Lee Sheppeard Kansas Legalize Slot Machines? The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aligned itself alongside of local law enforcement agencies in Kansas to aid in the fight against all forms of illegal speculation in the state. Early this week the F.B.L. taking advantage of recent federal legislation, confiscated slot machines in both the Legion club and the Elks club at Topeka. The fact that local law enforcement bodies were not invited to participate in the raid seems to indicate that the federal agents are taking no unnecessary chances of operators being tipped off prior to raids. It has recently been necessary for the State of Kansas to request Federal assistance in the rehabilitation of flood victims. Our highway improvement program is not moving along as rapidly as some would like to see. Some of our school systems are far from meeting acceptable standards, and yet local, state and federal taxes have reached an all-time high. Why not legalize slot machines in the State of Kansas under strict state supervision? Let the major portion of the revenue derived be directed toward flood relief, road improvement, and better school systems. It is almost a certainty that the federal and state authorities have not destroyed all the machines they have recently confiscated. Then, too, there are still a great number in operation or possibly in temporary storage that could be appropriated for state use without violating any of the federal statutes by bringing this equipment across the state line. Let the local social and service clubs place their requests for so many machines with a state bureau or commission to be established. The clubs in turn should derive a small portion of the revenue to help offset some of their operating costs. This, in reality,-would be a fair form of taxation. As a general rule, only those in the higher income brackets belong to most of the social and country clubs. It would be these same people who would be making the greatest contribution to this lucrative operation. Certainly the state of Kansas could use another source of revenue and the potentialities of a state-controlled business of this type are unlimited. This type of program would not place additional burdens on any one but would certainly swell the Kansas state treasury. There will always be gambling of some form or another in the United States as long as there are people on the face of the earth. In view of this fact, would such a suggestion as outlined above be so absurd? Duane S. McGill Joe Taylor taylor made Our favorite coed, Iva Latepaper, wants to drop her class in elementary Greek. She says she can already identify almost all of the Greek letters she sees on car windshields or on the front of fraternity houses and so doesn't see any use in continuing the course. The announcement that Eva Peron was given a blood transfusion last week amazed us. What will the Argentine people think when they hear that their leader's wife uses blood in her veins just like everybody else. Daily Hansan News Room Student Newspaper of the Adv. Room K.U. 251 UNIVERSITY OF KAIPAS K.U. 376 Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn. Inland Daily Press Assn., and the Associated Collegate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City. EDITORIAL STAFF by Bibler EDITORIAL START Editorial Editor Lee Shepeppard Chief Editorial Writer Jack Zimmerman Journalist Charlie NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Alan Marshall Assistant Managing Editors Nancy Anderson Charles Price, Ellsworth Zahm City Editor Andy Snyder Sports Editor Don Sarten Telegraph Editor Jon Laustein Society Editor Cynthia McKeen News Advisor Victor J. Danilov BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ... Bob Dring Advertising Manager ... Bob Sydney National Ad Manager ... Jim Murray Circulation Manager ... Virginia Johnston Crossified Ad Manager ... Eloise Akok Promotion Manager ... Bill Taggart Business Adviser ... R. W. Doores Little Man On Campus More On Union Food Letters Dear Sir, After reading the article, "Higher Prices Necessary in Catheteria to Maintain Quality of Food Service", I would like to question the statement that: "Since quality will not be sacrificed for a lower price, prices for the customer have of necessity been raised two to four cents." As I remember it, ham has been raised from 27 to 35 cents, up eight cents, roast beef—29 to 35, up six cents, roast pork—29 to 35, up six cents, to name a few. As for quality, the ice cream is now brick instead of bulk and up two cents. I have seen chocolate chiffon pie with less air than the chocolate ice cream. I have eaten weinies three times this year and each time they were cold when served. More than once when I have been in the line at noon, I have spotted a meat dish I liked. When I got to the steam table, it was sold out—right at noon. The servings have decreased greatly in size as any student who must eat in the cafeteria will tell you. More about the prices, you quote a price change in pie from 15 cents to 10 cents. Pie has never sold for more than 12 cents and cake has always been 10 cents in the cafeteria. At noon today the only meat selection was a small piece of chicken fried steak for 50 cents. In closing I will agree with part of the opening sentence. "Increased prices... now confront students who eat in the Union 'Cafeteria and Hawk's Nest.' Engineering Senior Lloyd Robinson 'My Thanks' The girls and boys of K.U. came to my place Saturday when it was raining and had rained the most of the night. I said, it is too wet and muddy to do anything outside. But they said, we want to work. I said OK and work they did! Cut, sawed