JANUARY 9,1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
'Hair' Today, Gone Tomorrow; Othman Claims Innocence
B FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—A blonde named Eunice sat at the desk in front of me at school when I was 10. I didn't like her. The ends of her pigtails somehow nearly every day by accident, kind of, found their way into my inkwell. I confess no more.
Stop looking at me like that, copers. That was 30 years ago. The barbarous barber who sneaks up behind the capitals street-car-riding ladies and slices off their tresses isn't me. Just because I, too, ride the trolleys is no sign I'm your scissor snickering scoundrel.
Talk about crime waves! I'll talk about amputated permanent-waves. Nearly a dozen cuties ranging in age from 12 to 30 have had theirs chopped off in the last week. Plain clothes men are riding the cars and busses, looking for suspicious characters with razor blades and gleaming eyes. Any female who's nudged in the crush is likely to scream. I am a suspect. Any man is. Including senators.
The long-haired ladies are piling their hair on top of their heads like Dolly Madison. Either that, or they're wrapping their niggins in shaws, like Mexican farm women. Get close to one and she jumps.
Be careful of your newspaper. Let the edge of the sports page graze a lady's coiffure and you're the center of a riot. Take out your pocket knife to pare your fingernails on the Mt. Pleasant trolley and ladies for six seats around are battling toward the exit.
I cannot understand why the special squads of flatteet detailed to ride the street cars until they catch the man with the portable barber chair have not yet done so. They have an excellent description of him.
A 17-year-old school girl, Bernice Dyer, who lost a foot of her page Day hob on the car, reported the villain was a polite fat man who humped into her and apologized. Mary L. Sanders, a co-ed who was parted from a thick hank of red tresses five inches long, says a gray-haired man with a black overcoat did the parting. (Honest, gents, my overcoat's brown.)
The perambutulating scalper, according to Miss Jeanne Thompson (who used to have a head of light brown hair), was a handsome young fellow with curly hair of his own. This sounds like me, I will admit but the night Jeanie with the light brown hair gave up on the Mt Pleasant line, I was at the banker's I've got witnesses.
To keep out of jail myself, I suppose I've got to do like Ferry Mason and help ycu find your criminal connoisseur of curls. Listen carefully, gentlemen. The scalped ladies have pictured your man and he obviously is a commande Indian with a razor-sharnn tomahawk
Other females, including 12-year-old Diane Skylarsky who lost all of one black braid and part of the other to a man with big feet on a bus, have described the traveling tonsorialist equally as vividly. 'Smatter, copers?'
But do not grab any old Indian
Amendment to ASC Bill No. 10
LEGAL NOTICE
Be it enacted by the Associated Students of the University of Kansas:
1. That ASC Bill No. 10, Section 5 be amended to read:
"That there shall be elected at the fall freshman election, the president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer of the freshman class. The same rules and regulations apply to the election of the freshman officers as are contained in Section 3 of this bill. All students who are classified by the registrar as freshmen shall be eligible to vote.
HOWARD ENGLEMAN
President of the
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ELAN
ELAINE THALMAN
Secretary of the All Student Council
of the All Student Council DEANE W. MALOTT
President Secretary
Chancellor of the University of Kansas
"Sir, are you perchance the proprietor of a mattress factory?"
you spy on a trolley, or you may be up on charges of false arrest. Approach each comanche politely, test the sharpness of his weapon and say:
If his answer is "yes," he's your man and I wish you police kindly would get on with your work. I'm busy and my feet are tired from standing on troleys because the seats are full of cops waiting to see you. I put out of my pocket a wad of gum or a pair of neck clippers.
Peru, Ind. (UP) — Mrs. Olga Young got a ticket for parking a car in a "no-parking" zone. She refused to pay the charge. "I don't own a car," she told traffic authorities.
No Car-But Woman Gets Parking Ticket
Police led her to a shiny new automobile marked on a downtown street
They told her it was a gift from her brother, Ole Olson of "Hellaz-poppin'" fame. Ole sent the car as a surprise for his sister.
As an added "gift," he asked the cops to make the "surprise presentation."
Citizen Finds Out About U.S. Customs
Seattle. (UP) — Theodore Schon, 50, had been naturalized as an American citizen but he didn't know everything about customs in this country.
Schon, a native of Poland, stumbled into police headquarters here and reported that he hadn't eaten in 43 days.
Asked why he hadn't reported sooner, the man looked confused.
"I didn't know there was any-where a man could get food unless he had money," he said.
Cape Cod's Not Safe
Provincetown, Mass. (UP)—Seafarers here estimate that more than 3,000 shipwrecks have occurred on Cape Cod since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
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Lost
BROWN SUITCASE, initialed J. N. McDropped from taxi between Santa Fe station and campus. If found, please call Mary Ann McClure, 267. -94-
BOX containing shoes, camera and my
phone. I was in the middle of an errand.
Mrs. K. C. Jones, 2500M. Reward. -9
GOLD Sheaffer, ball point fountain pen
case. McClure, 957, Reward.
