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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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APRIL 1, 1946
K.U. Professors Plus Laboratories Minus Sleep Equal New Facts
"Research programs are a necessary complement to good teaching."
That is the way E. B. Stouffer, University dean, sums up the attitude of the University concerning the importance of research within schools.
"The best research workers are those who work late at night and who begin work early in the morning. They cannot be stopped, and they have little time for social gatherings, he explained.
"Many times discoveries are made that, though of no practical use at the time of discovery, become useful as the basis for a new development later," he said. "For example, helium, a lighter-than-air gas for airships, was realized some time after a University staff member discovered it."
He mentioned that there is a postwar increase in the research activity on the campus, particularly in the departments of entomology, chemistry, bacteriology, biology, zoology, and geology. The last two now rank with the best in the world, he said.
Research at the University of Kansas is dependent upon the individual initiative within the various departments, and upon the teaching requirements of the professors and assistants. No limit is placed upon individuals.
"If the man wishes to sit up all night working on his project, he is free to do so," Dean Stouffer commented.
Most of the research is done by members of the regular teaching staff. A salary is paid to each one with the specification that he spend as much time as possible on research. This, of course, is regulated by the teachings on each professor or instructor, Dean Stouffer continued.
The only full-time research men on the staff are those employed in the Research foundation. This organization is not financed directly by University funds but is supported by industry which pays money to have certain problems solved. These funds are given to the University which hires the staff to work on the problems presented.
"It is difficult to measure the extent and the expenditures of research in the departments," Dean Stouffer suggested. "The needs of each department are determined by its own personnel in accordance with the projects being carried on."
The lasting benefits of research activities often are revealed through publications, according to Dean Stouffer. Many publications on research accomplishments are issued by the University. In this way, he said, the University lets the world know what it is doing.
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Perhaps discoveries are now being made that will add dramatically to the benefits of science to mankind. Some research projects will pass into oblivion. But research at the University goes on and only time can evaluate its worth.
New York. (UP)—A top price of $100, the highest ever charged for a ticket to a boxing match, was set today by promoter Mike Jacobs for the heavyweight championship fight June 19 between titleholder Joe Louis and challenger Billy Conn.
The bout, to be held in Yankee stadium, is expected to gross more than $5,000,000 including picture and television rights.
In revealing the scale of prices Jacobs said that he already had received orders for more than $1,000, 000 worth of tickets.
First Commercial Flight
San Francisco. (UP)—A Pan American World airways clipper landed at Seattle, Wash., Saturday to complete the first commercial airline flight between the Orient and the United States over the great circle route.
The big transport plane completed the 4,789 mile flight from Tokyo in 23 hours, 16 minutes, including a stopover at Adak, Alaska.
Y.W. Posts Sought By Breed, Walker
Election of Y.W.C.A. officers will be in Frank Strong hall until 3 p.m. and in the Union after 3 p.m. tomorrow.
Candidates are president: Mary Breed, College junior, and Octavia Walker, College junior; vice-president, the defeated candidate for president; secretary: Norma Kennedy Fine Arts junior, and Elizabeth Sifers, College freshman; treasurer, Elizabeth Evans, College sophomore, and Jean Francisco, College junior.
Candidates for All Student Council representative are Emily Stacey, College junior, and Rita Rose Wicklin, College junior. District representative candidate is Mary Wisner, College somohore. Candidates for delegates to the student religious council are Caroline Morris-, Fine Arts junior, Emalouse Britton, College somohore, Betty vanderSmissen, College freshman, and Melba Whiting, College sophomore, two of these candidates to be elected.
An informal tea will be held in the Men's lounge of the Union at 4 p.m. tomorrow to introduce the candidates. Only members who have paid their dues are eligible to vote.
EM, Officers' Uniforms Will Be Same in 1948
Washington (UP)—The War department announced today after June 30, 1948, officers and enlisted men of the army will dress in identical olive drab uniforms of the kind new worn by GI's and will adopt a new-type blue dress uniform.
The olive drab uniform, including plain trousers and battle jacket, is now worn by many officers as well as enlisted men.
The War department said the new regulation paved the way for adoption of dress blue uniforms for officers and men, provided they can be manufactured without interfering with production of civilian clothing.
If available, the blues will be worn by officers and men after June 30 1948, for dress and special occasions If the blues do not became available olive drab jackets and trousers will serve for both duty and dress.
Experimental models of the dress blue uniform include a brass-buttoned sack - type coat, matching vest and visor cap in medium weight wool.
Pipiag will be the color of an individual's branch or arm of service. The officer's dress uniform is similar except for the insignia, the war department said.
The new standard jacket and trousers will supplant the many-colored mixture of shirts, blouses, jackets, and trousers which have been recognized as official army uniforms particularly for officers.
The War department said the army would abandon various types of long and short overcoats. Instead, a combination overcoat-raincoat with detachable lining will be adopted.
The War department said the decision to adopt the same uniform for officers and men had nothing to do with current scrutiny of the so-called "caste system" between officers and men.
More than 160 juniors and seniors took the English proficiency examination Saturday in Lindley hall. They had a choice of 17 subjects on which to write.
