UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. MARCH 4. 1939
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Why Did We Fight?
What Did We Learn?
"There might be less enthusiasm next time," writes Elmer Davis in the current issue of Harper's magazine, regarding the possibilities of the next war. He bases this conclusion on the thought that the American people have been rather thoroughly disillusioned in the matter of the World War. "Most Americans," he says, "believed in the objectives of the (World) war and were willing to work their hardest to attain them."
Says the Kansas City Star of Mr. Davis' conclusion;
We did intervene, and we did make the world safe for—another world war, we fear. But it seems to us that the mothers of America, especially, were sold on the idea that it was "a war to end wars," and we still hear reverbalations of the idea among certain less-informed persons today, but not in a preponderant number of them.
Its weakness lies in the assumption that in the last war the people were inspired to fight primarily by certain idealistic slogans. If we had entered that conflict simply "to end war" and "to make the world safe for democracy," then it might be reasonable to suppose that our patent failure to achieve such a goal may decisively influence our future attitude toward another war deeled out with similar catch phrases. But . . . the fact is that essentially we fought to make the world safe for ourselves. We fought to make the United States safe from a world dominated by Germany and the things Germany then stood for.
What would have happened if we had not intervened in the war? Most historians are agreed that it would have ended in astalement—a peace without victory. But suppose Germany had won, is it reasonable to assume that a nation, doing the impossible in sitting and maintaining its seat on a subjugated Europe, would constitute a threat to the peace and policies of the United States?
It seems that the Star is still trying to justify the World War on a basis just as fallacious as were the catch-words it deplores. One thing is certain, if many justify the past war as the Star does, Mr. Davis is wrong and people will be ready again to take up arms to save the world for another catewword.
Well, Anyhow,
An Issue Was Found
The Topea correspondent for the Kansas City Star reports that the recent special session of the Kansas legislature did little for the welfare of the state but did serve to clarify certain political issues. The 1938 campaign—so the Star opines—will be fought over whether the 2 per cent sales tax should be used to relieve general property or to benefit the state's unemployed and disabled, with the Republican party taking the former stand and the Democrats the latter.
So the sales tax is here to stay. The bad penny, thrice-rejected by Kansas legislatures after the crash of '29, came up suddenly near the conclusion of the 1937 special session. Within a week it was on the statute books, much to the consternation of many bewildered legislators and their even more amazed constituents.
Kick out one-quarter to one-half of the undergraduates in our institutions of higher learning and replace them with more talented youths from poor as well as rich families, was the recommendation made last week by Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard University, to the American Association of School Administrators.
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Because of our present economic conditions, brighter yougsters miss opportunities that might be theirs, while richer youths of lesser ability fill our schools. "A more representative enrollment of college students from every social and economic stratum in the country would strengthen the cause of democracy," asserts Doctor-Conant.
Opposition had no time to mobilize. That the tax was heavily backed by one or two of the powerful groups who pull the strings on the poor legislators can hardly be doubted in view of their hasty and ill-considered reversal of previous decisions.
Since only 11 per cent of those between 18 and 21 attend colleges and universities, "only the most unrealistic optimist," said Doctor Conant, "would believe that the accident in
That the tax is a "poor man's tax," that it is as Jens P. Jensen, professor of economics, says, "a confession of fiscal inadequacy," made no difference to the legislature. Already it is strongly entrenched. Kansas will fight her 1938 campaign over it and repeal of the tax seems to be a dead issue.
terplay of social and economic forces has resulted in the selection of the right 11 per cent of our youth for college work." We cannot afford to let economic conditions select our college students. We should send our most promising youth to college whether they come from poor or rich homes.
How can we help youths of poorer families to their rightful opportunities in education? Doctor Conant points out the only way of providing university education for promising youth and that is by generous subsidy—large scholarships or opportunities for earning sizeable amounts of money.
The NYA or CSEP has been of great assistance to many deserving students who otherwise could not have attended school. There has been a marked increase in enrollment due in no small measure to the stimulation this act has given education in this country. However, it is largely experimental and arose out of an emergency, and it is feared that soon this method of subsidizing needy students may be removed entirely under the stress of cutting the national budget, especially in the face of the armament program that is being advanced.
Even with this problem solved, which it is not, what is to be done with the college dumbbells—those without sufficient intelligence, who hold up classes and instructors in their endeavors to "get a degree"?
While the legislature is appropriating $7,500 for a red probe in the University of Kansas, we wish they'd add another $100 to find out why K.U. can't play football—Clay Center Dispatch.
Official University Bulletin
Notice due at Cancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceeding
regular publication Sunday, April 12, at 8 a.m.
Vol. 35 Tuesday, March 8, 1938 No. 109
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: A regular weekly meeting will be held this afternoon in C. Myers hall. All students and faculty member tested are invited to attend—Jack Dalley, President.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TABLE. All those who wish to speak German are invited to the German table, which meets in the lounge of the Union building, and meets in another room other than to speak German. - W. B. Schaffrath
K. U. CAMERA CLUB: This evening at 7,30 room 102 Journalism建筑, Duke Damba will talk on "Sports Photography." Everyone is invited—L. A Postma, President.
NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will meet at 730 this evening in the parish hall of St. John's Church. All Catholic students are urged to attend. Benedict P. Bagrowski.
