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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1849
The Editorial Page-
Intramural Program
The Relays are over, but athletics are a daily thrill, and one way that education has broadened has been through competitive recreational sports programs in our schools and colleges.
It was during the turtle neck sweater and handle-bar mustache era following the Civil War that intramural sports were born. Students developed specialized teams to represent the rest of the student body in competition with other schools. Those students who were not good enough to make the first team would challenge each other. This led eventually to a greater degree of organization within the schools, and managers were elected to arrange details for class leagues.
Later, the best of the intramural teams began to represent their school, and varsity competition came into existence. Even though greater emphasis has been placed on the varsity system in the last 50 years, intramural sports have made rapid strides in the past two decades.
A new boom in intramural sports started at the end of World War II. This fact is demonstrated at K.U. where nearly one-fourth of the student body—some 2,000 students—take part in 16 sports during the year.
At K.U., as in other schools, the opportunity is provided for the method of securing theoretically desired results. Here lies the great field of possibility for today's educators in helping fix desirable habits. The intramural program at K.U. is designed to promote these aims.
The "athletic mind" is not confined to the sports field, but to all competitive fields. It is through the educator and teacher of athletics that the students of today are being conditioned toward the modern social, ethical, and character traits of desirable citizenship.
Today's college student gets from his intramural program such benefits as social contacts, group spirit, better health, permanent interests in sports, bodily prowess, and scholarship. No one can deny that the competitive recreational sport program in our schools and colleges have added much to the educational process of 25 years ago. -Leonard Snyder.
This Is Berlin:
One Dime Is Worth More Than Another-In Germany
By CARLA EDDY
(Berlin Correspondent for the University Daily Kansan)
This is Berlin—where the 10 cents in your left hand is worth four times more than the 10 cents in your right hand. If it's a German 10 cents, that is. Money has an unique story in Western Berlin.
The basic unit of German money for a long time has been the mark. Before the first World War they had the gold mark; afterward it was called the Renten mark. During the $\textcircled{4}$
Nazi times, the expression changed to Reichsmarks, and since World War II another currency have established another currency and called it Deutsche marks.
When the political situation last summer was worsening, the Western Allies issued new money in their zones. The Soviets retaliated by issuing new but different money in their zone. Both zones call the money Deutsche marks, but because their values are different, they are distinguished by the popular names "East marks" and "West marks." While these currencies have the same face-value, West marks are more in demand and therefore buy more merchandise. Therefore they are worth—at the moment—four times more than East marks.
The Western powers finally established their West currency in the West sectors of Berlin, but did not make it the one and only legal tender, so both moneys are legal and circulating in this part of the city. Surrounding this island of West money is an ocean of East money.
The merciants would like to ask West marks for everything they sell, but people can't pay it, so you see a price tag on some merchandise that says "3 East and 1 West mark." The reason the people can't pay it is that they get their wages in both money, but 25 per cent West money at best.
Now you pay only East money on public transportation, either kind for newspapers, usually half-and-half at the theater or movie, and for postage—here is a state of flux. At the moment West sector post offices accept East money for stamps, but West money for insuring, air mail, and packages. All black market and luxury goods are sold only for West marks, which themselves are sold—along with American greenbacks—on the black market.
A school principal like my friend A. should normally receive, about 900 marks a month. Because of financial difficulties, the school is paying her only a teacher's salary. From that they deduct 10 per cent which all the teachers are "lending" the school for the time being. Then a wage-tax, church tax, and social security deductions are made. The net is 290 marks, paid out 25 per cent in West marks and 75 per cent in East marks. When you reduce the value of the East mark by four, the total net value of her monthly salary is about 125 West marks. What will this buy?
It will buy $8 on the black market, or one substitute-wool dress, or 7 pounds of butter, or 3½ pounds of coffee; 21 men's ties, 4 simple alarm clocks, 1 pair of shoes, but 10 half-solings; 7 pounds of bacon, 12 pounds of dried milk, 6 dozen eggs, 28 pounds of sugar. But it will买 all one's rations several times and pave one's rent and car fare. What would a person do with surplus money anyway? The Germans are disillusioned about saving money, having lost their life savings at least twice in one generation. Nobody saves much, except a few close foreigners.
University Daily Hansan
Dear Editor-
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Greeks Speak Dear Editor:
Member of the Kanaas Press Assn.
Press Assm. and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Ad-
vice Service 420 Madison Ave. New York City
Pachacamac views with amusement the annual charges of crookedness made against us by the Independent party. Since we are aware of prominent irregularities in their electioneering tactics, we feel that the students should hear facts enough to judge the Independent's self-proclaimed "honesty."
Editor-in-chief ... John Riley
Managing Editor ... John Stauffer
Asst. Manager ... Marvin Rowlands
Main Manager ... City Editor
City Editor ... Gerald Fetterolf
Sports Editor ... Darell Norris
Royal College ... Poley
Society Editors ... Mary Jane Horton
Norma Hunsinger
Business Manager ... Carol
Adv. Mgr. .. William E. Beck
Nat'l Adv. Mgr. .. Ira Gissen
Circulation Mgr. .. Louis S科伦泰
Leonard Mgr. .. Robert Boltho
Classified Mgr. .. Carol Buther
Promotion Mgr. .. Robert Boltho
Perhaps a few of the 200 or so students whose ballots were thrown out would like to know why those little numbers weren't clipped by poll workers. Pach knows that the Independent poll workers were instructed not to clip these numbers off a certain portion of Greek ballots. Pach, and, I am sure, the A.S.C. elections committee would like to know the mysterious Indee worker who moved from poll to poll and illegally changed the order of the poll workers.
Then, too, there is the obvious conspiracy between two Kansan reporters to place the Greek party and the A.S.C. in a bad position just before and on the day of the election. Pach believes that the high command of the Kansan was not aware of this trick, since the Kansan itself was admirably non-partisan.
TUESDAY
Possibly a few Independents who are particularly disgusted with their party might investigate and find out (to their surprise) who really runs the Indee party.
Richard A. Menuet
Pachacamac society
Editor's note: The University Daily Kansan not only "was not aware" of any conspiracy between its reporters, it still isn't. Campus political news will continue to be reported objectively. The Daily Kansan does not and will not support one party in preference to the other. We feel that both parties received equal coverage in the recent election. The letter's column is open to both parties on an impartial basis.
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