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No Buses Won't Help Parking
The possibility exists that the Rapid Transit Bus Co. will discontinue bus service in Lawrence and on the campus.
If the company forfeits its franchise, this does not necessarily mean that no bus service will be operated in Lawrence.
A committee appointed by the Lawrence city commission is investigating the situation to determine what action the city might take if the company discontinues the service around the first of June, as it has indicated it might do.
Challis Shaffer, general manager of the Rapid Transit Bus Co., said, "Under the present circumstances, I don't think there is any question but what the service will be discontinued."
It appears that the alternatives are these:
The service could be taken over by another person or persons; the city could buy and operate the service, or the company and service could be dissolved entirely, leaving the city of Lawrence and the University without this vital service.
A fourth alternative worth pondering is this:
If the bus company goes out of business, perhaps the city and the University could jointly operate a service off and on the campus, and maintain the bus route that is restricted to the campus and West Hills.
This would probably take some juggling of the statutes,but it would prove itself valuable.
For one thing, if no bus service at all is maintained, this is bound to contribute to the already ponderous parking problem on the campus.
For example, those students who live a sizeable distance from the campus but who own cars, are encouraged and sometimes forced to ride the bus (unless they want to walk) because of the lack of parking space on the campus.
With no bus service, those students would be either forced to drive and take their chances with the law by parking in unauthorized spaces, or else would have to walk, which can be awfully disagreeable in the winter time.
It appears, too, that the city of Lawrence, particularly the merchants, would encourage a bus service from the campus to town. It is no secret that students and faculty are the bread and butter of many local firms.
Jerry Dawson
We're Going Backward Again
Lawrence may take a full 25-year step backward on April 2 when its citizens vote on whether or not to repeal the sale of liquor within the city limits.
The state of Kansas has always been known for being a little behind nearly every other state. Over 3,000 Lawrence citizens expressed a desire to get further behind when they presented a petition to the City Commission that puts the liquor question back in the hands of the voters.
It is no longer a question of whether or not it is morally wrong to drink. It is a question of whether or not it is morally right to stop someone else from doing something because you don't do it.
A "wet" situation allows one who does not drink to abstain. It allows drinkers to drink. A "dry" situation makes the purchasing of liquor illegal. It does not stop it.
One wonders how many ex-bootleggers are among those in favor of repeal. Even in such a small area as the city limits of Lawrence boot-legging can again become a profitable thing.
Prohibition won't stop the sale of liquor in Lawrence. It will raise the price, it will cut out some tax money, it will make an illegal business profitable for some, and it will make a few people who do not drink feel better because "they tried." It will do nothing constructive.
Editor:
The problem of segregation in schools, on buses, in swimming pools as well as eating establishments is a grave one. I am heartily for nonsegregation.
However, in reference to Jim Schultz's statement in a recent editorial in which he suggested that organized houses strike segregation clauses from their constitution, I would like to ask a question: What good would this do?
If the houses strike the clauses from their constitutions and do not act, nothing is gained. If the houses, expressly fraternities and sororites are forced to pledge Negroes, it would seem a great deal is lost.
—Jerry Thomas
The fraternity-sorority system is built on the foundation of the right of selection. This may not be fair. Perhaps it is a highly competitive system and a bit political. But they do have a right to exist, don't they?
Let's be nonsegregationists, but please don't destroy freedom in the process.
When you endeavor to dictate to these houses, to tell them who they can and cannot pledge you are undemocratic and dictatorial. This would be an end to our freedom of choice in this area, and I feel the beginning of an end to other freedoms.
A Modest Proposal
Evelyn Hall Wichita junior.
No one needs to point out that Kansas is in the same rocky financial lake as most other states. And like other states we need more money to spend if our children are to be educated and if our state is to progress as it should in the years ahead.
The editorial under discussion advocates wiping out the state income tax and lowering the retail sales tax rate. It doesn't seem wise to cut the sources of income the state already has in anticipation of clamping other taxes on elsewhere.
Editor:
The two big weaknesses in the tax system are that there are too many
U.S. Foreign Aid Deters Expansion Of Communism
With all the talk of inflations and depressions floating around, the tendency is to try to find something at which to point the finger of blame.
In the seven years since 1949, the government has appropriated $24 billion for military aid alone. This amounts to nearly 3] billion dollars a year, which is over 85 per cent of the total yearly government spending less than 30
A couple, with several children, which is their privilege and right, probably doesn't pay any or at least very little income tax. It is true that such a family pays more in sales tax for expenditures for basic needs. But just because another couple has either one or no children doesn't mean that they spend less money. They more than likely spend just as much and so they pay just as much sales tax.
loop-holes for persons in the know to take advantage of and thus avoid paying taxes and that many people pay way below their share for the benefits they receive from their government.
The family with several children in return gets hundreds of dollars each year in deductions that families with no or only one child receive on income tax reports.
Why should such inequality exist? Why should some get off easy when their children are the ones using the public schools for less per child than others.
Here's what I propose as possible sources of revenue in addition to increasing taxes on gasoline, liquor, etc. as suggested in the editorial: Maintain the sales tax at its present rate. Clamp either a minimum income tax on each family unit of at least three thousand dollars of $25 (to catch those who pay no tax because of numerous dependents), or a five dollar education tax for each school age child in the family.
Since most of the state's expenses are for schools and education, such revenues could be earmarked for such purposes.
(Name withheld by request)
years ago. Is this large military aid bill necessary in order to keep our country strong?
A U.S. Senate-authorized study of the foreign aid program by such impressive organizations as the Brookings Institute, Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studios, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology center for international studies came up this answer. If the United States wants to defeat Soviet expansion it must continue is aid program for decades to come and pay out billions.
To defend foreign aid even further, the report claims that the $24 billion for military aid in seven years has enabled the nations of the free world to construct a defense establishment with air and naval forces nearly equal in size to those of the United States, and ground forces ten times larger than the U.S. Army.
The report states that U.S. foreign aid—military and economic—has strengthened the free world and proved a major deterrent to Communist expansion.
If the United States doesn't lend a hand to any country that asks, then that country is going to look elsewhere for the money it needs.
Will it look to the Kremlin? If so, the United States might again be in the position of fighting a country that it made powerful.
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