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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 20,1946
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$6.61 An Hour
So the University does charge $6.61 a semester hour against your allowance. So what?
Less than a hundred students will find their cash funds hit by the move, and they're taking the most expensive and most extensive course offered by the University.
It takes money to run a university. What difference does it make to you whether that money comes from the federal treasury or from the state treasury?
You wanted to come to school, didn't you? Okay, someone has to pay the bills. If the money comes from the federal government by way of the Veterans' Administration, you'll pay higher taxes to Uncle Sam. If the money comes from the state treasury, you'll kick in more to the Kansas treasury.
Eventually you, as a citizen, are going to have to pay the bill.
Of course, there are a lot of angles to this situation. You may claim that the federal government is trying to increase its hold on the states by subsidizing universities. You may claim that the state legislature is letting the V.A. support the schools so that state taxes won't be so high and so Kansans will feel better about their taxes.
You may claim that the University should have asked in 1944 for enough money from the legislature so that it wouldn't have to scrape for funds.
You may claim that the veterans are being discriminated against and that all the extra expense of running a university which has doubled its size in one year should be prorated to all students.
Sure, you can pick holes in every one of these arguments. You also can make a strong case for any of them.
But one point—the most important point—is that the University needed money and it found a legitimate way to get it.
If you don't like the way it's getting the money, that's your privilege. Just remember, if the University officials hadn't found some sort of subsidy, you'd still be sitting at home, wishing you could get into a college.
Nobody's Ignoring Land Of Penguins
No part of the world can be considered "unimportant" in the event of another war.
To emphasize this point, the United States government recently announced Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd will be in charge of a large-scale expedition to the south polar regions, and thus revealed the expectations of the military leaders of this country as to the extent and possibilities of a third world war.
Spokesmen say the U.S. is outfitting the expeditionary force only for army and navy training. Other unofficial spokesmen say weather observation and mineral research are factors in the trip. Both probably are right.
About 4 million square miles of the Antarctic region are yet unexplored. If searching brings to light any quantities of metals (including uranium), petroleum, coal, or any other valuable resources, the rush for the Antarctic will make the California gold rush look like a slow walk.
The United States, of course, is a relative newcomer to the southernmost continent. Russia could lay claim to the region on the strength of a voyage made by a Russian admiral who sailed around the continent in 1820.
British relations to the area lie only in what they claim to be whaling expeditions. However, for several years, England has maintained administrative offices, bases, and post offices in parts of Antarctica and appears to be interested in scientific research.
Other countries who have made claims to the region are Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. Just how valid their claims could be determined only by an international court.
The next war, however, will create many extreme emergencies, and neither the U.S. nor the other countries of the world are overlooking any bets to keep themselves ready for an atomic global war.
It's difficult for someone who thinks of Antarctica as a place fit only for penguins to see the importance of the south polar region. Certainly its distance from any other body of land makes it valuable as a military base only in extreme emergencies.
The density of population at the First Census, 1790, was $4\frac{1}{2}$ persons per square mile. In 1940 it was 44.2 persons, but with variations from 674.2 in Rhode Island to 1.0 in Nevada.
Here Goes-Othman Squares Off With John L. 'Eyebrows' Lewis
B FREDERICK S. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—John L. Lewis seems to be one of those fellows who can't read the writing in the soot on the wall.
Every time he wangles his boys another hoist in wages, the price of coal goes up and these things happen:
More householders put in oil burners, more railroads buy diesel engines, more factories convert their boilers to natural gas, and more scientists sort more schemes to put coal $ ^{\circ} $
miners out of work. If "Eyebrows" and his members think I'm kidding, let them ponder a few current developments:
The Alabama Power company has a coal mine at Gorgas, Ala., into which it shortly will pump air and oxygen and then, scientifically, drop in a match. The coal will get hot, exuding gas, which will whooosh out of a pipe in the ground without the assistance of a single member of the United Mine Workers of America. Any comment, John L?
At Louisiana, Mo., meantime, the bureau of mines has in operation a $17,500,000 plant (it used to be a war factory) for the production of fuel oil from shale. There are untold billions of tons of this greasy rock under ground; if the Missouri plant proves economical, still more of "Eyebrows" boys will be looking for other jobs.
Here in Washington a congressional committee is trying to discover why the government sill hasn't sold its Big and Little Inch pipelines. These are the pipes—one is two feet across and the other 20 inches—which pumped oil during the war from Texas to Philadelphia and New York. They were considered a bargain at 161 million dollars; without them we might even have lost the war.
Now everybody's sore at everybody. Most oil people say they can haul fuel for furnaces cheaper in tankers. Some government experts think the Big and Little Inch lines should be used exclusively for oil.
Two concerns have made offers to buy the Big Inch pipe for hauling Texas' natural gas to the East. Big Inch Gas, Inc., which wants to pay 40 million dollars for the line, says it can haul 225 million cubic feet of gas a day and sell it all to electric power plants in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Marvelland.
The power companies now use coal. They're tired of strikes and rising prices, and according to Big Inch Gas, Inc., would be delighted to tell John L. to go jump in a coal mine.
That brings us finally to the first atomic power plant in the world, about to be erected by the government and associated industrialists near Schnectady, N.Y. When you split an atom it gets hot. Build a boiler around the hot pieces and you get steam. That's the principle, and while it is expensive, the scientists say it can't help but get cheaper.
When and if the cost of oil and gas and atomic steam balances with that
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Tokyo. (UP) — Fundamentally a pacifist and a "tame gentleman," Emperor Hirohito was too weak to check the aggression of the Japanese jingoists. Strangely, however, it was the ruler's same meek character that led him to accept the Potsdam declaration and save Japan from total destruction.
That is the conclusion reached in a book just published. Junzo Togasei, a palace reporter for 30 years, in "His Majesty's Human Declaration," portrays Hirohito as a man of few strong convictions. His one outstanding resolve was never to function as a dictator.
The book is considered important because it comes from an experienced source and is the first unrestricted portrayal of the emperor since Hirohito, in the author's words, "voluntarily unlocked the gates of his sacred prison and came out to meet his people."
In the years between Hirohito's adolescence and Japan's defeat, Hirohito remained, unwillingly and often to his own annoyance, a "living god." The palace circle drummed into him the theory that the emperor never should rule with a positive hand, according to the author.
It was this circle that led Japan into war and it was the emperor's "tragic lot," Togashi says, that he was unable to find the courage to emerge as the only possible Japanese Strong Man who could have spared the nation from disaster.
But Hirohito pledged himself to the ideal of the middle road.
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New Kansas Fire Rules To Reduce Home Accidents
Topeka. (UP)—New fire regulations becoming effective January 1 will reduce the toll of household accidents from use of inflammable fluids, Clyde Latchem, state fire marshal, predicted today.
Mr. Latchem promulgated the regulations to require the labeling of dry celaning fluids sold in containers of five gallons or less for warning the purchaser of the inflammability.
Downs Will Show Movies
6:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
5:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.
Dr. Cora Downs, bacteriology professor, will show color movies of the campus and scenic spots in California at a meeting of the Bacteriology club at 7:30 tomorrow night in the Pine room of the Union.
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