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UNIVERSITY DAIL, JANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942
Commentary by the KANSAN Editorials * Features * Patter
My Kingdom for a Horse
Chauncey Depew, who in his lifetime was a very wealthy man, is said to have refused to help finance Henry Ford because "nothing has come along yet that is better than a horse."
Henry Ford nevertheless made automobiles. His automobiles, and those made by other manufacturers, have carried Americans many millions of miles. There were 32,000,000 cars in this country in 1940.
Because of the exigencies of war, the entire country will soon be rationed to four gallons of gasoline an automobile a week-if they are so lucky.
People are walking now as they haven't walked for a long, long time. They walk to school, to work, to the movies, to church, to the grocery store, to ball games, and so on, ad fatigum.
Bicycles are rationed. Trains and busses are crowded and running behind schedule. If you could travel by row-boat, you'd find it slow. Riding by dog-sled would be novel, at least. Roller-skating is dangerous for those who are getting brittle-boned. Hitch-hiking is mostly hiking. It is a long walk just to Big Springs.
Mr. Depew's statement may have been correct. But, since there aren't more than 15 or 16 million horses, mules, and donkeys, for 132 million people, in this country, where are we going to get a horse?—M.F.
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Sense in Cities
One of the greatest problems confronting cities in the midwest is housing. Construction of large defense industries has caused a sudden influx of people to the midwestern states. Towns have grown into cities, and cities have passed the housing precipitation point.
City officials have grown gray as they faced the problems brought by the sudden growth. In searching for a solution to the housing problem, cities cannot afford to overlook zoning.
Zoning is the application of common sense and fairness to the public regulations governing the use of private real estate. It is an honest effort to provide each district or neighborhood with just such protection and just such liberty as is sensible in that particular district.
It gives everyone who lives or does business in a community a chance for the reasonable enjoyment of his rights. At the same time, it protects him from unreasonable injury by neighbors who would seek private gain at his expense.
Zoning regulations vary in different districts according to the determined uses of the land for residence, business, or manufacturing. These differing regulations are, nevertheless, the same for all districts of the same type Each home owner or store owner receives equitable treatment by this plan.
The motto for the modern city should become "live and let live" rather than the old motto of "dog eat dog." We know what to think of a household in which an undisciplined daughter makes fudge in the parlor, while little Johnny makes beautiful mud pies on the front steps, and little sister leaves soiled clothes soaking in the bathtub.
Yet many American cities allow stores to crowd in at random among private dwellings, and factories to come elbowing in among neat retail stores or apartment houses. It is this
Just Wondering
Everything is being rationed, it seems, except criticism. And there is no priorities on which governmental agency gets its cussing first.
stupid, wasteful jumble which zoning will prevent or gradually correct.
A zoning law prevents an apartment house from becoming a giant hive, housing human beings like crowded bees. It provides that buildings may not be so high and so close that men and women must work in rooms never freshened by a cooling breeze or lighted with sunlight.
Do not get the idea that zoning is a cure-all for municipal sicknesses. Alone its results are small; but as a part of a larger program it probably pays the city and the citizens a quicker return than any other form of city investment.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Thursday, Oct. 22, 1942 No. 20
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
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KAPPA PHI—There will be a picnic this Friday evening. All members please meet in front of Watson library at 5:30. Eleanor Patty, Publicity Manager.
FEM-MEDICS: The Fem-Medics will hold a supper as its first meeting of the year, at 6:30 Thursday evening at the home of Dr. Florence Sherbon, Crescent Road, RFD 4. Guest speaker will be Dr. Leona Baumgartner, member of the New York Board of Health. All women medics and pre-medies are invited. For supper reservations call Dorothy Stannard, telephone 3197.
SOCIOLLOGY CLUB will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 in Fraser hall. Katrina Fruin will be the speaker. Everyone interested is invited to come. Emma Lou Niedermeyer, President.
BUSINESS SCHOOL SMOKER: There will be a School of Business Smoker in the Men's Lounge of the Union Building on Thursday, October 22, 1942 at 8:00 p.m. The featured speaker on the program will be Mr. George W. Foulke, project manager at Sunflower Ordinance plant for Hercules Powder company. All business students, both male and female, are urged to attend. All pre-business students are welcome. Free smokes and cider will be provided.—Willis Tompkins, Pres., School of Business.
EL ATENEO se reunera Jueves e2 de octubre a las 4:30 en la sala 113 Frank Strong Hall. Los hermanos Marquez nos presentaran un programa de canciones, discursos, etc. Margaret Welch, President.
Beulah M. Morrison, Secretary.
SIGMA XI: The first meeting of the year will be held Thursday, October 22, 8:00 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union. Professor Guy W. Smith, department of mathematics, will speak on Cryptography (Secret writing). Please note the change from the third to the fourth Thursday of the month.
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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY LOU PERKINS
Laurence Woodruff, registrar, and E. A. Stephenson, engineering prof attended the Oklahoma-Kansas game together. Two of the player's names on the Oklahoma team were Hamm and Lamb.
After watching the progression of the game for some minutes, Woodruff leaned over to Stephenson.
"I've come to the conclusion," Woodruff remarked, "That what K. U. needs is more meatless Saturdays."
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Gamma Phi's, Joanne Carr, Pat Armstrong, Jane Christy, and June Reed feel they've done their bit for national defense. One day when the girls were downtown, they noticed some soldiers giving rides in a jeep to boys and girls who had submitted scrap metal for the drive. The girls, anxious to ride
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TELEPHONE lines especially Long Distance circuits are crowded as never before, these war days. Materials to build new lines copper, rubber, nickel are needed for the shooting war. So we must get the most out of present facilities.
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