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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 4, 1952
Postman Rings Thrice In Britain
London—(U.P.)-The only red in the British post office is Santa Claus.
The postman rings three times a day at most British homes, yet the post office is making money.
Politely ignoring the red ink around Uncle Sam's letter headquarters, postal officials here were disturbed by the announcement that their surplus of income over expenditure in 1950-51 was only £12,-600,000 ($322,280,000).
There was some horror at the "G.P.O." (general post office) that it was a drop of $2,000,000 ($6,150,-000) from the previous year's profit.
In the business section of London, there are four or five deliveries a day. In residential districts in all major communities, there are always three deliveries—one at breakfast time, another before lunch and another in mid-afternoon. In the small towns, there are two deliveries; on the farms, one.
Those are sometimes increased, according to the load, during the Christmas rush.
There are very few of those exasperating jams inside the post offices themselves, which are small and scattered over many neighborhoods inside cities. Letters mailed in the morning in London sometimes reach their destination before nightfall.
A two-and-one-half penny (three cents) stamp will take a letter anywhere in Britain.
Britain's post office is a hydra-headed business. It handles the nation's telegraph and telephone systems, dispenses social security payments and pensions, issues drivers' licenses, and collects compulsory radio and television receiver license fees.
Only the postal, telegraph and telephone systems figure into the accounts. The postal system alone showed a profit of £6,800,000 ($19,-040,000) in 1950-51. There was a profit on telephones too but the telegraph system ran in the red £4,200,000 ($11,700,000). A spokesman explained that Britain is small and all telegraph systems lose money when operating over short distances.
One key factor in Britain's profit-making at postmastering is the small size of its operation compared to the United States—8,500,000,000 letters and parcels are handled here annually, compared to much more than that in the United States.
ALL OVER WESTERN EUROPE, the Communists, inspired by the Kremiln, are trying to get rid of the Americans so Communism can take over without a fight. They use every propaganda measure they can think of to make the Americans feel unwanted. Communists, trying to encourage Americans to leave Vienna and return to the United States, recently painted signs on pavements and billboards reading, "Ami, go home" such as this one.
reading, "Ami, go home," such as this one.
Lab Theater Will Open1952 Season With Plays Jan. 9
The first Lab theater program of 1952 will present two plays at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, in the Little Theater of Green hall. The plays will run for three days.
Both plays are cast of students in the acting class of Frances Feist, instructor in speech.
The first play each evening will be "Irish Fantasy," a brief one-act play by Robert Ziesenis, College senior. The play was a prize-winner in the recent Quill club contest.
The second play will be "The Marriage of Sobeide" a German poetic drama by Hugo von Hoffman-stahl.
Gerhard Herm, exchange student from Germany will appropriately direct the play.
Each student will play two "widely differing roles," according to Mrs. Feist. "This will give the students good experience as well as serving
LARRY JIM ROSS, 1952 March-of-Dimes poster boy, makes friends with a dog on his arrival in New York by plane from Wiesbaden, Germany. He came to the U.S. for the opening of the polio fund campaign on his seventh birthday, Jan. 2. The lad, who has been battling polio for more than five years, has lived around army camps his whole life. His dad is attached to Air Force.
as a test of their stage versatility in acting in both plays," she said.
Members of the class are: Jonell Ashcraft, College junior; James Claussen, College junior; Barbara Donovan, College senior; Herm, special student in the College; Mary Beth Moore, College junior; Shirley Strain, College junior; Barbara Orendoff, College junior; Kirt Walling, College junior; John White, College senior and Ziesenis, College senior.
Tickets will be on sale at 25 cents each at the ticket office in Green hall each night of performance.
Intramural
Round-Up
Saturday's Schedule Robinson Annex Independent "A"
2 p.m. Kappa Eta Kappa vs. Alpha Kappa, Psi
4 p.m. Delta Sigma Fi vs. Jolliffe Robinson Gym
Fraternity "C"
3 p.m. Coffeyville Cats vs. Care-frees
3 p.m. Phi Kappa Psi vs. Phi Kappa Tau and Alpha Tau Omega vs. Alpha Epsilon Pi
2 p.m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs.
Delta Chi and Beta Theta Pi vs.
Lambda Chi Alpha
4 p.m. Phi Delta Theta vs. Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon onvs. Phi Kappa Sigma
Sunday's Schedule Robinson Annex Independent "A"
2:30 p.m. Dark Horses vs. Bounce-
ing Bones
4:30 p.m. Phi Kappa Sigma vs.
Sigma Pi M
Fraternity "A"
3:30 p.m. Beta Theta Pi vs. Delta . Chi
5:30 p.m. Phi Psi vs. Phi Kappa
Robinson Gym
2:30 p.m. Triangle vs. Alpha Kappa Lambda and Delta Upsilon vs. Sigma Nu
Fraternity "B'
3:30 p.m. Kappa Sigma vs. Ph.
