The KANSAN Comments . . .
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941
Give In and Be Still
The federal government has threatened to stop all federal funds for welfare and relief used in Kansas unless the state ceases the practice, dictated by the state constitution, of publishing the names of all persons receiving relief money.
The first reaction of Kansans who have always stood on their own feet and fought their own battles, is to tell the federal government to keep its money, Kansas can get along without it.
What justification is there for this viewpoint? The federal government supplies from 23 to 25 per cent of the total funds expended in Kansas for welfare and relief work. Why should the organization which supplies only one-fourth of the funds dictate the terms under which all the funds shall be spent? Secondly, in almost every case of public graft, records show that no regular accounting has been made to the public through publication of detailed disbursements.
But, can Kansas "get along without" federal money for relief? Kansas has not had prosperous times for 10 years. Any increase in taxes will hit hard. Yet Kansas has a serious relief problem to solve. If she is to get federal help, she must accept the terms under which that help is proffered.
Even in accordance with the federal law, the relief rolls would be open to inspection by interested persons though they would not be published.
If Kansas is to take care of her poor in the next few years, she will need Federal help. Avoiding the possible harm which arises from not publishing relief rolls seems hardly worth the immediate price Kansas would have to pay.
Orchids for the Iris
Corsage ban or no corsage ban, the Daily Kansan would like to toss out an orchid or two.
The orchids go to the powers behind the scenes that are responsible for the array of colorful iris along the terrace west of Green hall.
Careful planning and long years of nurturing
stubborn bulbs have made possible one of the largest non-commercial beds of iris in thoe country.
When upper classmen start telling freshmen in the fall that they must stick it out until spring just to see the iris on the terrace, one realizes that the iris are running a close second to Lilac Lane—the traditional beauty spot on the campus in the spring.
There isn't much more to say—it is just a good job, well done, and University students appreciate the efforts spent making their campus signally beautiful.
A Competing Salary
Kansas, a state that is rich in oil, the center of the wheat belt, and a leading agricultural area, ranks twenty-nine among the states in the average annual salary paid to teachers. All school administrators, city, and rural teachers receive an average annual salary of $858.
The majority of Kansas teachers are well trained. All accredited high school teachers must be college graduates, and the larger, more advanced school systems in the state are now requiring new teachers to have master's degrees. It is a general rule among city schools to require extensive professional training and a college degree even for teachers in elementary schools.
After spending much time and considerable money to obtain the necessary education, teachers have a right to expect adequate compensation. The teaching profession must compete with the other professions and vocations for its members. The average person considers the possibilities for monetary return and his own satisfaction when he selects his life work. Few persons do anything just for the joy of doing it. With such a low standard of salary payment, the teaching profession frequently loses its most promising prospects to competing professions.
Higher salaries for teachers will bring better men and women into the profession, and those now teaching will feel it worth while to spend more time and energy on the job.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Had a stranger wandered into Prof. C. B. Realey's 300 class in modern European history yesterday afternoon, he would have wondered if the students were taking up toe dancing, for he would have seen all the girls standing high on their chairs.
The reason was that, just as the lecture got going, someone called. "Mad dog!"
A little white dog was in the room, and to their horror, the students saw that he was rnning around foaming at the mouth.
Man of the hour was Bob Weaver, who caught the dog and took him outside. The dog harmed no one. Later students agreed that he must have been just hungry.
Throwing a senior in Potter's lake is getting to be an every-night custom at the Delta Chi house. Monday night they tossed in Charles Wright, and last night Bob Holmer took the cold plunge.
It is a house tradition for freshmen to throw each senior in the lake before the end of the year. An added attraction is a trip down a paddle line. Last night the seniors made things hard for the freshmen by hiding their paddles.
A recently developed snapshot of Ray Davis shows him sitting at the dandelion pile in front of Fowler shops on Dandelion Day, refilling his dandelion sack. Circumstantial evidence for the theory that 48 tons was an exaggerated total
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Skims Over Rapids Doleshal Roughs It
Sleeps On Ground
By AGNES MUMERT
Dave Doleshal, junior in the college from Kansas City, Kans., has the wanderlust feeling. Come warm weather and the first tang of spring, he can feel the rock of the canoe as the paddles flash clean into the water and see the wood smoke whipped around by a breeze that carries a whiff of stewed rabbit and biscuits.
