1946
MAY 2,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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After Year, White House 'Prisoner Proves He Is Thoroughly Tru-Human
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—The political pundits have been spending their time pondering in print President Truman's first year in the White House. Only trouble with these babies is that they don't even mention the unimportant things which some—$^{\textcircled{1}}$
how add up to be among the most important of all.
This is what I mean:
The President took a long look at the dingy walls of his house and applied a coat of glistening white paint. He obliged a photographer during a blizzard by tossing a snowball at him. When spring arrived he favored another cameraman by assuming a Ferdinand pose, sniffing a flower.
He ate three Christmas dinners (the same Christmas) in Missouri; a few days later he ate two lunches in two hours at Kansas City. He mentioned his private shirt crisis and was deluged with white shirts, size 15½. He got a new yacht, equipped with two pianos, and spent as many weeks end aboard as he could.
He drove an electric locomotive. He flew in his four-engined Sacred Cow through a blizzard that grounded commercial air lines. He caused millions of men to struggle with bow fliess, then he turned the sartorial world inside out by appearing at the Jackson Day banquet in a dinner jacket and a bow tie with silver stripes. Adolphe Menjou said he should have stuck to black.
The president took up horse shoe pitching in his back yard; he uses the gold-painted shoes, his opponent the silver. Mr. Truman muscled in on a chile con carne luncheon at the senate and ate three bowls of same. As an art critic, he announced that he did not like the ham and egg variety of paintings.
He posed for his portrait in oils, in marble, and on film. The latter was a 45-minute ordeal, but the result (as you doubtless have noted) was an evening. He labbergasted the hired bob by writing up each morning at night.
thed the secret service by rising long before then and taking a stroll through the city. He called the White House "the prison." He got out of it whenever he could.
He did his banking personally on 14th street, where the cops had to hold back the crowds whenever he deposited a check. He discharged a dozen White House servants as an economy move. He went fishing in Washington state, wearing one of the loudest sweaters ever seen off the back of Bing Crosby.
He had the lawn sprayed with a special juice to kill the wild onions, but not the grass. His radio technique improved-perceptibly. He pinned medals on numerous heroes; pardoned thousands of ex-convicts who also were heroes in the war. He started to remodel the executive offices so as to include a radio and television theater.
His architect had the hole dug when Congress clapped down the idea. He postponed the atom test, planned to drop in on the Philippines next Fourth of July, and got dressed half a dozen times in a flat black hat to accept honorary college degrees. He listened so often to the "Missouri Waltz" he must have tired of it.
Some Texas Baptists denounced him when they learned he liked an
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occasional slug of whisky; the capital Baptists announced their intention of continuing their prayers for him.
He accepted all prayers gratefully.
He worried about his weight. He
turned out to be a thoroughly human,
human-being. All right now,
political columnists; you may take it
away.
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Omaha. (UP)—The seventh service command today revealed that the army recruiting campaign had passed the 50,000 mark in the nine-state area.
Kansas Army Enlistments
Top Seventh Service Command
Of the nine states in the service command, Kansas led with an enlistment of some 13.000. Other states are Minnesota, North Dakota, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming and South Dakota.
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STOP at the Courthouse Lunch for good food. Open from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Across from the courthouse.
Future Farmers Group Elects State Officers
Manhattan. (UP)—More than 170 delegates to the state convention of the Kansas Association of Future Farmers of America elected new officers and approved 62 of the 88 applications for state farmer degrees at a House of Delegates, meeting here.
Delegates also elected the following officers for 1946-47: Richard Chase, El Dorado, president; Robert Fobes, Beloit, vice-president; Tommy Figs, Efingham, secretary; Richard Johnson, Lawrence, treasurer, and William R. Edwards, Emporia, reporter.
Dodge City. (UP)—A high school assignment to collect bird nest specimens has cost the life of 15-year-old James Stout.
Ensign Boy Electrocuted
The youth was electrocuted yesterday when he fell on a high voltage wire from a tree he had climbed in search of a nest. He was a pupil in the Village high school at Ensign.
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