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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 18,1946
The University Daily Kansan
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association,
National Editorial Association, and the
Associate Collegiate Press. Represented by
the National Advertiser and 20 Mad
New York City.
Mall subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University hours are available. Enclosed as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor Charles Roos
Asst. Managing Ed. Jane Anderson
Jane Anderson Billie Moore
Telephon Editor Edward W. Swain
Asst. Telephon Edaph. Marcela Stewart
City Editor R. E. Kingman
Revenue Manager Alison
Sports Editor John Finch
Men's Intramurals William Conby
Women's Sports Beverly Baumer
Staff Artist Richard Bibler
Stuff Photographers, Robert Line, James
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Bill Haage
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager... Mel Adams
Advertising Manager... Ruth Clayton
Asst. Adv. Manager.. Helen Steinkirchner
National Ad. Manager.. Louise Schiezer
Assist. Adv. Manager.. Bob Bonebrake
Circulation Manager... John Beach
Asst. Circ. Mgr.
Let's Pay Now
Regardless of your political affiliations, you should have seen red last week when plans for cutting all personal income taxes by 20 per cent were announced by Rep. Harold Knutson (R-Minn) who will be head of the tax-writing committee of the house.
At a time when there's already too much money floating around and when the national debt is at an all-time peak, it would seem logical to drain off some of that money and start paying for World War II.
Evidently Representative Knutson doesn't think so. Perhaps he thinks votes are more important.
Some of the rank and file of the new Republican-controlled house are protesting his plans. We hope they have plenty of company.
It's Half Over
More social events are scheduled for the second half than the first half of the semester and more classroom and outside work usually is required during the last half of a semester.
It's always later than you think.
Half the semester already is gone
Moral: Get caught up now. Nobody ever studies during Christmas vacation.
"Satan, get thee behind me!"
Quit Pushing!
Editors often find themselves mumbling that under their breath as they try to decide whether to run a story which is news but which will make a certain group very unhappy. Usually they run it.
And at that time, they usually feel like the proverbial little boy who claimed he didn't want to go swimming. He said he told Satan to get behind him and Satan pushed him in.
Fifteen years ago—Thirty-four-year-old Jose Iturbi played Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin in a University concert. No Gershwin or boogie woogie was listed. (From the Daily Kansan files.)
Fifteen years ago—In response to an Armistice day convoction speech by Dr. George H. Coe, 800 persons signed petitions for national disarmament. These were mailed to President Herbert Hoover. (From the Daily Kansan files.)
Now It Can Be Told Story-K. U. Was Built On Mount Oread To Build Up Your Health
If you can't make the K.U. "grade," complain to your great-grandfather. Chances are he'll tell you why Kansas pioneers were "hill bent on education" and maybe convince you that climbing for knowledge isn't such a bad idea after all. One of the commissioners who had helped select the site for the University of Kansas in 1863 said:
"One capital idea in connection with the location of the University—while the student is climbing, the hill of sciences he must every day climb Mount Oread.
"This will constitute practical gymnastics, to develop and strengthen the lungs, digestion, and locomotive powers! Here muscular power will be developed with brain power."
The story goes back even further. In 1854 a band of New Englanders camped on this small mountain, noticed that the land about them was good, and decided to stay.
This was not only Lawrence's beginning but also the University's, for the same day they named the hill Mount Ouread "from Oread Institute in a far-off town in Massachusetts—which like the present University occupied a commanding site overlooking the town."
Lawrence was a leader in education. One of the first charters granted in 1855 incorporated a University of Kansas territory in Douglas county.
In 1859 the foundation of a building was constructed on Mount Oread but the foundation was not built upon until 1866.
The constitution of 1861 provided for a state university, but didn't designate its location. Two years later a law was passed authorizing a university at Lawrence, and an act organizing the University was passed and approved in 1864.
In 1866 the first building—North College—was completed. The board of regents inspected the building, elected a faculty of three members, set the opening date as Sept. 12, 1866, and authorized advertising for the University in the newspapers of the state.
That's how K.U. got its start on Mount Oread.
Since then the climb has continued upward—from the 55 students (29 men and 26 women) who struggled up the slope in 1866 to the almost 9000 students who toil up the grade today.
Now--do you still hate that 14th street hill?
Russell Farmers Win Round In School Reorganization
Russell (UP)—The little country school today received a reprieve from the extinction ordered by the Russell county school reorganization committee.
Embattled farmers trying to keep their children out of city schools won the first round in district court when the committee's consolidation of twelve rural districts in the northeastern part of the county was ruled out.
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Pay-As-You-Go Plan Settles City Debts
Chicago (UP) — An increasing number of cities are paying for municipal post-war projects without issuing bonds by putting their expenditures on a pay-as-you-go basis, according to the International City Managers' Association.
Two cities of a selected group recently surveyed by the association are debt free. Six others have enough money to pay off their small debts and are financing capital improvements almost entirely with current revenues.
Other cities plan to finance as many capital improvements as possible on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Colorado Springs, and Kalamazoo, Mich., are debt free, the association reported. They plan to finance extensive public works improvements during the next decade out of current revenues.
Silent Sound' Waves Kill Germs In Food
Henry D. Von Jenef, acoustical engineer, said refinement of ultrasound wave machines by his company had opened a vast, unexplored region, promising painless dentistry and possible eradication of the weevil and other agricultural pests.
Chicago. (UP)—Sound waves—vibrating so fast they cannot be heard—are being used as death rays to kill food germs and permit canned goods to be processed without cooking, it was disclosed today.
Foods subjected to ultra-sound waves do not have to be cooked to destroy germs and therefore retain their natural color and flavor, he said.
Chicago. (UP) — Industrial fire losses in the U.S. were 25 per cent greater during the first nine months of this year than in the corresponding period in 1945, according to J. T. W. Babcock, assistant chief engineer of the Factory Insurance Association of Chicago.
Fire Losses Grow
Stop Sign Work
Indianapolis (U. P.)—Tom Tierney of Indianapolis was stopped cold by a stop sign. Tierney and his wife
were running to catch a bus when she missed him. When she looked back he was stretched out cold on the sidewalk. He had run into the traffic signal post.
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