PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 18, 1940 The Kansan Comments-lays their profits open to taxation under the "excess profits" act. The second decision brings the dividends of almost all really large corporations up for taxing in the several states where the profits were made. Previously corporations such as the many Standard Oils, could be regulated by the states; now it is possible to reach across the state line to get at corporations taking refuge behind charters from out-of-state. EDITORIALS BOOKS★ Opinions by Supreme court justices are exactly that—opinions. There is no perfect interpretation of the law; disagreements among the justices prove that. This does not gainsay, however, the awful importance of such decisions. Business probably would like to shrug off a couple of the latest U.S. Supreme court decisions as merely "a matter of opinion." Buying Seals Not Enough Last fall several student groups were responsible for the start of a campaign to test all food handlers of student meals to be sure that no tuberculosis carriers were in the group. Both the Men's and Women's Pan Hellenic associations demanded that their organizations see to it that all food handling employees go to the Watkins Memorial Hospital and take the tuberculin test. The Men's Student Council passed a similar resolution asking all other organized houses and boarding clubs to send their cooks and waiters to take the free examinations. Students may do more toward actually preventing further spread of tuberculosis by seeing that all employees of the place where they eat are tested than by smugly laying down a dollar to buy a sheet of Christmas seals. Court Stirs Ghosts Everyone agreed that the plan was a fine thing. It would prevent further spread of the dreaded disease among the student group, would cost the organizations nothing. We were recently shocked by the announcement of an official of the Health Service that only four organizations have fully complied by having their employees tested. Justice Reed, in rulings released yesterday, opined in such a way as to bring upon himself the haunting of such noted ghosts as those of John C. Calhoun and Aristotle. Further, the whole court kicked its chief defender, Business, in the face. Writing the majority opinion in a case involving jurisdiction over hydro-electric plants on non-navigable streams, Justice Reed said that federal jurisdiction over U.S. streams "is as broad as the need of commerce." By this statement he placed federal control ahead of state control in such matters. The maledictions of the ghost of States-righter Calhoun could probably be heard way over on the Yankee side of heaven. At that, he was probably drowned by the caterwauling of businessmen here below. Vastly more significant than the means of arriving at these decisions are the results thereof. The first ruling brings all hydroelectric plants under the commerce commission's jurisdiction, makes them liable to licensing, and Reed's opinion can easily be reconciled to Reiser's new four-valued logic, but Business will find it hard to reconcile itself to Justice Frankfurtur's existence. In a case involving the right of a state (in this case, Wisconsin) to tax the dividends of an out-of-state corporation (specifically, J. C. Penney's) operating in the state, Justice Frankfurtur's faction won an approval of such action, 5-4. Justice Reed was one of the dissenters. In the first case Reed ignores state lines, in the second he emphasizes them. Aristotle would probably shudder at such inconsistency. Interstate businessmen will probably have ague contemplating the significance of the majority ruling. PATTER LETTERS★ "Hit Italian Rear"-headline in metropolitan daily. That's about as neat a three-word summary of the Italo-Greek situation as anyone has offered to the present time. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester, Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school period. Subscription on Saturday. Entered as second class matter September 17, 1910. Office atticed at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1989. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK N.Y. CHICAGO • BOSTON • LA CALES • SAN FRANCisco Editor-In-Chief Editorial Associates Telen Houston, Mason Houston, Purdock, and Eldon Cookell EDITORIAL STAFF NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Stan Stauffer Campus Editor Bob Trump Sports Editor Don Pierce Societ Editor Arn Nedell Home Editor Virginia Gray Wire and Radio Editor Art O'Donnell Copy Editors: Orlando Eddo, Russell Bingham, Margaret Hode David Willett BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Advertising Manager Administant Ruth Spencer OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol. 38 Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1940 No. 63 Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue. NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will have its Christmas party in St. John's Parish hall Thursday evening from 8 to 10:30. Everyone coming is to bring a gift not to cost more than twenty-five cents. All are welcome.—Joseph A. Zishka. KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD STUDENTS: Students who are members of the Kansas National Guard and who wish to make arrangements for receiving credit for the work of this semester should consult immediately with Mr. Hitt in the Registrar's Office. George O. Foster, registrar. