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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1947
Change The Music - - Wrong Tune
Why Veterans Want A Raise
"The government is letting me down. I come to school expecting to get through on my monthly subsistence check. But I can't make it, and I've got to quit school to live."
This speech is made time and again by veterans in universities school because of the inadequacy of the G. I. Bill. A recent Veterans administration announcement said that approximately 35 per cent, or 1409,000 veterans have been forced to drop from the G. I. college program because of financial and housing problems.
The Army Times, an independent veterans' weekly concluded from a survey at educational institutions in 26 states that "the allowances are not now adequate to cover reasonable and necessary living costs." The reason why veterans are asking for an increase in their monthly checks is apparent.
The average college-attending veteran can't understand why, with the cost of living rising each month, his subsistence allowance has not been increased by congress. The 80th congress had bills introduced to correct this situation. One such bill which would have established the allotments on a higher level passed the senate, but was pigeon-held in the cause of representatives.
Does the present allotment represent a subsistence? A survey was made at the University by the local chapter of the American Veterans committee in the summer of 1946. Made over 14 months ago among members of the chapter and other students, it showed the following:
The average single veteran spent between $93 and $110 a month, while the married veteran spent between $141 and $169 a month. (This was the total average expenditure, which would add up to more than the bare subsistence level.) Only one student
was found who lived within his $65 a month.
A similar survey was made this summer in other colleges over the nation. The University of Kansas City reported a $131-$181 ratio for single and married veterans.
The University of Missouri reported a $104.93-$140.60 average ratio against the University of Nebraska's $100.71-$161.04. The University of Denver came up with a $100-$130 average ratio.
The campus average for the nation according to the survey was $104 for single veterans and $157 for married veterans.
The American Council of Education reported after a survey that single veterans were paying between $36 and $77 a month for board and room alone if they lived on the campus. Those living off the campus paid between $50 and $90 a month. Married veterans with children were paying between $80 and $274 for board and room off the campus.
All indications are that the subsistence pay question will be a major issue in the coming session of Congress. Many veterans feel that it was sidetracked for political reasons by this year's session. If veterans are to have their rights under law to an education their subsistence pay must be increased as soon as Congress can do so.
All this explains why the college-attending veteran feels entitled to a raise in subsistence pay. The reason he personally knows is what his pocketbook tells him.
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New York—(UF)—Dominick Santor,
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in a Bronx street and dug up a
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the neighborhood streets, cellars
were filled and traffic stopped for
an hour before repairmen blocked
off a 20-inch water main broken
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Public Postcard
Chancellor Malott
Dear Chancellor,
Campus
Thank you for being a good joe and entering into the spirit of the occasion at the Nightshirt parade.
University Daily Kansan.
Sincerely yours
Dear Editor
Take It Easy
Dear Editor.
Cautiously I stick my head (grown slightly bald) out of my safety storm cellar to join in the jolly sport of writing "Letters to the Editor" of the University Daily Kansan. Only I'm on your side.
We who teach neophyte journalists do so with the pessimistic expectation that every mistake made by our students will be regarded as a personal affront by the victim of the mistake. And journalism students do make mistakes, many of them ripe, full-sized ones which seem to squash all over the victim's vanity (oh, all right, pride) as they hit him. Therefore, we drill, and pound, and hammer, and use every teaching technique ever devised to impress upon neophyte journalists the necessity for getting the facts straight.
At times the value of our training seems scarcely discernible (note spelling). The students continue to make mistakes, even the seasoned ones who have the ripe experience of two semesters of journalism courses. And the victims continue to write letters.
Of course, I don't blame them. However, I have wondered what it is in human nature that makes allowances for whole-hearted student mistakes in other subjects and in other campus activities, but is so intolerant of the mistakes of the junior journalist. Possibly the answer is in this old Magyar proverb: "It all depends on whose ox is being gored."
This letter has had the effect of a catharsis, even if it isn't a poem. You see, I'm
Emil L. Telfel,
Faculty Adviser
University Daily Kansan.
Tungsten wire 18 hundred-thousandths of an inch in diameter, only 1/20th the thickness of a newspaper sheet, is the tiniest ever manufactured by the Westinghouse lamp division.
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Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Editor-In-Chief ... Clarke Thomas
Managing Editor ... William T. Smith
Asst. Man. Editor ... Alan Cromwell
Sports Editors ... James Raglin
City Editor ... Alan J. Stewart
Festure Editor ... A. D. Smith
Feature Editor ... Manjeet Burtscher
Picture Editor ... Wallace
Wire Editor ... Charles Hayes
Business Manager  Kenneth White
Manager  Elizabeth Beaton
Classified Adv. Mgr.  Betty Bettin
National Adv. Mgr.  Ruell Reddock
Promotion Mgr.  Burt Morris
Promotion Mgr.  Borr Morris
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