-Lee Sheppeard
Family Savings Hit Post-War Peak
In spite of high prices, or maybe because of them, families have been more successful at saving money in the past six months than in any other six months since just after the end of the war, according to government statistics. The total, since April of this year, has amounted to about ten cents out of every one dollar earned after taxes.
Families and individuals have saved during the past six months by virtue of two things; they have been earning more money on the average than they did a year ago and they have been spending less. In particular they have been buying fewer of what economists call "consumer durables," which include such things as household equipment, furniture and automobiles. This is very different from what families were doing during the buying wave touched off by the Korean War in the summer of 1950 and a second buying wave early in 1951.
Not all families in America have managed to save their ten cents on the dollar this year. Among "dissavers" have probably been families who have not shared in the general increase in income, other families who have experienced financial crises because of unemployment, illness or other trouble and still other families—mostly young families—who have been going into debt to set up new households and to pay for new babies. High prices for essentials and high taxes are other factors which are making it difficult to save.
In estimating national totals of family and individual savings, government economists follow the same method which families follow in setting up their own budgets; they start out with total income after taxes, subtract how much is being spent for food, clothing, shelter, and everything else, and then label anything that's left, savings. The arithmetic which holds for this country this fall shows approximately these results: our income after taxes is running at the rate of about 226 billion dollars a year, our consumer expenditures at around 204 billion dollars a year, and our savings at around 22 billion dollars a year.
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The University lecture last week on marriage problems attracted our attention. With the first lecture being given by a man name "Bee," would it be out of place to suggest that the next one be given by someone name "Bird?"
Our nomination for the most honest man of the week goes to the editor of a yearbook down in Texas. In announcing the qualifications for yearbook queen the fellow announced that personality, campus activities, or other talents will not be considered. All they will judge on is good looks.
Our favorite coed, Iva Latepaper, has been giving some serious thought to the question of marriage. As she figures it, a girl can't be too careful who she marries first.
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However, she wonders if she was too anxious about it last night when talking to one of the fellows she goes with. When he said, "I'll give you a ring next week," Iva promptly asked, "How many carats?"
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More On Music In Us
Letters:
To the Kansan:
I can't quite agree with Kurt Sontheimer's belief that American people lack music consciousness. I have been in several sections of this country since my arrival four years ago and have met many true music lovers, especially in the East.
Mr. Sontheimer should realize that this is a young country as compared with those of Europe. How could a person expect this country to produce great musicians while only a slight percentage of the population really enjoy music!
Americans are certainly becoming more and more music conscious. A great number of music programs are given each year in big cities. Radio stations all over United States include also classical music in their programs. I think some of the reasons why the number of music lovers has not yet increased so rapidly here may be due to:
1. Many Americans dislike to be called "high-brow" persons. They believe that music is "big-stuff" and should belong to those who call themselves intellectuals.
they were "too much" for him. Once I was shocked to hear a friend of mine saying, "I doubt that French girl really enjoys music; she can't tell the viola from the flute!" These people instead of enjoying and feeling the beauty of the music they concentrate in recognizing the instruments of the orchestra. However, all of these do not show that Americans are not music conscious. They show the increasing efforts of more and more people to learn how to enjoy music.
2. Many of the so-called "Music Understanding" or "Music Appreciation" books are certainly discouraging. They treat music as a mechanical subject rather than as an art. Sometimes they even try to formulate mathematical ways to aid people to "understand" music.
I have heard frequently expressions similar to the following one: "I could not enjoy the music very much because I could not remember whether Franck's Symphony is in A minor or D minor." One music major told me last semester that he could not enjoy music by Stravinsky and other modern composers because
It is true that most students at the Browsing room who concentrate in the music are usually foreign students. But Mr. Sontheimer should not have drawn such a generalization as his. First of all, the Browsing room is not only a music room but it is also a reading room. Secondly, people sometimes read books because they become bored by listening to the same records all over again. Such records as the New World Symphony, Scheherazade, Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 2 and a few compositions by Tchaikovsky are played endlessly. So people sometimes wait impatiently their turn reading books. Finally, some music lovers can afford to have a record collection. They do not need to visit the music room so frequently.