-10-
McClure, 957, Reward.
BLACK Leather zipper containing everything I know for the semester. Finder please return to Daily Kansan office.
Reward -13-
GOLD Ring initialized E. G. Lost in front
Brick's. Reward. Call Bill Mullarke
LADY Elgin wristwatch, Jan. 8 between Frank Strong and Fraser, Margaret Hardie engraved on back. Reward. Phone 1592-1. -15.
Found
SLIDE Rule, probably in Marvin hall.
651. Reward. Call Bill Wildon.
651. Reward.
ONE NEW TIE CHAIN. Owner may
call. Call 2205W.
For Sale
NEW Brown leather boots. Comfortable and sure-footed. Just right for climbing the Hill these skid days. Cheap. Size Bill Call Beehnson, 532, 1425 Teespee.
SUIT. Size 30 regular, double breasted,
almost new. Phone 1896. Frank Wenkel.
1940 Conv. Ford. R & H spotlight. Fog lights. New Mercury motor. New tires. See at 800 1-2 Mo. after 5 p.m. or call 1505-R. Highest offer. -13
41 Chev convertible for sale. 2 heaters, spotlight, radio. Top condition. nice finish. Phone 1996-J or 1106. Wilbur R. Koehn. -15-
DE JUR critic light meter and leather case, recently factory - checked and cleaned. for $20. Bill Roberts, 1340 Tennessee. Phone 2498-M. -13
SLICTHLY USED ice skates, all sizes, in
Tamworth, 343; between 7 and 10 p.m.
$334, at the library.
BED, Mattress, and springs. Three drawer with mirror. Also little used two-burner hot-plate and large briefcase. See at 128 West 13th. -10-
1936 FORD. Ford deluxe in very good condition. Radio, heater, good tires, original paint. See at 1332 Connecticut after five. -10-
New Duplex for sale. 5 rooms each unit.
Immediate occupancy. Phone 1566-J.-J.
*STATION Wagon, 1940 Ford deluxe. Call*
Poster, 2723-J.-J. Mass. -10.
CONN Trombone Silver with sterling
Berry, 537. Excellent condition -10
Berry, 537.
Wanted
WANTED To rent. Close to campus.
Room for Education
senior. Call 1562-R.
Business Services
MICROSCOPES, Colorimeters, balances
YOUR STUDEBAKER DEALER
622 Mass.
Channel-Sanders Motor Co.
Phone 616
engineering instruments cleaned and repaired. Thirteen years experience. Call Office, 8258 Technical Instrument Service Co., Kansas City, Mo. Free license. J13-
HIGH POWER, high fidelity public address system for rent. Can be used for speeches, entertaining, record dances, etc. Call Black, phone 3338. -13-
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PHOTO-EXACT Copies, discharge and valuable papers. Fast service. Low price. Round Compound Drug Co., 861 Mass. Law. flower, for Lane F, Arc N. 148.-16
FOR that coke date remember the Eldridge pharmacy at 701 Mass., phone 999.
Transportation
WANTED. Round triprides to Hutchin-
ity meet each Friday afternoon.
Call 1562-R
For Group riding, get your coupon in Jan. 9. Kansan and then call for Bill's vice with five years of experience for good vice with five years of experience driving for K.U. students. -13
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"I'll be fired for that fool story!"
The managing editor of the New York Herald took a day off on December 21, 1879. So this headline in his paper hit him without warning.
EDISON'S LIGHT IT MAKES A LIGHT, WITHOUT GAS OR FLAME!
The public promptly shouted "hoaxt!" Scientists called Edison crazy. And our shocked, angry editor expected to be fired. But he wasn't. Eleven days later, Thomas Edison held a unique New Year's party in his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, and invited the world to see his "flameless light." Thousands came and were convinced. The incandescent lamp was real.
Soon small companies were bringing the benefits of Edison's new-fangled lamp to the people. Engineers and business men poured in their energy and time . . . risked their own savings .. overcame all kinds of obstacles . . . broadened and improved the service.
Government didn't do the job. Individuals did. And in the process, they created jobs for many thousands of Americans, as well as a great new service for many millions more.
Edison himself, knew the benefits of his invention would best be brought to the public through the enterprise and initiative of individuals. As Edison said, "When the Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. If it goes into the power business, it can pretend to sell cheap power and then cover up its losses. The Government never really goes into business, for it never makes ends meet, and that is the first requisite of business. It just mixes a little business with a lot of politics and no one ever gets a chance to find out what is actually going on."
When Edison opened the first power-plant in 1882, electricity cost 25 cents a kilowatt-hour. This year, as we mark the 100th anniversary of the great inventor's birth, the average price of household electricity across the country is only $3/3 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Thanks to Edison's imagination and enterprise — thanks to the courage and initiative of many men and women, working under the American business system — this country enjoys the most and best electric service in the world. And all our lives are richer, safer, more productive.
Listen to the New Electric Hour — THE HOUSE OF CHARM
Sundays. 3:30 p.m., C.S.T., CBS
THE KANSAS ELECTRIC POWER CO.