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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1951
Lee Sheppeard
straws in the wind
Wasted Welfare?
According to the present law, states must keep their relief rolls secret if they are to receive federal social security aid. A bill has been passed by the Senate which would repeal the secrecy requirement, but it is now bottled up in the House.
The question, theoretically, is whether it is more important to preserve the self-respect of relief recipients or more important to have a check on the honesty and effectiveness of the welfare program.
Actually, the legislators are probably trying to estimate the relative importance of votes represented by the relief rolls and opposition to the secrecy regulation from conservatives.
The most valid arguments that have been raised against various federal welfare programs, actual and projected, have questioned the ability of the government to administer the programs without waste and inefficiency.
The future of "welfare state" plans depends upon the administration's ability to demonstrate to the American people that welfare programs can be effectively administered.
Opening the welfare rolls to public inspection might be a step in that direction.
Joe Taylor
taylor made
Perhaps the suggestion of Supreme court justice William O. Douglas to send mountain climbing teams from American colleges to Asia to promote friendship has something to it, but frankly we see too many drawbacks. For example, how would the honor system committee deal with the team member's excuse, "Gosh, I thought that it was all right to cheat since we often don't get back from Tibet until just before chow"?
Back in New Jersey, the Sons of Union Veterans have come out firmly against the teenage fad of flying Confederate flags from automobile radiators and radio antennas. The organization says the practice is "improper—even dangerous"—apparently showing a fear that the South will rise again. We suggest that they try a visit below the Mason and Dixon soon, and see how many people they find who think the South never fell.
Stories-We've-Been-Waiting-For Department
Twenty-five years ago Mr. and Mrs. Walter Blackwood, 1417 Walnut, Springfield, Mass., went to Crystal lake on their honeymoon. One afternoon while the two were fishing, Mrs. Blackwood lost her new wedding ring in the deepest part of the lake.
A few weeks ago when the Blackwoods were making plans to take a silver wedding anniversary trip, Mr. Blackwood suggested in jest that they return to the scene of their honeymoon and find the lost ring. Yesterday afternoon while casting in the same spot where she had been a quarter of a century before, she pulled in a large whitefish.
That evening while preparing the fish for frying, she cut into it, little expecting to find her lost diamond. A dull glint caught her eye. It was a strip of gristle.
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"Why PAY 500 dollars for a skeleton after you graduate— I got this one after my first patient."
Nation's Cost Of Living Remains Near Record Peak
Washington—(U.P.)—The government's two yard-sticks showed today that the high cost of living kept its record peak last month.
One of them—the old index—fell a little bit, just enough to affect slightly the bargaining power of wage earners whose union contracts are tied to it.
Habein To Attend Education Meeting
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, left Monday for New York to represent the University at the American Council on American Education conference Thursday and Friday.
Friday.
The theme of the conference this year will be "Women Defense Decade."
in route to the conference, Miss Habein plans to stop in Ithaca, N. Y., to visit Deane W. Malott, president of Cornell university and former chancellor.
K.U. Radiators Sound The Coming Of Fall
Fall weather has finally arrived. Best evidence of this came Saturday morning when the steam heating system was turned on for the first time.
w. T. Sanders, chief engineer of the University, said that the cool season is right on schedule. "We turn on the heat about this time every year," he said.
As soon as the heat went on, there was some speculation about setting a record for the earliest date, but Mr. Sanders quickly cleared that up. He said that as recent as 1949 the cold weather starting point was Sept. 13.
Mr. Sanders revealed that the steam is turned on each time the thermometer dips to 50 degrees or less, so that when the temperature reached 45 degrees arly Saturday, he flipped a switch which allowed the exhaust air from the power turbines to pass through the steam radiators all over the campus.
Now let's see, where did I hang my heavy coat last spring?
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But the revised index of consumer prices stuck at 185.5 per cent of the 1935-39 average, unchanged from the record it set on July 15. That is 9 per cent above pre-Korea.
Brown's
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said a drop in food items and in house furnishings were offset by higher rents permitted by the new controls law and increases in some other commodities.
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But the bureau's old index, used generally as a basis for union costs of living escalator agreements, dropped slightly for the first time in 18 months. It was 185.6 of the base average, down two-tenths of one per cent.
The old index drop shaved a fraction off the 2.3 per cent wage increases which labor may bargain for in addition to the 10 per cent allowed by the Wage Stabilization Board.
The board permits workers to seek pay increases to match percentagewise the increase in the cost of living from last January when the government froze wages and prices.
No big groups among the 3,000,000 workers whose wages are tied directly to index fluctuations were affected by the August index.
The bureau said food prices between July 15 and August 15 dropped three-tenth of 1 per cent on the old index, with lower prices reported in 37 of the 56 cities surveyed. However, average food prices were 11.8 per cent over June, 1950.
The bureau also reported that average wholesale prices, which have declined steadily for more than three months, went down another one- tenth of 1 per cent in the week ended last Tuesday.
The index was 176.7 per cent of the 1926 average, 12.6 per cent higher than the pre-Korea average but only 3.8 per cent higher than a year ago.
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