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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
NOVEMBER 26,1946
Kansan Comments...
Thanksgiving
Thursday Americans will bow their heads and thank God for the blessings they have received during the past year.
The blessings aren't all we would have liked; many Thanksgiving days have found our nation in much better condition. Still we are much better off than the rest of the world. For every person in our country who has little to give thanks for, a million outside our country are in the same or a worse plight.
Thanksgiving isn't merely a day for thanking God for past blessings. It's a day on which we should look ahead, try to find what blessings we need, and then go to work to deserve those blessings.
Let us resolve, as our heads are bowed, that during the coming year we will so conduct our lives and affairs that next Thanksgiving will find not only us but the world with a great deal to be thankful for.
Thank You
Griping is a factor that should vary in direct proportion to the square of the enrollment.
In other words, twice as many students should have not only twice as many complaints, but twice as many things to complain about because of the necessary makeshift arrangements.
But your attitude on the whole has been most co-opeartive and understanding.
The food line doesn't seem any more impatient now that it extends into the lounge upstairs than when it was well inside the cafeteria. Five or seven o'clock classes aren't called ungody hours any more often than 4:30 ones used to be. You've laughed about the defects in the only place you can find to live.
The moderate amount of criticism has been normal and stimulating, not demoralizing. No matter what you may have thought about the inconveniences, you've been good sports.—A.B.
A Chicago engineer predicts telephone connections with the moon can be establis' ed almost as soon as humans arrive. And so the last possible place for a quiet evening of bridge is ruined before it is available.
President Truman took a submarine trip while the government-v.-Lewis fight gained momentum. Certainly not ducking the issue?
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Dear Editor--to
I have yet to attend a lecture in Hoch auditorium and hear all of it. During Mr. Lochner's lecture recently, there was a group of students who seemed bent upon having a "high" time in the lobby of Hoch. For those of us who had to sit near the back, it was very annoying to have Mr. Lochner's voice blotted out for several minutes at a time. Being unable to hear the speaker was bad enough, but when two or three dozen people wandered in and out in front of you so that you couldn't even see him, that was too much.
It seems to me that it is time someone did something about such disgraceful performances. It is disgraceful because it shows disrespect for the speaker. College students should be able to sit through a program such as that without running in and out. If they can't, let them stay away.
It is a shame that those of us who would like to enjoy the lectures can't, simply because a certain group of students must maintain their reputation for being ill-mannered.
Engineering sophomore
Jaytalking---
And in Tacoma, Wash., 10 policemen have been suspended for raiding places they described as boot-legging resorts. No police officer in Kansas would think of raiding a joint unless his chief of police and city fathers gave approval.
Two-hour final exams instead of three-hour final exams don't mean class work will be cut down by a third.
President Harry Truman made his mother happy Sunday when he and several of his secret service men mdae a flying trip in the Sacred Cow from Washington to Independence, Mo. And the taxpayer paid the mileage.
Coal Strike Answer May Be Piped Gas
New York. (UP)—Chemical engineers believe that the day it not too far distant when coal mining in this country will not be necessary
KANSAS CITY- ST. LOUIS
The answer will be gas, the scientists speculate.
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Oxygen and steam probably will be pumped into the mines, causing gas to form. This gas, the scientist believe, can be piped to cities all over the land to heat homes and run industrial plants.
So-called undesirable coal will be obtained from the near surface of the earth and gasified. It is estimated that there are millions upon millions of tons of this strip coal.
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In addition to obtaining the fuel with a minimum of labor, the gas can be shipped anywhere in the country at much less expense than the cost of shipping coal, engineering experts believe.
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The Russians already have reported successful experiments in the gasification of coal, and the Germans did it on a wide scale before and during the war. In this country, a large Alabama power company is reported about ready to start such a project.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
No Need To Build Fence;
River Takes Care Of Texas
College Station. Tex. (UP)—The Brazos River, a lazy Texas stream which in some seasons in places can be waded from bank to bank, is estimated by Texas A. and M. College agronomists to be carrying 16,000 acres of soil to sea each year.
An agronomy class checked the mid-river state and estimated that around 16,000,000 tons of Texas suspended sandy loam, silty loam and clay along with organic materials pass College Station annually.
This boy-girl ratio gets more complicated all the time.
Figures Fail to Help Stag Line
This year's original figure for the University was 3.23 men for every woman, instead of 3.13 as the Daily Kansan reported. This error was called to our attention by W. D. Paden, associate professor of English.
When the 1,575 married men and 135 married women were subtracted from the original totals of 6,674 and 2,064, the Daily Kansan had figured a ratio of 2.59 to 1. The number of rivals for each male student had been decreased by more than half a man.
Then Professor Paden pointed out that the ratio should come out 2.12 to 1, with a decrease of more than a whole man. But Mr. Paden had subtracted 1,575 from 6,674 to get a difference of 4,099.
This human habit of making one
minor error which makes the whole problem wrong has been a long-time worry of the mathematics department. But as Prof. G. W. Smith once told a class, "If a doctor does it, the patient dies."
Anyway, the Daily Kansan was wrong, too. The last calculation with the basic figures shows 2.64 men to each woman. The decrease from the ratio of totals is .59, still just a little more than half a man.
Arrow Replaces Bullet
Moral: Maybe we word-wrights should not attempt such intricate mathematics.
Yakima, Wash. (UP)—Easing of the war-time ammunition shortage hasn't ended bow-and-arrow hunting in the Pacific Northwest. Seventy-eight archers turned out for a hunt in the Minadoka national forest and returned with 12 deer.
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