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UNIVERSIFY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MAY 2,1945
Student Newspaper of the CIVILIAN OF P.O. BOX 5010 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, $450 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. Published in September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Congress And The People
Monday the Board of the National League of Women Voters sat in Kansas City and drafted a telegram to the United States Senate urging legislation for a continuance of price control without the amendments the House of Representatives has written into the bill.
During the past two weeks the O.P.A. headquarters in Kansas City has solicited the frank opinions of the people of the Kansas City area on the subject of price control. More than 80 per cent of those who sent in their views were in favor of the continuance of price controls.
Also during the past two weeks, congressmen have received more mail on the O.P.A. issue than on any other single question in congressional history. Those letters and telegrams have been five to one in favor of continuing the O.P.A.
In spite of this overwhelming demonstration of public opinion, the House has written in nine crippling amendments to the O.P.A. Amendments which experts have pointed out will virtually make price control impossible. Economic Stabilizer Bowles said that the House had, "taken a step toward a joy ride to disaster."
Though the vote on the amendments was 355 to 42, those devitalizing measures were pushed through mainly by the bloc of Southern Democrats and Republicans, the same coalition which crippled the Patman housing bill.
It seems plainer than ever that this group is out to make the administration's record look as bad as possible with little regard for the will of the people or for the public welfare.
The opponents of price control present a seemingly good case and we will all admit that the record of O.P.A. has not been all good. But with our industrial machine still so far behind, it is hard to agree with the suggestion that now is the time to lift controls. To deny that some inflation is already here would be foolish but the conditions that exist today are "small peanuts" compared to what we would have if all controls were lifted now.
Labor leaders have already served notice that if prices are allowed to go higher they will throw all the recently negotiated wage contracts out of the window and demand higher wages. They say that those contracts were agreed to on the basis that the cost of living would be held in line by continued price control.
Many congressmen will be up for re-election this fall. It is difficult to see how they can reconcile their activities with the will of the people who sent them to Washington. It would be well for them to listen to the voters back home and forget their game of political football or there will be some new faces in congress after the next election.
With An Eye To Skirts
Many means have been devised for predicting the future and here's another to be added to the list. The long and short of it is—skirts, for oddly enough, there is an amazing correlation between the history of the United States and the length and width of women's skirts since 1776.
At Washington's inauguration, the ladies were wearing wide flat farthingals, doubtless another result of the French influence that was sweeping America. As the young republic began to strengthen its wobbly foundations, hopes began to grow and so did hoops.
The bigger the skirts the better, and they were reaching five-by-five dimensions when the French Revolution and the "new freedom" which was becoming the vogue came along and prompted women to discard their "iron cages," much as they had discarded their kings, for a less rigid and more democratic dress. Skirts shrank with nations as Napoleon, Josephine, and Empire dresses came into the spotlight, but as soon as Napoleon was safely out of the way, optimism and crinolinism blossomed forth together in a burst of glory.
In 1850 began a period of radical change and radical dress. Skirts spread right along with speculation and more often than not got out of control when they expanded beyond the margin of safety.
After the panies of '57, '67, and '73, when economy became the key-word, everybody cut down on everything, including skirts, but the late seventies and early eighties saw big business and skirts bustle forth together for a brave if brief time.
During the nineties women were deciding it wasn't going to be a man's world any longer and bustles went out with chivalry. As women crept out of their homes their ankles crept out of their skirts and saw the light of day for the first time after the turn of the century.
The incline was slow but the reactionary twenties which followed the great war hastened what otherwise might have taken years. This was no time for dilly-dallying, and skirts, along with everything else, went to a new high, only to crash with the market to a few inches above the ground.
Everyone and everything was low and tight and skirts were no exception. But as smiles grew broader and spirits rose, skirts followed suit.
Skirts had gone about as far as they could go when the atomic bomb burst a new world's rising hopes and skirts began to fall with men's faces.
Now, on the brink of destruction, or at the dawn of a new era, skirts may point the way to our ultimate destination. Perhaps by watching them we'll be keeping an eye to the future.—E.A.
Eli Culbertson doesn't agree with the traveling of Secretary of State Byrnes. He recently pointed out on the radio that "the state department is fiddling while Byrnes roams."
Help Him Hold The Line
The magazine said fire losses in the United States as a whole ran 25 per cent higher than in the preceding five-year period and warned that they threatened to "keep on mounting for the next 10 years."
Kansas losses for the period to talleld $8,655,803 against $8,913,313 for the last five years of the 30's, a survey showed.
