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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 11,1947
Beginning To Creak
—Daniel Bishop in St. Louis Star-Times
Kansan Comments ..
Modern Atlas
Indications in the news of the past two weeks have given dire emphasis to the revised role the United States must assume in world politics. The formulation of any clear-cut foreign policy is proving a difficult task to Secretary of State George C. Marshall and his assistants. At best, all formulas give only hazy outlines of any definite or extended courses of action.
One idea, however, has become all too apparent. In a world organization where the economic structures of many of the nations are pitifully weak, the United States will have to provide the financial security so necessary for a workable peace.
But the burden of world politics may not end at that point. Two announcements by the British government last week indicated that it no longer can be relied upon to aid in securing world order.
First, Britain asserted it could no longer maintain an occupational army in Greece. Second, Britain announced plans to reduce the royal navy, the Empire's potent world political force for more than three centuries, by 60 per cent of its present strength.
With the withdrawal of support from our former ally against opposing systems, our nation may become a modern Atlas bearing the weight of a democratic world on her shoulders. If we divert any attention to selfish interests, the whole thing may come crashing down.
James Marshall
War leaves strange marks on people. One K. U. veteran, accustomed to standing in army chow lines or in nylon lines for his wife, promptly joined the long line Friday in Frank Strong hall. He got his reward. He came out with a flu shot.
A Different Sport
Wrestling, to almost everyone, means that weekly canvas circus which can be seen at the sports arena for a little more than a dollar. Those horrible groans, those grunts, those gruesome faces, all are pre-arranged tricks of the trade. The American public yells—yes, yells—for more. So these trained seals do their tricks and the money pours in.
There's a real art to wrestling. But most people haven't seen it. The professionals don't have it. All they have is a cash register.
Wrestling taught in colleges is the fine art of the sport. It isn't as colorful or flambouyant here, but each fellow is out to win. These matches involve clean, deft, quick sportsmanship, and seldom last longer than 10 minutes. They can't; wrestling stamina is very short.
So the next time you see the Man Mountain Deans or the Hooded Ghosts ambling about the ring for an hour or more, just laugh. That's not wrestling, that's vaudeville.
Bill Donovan.
Hirohito, now on the Japanese public payroll, will receive only about a third of his former income. Does that mean he will have no yen to buy the luxuries to which he is accustomed?
"Garment Tie-Up Is Off" reads a newspaper headline. But don't worry, elastic is back on the market.
A freshman at Louisiana State university, Baton Rouge, was put on disciplinary probation for the remainder of his college career, by the Honors court, for copying a theme. Told to write on "My Favorite Pastime," he explained in a preface that he liked to read medical articles, and then copied one from the Reader's Digest.
69 Rate Honor Roll; 8 Hit Straight A's
Thirty-eight seniors and 31 juniors have been named to the School of Business honor roll. Requirements are a 2.3 grade point average for seniors and a 2.2 average for juniors.
Peter MacDonald, senior, has a three-point or "A" average for both summer session and fall semester.
Seven juniors have a straight "A" average for the fall semester. They are Billy Brackman, Wilbur Ostrum, Robert Pemberton, Robert Stewart, Robert Wolf, Robert W. Wright and Ray Zimmerman.
The following students made the honor roll:
Donald Johnson, Ben Feigenbaum,
Warren Vine, Albert Bizal, Harry
Adams, Ivan Moody, Charles Schuler,
Robert Stockton, Charles Weinstein,
Velories Harlan, Herman Newman,
Goodreu Soper, William Scherer,
Ned Cushing, Robert Jones,
Elmer Rice, Philip Borden, David
Stimson, Eldon Lackey, and Robert Moore.
Seniors: Kathleen Acker, Harold Dickerson, Clarence Mollett, Wayne Randall, Paul Briley, Charles Gudger, Payne Ratner Jr., Clarence Stephen Jr., John Fee, John Webber, Richard Davis, Ethan Potter, Norman Fuller, Betty Soukup, Dwane Billbe, Van Fiser, W. C. Hartley.
Juniors: Billy Brackman, Wilbur Ostrum, Robert Pemberton, Robert Stewart, Robert Wright, Raymond Zimmerman, Elinor Enberg, Lloyd Kerford, Glenn Hahn, Francis Followell, Wallace Keene, Robert Appling, Anderson Chandler, John Fehland.
Adrian Wallace, Carroll McCue, Clayton McMurray, Robert Page, John Rader, Richard Fisher, Charles Eggen, Everett O'Connor, Charles Crowley, Bettie Swart, Charles Dillon, David Cowley, Ross Howard, Don Plantz, Clarence Gould and John Quinlan.
Icy highways have made the trip from Sunflower perilous on these cold mornings. Most of the vets claim they would stay home rather than risk' the drive; but there's always someone eager, so the rest have to come in for lack of an alibi.
How Dry I Am, Vet Said Dreaming Of Dime Beer
By JAMES GUNN Daily Kansan Staff Writer
K. U.'s beer-drinking student sank down in his easy chair with his pipe and the evening paper. Suddenly he sat bolt upright.
"What did you say, dear?" his wife asked.
"A BEER TAX BILL."
of representatives to raise the tax on beer from $1.55 to $7 for each 31 gallons," he exclaimed.
"Is that bad, dear?" his wife asked.
"Give me a pencil and paper," he said, with decision.
He began to calculate. Sixteen ounces in a pint. Two pints in a quart. Four quarts in a gallon. There were 3,968 ounces in 31 gallons.
He divided this figure into the proposed increase. It amounted to 1.1 cents for an eight ounce glass.
Getting up heavily, he went to the telephone and called a local wholesaler. Thirty-one gallons was a keg, he learned, and a half-keg now sold for $13 net.
The student put down the receiver slowly, thoughtfully. He was thinking of the days when, as a small boy, he had trotted gayly down the street with a dime tightly clasped in his little hand. And how he had come back to his father with a whole, huge, foaming bucket of beer—cold, foaming beer.
He sighed and went back to his pencil and paper. With a conservative estimate of four glasses of beer a day, the new tax amounted to 4 1-2 cents a day. That, multiplied by 30, was $1.35 a month.
"No, we'll have to add the increase to that," the wholesaler said. "The retailers have been reducing the size of their glasses to meet price increases. From 14 ounces in 1939 to 8 ounces now. They'll have to raise their prices; they can't put out a smaller glass."
"You know we have to keep borrowing," came the answer.
"Darling," he called, "how much lo we have left from our $90 a month?"
He nodded glumly, thirstily, and began to figure aimlessly. According to the article, the tax netted $555,000 last year. If he divided the present tax into that he would get
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the amount of draught beer drunk in Kansas.
He licked his lips.
It amounted to 616,129.0 kgs, 19,-999,999.93 gallons, 76,399.992 quarts, 152,799.999.44 pints, or 2,444,799.991.-04 ounces.
"Darling," he asked, "do we really have to buy so much bread?"
Sunflower Students To Have Stag Party
What's In A Name?
Entertainment will be consist of card playing, records, shuffle board, and bull sessions, he said.
The Sunflower students organization will held a stag party in the Sunflower Community building at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Buell Schilts, chairman, said today.
The policemen found Mrs. William Bartley's small bulldog, "Boy," paddling around in a hole in the ice. They rescued the dog and asked Mrs. Bartley to be more specific next time.
Great Neck, N. Y.-(UP)-Eight police cars rushed to Lake Surprise Sunday in response to a woman's frantic telephone call "boy just went through the ice."
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