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MARCH 28,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Banquets Save Food, Hotels Say---- Nobody Gets Much To Eat At Them
B FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—So President Truman says we've got to cut out banquets to save food. Only way I can figure this one is that he sits at the head table and gets more to eat than common folks.
They also said that if a citizen doesn't eat at a banquet, he eats some place, doesn't he? If he eats at home, he consumes far more food than he gets in their dining room. I can testify to that.
"What is the President trying to save in the way of food?" The manager asked. "About the only thing we can ship abroad is wheat; we certainly can't ship chicken. The market is flooded with chicken. And chicken is what the people get when they eat here." That's no lie; chicken in pants.
paints at the head table and gets more to eat than cornbread at table 59, where Othman always winds up. I never noticed any gorging himself on the half of the undersized chicken in the lace-paper pants, resting on the small $ ^{\textcircled{1}} $
In that connection I have spent this day in the back end of a leading hotel, talking to the manager and his head dietician. They are a little sore. They think somebody has given Mr. Truman the wrong steer. They said that since they have fed the President in the past and hope to feed him some more, they want to keep the name of their hotel out of this.
The manager added that his experts figure out exactly how much a man can eat (and, I'd guess, trim the total a little) at a banquet, so that everybody in the joint licks his plate clean. He said he bet his hooligans garbage pails were lighter, day and day out, than those from a certain house painted white.
wad of gray-colored stuffing. Whenever I attend a banquet that the President also attends, I always have to stop at a hamburger stand on the way home. That's because I'm faint from lack of nourishment.
14 And another thing. The Democrats are gathering here on March 23 to pay $100 a plate at a banquet, which Chairman Robert E. Hanne-
gan says will provide cach customer 700 calories.
The dietician said she felt sorry for the hungry Democrat. She added it up. A 700-calorie meal consists of one cup of clear soup, a small piece of chicken, a scoop of potato, a dab of maybe broccoli, lettuce with vinegar on it, one roll, no butter, raspberry sherbet, and coffee, preferably black because a spoon of cream contains 25 calories. If those Democrats guzzle any wine she'd say they'd never make it under 700 calories; each glass of the stuff contains about 75. They better not have any cocktails before, either, because every one of those has 100 calories.
This meal, she said, she could not recommend, except for fellows who needed to reduce. Take Othman, she said. If I'd eat one of these $100 dinners every night I'd soon be long, lean and lanky. Ah well, I know a few politicians such a meal won't hurt.
The point is, the manager said, that the Democrats could have soup with cream, with gravy, salad with egg, and a big bob of ice cream with sauce. He said our shipments of food to Europe wouldn't suffer. They might even gain.
It is obvious, he said, that every Democrat is going to leave that 700-calorie banquet hungry. He'll head around the corner to get a sandwich. Sandwiches are bad. Use up more wheat than practically anything.
So much for banquets. I'll string along, personally, with Mr. Truman. I can get along without banquets, with or without food.
March 28.1946
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
A. S.C.E Meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Kansas Room, Union Building, Mr. Lee Gemmeli will speak on "The Strangest People in the World." All Civil Engineers not yet members of the A.S.C.E are invited to attend.
KU Young Republican Club meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Pine Room, Union. Convention plans will be discussed.
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Mathematics club will meet 4:30
pm. Thursday in the East room of
the Union, Lucy Helen Buess will be
in charge of the social meeting.
Meeting of the Architectural Society at 7:30 tonight in Room 210, Marvin Hall. All students of the Department of architecture are eligible to attend. Sound and color moving pictures will be shown. Refreshments will be served.
Christian Science Organization meets at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday in the Union. Faculty and students invited.
Kappa Phi will meet 7 p.m. Friday at the Methodist Church. Installation of officers will follow the program.
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Quack Club will not meet tonight.
Dawson Choir will rehearse 7:15 tonight in room 131, Frank Strong.
Russell Barrett will lead a panel discussion at the regular meeting of the Wesley Foundation at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Methodist church. Subject will be "As Vets View Religion."
No Place Like Home, So He Lives in a Car
Minneapolis. (UP) —harry Goff complained to a court clerk that he had not received the driver's license or which he had applied.
The clerk said that the license had been mailed to him but was returned by the postoffice. He complained that Goff had made an error in his address and the license was sent to a parking lot.
"I know it." Goff said. "That's where I live. I have to sleep in my car because of the housing shortage."
They Take Off His Shoes And Call Him a Thief
St. Louis. (UP) — William C. Coons, 22, Pacific Mo., was minus his shoes when he pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny largecyn.
When the judge asked him where his shoes were, Coons explained that the police had taken them away from him.
Police explained that they had to take the shoes because they were their only evidence.
"You see, judge," an officer said,
"Coons stole the shoes."
Washington. (UP)—The Veterans Administration today began a drive to "crack down" on phoney GI training courses that lead the veteran nowhere.
WANT ADS
WANT-TO-BUY -By next Tuesday a drafting board. Please call K.U. 66 or stop in at the Kansan office. -1-FOR SALE — Automobile raido, brand new "Trueone" master deluxe. Has never been used $40.00 206 Lane K Sunflower Village.
FOR SALE: Playground equipment for homes, schools, parks. Direct from manufacturer to consumer. Mail order prices. Two hundred items. Representatives wanted. Delmer F. Harris Company, Concordia, Kans. -5-
WANTED: Student to sell home,
school park, playground equipment
direct from manufacturer. Over two
hundred items at mail order prices.
Delmer F. Harris Company, Concordia,
Kansas. -5-
PLEASE — Will the person who picked up my blue Parker 51 pen with Max Unruh engraved on side in the Elbow Room Union Bldg., Mon. evening, turn it in to the Kansas office. -29-
TUXEDO FOR SALE-803% Mass.
Phone 399. -29-.
LOST—Single strand pearls somewhere between Union and Ad. Tuesday morning. Reward. Call Lona Lou Kelly, 804. -29-
LOST: Black and white silk scarf with roses, Thursday on campus. Anxious to recover. Reward. Call 415, ask for Courtney Cowwig. -28.
LOST-Gray Sheafer pencil between 11th st. and campus last week.
Finder please leave at the Kansan office.
-28-
FOR SALE—Ladies chiffon velvet dress, slack suit, formalms, pleated shirt, full length lamb lined coat, 2 dresses, above are size 10 and in excellent condition. Also man's tuxedo, skirt, full length lamb lined coat, 2 piece Pendleton suit all size 36.1641 Tenn. Terrace. 1405W. -28-
LOST — Library book — Evolution
Today and Yesterday by Newman.
Lost or misplaced in Hoch auditorium.
Please return to library as
book is overdue. -28-
CARAMBA! — DIOS MIO! — these words appear on the silver bracket lost about ten days age in the recreational room in the Union—please return to Marge Vogel 860. Reward.
LOST—A brown Sheaffer pen, near Snow Hall or in the building, name engraved on gold band-Raguel J. Rios. Please call 768 or leave at the Kansan office. -28-
Young man's informal white evening coat. Size 38, price $6. Inquire 914 New Hampshire.
STOP at the Courthouse Lunch for good food. Open from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Across from the courthouse.
LOST-Parker "51" black with gold crown on it. Lost Tuesday downtown. Reward. Urgent. Call Pat Sonnenberg, phone 257. -1-
LOST — White evening cape with
John Taylor label at Bitter Bird
dance Saturday night. Call Ruth
Granger, 415. -1-
Garage and Cab Co.
922 Mass. Phone 12
HUNSINGER MOTOR CO.
For That Coke Date
Remember
ELDRIDGE PHARMACY
Phone 999 701 Mess