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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 29:194
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. Published in September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan. under act of March 3, 1879.
Let Them Eat Cake
The black market has virtually taken over the meat industry. Consumers are throwing away more than a billion dollars a year on bootleg meat, according to the American Meat Institute. Farmers and grain dealers hold more than 300 million bushels of wheat in storage. In desperation the government has had to give bonuses to them to get that badly needed grain out of the bins. And recently a syndicated news picture showed a woman collapsing of hunger in a Berlin street.
About 1789 a young queen made history when she said, or is supposed to have said, "Let them eat cake," upon being told that the peasants had no bread. Then she and her court continued their mad, heartless debauchery. But at last the sufferers rose up, seized the government, and guillotined Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI.
The government can do nothing without the will of the people. And obviously individuals can do nothing alone, although humane deeds for the rest of the world depend on each person in the long run. But just as in the French revolution, the results of individual selfishness may destroy the government and our way of living as well.
The United States is in much the same position on a world scale that the nobility was in France in that day. Comparatively a young nation, she might do well to grow up and accept her responsibility before her immature follies lead to her downfall.
The eastern hemisphere has been ravaged beyond the understanding of some of us pampered Americans. Whether the fault of that destruction lies here or there is not a question to be considered now. Some almost bankrupt countries are forced to export clothing to us which their own people need badly in exchange for a little food which they absolutely cannot get along without.
Cutthroat competition has developed in Americans the instinct to be sure of getting returns on all investments and not to give up anything unless his neighbor will make the same sacrifice. So American pigs fatten on food which, if it had been correctly utilized, would have helped to raise the European diet above the starvation level.
Such dire need does horrible things to morale, and suffering may dry out human pity until the person who struggles to the position of having the upper hand is merciless. Since subordination of the conquered countries indefinitely is undesirable, particularly to those personally interested in having their sons come home, it seems wise to give them a desire for cooperation rather than for revenge.
In modern warfare neither side really wins. Some day ours could be the side that loses the most. If democracy cannot show that it offers freedom from want and fear, particularly to those who have seen no evidence of those benefits, it too may get the guillotine.—A.B.
Meat Packer 'Roasts' Senators Who Can't Judge Grade A Roasts
B FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
"Here," he told a dozen senators, "I'll show you."
Washington. (UP) — There was a rustling in the background when meat packer Leonard Meyer testified that the government's inability to decide what makes a good beef steak was ruining his business.
The paper-crumpling noises were being made by Meyer's fellow packer from Richmond, Va., James J. McSweeney, who had trudled two large boxes of meat into the agriculture committee room and now was cracking 'em open for the benefit of the hungry lawmakers.
"Ill take that one," said Sen. Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, pointing at a particularly juicy rump roast under the nose of Chairman Elmer Thomas, of Oklahoma. Mr. Meyer moved it a little further from the gentleman from Louisiana. Mr. McSweeney kept hauling out roasts, steaks, shoulders, briskets, and sides of lamb.
Mr. Meyer stripped them of their wrappings and arranged them artistically until the senatorial table looked like a meat counter used to look when all you needed to buy meat was money. The senators gazed raptly upon this prodigality from a by-gone day, like patrons of the arts, while the pink-faced Mr. McSweeney made a speech.
He said the O.P.A.'s meat regulations had collapsed of their own complexity, that 90 per cent of the meat being eaten today was from the black market, and that even honest packers, like himself, were in the toils of the government because of their inability to tell whether a live
"Yes sir," added Mr. Meyer, a snail man with a diamond horseshoe on a loud necktie. "That is why we brought this meat along, to show you just what is happening to meat."
steer will make tender steaks or tough ones.
"Take this beautiful piece of choice beef," he cried. "It's got plenty of fat, marbling, youth, everything. Now we go to the U.S. government stamps on it."
He held up a mouth-watering, 10-pound rump roast.
"That's because the government graders look at a *piece* of meat and can't tell what kind of meat it is," he said. "One of 'em called this lovely piece of meat Grade B. I got his boss and he stamped it Grade A. See? Stamp them on the same piece of meat. Now. You can't make up their minds, how do you expect us to grade meat with the hide still on it?"
One stamp said it was Grade B meat. Another stamp said it was grade A.
He said the O.P.A. demanded that packers tell exactly the quality of the meat in a steer by looking at the animal. If the packer guesses wrong, he is penalized: sometimes he's taken to court, he said.
"No wonder there's a black market," Mr. Meyer exploded, sitting down in front of a crown roast.
"The gentleman from Louisiana seems to have his eyes on one of those roasts," commented Senator Thomas.
"Oh no," yelped Mr. Meyer, re-trieving his meat. "We'd leave this meat here gladly, but we're going to have to use it later on."
He and Mr. McSweeney rewrapped their roasts, folded their steaks and stole away.