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U.S. Must Continue Electronic Research To Insure Security
Washington. (UP)—The man who devised the Flying Fortress tactics against Germany, and instituted the disastrous Superfortress incendiary raids on Japanese industry, warned the country today it must go to new lengths in research to assure future security.
He is Maj. Gen, Curtis E. Lemay, recently named deputy chief of air staff for research and development. And he sees almost boundless opportunities for technical development.
The signal corps, in contacting the moon by radar, demonstrated how such a vehicle could be controlled electronically, he explained. The limiting factor is the requirement for concentrating sufficient fuel to carry the missile that far, or to accelerate it up to seven miles a second, required to escape the earth's gravity. LeMay said the required power might be achieved by combustion, if not, by atomic power.
Le May said the air forces already has a complete program for developing guided missiles, including anti-aircraft missiles, which will eventually render all current aircraft obsolete. But these antiaircraft missiles will be impotent against attacks at supersonic speeds.
"A rocket capable of reaching the moon could deliver a tremendous blow anywhere in the world at speeds which would defy detection or interception," he said.
"We cannot develop airight aerial defenses," he said. "Radio can be jammed, but it will be impossible to detect and jam all the frequencies or secret combinations of frequencies which the enemy may employ in attacking us with radio controlled missiles.
"Our strongest defense in the air will be a strong offense, because the advantage is increasingly with the attacker as the speed of attack increases."
LeMay feels the country has been heedless of the lessons of two wars and is fast slipping into a dangerous state of unpreparedness.
"We couldn't even fight our way out of a paper bag today," he said.
Through superior research and intelligence the country can achieve a superior technology which leads to an active material unpreparedness. This will require research on an unprecedented scale.
"The country has the scientific brains," he said. "We need money to put these brains to work."
"Before the war civilian airplane builders undertook to build new planes to our specifications. They were willing to gamble the cost of a plane, $20,000 to $50,000, against the chance of getting a contract.
"Now it costs perhaps $15,000.00; to build a new plane. We cannot expect industry to make such outlays in development. We must give industry the tools for research.
"We need a modern development center with new high-speed, supersonic and hyper-sonic wind tunnels—developing speeds up to 7,000 miles an hour—for scale models. Small supersonic wind tunnels now at Wright Field, Aberdeen, and possessed by the national advisory committee for aeronautics, are inadequate. Tremendous power is required to drive such tunnels."
While the country has rapidly demobilized, aviation research has gone ahead, LeMay assured. All the funds were available that could be spent during the current fiscal year.
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K. U. Has Record of Squabble Among Nations for Past 25 Years
KU. can tell how nations have squabbled over everything from the disinfecting of animal trucks to the boarding of private vessels in search of intoxicating liquors.
Every agreement and treaty reached in all international wrangling from 1920 to 1941 has been registered and published by the League of Nations, in volume form, and copies of all the volumes issued —128 of them, have been filed in Watson library.
Today the UNO requires that all treaties from the second world war be registered and published on a similar basis to the treaty series of the League of Nations, in order to "avoid secret negotiations that breed wars," according to Prof. Herman Chubb, who attended meetings of the League of Nations after the last war. The treaty series volumes at Watson library are the only ones in Kansas, Professor Chubb believes.
In one of the volumes it is told how Japanese, Italian, and German representatives met at Berlin in 1940 and agreed to "stand by and cooperate with one another in regard to their 'efforts' in Greater East Asia and the regions of Europe." Ironically enough, this Tripartite pact was signed on the basis that the pact should remain in force for 10 years.
Although Russia eventually warred with Japan, she was involved in a convention in 1925 at Peking in which the "parties (Japan and Russia) solemnly affirm their desire and intentions to live in peace and amity with each other."
America and France in 1924 reached an agreement on the prevention of smuggling intoxicating liquors into the United States. The treaty said that the French government would make no objection to the boarding of private vessels under the French flag for the purposes of searching for liquor.
One agreement governed the disinfection of trucks used for the conveyance of animals between the Czechoslovak republic and Roumania, stating that trucks used for hauling pigs, horned cattle, horses, and other animals, must be cleaned.
The various agreements among nations are versatile as a fly's appetite, but for the most part, later develop into profound, historical, documents. The Atlantic charter means even more today than it did in 1941.
"After the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny," it says, "they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means
of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford the assurance that all men in all lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want."
Nazis Wanted Russian Pact Ribbentrop Tells Court
Nuernberg, (UP)—Joachim Von Ribbentrop told the war crimes court today that the Nazis tried for months before the war to wrangle Russia into a full fledged Axis pact but failed because the Soviet counter-demands were too stiff.
Ribbentrop testified that Russia wanted Finland, "points of support" in the Balkans and specifically in Bulgaria, and access to the Baltic, the Skagerrack, and the Dardenelles as the price of a tripartite pact with the Nazis and Italy.
Chiang Kai-shek Approves Sino-Russian Treaty
Chungking. (UP)—Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek declared today that cooperation between China and Russia is a basic principle of peace in the Far East and the world, and pledged China's faithfulness to the Sino-Russian treaty.
Senate Confirms Harriman
Washington. (UP)—The senate today confirmed W. Averell Harriman as U. S. ambassador to Great Britain.
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