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MAY 22,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Map-Makers Fix Postwar Atlas, Cross Their Fingers, Hope For Best
Chicago. (UP) — "When is a nation not a nation?" is a question that has Rand, McNally and company, the commercial map-makers, peering puzzling at a globe.
To school children it's very simple. A nation is a country that shows up as a globe of red or of yellow on a man
But Rand McNally has to decide how big that glob should be, or whether it should be on the map at all.
And that calls for global thinking
Back in that era for global thinking
Back in 1939, Czechoslovakia almost broke off diplomatic relations with the map company when it smeared Germany down over what had been Czechoslovakia.
"We had quite an exchange of correspondence with the then Czech minister of the government in-exile to the U.S." according to Dr. Carl H Mapes, Rand McNally's research geographer.
"But it was a matter of fact and record that Germany had taken over what had been Czechoslovakia. In determining when a nation isn't a nation, we ask who controls the customs, ports, banks and so forth. If you wanted to go to Czechoslovakia in 1839 you'd have had to apply to the German government for your visa."
"Our duty as map-makers," Dr. Mapes said, "is to show the world as it actually is, not as it is wished it is. We have been accused of being pro-Nazi, pro-Japanese and color-blind."
After V-J Day the company waited for the diplomats to announce squatters' rights and define boundaries. But when the council of foreign ministers exploded in resounding silence in London last fall, they decided to go ahead with the publication of new maps.
Nervous break-downs did not become the occupational disease of mapmakers until 1931. That was the year Japan took over Manchuria from China and dubbed it Manchuko.
Then Italy gobbled Ethiopia, having Albania for dessert. Rand McNally rushed to the colors, but China, Ethiopia and Albania thought they were the wrong colors.
Their forthcoming atlas will show nations as determined by three things:
One—Armistice terms.
Three—Bilateral treaties.
And then company officials will retire to air-raid shelters to await the wrath to come.
Pony Express Brings Gala Hutchinson Mail
Hutchinson. (UP) — Around a mile-long table, running down the center of Hutchinson's main street, citizens celebrated the 75th anniversary of the town's founding in a picnic Thursday climaxing a week's observance of the Diana Jubilee
The frontier celebration went into full stride last night when "pony Express" rider Paul Long dashed up to deposit his bag of mail, including letters from President Truman to Wagon Boss Jay Wooten and from senators, congressmen and other notables. Long and other riders had carried the pouch from St. Joseph, Mo.
Approximately 100 couples, all married more than 50 years, took part in a special golden wedding ceremony.
Navy Asks For Ships With Atomic Energy
Washington. (UP)—The Navy has asked congress for funds to develop atomic energy plants as a source of power for propelling ships—particularly submarines.
Capt. R. D. Conrad, director of scientific planning for the naval office of research and inventions, urged the house appropriations committee to grant $1,500,000 for the necessary research. He said that submarines will soon be "obsolescent" unless greater power plants can be developed.
A paint brush is recommended as a good duster for wicker porch furniture because it reaches into corners better than a dust cloth.
Vancouver, B.C. (UP) — As for its importance, this story is peanuts, but:
Nuts to You. Too
Vancouver police arrested Mike Vida and charged him with stealing from a department store recently.
His loot consisted of two packages of peanuts — worth 25 cents.
Californià Gets Shipyard Houses
Richmond, Calif. (UP) -- "Vet Village," part of a vast housing project, where workers in Henry J. Kaiser's bustling but now almost deserted shipyards once lived, is the University of California's answer to the housing problem brought on by a record enrollment of ex-servicemen.
When the spring term opened in March, the Berkeley campus found itself with a total of more than 15,000 students — 92 per cent above last year's enrollment — with a record total of 4,000 veterans enrolled under the GI Bill of Rights.
The college was faced with an acute housing problem because few of the 64 war-closed fraternities have reopened and an always-present San Francisco bay area shortage of housing left few vacancies for veterans.
The immediate solution was the Richmond Housing authority, a sprawling collection of two-story apartment dwellings which at its wartime peak housed 20,850 shipyard workers who labored in Kaiser's four shipyards here.
Still in business, but now renting only to veterans, the RHA turned over a total of 30 units to the college—15 to house single veterans and 15 for married ex-servicemen. In addition to the servicemen who quickly filled "Vet Village," several hundred married ex-GF's went directly to the RHA and rented quarters.
