UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN editorials
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SEPTEMBER 29,1978
Bus funds needed now
Reports issued by a Lawrence public transportation committee recently suggesting a possible expansion of the KU bus system are quite laudable, but unrealistic - at least for now.
unrealistic—an expanded bus service Although an expanded bus service would be beneficial to KU students and Lawrence residents, funding problems squelch most talk of expansion. It is unfortunate, but true.
unfortunate, but useful. The city committee, reviewing a transportation study of Lawrence made by an Omaha, Neb. firm, will make recommendations to the city commission in December concerning possible improvement in the city's transportation services.
transportation AN EXPANSION of "KU on Wheels" figures high among the committee's recommendations. However, without some change in the funding of the bus system no expansion will be possible.
The bus service, since it began in 1972, has proven itself to be one of the best systems in the country, according to the transportation study. Much of the credit for the bus system's success belongs to the Student Senate, who organized it and supervise its operation.
But from all indications the Senate is
fighting a losing battle in its quest for increased funding of the bus system. And without more money there can be no expansion, which is necessary to continue serving the large number of students who live off-campus or are too close to drive.
JUST THIS SUMMER, student fees were increased 1.70 a student for bus funding and the cost of bus passes was increased $5. But even that was not enough to expand bus service as much as the Senate had planned.
Although the city will be eligible for federal money for transportation system improvement in 1980, the need for that improvement exists now.
Cooperation between the city, the Senate and the University concerning improvements in area public transportation is necessary for a practical solution to traffic and parking problems that plague the city and the University.
That cooperation should extend not only to planning and service, but also to funding. If improved public transportation is a city goal, then the funding problem must be solved soon. Only then will the committee's suggestion be realistic.
Cartoon about Jaycees an insult to organization
Tame A. KU graduate with a master's in journalism, I was upset by the poor taste shown in the Ka'ao cartoon concerning the Jaycees Sept. 20.
A sketch of a naked woman has no place in a cartoon depicting an organization that stands for "individual development through community involvement."
To the editor:
I don't agree with the editorial column on women membership in the Jaycees, but I respect Pam Manson's views and her right to state them. Her article was well written. The cartoon, by a friend of mine, organization that has done so many worthwhile things for the community, state and nation. The Boys Club and Boys Achievement Place in Lawrence were original by Mr. Jaycees. Jaycees own and maintain a 151-acre ranch for victims of cerebral palsy and other handicaps. These are only a few of the projects undertaken by the organization to improve the lives of president. It's a good organization and it deserves better treatment by the press.
it deserves
As for the "women membership issue," we may say that I'm a woman and I don't want to be a Joycee. We women have our own organization—the U.S. Joyceyettes (known in Kansas as the Joycee Jayes). It's not as old or as strong as the Joyces, but it's growing. Every organization has to start somewhere.
The Jayceettes offer the same speaking.
leadership training and individual development programs as the Jaycees.
Pam Mann says in her column that "atlaugh some chapters have auxiliary groups, women mentoring them, and she does the chapter . . . "Who does she think runs the Jaycee chapters? I was president of the Lawrence Jaycee Association and was president of the Lawrence Jaycees.
In fact, the Kansas Jaynes voted unanimously last May against women membership in the Jaynees—and when the vote was taken in the U.S. Jayneetee meeting at the national convention in Indian City in June, the result was the same.
Many women Jaycee leaders think they would be lost in the crowd if they were in the Jaycees because they would be so outnumbered. They prefer the chance to be leaders in their own organization, guiding others along long lines of interest and benefit to women.
One no one tells the Rotary, Lions, Optimists, Elks, etc., that they have to admit women. But that doesn't happen.
Mary Ann Beahon Editor. The Oread
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Susan B. Anthony was a tough lady, but her newest battle may prove to be too tough for her. She'll soon be trying to win acceptance in American pockets.
Advertising Adviser Chuck Chowins
Anthony's likeness, decided by a 388-38 vote of Congress, will be pictured on the new $1 coin, to be issued by the U.S. Treasury next year. The Treasury says 500 million of the coins could be minted by then.
But deciding whose niceness the coin will bear and minting the coin are the easy parts. The difficult task will be in getting the public to accept and begin using the
The most obvious example is the $2 bill.
Re-introduced in April, 1976 after a 10-year absence, the $2 bill still hasn't gained widespread use. Why?
Dollar coin faces acceptance test
BARRY ROBINSON, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. Mo., says, "The public frankly just doesn't give a root."
Robinson is right, unfortunately. The public doesn't care.
