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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948
The Editorial Page
Lawrence Unpreparedness
The canker worms took Lawrence without a battle. The feeble efforts that were made to drive them out came after the elm trees had lost their leaves, and students and citizens had fought webs and worms for a week. The city administration has expressed regret that it did not have the facilities to combat the little creepers. It was able to improvise a few
spray guns, admittedly inadequate, and began spraying April 30, after the elm worms had their fill.
Through the farsightedness of their city governments, Ottawa and Emporia began spraying all their parkings, alleys, and parks on April 16. Commercial crews followed, covering privately owned trees, riding the town of canker worms in swale swhs. In Ottawa, a crew worked 16 hours a day, covering most of the main streets by the 29th. Emporia sent out two crews, and plans to D.D.T. the alleys for fly control soon.
Once again the city of Lawrence gives University students grounds for believing that only one thing matters to Lawrence citizens—business.
The city is widening its streets off Massachusetts to make trade a little more convenient. No one questions the necessity of this work. But students remark that Lawrence citizens don't seem a bit concerned about the washboards around the campus that are named after states and called "streets."
Summer session students kid about about taking shoe horns to the Lawrence swimming pool, to squeeze into the oversized bath tub. Almost every other Kansas town the size of Lawrence has a municipal pool large enough to accommodate the swimming population.
A city can't do everything at once, and students realize that. But they feel that directly and indirectly they pay taxes in Lawrence, and wonder if possibly something could be done—even if it's just preventing another onslaught of bugs next year.—Paul Conrad.
A recipe experts says there are 120 ways to serve potatoes. Too bad the hotels and restaurants can't discover the other 119.
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Security Loan
In financing a war a government may choose among policies which are non-inflationary, inflationary, or anti-inflationary. Selling securities to commercial banks, for example, while it is the easiest course, is inflationary, since it creates purchasing power. Taxing and spending the proceeds directly for prosecution of the war effort would be classed as non-inflationary, for the taxes and the spending offset each other. But if a government sells its bonds to individuals with savings to invest, then uses the funds so raised to extinguish part or all of the bandheld government debt, it is pursuing a definite anti-inflationary policy which makes up the bulk of the money supply, but immobilizes the potential purchasing power represented by the savings so invested.
In the treasury's security loan drive, which has just been formally launched by President Truman, the government is pursuing the wise course of adapting the last-named technique to a peacetime inflationary situation. This is the first public bond-selling campaign since the Victory Loan effort. The treasury has two major goals—to increase the sales of savings bonds from the $1,-228,982,000 reached in the first quarter this year to double that figure in the second quarter, and to improve the rate of payroll savings, now running at $90,000,000 a month, by a similar amount.
These are good objectives that deserve the support and co-operation of every citizen. While the anti-inflationary program on other fronts lags because of differences over methods between the administration and Congress, this is one time-tested method that can be invoked by the administration without waiting for Congress to act.
Dear Editor
The following letter refers to a letter published in the April 27 issue of the Daily Kansan entitled "Let's Pitch In." Miss Shreve was urging support for the present Memorial drive.—Editor.
You Build It
Dear Editor:
My dear Miss Shreve, with your closing sentence, I am in full agreement. "They died for you—now you strive for them." That is a fine idea, and we should do the most that we can for them. But here is where the two of us must part ways in our thought as to what should be done.
They did die for you, and if you are really interested in seeing that something is-done for them, would it not be much more worthy to use that collected money for some purpose that might help their children or their brothers' or sisters' children through the next generation without dying in another holocaust?
That is the reason, Miss Shreve, that voices have been raised against the carillon tower. There is no service done to those who have died in war when that war is set up as a thing of glory and honor. Dying for God and country is a fine thing, but let's use our resources to prevent the next one, rather than use our resources to glorify the last one.
I'll join the crowd, Miss Shreve. If you want a clanging pile of rock, you build it! I'll spend my time and money trying to prevent the necessity for another.
Ralph H. Moberley College junior
K. U. selects so many queens that there is a movement afoot to give a cup to the girl who goes through four years of college and never gets elected queen of anything.
It gives everyone the opportunity to do something about inflation, and at the same time contribute directly "to the strengthening of the economy" and "the winning of the peace."—Charles Moffet, Jr.
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Wichita—(UP) -Floyd Stuck, chief deputy city marshal, has received his medal. Twenty-eight years after being sent to Germany in the army of occupation, he was sent a medal complete with ribbon and lapel button.
At Last, He's A Hero
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