Letters to the Editor
Not Students, But Alumni At Fault in Athletics—Moore
To the Daily Kansan: In the Wednesday Kansan, Bill Sims, the Kansan sports editor, placed considerable blame on K.U. students for their school being in the athletic doldrums. Being a student and a rabid sports enthusiast, I would like to defend my fellow students and former students of the University.
In his column, Bill says that student cooperation has always been a handicap on Mt. Oread. Is this statement justified? Agreed that during the last few war-torn years student enthusiasm for sports hit a new low. However, many of the students were trainees, sent here not of their own volition. All athletic programs were somewhat curtailed.
In pre-war days, Gwinn Henry praised the students of K.U. as the greatest he had ever seen even though his teams were losing regularly. Did this point toward student non-cooperation? K.U. students and sports followers have always wanted champions. They can have them, too, as witness the numerous basketball crowns the Jayhawkers have won.
The steps students can take toward getting champions are somewhat limited, as also are their resources in most cases. I believe if the University is to scale the athletic heights to championships, the first step is to obtain stronger alumni support, especially in a monetary way. A structure is only as strong as its foundation. K.U.'s foundation is its alumni.
ROBERT ROY MOORE College Sophomore
16 Kansas Counties At Memorial Meet
Representatives of 16 Kansas counties for the University Memorial association of World War II met for a dinner and a special conference to discuss the Memorial campaign at the Kansas room of the Union yesterday.
Justice Hugo T. Wedell, president of the University Memorial association, was the master of ceremonies. Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the University Alumni Association, and Kenneth Postlethwaite, organization of the University Memorial association, also gave a conference. Charles Banfield, engineering sophomore, accompanied by Jerald Hamilton, College sophomore, sang two solos.
Represented counties were: Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Comanche, Douglas, Harvey, Johnson, Lyon, Montgomery, Morris, Neosho, Wyandotte, Reno, Republic, Sedgewick, and Shawnee.
Dr. Harold G. Barr, instructor of religion, will attend the meeting of the directors of Bible Chairs of state universities Tuesday and Wednesday in Indianapolis.
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HUDSON'S Rent - a - Car service 1536 Tenn. Phone 1431. -2-
LOST OR STRAYED—Barrel of a speckled blue parker fountain pen. Finder please return to Kansan office. -29-
LOST—Six-inch K and E ever ready slide rule in green box about April 16th. Finder please return to Kansan office. -2-
LOST—Log log deci trig slide rule. Room 301 engineering lab. Tuesday afternoon April 2, Reward. Call 1351-J. -29-
LOST—White steel Wyler wristwatch and Sigma Nu pen near Alpha Chi house. Please call 534. Reward. -29-
LOST—Blue Parker pen in West Ad Friday. With "Jean McIntire" engraved on side, which is partly rubbed off. Please leave at the Kansan office or phone 724. -1-
STOP at the Courthouse Lunch for good food. Open from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Across from the courthouse.
University Fails To Support Baseball Team, Says Fan
It is also true that some of the instructors have threatened to flunk several members of the baseball team for not taking examinations scheduled on the day of a game. Why should the faculty show any preference for certain varsity sports over others? There was no such trouble for football and basketball players.
To the Daily Kansan: Our sports editor, Bill Sims, failed entirely to get at the root of the trouble in his diagnosis of the ills besetting K.U.'s baseball team. I am surprised that anyone at all goes out for baseball here at KU. Those who do, do so only because of a love for the game and not because of a desire to serve the school.
The University has failed to give the baseball team any support whatever. I don't blame men for not wanting to play baseball in uniforms and with equipment that was worn out before the war. Kansas State's baseball team came here with complete new uniforms.
The sports editor is correct when he says that the student body does not support the baseball team, but the blame does not rest entirely with the students. The majority probably don't know that we have a baseball team on the Hill. With the exception of two or three lines the other day, Sims' criticism of the baseball team in the April 24 issue is the first publicity the baseball team has received.
I suggest that the sports editor find the real trouble and also contribute his support before criticizing the student body for non-support and ball players for not going out for baseball.
A Baseball Fan (Name Withheld)
Streamliner to Mexico City
Mexico City. (UP)—Streamline trains will run between St. Louis, Mo., and Mexico City within three months, Pablo Hernandez, head of National railways, said today.
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All-Student Council will meet 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine roof of the Union building.
April 29,1946
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P. S.G.L. Senate will meet at 10 p.m. tomorrow at Battenfell hall.
Chemistry club dinner reservations may be made not later than Tuesday noon. The dinner will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the English room of the Union. Non-member are invited.
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Theta Epsilon Founders' Day dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Hearth.
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P. S.G.L. independent men's party will hold its primary convention at 7:30 tonight in the ballroom of the Memorial Union. All independent men may vote.
K. U. Dames will hold their next regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas room of the Union.
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