines. Research will largely depend on the fear the governments of the world have in the future.
Projects for aviation include the building of larger and faster aircraft. Better radar-locating systems for keeping airships on their courses are also on the list. Work with jet-propelled aircraft and with the strange new field of supersonic flying lies ahead.
To be prepared for anything we must have atomic bombs and airplanes. We have the former, but we dare not let our aviation industry slip so far that we don't have enough planes, in case of war, to carry the atomic weapon to the enemy target.
Commercial aviation will progress slowly. For the next ten years that branch of aviation will support only a small percentage of the industry needed for wartime expansion and production.
It takes two to four years to develop a new airplane, let alone produce it. The P-38, for example, took five years.
Public Postcard
(Editor's note: All letters to the editor must be signed and must give the writer will be withheld from publication upon request. Letters should be prior consideration. The editor reserves the right to edit letters to meet space requirements and to contest the laws of libel and public decency.)
Dear Officials,
Thanks from a lot of us for opening the library on Sundays. This should really help in getting our week end assignments done by Monday morning.
Watson Library Officials Campus.
Dear Editor---
You're right! Orchids to those responsible for the efficient manner in which registration and enrollment were conducted this fall. You're right again. Getting books was a discouraging ordeal for all of us.
Sincerely yours,
University Daily Kansan.
Bookstore Problem Solution Dear Editor.
The problem is obviously that 9,000 students converge on the bookstores at one time. Under one possible solution, students would register and enroll in exactly the manner currently used, with one modification.
As the student has his class cards made out (as is done in the "pen" in College enrollment.) he would be given a slip of paper showing the author and text being used for that course. He would receive a slip of paper for each course.
Outside the place of enrollment, the student would write the information in his veterans' requisition pad. This would be signed by a representative of the Veterans' Administration in exchange for the slips of paper. Non-veterans, of course, would go directly to the bookstores.
After having his requisition book signed, the veteran would go to the bookstore to get his supplies. This method would relieve instructors of the task of signing hundreds of requisition books.
The big problem in this plan consists of having the slips of paper printed and distributing them to the students. These could be mimeographed and handed out the same way the long enrollment cards are distributed. A Veterans Administration table would be necessary in each place of enrollment to sign the books.
Enrollment began Sept., 12 and classes began on Sept., the 17th. Most students tried to get their books on the 17th and 18th, while if this second plan were being used, students would have had six or seven days to get books.
Lawrence D. Ochs,
Business Senior.
Veterans engaged in hazardous civilian occupations are covered by the full amount of their National Service Life insurance with no extra premium charged, the Veterans administration says.
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