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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1948
"Not Guilty"
The State department has announced that there will be hundreds of 3,000-a-year jobs and $10,000-a-year jobs available when congress finally approves the 17 billion-dollar European spending program. These jobs will be created by that agency that will be formed to administer this huge sum. At the risk of being condemned as a black pressist and a
Billions Of Dollars To Spend
The Editorial Page
onic, we observe that this small news item sounds uncomfortably like a harbinger of scandals. Can vast amounts of money be administered by government agencies without an aftermath of trials and investigations over misappropriations of funds and disclosures of shocking blunders on the parts of administrators? The average citizen has plenty of reason to believe that such occurrences are inevitable.
The state of Kansas is one of America's thrifty and greatest producing states. It leads all others in the production of wheat, and produces many other farm products. It also ranks very high in mineral production, among its production being large quantities of oil, zinc, coal, natural gas and cement.
Observers of American economy say that soon we won't have to use that unpleasant term "scarce" because we'll replace it with "non-existent."
left a trail of strife and woe in its passage. Blackmarketeers in Europe and China reportedly made vast fortunes by cornering great stocks of rehabilitation supplies for their own purposes. Only recently newspapers displayed pictures of row upon row of engines rusting on shipping docks in Greece, because U.N.R.R.A. agents had shipped motors of a type useless in that part of the world. Trials of war profiteers who made fortunes in the confusion of administering fat war contracts are still a sharp and distasteful reality in the public mind.
However, the real crimes are not those done by the manipulators and those who gingerly skirted the law and pocketed their advantage. The real crime is the destruction of common faith in democratic government and those who direct it. The Marshall plan appropriations must be handled honestly and intelligently. There are enough strains on free government as it is.
Dear Editor Whose Business
Dear Editor,
I find it necessary to disagree with Mr. Lill's signed editorial on Monday, March 15, 1948. He states: "...democracy requires that government be divorced from business." Even at first glance this statement did not find a close neighbor in my realm of interpretations. Deciding that one of us must certainly be in error, I consulted my "Webster" and proceeded to search for the true meaning of democracy.
To my surprise, Mr. Webster had forgotten to mention business when he defined democracy. However, he did say that democracy was "Government by the people; government in which the supreme power is retained by the people and exercised directly, or indirectly through a system of representation." Democracy is a "Belief in or practice of social equality; absence of snobbery."
This, to me, does not mean that government must stay out of business. Should all the people of this country, or any other, decide through direct, or indirect, representation that they want to put government in charge of business enterprise, by the definition of Mr. Webster this, or that, country would still be a democracy. All of this is with the provision that such country has a "Belief in or practice of social equality; absence of snobbery."
It is my belief that Mr. Lill should secure a dictionary for himself and read the definition of "capitalism." It is true that capitalism is permitted its existence only in those countries which are either full or partial democracies, but it is not true that capitalism and the activities of a laissez-faire society constitute democracy. Democracy does not require that government be divorced from business.
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Ralph H. Moberley College junior
Maybe it's Webster that is in error, Mr. Moberay. However, what you state in the fifth sentence of the second paragraph, Webster defines as socialism, not democracy. Webster says, "Socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization based on collective or governmental ownership and democratic management of the essential means for the production and distribution of goods."
Since democracy is still "government by the people," it is my belief that the will of the people is for a government divorced from business. "The Road To Serfdom" supports my reasoning in that "as government takes over business, it also tends to regiment the social activities and limits basic civil liberties." Hence, no democracy—Harlan Lil.
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Dr. Mabel A. Elliot, a former member of the sociology department, will be included in the publication "Who Knows—and What, Among Authorities, Experts, and the Specially Informed," a work prepared by the publishers of, "Who's Who in America."
Dr. Elliot is an authority on criminology and sociology. She is now professor of sociology at the Pennsylvania college for women.
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The American Society of Tool Engineers recently completed plans for an exhibit at the engineering exposition to be held April 16 and 17. Demonstrations of underwater welding, metalizing, turret lathe operation, plastic molding, and other processes will be given by the tool engineers.
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