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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 4,1946
University
DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
NEWS STAFF
NEWS STAFF
**Managing Editor** ... Bill Hage
**Asst. Managing Editor** ... Charles Roos
**Makeup Editor** ... Jane Anderson
**City Editor** ... Marcelia Stewart
**Design City Editor** ... Maria Majer
**Sports Editor** ... Bill Sims
**Men's Intramurals** ... John Finch
**Women's Intramurals** ... Mary Nowitz
**Telegraph Editor** ... Billie Marie Hamilton
**Society Editor** ... Alverta Niedens
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief... James Gunn
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Melvin Adams
Corporate Management Anambra Saylor
Marketing Manager Bob Bonne
Mail 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 holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Is It Worth It?
The A.S.C. ban on student football holidays at the University has been and will be greeted with mixed feelings.
Some ardent, liberty-loving souls will shout down the ruling as tyranny. The more studious will hope that the ruling prevents a walkout.
Universities all over the world (more so in Europe than the United States) have always been the most ardent defenders of liberty and the latest political thought. But some things are worth fighting over and some are not. It should not be forgotten in the heat of mob action that universities are primarily centers of education.
The official attitude, of course, is nothing new. The administration is the defender of law and order at the University and has always adopted a firm stand against impromptu demonstrations and unauthorized holidays. Understandably so. They have set up a schedule which must be kept if the aims of the educational year are to be realized, and the University is required by state law to provide a set number of days of instruction.
Many students who see today the necessity of such a stand will forget tomorrow in the excitement of the victorious moment. Action should not be the result of mob rule and minor agitation but the result of careful thought.
Most mob action in the past has been followed shortly by a feeling of regret by most students—all except those who clutch to their breast the consolation that they have defended to the death their liberty of action.
The University senate and A.S.C. ruling is not tyranny; it is regulation—regulation with representation, it might be added, for the A.S.C. is elected by the student body.
There is only one thought to be considered in demonstrating against a regulation—
Is it worth it?
Pinch Of Coal May Heat Your Home All Winter In Future, Scientists Say
Harrisburg, Pa. (UP)—If atom research in coal goes as far as one Pennsylvania mines official believes it will, you'll be able to carry home in your vest pocket enough power for a winter's heating supply.
Joseph J. Walsh, state deputy mines secretary, said harnessing of atomic energy found in Pennsylvania coal is "entirely within the realm of possibility." Two pounds of coal, he said, carry sufficient energy to operate a 1,000-horsepower motor for 1,900 years.
The atoms in coal have been under intensive research at the School of Mineral Industries at the Pennsylvania State college, but the commonwealth still turns thumbs down on making the findings known.
Hopes that K.U. would exceed the enrollment of M.U. seem blasted now that M.U.'s student body approaches the 10,000 mark.
Letters to the Editor
This column is reserved for the individual student's viewpoint and opinion. All letters must be signed and the student's address given, though the name will be withheld upon request.
Many Books And No Lockers Troubles Sunflower Veteran
To the Daily Kansan: I am taking you up on your suggestion to use the Daily Kansan as a means of bringing something before the faculty and student body of K.U.
I am a new student here at the University—just out of high school—and I thought I was going to attend a school equipped with proper facilities for the student body. But there are no students' lockers in any of the buildings on the campus other than Robinson gymnasium, whose lockers are reserved for athletic use.
I have discussed this matter with several members of the faculty, and here is what I have been told:
1. In the years past there was no need for lockers, as every student lived near the campus and could easily return home to get books needed for a later class.
2. There is a check room in the Union where any student may deposit his books and outer garments.
Now both of these reasons for the lack of lockers in KU. are groundless—or, rather, should I say, illogical. In the first place, it is absolutely preposterous that a student should waste time and energy running up and down the Hill.
In the second place, it is also an unnecessary waste of time to have to walk to the Union from wherever one might happen to be on the campus and stand in line to get service at the checking room.
If material is not at present available for lockers, at least the matter can be laid before the University so that something may be done in the future.
Sunflower Veteran (name withheld by request)
Still No Checks Are Cashed At K.U. Business Office
To the Daily Kansan: Last spring the need for a place on the Hill where students could cash checks became apparent and the problem was stewed over. At last came the announcement that the business office would cash checks—but not until the next semester!
Now that the time has come we go, checkbook in hand, three cents, four Missouri sales tokens in our pocket, up to the business office where we find that only in payment of bills will checks be cashed, which puts the situation back to the same problem as last spring.
Joanne List College Senior
Hill restaurants and book sellers and most drug stores cash checks only up to five dollars and then there is an obligation to buy something. Can't there be some arrangement so that students can cash their checks, without red tape, in a convenient Hill position?
Experimental Locomotive Triples Power By Burning Finely Powdered Coal
Jeanette, Pa. (UP)—A compact, coal-fired gas turbine will power an experimental locomotive being built here.
The gas turbine, fed directly by coal as fine as face powder, will be a simple-cycle machine, rated at 3,750 horsepower. Virtually smokeless, the turbine would eliminate the railroad smoke and cinder nuisance.
One of two ordered for test runs on the nation's major railroads, the locomotive will have double the strength of conventional engines of similar length, and its efficiency is expected to be three times greater.
Writer Advertises Apartment And Gets Telephoned Proposal
Seattle. (UP)—Writer Gary Doremus, Seattle advertised his apartment for rent and got the usual flood of calls, but was stumped when a 23-year-old girl home-seeker asked his age. He replied he was 28. Before he could inform her the place was already rented, she gave the punch line.
"Well, I am 23, and five feet two inches tall, blue-gray eyes and brown hair—will you marry me?"
Mr. Doremus got his breath and tried to explain he couldn't say "yes." The girl cried bitterly.
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