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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1943
Kansas Has Impressive Record To Back Request For A Battleship Namesake
Kansas, the state that led the nation in the per capita collection of scrap metal, and a state that is doing as much as any other in producing war materials, has earned the right to have a battleship named after her. The next of these giant warships to slide down the ways should be the "U.S.S. Kansas."
Every section of the country is represented on the roll of battleships now in service, yet the central United States is not truly recognized. The Oklahoma now lies on her side in Pearl Harbor; the South Dakota is named after a northern state; the Colorado is named after a western state; the Iowa, is now the nearest to representing the central U.S. No state in the nation could replace Kansas as representative of the great Central plains.
Kansas aircraft factories are making an enormous number of planes for the war effort, ranging from small single-motor training planes to four-motor bombers. Airbases are springing up over Kansas almost overnight. The government recognizes the value of our geographical location as providing a great deal of protection from possible enemy bombings, and Kansas has become the home of a great many war plants other than our airplane industry, which even in peacetime had a vast output.
Kansas has some of the largest and most important army posts in the nation, and the Gardner Air Base is rapidly developing into one of the key training bases of the Naval Air Corps. Kansas youths have enlisted by the thousands for service in the United States Navy, not to mention the manpower the Sunflower state is pouring into the army and into defense factories.
Ft. Riley has long been recognized as the biggest cavalry post in the country, and today it is one of the largest army posts in the middle west. Camp Phillips, near Salina, Kansas, is a steadily growing army base, and Ft. Leavenworth, with its Command and General Staff School, has been a permanent army camp for years.
It takes oil to run a battleship, and Kansas is one of the nation's leaders in the production of oil and gas; it takes food to feed a battleship's personnel, and Kansas is one of the nation's leaders in the production of food; it takes metal to build a battleship, and Kansas led the nation in the scrap metal drive; it takes men to run a battleship, and thousands of Kansas boys are in the navy, and hundreds of future sailors are receiving Machinist's Mates training on this campus. The powder to fire the guns, and the shells to blast the axis are being made in Kansas. A record like this certainly entitles Kansas to have her name on a battleship.
Working Students Should Be Allowed Income Tax Reductions
With a large percentage of college students in this country partially or wholly self-supporting (at K.U. for example, nearly 50 percent of the students are) there should be some definite provision in the income tax laws whereby money spent for college fees and text books would not be subject to the income tax.
When the average working college student
Just Wondering
If the KU whistle shouldn't be tuned up a little so that profs, wouldn't have so much trouble hearing it at the end of the hour.
--begins filling out his income tax blank, he probably will discover that he knows very little about the procedure. Besides, if he manages to struggle through the blank without an error, if that's possible for anyone, he will probably find out that he will either have to borrow money to pay his income tax, or else pay his income tax with his savings and borrow some money to pay this semester's expenses.
But if he fails to get the income tax blank filled out, it will probably be due to a lack of knowledge on the amount and number of his deductions. Even many lawyers are puzzled when asked if money paid out for college fees and books are legitimate deductible expenses of the (student) profession.
One University student recently wrote to the Collector of Internal Revenue at Wichita and asked for advice on the status of his college expenses as far as the income tax laws are concerned. Mr. Collector promptly replied that ALL college expenses are personal expenses and therefore are not deductible—M. H.
The Bands Get Together
Last week the University concert band admitted to membership the 50 members of the recently organized All-Girl band. The purpose of this merger was to bring up the concert band to its pre-war membership to continue with complete instrumentation of the organization.
The two organizations will each keep their own staff of officers with the intention of returning to separate bands after the war. Even though the girls' band has not had as much practice together as the concert band, the standards are not being lowered more than has been made necessary by the war.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Maurice Barker
Editorial Associates ... Don Keown, Joy Miller,
Matt Heuertz, Jimm Gunn, Florence Brown
Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus editors ... Alan Houghton, Jane
      Miner, Clara Lee Oxley
Sports editor ... J. Donald Keown
News Editor ... Florence Brown
Picture Editor ... James Gunn
Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
March 5,1943,
Lawrence, Kansas
Dear Mabel:
I got the last letter you sent a week ago but have been too busy to write. There's hardly a man left on the campus.
I can't tell you how sad it makes me, seeing all the men leaving. You know me, Mabel. I've seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go, but now they're all going. Something will have to be done.
I've been dreadfully busy, and am I tired tonight! All day I've spent chasing a man in the naval reserve, and he didn't even wink his eye. There he walked, as carefree as any bird, with two girls on one arm and two girls on the other. See how it is, Mabel?
Where you are, of course, there isn't the competition. I wish I was working in that factory with you. Imagine, men in those beautiful overalls, instead of dirty old cords. And most of all, men.
But you know me, Mabel. Education I place above everything else. I'm studying for midsemester quizzes now, but I'll have to quit soon, as the show starts at seven. I'm going with some of the girls. Sometimes (continued to see some)
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Launching 63,000 Telephone calls
IT has been estimated that 63,000 telephone calls are necessary in the building of one 10,000-ton cargo ship. And America is sending these vessels down the ways by the hundreds.
We cannot build additional facilities because materials for telephone equipment are going into war weapons. Yet today the men and women of the Bell System are handling more telephone calls than ever before一about 90 million conversations a day. It's an important wartime job. It will continue to be done well.