Kappa and Pi Kappa Alpha vs.
Chi Chi Chi
4:30 p.m. Phi Gamma Delta vs.
Sigma Chi and Sigma Alpha
Epsilon vs. Alpha Phi Alpha
Fuseliery "C"
5:30 p.m. Delta Chi vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha K. Lambda vs. Phi Psi
Miss Loda Newcomb, assistant secretarial training professor, and Donald A. Boege, secretarial training instructor, attended the National Business Teachers' association convention in Chicago Dec. 27.
News Roundup
Latest Russian Proposal May Delay Truce Talks
Paris—(U.P.)—The United States said today it feared the Soviet move to switch Korean armistice negotiations to the United Nations Security council might seriously delay or even torpedo the Panmunjom talks.
American Delegate Benjamin V. Cohen called a special news conference here to serve notice that the United States is decidedly and unqualifiedly opposed to the whole Russian resolution.
The surprise proposal unveiled Thursday calls for a high-level security council meeting to attempt an easing of world tension, starting with the Korean armistice negotiations deadlock. It also proposes abolition of the Acheson-plan program for bolstering vetose free UN collective security machinery.
UN Accuses Reds Of Plane Smuggling
Panmunjom, Korea—(U.P.)—The United Nations accused the Communists today of bringing crated war planes into Korea for assembly at secret airfields within range of the Allied lines during an armistice.
The Reds tactily admitted that "large masses" of Chinese-trained Korean troops were sent back to North Korea before the outbreak of war. However, the enemy delegates said, they saw "nothing wrong with that."
Philippine Typhoon Ravages Islands
St. Paul, Minn.—(U.P.)-The Dec. 9 typhoon that swept the Philippines resulted in more than 1,000 deaths and laid waste to about one-third of the entire island area, information reaching here disclosed today.
Arcand said the typhoon destroyed the homes, farms and possessions of about 6,500,000 persons. Damage to property and crops totalled several hundred millions of dollars, he added.
"The scene of Guiuan now is like that of Manila after liberation all in ruins," Sister Maria wrote. "The sight of all the debris is very sickening."
Flood Control Talks Start New Battle
Washington—(U.P.)—President Truman's creation of an 11-member survey commission to tackle the whole problem of harnessing Missouri basin water resources today set off a fresh congressional battle over flood control.
Some members, Democrats and Republicans, applauded Mr. Truman's action which he said was prompted by last summer's floods, costliest in U.S. history.
But Rep. Myron V. George (R.-Kan.) eyed the President's commission as another pitch for support of his TVA-patterned Missouri Valley Authority. George said the study commission would only serve to delay badly-needed flood control projects in the area.
Washington—U.P.)—Evidence mounted today that Attorney General J. Howard McGrath is being groomed for resignation.
McGrath Resignation Is Expected Soon
What appeared to be a White House chill toward McGrath started when the President fired T. Lamar Caudle as head of the justice department's tax division without even consulting McGrath,
Much of the evidence, indirect as it was, came from President Truman himself, and his non-committal attitude toward McGrath's continuance as head of the justice department.
England Concerned Over U.S. Air Bases
Washington— (U.P.) —President Truman is prepared to assure Prime Minister Winston Churchill that the big American atomic bombers based in England never will take off on attack missions without Britain's knowledge and approval, it was learned today.
Churchill has indicated he will raise the issue when he arrives here Saturday for world strategy talks with Mr. Truman. He has said publicly that British views rate consideration because the U.S. bomber bases would turn England into a prime target for Soviet "vengeance" in event of atomic war.
Hoodlums Nailed By Treasury Agents
Washington—(U.P.)—Treasury agents have tapped 5,000 smalltime racketeers for almost $50,000,000 in unpaid taxes since last August and now are closing in on some of the nation's most notorious hoodlums, it was disclosed today.
A top official of the Internal Revenue bureau said the drive against racketeering tax-dodgers, coupled with enforcement of the new stamp tax on gamblers, may well break the back of organized gambling.
Simultaneously with the highly-publicized cleanup of the bureau itself, Internal Revenue Commissioner John B. Dunlap has assigned 2,300 agents to the racket squad under James J. Gutherie to dig into the tax records of every known or suspected racketeer in the country.
Truman Says Murphy Changed Mind
Washington—(U.P.)—President Truman finally has confirmed that Federal Judge Thomas F. Murphy of New York accepted and then rejected his invitation to head a commission to wipe out corruption in government.
Mr. Truman told his news conference late Thursday he didn't care about answering questions about Murphy and the commission, but that the judge accepted the appointment and later changed his mind.