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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1947
The Editorial Page
Harriman's Budget
Congress has started tearing apart, both constructively and destructively the handiwork of W. Averell Harriman. It was he and his now famous "Committee of Nineteen" who changed the Marshall plan from a vague proposal to a dollars and cents budget.
This man, whose recommendations frame the greatest foreign aid program of all time, comes from one of the wealthiest families in the nation. Yale man, London commuter, polo player extraordinary, he has led a plush life, strangely inconsistent with his demonstrated ability to grasp and control a railroad and industrial empire.
Inherited $100 Million
Part of Mr. Harriman's wealth comes from a $100 million head start inherited from his railroad-building father. Whereas his father had amassed his fortune by sticking close to railroading, W. Averell branched out and made and lost millions in banking, ship building, and foreign investments.
By 1931 he had become board chairman of the Illinois Central railroad and by 1932 chairman of the board of Union Pacific.
With the Roosevelt administration, Harriman jumped into government service. He was either in charge or a member of half a dozen different N.R.A.subdivisions at one time or another.
Was Defense Expediter
His biggest previous job came when President Roosevelt appointed him American defense expeditioner in London. That job, more than any other he has held, gave his background for the task just completed.
As President Truman's secretary of Commerce, Harriman has been under fire from Henry Wallace for his Wall street connections. Wallace is suspicious because Harriman is one of the American economic royalty. But if he has war-like intentions, he's demonstrating them in a strange manner. Chairmanship of a 12 to 17 million dollar foreign aid committee is hardly a position for war mongering. How Will Congress React?
European aid has been endorsed by such Republican spokesmen as Senators Arthur H. Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. How much of that aid will be given and how it will be administered is another question.
The Republican congress can either make or break the program set up by Averell Harriman, a New Deal administrator and a Truman secretary of commerce.
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Squeezing Oranges
We're in!
Get out the travel folders, pack your bathing suit, and take along the suntan lotion, for Miami, here we come! (The "we" refers to the few lucky dogs who will get to attend the Orange bowl game.)
It's big news for the University.
It's even bigger news for the University pocket book. Fifty thousand dollars - - - - think of it — $50,-000! That is the University's take for one hour of football. It's probably the most money the University's athletic corporation has seen at one time in its history.
Supposing that 25 K. U. players participate in the game, their services would bring to the University $2,000 per man per hour. It's the big time.
The eyes of sports America will be on four major bowls New Year's day, the Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Cotton bowls. That means that from now until New Year's and afterwards eight football teams will be played up, featured from every angle, and analyzed in the nation's newspapers. One of those teams will be Kansas.
The University will get more nation - wide publicity in the next $4^{1 / 2}$ weeks than at any previous time in its history.
It's the result of good coaching, smart playing, and most of all, hard work. Lil Abner put it better: "Rugged oaks from aching corns grow."
With Europe in misery an "enlightened" American public pours $1\frac{1}{2}$ billion nickels a year into juke boxes. The records should play "I Wonder."
Robert A. Taft is a brave man—few presidential aspirants have had the nerve to oppose labor, and few have ever informed the American public of what stands they would take on many touchy subjects once in office.
Blanket Invitation
Dear Editor.
The Bus-(Adv.)
We too have been disturbed by the fact that the thresholds of the museums (Dyche and Spooner-Thayer) have yet to be crossed by the majority of students and faculty of the University. Of the 25,000 who visit the museum annually only a mere handful are University people. Why? Is it the old "prophet in his own country?"
So far, the lures we have laid draw visitors by the scads from afar, but the good old K.U. people seem immune. We know of faculty, educated people, who have been on the campus for years and have never stepped inside our doors.
Our collections are for the service and enjoyment of the University. We offer tours and lectures to any groups interested and we will talk on the museum or any phase of it. We have things to talk about, too, some of the most unusual and finest art work of the world. Come in and tell us what you want.
We thank Mr. Von Maurer for his letter. We hope that it can be the beginning of the publicity which will help us be more of a cultural and recreational asset to the University.
Mary Margaret Warner Curator
Commendation
Dear Editor,
A plan now being worked out would provide an extension library in Sunflower. It is hoped that a concert and lecture series can also be set up at Sunflower.
Feeling that married veterans of our community are a vital part of
-By Bibler
"That's all very well going up Mt. Oread, Reginald, but how will your fares like it going down?"
the University, the Sunflower Post No. 1, American Veterans of World War II, (Amvets) wishes to commend the administration of the University for this extension program.
Frank X. Hartigan, Jr.
Frank X. Hartugan, Jr.
Commander, Sunflower Post No. 1
Amvets
A new sidewalk is being built in front of Marvin hall. All they need now is a new building.
Call K.U. 251 With Your Newe
"You'll find my name on your Bell telephone--you see it on reels of cable being fed into manholes or strung on poles you'd find it, too, on the complex equipment in your telephone exchange.
"As the supply member of the Bell Telephone team, I manufacture equipment, purchase supplies, distribute both to the telephone companies, and install central office equipment."
"Year in, year out, I help my Bell Telephone teammates to give you the world's best telephone service at the lowest possible cost.
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