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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943
Bill To Allow Dependency Rating For Students Over 18 Merits Attention
The state of New York is considering a bill which should be of interest to every American university student, and to the parents of those students. The bill would in part allow income tax reductions for those parents who have children over 18 who are still full-time high school or college students, listing such students in the category of dependents.
With both federal and state governments recognizing the importance of education in the post-war world, the plan would be a commendable one for both those branches of government to adopt as a means of encouraging the education of American youths. Certainly, in most cases, those students in attendance at universities are by necessity more of a financial drain upon their parents than they were at any time during their younger years. Yet, just when the support of their offspring makes its biggest financial demands, the parents find themselves faced with additional taxes through the loss of the claim of dependency.
Every effort should be made to encourage increased enrollment in institutions of higher learning following the war. Financial losses by such a move on the part of the government would be more than compensated for by the gain of an intelligent citizenry, capable of holding the reins of government or of choosing those who will hold the reins.
Just how far the bill will go in New York is yet a question. It has the backing of Governor Dewey, and for that reason, if no other, seems to have at least a possibility of passage. If other states and the federal government then fall in line, college students and their parents will owe a debt of gratitude to the New York legislature.
Present Site of Tunis has been Land Mark of Many Historic Wars
Tunis, almost the last seaport stronghold of the Axis in Africa, may suffer the fate of Carthage before the Battle of North Africa is over.
Carthage, situated near the site of modern Tunis on a peninsula extending into the Mediterranean sea, was established as a trading post about 850 B.C. by the Phoenicians.
Because of its splendid location, it became one of antiquity's greatest commercial centers, and by 300 B.C. it had a population of 700,000. Its commercial supremacy was viewed by the Romans as a grave menace to their rising glory, and war followed inevitably. In 146 B.C. the third Punic War was ended after the Romans utterly defeated the Carthaginians and destroyed the city following a desperate siege of two years; the burning of the city lasted two weeks.
Carthage was rebuilt in 29 B.C. by the Roman Emperor, Augustus, who saw the commercial value of a city situated at a sharp bend of the Mediterranean. It developed into one of the finest Roman cities during the second and third centuries of Christendom.
The Vandal King, Gaiseric, made it his capital in 439 A.D., and nearly a century later it was wrested from the Vandals by Belisarius, the great general of Emperor Justinian. In 698
Why the Library does not keep files of local and surrounding papers for the benefit of ambitious students who can often use back copies for reference work.
Carthage was destroyed by the Arabs and was never rebuilt.
Modern Tunis had its beginning in the 15th century when the Moors, driven out of Spain, settled in North Africa, and using the sheltered harbor of old Carthage as one of their hideouts, began a career of piracy which forced all European nations to pay tribute for "protection." This piracy was finally ended in 1815 when a U.S. fleet commanded by Stephen Decatur sailed into the harbors of the pirate's chief ports and forced them to sign peace treaties.
In 1883 Tunis became a French Protectorate; it remained so until the Nazis took over the country last fall when the United Nations invaded North Africa.
When Axis forces are pushed back to the sea, the Nazi may do as they did at Rostov last week—burn the city and thus make it another Carthage. On top of all this the enemy will probably clutter the harbor with wrecked ships to render the port of Tunis useless for some months, as a springboard for an invasion of the continent through Sicily and Italy.-M.H.
From the sudden changes in weather which have occurred this winter, one might suppose the weather to be in charge of two or more federal agencies with slightly overlapping authority. -K.C. Star.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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Editor-in-chief ... Maurice Barker
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Feature Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins
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Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus Editor ... Jane Miner
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News Editor ... Florence Brown
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Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
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Late but good: After the Phi Gam buffet, five of the boys took five Theta's home only to be in at 8:30 for study hall, but, seeing no one around, they walked casually in through the front door and out through the back and up to the basketball game. Who should be sitting on their right at the game but Theta freshman trainer Mickey Rowsey and who on their left but the other Theta freshman trainer Patty Armel.
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Dirty deals: Bob McGregor and Henry Ferro, A K Psi's, had Sunday dates with Betty Lindauer and Eleanor Berger, A. D. Pi's, but, when Henry called Eleanor to set the time, he turned from the phone to tell Bob that Betty had wired from the city that she would be late in getting back.
Henry, in the spirit of companionship, invited Bob to go to the show with him and Eleanor. Finally convinced, Bob insisted that Henry take his extra ticket to the movie.
When Bob went with Henry to pick up Eleanor, both Eleanor and Betty came down.
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Government control:—It is reliably reported that there were two OPA (continued to page seven)
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