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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 10,1947
Kansan Comments.
Anti-Petrillo Act
The United States Supreme court has granted a government request that it rule on constitutionality of the Lea act, sometimes called the "anti-Petrillo law." The act prohibits compelling or attempting to compel broadcasters to hire more employees than are needed "to perform actual services."
No one but the musician thought about the all night jumps in a cold, drafty bus; hamburgers, chili, and coffee for a diet; days and days without seeing a bed; no laundry. ..
He worked for a couple of dollars an hour for three hours an evening, out of which came traveling expenses, cleaning and pressing of one or two uniforms in addition to his regular wardrobe, expense and upkeep of his instrument, hotel bills, and the like.
In an action after a strike at a Chicago radio station, U.S. District Judge Walter J. La Buy held the act unconstitutional. It could be used, he said, to deprive members of the musicians' union "of the right to quit work collectively as a means of enforcing their demands with reference to the making of a new contract."
Only in the past few years, since the appearance of Mr. Petrillo on the scene, has the average dance band musician been able to make a livable wage. Forgotten were the hundreds upon hundreds of dollars spent for lessons, the thousands and thousands of hours of practice needed to become proficient.
And few bands worked every night.
Petriello raised his wages to a level approaching fairness.
The demand for an increase on recording dates was justified, as juke boxes now replace musicians in hundreds of places which formerly hired bands. Only the leader and record company receive money for the record sales. Recording is hard work. Each man is striving for perfection of note, intonation, and phrasing. A tune must be cut over and over before the men and the recording engineers are satisfied with it.
Perhaps Mr. Petrillo has gotten out of bounds and at times deserved his "titles". But it was he who gave musicians the livable wage to which they have so long been entitled.
When a recording date or a dance is over, the musicians crawl off the stand as tired as if they had been chopping wood or digging ditches for a like time.
-Reverdy Mullins
Lost And Found
What ever happened to the lost and found department?
An All-Student council committee recommended that a central place be set up and that the campus mail carrier be hired to take small articles to that office from other buildings. This was approved March 19, 1946; no central collection place is in operation.
Scores of mittens, pens, scarfs,
notes, and pieces of jewelry are
never claimed. Surely the owners
would pick up some of them if they
knew where to ask.
Articles lost in the library may be left at the main desk; articles lost in Frank Strong hall may be left at the business office. Small articles may be turned in to the Daily Kansas business office. But what if the person doesn't know where he lost the thing?
Dear Editor---a bunch of women or to protect the health of the students?
Tax Co-operatives
The editorial in the March 6 issue of the Daily Kansan attacking the legislation which, if passed, would subject the co-operative consumer's organizations to taxation is so one-sided and lacking in factual material that it calls for the other side of the issue to be presented.
Consumer co-operatives operate on the theory that a refund of the profits shall be returned to the participants in the enterprise. This, in the case of the larger "co-ops" at least, is pure theory. The actual practice is to turn the profits back into the expansion of the business and issue paper profits to the members. As a result, the co-op grows larger and larger and the effect becomes cumulative like a snowball rolling down hill.
Phyllis Hodgkins in her editorial accuses the private enterprises of attempting to destroy competition by limiting the co-ops and by subjecting them to income tax. That is no doubt true. But why should the co-op be allowed to expand simply due to a loophole in the law that allows it to escape the payment of income taxes?
As far as a monopoly is concerned the co-op is a far greater potential threat than any private enterprise. Furthermore why should the state be deprived of the revenue from the income tax of an organization merely because it hides under the name of "co-op?"
Naturally, this constitutes a "reactionary" viewpoint, but one would think that the Daily Kansan which exists at the pleasure of the state legislature would present both sides of a debatable issue before it terms the legislators "silly."
J. D. Kabler, College Senior.
Shut The Windows
Some colds and flu cases no doubt are caused by the actions of freshair fiends in charge of library reading rooms. Shivering students freeze in blasts of frigid air coming in through windows opened by women who themselves are far removed from the cold drafts.
If someone closes the window, the female with a fetish for fresh air will promptly reopen it with the admonishment that "if you're cold you can move."
Since frequently there is no other vacant seat, the student has three alternatives. He may stay where he is and freeze; put on his heaviest coat and be uncomfortable; or go home or to some other building on the campus.
I am told that students have complained to the director of the library, and he has sustained the power of the employees. Is it more important to humor the whims of
Leap Is Sector Chief Pilot For Pan American Airways
Elwood J. Leep, '34 has been appointed sector chief pilot for Pan American World Airway's Latin American division. Leep will have the grade of captain and be stationed at LaGuardia field in New York.
Leep came to the university from Kansas City. He joined Pan American in 1940 as a junior pilot, and has flown the Caribbean, Pacific and Afro-Indian routes.
Scientist Predicts Seaweed Lingerie
La Jolla, Calif.—(UP) — Seaweed may be used to make stockings, dresses, shirts, and even dainty underthings, Dr. C. K. Tseng of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography predicts.
In recent years, because of their unique properties, seawed colloids have found innumerable uses in food and other industries," he said. "A recent development which has attracted considerable interest in the textile world, is the preparation of 'seaweed rayon' from algin, a kelp colloid.
"Although still in the experimental stage, this new rayon has shown such great promise that textile scientists do not hesitate to proclaim their belief in its future."
You can't depend on anything any more. One student 'reported seeing four robins out in Wednesday's blizzard.
Junior. Business
(Name withheld by request)
At a time of prevalence of colds and flu it would seem that fresh air is far better than foul air.
C. D. Baker
Director, Watson Library
C. B. Baker,
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