New York. (UP)—Kansas was one of only seven states which showed a decrease in fire losses for the five-year period ending in 1944, figures released by Fire Engineering magazine revealed today.
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
Rock Chalk
Who put the beer bottle in Jimmy Green's hand??
A complete answer. We understand the following episode happened to a K.U. Beta. After waiting in K.C.for two hours for a train back to Lawrence, he noticed a streamliner about to leave on the adjoining track.
It's a small world. Helen Hark-razer, tired of telling people she was a sophomore in the college, decided the Gamma Phi-ATO hour dance was to change her way of life. When asked by her dancing partner what she was majoring in, Helen replied, "I'm a senior in aeronautical engineering."
Bv MARION SHELDON
And he's only a freshman. The Phi Delt pride and joy, Louie Sheppard, practically came to blows with his convocation date Tuesday. It seems Louie thought his name was read in the Phi Beta Kappa list and she wouldn't let him stand up and take recognition. (Some semesters it just doesn't pay to study.)
Upon asking the conductor if he could change trains and go to Lawrence on the streamliner, he received the following answer. "In the first place, you will have to buy a new ticket, in the second place, this train doesn't stop at Lawrence. Even if it did, all the seats are taken and besides that, we don't even go through Lawrence."
Kansas One of Seven States Showing Decreased Fire Losses
She excused herself after the lad answered enthusiastically, "You are? So am I!" You just can't win.
Jobby Lobby (111)
'Ample Future For Majors In English'
By J. H. NELSON (Chairman, Department of English)
The student who is majoring in English will find an abundance of opportunity to put his training into practical use at the present time.
As in the past, English training now finds its greatest practical outlet in teaching. English teachers far outnumber those in any other group; and fortunately the salaries paid beginning teachers are higher than formerly, ranging from an annual $1,800 in the eastern part of Kansas to $2,200 in some of the western counties. Not only the high schools, but some of the junior colleges of the state will need't increase their teaching staffs. For work in the junior colleges, however, teaching experience is ordinarily required.
Training in English has perhaps a greater indirect than direct practical value. It is useful and necessary, for example, for those who wish to do well in radio performance, in journalism, in the reviewing of books, and in secretarial work. A number of former majors in English at the University have taken up editorial work. There is, however, no assured means by which one enters this field. Those who do so sometimes begin in a clerical capacity with a publishing company.
Ellis County Oil Well
The writing of fiction, plays, and other works of literature is, of course, professional work—for those who have the particular talent needed and who are willing to undertake the hard and grueling work necessary for success.
Hays. (UP)—The newest oil well in Ellis county today was believed to be a 3,000 barrel-a-day well. The well was brought on land on which a major corporation had dropped its lease only six months ago. Drillers who hit oil in Arkauclek mile at 3,484 feet reported the hole filled 3,300 feet in five hours. An hour's pumping at 30 gallons an hour in a test failed to lower the level.
Kansans Greet Eisenhower
At Hawaiian Airport
Honolulu. (UP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, on an inspection tour of the Pacific area, received a "honeo' town welcome" and a sunflower lei, from seven members of the Kansas club who met him at Hickam field.
He was greeted officially at the airport by Adm. J. H. Towers, commander of the Pacific fleet, and Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, commanding general of the Middle Pacific.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
May 2, 1946
K. U. Young Democrats club will meet at 7 p.m. Friday in the men's lounge of the Union.
The seminar on religion will meet at 7 tonight at 1332 Strong avenue.
Pan-American Dance will be given at 9 p.m. Friday by the University Art club in the Kansas room. Open to all students.
Alpha Phi Omega will meet at 7 tonight in the Union. All pledges are to attend.
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Forensic League election at 7:30 tonight in the ballroom of the Union.
Representatives from three large national concerns will be at the University for employment interviews during the week beginning Monday, Anyone interested may contact Mr. Pinet, Business placement bureau, room 212 Frank Strong before 10 am. Monday.
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Today will be the last day seniors may place their orders for commencement announcements at the business office.
The first open meeting of the re-organized YMCA will be held in the Kansas room of the Union at 7:30 tonight. Wendell Nickell, Calvin VanderWerf, Linegar, and Mr.H. B. Rogers, from Topeka, will speak. Music and refreshments will be provided.
Vacancy in All Student Council to be filled by the Inter-Fraternity Council.
Attention! Sunflower K.U. Dames—If you are coming to the picnic Saturday, contact your president, Mrs. R. P. Hagen, 8 Aqueduct today. There has been a recent change in plans.