PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS The University Daily Kansan Student Newspaper of the OCTOBER 9.1946 Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association National Editorial Association, and the Association Advertising Service. Beloved by the National Advertising Society, 420 Madison Ave. New York City. Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $450 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 holidays, and examination periods. Booked on Wednesday, September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Bill Hauge Asst. Managing Editor Charles Roos Makeup Editor Jane Anderson Marcellone Stewart Marcella Stewart Asst. City Editor Billie Hamilton Telegram Editor, Billie Marie Hamilton Society Editor Alverta Niedens EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief James Gunn BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Melvin Adams Advertising Manager ... Bob Brenkale Manager ... Bob Brenkale Bob Brenkale There have been subterranean rumblings among many veteran students concerning an additional $60 a semester deducted from their annual $500 by the University. The system of compensatory fees has been approved by the Veterans' administration to allow colleges and universities to handle the increased enrollment, most of which is made up of veterans attending school under the provisions of the G.I. Bill of Rights. G.I.'s Fees It's true and it's no secret. The story came out in the Daily Kansan on June 3. Had such a fee not been allowed, the University would have had to turn away several thousand students, since the legislature made provision for only 4,000-4,500 students, about half of the present enrollment. In a state-owned and subsidized university such as K.U. it must be obvious that the fees collected do not cover the costs of education. Furthermore, the system of book-keeping for the veterans is another added expense. It is needless to go into the various expenses the University has been put to in order to handle the greatly enlarged enrollment: housing, eating, instruction costs. Now the University is asking the Veterans' administration for permission to increase the fee to $6.61 per semester hour; this figure is based on a detailed study of teaching costs and on a formula laid down by the V.A. This figure is not out of line with that of other schools, most of whom followed this system last year. Kansas State charges $6.60 per semester hour, Emporia State Teachers college, $8.89. These fees are not charged indiscriminately. Out*-of-state students are charged only such an additional amount over out-of-state fees as could be collected from a resident vetern. The compensatory fee will make no difference to most veteran students. Few of them will overdraw the $500 a year allowance. For those few, it will mean that they must pay cash in the amount exceeded or allow the V.A. to deduct time from their eligibility period at the rate of $2.10 a day. Possibly the only veterans who will find that the deduction affects them adversely will be the medical and dental students whose fees run consistently high and whose schooling is longer than most other courses. For them the deduction will probably mean that they must finance part of their education out of their own pocket. Letter to Editor A.S.C. Should Be Replaced, College Freshman Writes To the Daily Kansan: With much forethought and consideration I wish to present to the minds of the student body a plan by which much trouble and useless worry may be prevented. We have all realized in one way or another the inadequacies of our present system of student government. The walkouts, the memorial decision, the fieldhouse, the election and representation system, and the political party abuence have all been major, but uncertain problems which sometimes have not been cleared up. These and other questions in the past might easily have been solved simply and without hard feelings or misunderstanding if our student government had been a better representation of a larger number of students. I definitely am not attacking any individual or the All-Student Council as a group, but rather the organization and conditions with which they were forced to work. My proposal is that the present student leaders now on the student council initiate the following changes so badly needed. With due respect I submit a plan whereby the present A.S.C. be dissolved and a bicameral house set up in its place. The lower branch of this house, composed of representatives either from all organizations or from each of the classes in all schools, or perhaps best from nomination by an equal division of the student roster by alphabet. This lower house would then elect an upper house from its midst to be the executive council. Such a plan as this, with careful thought and work, would bring about a much greater representation and a more equal allotment of political powers. The rest of the world is readjusting. Why shouldn't we? Bruce T. Bathurst College Freshman No Steel For Addition To Union Building Twenty-six tons of steel are preventing University students from having a canteen and roof garden. Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, said that construction will begin about March 1, or as soon as the Constant Construction company can get the needed reinforcement. The present fountain will be enlarged into a canteen which will accommodate between 1,500 and 2,000 during the noon hour. Short order lunches will be served. The roof garden will be on top of the canteen and may be entered from the canteen or from the Union cafeteria level. Miss Wilma Jean Thiele, '45, is now employed by the Woman's Home Companion, New York. A journalism major, she previously worked as a reporter on the Kansas City Kansan. Thiele To New York What This Country Needs Is A Good Five Cents, Says Moran By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN (United Press Staff Correspondent Washington. (UP) — Jim Moran announces from his Hollywood, Calif., headquarters that he is campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate. The Jim Moran. Who sits on ostrich eggs until they hatch. I'm afraid he will win. He always does. This is a pity. I know. The senator is a friend of mine. I would live longer if he weren't. Senator Moran is running on the slogan: What this country needs is a good five cents. Period. Fellow citizens, when he begins making our laws, look out. Better yet, flee. You may remember when the senator (secretly subsidized by the Ice-freeze Ice Box Co.) made his widely publicized trip to Alaska to sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. This brought chuckles to a nation unsuspecting that his ambitions reached to the senate, itself. Paramount Pictures, Inc., said, yes, if the price were right it could use a good flea. It needed one to pose on the back of Parisian street gamin, name of Claudette Colbert. The senator sold his flea to Paramount for $700. This, as it turned out, was a net loss to the stockholders; Miss Colbert said she loved her art, but without fleas. Senator Moran was unabashed. You have read how he spent two weeks in Washington seeking a needle in a haystack on Connecticut avenue; how he led to the hotel room in New York of Gellatte Burgess (who wrote the poem about the purple cow) a pure-bred Holstein he had dved purple. The senator returned to the mainland with a pedigreed Alaskan Flea and 100 pounds of ice that he personally had chopped from the living heart of an Alaskan glacier. This ice, he said, was a billion years old. Harder and colder than any other ice and guaranteed to give a highball an extra zing. He sold it to creulous bibblers for $1.25 a pound. The flea he stored in a cage at my house in Hollywood. While I itched at the thought of it, the senator negotiated with the motion picture makers. Did any of them need a really fine flea? The only time he did not was when he wrote a murder mystery in three acts and 30 scenes. He had 32 copies of it made, because there were 32 agents selling plays to producers on broadway. How, he asked himself, was he to make sure they read it? These and other exploits have given the senator a national reputation. They also have made him a Croesus. You think he does these things free? Haw-haw-haw. He's always got a sponsor. The senator had Yucca Salamunich, the celebrated sculptor, produce the plaster heads of a beautiful woman. Senator Moran painted these in lifelike colors, with plenty of blood around their freshly-severed necks. He placed his human heads in lavender hat boxes, tied with ribbons, and forwarded one to each of the 32 agents in New York. Seven of them fainted. Three de- Seven of them fainted. Three demanded police protection. Eight appealed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The rest were scared, but quiet. They never did read Senator Moran's drama but they will. He'll write a law, probably with smoke in the sky from a jet plane piloted by himself. California voters, I plead with you: Stop Moran or forever suffer the consequences. $1,857 Budget Approved For Union Activities A budget totaling $1,857 was accepted at a recent meeting of the Union activities committee. Appropriations for the K. U. Union amount to $958. Sunflower Union appropriations are $450 in addition to a $499 gift from last year's Union appropriations. New Price Estimates Made On Watson Library Addition Plans drawn up last year for additions to Watson library are being reconsidered and new estimates as to the cost of building materials studied, George M. Beal, professor of architecture, said today. At present the dormitory projects have precedence over all other matters, but the library-congestion will be met as soon as possible. He added lack of building materials is our primary difficulty. Phi Sigma Will Meet To Appoint Committees Program and initiation committees will be appointed for Phi Sigma, study and discussion club of the biology department which meets 5:15 p.m. tomorrow in 206 Snow hall. A date for regular monthly meetings will be decided at the meeting. 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