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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 17, 1957
Sputniks Or Cotton-Pickers?
The Russians may have sputnik but they are low on cotton-pickers.
Isvestia recently reported that about two billion rubles (about five-hundred million dollars) have been spent in the post-war period trying to develop and construct a practicable Russian cotton-picker.
Now this may seem relatively unimportant, but the result of this machinery debacle is that the major portion of Soviet cotton is picked by hand, and this is very important if you are a cotton-picker, especially if you are a Russian cotton-picker.
It is obvious that the interests of the worker, i.e., the cotton-picker, are being neglected in Russia. The fact that Russia has a spatnik probably means little to a cotton-picker with an aching back.
The U. S. has finally found a breach in the
Soviet propaganda wall and we should take immediate advantage.
Our course of action is obvious. The Russians may have launched the first sputnik, but the propaganda value of launching the first cotton-picking earth satellite is inestimable.
We have had efficient cotton-pickers for years—; we have only to launch one.
The "beep-beep" of an insignificant satellite would be submerged in the prestige value of the inter-space cotton-picker.
Imagine the value of such an instrument. Each morning, as the poor collectivist cotton-pickers stumbled from their shacks the U.S. cotton-picker moon would whiz over the dawn sky, a grim reminder of the superiority of U.S. industrial knowhow.
John Eaton
Take 'Em Off Reserve
Recently $41,500 was spent to save students' shoe soles at the University of West Virginia. Thanks to a recent Ford Foundation grant, the University of West Virginia is equipped with a closed television circuit which enables students to select a book from the main library, thumb through it, and read it without even entering the library.
All the student has to do is phone in a request to the main desk, and the book is reproduced, page by page, on the television screen.
In a story which appeared in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, the reason stated for the
$41,500 project was that it would save students from "roaming across the 510-acre campus" to get a book.
Perhaps the University of West Virginia does not provide the hills of old Mt. Oread for developing leg muscles, but the fact remains that K. U. students have a 600-acre campus over which to trudge for a book. After he gets to the library the student finds that required reading is on reserve. Let's take some of the books off reserve or put them on television.
... Letters ...
Evelyn Hall
Editor:
Student directories and non-transferable I. D. cards seem to be related under the heading of "things the students pay more for and get less of." A great many other subjects come under that heading, but they are not as current.
Three cheers for Def Haley who believes that I. D. cards should be freely transferable at the "owners" option. We're with him 100 per cent if it's possible to provide that the I. D. cards are not so easily transferable that they are also easily stolen. Haley's arguments for the case are very good.
As for the directories with the "cardboard simulated leather cover" which are slow in completion; which will cost the student 25 cents each, and which, inevitably must be thrown away before they have seen nine months use, PHOOEY!
It costs the student a great deal of money to be in school and a good percentage of that covers extras, such as I. D. cards. It seems that the student should either get more
benefits out of his paid-for, extras or the money should go to help in a small way to alleviate the underpaid, understaffed teaching conditions of the University of Kansas.
Robert and Jane Hines, both Leavenworth juniors.
Editor:
Mr. Haley in his column on "Is Your ID Your Own?", makes reference to Kansas State College, saying that they have no such policy of not allowing transfer of identification cards.
I attended K-State during the last school year and the school has the same policy as Kansas on ID cards. But since there are no identification photos' on K-State ID cards, there is never any question as to the owner of the card.
The content of Haley's article should be adopted by the University, since the person using an ID card only takes up so much room, and the owner should be allowed to do what he pleases with his ID card.
J Gary D. Greendel, Kansas City junior
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
We see the Russians are considering sending a dog aloft in their next satellite. This may further science but it will raise havoc with nursery rhymes. Certain changes are evident.
Short Ones
Hi diddle mutnik.
The cat and the sputnik.
The dog jumped over the moon.
The old Russian laughed to see
In thudure indnik,
'the eaf and the sputnik,
"AND WHEN IT FALLS ON THE PAPER IT STAMPS A BIG RED 'I'."
And the dish ran away with the heart.
Piggaric—A bald head as humorously likened to a head of garlic and looked upon with humorous contempt. Does it sound like any instructors you know?
So far Gov. George Docking has tangled with doctors, college professors and the KU and K-State journalism schools. He must be counting a lot on the farm vote.
Wish I had done it! An alum at the game Saturday wore an extraordinary tall hat. It was fine for getting attention but even better for hiding the six cans of beer in a container under it.
From 1660 to 1720 is called the Age of Walnut.
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