PAGETWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MAY 22,1946 Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the National Advertising Service. 420 Madison Ave., New York City Mail subscription: $2 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence K., anew every afternoon during the school week and Sundays, University holidays and examination periods. Exemption as second class Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Patricia Penney Asst. Managing Editor Bill Hage Assoc. Manager Chris Roos Tokraphy Editor Jane-Andrew City Editor Marian Thomson Sports Editor Bill Sims Society Editor Martha Jewett Staff Artist...Richard Bibler EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief LeMoyne Frederickl Editorial Associate John Conard Billie M. Hamilton Grace Mullenberg Ast. City Editors Business Manager - Virginia Van Order Manager - Ann Scott Assistant Manager - Marcella Stewart Reverdy Mullins, Jr. State Editor Alamada Bollier Eleanor Thompson Assistant (for classified) Circulation Manager Promotion Manager Patricia Marie Anne Young A Harness for Old Muddy For many years the season of spring has been synonymous with the season of floods for millions of people along the Missouri river and its tributaries. During the first four years of the 1940's those floods destroyed nearly 150 million dollars worth of property and inundated 2,250,000 acres of land The Missouri river basin covers a 10-state area, is 1,300 miles long and 700 miles wide, and embraces one-sixth of our land and seven million of our people. In spite of this river's great importance to the Middle West, concerted efforts for its control and development were not begun by the Bureau of Reclamation until the late 1930's. During 1944 two plans were presented to Congress for the control and development of the Missouri river valley. One of these was a Missouri Valley authority plan modeled on the T.V.A. The other plan was a system of development and control by army engineers, often called the Pick-Sloan plan. The plan finally adopted was the Pick-Sloan plan, now referred to as the Missouri River Basin Plan, and backed by a two billion dollar fund. Last week construction began on the Kortes Dam and Power plant, 60 miles southwest of Casper, Wyo. This is the first major project in the Missouri River Basin plan which calls for more than 100 dams, 150 irrigation projects, more than 20 power plants, and hundreds of miles of flood-control levees and dikes. The present program is designed to accomplish much in harnessing "Old Muddy" but critics of the plan continue to press for the adoption of the M.V.A. They point out that the present project concentrates too much on various flood control measures along the Missouri river with too little attention to the reclamation of eroded land and proper control of the many tributary streams and rivers. They stress the fact that the area drained by the Missouri and its tributaries far exceeds the Tennessee valley area and for that_reason there should be a more unified and comprehensive program that will benefit all the inhabitants of the valley as the T.V.A, has done in its area. The present plan is a good start but it should be only the first stage of a larger program in turning the Missouri into a servant of the Middle West rather than a destroyer of its land and property. At a time when the Middle West is looking forward to its greatest era of industrial and agricultural development, the harnessing of the Missouri river and its tributaries will be a major factor in its future. We see Spike Jones, the orchestra leader, has thrown his hat into the ring for governor of Oregon. It might be a good thing if he won. There are plenty politicians playing the role of Nero nowdays and they could probably use a leader. As if things weren't bad enough, Secretary Vinson has admitted that the multi-billion-dollar loan to Britain would result in a direct economic rivalry between Anglo-American interests and Russia. One radio commentator recommends that we send John L. Lewis to the next peace conference to bargain with Molotov. Mississippi Care Reconversion Director Snyder has recommended that the national government take steps to cope with the needs of greater college accommodations for more than two million students. Representative Rankin of Mississippi was quick to voice the opinion that it was purely a job for the states to handle. He said, "We are taking care of our people in Mississippi and other states can do likewise." In the school year of 1942-43 Mississippi spent less than any other state per child on primary and secondary education, only $34.60. Also she paid her teachers the lowest salaries in the nation, an average of $654 per school year. Is that taking care of a people's education? We don't know about the condition in Mississippi's colleges but if her primary and secondary schools are any indication, we would hardly say that Mississippi is "taking care of her people." We find out that the women of the country own or control 65 per cent of the nation's money. Now we know why the country is in an economic mess. When President Truman first entered the race for Senator from Missouri, his biggest backers were a group of railroad men. Now the railroad men are giving him one of his biggest domestic headaches. Attack the Source of His Power —From the St. Louis Star-Times Jobby Lobby (IX): Zoologists Need Initiative, Good Grades By RAYMOND HALL (Professor of Zoology) An ability to impart to