PHI CHI THETA: There will be a meeting today at 4:30 in the women's lounge of Frank强壮 hall. Election of officers for the coming year will be held—Madonna Jones, Secretary.
TAU SIGICA: Tau Sigma will have a regular
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W. S.G.A. ELECTION TEA: Candidates for W.S.G.A. offices will be introduced Wednesday from 3 to 5 o'clock in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union where they are urged to attend—Doris Stockwell, President
W.S.G.A. MEETING? There will be a regular meet-
ing on Tues. a tonight at 7 o'clock in the Pine
room… Bette Wasson.
YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: A meeting of the K.U. Young Republican Club will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the men's lounge of the Union building. Mr. Turnbull will be the speaker.-Blaine Grimes, President.
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Geologists Trace Ancient Coastal Line of Cherokee Sea, Once in Kansas
A. *Shelters* of a murt of the New Jersey estuary. From U.S. Coast and Goodhue Survey charts 1212 and 1317. B. *Hydrosulfate* hutch of a part of the Greenwich county river region during the Sullyard-lion stage of the Chirantee lake. (Sand boulders are known from this area.)
Two hundred fifty million years ago the students of the University (if there had been a University) would undoubtedly have found it very convenient to take their dates for a ride on the long neck of a dinosaur, rented from one of the better Lawrence dinosaur stables, and on the shore of the Chevron sea, no farther away than Greenwood county.
The sea is gone now, but deep in the earth (1500 to 3000 feet) are the sand ridges which N. Wood Bass of the U. S. Geological Survey, working in co-operation with the Kansas Geological Survey, has identified as having the characteristics of modern off-shore sandbars. From this similarity he is convinced that an arm of the sea, which geologists have named the Cherokee sea, extended from the northwest county, with shore lines extending to the southeast and the southwest. Location of Sands Known
Two or more series of these sandbeds have been traced in southern Greenwood county and Butter county, and from their elongated proportions has come the designation, "Shoestring sands."
The location and extent of the sands are definitely known, since they produce abundantly of high-grade petroleum, and some five thousand wells have been drilled in this region. The logs of oil-well drillers show definitely the extent of the sands. Individual beds are from a half mile to one and one-half miles wide and five to seven miles long, and the depth is about a foot bottom, lens-shaped on top, like the dunes along the seahore, some fifty feet thick, and are approximately end-to-end like a string of beads.
The sheoosting sands are found in the lower levels of the Cherokee shale, and are generally termed "Bartlesville sand" by oil geologists. The Bartlesville sand, early found near the city of Bartlesville, Okla, is in the lower part of the Cherokee shale, but separated from the "Mississippi sand" by a thick thickness of shale. Geologically, the sands are estimated to have been laid down some 250,000,000 years ago.
Reconstruct Valley of the Past Mr. Bass suggests that several causes might have accumulated these sand ridges, the most likely two being that the sand settled in river valleys, or that they are the result of wind and along-short currents of a vast inland sea which is supposed to have covered southeastern Kanae coast, but has moved tensions into what is now New Missouri.
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The high content of silt and clay suggests that the sand deposits may be the result of stream-filled river channels; but on the other hand the well-rounded, coarse sand found in these streams has a characteristic of off-shore sand.
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As the geologist reconstructs the picture of the past, this central part of the Mississippi valley was a featureless plain, alternately dry land and either marsh or submerged areas. Apparently, during one of the periods of advancing sea toward the high plains of Kansas, sediments flow down into the shallowly positioned on the sea floor. Thus the Cherokee shale was well under way in its formation from the advancing northwestern shore of the sea reached
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the Greenwood-Butler county region. Then it was that the shoreline was stationary for a time, and offshore bars appeared, preserved today in the sheeting stairs. Just why the bars were not eroded is another problem for the geologist.
Sands Abundant Along Coast
At any rate, these off-shore sand-bodies apparently imprisoned in the landward marshs quantities of vegetable and animal life which even
tually became the high-grade petro-leum of today.
Speculating on the possibility of finding other shearstering deposits, similar to those of Greenwood county, Mr. Bass calls attention to the fact that 75 per cent of the present seacoasts of the world are framed with sand and rock from the coast of America, most of the States from Long Island to the tip of Florida is an almost unbroken chain of narrow, elongated islands.
Recent studies of oil-bearing sand in Osage and Kay counties of Oklahoma indicate they were deposited in a similar manner and at about the same time as the oil sand of Green-wood county, Kansas.
More Than One Stage
"These facts indicate that conditions are favorable for the preservation of sand bodies over a fairly large range in Kansas and Oklahoma," he says.
"The general scheme of a fluctuating inland sea in eastern Kauai which halted at least twice, sufficiently long to permit shore features, such as off-shore bars, to be built, cool beds of considerable thickness to accumulate in low lands not far from the shore, and some nomena were not necessary, limited to one or two stages. There may have been others.
"Also, theoretically, one might conjecture further that, at the period of formation of the showstring sands, off-shore bars probably formed all along the ancient shores on the west and east sides of the Cherokee sea in Kansas, and that they therefore should be found swinging northward along the old land barrier that extended across Woodson and Allen counties, thence tracing their course to Franklin and Osage counties, northward through eastern Wabunae county, thence north-eastward through Shawnee, Jackson and Nemaha counties, possibly into Nebraska."
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