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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 1,1946
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.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence Kau, $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence Kau, 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.
Write For Action
With the large problems of housing, eating, and classes out of the way, minor problems probably will soon assume larger and more exasperating proportions.
Minor problems have a way of solving themselves—in time. But the quickest and surest way of solving such problems is to bring them to the attention of the authorities who can do something about them.
The first step is recognition of the problem. Rather than letting the situation get booted around until everyone has lost tempers over it, you might tell everyone about it by writing a letter to the editor of the Daily Kansan.
The second step is making everyone realize that there is a problem. The quickest way of doing that is to publish the details of the problem in the Daily Kansan.
The third step—and the quicker it is arrived at the better—is the solution of the problem. Make your complaints. Make your suggestions for improvement. The administration authorities are as eager to solve your problems as you are to have them solved. But they cannot be everywhere, see everything. Your complaints are necessary for their action.
For the quickest, the surest way of making the University efficient and making your University life smooth and unperturbed by unnecessary inconveniences, write a letter to the Daily Kansan. We will do the rest.
Wingless Victory
The hot pilots are with us again.
Having handed in their wings, with a last, sad, nostalgic glance at their battered thousand- mission caps, they are now determined to prove that they don't have to have wings to be brave and reckless and free.
As long as they have a few horses under the hood they know that life can be exciting and beautiful.
As they go speeding along in their jeeps or jalopies, perhaps a song is singing in their hearts—the song of the birdmen who live in the pure rarified air up above the clouds, the song of the flyboys zooming and thundering.
And they come as close to hedgehopping as it is possible to come in that (alas!) wingless creation, the automobile.
We don't much care if the boys are brave and reckless and free. We don't much care if they sprout new wings—real ones this time. But we do think they might slow down a little for the rest of us who don't want wings—at least for a while yet.
It's probably too much to ask.
The spirit of tolerance seems to be abroad these days as the Douglas county commissioners remove the beer-dance ban. And just in time, too, we might say.
Letter 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.
Stags And Tags Too Few Returned Student Writes
To the Daily Kansan: I'd like to note a "sign of the times," that to me is seemingly in reverse of the expected.
Previous to Saturday night, the last varsity I had attended was in the fall of 1941, held in what is now the Union ballroom cafeteria. If you were there then or in preceding years, you'll remember the huge stag line, present at every varsity or mid-week, congregated along the pillars down the center of the floor. And, what's more, there was unrestricted and profuse tagging.
Well, Saturday night there were only a handful of stags, and most of them too reserved to tag. As for myself, I started energetically into the business of what stags usually do, but by intermission time I was practically defeated. Although I had carefully checked third finger left hand and the side of the ladies' blouses before I made my approach, 12 attempts to tag brought only eight dances. One-third of the fellows refused to release their dates for one dance.
Has anyone noticed that the policeman on duty at Jayhawk drive and Mississippi street is gone at noon—the most congested part of the day? Where has he gone—to lunch perhaps?
Now, mind you, all I'm doing is making an observation of what I consider to be a "sign of the times" that is backwards—not complaining.
Anyhow, I vote for bigger and better stag lines, and free and abundant tagging. (How else is the minority going to get to know the majority?)
Graduate Student (name withheld by request)
Scientists Toss Bomb In Laps Of Politicians
By ROBERT J. MANNING (United Press Staff Correspondent) $ ^{*} $
Lake Success, N.Y. (UP)—Scientists of 12 United Nations have released an unprecedented document which said in effect that the task of outlawing atomic warfare was strictly a job for the world's politicians.
The document for the most part erased all doubts that world control of atomic energy is technologically possible.
In a blueprint for the guardians of world peace, the scientists warned that diversion of atomic products for military purposes became easier with each progressive step in their manufacture. Diversion of nuclear fuel is much easier than diversion of raw ore, they said.
The document made only one concrete recommendation:
The document was a 22-page report of the United Nations atomic energy commission's scientific and technical committee. It represented the first small vestige of unanimous agreement yet achieved by the United States, Russia, Britain, and the nine other nations on the commission on the subject of international control of atomic power.
The scientists agreed that on the basis of available data-admittedly incomplete and subject to future developments—the surest and easiest way to prevent the clandestine manufacture of atomic weapons would be to establish control at the initial source of atomic power—the mines containing deposits of uranium and thorium ore, the raw material for atomic fission.
"Adequate safeguards" at the mines, the report said, probably could prevent any diversion of atomic raw materials to warlike uses.
It added that safeguards could be applied with steadily increasing difficulty, at each of the next three stages of atomic development—the extraction and production of uranium and thorium compounds, the production of metal for insertion in "reactors" and the production of the actual atomic fuels—uranium 233 and 235 and plutonium 239.
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