PAGETWO
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 27 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and 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., many afternoon during the school week. Published in 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.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Patricia Penney
Asst. Managing Editor ... Bill Haage
Makeup Editor ... Charles Roos
Telegraph Editor ... Jane Anderson
Sports Editor ... Marian Thomson
Sports Editor ... Bill Sims
Society Editor ... Martha Jewett
Asst. Telegraph Editors
Billie M. Hamilton .. Grace Mullenberg
Marcelina Stewart .. Reverdy Mullins, Jr.
State Editor .. Alamada Bollier
Staff Artist... Richard Bibler
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Lemay, Frederick
Editor-Associate... John Conard
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager. Virginia Van Order
Advertising Manager... Anne Scott
Assistant (for national)... Eleanor Thompson
Assistant (for classified)
Patricia Manley
Circulation Manager... Edwin Ham
Promotion Manager... Anne Young
American people have a reputation for their ingenuity and resourcefulness. They're so resourceful that they make laws to protect themselves and then rush out seeking the quickest means of beating the law.
The O.P.A. and John Doe
The department store clerk whispers to you that he can get you a couple pairs of nylons. Naturally they will be a little high, but you do want them, so what's the difference? After all, you reason, I wrote to Washington and asked them to continue O.P.A. Why don't they crack down on these people who break the rules?
The latest fad is to write your congressman pleading for extension of O.P.A. and then turn around and take part in a racket to beat the price ceiling.
You want a late model automobile on a trade-in basis. The dealer asks you, in fact, implores you, to buy his model and at the proper ceiling price. He hands you a few dollars for your pre-war bus, gives it a paint job, and sells it for the $400 ceiling. Of course, the new buyer will be lucky if it gets him from the garage to his home.
Raise cain with your butcher; he'll get your meat. Not at the ceiling price, but what does that matter as long as we have the O.P.A. to guard against inflation? And, anyway, your purchases are small; they don't amount to much.
Too many Americans, it seems, have the diseased conception that all that is needed to meet an economic crisis is to produce the proper legislation to correct the condition.
It doesn't seem to occur to people that the black market lives off patronage and that the only way to fight it is to refuse to give that patronage. It would take a modern army to track down the black marketeers in one industry alone.
They fail to realize that each and every person is a cog in the nation's economy and that we will have economic stability only when enough people recognize that their actions count, and decide to temper their narrow self-interest with some consideration for the welfare of the rest of society. —C.H.
Individual initiative and private enterprise are being smothered all over. The other day a New Jersey man was fined $50 for making his own car license plates.
"Is the average farmer an optimist or a pessimist?" asks a Kentucky editor. He's both. He's an optimist in the spring and a pessimist in the fall.
Whenever you are tempted to scorn women's fashions of the day, just go up to the attic and look at some of the illustrated magazines of 20 years ago.
The Fancy Lightly Turns
Long a rival but never a conqueror of a typical Kansas spring, study habits are once again slowly losing ground. Nature is showing her superiority. Studying from books should be done when the nights are long, the weather cold, and the distractions few.
Spring is the season when everything comes to life. Birds start winging northward, rabbits hop lively through the fields, and college students lose their inhibitions.
What chance does a tricky assignment in calculus have against a walk in Marvin Grove? That is, if the walk involves a boy and girl strolling hand in hand. Even a leisurely saunter along campus drive in the farflung shade holds more enchantment than a stuffy classroom or library.
And what Jayhawker has ever left K.U. without peering from the causeway into the shallow mysteries of Potter lake on a mellow afternoon? Or has failed to find complete relaxation of resting on the grassy slope north of Frank Strong? There the cares of this world drift high into the sky and the future looms Kaw-ward, appealing and satisfying.
Many an attractive spot on the campus creates a sympathetic response when old Mr. Sun sends forth his strongest power. Hell's Half Acre and the hospital love seat provide a radiant view of the Wakarusa valley. Strolling down the slopes and across the fields brings spring to many a heart-thumping couple.
As each little cloud stops to have a word or two, a purifying spirit cleanses the soul. Life no longer has an ugly aspect but is truly beautiful. Once more a higher power has permeated the inner person and presented the real values of living.
Study habits aren't stopped by spring, the classroom is merely changed-C.E.
Is the old crack about "if we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs" going to apply now to bread and butter?
