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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY,OCTOBER 5,1951
Lee Sheppeard
Kansan Can't Run Unsigned Letters
We got an unsigned letter yesterday about the editorial on "The Greek Organ" in Tuesday's U.D.K. A clause in the Kansan board constitution prohibits printing unsigned letters, but we'd like to quote from this one.
"You see I get the impression that every one at the U.D.K.-and especially the editor—likes to say things in things in the paper which cause the faculty to say things such as, 'What a fine young man he is.' And I question whether the editor would think he could remain in good standing after allowing this to be printed."
Perhaps our unnamed penman hasn't been reading this column, or maybe he thinks our editorials on the faculty's hidebound attitudes were attempts at apple-polishing.
Sure it takes a lot of guts to deliver a sheet of dirty comments in the middle of the night—unsigned. And it takes a lot of guts to write a letter to the editor—unsigned.
Speaking of the writer of "The Greek Organ," the letter says, "Frankly, I rather admire the man for his guts."
Regardless of our motives, there's no reason for to bend down. Our instructions are to write what we damned please, whether it steps on toes or not, as long as it's not in bad taste. So if an editorial looks as if it would please the wheels, it's because our opinions on that subject happen to agree with those of the faculty.
Furthermore, as we said in this column a few days ago, our policy on letters is to print every signed letter we get that is not in bad taste (fourletter words, etc.).
"Anyone who calls . . . (the Greek Organ writer) . . . a 'tittering to' is probably jealous of the fact that he didn't think of it sooner . . . "the letter continues.
Sure, Mac, we turned green with envy when we saw The Organ. It would have been a real feather in our cap to have turned out something like that—a feat to be proud of. Gee, if we could only write that kind of "crude but terrific (sic) humor," as you call it. Yeah, terrific; either you don't know humor from shoe polish, or you wrote "The Greek Organ" yourself.
If more of our friends want to write letters on the subject, we'll run them—unsigned. But put your name at the bottom of the letter. Don't worry—we'll keep it a secret; that's one of our rules, too.
Joe Taylor taylor made
After a drive last week end through the Kansas countryside, we've come to the conclusion that many of the beauties of the fall season are either obscured by billboards or parked in cars.
by Bibler
Our neighbor, Kansas City, will soon be crowding the million mark in population, according to a recent survey. But this is no surprise to those from here who frequent the more popular spots there. At times, it seems like there must be at least a million people in one joint by itself.
Little Man On Campus
"Did Worthal only get 15 yard penal for "Illegal use of the hands"?" Th' referee should have seen what I gave him?"
Wilson Gives His Opinion On British Wage Levels
BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
The Socialist government of Great Britain has announced that wages there have reached the highest level ever.
Manufacturing industry wages since 1338 have increased 156 per cent. Other classes of workers are being paid accordingly.
That sounds like a good deal for British workers, and perhaps it is. But the actual wage rates do not look so good. Socialism has not brought British wage rates within shouting distance of weekly earnings in the United States.
The British announcement reflected wage levels of last spring. It said men employed an average of 47.9 hours in manufacturing industries earned $22.68 a week. Women so employed earned about half that. The average manufacturing industry pay of men, women, boys and girls was $19.07 for a 46.3 hour week.
The United States bureau of labor statistics reported last spring that American workers in manufacturing industries earned an average of $64.22 for a 40.8 hour week.
British agricultural workers earned $16.18 weekly, top scale. Their miners earned $30.77 with allowances. British longshoremen earned $23.31.
John L. Lewis last January signed for his United Mine Workers a contract fixing $80.75 as pay for a five-day week. The bureau of labor statistics said last winter that construction workers were being paid at the rate of $94.40 for 40 hours.
British workmen are heavily taxed and so are Americans. But the Britton also carries the burden of sales taxes from which might little is exempt and which starts at 33 per cent and goes up from there. He doesn't eat, sleep or dress as well as his American opposite, nor is he likely to own an automobile. Neither does the Britisher produce as much as a workman in the United States.
