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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 13,1945
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 inscription; $2 a semester, $450 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during a year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods, end on September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under March 3, 1879.
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Monaging Editor Patricia Penney
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Good Health For All
Kansas officials report satisfactory progress on the plan they are developing for voluntary health insurance. Other states also are working on similar projects in the hope of removing the argument of public need for Truman's national bill when Congress has done with more pressing matters.
Another stock argument is that such a plan would lower medical standards. How? The doctor's first motive is supposed to be service to mankind, not profit. Granted that there are mercenary ones, they must do better tonsillectomies than their neighbor if the world is to make a beaten path to their door. The certainty of having bills paid would be another incentive that few physicians always have now.
When the President's plan for universal health insurance first was presented, opposing interests cried in horror-stricken tones "Why, that's socialized medicine!" That term of course implies something inherently dangerous to most Americans.
The idea that doctors themselves, especially those with a wealthy clientele, have been so careful to publicize, is that socialized medicine automatically would be a mass-production system. Just why it should not be a plan for the individual to continue to go to his family doctor and have standard fees paid from the fund to which he has contributed has not been explained.
That state education is a benefit, scarcely anyone will deny. Why then should provision for an even more fundamental necessity, physical well-being, be any less democratically administered by governmental agencies?
Voluntary programs are good for those they reach. The flaw is that those who need help worst are not included. Many persons suffer all their lives for defects which improvident parents fail to have corrected when they are children.
To many families with limited incomes, voluntary medical insurance is a luxury that they feel they can do without. Those same people will put off going to a doctor until it is absolutely necessary because they feel they cannot afford it, and often the trouble advances beyond cure, or at least easy cure.
least easy cure. Each year there are approximately one hundred million cases of sickness in the nation, and about fifteen million of these are serious. During the war the army rejected three and one-half million persons as physically unfit. Another two and one-half million were considered remedial 4-F's.
It is certainly evident that our national health needs attention, and any plan that is to be successful must be framed to apply to all citizens. We cannot quarantine disease with today's mobility of population. A system of health insurance available to all seems the only logical answer.—A.B.
What's Democracy, Anyway? German Youth Asks in Confusion
Berlin, (UF) — Democracy has German boys and girls all mixed up. They can't decide what this new force in their lives really is.
force of Sixteen youths, under 21, born shortly after or before Adolf Hitler rose to power, tried to define it in the new American-licensed youth magazine "Horizon."
Until the war ended, democracy was to them only a whipping boy for Dr. Goebbels. This is what it is now:
To Hans-Joachim Hackbarth, 12, who lives in a badly bomed section of Berlin, it means: be busy, work a lot, never become a soldier and never become a party member.
"Then," he explained, "you can go through the darkest woods without being afraid of death."
Poldi Klein, somewhat bitter, wrote "In Germany today, we call it democracy if a democratic party takes up a revolutionary plan against the still-wake democratic state."
Rita Schrattenholz believed that a true democracy can reign "only when the have-nots are in possession of the economic and political power."
The definition of Brigitte Guttstadt was that a democracy must have, above all, complete freedom of speech, conscience and press.
Communist—"Democracy is not
A youth named Klaus Budzinski said he interviewed several Germans and got the following definitions:
Mathematician—"If each of the four German democratic parties has its own character, does that imply that democracy has none?"
Gerhard Mechau asked, "Is it democracy if in one occupation zone dictators are placed before the German youth and attempt to cram into them a uniform conception of life?"
communism, but communism is democratic."
Clergyman—"A repentant Nazi is more liked by God than 99 self-complacent democrats."
Cheese Attacks Man While Traffic Waits
Young Hans Schmidt was the briefest of all.
"Democracy?? he asked. "I don't know. I am completely confused."
Wichita. (UP)—The wheels of a truck, carrying two tons of cheese, locked on an Arkansas river bridge crossing here late Wednesday, blocking traffic for several hours.
Paul Bretengard, the driver, was knocked unconscious by a 90-pound block of cheese which hit him on the head. He was not seriously injured.
The truck turned over on the bridge,ripping out ten feet of guard rail and spilling its cargo.
Concentration Camp
Rock Chalk Talk
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
By MARILYN STEINERT
Sorority bediam. Confusion ran rampant at the Chi O house the other evening. It all started when Regina McGeorge threw a glass of cold water on Jo Larson in the bath-tub.
