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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1949
The Editorial Page-
There has been some talk lately of scattering coke machines throughout the buildings of the campus. We want to go on record as opposed to the entire dangerous conspiracy.
Dangerous Trend
The University would make a tidy sum if all this came to pass. Probably even more than on football. The slight interference with classes might not be too great, but what ammunition it would give our friends up the river at Manhattan.
The main hall of Frank Strong would seem almost to be designed for a set of bowling alleys. Maybe the clattering pins would even drown out the sopranos up on third floor.
Such a plan, if carried through, might well mean the end of higher education as Kansas knows it; for with the introduction of the coke machine to K.U.'s halls, the foot of commercialism would be thrust firmly in the door.
Supposing the classic outlines of the coke dispensers were to find a resting place in Watson library. Surely cigarette machines and bubble gum bowls would soon follow. From this stage, to move on to the blazing, clicking pinball machine would be a short and easy step. The Western Civilization quonset hut could easily accommodate 200 machines, and it's not hard to visualize the addict banging away for free games with a copy of "The Prince" resting on the glass.
Popcorn is fast becoming the great American food, and vending machines could be placed in strategic spots up and down the halls. Nothing like a box of "corn" to munch in a dull class.
The American ship of state is boldly braving the turgid waters of the world, but four members of the crew are rocking the boat.
These people aren't just anybody. They control most of the horsepower of the ship. They're arguing about ownership of the most horsepower. Worst of all, they've turned off the power so they can hear themselves argue.
John L. Lewis, who is rocking the boat, has ordered out the United Mine workers. A "no-day work week" is what he calls it. Someone will laugh and say that John has not lost his sharp tongue, but the mine workers are losing money, the nation is losing coal, and John—he's losing nothing.
"Gol-durned country club down there at Lawrence. . . . "
Boat Rockers
If the power is off too long, the ship may well pile up on the rocks of communism, fascism or disaster.
Since Lewis has controlled the mine workers, they have lost more money striking for wage raises than they have gained in wage raises. With that kind of record, Lewis has no right to rock the boat. Someone has to make Lewis sit down and tell him that this isn't the time for dramatics.
Phillip Murray, who is rocking the boat, took a cue from Lewis and ordered out the nation's steel workers. Murray wanted so much (a total of 30 cents an hour increase) and no less. He wasn't going to let some upstart like Lewis show him up.
Benjamin Fairless, who is rocking the boat, is the chairman of U.S. Steel. He doesn't want Murray to get his way. Fairless doesn't want to put money into the steel worker's welfare fund, unless the steel workers put some in themselves. It wouldn't cost U.S. Steel anymore either way. It's the principle of the thing.
Because of one man's pride, the steel industry is silent. No one knows for how long. Maybe long enough for Murray to win, but for the nation to lose.
President Truman, who is rocking the boat, has washed his hands of the whole thing. He got up to stop the rocking and found that the only way he could do it was with the Taft-Hartley law. President Truman doesn't like the Taft-Hartley law.
By invoking the Taft-Hartley law, President Truman could sit down. If Murray and Fairless hadn't been so testy about the Fact-Finding board's report, they could easily agree. Enforce the Taft-Hartley law, and they wouldn't have a leg to stand on, so they would sit down. John L. would no doubt follow the board's findings if Murray was forced to.
Truman postponed the rocking by Fairless and Murray by 77 days, but now he says that they are on their own.
They should all sit down. They still have a place to sit.
During a recent discussion of the Mann act, one female law student asked the professor if a corresponding "Woman act" was in the law books. Replied the professor, "___" (censored)
Girls with speech classes in Green hall have been detouring past the law students via the basement windows. What a low, dirty, unfair, treacherous female trick.
Understatement of the week:"K.U. Schedule Gets Rougher; Will Face O.U. Saturday." (Daily Kansan headline).
As long as we have a law that might solve the whole situation, why not use it? Americans are getting seasick and tired of this four man agitation. —Warren Saas
"Small Things"
Due to the growing mass of "last chance" cafes and gas stations, the once desolate stretches of the Kansas-Colorado border are becoming heavily populated.
From the looks of the "for rent" ads in the Kansan classifieds, we'd say the war is definitely over.
Dear Editor-
Where's Worthal?
A number of people have asked me if I had broken my pen.
Dear editor:
I would like them to know that I'm not responsible if Worthal doesn't appear in the Kansan, because I harvest my corn three to four months in advance of publication.
Thanks.
Bibler
Editor's note: whether or not Little Man on Campus appears in the University Daily Kansan is decided by managing editors. We try to include one as often as possible, but occasionally lack of space forces us to leave Worthal out for news which we consider important.
Our judgement probably seems insane sometimes, but it becomes a question of which group we want chasing us around the copy desk—angry Bibler fans, or irate professors and club officers.
Dick has furnished us with many good cartoons this year. There will be one whenever it's at all possible to publish it.
Thanks
Sir,
I am one of the pedestrians who lives on the southeast side of the campus. I frequently go up on the campus via the walk behind the chancellor's home, Miss Habein's home, and Miller and Watkins halls. I certainly appreciate the lights which have been put in along the wall of 'the chancellor's grounds and at the corner of Miss Habein's porch. Several of us go to the library or to meetings at night, and have never
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