Mr. Jim Burgoyne, director of the Student Union activities, told me recently that many new long-play records are expected to arrive soon. They will be sufficient to attract many music lovers. Mr. Sontheimer will be surprised to find by then that there are many Americans who are music conscious also.
Antonio Pun Kay Business senior from Peru.
A plan designed to stimulate reading interests has been set up at the University of Idaho. Included in the program is a reading alcove equipped with a sofa, easy chairs, and display book racks. Student reading statistics are being kept for subsequent study and analysis.
News From Other Campuses Idaho Offers Reading Plan BYU Teaches Lin-reading
A course in lip-reading is being offered this year at Brigham Young university. In addition to *teaching the lip-reading course, the speech instructor will conduct a series of tests and clinics for elementary school children with defective speech.
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Thursday, October 25, 1951
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Fat Man Admits Poison Liquor Sales
Atlanta—(U.P.)-A massive man with a threepage FBI record admitted to police today that he distributed a supply of poison whisky that killed 31 persons here and sent more than 200 others to the hospital, some of them blinded for life.
John Richard "Fat" Hardy, a fantastic 360-pounder, was booked on charges of involuntary manslaughter. Hardy promised he would tell who manufactured the stuff—made of water and an alcohol used to "soup up" racing cars. He said he did not know the 96 gallons he admitted distributing were lethal.
Record British Vote Seen
Polling officials in London said that 20 to 30 per cent more people voted before noon this year than last, when 84 per cent of the electorate balloted before the polls closed.
London—(U.P.)—Millions of British voted today in what appeared to be a record turnout for a general election. Aging Winston Churchill was expected to be returned to his old job of prime minister.
Topeka Flood Hearing Set
Topeka—(U.P)—A Congressional delegation will be in Topeka, Wednesday, Oct. 31, to conduct a public hearing on flood control and soil conservation.
The North Topeka reconstruction committee and the Chamber of Commerce planned to send representatives to the hearing by a House subcommittee on agriculture. Rep. Clifford R. Hope, (Rep.-Kan.) is vice-chairman of the group.
Gets Remington For Perjury
New York—(U.B)—William W. Remington, former commerce department official, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on five counts of committing perjury during his perjury trial last February.
An announcement by U.S. Attorney Myles J. Lane said the evidence involved testimony by Remington in which he swore he never had passed government secrets to Elizabeth T. Bentley, admitted courier for a Soviet spy ring at the time Remington worked on the war production board.
Kansas Gets Basin Grant
Bismarck, N.D.—(U.P.)—Kansas will receive large shares of the six-year, nearly three-billion-dollar Missouri basin program.
Projects in Kansas total $282,328,000. A breakdown of the Kansas projects: Missouri river levees $11,099,000; Milford reservoir $35,450,000; Perry reservoir $16,176,000; Malvern reservoir $17,900,000; Tuttle Creek reservoir $73,919,000; Both Kansas Citys $6,988,000; Bureau of Reclamation Kirwin unit $17,311,000; Webster unit $13,523,000;
Panmunjom, Korea—(U.P.)-United Nations truce negotiators proposed Thursday a cease-fire line which would give the Reds 200 square miles of hatred-won UN territory in North Korea. But the historic battlegrounds of "Bloody Ridge" and "Heartbreak Ridge" would stay in Allied hands.
UN Offers To Give Ground
Move To Extend Port Strike
New York—(U.P.)—Rebel AFL stewedores booted down a proposal today to end their 11-day $250,-000,000 wildcat strike here and hurried pickets to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chester, Pa., in a move to paralyze shipping at those ports.
The pickets got their travel orders while spokesmen for the insurgent 20,000 dockwallopers were wrangling at an early morning session with President Joseph P. Ryan, of the International Longshoreman's association.
US Bids Iran Peace Again
Washington—(U.P.)-U.S. officials, encouraged by results of previous talks, scheduled a new mediation effort today in the British-Iranian oil crisis.
Informed sources said Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh will discuss his country's quar with Britain in the course of a visit to the Middleburg, Va., farm of Assistant Secretary of State George C. McGhee.