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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949
The Editorial Page-
The New Congress
"I ask you to cast your votes for a Democratic administration that plays fair with the people. And we shall need a Democratic congress."
This statement was made by Harry S. Truman in the course of his recent successful campaign for the presidency. Of course, everyone knows the success of such pleas as the Democratic party now has a comfortable majority in both houses of congress.
We do not envy Mr. Truman and the 81st congress in view of the serious problems they must face. The way should be eased for them by the Democratic majorities and the fact that Mr. Truman is now the undisputed leader of the party in his own right.
We have to remember however that the bloc of southern voters in both houses, when combined with the votes of Republican legislators, may continue to have an important bearing on the course of the President's plans. Another point to consider is that, as a rule, southern legislators usually stay in office longer than their northern colleagues and thereby build up greater seniority for committee appointments. Many southern congressmen have been much opposed to new deal legislation, especially in regard to the civil rights program.
Problems that must be dealt with are of two classes, external and internal. On the international front, we have the cold war, the Economic Cooperation act, and the question of military aid to European allies.
on the home front, there are also many complex problems. These include labor law legislation, expanded social security, housing, education, universal military training, the huge national debt, and the problem of maintaining the economy of the country.
In the first set of problems, not only will the 140 million people of the U. S. be watching the actions of congress quite critically, but all the people of the world will be doing the same. And, on the home front, citizens will perhaps be watching in a more critical manner.
The 80th congress thought it had a mandate, but it either made a wrong interpretation or was not fair with the people. Now, it is up to the 81st congress to interpret their mandate and make a demonstration of what is meant by being "fair" with the people as claimed in campaign promises. —M.C.L.
Home Accidents
Campaigns to reduce the great number of deaths caused by auto-
mobile accidents are commonplace. What about home accidents?
Newspapers follow each death caused by an auto accident with great interest. They report it at length and even run pictures. However, if someone dies of an accident in the home, it hardly rates more than a paragraph and hardly ever a picture. Still these deaths claim more victims every year than do auto accidents.
In 1947 auto accidents killed 32,300 persons, running second to home accidents with 34,500 deaths reported.
To put it another way, while automobiles are killing one person every 16 minutes and injuring one every 27 seconds, home accidents are killing one person every 15 minutes and injuring one every six seconds.
How can this appalling toll be reduced?
Home accidents can be fought by education. Nobody can come into a home and order the homemaker to straighten things up if he does not desire to do so. All that can be done is to warn him of the death traps in his home, especially is this appropriate at the start of a new year.
a new year. Some ways to keep alive now that the holidays are over:
Put toys and other objects away after finishing with them. (This applies to Dad as well as the children).
Keep stairways and halls clear and well lighted.
Keep sainty ways and make
Tack down or use backing on small and loose rugs.
Tack down or use backing on smalt and less foam. Keep cooking utensils well back on the stove so children can't reach them.
Open the garage doors before starting the motor of your car. (You might get a ride in a hearse if you don't.)
Keep poison out of reach of children and in such a place that no one is likely to pick it up by mistake. (Even if you don't like your mother-in-law, don't poison her.)
Never leave guns loaded. (It is usually the unloaded gun that kills.) Use first aid on even the most minor cuts and scratches. A little first aid might save an arm or leg.
This is only a short list. A little thought and consideration of the problem will add many other safety practices.
A list of precautions and a weekly campaign every year may help things a little but to be really effective the campaign must be year long and people must heed the warnings. It is up to YOU!
—Gus August
Don't Be A Thief
One can hardly pick up a newspaper without seeing in the classified ads an article pleading for the return of a lost wallet or billfold. The ad usually states that the finder may keep the money if he will just return the wallet and the papers it contains.
Today the wallet can be listed among a man's most important possessions even though it may not contain a penny. Every man carries several important pieces of identification in his billfold. Some of these may be his business cards, union card, military discharge card, draft card, driver's license, social security and club cards.
If the loser is a student, he will probably lose his identification card and activity book. These may be replaced but it will probably cost the loser many wasted hours and a little cash.
Why is the wallet so important and why is such an ad necessary?
The person who finds a wallet has no excuse for not returning it immediately. There is always plenty of identification.
—Leaford D. Miller
Shavings
Now that our New Year's resolutions are broken, we can again resume a normal life.
Oilmen have dubbed Frank Sinatra's new gusher "Crooner No. 2." While the rig beats a slow pulsating rhythm, let us sing "Million Dollar Baby."
Four large construction companies will soon combine to build a new home for the U.N. Maybe this merger will help set an example for the U.N.
Director of the student health service advised that no one should study during vacation. It was noted the Daily Kansan published a schedule for those heretics who did not accept the doctor's word as gospel.
