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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1947
It Costs Less Today To Go Soak Your Head
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
Washington—(UP)—The price of the string the butcher wraps around the $1-a-pound beefsteak has dropped a little.
So has the cost of tung oil (good for head-soaking purposes) and of quick-silver, which is used in thermometers for testing fevers brought on by the high cost of living.
That's all the good news there is today from the L1016 little men who struggle with the slide rules, adding machines and telegraph instruments at the Labor Department, keeping tab on the price of just staying alive.
No Silver Spoon For Baby
Practically everything else that man puts down his gullet, wraps around himself, and erects so he can keep out of the rain, went up again by another whopping big percentage, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in its weekly survey of wholesale prices.
Soaring even is the silver that goes into the spoon the baby uses.
Congressional economy causes firing of more than 700 of the price compilers. The remaining ones, no matter how they battle the figures, are on the verge constanty of being sunk in an ocean of ink, mostly red.
Every day they issue spot prices on 28 primary products from burpap to zine. Every week they put out their list of wholesale prices on 900 different items, and regularly they're supposed to make a cost of living index. They're late, poor devils, with the latter.
Compares With 1920 Levels
Compares With 1920 Levels
As of now, the general commodity price index is exactly seven per cent below the all-time peak of May, 1920, when the shipyard workers were wearing out the last of their World War I silk shirts. In June, 1920, prices were on the old skidooer.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics draws no conclusions from this fact; does not even mention it. Even Nudist Campus Cost
In any event, today it costs 41 per cent more to eat than it did only a year ago; 31 per cent more to wear shoes; 35 per cent more to build a house; 20 per cent more to keep it warm and 19 per cent more to stay out of a nudist camp.
the daily report, which brings some of the data practically up to this moment, is more cheerful. To-morrow may ruin the whole thing, but as of now the prices of barley, butter, cottonseed oil, hogs, rubber, beef steers, and wheat have dropped a few pennies. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has got its fingers crossed. Unofficially, that is. No comment, otherwise.
Miss Warner Gets Leave Of Absence
Miss Lilyan Warner, head of the Physical Therapy clinic of Watkins hospital and instructor in physical therapy, has been granted a three month leave to attend the Georgia Warm Springs foundation.
Miss Warner, who is leaving this week, will do graduate work studying physical therapy in care of poliomyelitis. In her absence, Miss Glorene Titus, assistant technical director at the University of Kansas Medical center in Kansas City, will teach Miss Warner's classes.
Rabbits Lose Feet To Charm Millions
New York—(UP)—Charles Brand has shipped 10,000,000 rabbit feet from his plant here during the last 10 years, filling orders for the super-stitious who think they are lucky charms.
Brand was walking along Eighth avenue a decade ago when he saw a rabbit's foot in the window of a pawn shop, marked 50 cents. He bought it, then had his wonderful idea.
An experienced fur buyer, he decided to make up the feet for the chain store trade to sell for 10 cents. He put the rabbit foot in mass production, obtaining his stock from California rabbit farms.
Brand does not know how much good luck he has brought to the world, but he is certain about that 10,000,000 figure.
Graduate Gets Publisher's Award
Robert Hutchinson, '47, who published the best story in the University of Nebraska Prairie Schooler last year, has received a $100 award from the Thomas Y. Crowell Publishing company.
The story, which was written in the extension division of the English department and re-worked in the writer's workshop, tells about a highly imaginative 13-year-old arm girl who has difficulty adjusting to the realities of life. It is entitled "Lovely Free Gift."
Kickapoo Joy Juice Has Nothing On This
New York—(UP)—During a raid in Chinatown, federal narcotic agents seized a bottle of a beverage called "Rattlesnake Whiskey."
The recipe: Place one live rattlesnake in a large jar; add rice wine, dried toads, soy beans, sliced deer antlers and a handful of dried sea horses; keep six months before drinking—and then drink it at your own risk.
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Marriage Tough On Wardrobe
Seattle.—(UP)—Leon J. Harris filed a suit for divorce against Margaret Goldie Harris, charging her with giving away all his clothes. Harris said his 16 months of married life has been marked by a long list of indignities.
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