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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SEPTEMBER 30,1946
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 Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
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 examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Politics, Why Not?
The University has given permission to the K.U. Young Republican club to have Frank Carlson, Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, speak at Hoch auditorium Oct. 14. The same opportunity, Mr. Nichols, executive secretary, said, is open to the Young Democrats to bring Harry Woodring, Democratic candidate for governor, here.
Such a plan overlooks the desirability of having both candidates appear on the same platform in a forum on state politics.
The Kansas City Star published a recent editorial applauding the opening of Kansas college assemblies to rival political candidates.
Deriding the horror of old-line educators who "gasp at the thought of contaminating their eager young students with exposure to the influence of a politician's voice," it described the program of two Kansas colleges, Kansas State Teachers college at Pittsburg and Kansas State college at Manhattan, in inviting politicians to speak on their campuses.
Kansas State, the newspaper said, has planned a joint appearance of the two gubernatorial nominees for Oct. 21. Such a plan has the obvious merit of favoring neither party as well as increasing interest by the forum type of meeting.
As for practical value in terms of knowledge and experience, the joint meeting has much to recommend it.
The democratic method of election to office theorizes that the voter will listen to the campaign platforms of all candidates and then choose at the polls the platform which best represents his own likes and dislikes. How better can this be done than by comparing the two candidates side by side?
One political speech is much like another. Not until the candidates are brought together, airing both sides of the question, can the real meaning of politics, defined as the science and art of government, be understood.
Many of the students in the University today are of voting age. Some of them have paid taxes already, and most of them will pay them soon. Politics is of vital concern to them.
Chancellor Malott in his convocation speech Thursday spoke of the duties of the student as a citizen. Here is the opportunity to help make a citizen of the student.
It will be noted, according to the W.E.C. house rules, that there will be no serenading in the Latin manner. All serenades will be registered, limited to one a semester, and approval by the serenaded group will be registered by clapping only. No conversation! Latins, it is presumed, will suffer in silence under these restrictions.
The resignation of Mr. Wallace from the cabinet may mean a split in the Democratic party as well. The opening gun in the Wallace-for-President campaign already has been fired by A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway trainmen, in an interview in which he praised Mr. Wallace highly.
Veterans who thought they had escaped the inevitable service quonset hut may be slightly disappointed with the view from the rear windows of Frank Strong hall.
Q: I have a cat but she does not like me. She does not like anybody.
You've Got Problems?
A: Cats are like women. Try ignoring her.
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Q: Women do not attract me. Sometimes I worry about this.
A: Do not worry. Be glad.
Q: I have a class which bores me. I go to sleep in it every day. What shall I do?
A: Take a pillow.
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Q: Nobody whistles when I pass by Green hall. Why is this?
A: The age of chivalry is dead
Q: People do not laugh at my jokes. Should I learn some new iokes or stop telling them?
A: There are no new jokes.
One Man Can Forget 11 Million Dollars
B FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—"When a man has stock in a company that holds stock in a company that he has stock in (I am not, either, quoting 'Alice in Wonderland'）the situation does get a little complicated."
Whew. The man involved in this little complication is Henry J. Kaiser, who built 1,000 ships, heads a billion-dollar industrial empire, and who tries—but does not always succeed—to keep in mind a million dollars here and a couple of million there.
The man who voiced the dismaying first sentence in this dispatch is Rep. Alvin F. Weichel of Sandusky, Ohio. As a member of the congressional committee investigating ship building profits, he managed to keep the portly Kaiser's bald dome changing color like a chameleon on a Scotch plaid blanket.
The varying shades of the Kaiser noggin provided an excellent barometer of his temper. Pink meant that he was only medium sore; scarlet indicated that he was getting good and mad; purple proved that he had to restrain himself from chopping down the congressman and using him for propellor shaft stuffing in a Liberty ship.
Representative Weichel said (ignoring the purple) that he couldn't understand how the banks had loaned five million dollars to Mr. Kaiser's Permanente Metal Co., when it only had $460,000 in capital.
"Because the company had integrity," began Mr
Kaiser. "The men behind it had integrity . . ."
"Well," explained Mr. Kaiser, "if that's the way you think, I'd like to see you try to borrow five million dollars from a bank."
"Yes, but it had no assets, hardly," interrupted Mr. Weichel.
The purple turned to scarlet. Representative Weichel had no reply. Mr. Kaiser chuckled. The scarlet receded to pink. And so it went, as the congressmen and their lawyer tried to lead Mr. Kaiser through a financial setup more complicated by far than a Joshua Hendy steam engine.
Rep. Fred Bradley of Michigan said he was disturbed by the fact that Mr. Kaiser couldn't remember whether he'd made one 11 million dollar loan. He said that wasn't peanuts. Mr. Kaiser said he knew it wasn't. Only he deals in coconut.
Mr. Kaiser used to own a chunk of the Hendy Engine company, too, but let's not go into that. He runs 28 different industries; the government still owes him millions; he owes the government other millions.
"And where do you get the statement that you saved the American taxpayers 250 million dollars in the building of ships?" Representative Bradley demanded.
"Ivestigated us good," Mr. Kaiser said. "And announced in his formal report that we built those ships 250 million dollars cheaper than anybody else could of."
Mr. Kaiser smiled. The pink became pale. He laughed. There used to be a senator from Missouri named Truman, Harry S. He got a better job a while back, but while he still was a senator, he investigated Mr. Kaiser's operations.
Oops. Bad grammar, but Mr. Kaiser's round. I'm beginning to like the guy. Only fellow I ever knew who forgot 11 million dollars.
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