The New England Bakers' association is starting glamour courses for its salesgirls. In other words, it takes cheesecake to sell bread.
It seems that the English royal family didn't want to offend any, of the relatives when they named the new baby.
It took a survey to show people what all G.I.'s already knew: that officers are usually fatter than enlisted men.
Our Limping Liars
Selection of the biggest lie of the year, an annual roundup of the Burlington Liars club, Inc., somehow leaves us cold. And it isn't the iced and gusty wind of the Alberta tale, which landed the championship. It looks as if the genus Americanus, Windbag, is losing some of his gaudy grandil- oquence.
Not that the winning yarn wasn't plausible enough. The Albertan told of a rancher who dug 2,000 post holes, when along came a windstorm and blew them 150 miles away. A right breezy jest, but lacking a touch of drollery and umph. And any lie so full of holes hardly convinces the stanchly naive. Besides the point is dusty. It doesn't begin to measure up to the epic narrative of Lightin' Bill Smith who herded a "hull swarm" of bees clear across the state of Arizona, or was it California, without losing a bee!
No wonder America is having a rough time in its propaganda battle with Russia. Our liars lack that frenetic gimp. And they're losing a little straight face.
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Joe Doakes Is A Good Fellow If Slot Machines Don't Cheat
Burnhart Glassgold of Aurora, Ill., here for the annual meeting of the Automatic Merchandising Association, said that when a customer tries to beat a machine it's just part of a game.
Chicago-(UP)-The average citizen is 99.9 per cent honest, most of the time anyway, a vending machine executive says.
"If he's in a playmourn, gold said, " the customer may try to beat the machine but there's nothing malicious about it. He's just sort of matching wits with the engineer who built it.
Glassgold said the blame for a machine getting kicked rests on the engineer who did not build it well enough to prevent failures.
"As long as he gets a fair shake for his money, the customer is satisfied. It isn't until the machine fails to deliver after he deposits a nickel that he begins to kick and shove."
"If he's in a playful mood." Glass-6
The manufacturers of automatic merchandising machines have taken steps to spoil the chances of the wits-matching customer. Glassgold said it was actually committed to making it easier. Making a slug that will get past new detecting devices costs more than a legitimate pickel, he said.
Glassgold said he has found other ways to eliminate attacks by the rare rough customer. He finds that a machine that is kept shiny and clean rarely gets beaten up.
"But if a machine is allowed to get dusty and shabby looking, boom! somebody gives it a kick," he observed.
Glassgold* said his company had experimented with six and seven cent candy vending machines but that business had fallen off 50 per cent on the experimental machines.
"Everybody felt they were paying seven cents for a five cent candy bar, yet people will pay 10 cents readily if they think they are getting a 10 cent piece of merchandise'. Glassgold commented.
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Editor-In-Chief ... Maurice C. Lungen
Managing Editor ... Hal D. Nelson
Assst. Man. Editor ... Billy F. Murphy
Assst. Man. Editor ... Bill M. Murphy
City Editor ... Robert Newman
Assst. City Editor ... Nora Temple
Assst. City Editor ... Patrick James
Assst. City Editor ... Richard D. Patronius
Assst. Tel. Editor ... Larry Funk
Assst. Tel. Editor ... Robert D. Snair
Assst. Tel. Editor ... Owen M. Snair
Assst. Sports Editor ... Marvin L. Rowlands
Society Editor ... Rosemary Rospaw
Business Manager ... Don L. Tennant
Advertising Mgr. ... Don Welch
Natl Adv. Mgr. ... Charles O'Connor
Circulation Mgr. .. Ruth Clayton
Asst. Circ. Mgr. .. Dena Knuth
Davis. Mgr. .. Don Welch
Asst. Class. Mgr. .. Yvonne Josserand
Asst. Class. Mgr. .. William E Beek
Promotion Mgr. .. Richard Reed
Glassgold explained his theory about the public's willingness to spend 10 cents but not seven cents for a bar of candy.
"I think it is because the dime, like the nickel, has been a merchandising item through the ages. It is more than the added difficulty of two coins. Five or ten cents is the right price for a candy bar historically and that's all there is to it."
Glassgold said it wasn't possible just to raise the price of a nickel bar to a dime. The public knows its merchandise, he said. The sales has to be increased, if not doubled, to sell a bar at 10 cents, he argued.
"The- candy vending business is expanding," he said, "especially in industrial plants. If sellers give the public its money's worth, business will be good and stay good," Glassgold said.
Puts Out Radio 'Paper'
Champaign, Ill.—(UP)—The University of Illinois School of Journalism is making experiments in facsimile newspaper production, putting out a "newspaper" by radio. The school has borrowed a sender and two receivers.
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