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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JANUARY 15,1947
Kansan Comments..
Inaugurations
Inaugurations usually are long, trying affairs that leave the participants in a state of palsied arm and aching feet and don't accomplish anything much of value.
Monday's inauguration ceremonies at Topeka, however, had one outstanding feature, which, if it set a precedent, will be of great value to the state as a whole. That feature was the attendance of hundreds of high school children from all over the state.
These high school children now take only a casual interest in politics and government. At the same time, their powers of observation and judgment aren't impaired by prejudices of party lines or influenced by flights of oratory which don't say anything.
These high school children, the voters of tomorrow, can be a strong influence in elections, both now and after they become of voting age. If they carry home to their parents and friends their descriptions and opinions of the state officials whom they saw and spoke to Monday, their opinions will undoubtedly carry weight when the next election comes along.
In Kansas, the gubernatorial candidates usually carry the ball in plugging for votes and the lesser officials usually win or lose according to their party leader's vote-getting tactics. Few voters know anything about political candidates other than what they read in press agent releases, and few ever see more than one or two of the state officials. Many state officials are elected year after year, merely because their names are familiar sights on the ballots.
And when these students become voters, they may insist that they see for whom they are voting, because they have learned that everything said about political candidates isn't necessarily so.
The crowd at the inauguration was reported to be the largest in Kansas history, although the people didn't whoop it up at the ceremony or at other times during the day. Undoubtedly the inviting of the high school students convinced many parents that they, too, should see what goes on in the state capitol.
Death and sickness were responsible for women filling two key positions in the inauguration ceremony. Mrs. Edna Peterson, Republican state vice-chairman, presided over the meeting because the state chairman, Quentin Brown, died only a few weeks ago. Miss Carol Baysinger, Concordia vocal teacher, directed the Concordia band at the ceremony because of illness of the regular director.
Something, probably a foul-up in the machinery used to record the speeches of Governors Schoepel
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and Carlson, halted the ceremony in the middle and the band filled in with some music. As the band started the second number, the Rev. R. H. Spangler and Msgr. Eugene F. Vallely, who opened and closed the program, nearly knocked each other off the platform when they dived for their pocket watches at the same time.
The governor's first official act, appointing a sheriff, was made at his first press conference in the governor's office. The conference, however, was a flop. Only three questions were asked: "Where'd you get the glass elephant on your desk?" "Where'd all the flowers come from?" and "Have you appointed a new commissioner of public roads?" Answers were "In Washington." "All over the country" and "No."
Although all the elected officials wore tuxedos during the reception, the ball which followed the reception was quite informal. Tuxedos and formal dresses didn't clash too much with the uniforms and business suits and street dresses. Kansas still isn't stuck-up, even at a governor's ball.
Dear Editor---
No More Popular Music
Just before the Christmas vacation "Freshman Engineer" complained about the programs broadcast from station KFKU.
To a radio dial which already is shamefully overcrowded with cheap entertainment, he would have more trash added by changing the musical programs of KKFU into presentations of more popular music.
Most of this popular music is equivalent culturally to a Popeye comic strip; some of it may be on a par with the western stories and detective novels of the 10-cent pulp magazines.
Those who find good music dull and boring need only give their radio dials a turn of an inch or less in any direction to find their level of appreciation, whereas the lover of fine music must hunt through the entire span of the dial—and then is rarely rewarded.
If KFKU has among its purposes that of elevating taste, or sustaining good taste, let it continue to devote a fair share of its time to good programs; if it is interested chiefly in appeasement, and seeks to straddle the fence, then let it lower its standards by decreasing the time it gives to valuable programs.
A. W. Addis Engineering senior
Why not change the time limit to 9 o'clock, which seems to me the logical time, and thus satisfy all concerned.
Overnight Books
I don't know how many people are in my predicament, but those who are must be in sympathy with me.
Why should a book be in the library by 8:45? If one has an 8 o'clock class, he can't possibly get to the library until 9 o'clock because his class doesn't end until 8:50; what use would he have for a book at 8:45? And if one has a 9 o'clock class, it would be much easier for him to turn in a book between 8:55 and 9 o'clock, then for him to get up from bed fifteen minutes early to turn in a book at 8:45, which book one having an 8 o'clock class couldn't possibly use until 9 o'clock.
Quarterless freshman
Today I got stuck for 25 cents because I returned an overnight book to the library at 8:55 a.m. instead of 8:45 a.m. Now just who did upon that 8:45 limit? To me it seems fantastic and useless.
(Editor's note—The reasoning gets involved, but the suggestion should merit some consideration in library circles.)
Green Grass Is Good For Food
By GRACE MUILENBURG (Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
"Grass is good food—no hay!"
That's what Charles Schnabel, a junior in the College, thinks, and he eats it every day.
But you won't find him nibbling grass on his way to class. He eats grass in dehydrated tablet form. His father, C. F. Schnabel, Kansas City biochemist, has been experimenting with grass as a source of food for man, and Charles has been converted by his father's findings.
Mr. Schnabel has found that high protein grasses (wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn) during a period of growth called the jointing stage are rich in all essential food factors and especially rich in vitamins. If grass is cut at this jointing stage and dehydrated immediately, these nutrients can be preserved indefinitely.
Charles says dehydrated grass in tablet form tastes and smells like malted milk. He says his father is convinced that it would be possible to furnish every human being in the world with an acutely-needed food supplement by cutting grass at this jointing stage and preserving it in dehydrated form for later consumption at a daily cost of only a few cents a person.
Though the greatest benefit to man is in eating the dehydrated product directly, many of the vitamins of grass could be obtained by eating the meat of cattle pastured on jointing grass or fed on dehydrated grass. Cattle get more vitamins from a pound of jointing grass than from a ton of the same grass when made into hay, he claims.
Cattle thus pastured can be sold as corn-fed cattle, and the farmer can pasture each grass crop for two or three jointing stages, dehydrate some of the same crop and finally let it mature for the grain, Mr. Schnabel claims.
According to Mr. Schnabel, Kansas is the state most suited to the production of protein grasses. He says that on a money value-food value correlation chart he has worked out, the average person could get an optimum diet for about 16 cents a day while the farmer who raises the product could gross $200 an acre.
Mr. Schnabel says that every degenerative disease would go the way of infectious diseases within a generation if grass were added to the diet. He adds that many scientists, biochemists, and nutritionists believe that if a person never got an infectious disease, never had any accidents, and kept the right diet, there would be no limit to how long he could live.
Jaytalking---
Inaugural day in Topeka attracted throngs of Kansans, and after watching them cross the streets to get to the municipal auditorium, one would be safe in saying the streets were jammed with Jayhawker jawwalkers.
Governor Carlson's inauguration was run off without the customary 19-gun salute, but in all the reams of explanation given for the salute's absence, no one has said it's the result of having the ceremony on the 13th of the month.
The election of Ed Abels, publisher of the Lawrence Outlook, to the post of Republican house caucus chairman was a foregone conclusion. He was the Abels man for the job.
Justice William Smith swore in Chief Justice W. W. Harvey, then in swapping places so the c.j. could swear in the j., the pair collided. Had Governor Schoepel, a former All-American back, been on his toes, he could have called signals and avoided the confusion in the back-field.
Mr. Abels, incidentally, noticeably shortened the caucus meeting by his introduction of the new speaker of the Kansas house of representatives: "Just because we elect you speaker doesn't mean you have to do it."
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