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Monday, Feb. 18, 1952
Daily Kansan Editorials
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Arnall's Acceptance Of Job As Price Chief Is Mystery
Ellis Arnall, new price stabilization chief, is taking over a tough job. The question of the hour seems to be, "Why is he accepting the position?"
Former chief Mike DiSalle, who is quitting to run for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Ohio, claims to have completed the basic structure of the organization, and says that Arnall will have a good foundation from which to work.
It seems unlikely, though, that Arnall, former governor of Georgia, would leave his position as an Atlanta lawyer and president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture producers for such an unpopular job alone.
If Truman should be re-elected, Arnall might be in a position for a cabinet office, possibly attorney general. That might be more the type of feather Arnall is seeking for his hat.
Arnall will take a leave of absence from his prosperous law firm, his $25,000-a-year job as president of the motion picture association and the presidency of the Dixie Insurance company to take the $16,000-a-year job as OPS head.
The figures don't seem to add up. Unless he is stunned with patriotism, he may have something else on his mind. It never hurt anyone to look to the future.
Arnall's term as governor saw some major reforms in Georgia. He sponsored the constitutional amendment to give the vote to 18-year-olds on the grounds that if they were old enough to fight, they were old enough to vote.
Arnall's actions show he is a man of action, who has dynamic thoughts and the ability and personality to push them through. He is as famous for his quips as former price chief, DiSalle.
Arnall also shoved through a prison system reform. His term ended with the historic wrangle with the current governor, Herman Talmadge.
Undoubtedly Arnall has the drive to be a success in his new office. What now remains is to see how long he will stay there.
This situation merits watching. —Pat Roney.
short ones
The Defense department announced recently it would begin to draft dentists for the first time since the outbreak of the Korean war. Who's been pulling Gl teeth all this time, combat mechanics?
Television networks have started broadcasting early morning programs. They're determined to keep people awake sometime during the day.
- A Soviet diplomat in the United Nations charged that World War III had already begun. So far his country is the only one not in it. Right now the Russians are sitting on top of the world. Or at least on top of China.
Most people would rather talk about themselves except when it comes to writing letters. Then they'd rather listen.
In Emporia, a girl broke out of jail with a spoon. Ingenuity is the breath of woman.
Will Wage Increases Bring Inflation?
"But sweet, every fraternity has a close case. It's just that no closet in this house can hold Gerard."
The CIO's headman, Philip Murray, has come out in favor of hiking the minimum wage hour law from 75 cents to $1.25 an hour. Many people have raised the objection that such a move would be inflationary.
Economists, however, emphasize that no wage increase is inflationary per se. That is, no wage increase would automatically cause prices to go upward. Whether or not an increase would result in higher prices depends entirely upon the relative level of the minimum wage to other games and prices throughout industry.
For an increase in the minimum wage to be inflationary, wages and prices would have to be too low in relation to the demand and to other wages and prices. Today's inflation is caused by the extraordinary demand for steel and other essential products needed in the nation's vast armament program.
Had such a proposal been voiced in the 1930's, labor would have objected because it would have forced a curtailment in production. Wages then would have been too high in relation to the demand and other prices and wages. Whenever wages are raised high enough in any industry, a depression or downward trend results within that industry.
armament needs are met.
If inflation is to be halted, the demand for these materials must be curtailed. This would call for cutting civilian production to the bone until our
Congress must use considerable judgment in deciding the matter. The inflationary-minded congressmen must realize that such measures are not automatically inflationary. Pro-labor members, however, must also realize that an excessive minimum wage would be detrimental to the nation's workers when the demand for goods is less.
The law makers must keep in mind that a minimum wage law is an attempt by the government to give more bargaining power to economically weaker workers. Such an aid is not necessary for workers who already have a sufficient bargaining power to successfully demand a fair wage.
Comments
—Charles L. Burch.
Publicity Stunt Exposed
The Ohio State Lantern sized up some of the campus coeds recently and swung from the floor. In an editorial it declared:
For the benefit of the coeds in Baker Hall who received all that glorious publicity for doing exactly nothing we have only this to say:
We know where the story was concocted. . and how it was fabricated out of nothing. And we're disappointed in you for permitting yourself to be used like that. The newspaper story said you—30 of you—had adopted a whole infantry company in the Korean battle area. The article stated that you had promised to write to all the lonesome guys in that company.
So you posed prettily and promised profusely. . and put the whole thing down as a big joke. We imagine those guys in Korea—who are still lonesome—are laughing themselves sick. Some of you may have intended writing, but intentions mean little to those guys over there.
Maybe we shouldn't get so excited about the whole deal. After all, that infantry company will never miss what it never had. It's just that we dislike pretenders.
We're proud of the Lantern reporters who—at our insistence—helped expose this whole thing as a faurce. But we're a bit disturbed by the reports we get of the intimidation which was aimed at preventing their bringing us the story. We frown on such action. . especially when it comes from the top brass.
A survey indicates that students at Southern Methodist University, Texas, are about evenly divided on the question:
"Should Negro students be admitted to classes at SMU?"
Race Ideas Shift At SMU
Forty-five per cent said they would be in favor of such a move, while 51 per cent said "no." The rest were undecided.
A poll taken in 1939 showed that only 18 per cent of the SMU students were in favor of dropping the racial bars.
Commented the SMU Campus in an editorial, "No Negroes are trying to get into undergraduate work here at the present time, and in all probability this situation will prevail for another decade or more.
"Certainly not until student sentiment allowing such a step reaches as high as 80 per cent can it be contemplated. Any attempt to force it sooner would almost certainly result in more evil than good."
Burma May Be Next Hot Spot If Reds Are Halted In Korea
Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky has charged that the U.S. is ferrying Chinese Nationalists troops into Burma for an attack on Red China's southern frontier.
Also a British newspaper, the London Sunday Observer, said "an independent American agency was helping to move Chinese Nationalists troops and supplies through Thailand into Burma.
The U.S. state department has denied these charges, but has warned that there is a possibility of an invasion of Burma by the Chinese Reds.
After considering these statements it appears that both the U.S. and Red China are expecting a war to break out in Burma. At the present time Communist guerrillas are trying to take over French Indo-China, but in the last few weeks the action has quieted down. French Foreign Minister Schuman said Jan. 6 that France "would not refuse an accord which would put an end" to the Indo-China civil war "under conditions which would be honorable to France."
Burma, which declared its independence from the British empire in 1847, has only an ill-trained, ill-equipped army of 50,000 men. Burma's present government has been unable to control rebel Karen tribes and armed bands of local Communists.
According to military authorities, Burma would be easier to invade than French Indo-China because of the terrain of the country. Also Burma is an agricultural country with rice one of its main crops. This rice would be very useful to the starving people of Red China. Burma carries on more than two-thirds of its trade with India. a nation that is friendly toward Red China.
Whether or not Burma becomes a world "trouble spot" probably will depend on the outcome of the Korean truce negotiations. If the Chinese Reds decide they can go no farther in Korea, it is possible they will put their whole weight behind a move to conquer Southeast Asia. —Max Thompson.
News From Other Campuses
An Interfraternity council "Greek Week" committee at Iowa State has outlined pre-initiation activities designed to "bring dignity and public service" into these activities.
Under discussion by fraternities for several years, this marks the first actual appearance of a "Greek Week" as such, at Iowa State.
The schedule suggested by the committee includes pledge lunch-
Michigan State university girls organized a football team to prove that the "weaker sex" is an accurate title. Then they challenged last year's intramural champions. The score: Men—13, Women—13.
eons, exchanges between fraternities, well known speakers and a public service project to be carried on cooperatively by all fraternity pledges.
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