PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1949 The Editorial Page- Wanted: U S Dollars The quest for the revered American dollar is about to be launched full scale by Great Britain. Readers of American magazines can expect to see more and more space devoted to advertisements of English goods. Marshall Plan aid will end in 1952. England hopes to have her economy somewhere near an even keel by that time, and American dollars will form the bulwark of the plan. Even with the assistance she has been getting from the Marshall Plan, England has been making a bid for dollars. Without Marshall Plan aid, she must rely wholly upon her trading ability. A new seven-point plan has been formulated to help her reach her goal of selling to the United States as much as she exports from us. The foundation of this plan is out-and-out government favoritism to industries that can produce goods that will sell in the United States. At present, most of England's offerings to the American people have been luxury items. Products with prices that fit the pocket book of the average citizen will have to replace the high-priced automobiles and clothing that have been the staple English export for the last few years. England must also fix competitive prices while maintaining quality. England thinks that an open dollar market will free world trade and turn nations more toward multilateral trading. It will be interesting to see how American manufacturers react to this invasion of their markets. It hardly seems likely that tariff barriers will be raised. In 1948, Britain exported 24,475 automobiles to the United States as compared to 3,900,000 automobiles produced here. Even if Britain exports were doubled, the dent they would make in the American market would be too slight to justify raising tariffs. A Silent Alarm Wakes You And There Are No Closets By CARLA EDDY (Eerlin Correspondent for the University Daily Kansan) Here are some of the little differences between "my day" in Lawrence and Berlin. There is a silent alarm clock here. Just leave the light switches on after the electricity goes off at 11 p.m. and when you dream that photographers have placed dazzling flood lights near your face, it is 6 a As you dig your clothes out of a crowded wardrobe, you reflect that you haven't seen a closet since the U.S.A., and you begin remembering all the other curiosities people live with back there--rocking chairs, door knobs, showerbaths, windows that open up and down, drainboards. and your bed lamp has gone on! You can also leave the radio on, and waken to "Gimme a little kiss, will wuh, hon," on the Armed Forces network, or to the news on half a dozen German stations. In the kitchenette you make the milk for breakfast, mixing milk powder and water with an egg beater consisting of a spiral wire on the end of a stick. A coffee grinder makes the coffee last longer. The housekeeper has lent her toaster, since American electrical appliances are useless. The wattage and voltage and plugs are all different here. My pride and joy is a sugar shaker—like an overgrown salt shaker—made of blue Rubin-glass (you can see some at the University Art museum on the K.U. campus). If there's still a cashier in the Union cafeteria named Marvel Senti, she'd get a kick out of the U.S. government buses that take us to work. They're the same war-time Mack's she used to drive in Junction City and in Portland, Oregon. Here they have German drivers, of course, who don't collect any fare, but have to see that everyone who gets on is an American or the guest of an American. The day begins with my German assistant's reminding me it is "German day." The work of the office is done in English, but we have a private mutual assistance agreement whereby we use German in conversation on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, English on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and correct one another conscientiously. In the middle of the morning, newspapers are delivered. One German paper reports that spring fever will be worse in Berlin this year because of a lack of vitamin C in the diet. Another paper observes that despite the East-West division in most departments of the city administration, the dogcatchers of Berlin still work on a unified basis in all four sectors, have processed 170 dogs so far this year, and that the pound is presently housing a badger and a raven as well. Another reports that the students of the Western high schools and Free University of Berlin sent a joint letter to the four Allied commanders protesting alleged arrests of students in the Soviet zone by Soviet political and secret police. To get into the grounds of the office buildings, you must show your identity card to the armed sentry. Just before 8:30 a.m. a shiny black limousine swings into the drive, bearing a red plate with four silver stars, and a single distinguished occupant—General Clay. When he looked in my direction one morning, I waved a mitten hand and grinned; he smiled graciously and touched his cap. Across the street from the offices is a large dining room called Truman hall, built in 1945 as soon as American occupation began. I meet a friend who has just flown up on duty. He says there is no city in Germany like Berlin; that it is the only place to be stationed in Germany. I remind him that we are paid 5 per cent more than the employees in Western Germany, so it must be 5. per cent worse to be here. He insists it is 100 per cent better. This man came on the same University Daily Hansan Five Attend Union Meet Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Assn, National Editorial Assn., Inland Daily Press Assn., and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Ad- vertising Service,420 Madison Ave., New York City. Four students and one faculty member are included in the University delegation that will attend the national convention of student unions in Colorado Springs, Colo. Wednesday, April 27, through Saturday, April 30. Business Manager National Adv. Mgr. Circulation Mgr. Promotion Mgr ... Editor-in-chief John Riley Managing Editor John Stauffer Astst Man Editor Marvin Rowlands Marylyn Editor Michael Bentley City Editor Gerald Fetier洛伊 Asst City Editor James Scott Ruth Keller City Editor Ruth Keller Sports Editor Darell Norris Asst Sports Editor Bud Wright Sports Editor Docas Jeachins Tel. Editor Russet Johnson Tel. Tel Robert Newman Asst. 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