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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 13, 1957
Kansas And
Agriculture Is Blowing Away
Part of Kansas is blowing away again.
The sky is becoming overcast and a haze makes the sun less bright. It isn't caused by clouds. It is caused by dust. It isn't all western Kansas dust. The eastern part of the state is giving up its share of top soil.
Dust storms are inconvenient. They get the inside of cars and houses dirty. They make clothes dirty and cause eyes to burn.
That isn't the worst part of a dust storm, though. The worst part is knowing that soil is dying. A dead soil doesn't even produce dead plants. It doesn't grow anything.
It takes many years to bring soil that has once lost its life up to even a slight production basis again. Sometimes it cannot be done.
Kansas has not had sufficient or even what is called average rainfall for several years. Rivers are down. Creeks and streams that once flowed
the year around are now dry beds that carry water only when it rains.
Dams are needed badly. They are needed for a reserve in the driest weather for the basic public uses of drinking and washing.
In not too many years, unless there is an extreme and prolonged weather change, Kansas will need dams to supply farmers with water. Irrigation will become necessary to farm.
No one can make it rain. Kansas must find the best means to preserve what little rain the state does get. If not she will become impotent in her most profitable business - farming. Kansas won't reach impotence overnight. But she is moving in that direction.
Kansas needs to build all the dams she can find a logical place for. She needs to start now. One rainfall or one season of rainfall doesn't make a reserve. She should not wait for federal aid. Kansas should start saving herself.
—Jerry Thomas
... Letters ...
Editor:
I was shocked to see this article in the Daily Kansan; but on March 1 you wrote an editorial entitled: "We're Going Backward Again."
(1) It was centered around the idea that Lawrence would maybe take a "full 25-year step backward on April 2" if it voted dry, when "supposedly" the citizens of Lawrence would have vowed as to whether or not to repeal the sale of liquor within the city limits. (If
(2) Your second paragraphs opening sentence stated that: "The state of Kansas has always been known for being a little behind nearly every other state." This statement is absolutely false. You certainly must not be a Kansan, or know of Kansas' history, or you would have known. This certainly did not represent Kansas.
(3-4) Your third paragraph started out: "It is no longer a question of whether or not it is morally wrong to drink." This - with some people is possibly true. but it would take a "stuffed" ballot-box in most localities for it to carry as a true accepted fact by even a minority of the people.
Time after time, day after day, our alcoholic beverages destroy individual and family morals. Think of the children! Look at the death rates, accidents, poor health, loss of jobs, etc. which are due to drinking.
In the Bible it states that: "Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." - Proverbs 20:1.
(5) In the next paragraph, the person was led to believe that the ex-bootlegger was among those in favor of repeal; and that bootlegging would again become a profitable business. This showed a sort of ignorance! Because, there is much more bootlegging now, than there was during the time of prohibition in Kansas.
The next paragraph took into consideration the tax-i income which is being taken in. Practically every study which has ever been made shows that it costs a
state approximately $6 for every $1 of liquor revenue it takes in. This is the thing which many cannot see, thus, I don't blame you so harshly on this point. But the person does not take into consideration the expenses of hospitals, drugs, institutions, prisons, court action, and the such.
But yet, you came through with your final sentence: "It will do nothing constructive." The above shows that this is where "you're all wet!"
Derele W. Knepper Clay Center freshman
Daily Hansan
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