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will have its Christmas party on Friday at the Episcopal parish (1011 Vermont). A special program will be held. People of all races and nationalities are cordially invited—Emile Weiss, secretary. QUILL CLUB: Fech rune of the American College Quill Club will meet at 7:30 Thursday evening in the Pine Room.-Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor. W. N.A.A.: W.N.A.A. will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 in the lounge of the Union building. Women students invited. Lillian Fisher, president. QUACK CLUB: There will be no Quack Club meeting tonight.—Margaret Learned. NOTICES★ Fog Over Airports Cleared By Science New York, Dec. 18.—(UP)—Aeronautical experts today considered two methods of dispelling fog over airports, one of the most common causes of airplane accidents. The methods are heating runways and spraying fog with a sulphur chloride solution. Both have proven "moderately successful," Dr. Sverre Petterssen, professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told 200 members of the Institute of Aerontica Science last night, in the fourth annual Wright Brothers' lecture. Warm air flowing over a cold surface commonly causes fogs, Dr. Petterssen explained; hence, heating runways is a cheap, and fairly successful preventive. When the sulphur chloride solution was sprayed into fog at the rate of 85 gallons a minute, he reported, an area of 150 feet wide, 30 feet high and 1,500 feet long was cleared. Dr. Petterssen, former chief of the weather bureau of western Norway, said the experiments were conducted by Dr. H. G. Houghton and Dr. W. H. Radford of Mit. Theta Tau Honors George Bradshaw Theta Tau initiated George W. Bradshaw, associate professor of engineering, as an honorary member of its chapter last Sunday. Bradshaw is a faculty member of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, and faculty adviser for the student chapter of A.S.C.E. here on the Hill. The initiation was followed by the annual Christmas banquet, honor ing Bradshaw and the seniors who are being graduated at mid-year, Leonard Schroeter, Bill Shears, Dean Ritchie, and J. B. Waid. Kansas University basketballers can boast of 23 consecutive wins on the home court. ROCK CHALK TALK When an apple polisher takes back his apple, faculty should check up on their personalities. The other morning after a Hill party which Prof. W. H. Schoewe and some of his students attended, two young men brought in apples and set them on his desk. But the ungrateful Mr. Schoewe gave the class a "shot-gun" exam for the first time in the memory of sedimentary rocks students. One of the apple-carrying boys either didn't know the answers or objected to the principle of the thing. Finally, he jumped up in disgust, stalked to the desk, slapped down his test paper, reached over and picked up the apple he had brought, and stormed out. For two days the law barn has been the scene of courtroom drama. A hypothetical case set up went something like this. Two laborers go to the office of a doctor (Medical Student Charles Nice) to be examined for work in an Aero Company factory. They have been promised jobs if they pass the examination. Nice gives them his okay. Then one of them (College Senior Addison West) falls downstairs and breaks his leg. His buddy totes him back up to the doctor. Days later infection sets in, and the leg is amputated. On Monday, West sued the Aero Company for workman's compensation, since he was technically in their employ at the time of the accident. He won, plugged by attorney Wilbur Leonard, David Scott, and John Ziegelmeyer. Yesterday "Dr." Nice sued West for fees for services rendered, and West filed a cross bill charging the doctor with malpractice. If you're still not too confused to be interested, the doctor came out on the heavy end of this deal. His attorneys were Virgil Garrett, Victor Breen, and Bob McKinley, who also argued for the Aero Company the first day. Important witness in yesterday's trial was "Dr. Sawbones," who had been called in for consultation before the amputation. Penny pitchers aren't doing so well. The graph in Frank Strong hall shows that four times as many pennies hit the net as hit the bucket. Here's the latest on complication involved in taking a bath at college. Saturday night in the men's dormitory at Park College, Parkville, Mo., two freshmen had heavy dates and wanted to bathe before starting out. Freshman A got in the tub and took his time. Freshman B became impatient and climbed in the tub, too. "I'm going to sit here till the water freezes over or you get out," said Freshman A. "That goes for me, too," said Freshman B. Hours later another joined the bathtub crowd, and the resulting collection of arms and legs was extensive. Midnight came. Somebody turned on the cold water but the three men soaked on. At 3 a.m., another student opened the bathroom window. The last man in was the first man out, and had to pay off the other two a bet made during the sit-down. He bought triple-egg malted milk around. Tonight is the Kappa serenade. Enough said. 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