PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS 1 NOVEMBER 11,1946 The University Daily Kansan Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Conference 2003 Madison, Wisconsin. New York City. ison Ave., New York CI Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence Kan, every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and excused holidays are given after matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF Managing Editor ... Bill Haage Asst. Managing Editor ... Charles Roos Makeup Editor ... Jane Anderson Designer Editors, Hilti, Bille Minier City Editor ... Marcela Stewart Asst. City Editor ... Marian Minor Sports Editor ... John Newman Nature Services ... Menn Jack Men's Intramurals ... William Conboy Asst. Telegraph Editors, Eddie Swain, society Editor...Alvera Niedens 32d Photographers, Robert Lime, James EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief ... James Gunn Editor Assoc. ... Alamada Bollier RUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Mel Adams Advertising Manager Ruth Clayton Asst. Adv. Manager. Helen Steinkriechner National Adv. Manager. Louis Lauzier Circulation Manager Rene Jose Circulation Manager Bob Bonebrake Asst. Circ. Mgr. John Beach Without Honor Those Hollywood geniuses have done it again! We thought for a while they might be developing a sort of artistic conscience with twinges every now and then when they desecrated some literary work with changes. Their treatment of "The Corn Is Green" gave us hope. "None But the Lonely Heart" was even better. Now they've disillusioned us once more. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is being made into a sparkling musical with Danny Kaye. Hundreds of beautiful girls will dance through the confused mind of Walter Mitty, and the poor baffled man won't even be a hero to himself. We can see it now: the delightful, mock-heroic scenes that made the shy, sly Thurber-story a quotable favorite for millions of young men and women will be converted into lavish Technicolor spectacles with Danny Kaye-Walter Mitty cavoring momentarily into a song and dance. And they've renamed it "I Wake Up Dreaming." Millions of James Thurber lovers will wake up screaming. That isn't the end, of course. The masterminds of Hollywood weren't content with that. They took that masterfully underwritten story of Ernest Hemingway, "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and began to ponder over what they could do to it. First they settled on the tentative title "Without Honor." But that wasn't enough. They decided to call it "The Macomber Affair." By all the gods of mirth and tragedy!—that was a stroke of genius. Short, happy Francis Macomber must have rolled over in his grave. But why did they stop there? Why didn't they do it up right and call it "The Macomber Murder Mystery" with Sherlock Holmes, the Saint, or Philo Vance. They've got us. They've stood us up against that bullet-pocked wall as the first gray fingers of dawn begin to pull down the curtain of night. Like Walter Mitty we shall refuse the blindfold and flick away our last cigarette with a casual, carefree nonchalance— "Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the end." How long will it be before people begin complaining about prices again instead of scarcities? Reparations, Peace Treaty Delay Block Jap Industrial Recovery Osaka, Japan. (UP)—The twin questions of war reparations and a peace treaty between Japan and the Allies hang heavily over the heads of Nippon's industrial leaders. No extensive come-back by all classes of Japanese industry is likely until they are solved, leading Japanese industrialists told this correspondent during a series of inter- views. Smoke now is coming from only a few chimneys in the great Osaka industrial area, once one of the world's largest manufacturing centers, because of the destruction wrought by American bombers during the war. Hundreds of factories are ready, however, to begin intensive preparations to get into production. Only the reparations and peace treaty issues are holding them back. Japanese industrial leaders profess to be ready to pay any reasonable reparations and will support any reasonable terms of peace. Nevertheless, they assert that they cannot be expected to rebuild factories which may be seized immediately by the Allies and transported to some other country, or to start intensive production of goods against a background of complete uncertainty. One leading industrialist summed up the outlook for the Osaka area as follows: The reparations issue should be settled at the earliest possible moment so that Japanese businessmen will know where they stand. Japan is willing and prepared to pay, but she must know the precise terms so that industry will have some incentive to start work and so that capital can have a foundation upon which to plan. Until