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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
APRIL 10, 1947
Hand-Washing Ceremony
Kansan Comments
The Price Spiral
--million workers in America. Thus 80 per cent of the nation's workers and their families reap the greatest hardship caused by the inflationary battle between a minority of both industry and labor.
Signs of the times: A sign in a Lawrence drug store reads, "All five cent candy bars now six cents."
Edwin Nourse, chairman of President Truman's economic advisory council, said Tuesday that he was "frankly worried" over high prices. Mr. Nourse has nothing on Mr. John Q. Public who has been worried for months about the same high cost of living.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics expresses the abnormal price level in this way: The overall price level for the years 1935 to 1939 is rated at 100. The level of prices today is 152. In the past year alone that index has risen 18 points.
President Truman in his Jefferson Day speech called for uninterrupted production as a basic requirement to achieving economic stability. He asked industry not to go "whole hog" for profits and asked union leaders to avoid work stoppages.
This combination of factors in turn tends to cause higher wage demands from organized labor. If these demands are not met, further work stoppages will cut down production and make the situation even worse.
It is highly questionable whether these two requests will be complied with to any great degree. The national income is still at a record high level. The supply of goods has not yet caught up with the demand in many fields of our economy. These elements combine to force up prices and some manufacturers will take further advantage of those conditions to raise prices even more.
Organized labor may be able to keep up with this inflationary spiral for a time. But what of the 40 million forgotten workers who have not been receiving these substantial wage increases?
Union laborers number only about 15 million out of a total of 55 to 58
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Some economists believe our present condition is due to too rapid relaxation of war-time economic controls. But it is unlikely that any price controls will be reinstituted or that they will even be proposed.
It seems that all we can hope for is more rational co-operation between organized labor and management. To achieve such co-operation will require greater persuasive power than President Truman has demonstrated in the past.
If American schoolteachers don't get a pay raise soon, the traditional three "r's" will became the three 'p's': picketing, portal-to-portal pay, and political action committees.
A woman in Kansas City recently announced that her hens were laying alphabetized eggs. Maybe that's for identity in case they're all put in the same basket.
Members of the Student Union Activities committee have a good idea in the plan for a library in the Union lounge. But their method for obtaining the books for this library is at fault.
Dear Editor----
The books, preferably light reading material, are to be donated. One can imagine the dog-eared and decrepit volumes that will be procured by this method. Those who do give to the drive doubtless will do so whole-heartedly, but the selection of books will be ancient and a matter of chance. This is shown in those public libraries which depend on donations for many of their books.
Buv Union Libraryv
Surely we should try to do better in providing for the recreation of students who would use a library for relaxation.
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The union organization is in good financial standing and should have some capital. So why not assure an ample and modern selection of books for this library by an allotment for their purchase from Student Union funds? There should be no objection by students to such an allocation from which they all could benefit.
Sueh a library in the Union lounge would be a definite improvement. Let's do the job right.
James F. Marshall College Junior
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Paintings By Kansans At Spooner-Thayer
Paintings by Kansas artists are on exhibition now in the south gallery of Spooner-Thayer museum.
Subjects of the paintings range from surrealism to landscapes. Works by Dr. Birger Sandzen, Bethany college, Lindsborg, and Henry Varmum Poor are among the 19 paintings exhibited during April.
The first exhibition of Robert Green, assistant professor of drawing and painting may be seen in the museum's north gallery until April 30. Professor Green presents studies in oil, watercolors, and egg tempera
Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. week days, and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays and holidays.
Cupid Hits Women Often In Ohio County
Cleveland—(UP) — Women get married more often than men do in Cuyahoga county—thd Greater Cleveland area—a survey disclosed
A study of 1,200 January marriage license applications made by Commissioner William Jenks revealed that the odds were three to one that persons married in that month never tried it before.
For every eight people divorced here in December, there were three who married a second, third or fourth time in January.
Of the 2,400 individuals involved in Jenks' study, 602 had been married at least once before. Of them, 317 were women and 285 were men.
317 were wounded and 263 were maltreated. Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert, dean of the domestic relations court, commenting on the fact that women marry more often than men, said, "grass widows can get husbands much more easily than single girls.
"They know the psychology of men and are usually not so timid," he said.
Flu No Bottleneck Show Still Goes On
Fratt—(UP)—Woman's intuition?
Or just plain luck?
Mrs. Marie Brickel, a piano teacher, divided her pupils into two groups for recitals on succeeding Sundays—in the midst of the March influenza season.
But-
During the two-week period more than half Mrs. Brickel's pupils were ill with the "flu.
Bul-
The ailing ones the first Sunday were all of the group due to perform the second Sunday, and those sick the second Sunday were from the ranks of the pupils who had appeared on the first Sunday's program.
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Both recitals went off as scheduled.
Boston.—(UP)—An American consul abroad once used to test persons who said they came from Boston by asking them what ornaments the top of historic Faneuil Hall. The correct answer, known to virtually every Bostonian, is a weather-vane modeled after a grasshopper.
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