Although it actually is cheaper to produce the $1 bill, at 1.6ctc a bill, the $1 bill must be replaced about every 10 months—coins have a life span of about 18 months.
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Other changes in currency certainly have had a tough time finding acceptance in the past few years.
THERE HAS BEEN some worry that the new coin could be mistaken for the quarter, but Diane Reinhart, Federal Reserve Bank employeeman said the new coin would be 14-led, maybe possible to tell the difference by feel.
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Riek Musser
That's why the Treasury stopped printing $2 bills in 1965, even though they
had been printed for many years. Even then, they weren't accepted.
The only real question seems to be of its acceptance. And the Treasury indeed is taking a gamble on that.
But because of the coin's life span, the Treasury expects to save $17 million a year.
Eleven years later, the $2 bill was re-introduced as a method to save printing and storage costs. It was supposed to save $53 million during five years for the Treasury. It doesn't handle the public is moving to accept currency changes.
than a half-dollar, but bigger than a quarter.
several reasons were given for the earlier $2 bill's failure. People supposedly were superstitious and the $2 bill was supposed to bring bad luck. People either avoided the bills or tore the corners off when they did use them.
U. S. Rep. Andrew Jacobs Jr., D-Ind, who voted against the Anthony measure, said, "Id vote against a dollar coin regardless of whose image is on it. It costs more to produce and will only be a collector's item."
ROBSONN DIDN'T buy the super-
stitution theory for the $2 bill's failure now
People also were supposed to have confused the $2 bill with both the $1 and $20
When the bill came back in 1976, some hoarding was expected at first. Now, more than two years after its reintroduction, few hoarders were circulating, and there's no good reason for it.
The new bill, however, was designed to avoid that confusion. To help keep the bills
"THE ONLY WAY to do it would be to do away with the ones and lives and obviously we're not going to do that," Robinson said. So the Treasury has up with an all
straight, a painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was placed on the back of the new $2 bill.
Rodrisson said the Federal Reserve Bank still had about $2 million worth of $2 bills. Although he doesn't know how many bills are in circulation, he suspects many are collecting dust in dresser drawers as souvenirs of the bicentennial.
out that coin probably will run into many of the same problems the $2 bill has. The coin, however, does have certain advantages that cannot be overlooked.
Unfortunately, there appears to be no obvious solution to the $2 bill dilemma.
The first, and most obvious, is its cost. The new $1 coin will cost about three cents a coin, considered less than the cost of the old Eisenhower dollar coin. The new coin will be smaller
Jacobs' objection to its acceptance, however, is valid. That's unfortunate, because the idea of a $1 coin really is a good one.
PERSONALLY, I'M ELATED OVER THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY DOLLAR COIN!
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U.S.-Mideast alliance is needed
Bv ALBERT B. SABIN
The economic real-being of everyone in the United States for any years to come will depend on an uninterrupted flow of oil from the Middle East. Fast and present Soviet activities in the Middle East have no other logical explanation than that they are designed to bring about the economic and financial disintegration of the United States and other non-communist industrialized nations by controlling or preventing the vital flow of oil.
N. Y. Times Feature
NEW YORK - It is important for the American people to realize that the chief threat to U.S. national interest in the Middle East stems not from the continuing conflicts between Israel and Hamas, but from the consequences of policy and its growing military power in the area.
East The SOVIET Union does not need the oil of the Middle East for its economic well-being the way that the United States and other countries need it now and probably will for at least another 15 years.
The United States does not now threaten access to raw materials needed by the Soviet Union for its present and future economic well-being. Along with the oft-repeated Soviet statements of desire for peaceful coexistence with the United States and other non-communist nations, the well publicized policy seems to be less important than that they can be forced to the USSR until the time from the United States and other "imperialist powers" has been eliminated.
Control of the vitally needed oil resources of the Middle East is the means by which the Soviet Union plans to achieve this objective. It is true that the United States and the Soviet Union share a common desire to prevent an ultimate military confrontation between them that could result in a catastrophic war, but it is dangerous to disregard the obvious Soviet plans to achieve its objective by pushing to the brink of war.
by pilgrimage. The CTS are the sources of oil in the Middle East are being surrounded by a nose of Soviet military bases staffed by Soviet military personnel and by Soviet-armed and dominated radical countries.
There have been recent U.S. expressions of grave concern about current Soviet military incursions in Africa but little or no mention is made of the long-standing Soviet military bases in Libya and Iraq, including the invasion and domination of Syria and Iraq, and of the recent communist coup in Afghanistan, all of which, together with Soviet military installations and operations in Ethiopia and Somalia, form the pattern of military preparations for carrying out Soviet control over the eastern regions.
