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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1948
The Editorial Page-
Community Chest
Students are being asked this week to make their annual contribution to the Community Chest campaign. The drive for funds started Tuesday and will continue through Saturday. No definite quota has been set for the University part of the Lawrence goal of $19,246.86, but students are expected to bear a fair share of the burden.
Contributions are being collected at special booths in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall and the lounge of the Union. Members of organized houses can make their donations to their house representatives.
Most students look upon the annual Community Chest drive as mainly a Lawrence affair which has little importance to the University. To them it is just another method of taking money out of the pockets of students with no benefits passed out in return. A quick glance at the organization of the local Community Chest should clear up this misunderstanding.
The Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. are two of the organizations which benefit most from Community Chest funds. Students are served directly by the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. on the campus. Both organizations receive a large part of their funds from the Community Chest organizations which are mainly concerned with the job of training the youth of the community. Such organizations as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Hi-Y, Y-Teen, and the 4-H Club need financial assistance in the important work which they are doing.
Students should be thankful for the opportunity they have this week to do their part in making the University community and the city of Lawrence a better place in which to live. J.LR.
Letters To The Editor
Norman Thomas And Labor
Dear Editor:
This is written in answer to the editorial in the Oct. 7 issue of the Kansan. It was the theme of this editorial that labor has no candidate in the presidential campaign this year.
We have no argument with the conclusion that the four named candidates do not represent the interests of labor. But the Socialist candidate, Norman Thomas, whose name was not mentioned, is worthy of labor support.
What criteria was the editor using in characterizing a labor party? If similarity to the labor parties of Great Britain and continental Europe is taken as the criterion, then the Socialist party certainly qualifies. The Socialist party cannot be accused of collaborating with Communists or advocating appeasement of Russia. It supports the specific demands which organized labor has made, and in addition avocates a democratically planned economic system, which is the only condition under which labor, as well as all of society, can be assured of economic security and freedom.
Walter Conrad, Dean Gregory,
Alba Mazzitelli, representing
Students for Norman Thomas.
Norman Thomas was purposely left out of the editorial because he is not a major candidate and labor must be practical in its political action.
Under a nationalized economy such as the Socialists advocate, American labor unions would be required to give up their remaining rights. In the place of collective bargaining and the right to strike, the Socialists would have
to offer universal wage scales and the police power of the state.
Nationalization of industry has been the major strike breaking technique of the Truman administration. Labor would be cutting its own throat if it supported Norman Thomas.
American labor unions are a result of a capitalistic economy. To remain free they must have a competitive society in which to grow. -J.L.R.
Union Fees
Dear Editor:
The editorial on broken promises and the Palm room was particularly enlightening. To get down to figures, $185,000 at $4 per student per semester should mean that the Union expansion levy should be discontinued after 5.14 semesters figuring a college enrollment of a mere 9,000 students.
At the present time, using the same figures, the Union should have collected $180,000. Could it possibly mean that the levy would be stopped after the next semester?
Name withheld by request
A librarian examination has been announced by the U.S. civil service commission. The positions, paying $2,974 a year, are in Washington, D.C., and vicinity.
Civil Service Has Librarian Openings
Persons interested may obtain information and application forms at the Lawrence post office or from the U.S. civil service commission, Washington 25, D.C. Applications should be sent to the Washington office.
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Library Rules
Dear Editor:
One of the practices on the campus which is in need of revision is the system of checking out library books to faculty members. The present system allows an instructor to check out a book for an unlimited time. It would not be bad except that instructors abuse their privilege.
Across from Court House
Several books have been checked out as long ago as 1919 and never returned. The instructors have these books in their offices, but when the book is urgently needed by a student the instructor usually is not around.
1109 Mass.
Why doesn't the library change its rules so that an instructor can keep a book no longer than a month? By that time he should be able to obtain all the information he needs for his class.
The best way for students to get this system changed is to complain to the librarian when they find themselves having to chase down an instructor to get a book they need.
Tom Ioup,
College sophomore.
Job Future Outlined To Business Seniors
One hundred and twenty-five January graduates attended a meeting of the business placement bureau Monday in Frank Strong auditorium, Frank Pinet, director, and Terrill Clark, assistant director, outlined the job situation.
Mr. Pinet said that while the job situation is tight, most students probably would be able to find positions with the help of the bureau. However, he urged students to look for jobs on their own initiative.
The Kansas department of civil service has issued a call for clerks, typists, stenographers, cashiers, account clerks, and bank examiners to fill vacancies in state jobs.
State Calls For Office Workers
Appointments will be made from persons passing civil service examinations. The department of civil service in Topeka will be in charge of the examinations.
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