Housing authority officials estimated as many as half of the 4000 veterans enrolled are quartered in the Richmond project.
Since single men receive only $65 a month under the GI Bill of Rights for subsistence, the college offered the furnished apartments to ex-servicemen for $12.50 a month per student. Usually, two men share a three-room apartment, which includes bedroom, living room, kitchen and bath.
Married men, granted $30 by the government, usually pay rent of $30 a month — or even less, if they seek a rent adjustment from the housing authority and prove their inability to pay the regular rate.
A "housemother" serves as supervisor over every two apartment houses in "Vet Village." None of them yet has reported any difficulty in enforcing discipline or the few house rules set up by the university, barring frequent violations of the 10:30 weekday curfew imposed on lower classmmen.
"It is somewhat difficult" one supervisor explained, "for an ex-army major in his 30s to have a 21-year-old upper-classman tell him he has to be in by 10:30 p.m. during the week."
Babylonians used the first wheeled vehicles about 3,000 B. C.
The college also grants meal tickets at low weekly rates and preserves the armed forces' custom of "seconds at chow" in an effort to help the ex-GI meet his budget.
Plane Wreckage, After Hitting Skyscraper
Wreckage of a two-motored army transport plane hangs over the 12th floor of the parapet of the 70-story Bank of Manhattan building in New York City, after the plane crashed and exploded against the stone side of the skyscraper. Five persons were killed as the plane, lost in a fog, collided with the tall structure. (NEA Telephoto)
Maybe He Didn't Know French, But, Ooo La, That Folies Bergere
By FREDERICK OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent
Paris. (UP)—A motherly looking woman with marcelled white hair in the lobby of the Folies Bergere said did I want to see them weegle?
My knowledge of French is limited to the restaurant menu. Even then I frequently get creamed fish when I expect lamb stew. The Folies Bergere can't possibly corrupt my morals.
The theater wasn't as big as the lobby, but it was fancy in an 1880 style with red plush seats, a pipe organ, an enormous orchestra tottling full blast, and a series of church bells on the proscenium which went bong to emphasize the jokes. The show began like a cheap burlesque and then to my everlasting amazement it turned into the most elaborately staged and costumed review I ever saw.
I said what weegle? She produced a postcard with a nude figure on it. When held in front of an incandescent lamp it wegged. For 50 francs, she said, it would weegle the rest of my life.
Minsky's was never like this. The lobby was cavernous. Around the edges were shops selling the weegle postcards; handsomely framed oil paintings of the stars fully clothed, half clothed, and unclothed; dolls and statues of same; photo albums of ditto; and books of jokes; some of which I understand aren't politic.
It made productions like "Oklahoma" and "Up in Central Park," look small time.
The girls came out in swirls of brocades, sequins, satins, silk, furs, ostrich feathers and taleum powder.
The show lasted from 8:15 until midnight, with 20 minutes out for a glass of weak beer, and the longer it continued the more surprising became the thousands of yards of glitter which went into the gowns.
The stage swirled. New sets came down from above without the curtain ever falling and the designers achieved numerous effects of perspective by placing the performers of hidden hooks all the way to the ceiling.
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The management hid some from the Germans, begged, borrowed, that the New York producers might drop over here now and again for some new ideas such as how to produce a comedy skit in a funeral parlor.
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Button front ... $5
Slip Overs ... $3.50 & $5
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U.S., Britain Consult Arabs About Palestine
Washington. (UP)—The United States and Great Britain have begun the consultation with Arab and Jewish interests over the report of the Anglo-American committee on Palestine.
Coffeyville Employees Strike for More Pay
Jumbo Stitch
The State department announced today that the United States has requested comment from seven Arab governments, three Arab groups and nine Jewish organizations on the report. Principal recommendations of the committee were for the immediate admission of 100,000 European Jews into Palestine and against establishment of Palestine as a strictly Jewish state.
Coffeyville. (UP) — Twenty city employees—13 of them electrical workers in the municipal power plant and seven in the water department went on strike Friday supporting demands for a 40-hour week and an 18 per cent pay increase.
Skeleton forces were left in each plant to continue limited operations during the strike. The employees have peen on a 44-hour weekly work schedule.
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