THE SPECTER of Soviet imperialism was invoked equally by those who supported and those who opposed recent U.S. arms package for Saudi Arabia. The president's defense of the Islamic State has his vote for the armed deal, as quoted was saying: "The Soviet noose
around the Middle East is tightening. This is no time for us to make mistakes. In this area the interests of Saudi Arabia and Israel coincide. Both are anti-Soviet. Both actively promote our interests, as well as their own, by combating radicalism in the region. Both are good friends of the United States. And both need our support."
He should have added. "as we need theirs."
Is it reasonable to expect the Soviet Union to wait for seven months or the highly sophisticated weapons are issued to Saudi Arabia and to Egypt and the military teams have been trained to use them, before initiating either an internal coup or an invasion by neighboring Soviet-dominated and equipped Arab countries?
Prior joint guarantees by the United States, the NATO allies and Japan to come to the aid of Saudi Arabia would not constitute a deterrent to such Soviet actions. Any attempt by the United States to protect its vital interests by directive military force against distant forces quickly countered by the abundant Soviet military capability on the spot.
weapons to oppose MEBRELING. UNGHIGHly sophisticated arms to threatened governments unable to use them or to station symbolic U.S. forces in strategically vital areas cannot be regarded as effective deterrents.
effective defense that requires the only military power in the region that could take immediate action if it were attacked simultaneously. But if its strategy circumvents and conceals its effort to attack, there would be an effective indication for to intervene.
no immediatedhccanon to safeguard the vital self-interest, the United States cannot escape the need for establishing, as soon as possible, its own limited military bases and forces on the coast of the threatened countries to constitute an effective deterrent to Soviet plans for gaining control of the vital oil resources in the Middle East.
SAUDI AJABA, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the United States are at this moment in history bound together by a common self-interest in survival and security. The world is filled with people that must superseize other considerations that divide them.
THE AMERICAN people must view such a proposed military alliance as serving its own immediate vital interest and not as an anti-communist, ideological crusade or other police action to support their own interests. The Soviet exploits popular discontent and long-standing hostilities for their own objectives without reference to ideology.
other consideration. The establishment of U.S. bases and effective military forces on the territory of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the sovereignty would represent no more of an investment on the sovereignty of these nations than the stationing of U.S. armed forces in European NATO countries by mutual consent.
owns a jurisdiction that assumes a such military alliance cannot be achieved without a prior peace agreement between Israel
and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, whether desirable that may be, is not valid. What is needed for the ultimate resolution of the long-standoff hostility of these Arab countries to Israel is a change in attitude and a gradual elimination of the hostility based on activities of mutual self-interest.
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GENEVA GEORGE Keagan, former head of U.S. Air Force General George Keagan, has recently said that Israel's military intelligence capability "has kept the Soviets at bay in the Middle East and thus far has prevented, by thwarting KB-backed assassination attempts, the more radical Arab regimes from capturing and seizing Saudi Arabia."
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The proposed military alliance should be based on the pragmatic self-interest of the members of the alliance, each of whom needs the support of the United States as much as the United States needs each of them. It is not an essential part of such an alliance that Iran or Israel commit themselves to the military defense of Saudi Arabia or Egypt or vice versa, although non-belligerence and cooperation for mutual self-interest is fundamental.
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Until such time as the United States can build its own bases on the territory of the members of the proposed alliances, it must receive immediate permission to use airbases by its own air, sea and ground forces on a scale needed to direct or indirect Soviet interference with an uninterrupted flow of oil to the United States and other non-communist industrialized countries whose economic survival depends on it.
IT IS well known, for example, that the U.S. Air Force is used in Isarel's air base at Etzion in the southern Sinai Peninsula for long range surveillance over the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the western areas of the Indian Ocean.
Ocean coasts are proposed common self-interest military alliance can also be accompanied by ancillary cooperative development projects with the United States and among the participating countries in such areas as water-desalination, arid-zone agriculture, solar energy and nuclear power technology. These countries have a better life to the million people poverty-striken people in the area.
success. It is also hoped that such an alliance may ultimately convince Soviet policy makers that the future well-being of the people of the Soviet Union does not depend on the economic and financial disintegration of the non-communist industrialized nations but rather on mutually beneficial pragmatic cooperative enterprises.
Albert B. Sabin is Distinguished Research Professor of Biomedicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. He has been associated with the United States Army in various medical research activities since 1941 and continues as a civilian consultant to the Army Medical Research and Development Command. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and, as president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, lived in Israel in 1790-71.
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