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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1948
The Editorial Page
Happy New Year, Everybody
Happy New Year, everybody!
We presume that you are back eager to study again, all caught up on back assignments, reports and paper written, extra library assignments read, laboratory experiments completed, and final examinations studied for.
However, if you're like most of us grinds, you probably took home a raft of books with grim determination to catch up over the holidays. But somehow, you just never got around to it and you came back without cracking a book. Right?
Well, if such is your case, we'll take this opportunity to remind you as painlessly as possible that final exams start two weeks from Thursday. That's about 400 hours from now.
Pigs Will Be Pigs
It's a good opportunity to go to work on some of those New Year's resolutions.
Once upon a time there was a farmer who had a herd of pigs. Now this farmer was a kindly old fellow, who did his best to take care of the herd. But one day these pigs, who were almost like people, began to get restless.
They always had been greedy, but suddenly this greediness seemed to grow by leaps and bounds. At the golden trough where they ate, the big pigs ate more and more and tried to keep the little pigs away.
Well, the farmer saw that if this continued they would soon have a very chaotic situation indeed, so he called them all together and said, "Pigs, you had better not be so greedy or soon some of you will be starving. You had better pass that food around so everybody gets some."
But this plea was to no avail. The big pigs went on eating and the little pigs went pinched and empty.
Then one day a Grand Old Patrician who had been puttering around the farm came up to the farmer and said. "I'll fix those pigs for you."
So he called them all together and said, "Piggies, you had better not be so greedy or soon some of you will be starving. You had better pass that food around so everybody gets some."
"No, no, no," cried the farmer, "We need some more drastic action. Why, I told them that same thing myself."
"I know you did," replied the Grand Old Patrician, "but they will listen to me!"
If you were a big pig, would it make any difference to you who did the talking? Would you voluntarily stop "hogging it" at the golden trough?—Allen D. Smith.
Prize-fighting evidently has definitely become an established part of our present-day culture. Proof of the sport's appeal to the upper-class "aristocracy" was the announcement by Harry Ballough, which preceded the recent Louis-Walcott match. Instead of the customary pre-fight admonition "may the better man win," Ballough came out with "may the superior participant emerge victorious."
Note to restaurant owners: A new knife has been devised that can slice ham four-millionths of an inch thick. We apologize for any unkind remarks. The ham in your sandwiches is almost twice as thick.
No Giant Killer
Once there was a giant who ruled a huge domain. One day the giant and many of his neighbors became very ill. The giant kept his illness a secret and began brewing a potion to cure himself.
After the giant had taken the drug he had prepared, his neighbors found out what he had done. When they learned what the ingredients of the self-administered dose had been, many of them were horrified. One neighbor began gossiping loudly and predicted the dosage would carry off the giant. This particular neighbor said he knew his own constitution couldn't stand such a remedy, and it was a sure thing that the giant wouldn't be able to take it either. He'd rather be sick than take such a dose, the talkative one said.
However, the drug didn't seem to harm the giant at all. In fact, he reacted quite favorably. The other neighbors began to look askance at their gossiping member. It seems that he had talked too much.
The moral of this fable is obviously not to talk too much until you know the facts. Substitute the giant for Russia, inflation for the illness, and the Russian anti-inflation measures for the drug. The talkative neighbor is the United States. In a frenzy of wishful thinking and dire predicting, we declared that the Russians were on the brink of financial collapse. We let the world know our opinion by press and radio. Our loose tongues and superficial observations haven't boasted our prestige in the world.
Next time let's examine the medicine before declaring it poison.—W.
C. Von Maurer.
Robert M. Hutchins has denounced universal military training as a "ridiculous and wasteful act of war." The president of the University of Chicago declares that the program will inflame other nations against the United States. To inflame or to be inflamed—that is the question.
One exchange student from Norway commented recently that he was "a little backward" in learning to ski. It seems he didn't learn the art until he was five. Most Norwegians learn to ski before they are able to walk.
Attention sports editor: Why not post daily results of the morning's races on Sunflower speedway?
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Freedom Train Is Lawrence-Bound
The Freedom Train, a shining red, white, and blue symbol of democracy, will stop in Lawrence on May 21 on its 33,000 mile trans-continental tour.
The seven-car train was not originally scheduled for a stop in Lawrence, but local residents and officials persuaded the American Heritage foundation, the train's sponsors, to include Lawrence in the train's visits.
The Freedom Train left Philadelphia on Sept, 18 on the 160th anniversary of the signing of the United States constitution in that city.
Carrying 130 documents and flags marking the development of liberty in the United States, the train will enable spectators to see for themselves the original documents which are part of America's heritage.
Elizabeth Jane Stewart, pharmacy 39, was killed recently when the light plane in which she was flying crashed in a pasture 10 miles north-west of Parsons.
Alumna Killed In Plane Crash
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