UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SIX
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 19
The Editorial Page—
The Monster
Great crowds of people have been clustering about small machines of late. Television has arrived in the "Heart of America."
Most persons have been eagerly awaiting their first glimpse of television, and most have been wildly excited with what they saw. However, there are a few sage characters around who counsel against such consorting.
George Orwell, English author, portrayed what well might be the result of television in his book, "1884". He writes of a despotic government which installs an all-seeing "telescreen" in every party member's room.
If modern-day television gets into the wrong hands, it could be disastrous. It could even shape the pattern of generations to come.
widen in the area of the posterior.
These possibilities have long been noted by many responsible men. Fred Allen, radio comic, and a leader among these stalwarts, has been one of the first to point to terror of television. Allen visualizes "the monster" as the greatest single force yet devised to push the human race toward despotism and even swift biological evolution.
This gives rise to what the future man may look like physically. With television to take him all over the globe while he sits in his front room—with electric dishwashers, hydramatic shifting, automatic floor scrubbers, washing machines, and the like, the future man may well become adapted to a push-button existence.
The man of the future will possibly have six arms, so that he may push buttons with greater facility. His legs will become next to useless; small, thin sticks that will serve only for very limited use. His head will be balloon-like, with few teeth, and huge ears like radar sets. The eyes will be very large and buggy, due largely to the influence of TV. He will probably soften and widen in the area of the posterior.
The middle west is not usually so upset over such things as TV, and, in the past, has been less alarmed over events of much greater import.
Television should be treated as it was intended to be treated: As a form of entertainment. It is novel, but it should not have the power to enslave. Warren Saas
Oklahoma still has something in common with Mississippi. They are the only two theoretically dry states left in the Union. The Sooners apparently like the idea of having their prohibition and their liquor too, as they went to the polls again recently and approved continuation of the fiction that the state is dry. In spite of the vote, Oklahoma has long been called "the nation's wettest state."
Oklahoma Is All Wet
Oklahoma has always been legally dry, the prohibition provision being a part of the constitution adopted when she became a state in 1907. Several previous attempts to repeal the liquor law have also met with failure, but each of the last three votes on the issue have shown that sentiment in favor of repeal is increasing. In 1936 only 40 per cent of the voters favored repeal; in 1940 the figure climbed to 43 per cent, and in September, the "wets" captured 45 per cent of the electorate.
Despite these gains, a majority of the voters still prefer illegal liquor to legalized stuff. Their choice would be more understandable if Oklahoma should, like Mississippi, face the situation realistically and require bootleggers to pay a state tax for carrying on their illegal trade.
Bootleggers in Oklahoma pay no such tax, but it has been said that they do wear identification badges to avoid selling their products to each other.
It is not clear how the poorly paid peace officers of Oklahoma manage to live so well. It is clear, however, that they do arrest very few bootleggers. Maybe they collect a tax through an unwritten law. —Wesley S. Sims
'Small Things'
"You'll have to hand it to the Aggies," says the sophomore wolf. "Their drum majorettes sure had better shapes than ours do."
And still the flagpoles around the stadium are flagless. We hear that the athletic department has the new banners, but just hasn't put them up yet. Maybe they're afraid they'll wear out.
VA May Deduct Debts From Dividends
The Veterans Administration recently announced that veterans who owe the government money on certain benefits would have all or part of this amount deducted from next year's insurance dividend.
Those who were overpaid on sub-6istance allowances while taking educational courses under the G.J. bill, those who were overpaid on pensions, other V.A. benefits, and defaults on loans made good by the V.A. will have money deducted.
lect 20 or 30 million dollars through deductions from the National Service Life Insurance dividends.
About Jan. 15, the $2,800,000,000 in insurance benefits will start going to veterans. About 16 million veterans will receive insurance dividends.
The V.A. estimates that some 600,000 veterans now owe it about 70 million dollars, and it plans to col-
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One .22 Rifle Shot Kills 500-Lb. Bear
Tacoma—(U)P—A. J. McCarthy, fire marshall at nearby McChord air base here, denies he's going cougar hunting with a sling shot.
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McCarthy went squirrel hunting one Sunday with a 22 rifle. A bear ran in front of him and up a tree. Mr. McCarthy fired one shot and the 500-pound bear fell to the ground dead, with a bullet in its heart.
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