A few minutes later Regina received a call to go down to her mail box and get some ballots left by someone for Union activities. Needless to say, Joo Larson was not surprised when Regina came back and said they weren't there.
At this point Pat Strang got into the act by putting a teddy bear under the covers at the foot of Jo's bed. But Jo was not going to let her get the best of her so she and Mollie Wilson took a stuffed owl out of the closet and put it at the foot of Pat's bed.
Professor Davis went on to say that, "if the income tax system was run right there would be no unemployment because half the people in the country would be in jail and the other half would be building more jails to hold them."
Just doing her duty. Everything was so confusing during last week's election campaign that one of the girls working at the polls tried to
Pat let out such a shriek when she got into bed that Mollie took the owl out. But as she did, Pat Pearson sat up in bed, saw the owl, screamed, and ran out of the dorm, which just goes to show you that it's the innocent bystander who gets it in the end.
Good publicity, that's all. Becky Vallette was in search of a topic on which she could write an editorial for editorial class. After searching high and low, Becky proceeded to comment on campus politics. But she was very surprised to see campaigning start a week and a half before election. "Who is Boyd Rae-burn, anyway, and what is he running for?" she asked.
Those confusing taxes. Professor Davis, in giving an example of how confusing the income tax situation is, said that one income tax expert tried to help one man compute his taxes and finally ended up by saying, "That's the best I can do for you. I'll see you in the federal pen."
explain to Mary Margaret Gaynor, president of the N.O.W. party, the voting procedure.
Letter to the Editor... Kansan's Sport Spotlight Is Out of Focus, Says Junior
To the Daily Kansan: Bill Sims, in his column "Spotlight on Sports," has on several occasions criticised the students, the faculty, and the alumni for their failure to support the K.U. athletic program.
However, Sims' column has consisted, for the most part at least, in a rehash of the professional baseball program which had been printed earlier in more detail in the local and Kansas City papers.
Despite the fact that there are several spring sports teams, about which we hear all too little as it is, Sims fails to bring us any "spotlight" about our own teams. He seems to prefer to report news concerning the various professional teams in the country.
Inasmuch as the Kansan is a school paper, let's have more feature articles about our own track, baseball, tennis, and golf teams.
J. D. KABLER College Junior
If Mr. Sims wishes to criticise anyone for not supporting the athletic program, he need look no farther than his own desk. Let's hear more about what's going on in our own back yard before we go peering over the fence a block away.
(Editor's note: We checked up on all the "Spotlight" columns that Sims has written and arrived at the following figures: columns devoted to local sports—20, columns devoted to non-local sports—11, and columns devoted to a combination of local and non-local sports—8. On the assumption that many students do not have time to read another daily paper regularly, we attempt to provide a well-rounded news diet without restricting ourselves entirely to local events.)
Malott Is in K.C.
Chancellor - Malott is in Kansas City on University bushness today and will return to the campus this afternoon.
He showed, and explained slides of pictures he had taken on his visits in the Atlantic area as an army aerial weather forecaster.
You Can Live On A Shoestring In Azores---Chronic
"I talked to a gardener in the Azores who, on 20 cents a day (which he had been making for 20 years), was supporting five children," Chronic said.
"Go to the Azores, if you want to live cheaply." John Chronic. J graduate geology student, told members of the geology club Thursday night.
He described the people as "happy folks, who make lots of wine and wear no shoes." He commented that the women have large feet and may wear wooden shoes on Sundays.
In North Africa, the natives live closely in groups, building houses within three feet of each other, Chronic explained. Cattle-raising and grain-growing are the only important industries.
"They live on the road where they can talk to everybody," he said. "This is their only means of contact with the outside world."
He also showed pictures of Newfoundland, Greenland, and The Bermudas.
The Rev. Dr. Harold G. Barr, instructor of religion, gave the Bacca-laureate sermon at Hamlin high school Sunday. He spoke on "A Heavy Load Alone."
He described the Icelanders as independent, prosperous people who live in isolation. They support themselves by raising sheep and by fishing, he said.
"African women wear 'sheets,' he said, "and one can see nothing."
Governor Approves Hays Walkout (He Didn't Mean To)
Barr Speaks at Hamlin
Topeka. (UP) — Gov. Andrew Schoeppel said today he didn't realize that Hays college students were in a mass walk away from their campus when he gave them an excuse at a veterans rally in LaCrosse last week.
He said a quick glance convinced him they were a clean cut group of young people and that he recalled one or two occasions in his own college experience when a note from the governor would have been a tremendous help.