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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 8,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 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 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.
Half Education
One of the absolute requirements of an enduring democracy is a well informed electorate with the ability to think out issues and reach rational conclusions.
We are neglecting a vital factor in our society by allowing our educational system to lag behind its responsibilities. Our principle of equal opportunity for elementary and secondary education has become largely a myth.
The American Council of Education has collected detailed information on public school standards and expenditures for the pre-war 1939-1940 school year. They found the national average yearly expenditure for a schoolroom unit of 30 students was $1,650. For this expenditure it was considered that schools could supply only mediocre education with underpaid teachers and inadequate supplies. It is doubtful that there has been any marked improvement since then.
The proportion of school-age children attending school is high. But the important factor is whether those students are receiving the education they must have in order to become intelligent citizens.
any marked improvement since then.
Kansas, with a $1,500 average, was one of 25 states below the average level. The averages varied from $4,100 in New York to $400 in Mississippi. Almost five million children were attending schools that could afford to spend only $1,000 or less per standard classroom.
Why are we lagging on this important job? The fault in the main is not with the local and state school authorities. In Mississippi the school taxes in ratio to total income was 33 per cent above the ratio throughout the nation. This is typical of tax effort of most states with low school expenditures.
The problem is further complicated by the higher proportion of children in states which can least afford public school costs. Mississippi, with 31 per cent more children, by ratio, than New York, when the survey was taken, had approximately one-fourth as much per capita income to support its schools.
Why should a child's opportunity for a good education be based on how much money his neighbors are earning?
With today's mobility of population, ignorance can't be quarantined. We all suffer in the long run if education falls down in any section of the country.
There seems only one solution to this problem. It is to allocate federal funds where they are needed to bring the nation's school system up to the level that today's children have a right to expect. This can be done without imparting federal control to our schools, as it has been done in the case of land grant colleges.
Coming generations will face an even more compex world. They must be given every opportunity to prepare themselves for their responsibilities. To do anything less would be to neglect our duty to the nation's future.
Those who imbibe will soon have to use more respect when referring to "corn likker." The makers of scotch whisky are now using as much as 75 per cent American corn in making scotch due to the shortage of barley.
An Indiana woman has exploded the law of averages. In a two-year period she put $17,000 into a slot machine without netting a dime. Her employer is quite perturbed. It was his money.
Plans for the Memorial Campanile include a shower room at the top of the tower for the carillonneur who, it is said, will need it after his strenuous job of ringing the bells. We wonder if this convenience will be at the disposal, also, of spectators who have climbed the 350 steps.
Letter to the Editor
University Needs Buildings
—Not Companile —Exley
To the Daily Kansan: Perhaps it is rather late to bring up this subject, but before we go too far with the proposed University Memorial, costing $500.000. I would like to remind both students and faculty that that sum will build a very fine building.
On the campus there are three buildings that are eye-sores, fire-traps, and not large enough to serve a post-war campus. These buildings are Fraser hall, Bailey chemical lab, and Lindley hall.
Which is actually more necessary to the campus, the proposed memorial or some new buildings? I'm sure if a poll of opinion were taken the students would be in favor of using the money for the more practical purpose of new buildings.
JOHN EXLEY
Engineering freshman
Editor's note: The Memorial association is pledged to a project which will benefit all students, not just those who would utilize a certain building in their course of study. They further point out that there are already funds available for building additions to the campus but they must wait because of labor and building material shortages.)
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Notices must be typewritten and must be in Public Relations office, or faxed to the office later than 9:30 a.m. on day of publication. No phone messages accepted.
April 8,1946
Veterans who filed certificates of eligibility and entitlement at the office of the K.U. Veterans' Training Service and did not receive subsistence allowance checks by Friday are requested to report to room 2, Frank Strong hall immediately.
Rock Chalk
Physical Therapy club will meet at 7 tonight at the hospital.
Western Civilization Forum will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Little Theater, Green hall, to discuss "Is a Middle-Way Possible."
All-Student Council will meet at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine room of the Union.
P. S.G.L. Senate will meet at 10 p.m. tomorrow at Battenfeld hall.
By MARILYN STEINERT
Chungking $ ^{(1)} $ (UP)—Lt. Gen, Chou En-Lai, Communist leader, charged today that the government is threatening civil war in Manchuria by attempting to drive Communist forces from major towns before the arrival of Nationalist-Communist-American field terms.
Well they tried. Those aren't birthmarks on Chi O's Jeanne Atkinson, Regina McGeorge, Jean Cunningham, Pat Coolidge and Anne Young. It seems the Phi Psi's had a few Chi O trophies and in an attempt to regain them the girls were branded with crescose and India ink along with being soaked by a bose. (The Phi Psi's still have the trophies.)
