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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 22,1946
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 Advocate and 50 Mad
New York.
Mait 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 examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor Bill Hage
Marketing Editor Carter Carey
Makeup Editor Jane Anderson
Telegraph Editor Billie Marie Hamilton
City City Marcel Stewart
City City John Stewart
Sports Editor John Finch
Home Office John Finch
Telegram Editors Edward Swain
Martha Jewett
Society Editor ... Alverta Niedens
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... James Gunn
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ... Melvin Adams
Management ... Aaron Bonehake
Circulation Manager ... Bob Bonehake
Who Cares?
Student government is like all other government—it is only as good as the governed want it to be.
The evil and inefficiency of government varies directly with the square of the indifference of the voters who put it into office. Citizens have no grounds for complaint if they ignore their government and then find, suddenly, that their政
The latest generations of Americans traditionally take too much for granted. Traditionally, too, they are too indifferent to vote and scream only when their toes are stepped on. They will allow government to drift into the hands of anyone who wants it. Politics is too dirty and voting too much trouble for them.
Some day they will sleep too long.
Today is election day on the campus—freshman elections. This will be the first taste of student government for many students. This is their first opportunity at citizenship.
At the student polls today two freshman members of the All-Student council will be elected—two representatives of the freshman class will soon afterward take their place on the student governing body of the University.
A light vote can mean only one thing-indifference to student government.
Many complaints have been registered against student government in the past. It has been accused of being a rubber stamp for the administration. It has been accused of many things—sometimes wisely, sometimes without foundation. Only those who have had the interest and energy to vote have any right to complain.
The Republicans are going to campaign with a poster of a man with a toothpick in his mouth, a radio quipster remarked recently.
The A.S.C. can be made a potent factor in the University. It can be given a voice that can make itself be heard on student and University affairs. But it can do these things only if it is truly representative and only if it is supported by the student body.
Who cares?
The freshmen have their opportunity today to show whether they care. Let them vote now or hereafter hold their peace.
The atomic bomb is losing its aspect of novelty and people don't talk about it so much, but we predict it will be heard from again.
Housing Doesn't Worry This Gal
St. Joseph, Mo. (UP)—Sheriff Gus G. Hillix and a deputy brought an unidentified woman to jail when they found her sleeping alongside a highway.
At the jail she was found to be wearing six dresses and two coats. She carried a bulging suitcase, a pocketbook that contained "everything but a five-foot book shelf" and a mandolin, Hillix said. "When she unloaded the pocketbook for our inspection, its contents covered a big table in the jail."
The woman identified herself to the satisfaction of police, who decided that if she preferred to sleep outdoors because hotel rooms were so "cramped," that was her privilege.
Inside the suitcase, he said, were two white rats, gnawing placidly on a green garter.
The woman donned her six dresses and the coats, Head Jailer Howard Smart said, then stopped by his office. She wore one pair of stockings and put two more pair over those.
"Lady," Smart said he told her, "you've put on three pairs of stockings."
FINE SERVICE
GREAT CARS
"That's all I ever wear in the summertime." Smart quoted the woman as saying as she picked up her suitcase with the rats, her bulging pocketbook, and her mandolin, and left the jail.
Virginia Tieman Dixon, '43, a journalism major has been transferred with her husband to the Santa Fe, N. M., bureau of United Press association from the Cheyenne buraue. Mr. Dixon is bureau manager.
Dixon Transferred To Santa Fe
Buddy GALLAGHER MOTOES
HOMECOMING IN MEMORIAL STADIUM
You may order copies of this picture (which appeared in Monday's Daily Kansan) at the Kansan business office, basement of the Journalism building.
SQUARE DEAL
Phone 1000 632-34 Mass. St. SQUARE DEAL
THE WINNAHS
Week Ending Oct. 19 1128 Entries
Winner W. L. Off Pts.
R. D. Moore, 1425 Tenn. 10 2 4
$5 in Trade
Eleanor Gilchrist, 44 Winona 10 2 5
$3 in Trade
Third
N. G. Rimes, Sunflower 10 2 8
$1 in Trade
Fourth
Bill Nagle, 1120 Ohio 10 2 10
Albert Younger, 1122 Ohio TIED—Won on Draw
H. A. Fries, 1201 Tenn.
$1 in Trade by Bill Nagle
Another Contest This Week — Blanks Here FREE!
MIDWEEK
WEDNESDAY,OCT.23
KASS KASSINGER
and ORCHESTRA
7:30 till 9:00
EVERYONE GOES!!!
25c Per Couple
This dance is under the supervision of the Social Committee of the All-Student Council and the Varsity Dance Manager