APRIL 8, 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent)
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Washington. (UP) — The House of Representatives has done the honorable thing by Miss Daphnie Webb of Spencer, N.C. Now if the Senate kindly will shake its legislative stumps and agree to the appropriation. Daphnie gets a new pair of nylons.
And why not? The government ruined her old pair; it came within a hair of ruining Daphne, too, with one of its postal trucks. She arrived in Washington to be a clerk at the War department when, bang, the truck smacked her.
She put in a bill for three weeks wages while she was recovering from her bruises, $3 to clean the mud from her dress, $44 to pay her doctor and, among other things $1.35 for her nylons, which were total wrecks.
Her Uncle Samuel did her $150 worth of damage; the House passed the Daphne Webb law. The Senate will debate it in another couple of weeks. Then maybe Daphne gets her new hosiery.
Once a month the Claims committee sends up a bundle of bills neatly tied in a piece of red tape. Honest. Genuine red tape. Mostly these laws are for the payment of piddling sums to citizens damaged by their government and nobody, except me, pays am much attention. The congressmen dispose of these bills in such a harry that nobody but a worry-wart bothers to learn what happened. I can't help it. The government knows more ways to get into trouble than anybody. Take the latest session:
Clem and Ida Bryant lived happily on the 116-acre farm six and a half miles of Independence, Kan., until the army built across the road a plant so smelly that they had to move. The army admitted its smells were obnoxious. It sent an inspector (a colonel probably) who reported, and I use his words, that the farm free of odor was worth $5,600, but with obnoxious odor, only $4,800. The House ordered the Bryants paid $800 for the army's smells, plus $600 moving expenses to a less smelly house down the road.
Dr. John A. Logan, Washington put in a claim for $285 because army troops broke into his summer cottage at Ship Bottom, Ocean County, N.J., one winter night for a game of cards.
This, in part, is what he said they did: wrecked an heirloom clock, $50; smashed old china and glass, $65; tore up a mattress, $15; spilled shoe polish on the rug, $30; and burned food in the doctor's pots and pans, $10. The House hastened to make amends.
Mrs. Mary M. Wolf got a job as a stenographer with the Home Owners Loan corporation at Detroit to support her child and sick husband. By the time she'd earned $3,692.50, the comptroller general discovered that she wasn't an American citizen, but a Canadian. He tried to make her pay the money back. The House passed a law telling the comptroller not to be a Simon Legree.
The lawmakers balked only at paying Sgt. Charles A. Clark, Buffalo, N.Y. $500 for running his car off the road. The Compromitron said it wasn't the government's fault two deer strolled in front of him. Congress ordered the claims committee to study that one some more.
10 Apply For Supervisors
Of Sunnyside Addition
Ten applications have been received for supervisor positions in the Sunnyside housing addition, by Irving Youngberg, housing director.
The housing units will accommodate about 900 unmarried students, and the supervision will be handled by 21 faculty members. These supervisor jobs are being offered to faculty members as a solution to the housing shortage.
Nurse Refresher Course
A refresher course for nurses returning from military service and for those who have remained in civilian practice will be conducted by the K.U. School of Medicine April 23, 24, and 25. Inquiries concerning registration may be made to the University extension division.
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Thayer Display Shows Chinese Bridal Dress
Two new displays are in the cases at the entrance of the main gallery of Thayer museum.
One is a group of 20 expensive looking dime store articles, none of which cost more than 10 cents, collected by Miss Maud Ellsworth, assistant professor of Education. The article is a collection of articles ranging from a Chinese Embroidered pitcher to a Chinese wedding gown.
Professor Ellsworth's collection, made over a period of about two years, according to Mrs. Mary Warner, curator of the museum, includes a black glazed teapot, two china figures, a small brass bowl, china and glassware, a string of beads, and an Indian ring and bracelet set with turquoise.
Hoe invented the rotary printing press in 1846.
Jobs Now Available For Senior Women
The Chinese wedding gown in the south side display case was worn by four brides, all of whom were killed in the war, Mrs. Warner said. Other items in the case are an old button collection (including one button made from a copper Arizona tax token), a pewter spoon, a pressed glass bread dish, and the luster pitcher.
Full-time jobs for graduating seniors are available at the U.S. Employment office now, Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, announced today.
The three types of positions with Civil Service commissions are; professional assistant in economics, sociology, political science, and allied fields; librarian—a degree is required and one year of experience in a library would qualify the applicant for overseas work probably in the Philippines or Hawaii; medical technician.
Appointment to the jobs will be handled through the employment bureau, Miss Miller said, and interested seniors can contact them at 201 West Eighth or phone 67.
Snyder Warns of Inflation
"Total civilian production now stands at the highest level ever reached by the nation, in war or peace," he said. He called for prompt extension of price control.
Washington. (UP)—America is in the middle of a boom and must watch out for inflation, Reconversion Director John W. Snyder declared today in a quarterly report on the national economy to President Truman and congress.
with the light brown whiskers? —PHOOFY!"
DEAR FOLKS:
I'm not really one to complain. But something's been eating at me lately. It's a book I've run across. Aladdin, Aladdin, with his old lamp and that corny genie in it.
Don't think I'm jealous. No. Only I do think I deserve a better break against that genie with the whiskers. Imagine, writing books about him. And not even mentioning me!
I'm a modest fellow. But let's face facts. That goon doesn't even belong in the same league with me. Why I could give him cards and spades and still come up with more miracles per kilowatt hour than he could perform in a thousand and one nights.
My trouble is that you folks take me for granted. When I heat your electric iron, or chill your refrigerator, or pop up your toast, or clean your rugs, you expect it of me. But let that dopey genie do anything and right away somebody writes a book!
Ah me! Also, woe and alas! But don't think I'm going to sulk. I'm used to being taken for granted. I'll go right on being at your service, day and night. But I just had to get this gripe off my chest!
Faithfully yours,
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