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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1943
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Official Publication of the Summer Session
Editor ... Dale Robinson
Business Mgr. ... Betty Lou Perkins
NEWS STAFF
As far back as anyone can remember the post office department has shown an operating loss at the end of each year. And, on several occasions, this ever-present deficit has been projected by some Congressmen as argument in favor of increasing postal rates. Such a move again threatens.
Bob Bock, Bouli Perkins, Bill Koehler, Kati Gorrill, Don V. Grief, Catherine Brown, Dolores Suzman, Pat Foster, Mrs. M. Elsie Kirby, Maxine Crawford, Theodore Gray, Paula Reeve.
End of Franking Privilege Would Cut Post Office Deficit
Through heightened efficiency and economy of operation, the department in the last 10 years has trimmed its annual deficit from 112 million dollars to only 14 millions. However, there is still a deficit and as long as it exists it is a potential lever with which some legislators may try to raise postal rates.
This deficit is due entirely to the free mail carried for the many government departments and agencies. The volume of this mail has multiplied five-fold in the last ten years. Last year the postal department estimated that if this free mail had been paid for, it would have brought 72 million dollars into its coffers, wiping out the 14 million dollar deficit and leaving a 58 million dollar profit. Thus it is clear that the way to turn the department's loss into gain and eliminate this threat to rates is to revoke the free mailing privilege and require the agencies to pay postage on all mail they send out.
Three cheers for this sweater weather. No doubt you northerners will join me in the cheer.
Business mail users and private individuals as well would suffer from an increase of rates at this time. A means to avert this postal rate menace and combat any moves in that direction is passage of the Burch Bill, (H.R. 2001) which provides that all government departments and bureaus be required to pay postage on all mail they send out. Active support of this bill would be in the interests of all mail users, the post office department, and sound governmental accounting.
Column
By Ruth Krehbiel (Guest Columnist)
A short tour of inspection on campus and in the Union Fountain produced the most amazing facts to me today, all of which give proof to one of my theories: There's life-a-plenty on this hill, if you know how to find it.
A certain chap called "Dog Ears" from PT 3 has adopted that mellow Southern drawl for the benefit of the girls in and around Lawrence. Thursday night, Lunn made good use of the most potent section of his favorite line book over the phone. The boys discovered latter that the lovely miss on the other end of the line has three cars. Now
all 86 of them are from the south.
No ice in town! Catastrophe for the Phi Bete's initiation Saturday night, but the boys sent recruits to Tonganoxie and produced 150 lbs, so that the event was undoubtedly a successful occasion. The boys on recruitment were sidetracked by the sensational new dance, the "Tonganoxie Shoe Shine." If you have not acquired this new art, send your appeals to the "Filthy Five" Club.
The Kaw Koettes put on the dog in a big way Saturday night. Guests for dinner were Cpt. and Mrs. Nunn, Miss Lear, Lucy Nunn, and John Hayne. Jill Peck prepared the dinner from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Results were delush supreme—real butter, real beef in the meat loaf, and even flowers on the table. The one inch meringue on the butter-scotch pie was swell, but Jill, what
brand of vanilla did you use for that penetrating flavor?
John Rutledge and Reed Whetstone, Phi Psi roommates, are at it again! Friday night at the Dinea-Mite, they indulged in a typical brotherly-love argument until Whetstone fumed up with, "Well, Rut, I've had about enough of this," and out flew the fists. The two bluffs successfully frightened all of the onlooking maids, until Bob Little played the role of peacemaker. Sometimes I wonder about you, "Rut."
Who is the lucky Chi O at K.U.
who was pinned by Billy Lee, P.T.
7? Billy is a Sigma Nu from Washington State. What happened to Hoyce at Spokane, Billy? Signed: P.B. & J.B. Blackmail Service Incorporated.
Lone Star Lake must have jumping with activity Sunday afternoon, because Rosslyn McCampbell (alias C.G. in C.H.) was floating a raft. Margaret Fessler, Alpha Chi, Charles Ise, A.T.O., and Rex Arrowsmith helped make the raft, and about the time C.G. in C.H. jumped on, the poor raft gave up, and spit apart. If you're wondering what the alias
is. just ask Mac.
Katie Bonewits, Alpha Chi, made a jaunt to Mt. Vernon, Iowa, this week end to cheer up the homesick KU. boys who are stationed there in the V-5 Naval Air Corps. Some of the boys have formed the second "Iron Five" basketball team, and (continued to page four)
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