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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950
The Editorial Page-
The Master Plan
While congress and the country fumble excitedly over the extent of preparation necessary to prevent or withstand war, there are plans being formulated in minute and frightening detail for the eventuality of a shooting war.
Now that the United States is definitely engaged in an armament race with Russia and her satellites, steps are being taken along a non-military front to assure preparedness.
These plans take the shape of drastic wartime controls which are now in the final stage of drafting. The master plan already is agreed upon by top U.S. officials, and all that remains is the actual drawing up of the plan.
A war next time will not be dealt with in so leisurely a fashion with regard to civilian and business readiness as was the case in World War II. Next time, it is agreed, the rules and regulations governing the citizens will be clamped down sternly at the onset of any armed conflict.
The goal of such measures is to cut civilian consumption of goods by 20 per cent overnight. To prevent runaway inflation by such a move, rigid anti-inflationary controls will be administered at the same time.
How will this affect the public? If war comes, the government will make itself known in many ways and at once.
Prices, wages, and rents will be frozen at once. Strict controls of them will continue for the entire course of the war. Rationing will be imposed quickly, and this rationing will probably include sugar, gasoline, meats, and clothing.
Retailers and wholesalers will have their stocks frozen immediately, and then will, of course, be confined only to distribution of rationed amounts and at the fixed prices. It is possible that many stores will be closed entirely.
At the same time the government will stop manufacturers from producing any durable civilian goods. There will be no automobiles, refrigerators, radios, or television sets made from the onset. Private building will be stopped. Installment credit will be halted and bank lending will come under strict government control and will be shifted away from non-war use.
The labor force of the nation will be hardest hit. They will in all probability be drafted for war jobs and moved bodily to war centers of production.
Taxes will rise quickly until they reach a point from three to four times higher than in World War II. If people have any money left they will be required to save. In most cases that will mean forced buying of government bonds.
These plans are already approved and will be administered with blinding speed if and when a war occurs.
Disturbingly, the plans are bivalent. They are reassuring from a standpoint of readiness, but they are distressing in their rigidity and accumulation of power.
They point up the problem facing Americans. They make clear why it is so vital that we have no war. America will lose regardless of the physical outcome. The country will be faced with complete destruction, or ruination of that for which the U.S. will ostensibly fight.
The U.S. is fortunate, however, to have an alternative—an alternative enhanced as the result of the master plan.
-W.F.S.
'Small Things'
Fraser hall resembles the old Globe theater on the days when the "Play Today" pennant is flying, and the freshman cynic muttered something about it "being just about as old, too."
Mechanical puzzles were shown to Law Wives, and nobody mentioned that Engineer Wives have to live with 'em.
"University Graduate Gets Railroad Position," and plenty of graduates feel as though they had been railroaded into their positions.
Now more wild animals are on the loose. Two emus, which are rather rare, have escaped in California. The owners described the birds thus: five feet tall, weigh about 170 pounds, are brownish-gray, have long necks, and big feet. Rodney Nipnap says they had better not look here because they would never be able to find the right ones.
Let's Dicker Over Liquor
The coffee bar in the Palm room, er,
Will give students coffee sooner,
But if there were liquor,
It would be much quicker.
Rodney Nipnap has his own theories on why it's so difficult to catch a leopard in Oklahoma City. "Them people down there ain't used to seeing spots before their eyes," he said, mumbling and hiccupping.
K. U. will give scholarship tests to 250 boys on March 6, and all boys under 6-feet 5-inches are requested not to bother.
The U. S. government is going to recognize Viet-nam's Boa Dai, and Joe Jazzbo is just waiting for the day the government slips up and confirms be-bop.
Dear Editor-
To Kansas State
Dear Mr. Miller:
Thank you for your interest in our variety show sponsored by the Young Men's Christian association. I, however, disagree with some of your thoughts.
You say, "... don't you agree that borrowing the idea is enough without taking the name too?" Where do you get the notion that we stole the idea from you? Kansas State has no corner on the plan. All the Big Seven schools have similar shows, along with many other colleges and universities. We got our idea from all of these sources, not just one.
Your letter brings to light that we are using the same name that you are. It hurts many of us here to think that we have anything to do with our farmer friends up the river. In order to divorce ourselves from that institution as much as possible, I will therefore see that a new name is found. I'm sure that there is someone here at K.U. who can think of one which will equal and even surpass your name.
Thank you for the encouragement toward the success of our show. It took you 30 years to build it to the proportions that you now have it, but it won't take us that long!
Roy Wonder
Pharmacists Learn 'Phoning'
Athens, Ga. — (U.P.) — Something new in college courses has turned up at the University of Georgia's pharmacy school—how to use the telephone. Instructors say practicing pharmacists complain that graduating students "know their chemistry but can't use a telephone." Students use an inter-office telephone system to take down prescriptions "phoned in" by instructors.
Lifetime Is Spent At Home
Stella. Neb. — (U.P.) — George Timerman, 80, never got very far, geographically speaking. He was born on a farm a few miles southeast of here. He died on another farm, only a few miles from his birthplace.
Old Timer Has Good Luck
Woonsocket, R. I. — (U.P.) —Jules Beauley, 80, drove automobiles 26 years without an accident. When finally an accident came to Mr. Beauley, he escaped without a scratch, even though his car was struck broadside on a grade crossing by a freight train.
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