Summer before last, he and Tommy Loftus, now attending Pittsburg Teachers College, pulled up stakes and left Kansas City on July 9, with a tent, a portable radio, sleeping bags, and all the other camping equipment that a seasoned rougher hauls along. Except for a day in Chicago and another in Toronto, they spent the rest of July and the first two weeks of August shuttling back and forth on the lakes and rivers 300 miles north of Toronto, scrambling over rocky terrain, crawling into their sleeping bags at night with only the sound of the water rushing over
He doesn't have to pull out any old copy of Jack London's "Call of the Wild" or go to a movie, for Dave has several thousand miles of roughing it in the Canadian wilds to remember, and another trip this summer to look forward to. the rapids, a deer coming down to the edge of the lake to drink, and with the wide sweep of sky over head, pricked with a million stars.
From Toronto they went to Burk's Falls, bought a canoe and grub stake, and shoved off.
"We were in such a hurry to leave that we piled everything up helter skelter in the canoe. Tom's shoes were on top of the heap, and when we shoved off one of them fell into the water. It made him so mad that he grabbed the other and threw it in, so Tommy went without shoes for seven days," Dave relates. "But we were in the canoe most of the time," he adds helpfully.
they paddled up the Magnetanat river to Goose Lake, to Lake Cecebe
where they stopped off for a look at their land. Before starting on the trip, they had seen an advertisement for government land in the Alaskan Sportsman magazine. After looking over the map, they sent the Canadian government $80, and they now own about 80 acres of "beautiful, wooded, grassy, rocky land on Lake Cecebe," as Dave puts it. Some day, they hope to build a cabin and spend a month out of every summer there.
They saw deer, elk, and moose, and the streams were full of fish. They knifed northern pike and fried them over the open fire, but they couldn't hunt because the provincial officer had left Burk's Falls on a bear hunt, and he was the only person authorized to issue a license.
"All we had was a compass and a map, but we only got lost once," Dave remembers. They went into the back country to verify the natives' tales of huge grizzly bears. Night found them wading up to their waists in swamp land, with only the North Star to go by. Longest stretch between towns or trading posts was seven days, and their provisions came out exactly even. Once the two of them lived on a pound of cheese and a box of crackers for two days.
When they'd traveled about 300 miles—some of its portage around the rapids—they reached the Cedar Croft Trading post, where the trader's wife fed them homemade pie.
Both of them had to get back to school, so finally they turned and traveled back toward civilization.
Back home they packed up their $600 worth of equipment for the winter, got interviewed by Kansas City Star reporters and opened their books. Then they really appreciated the six rolls of films they had taken. Now, they're already planning this summer's trip which will take them several hundred miles farther north, clear up to Hudson Bay. Perhaps they'll exchange their 80 acres for land in this wilder region.
Dave intends to take his degree in forestry at Colorado State, and go into the forest service. One of his hobbies is collecting guns. He has a sporting rifle, for which he makes his own shells. They cost from 7 to 10 cents apiece, but he can reload these for a cent a shell. Dave turns out more accurate shells than those sold on the market, but admits it is a dangerous process if you don't know what you're doing.
PHI KAPPA PSI...
... will have its annual alumni banquet tomorrow night. About 30 guests are expected.
. . . announces the pledging of Dean Sims, college freshman from Baxter Springs.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m.
on Wednesday, July 18, and 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
Wednesday, May 14, 1941.
Vol. 38 No. 146
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: The Reverend E. J. Weisenberg, S. J., will be in room 415 Watson library Thursday afternoon for personal conferences.-Joseph Zishka.
DELTA PHI SIGMA: Short meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at home of Mrs.J.F.King,1100 Ohio.Election of officers. Important that members be present—Freda Zimmerman, reporter.
M. S. C.: The installation banquet will be held at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening in the English room of the Memorial Union building—Stuart Bunn.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: Pleasen 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of Professor and Mrs. Smith, 1428 Connecticut. Sign on Sociology bulletin board. Transportation will be furnished in front of West Frank Strong. Twenty cents will be charged.-Patty Riggs
QUACK CLUB: Meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in Robinson gymnasium. Pledges will be tested on dives. Important!-Margaret Learned.
THETA SIGMA PHI: There will be a meeting at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Journalism building;—Marynell Dyatt, secretary,
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