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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Past And Future
This is the half-century. In our time we have seen the world seemingly split apart at the seams. Most of us, of average college age, can only remember, with accuracy, 15 years back. Yet what we remember is not pleasant. The depression and the wars and the regimentation—bureaucracy and inflation—these are the things we know. We have heard a lot about "normalcy." We have been told that the present era is not "normal." But we don't even know what it is. Does "normalcy" exist?
We do know that the past 50 years has been an age of "isms." Capitalism, fascism, socialism, communism, totalitarianism—all of these words have been constantly spoken to us throughout our period of education. We have been told that some of these "isms" are better, or at least not as bad, as others. But there is one thing in our world the existence of which we have no doubt: "confusionism."
According to opinion surveys our elders run periodically, people in our age group prefer security to rugged individualism a salary to commissions or profit. The army, recognizing this has slanted its enlistment propaganda toward the young man's desire for security. They offer food, clothes, shelter and spending money. Take your orders, keep your nose clean, and security is yours. The current governmental administration also recognizes this. They tell us that the government's first duty is to keep its citizens economically secure.
This takes a lot of money, but perhaps they're right. Perhaps a balanced budget should be considered more of a luxury than a principle. Maybe we can continue satisfying our champagne appetite on a beer drinker's income. If we succeed in this we may well become, as Bill Mauldin says, "the damnest free-wheeling, rip-snorting, dollar-manipulating crowd in history."
Yes, we wonder about normalcy. We know about "isms." We like this high living. All this we have inherited. But this is just the half-century. What are we going to do in the next 50 years?
—Richard Tatum
The Good Old Days
Freshmen who found it difficult to adjust themselves to the innumerable rules and regulations of university life should thank their lucky stars they were not born 30 years sooner. Students who were freshmen in 1919-1920 had to abide by these traditions:
"Freshmen are not allowed to have dates to any football game. If found with a date, a freshman will be tossed in a blanket.
"The small blue cap shall be worn by freshmen with the beginning of the football season and until after the Thanksgiving game. Again with the dawn of April 1, they are expected to bring the cap forth.
"Freshmen are prohibited from pasting their political tickets on the sidewalks.
"As seniority of class determines the due respect of all, freshmen are expected to speak to upper classmen.
"Upon pledging a fraternity, freshmen are required to sweep snow off the walks, dust the furniture of the house, furnish smokes for upper classmen, prepare Sunday evening lunch, black shoes if called upon, and answer the telephone all hours of the day and night."
It is apparent that when mother was a freshman she had many more restrictions than you do. Be grateful, freshmen, lest your upperclassmen revert to former traditions and let you start preparing Sunday evening lunch or toss you in a blanket for being seen with a date. —Doris Greenbank
'Small Things'
"A uniformed patrolman has been appointed to patrol and enforce smoking regulations on the campus." It's these plain-clothesmen, though that have us worried.
Thrilling Detective Stories
In This Issue: "How I shadowed and brought to justice a chain smoker in the dismal lairintrubs of Frank Strong hall."
The Kansan classifieds tell us that there are single and double rooms for rent on the K.U. bus line, but we suppose that only those least desirable spots, above the rear wheels, are left by now.
Another advertises: "Bicycle, girls, for sale. Sell cheap." What a unique assortment, and in a university town, too."
Upstream magazine runs a Bibler cartoon, and this is roughly the equivalent of the New York Times placing a two column photo of Sally Rand on its front page.
Miniature Hotel Opens
Las Vegas, Nev.—(U,P)—The small fry will do fine at a hotel scheduled to open here. Wilbur Clark, owner of the Desert Inn, says it will contain a completely-equipped children's house with its own tiny bedrooms, kitchen and midget-sized swimming pool. Trained nurses will be on hand to take care of the youngsters.
Opinion Costs $1.78 1/2 A Word
St. Paul,—(U.P.) It cost John G. Erickson of St. Paul, $1.78½ per word to tell an officer what he thought of him. Mr. Erickson answered a policeman's whistle at an intersection by 14 well - chosen words: "When a man gets a star on his chest it goes to his head." Erickson paid a $25 fine on a disorderly conduct charge.
Truman Budget Gives Millions In Flood Control
Washington, D. C. — (U.P.) T h e administration's budget recommendations called for an outlay of $798,482,000 for army engineers' flood control and rivers and harbors projects in fiscal 1951.
Of this sum, $556,752,000 would be set aside for flood control projects and $240,714,000 for rivers and harbors work. Flood control projects for the lower Mississippi river and its tributaries would come to 72 million dollars.
Army engineers' requests, by projects, included:
Kansas City, Mo., to Sioux City, Iowa, flood control work, levees, channel clearing, and navigation, four million dollars; Kansas City, Mo., to mouth of Missouri river, flood control and navigation, $2,-500,000; Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., flood control, and navigation, five million dollars; Missouri river agricultural levees, seven million dollars.
Kansas, Fall River reservoir $40-
.000; Hutchinson $750.000; Kansas City, Mo. and Kan., seven million dollars; Missouri river agricultural levees, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska, seven million dollars; Wichita and Valley Center, $500.000; Hulah reservoir of Oklahoma and Kansas, $1,200.000.
The bureau plans to spend $82,-961,000 for continuation of construction on a number of projects; six million dollars for preconstruction work including geological survey charting of underground water flow and survey work, four million dollars, for additional investigation "to establish the optimum general plan of development;" $96,000 for coordination of plans of the bureau and corps of engineers; nine million dollars to other agencies for their participation in the overall Missouri basin planning.
Mrs. Malott Tells YWCA Of India Trip
Mrs. Deane W. Malot, who recently returned from a trip to India, told the Young Women's Christian association Jan. 11, of conditions affecting the Moslems and the Hindus.
She described the wretched state of the lower classes and of emaciated children in the streets. She told of differences in religions of the Moslems and Hindus.
Mrs. Malott was the guest speaker at an all-membership meeting of the Y.W.C.A.
The word "volcano" comes from the Latin form (Vulcanus) of the name given by the ancient Romans to their god of fire, Vulcan.
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Crocodile Swallows Pop Bottle Which May Cause His Early Death
Cincinnati----U.P.)Mark Anthony, the Cincinnati zoo's 13-foot man-eating Nile crocodile, is just a baby, having lived only about 50 or 60 years of his anticipated 200 years.
Like any baby, he likes to put things in his mouth. Things like sheep, or 40 pounds of horsemeat. But now he's gone too far. He has swallowed a pop bottle.
Mark sheds his teeth as a deer sheds his antlers and he happened to be losing a few when somebody dropped the pop bottle into his tank. His gums were sore, with new teeth coming through, so he used the bottle as a teether.
mens said it would have been suicide for anyone to go into the tank to take the bottle away from Mark.
Willard Owens, the head keeper,
was watching Mark suck the bottle.
Owens looked away a moment.
When he looked back, no bottle.
When his keepers tried to take it away, he would lie on it or hide it in his mouth. Keeper Robert Cle-
Some think Mark can live for years with the bottle lodged in his reptilian interior. Other think it may clog his intestines and cause deaths within a few weeks, or months.
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