But the British workman lives in a welfare state which taxes him and others to help support him with food subsidies, medical care and related projects. These taxes have the effect of redistributing the wealth of the United Kingdom for the benefit of those who have the least.
The British workman's most serious problem may be that there is not enough British wealth to be redistributed to do much for his living standard or, even, to guarantee him support in the poor style to which he now is accustomed.
News Roundup
UN Drive Breaks Reds' Winter Line
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea—(U.P.)-The United Nations' 100,000-man offensive in West Korea has broke the Communists' "winter line," a British staff officer said today.
Battered Red armies gave up their fortified positions and reeled northward before the crushing onslaught of five U.N. divisions which captured seven strategic hills on the third day of their push along a 40-mile front.
"The Chinese broke and ran this morning," Brig. George Taylor told the United Press at a western front command post of the British Commonwealth division.
"I feel that we have handed them a major defeat and I believe we have broken their winter line."
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—Gordon Dean told Rus today that the United States posses the tactical atomic firepower to destroy her hordes on the field of battle.
And in a message of hope to America's friends, the Atomic Energy Commission chairman said this country's new weapons mean that aggression can be stopped where it starts without "destroying large parts of the world in the process."
Warns Russia Of US Power
Chicago—(U.P).—University of Chicago students, famed for their liberal traditions, were split today over the dismissal of a leftist student newspaper editor.
Most of the students appeared to back the decision of Robert M. Strozier, dean of students, to fire Editor Allan D. Kimmell for sponsoring and attending the recent Communist youth festival in Berlin. Strozier also suspended the Chicago Maroon after today's issue.
Protest Firing Of Leftist Ed
The Maroon staff members said they would defy the suspension because "there is no legal basis" for it. They called a mass student meeting for Tuesday to support their cause.
Flood Bill Sent To Senate
Washington—(U.P.)—The House today passed and sent to the Senate a bill to provide an extra $113. - 400,000 for grants and loans for flood relief in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois.
The measure, passed by voice vote, goes to the Senate. A move by Rep. Richard Bolling (D.-Mo.), to substitute President Truman's proposed $400,-000,000 relief and insurance program was ruled out of order.
12 Wait For End Of World
Kamuela, Hawaii (U.R.)—Twelve Hawaiians huddled in a one-room shack on the slopes of an extinct volcano today, awaiting an eruption they believe will mark the end of the world.
The 12 think they are the only ones who will escape the devastation, said Police Officer Virgil Parker who visited the house at the request of neighbors.
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Coeds at the University of Minnesota have an organized women's military unit, according to the Minnesota Daily. The Corps of Sponsors, first set up last spring, will attempt to serve as a service and educational auxiliary to the R.O.T.C. programs on the campus.
The Daily Texan banner headlined the list of new sorority pledges. "Sororities 'Take Care' of 536 New Little Girls."
An ad in the Oklahoma Daily gives the averages for season tickets in several of the major athletic conferences: Big 10, $10.20; Missouri Valley, $10; Southwest, $12.30; and Big 7, $10.85.
Michigan State has made a formal application for a commercial TV channel. If the request is granted, says the Michigan State News, the school will become the second educational institution to have such an outlet.
Norfolk, Va.—(U.P.)-Five crewmen were killed and 12 were missing today from the 3,325-ton cargo ship Southern Isle that broke in half in the storm-whipped Atlantic 400 miles off the South Carolina coast.
5 Killed When Ship Sinks
Seven others were rescued from the seas by rescue craft that raced to the scene following the brief SOS the Southern Isle was able to transmit over its radio before her radio room was afloat.
Gabrielson Off Hot Seat
Washington—(U.P.)-Republican National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson was off the congressional hot seat today and the former R.F.C. official he recommended for a New York Stock Exchange post was put on.
the senate's permanent investigating committee called Harvey J. Gunderson to testify, after G. brielson said he had tried to line up the $100,000-year-presidency of the New York Stock Exchange for the former R.F.C. director.