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University Daily Kansan Friday, May 16, 1958
A Solution For Teachers?
A major problem facing the schools in this country is the lack of qualified teachers. The main cause of this is poor pay and little or no encouragement to improve their teaching abilities.
One possible way to alleviate the situation at least a little bit would fall along the line of taxes.
A lawyer can deduct from his income the cost of attending a tax institute; a doctor can deduct the cost of attending a short course on the uses of new drugs. But the teacher who goes to the expense of going to summer school or night school to pick up some useful courses is not entitled to any deduction unless he would lose his job by not going.
This means that a teacher is penalized if he goes to school to learn how to teach better.
A bill has recently been introduced into Congress to help our teachers in this respect. It is the King-Jenkins bill. The bill would permit teachers in schools and colleges to deduct up to $600 a year from their taxable incomes for money spent on tuition, books, equipment, travel, and extra living expenses away from home.
This may not be the best way to get more and better teachers, but it is a longer step on the path that we have yet taken.
Gary Hale
Always A Need For Journalism
The year 1833 marked the birth of modern day journalism. In that year the newspaper first became accessible to the average American, for in that year the first successful penny newspaper, the New York Sun, was established.
Thus, true democratic government was insured for our country, for where all the people are informed and educated, totalitarianism cannot last long. However this event is also important because for the first time the need of the masses for periodicals designed specifically for them was recognized and satisfied.
The importance of the year stems from the opening of channels of information and education to the masses by putting the newspaper within the economic reach of the average individual.
Fifty years later, in 1883, Pulitzer's New York World satisfied a new need for a mass newspaper. Newspapers were still within financial reach of the common man, but they did not meet the needs of the new immigrant from Europe. The World fought for social and tax reforms which would make the new world the utopia the immigrant had dreamed of.
Then in 1919 the New York Daily News began its career. With photographs and cartoons, it
was able to provide "reading" matter to the poorly educated and those who knew no English.
Each of these times, the newspapers have provided news for the masses and have helped begin the long process of education which in later generations has given us competent citizens and voters. Along with the news, these newspapers carried the sensationalism which has made the press unpopular with some intellectuals.
Each time this happens in history, the intellectuals complain. But in so doing, they forget that their class is growing each generation because newspapers have tried to open the eyes of the ill-informed as well as the scholars. This process of informing the man in the street begins with sandwich editorials and features and world news events among the spicier items which the unschooled find so irresistible.
We are a nation where the average person can often achieve an education equal to his highest dreams. As each generation is educated, the standards of the periodicals which it reads are raised. But there is always another generation which must be educated. There is and always will be a need for a newspaper for the masses.
—Carol Stilwell
. . Letters To The Editor
Anyone For Europe?
Editor:
In September I am leaving for Europe with $800 in my pocket and a knackssack on my back.
For nine months I will visit as many countries as possible and stay at Foreign Youth Hostels.
If anyone reading this letter has similar convictions, please contact me at VI 3-2482
The only problem that befalls me at the moment is that of a travelling companion. I feel that it would be much more enjoyable to share my experiences with another person.
Dennis Weathers
Topeka freshman
Hot Under The Collar Editor:
As a suffering member of one of our finest university dorms, I would like to protest the lack of air conditioning facilities when these facilities are available, yet lying dormant.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
. . .
A committee from our dorm has approached the Housing Office with the problem; but even our last resort offer to pay for its use was re-buffed.
By Dick Bibler
Their reasoning seems to be that to give to one and not to all would be unfair. Yet, merely because the Physical Sciences and Music and Drama departments have new buildings, and the Engineering School, among others, exists in outdated structures, does not mean that these former departments will close down and visit for total expansion "just to be fair."
"WELL LIKE YOU SAID WHEN YA FLUNKED ME OUT OF SCHOOL: WE CANT ALL BE BORN WITH A HIGH IQ'-I'M JUS' LUCKY I GUESS."
With finals coming up, study will be that much harder knowing of comfort so near, yet so far. What say we lower the temperature and raise the grades!
Theodore A. Budd
Kansas City, Mo, freshman
University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded 1889, became bweekly 1904,
and became university newspaper 1916.
Telephone VIking 3-2700 Extension 251, news room Extension 376, business office
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Kasson post office under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Dick Brown Managing Editor
Larry Boston, Bob Hartley, Mary Beth
Noyes, Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Managing Editor; Douglas Carter, City
Education; Kyle Dickerson, City Editors;
Assistant City Editors; Mary Alden,
Telegraph Editor; Martha Frederick,
Assistant Telegraph Editor; George
Anthan, Sports Editor; Bob McYee, Dale
McYee, Sports Editor; John Mason, Sports
Editors; Ron Swanson, Society Editor;
Ron Miller, Picture Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Del Haley Editorial Editor
Evelyn Hall, Marilyn Mermis, Leroy
Zimmerman, Associate Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Ted Winkler Business Manager
Quotes From The News
LINCOLN, Neb. — Mrs. Althea Neal testifying on her grandson, mass killer Charles Starkweather:
"He always was a good boy, jolly and full of fun. A cheerful boy."
WASHINGTON — Rep, Donald L.
Jackson (D-Calif) in urging the
House not to cut aid for Latin America despite the attacks on Nixon:
"A few rude brats who should no spanked are completely and totally unimportant in the assessment of our over-all future relations with our neighbors to the south."
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