the reparations question is settled, Japanese production is likely to be comparatively small and spasmic. That will mean a continuation of inflation and general unrest throughout the country, adding to the difficulties of the Allied occupation. Generally speaking, better results are likely to be obtained by taking reparations from Japan in the form of manufactured goods rather than transferring entire factories from Japan to foreign countries such as China and the Philippines. It is realized that Japan will not be permitted again to develop an industrial plant capable of supporting a large military machine and most Japanese industrialists willingly accept that situation. The nation, however, should be left enough heavy industry to get railways, shipping and other essential services speedily back to a point where they can serve essential national needs. Many industrialists frankly are worried by the clause in the new Japanese constitution renouncing war. They wonder how Japan can exist without armed forces sufficient for a minimum of national defense. They feel that some specific pledge should be made by the United States and the other great powers to preserve new Japan's territorial integrity and the right of the Japanese people to exist peacefully in the world. A completely non-militarist Japan certainly must have some assurance that it can maintain the closest friendly relations with the United States, Britain and China. All responsible Japanese industrial leaders hope that close and amicable commercial and economic relations can be restored with China. Everywhere there is a latent fear of communism and "ideological aggression" by communist-minded nations. Industrialists profess to believe that a great majority of the Japanese people traditionally abhor communism, but that they may be driven to accept it by hunger and chaotic conditions if inflation within the country continues. New Rent Control To Cover 88 Areas PROTECT YOUR EYES Washington. (UP)—The OPA put 88 rental areas with a total population of 3,585,379 under rent control today. The agency said 81 of these areas are being brought under rent control for the first time. In the other seven controls are being restored. Lawrence Optical Co. 1025 Mass. The 88 areas and their maximum rent dates included: Kansas — Butler-Cowley rental area consisting of坚持中 and Cowley counties and part of the town of Guda Springs in Sumner county, July 1, 1945; Chanute rental area consisting of Neosho and Wilson Counties, July 1, 1945. Southwest Art Shown At Spooner-Thayer Art of the American Southwest is being featured in two exhibits at Spooner-Thayer museum during November. DRAKE'S Hole In One Made Easy DRAKE'S FOR DELICIOUS BAKES 907 Mass. Phone 61 Studies in oil by William R. Leigh are on display in the south gallery. Paintings of Indian ponies and burros are illustrations from Leigh's travel books. Navajo blankets are exhibited in the north gallery, a part of the museum's American Indian collection, these weavings represent the best work of old Navajo weavers. The red yarn was used by the Spanish as an article of trade with the Indians. Indianapolis. (UP)—It might have been a golfers' paradise, but it was just the opposite for the greenskeepers at an Indianapolis golf course. During the night, vandals added some 12 extra cups to the regulation one on the 14th green. Forensic League Begins Business With A 'Bang' Forensic league started off its regular meetings with a whoop and a bang, (literally) last week. Joan Woodward, a cheerleader, spoke on "What makes a cheerleader," with vocal and acrobatic demonstrations. The bang occurred when Ernest Warnken demonstrated a gas explosion in his speech on, "Fire Prevention." Other speakers and their topics were: Newell Jenkins, "Why a Third World War is Inevitable?" Kenneth Beasley, "The Folly of Uncle Sam;" and Keith Criswell, "Figures." Robert Bock recently elected state representative spoke extemporaneously on. "My Mother." Speech Contest Tryout Is Tuesday Night Tryouts for the annual "campus problem" speaking contest will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the little theater of Green hall, Prof. E. C. Buehler, department of speech, announced Friday. Contestants chosen at the tryouts will give their speeches in Fraser theater, Nov. 20. The finals will be open to the public. Judges for the tryouts are: Mrs. Frances Feist, Miss Margaret Anderson, and Professor Buehler. Adams Holds Record Only one ex-president of the United States ever returned as a representative in congress. He was John Quincy Adams. 3 to 10 DAYS' SERVICE! REPAIR WORK ON WATCHES All Work Guaranteed "The WATCH SHOP" PHONE 368 710 1/2 MASS. Tramp thru the snow Hanging up your clothes? Not when you can get 4-day laundry service at— What'cha Gonna Do When It's Down to 32? 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