and split into stone wood four trees that I had the Kaw Valley Glass and Salvage Co. pull out by the roots. Besides this they sawed up logs, ties and etc. that had drifted in, took tons upon tons of mud out of barn and garage. The toilet had been lifted up and turned around with its cement foundation intact. They tipped it over and dug a new pit, turned it around and set it up; picked up the washhouse bodily, carried it some feet and set it back on foundation. (Look for picture of this team work in Life magazine soon). I wish all could have seen those two girls sawing with that old big 7 foot crosscut saw, and then the ones picking up that old slimy drift wood. (The following letter is reprinted from the Lawrence Journal-World.) Editor Journal-World: I wish to extend to the ladies and gentlemen of K.U. and to the Red Cross of Lawrence my thanks and gratitude for the kindness and many favors shown me in this greatest flood of destruction in my life of well over eight-tenths of a century in this world. I have never seen a greater or more spontaneous effort to help those in need. Not only Lawrence but the nation should be glad that we have citizens of such helpful dispositions. They did in one day what would have taken me months to do. Thanks a thousand times. E. G. Davis, 758 Lake St. News From Other Campuses The U.C.L.A. student council voted to allow evangelist Billy Graham to speak on the campus but stipulated that must not be allowed to speak on religious topics. His subject will be morals and ethics. UCLA Restricts Speaker Parkina Crowds Out Skiers Ski jumpers at the University of Wisconsin will have to begin looking for a new site for their jump. The school has built a parking lot beneath the present scaffold. If this is done, the week long Winter Carnival may be moved off the campus for the first time in several years. Page 12 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 11, 1951 News Roundup Bare $15,000 Bribe To Giants' Manager New York—(U.P.)—Leo Durocher was offered a $15,000 bribe to throw "the next three games of the World Series on Oct. 6 when his New York Giants were leading the series two games to one, it was learned today. At the same time his wife, Actress Laraine Day, was threatened. "There's $15,000 for you and your team if you manage to lose the next three games," an anonymous letter the Giants manager received said. "If you want to keep Laraine, better keep your mouth shut." The letter, turned over to Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick before Wednesday's game, had been on Durrocher's desk several days along with thousands of other letters before being opened. Asks UN To Buy Iran Oil Co. New York—U.P.)-Creation of a United Nations authority to buy out Great Britain's interest in the Anglo-Iranian Oil company was proposed today by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former secretary of the treasury. Morgenthau's plan calls for purchase of a tleast 51 per cent of the Anglo-Iranian stock to assure control by the United Nations. Morgenthau also declared that a similar pattern could be worked out for purchase by the United Nations of the Suez canal. Egypt Weighs Red Pact Cairo, Egypt—King Farouk of Egypt was to receive Prime Minister Nahas Pasha today, as anti-British feeling rose. Political quarters attached great importance to the meeting, since it will be the first since the premier's announcement of the abrogation of the 1936 treaty with Britain. Egypt also has demanded the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, bordering Egypt in the south, as a part of King Farouk's nations. Meanwhile, the newspaper El Misri, said it had learned the Egyptian chamber of deputies in a secret session yesterday discussed a non-aggression treaty with Russia. Siagon, Indo-China —U.P.)— French headquarters announced today that French carrier-based planes have attacked Communist Viet Minh forces for the first time since hostilities broke out in Indo-China in 1945. French Stage Red Air Raid American-made hellcats and helldivers from the 13,190-ton carrier Arromanches, a former British warship, used bombs and rockets in a raid on a rebel-held railroad bridge in southern Amman Monday. Toronto—(U.P.)-Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, former commander of U.S. forces in China, said today that the policies of the democratic allies in the postwar years have been "appeasement, vacillation, and panic fear." Speaking before the American Life Insurance convention here, he said "The United States and Canada face ultimate isolation, defeat or even annihilation "if the Soviets are permitted to retain the initiative in their program of "subjugation, intimidation and political banditry." To protect our homelands, Wedemeyer said, we must "establish undisputed control of the air." Attacks Postwar Policies Marines Join Eastern Front Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea—(U.P.)—Heli-copters flew an entire battalion of U.S. Marines into battle on the eastern front today and a powerful tank force simultaneously struck deep into Red positions to the west. The 160-flight "Operation Bumblebee" was designed to reinforce the marine lines in the eastern mountains for a renewed attempt to break North Korean resistance on the approaches to the east port of Wonsan. Truce Efforts Snag Again U. N. Advance Base, Munsan, Korea—(U.P.)-Ef forts to reopen the Korean armistice talks snagged for the second straight day today on the question of a conference neutral zone. Liaison officers argued the point at Pan Mun Jom for nearly $3\frac{1}{2}$ hours and finally decided to adjourn until 10 a.m. Friday (7 p.m. today C.S.T.).