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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. APRIL 12, 1948
The Editorial Page
Savings At Your Feet
The cash sales slips which clutter the floor of the Union book store have taken $715.94 from the pockets of the student body. This is the figure released by Ogden S. Jones, chairman of the book store committee.
However, this sum is not lost.
e thoughtlessly moving them.
However, this sum is not lost.
The sales slips have a cash value of 15c on the dollar and many students are thoughtlessly throwing them away.
44 Ash trays for study hall 5.10
Illustrated table 5.10
Through the attentive effort of L. E. Woolley and his efficient staff, the slips have been saved and put in a special fund set up primarily for the purpose of getting this money back to the students in spite of themselves.
This money has been spent in the following ways:
14 Ash trays for ... 520
3 Electric megaphones for cheer leaders ... 290.70
WSSF ... 5.00
2 $100 scholarships ... 200.00
Red Cross ... 5.0*
1 Record player for nursery ... 25.00 Batteries for megaphones 24.00
6 Radios for hospital ... 109.52
12" megaphones for cheer leaders ... 51.42
Total ... $715.94
The above figures does not include approximately $500 that was
contributed to the World War II Memorial fund through the collection boxes in the store.
"While the book store committee is especially pleased that this money does get back to the students indirectly, we would much prefer that the students take care of their cash receipt slips that they may take full advantage of the co-operative features of the Student Union book store," urges Mr. Jones.
Plan For The World
Amid the beating of drums for conscription and the international keyeting for toeholds along borders, a plan for peace has been submitted. Eleven U.S. educators have drawn up a constitution for world government which they believe is the solution to existence and peace in the atomic age.
For students to throw away their own earned returns from this cooperative venture is folly. The book store is designed to save students part of the high cost of education by such a refund.
Skeptics see the plan as an attack
the world's network of sovereign
Before tossing that next sales slip on the floor, stop and think. There are not many places where your money will earn 15 per cent these days.
states. Others see it as the only page for a meeting of minds. Its framers believe that it will eventually be adopted. "World government shall come, whether in five years or in fifty, whether with conflagration or without."
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, heads the authors of the project named the Committee to Frame a World Constitution.
This charter, which follows closely the British and American forms of government. The committee beof government is to serve as a pattern for further study and discussion of world government. The committee believes it should be set into operation by a constitutional convention called by the United Nations general assembly.
Their plan calls for a world president, a unicameral legislature, a world court, an armed force, and a federal electral college. Membership would be chosen by an electoral college composed of delegates selected for every one million population or fraction thereof above 500,-000. These delegates would be divided into nine geographical regions. Each region's delegates would elect three candidates for president of the world. All delegates would vote on the final selection of a president and choose 99 persons to make up the world council which would be the unicameral lawmaking body. The president would appoint a chancellor who would name the executive cabinet.
The president would serve as chief justice and he would appoint—with legislative approval—60 world justices to form a grand tribunal. This tribunal would elect seven members to a world supreme court.
In this branch also would be named a defender of the public called the office of the tribune of the people to defend the natural and civil rights of individuals and groups against violation or neglect by the world government.
The military force would be headed by the president and it would be controlled by a six-man civilian "chamber of guardians." They would be elected for three-year terms by the legislature and the grand tribunal. This group would regulate the size of member state militias and control the manufacture of armaments. They could grant the president emergency powers.
Economic substructure of this form of world government will be abhorrent to many laissez-faire nations and this may prove to be the roughest kind to smooth out. The charter contains a section which places the economic "common good" above the rights of private property. It says:
Civil rights are emphasized, and the document provides for freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and rights of individuals above the rights of government. All powers not given to the world government are returned to the member states.
"The four elements of life—earth, air, water, and energy—are the common property of the human race. The management and use of such portions thereof as are vested in particular ownership. . shall in all cases be subordinated to the common good."
World government has a high slippery wall to scale, but somewhere in the maze of peace plans an instrument will be found to tear down the wall of misunderstanding. —Marian Minor.
America is shipping a lot of industrial equipment to Russia these days. This reminds us of the Singer sewing machine screwdriver one commanding officer carries as a souvenir. A light surgeon dug it out of his back after a mission over Hanchow. It was part of the steel scrap we sold to Japan.
When a dog is out, he wants in and when he is in, he wants out. This bears a close resemblance to present day political candidates.
Dear Editor
'Ho-Hum'
Editor Daily Kansan:
It is interesting to note that 7,040 Lawrence people stood in line for about 45 minutes apiece Sunday to see a "train of tomorrow" (a duplicate of which has been run for several years in the Northwest).
It is significant that almost a hundred (100) people turned out not long ago for an equally well-publicized discussion on Universal Military training.
As a man who has spent a total of 17 years of his life either in training or active participation in war on the ground that American democracy should be protected, my reaction is—"ho-hum."
John R. Malone
Dept. of Journalism
The Democratic party is shaken and beginning to crumble, according to some political observers. It's a three-way split, with pie-size portions going to Truman and the South, and the crumbs for Henry Wallace.
It has often been said that home is any old place where mother wishes to goodness the family would hang up their things.
John L. Lewis may eventually replace Mr. G. Hog as the more infallible harbinger of spring.
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'New Look' Has Hit Science Which Is GoodAnd Bad
Washington—(UP)—The world of tomorrow will be interesting—and at the same time dangerous.
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It will be exciting because of the new gimmicks science is cooking up.
One will sizzle a steak "medium-well" in 10 seconds; "well-done" in 15. Another, an electronic dust collector, will suck 99 per cent of the dust, line and pollen in the whole house. Mama won't have to swing the dust rag more'n once a month. She won't have to wash the curtains but once a year. White ones, even.
The dust collector, science says, also sound the death knell of the common cold, since while it is snuffling in all of the dust it will snuffle all of the stray germs at the same time.
It'll soon be possible for one family to sit at home and do the baby sitting for the whole neighborhood, thanks to a little gadget that operates on the principle of the inter-office communication system.
In the future, the lights will go on in a room as soon as you cross the threshold, and flick off automatically when you go out. No hands. Modern man is too busy to go around pushing buttons.
One Baby Sitter Per Block
The kids down the block get into a pillow fight and on goes a light in the sitter's home, telling which house the scrap is in. The mechanical "sitter" is so smart that it even picks up the babies' breathing, so that if one of them breaks out with the croup, the daddy in the sitter family can put on his rubbers and run over with an inhaler and a hot water bottle.
Wrist-Watch Radios
So much for the interesting part of life.
Before long you'll be able to walk into a drug store and come out with one of those two-way wrist watch radios like Secretary of Commerce Harriman gave Mr. Truman for Christmas.
As for the dangerous part, you can blame that on a handsome gentleman named Gordon Volkenant, who calls himself a "short hair" scientist. He goes around the country making lectures on how simple electronics are.
Mr. V. helped invent a "husband-
detector," for wives to use on 3 an.
n., shoes-in-hand tip teers. When
he front door opens, the gadget
uzzes like a four-alarm fire.
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