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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1950
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"Boy are we gonna have a 'Shot Gun' today."
The Editors Report —
WE'VE BEEN READING
ye ED
The Census Reports
The 1950 census is already turning up useful information. For instance, it has already found out a few things on what it costs to run a welfare state. In simple terms, here is what we found out the census bureau has found out.
One out of each twelve persons, now gainfully employed in the United States, works for the federal or a state or local government. This labor force just about equals the population of five states—Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, and Maine. If you like mouth-filling figures, this labor force totals 6,204,000 persons.
Percentage-wise, the public labor force doesn't sound so bad. If there are around 80,000,000 persons gainfully employed in the United States, the public labor force is only 7.5 percent of the total labor force.
But if you put it in simple butter-and-egg language, it looks slightly alarming. Suppose you went into a grocery store and bought a dozen eggs and found one uneatable. Or you bought a pound of butter and found you had less than fifteen ounces. Would you be inclined to think the grocer was giving you fair measure for your money?
If we dealt with that kind of a grocer, we would be inclined to think he was either dishonest or, at best, incompetent. We like to think everyone is honest so most likely be is only incompetent. Yet must we be expected to pay for his inefficiency? Should we shell out sixteen billion, eight hundred and seventy-two million dollars a year because our friend the grocer can't count?
That just might be asking too much of us. We wouldn't mind it if our friend the grocer, the sly old dog, rang in an eleven-egg dozen every so often. We most likely would shrug off a fifteen-ounce pound—so long as it didn't happen too regularly.
But when he got to pulling his tricks too often, we might become offended. We never could be sure when he might start ten-egg or nine egg dozens. We would always have the uneasy feeling his fifteen-ounce pounds were degenerating into twelve-ounce pounds.
Like it is with our grocer friend, we think it ought to be with our Uncle Sam, Cousin Sam, or Friend Sam. We think the federal, state, and local governments ought to give us a fair measure for our money. While we're quite willing to pay for what we get, we still insist on a fair deal.
Padded payrolls, excess parity price supports, excess duplication of effort, "scavenger hunts" by legislators, wartime tax rates, "free" health "insurance", and the other hundred and one needless government activities aren't our idea of a fair deal.
We're not against necessary government activities—like the census, for instance. The census gathers a lot of useful information that industry, educators, and editorial writers can use to good benefit. It's the useless activities—like running a welfare state—we're not sure we like.
They Know Their Rights
Mount Clemens, Mich. — (J.P.)
When Vincent M. Dunn lays down
the law to his wife, Betty Jane, she throws it right back at him. The Dunns received their law degrees together, and both are in practice.
TODAY'S MAIL
Every so often there appears a person of courage of conviction. The cause of right remains utmost in the mind, thoughts, and actions of such a person.
Battler
Sir:
We have such a person at K. U. You have probably seen him on the campus. The members of the A.S.C. are most certainly acquainted with him for his conviction has rung forth in those meetings many times. Equal representation has been the cry of Walter Brown.
Walter Brown has fought for independent representation in the A.S.C. His has been the battle of righteousness and his cause must not fail. The hundreds of independents will see to that.
Walter Brown will have his cause realized because his will is what we all want. Walter has stood up and spoken this truth.
April 19 of this year gives every student the opportunity to prove that he or she still believes in democracy the good-old-fashioned democracy that gives you and I a say in our government.
Walter Brown has never failed the spirit of democracy, he has never changed his unwavering course of truth, he has supported you and I and April 19 gives us the chance to support him.
Don't pass up that chance for upon it rests the principle of America, the democracy of K. U. and the chance to have equal and fair representation.
W. Halsey Wildman College freshman
Ed. Note: This letter reached us too late for yesterday's edition. The statements in the letter can in no way be considered an endorsement by the University Daily Kansan of a political candidate.
February Law Graduate Is Appointed Professor
Marshall C. Hill, a February graduate of the School of Law, has been appointed assistant professor of law at Lincoln university in St. Louis, Mo., Dean F. J. Moreau announced today.
Mr. Hill's home is in St. Joseph, Mo.
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Music Students To Present Recital
Piano, voice, and violin students of the Lawrence accredited Music Teachers will be presented in their annual spring formal recital at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Liberty Memorial High school auditorium.
Studios represented will be those of Maxine Albutry, education senior; Mrs. G. W. Bradshaw, 1641 Mississippi; Miss Kate Caldwell, 824 Kentucky; Mrs. H. W. Craig, 1024 Vermont; Theodora Ericson, fine arts sophomore; Miss Ednah Hopkins, 732 Kentucky; Mrs. C. A. Freyer, 1125 Tennessee; Mrs. C. W. Staffer; Mrs. Reginald Strait, 1346 Louisiana; and Mrs. Thomas Sturgeon, 708 Mississippi.
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