others, by writing and speaking, what the zoologist discovers or recommends is a must. Initiative and a bump of originality, as in other undertakings, are two of the zoologist's most useful tools. In the past three weeks the department of zoology and the Museum of Natural History have received requests for four histologists, two physiologists, one paleontologist, nine general zoologists, five ichthyologists and five mammalologists. The demand for general zoologists, ichthyologists and mammalogists is expected to continue Some of these positions are in universities and colleges, where a combination of teaching and research is required, but most of them are in research organizations, as for example, federal and state agencies. The salaries offered range all the way from $2,000 to $12,000 per year. Openings are for persons who have obtained the master of arts degree or the doctor of philosophy degree and do not take into account the scores of openings for senior students and beginning graduate students who are needed at K.U. and other universities to serve as teaching assistants at stipends of $750 to $1050 while continuing work for higher degrees. A genuine interest in wild animal life and the out-of-doors is one recommendation for success but in itself not enough. Practical experience on the job and good grades in courses are other essentials. By means of field courses in summer session and between sessions when students do their work on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains, K.U. provides "on the job experience." Good grades work out this way: when a request is received for a vertebrate zoologist to work in Nebraska or Tibet, three good students are recommended. All are interviewed and one is chosen. The poor student hears about the best jobs only after they are filled! Rock Chalk Talk By STUBBS and SHELDON First reactions. Marjorie Star must have thought Corbin hall wa having a picnic breakfast the other morning. When the 7:30 bell rang, Mari jumped out of bed, glanced out the window at the pouring rain, groped in the closet, and started out the door and down the steps putting on her raincoat as she went. She was nearly to the first floor before Bobe Parker, also a bit drowsy, noticed her and remarked, "New robe, Mari?" But maybe she knew what she was doing. They had grapefruit for breakfast. That smooth Potter mud. Bob Southern and Carl Meyer might have appreciated a water-proof covering of some sort one evening last week when the Kappa Sig pledges decided to give their pledge trainers a surprise dunking party. A wolf at any age. Mary K. Sims found out Friday that when it comes wolfing age doesn't make any difference. She was on a train with her brother enroute to Burlington, Ia. and happened to be sitting in the club car between two very happy middle-aged gentlemen who became increasingly inebriated and insisted on becoming better acquainted. Finally her brother came to the rescue, leaving two sad and dejected men. Attack and counter-attack. The D.G.'s paid a "visit" to the Sigma Nu lodge while the boys were at a Theta hour dance last week. Used to their neighbor's pranks the Sigma Nu's set out across the clearing in seach of vengeance, and the D. G.'s. When the forces met, pandemonium broke loose in the D.G. abode. Bob Dawson is still nursing bites on his leg and some D. G. must be a jujitsu artist for Bud Seaman sailed through the air and landed with a thud in Dick Parcell's face. Anyway the Sigma Nu's regained their loving cups and peace, if only temporary, has returned to the West Hills neighbors. Kittens for sale. Dean Donald M. Swarthout will soon be putting out a sign reading, 'Please--doesn't someone want a kitten?", if he doesn't find a way of getting rid of 13 of them soon. The Dean gives daily reports to his a cappella choir on the rapidly changing number of feline boarders. Open house. Monday evening during chapter meeting, three unidentified D.U.'s took advantage of the situation and removed the front door of the Gamma Phi house. But three Gamma Phi pledges sitting at an upstairs window couldn't miss seeing their door traveling down the walk on six legs. After much persuasion the door was returned to its hinges. It seems the feud started when four Gamma Phi's attending a dinner at the DU, house removed their dinner bell. A ripping good time. Elaine Thalman must have enjoyed the a capella choir trip to K.C. Sunday, As she was stepping out of the bus, she ripped the side off of her coat and then she sat down on a splintery chair and got five runs in her nylons. But she didn't say a word—Sunday, you know. "Welcome home, Conk." Eugene Conkin has made big plans for his "veteran comes home" party. It seems he doesn't think the first one was staged properly, so he plans to drive to DeSoto and take a train to Lawrence for the real thing. (Notice: University band required, and all feminine volunteers please phone 975.) The girl and the squirrel. Screams from the roof of the Tri Delt house brought the girls to the roof en mass. Norma Jean Snyder had been taking a sun bath when a squirrel dropped to the roof and started chasing her (or so she says). Armed with brooms and mops the girls finally persuaded the squirrel to leave. But that wasn't all. That evening he returned and hid in Bobbie Meyer's closet. There were more screams and more swinging of brooms and mops before he left. Some people just don't know when they aren't wanted. Oil was extracted from shale in Scotland as early as 1694.