You are so right. Sound reasoning about travel on a 19th century stagecoach was delivered by Prof. W. W. Davis when he commented, "After you finished riding several hundred miles on a stagecoach you were more than ready to rest your satchel."
Call Don Aimeche. The Fiiji have installed another telephone. In the process, the "Bell Family" got their wires crossed and the boys still have only one phone with two numbers.
At least she thought it was funny. While Bobby Ford, Alpha Chi, was taking a bath, she was somewhat disturbed to glance around and find a snake also enjoying the serenity of the bath. A little later, Gwen Gupton practically had a heard attack while talking over the phone. She looked up and saw the same snake dangling over the ledge. Marilyn Rosenau thought it was all a good joke.
Chetnik Chief, Former Allied Hero Now on Trial as Nazi Collaborator
We see your point. Bob Glover and Bill Mayer, SAE's, were discussing Bill's cold. When asked if he had taken a hot bath and lemonade Bill replied, "After I drank that hot bath I couldn't keep that lemonade on my stomach."
A word to the wise. Just a word of advice to those who intend visiting the Sigma Chi house "of an evening." Enter with care unless you enjoy a shower at the front door.
Those pessimists who say this generation will never be able to relax and enjoy itself after becoming accustomed to the restraints of war may have something. Even with the better brands back on the market, we still catch ourselves breaking a tick of gum in two.
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE (United Press Staff Correspondent)
The case of Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, former Yugoslav military leader, is on the way to becoming an international issue.
Mukhailovitch led Yugoslav guerilla resistance to the Nazis in the early days of the war and was hailed as a hero by the Allies, who gave him what support they could. Then Marshal Titos' partisans gained the ascendancy in the struggle for national liberation.
The two factions fought each other as well as the Germans, and Mikhailovitch was repudiated by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1944 as disloyal to the Allied cause. Allied support was switched to Tito
Now Mikhallovitch, long a hunted man, has been captured with a handful of his once large forces. The Tito government has announced that he will be tried as a war criminal and collaborator, intimating that his execution by a firing squad is a foregone conclusion.
An effort to get the United Nations interested in the case was made last week by members of the former Yugoslav exile government in London. A long appeal was cabled to Trygve Lie, secretary general, and to foreign ministers of all the United Nations.
The appeal to the United Nations on behalf of Mikhailovitch has not met with any response, nor does there seem any chance of its being considered, since no question of a threat to world peace is concerned.
Basically, the Mikhaiovitch dispute arose from a struggle between the right and left in Yugoslavia. Tito's partisans, supported by Soviet Russia, accused the Mikhaiovitch Chetniks of collaborating with the German invader and trying to sell out the country to attain power.
Chetnik supporters claimed that the partisans were not fighting against the invaders but against the national resistance movement, seeking to set up communistic rule after Germany's collapse.
The United States, however, has intervened to the extent of sending a formal note to the Yugoslav government, urging a fair hearing at the trial.
Washington's note recalled the Mikhailovitch forces gave important assistance to the Allied cause in 1941 and also that "many United States airmen were rescued and returned to Allied lines through the undaunted efforts of General Mikhailovitch's forces."
The United States did not suggest direct interference with Yugoslavia's handling of the case, but proposed that American military men who have direct knowledge of Mikhailovitch's activities and how he "contributed with his forces materially to the Allied cause" be allowed to testify in his behalf at the trial.
It is not certain that Great Britain will support the United States in the matter. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin side-stepped with an evasive answer when questioned in parliament yesterday. He went only so far as to observe cautiously that "the government recognize that General Mikhailovitch did perform useful duties to the Allies at one stare."
Nevertheless, the United States' note will require an answer from Yugoslavia, with a logical explanation if the request is refused. The difference of opinion on the Mikhailovitch matter is too widespread to be ignored.
Chinese Theater to Close May 1
Shanghai, (UP)—Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer announced today that the U. S. army's Chinese theater of operation will be shut down on May 1.
Wedemeyer told a press conference that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 army troops will remain in China after May 1 to handle disposal of surplus property, assist the Chinese to repatriate Japanese, help move the Chinese armies, train Chinese troops, and assist Gen. George C. Marshall's peace mission.
Deactivation of the Chinese theater will speed up the return of U. S. marines from northern China, Wedemeyer said.
Chicago, (UP)—The city of Wichita and state of Iowa were today awarded grand prizes in a traffic safety contest sponsored by the National Safety council.
Spring Heat Wave
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
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