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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Taxation Primer
Taxation is the drafting of the people's money—money to pay for the cost of running the government. The more that it costs to run the government, the higher the taxes become. The higher the taxes become, the less the taxpayer realizes from his money.
And why are taxes high? Taxes are high because we pay for everything that the government does for us. The more it does, the more we pay. The more the government wastes, the less we get for what we pay.
Would we laugh, however, if instead of paying we would be made to work a given amount of days as our share of the tax burden? Suppose that on March 15, instead of mailing a check, we would report on the tax-job. Each of us would be given a shovel and told to dig a hole. Next day we would be told to fill it up. The next day we would be told to dig another hole and the next day to fill it up. Would we laugh then or would we be fighting mad?
And what do we do about it? Once a year we grumble. We complain about the waste, the crooked politicians, the this, the that, and the other thing. But we pay the taxes. Then what do we do the rest of the year? We laugh at ourselves. We make big funnies out of our tax plight. Cartoonists depict us in the symbolic, loose-fittini barrel and we get a big kick out of it. We smile indulgently, but few of us identify ourselves with the cartooned character.
Yet we don't get mad when we pay taxes in money—money earned by working. The average worker annually hands over to the federal government in taxes an amount equivalent to 47 days' pay. The state and local governments receive an amount equivalent to 14 days' pay. Still we think it hilarious to pay and grumble and then to titter at the silly cartoonist who draws us in the barrel.
But some day we are going to snap out of it. Some bright morning we will realize that the cake of soap we use has 164 taxes molded into it. We will discover that the tie around our neck boasts no less than 67 different taxes, that there are 114 taxes in the hamburger we had for lunch, and that the insignificant egg we anticipate for tomorrow's breakfast is involved in 100 taxes.
Then we are going to begin asking where all of this money is going. When we realize that in the past 20 years the cost of the federal government has jumped from 4 billion dollars to 42 billion dollars, that the government civilian employment has mushroomed from 600,000 to 2,100,000, that the national debt has risen to $7,000 a family, that the executive branch has grown to a hodgepodge of 1,812 departments and agencies, and, that with all the taxation, our national debt is mounting in billions, we will be fighting mad. Mad enough to demand that this "hole-digging, hole-filling" come to a halt and that wasteful expenditures be stopped and that taxes come down. But, until that day, we will just grumble and laugh. —Lew Sciortino
Academic Freedom
Editor's Note: The University of California is currently engaged in a knock-down, drag-out brawl over the loyalty oath. Lecturers, teaching and research assistants have voted 300 to 1 to withdraw services if the oath is required. The struggle is primarily between the board of regents and the faculty, but the student body recently has become embroiled in the fight. Here is one school striking a blow for academic freedom—and a blow which may eventually affect K.U.
The fight against the loyalty oath will be immeasurably strengthened if the students back the faculty by filling the Greek theater. . . .
Never before has there been such an unqualified need for student participation in the affairs of the University of California. The need is based upon two points: first, support against the oath must be borne by all members of the university community, and second, every student has a stake in this battle, since it will directly affect his education and preparation to deal with problems beyond the campus.
It is imperative that the faculty be given a chance to present the loyalty oath situation to the students. And that the students manifest their interest in the fight by packing the Greek theater.
The insistence of the regents upon the oath has placed in jeopardy one of the world's great universities and the students will, in fact must, help remove this threat by supporting the faculty. Your attendance will be a vote of confidence in the faculty's fight against the oath. —The Daily Californian
An advertisement for the motion picture "And Baby Makes Three" comments that "it wasn't her fault the stork was an old meanie," and the freshman cynic grumbled something about two-faced Hollywood. "There they go perpetuating those silly stork stories, and then on the other hand. . ." he said.
'Small Things'
The thing was hairy and had great tentacles and everyone said it was a sea monster. It was horrible. But when it turned out to be nothing more than a giant squid, it didn't look so bad after all.
Deadline Nears For ISA Award
Applications for the Independent Student association's $50 scholarship must be turned in Friday. Applications may be obtained and returned at 227 Strong hall.
The $50 scholarship is offered by the I.S.A. every semester to any independent student with a "C" average. The highest grade average is disregarded in determining who shall win the award. Decision is based on the greatest need.
A committee is set up to decide who shall receive the $50. J. H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate school, is the faculty advisor and Walter Brown, College junior, is chairman. Mr. Brown hasn't yet chosen the rest of his committee.
Sixty other I.S.A. organizations in the United States offer such scholarships. It was started at the University after World War II. The I.S.A. felt that there were students who would like to participate in extra-curricular activities but couldn't because of limited funds. The organization wanted to give them that chance.
Money is appropriated from the budget, the University, the All Student council, and money-making activities of the L.S.A.
Former Professor Named Adviser
Dr. Joseph H. Taggart, former University faculty member, has been named economic adviser to the United States representative on the North Atlantic Military Production and Supply board.
Dr. Taggart was on the University staff for 14 years and was professor of economics when he entered the Army Air Force as a major in 1942. Since April of 1949 he has been in London as U.S. observer on the Western Military Production and Supply board.
A former adviser to the U.S. Munitions board, Dr. Taggart assisted in the organization of the North Atlantic pact board which was formed to relate supply requirements of the North Atlantic treaty states to their industrial capabilities.
Ellsworth To See KU Films
Films of the K.U.-Oklahoma university football game will be shown during spring vacation to the Ellsworth County club. Marvin Small, assistant to the alumni secretary, will narrate the movie.
A new enrollment record was set when approximately 4,000 students registered at the University in 1929.
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Little Man On Campus
"Professor Snarf, I want to congratulate you on building the engineering school into one of the best in the country-I overheard some students say you flunked over half the class last term."
'Yes' Was Correct Answer
New Type Traffic Signal
Boston. —(U.P.)—A lawyer in court asked Dr. William Lanigan a single question in connection with a $100, 000 damage suit. The question drenched on. 5 minutes . . . 10 . . . 15 . . 20. When the attorney finished, the doctor replied: "Yes."
Lawrence, Mass., (U.P.) Motorists approaching school zones here slow down automatically when they see a little child standing in the middle of the street. The child is made of wood, but is life size and painted realistically.
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