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APRIL 26, 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Othman Conducts A Test Among 'Greedy Lobbyists'
OPA's Policy on Chairs Is Positively 'Splintering'
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN (U.P. Staff, Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—One of the holding chairs, handsomely made and carefully varnished, bore and OPA sealing price tag of $2.20. I sat in that one.
The rickety chair, roughly bolted together, unpainted and splintery, and an OPA price of $2.50. Maj. Benjamin H. Namm, head of one of Brooklyn's biggest department stores and president of the National Retail Dry Goods association, sat gingerly in that one.
Surrounding us in a congressional committee room was the association's portable dry goods store, with a stock of everything from pink panties to lawnmowers to baby dresses. These displays were designed to show congress that the OPA was ruining America's storekeepers. The OPA retorted that the horrid examples were phoneys; the dry goods men said they weren't.
Chester Bowles, who used to head the OPA until he stepped up a notch in the governmental hierarchy, charged that the association chiefs were irresponsible, reckless, and greedy lobbists.
"Are you a greedy lobbyist, Major Namm?" I asked.
"Ouch," the major said. He pulled
a sliver of wood from his chocolate-colored pants.
"But are you a greedy lobbyist?" I insisted.
"You've got to be careful with this new merchandise," he said.
"I am a citizen first," he said, tugging at another splinter, "and a merchant second and I guess I am a lobbyist, all right. That is, I am a lobbyist, if a man petitioning his congress to correct injustice is a lobbyist. But I am not a greedy lobbyist."
The major said our chairs were a first class example of what—ouch—he was talking about. Mine, the good one (you know me), was out of production because the manufacturer insisted he could not sell it any longer for $2.20.
"So the OPA lets him go out of business," Major Namm said. "But another new manufacturer comes along to make this chair of mine (durn, you'd think he could have scraped off the splinters) and the OPA gives his a price of $2.50 for something not as good as the chair the old-established man wants to make, but can't.
The major said that OPA pricing policies alone were responsible for the bare shelves in his store and in every other shop in the country.
stocks of merchandise are at a lower ebb than when the fighting was at its height," he said. "And that isn't all. One of the worst things is the way this system has taken away the dignity of American man and woman."
That's straight from acting city manager J. M. Nagle.
The city manager gave his verdict on love-making in Hermann square, a park in front of the city hall, after Park Director Hugo Koehn sought to ban lovers from the park.
U.H.S. To Have 'Hi-Home' Night
Two of the major's models, one wearing a pre-OPA house dress which was pink and pretty, and the other clad in an OPA number which fitted her only in spots, strolled in. These ladies bore price tags, but the tags (Othman, you dope) turned out to be the prices of their frocks.
The major jumped. Another splinter. I must say he did not look dignified.
Houston. (UP)—Love in front of the city hall is not only wonderful it's legal.
University's high school's annual Hi-Home night will be held in the Kansas room of the Union at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Ward L. Kiester, principal, said today.
"I don't mean that," he said. "I am talking about the folks who used to come into the store with heads up and a smile on their faces to buy what they wanted. Now they must beg for merchandise, and connie, and get to know the right clerk, and sneak stuff out from under the counter.
"The merchant has lost his dignity, too. We have got to get down on our knees and plead with the manufacturer for the privilege of buying merchandise we wish we did not have to sell."
The parents of present students, prospective students and their parents, and U.H.S. graduates are invited, he added.
The program will be prepared and presented by students with the exception of an address by Dean George B. Smith, of the School of Education. After the program there will be visiting and dancing, Mr. Kierster said.
The lovers, sun-bathers and nice old men liked to eat in the park, Joehn said, and left too many paters, pickle jars, chicken bones and ice crusts lying on the grass. "Let them love," Nagle ruled.
Love Near City Hall s O.K.—in Houston
"It is just incredible that today, seven months after the war ended.
Perfect examples," the major said. They looked perfect to me, too—one blonde, the other brunette.
Dr. G, M. Martin, head of the physical therapy department at Bell demoral hospital, spoke at the physical therapy club's meeting and banquet Wednesday night. He discussed the relationship of nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists in their work.
"Let them love," Nagle ruled.
K. C. Doctor Speaks
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He Wins at Gin Rummy —He Wins a Locomotive
Hollywood. (UP)—Paul Snell wondered today who won the friendly little gin rummy game which he played with a friend.
Snell, a press agent, held the winning hands and he won a 1928 locomotive piece by piece, cowcatcher, boiler, bell, etc.
Now he's stuck with a $55 monthly storage bill.
Advanced French Students Give Play at Club Meeting
The play, "Le Medecin Malgre Lui," was presented by French V students at a meeting of the French club, Le Cercle Francais, Wednesday in Frank Strong hall.
The players were Irene Starmer, Jane Malin, Helen Puckett, Jeanne Smith, Estelle Stewart, Mary Saucier, and Mary Detwiler.
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