Safety sloan observed on the back end of a truck: Strive To Be A Wreckless Driver!
Requiem
I heard the rustle of the elm leaves that May day
And I saw the wind touch the proud old cedars.
The sun was warm and clean and soft,
Across the fields where a meadowlark was singing,
And I read upon the stones names worn down
By the sun and wind and rain and snow—
My grandmother and grandfather, my aunt and great-uncle.
Names? no not names, but living people
Whom my mother's voice had gently touched
And had made real to me.
And suddenly, we were very close;
I and they, the living and the dead.
I knew then for the first time
What a very small barrier there is between life and death.
And I felt the glorious rapture of immortality
That is mine and theirs.
Rock Chalk
HANNAH ROBERTS American Quill Club
By MARILYN STEINERT
Nose for news. Prof. W. W. Davis told his American People class the other day that "The American newspaperman is the darnedest rustler imaginable. In time we'll even know the make of Stalin's underwear."
Brother! When Stan McCampbell and Jim Neuner were passing through Toledo recently they passed a sign saying "Home of Toledo Scales." Jim came up with the brilliant question, "Is that a fish market?"
You can't take it with you. When three Chi O's, Mary Daugherty, Pat Barron and Shirley Husted, went to Pittsburgh for a week-end, they happened to take along an extra suitcase. The suitcase belonged to Barbara Moffett and contained her notes to be studied for finals. Pledge court hasn't been very easy on the girls. They have to carry suitcases around packed with bricks.
Mother nature. Recently the Ph.
Delt's were enjoying a peaceful
evening at Lake Linge. At least it
was peaceful until Bob Halliballup put a small frog in George Waugh's drink. George took a drink and half swallowed the creature. He got the frog out of his mouth and tossed it into the bowl of ice where it was still hopping around when the boys left.
Well really. In the mad scramble for a Daily Kansan in center Ad one p.m., Virginia Wickert, Corbinite, got stuck. She succeeded in grabbing a paper and turning around, but it was no go from there on—her sweater was caught and was slowly unravelling right out in front of Chancellor Malott and everybody. When most of the papers were gone and people were leaving, she found part of her sweater hooked up on the shirt button of a very apologetic classmate.
Meat is meat nowadays. With meat getting scarcer, some people don't know when they are well off. Eddie Sheldon, Sigma Chi, asked what they were having for dinner the other evening. He was told they were having pork. "Where'd we get it? I don't want to eat any cheap pork."
A new liquid insecticide, claimed to be effective in destroying chewing insects, is a sodium-antimony-lacto-phenate and will be known as SALP; although poisonous and toxic, it is relatively safe and economical
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
May 27.1946
Notices must be typewritten and must be in Public Relations office, or later than 9:30 a.m. on day of publication. No phone messages accepted.
All-Student Council will meet at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine roc of the Union.
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All students now in school who plan to enroll in the summer session or the fall semester may sign up at the Registrar's office, room 122. Frank Strong hall, to guarantee themselves a place in the University under the priority system. To avoid congestion, students should appear at the Registrar's office according to the following schedule: (Letters are initial letters of students' names).
May 27-June 1—J, M, X, I, L, T, R
Cheerleading tryouts will be at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the west wing of the Union ballroom. Persons wishing to try out should notify Lois Thompson, 980.
Tau Sigma practices for tonight are Golliggwogg's Cake-walk at 7 p.m. and Baba-Yaga at 7:25 p.m. in Robinson gym. Bring a black turban, Golliggwgg skirt, and Baba - Yaga costume.
The O.T. club picnic will be to-
morrow night. All girls who intend
to go should sign up on the O.T.
bulletin board in Frank Strong.
Veterans: Recently cards were sent to all veterans now enrolled in the University inquiring whether they expected to continue their training under the Veterans Administration at this university during the summer session. Any veteran who has not already returned his card to this office should do so at once. Attention is also called to a statement about accumulated leave posted on the bulletin board just outside the Veterans Office, room 2, Frank Strong hall. This is important and all veterans should read the information given there.
Bible study of inter-varsity Christian fellowship meets at 6:45 On-night in Myers hall. Discussion on "Second Coming of Christ" (Rev. 20). will be continued.
Business school smoker at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Men's lounge of the Union. All business and pre-business students invited.
Death Must Take A Holiday
From the St. Louis Star-Times
A.F