HURSDAY, APRIL 29.1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Benny Falls Victim . . .
OPA Lifts Price Ceiling On Wigs and Toupees
New York, (INS)—"The price ceiling on novelties made of butterfly wings has been lifted," remarked Mrs. Joe Citizen today.
"The What?" asked Mr. Citizen.
"You heard me," replied his spouse. "Also the price ceiling on lightning rods, wrought iron fences and the rental of dress suits."
"What's the big idea?" asked Mr. Citizen.
"I don't know," said the little woman, "I think maybe OPA is cracking. They've let down the bars something awful in the last couple of days. Imagine . . . no more ceilings on shoe horns or sea shells!"
"This is terrible," said Mr. Citizen. "We're in for an awful trimming the next time we go out to buy a wrought iron fence or a shoe horn."
"What did we do with the old one?" asked Mrs. Citizen.
"We lost the shoe horn," said Mr. Citizen. "I think the wrought iron fence is in the top drawer of your bureau. Do you mean to tell me that price control has collapsed?"
"Practically," said Mrs. Citizen.
"The they can get anything they want now for comb cleaners, tie racks, music boxes and glass flowers."
"Artificial fruit, too?" asked Mr. Citizen.
"Artificial fruit, too," said Mrs. Citizen, "and weather vanes, cathedral glass and push cushions."
"Can nothing stem the tide?" asked
edr. Citizen.
"Apparently not," said Mrs. Citizen. "It is running out of bounds. Even wigs and toupees have been recklessly stricken from the controlled price lists."
"Poor Benny," said Mr. Citizen.
"Poor, poor, Jessel."
"They tell me Tokyo has a ceiling on bombs," said Mrs. Citizen.
"That will be knocked off too," said Mr. Citizen.
IOWA STATE----
rowly missed Big Six marks. Two of the noteworthy performances were a 47.4 quartermile by Red Littler of the Cornhuskers and a 9:30 2-mile by Larry Inman of the Cyclones.
At least a pair of duels may bring
out record performances here Saturday. Cyclone George Gast is anxious to tangle with Howard Debus again in the javelin throw. In the Drake meet Debus beat the Iowa State star on his last throw.
Another weight rivalry will pit a pair of 49 foot shot putters—Vic Schleich of Nebraska and Dick Bliss of Iowa State.
Newman Club Gives Breakfast
Rev. E. J. Weissenberg will preside over the last regular breakfast meeting of the Newman Club, Sunday morning after the 10 o'clock Lloyd Svoboda, treasurer of the Mass in the hall of St. John's church, club, announced today. Guests at the breakfast will be several members of the University faculty and six seniors from the Lawrence Memorial High School.
ROOSEVELT RETURNS----
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Barracks, Mo.; Evansville, Ind.; and
Ft. Knox, Ky.
Ft. Riley, (INS)—April 25—Delayed—President Roosevelt, homeward bound from his historic conferences in Monterrey, Mexico, today visited Ft. Riley and attended Easter Sunday religious services with 15,000 men of the ninth armored division. After the services Mr. Roosevelt toured the military establishment and ate lunch with 600 officer candidates at school on the post.
Accompanying the president during his stop here were Gov. Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas, Major Gen. John R. Leonard, commanding the ninth armored division and two other general officers.
Speaking extemporaneously at the luncheon immediately following a vocal solo of his favorite song "Home on the Range," the president commended the appearance of the camp with these words:
"It seems to me that you have a happy home on the range here."
War Gases
Not So Bad,
Dean Says
Detroit, (ACP)—Poison war gases are not the horrible weapons men imagine, Dean C. D. Leake of the University of Texas School of Medicine told the American Chemical society recently.
Moreover, he said, the ordinary citizen may easily take care of himself with equipment readily available in every household.
A wet cloth or handkerchief over the nose and mouth makes a fair mask for gas concentrations civilians might encounter.
Kitchen bleach, if soaked into the handkerchief, will destroy most war gases. If eyes, nose or throat are irritated, they should be washed with a solution of a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of water.
If liquid gas is spattered on clothing, take it off in a hurry and throw it out a window. If the liquid spatters on the skin, daub, don't rub, with a cloth wet with a kitchen bleach, or with soap and water.
KANSAN MAKES----
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student riot of last December, walked off with top honors for editorials.
Robert Coleman and James Gunn won second and third, respectively.
Dean Sims, Maurice Barker, Phyllis Jones, Virginia Tieman, and Matt Heuertz were granted honorable mention.
Schott Is An Alumnus
The Schott Award given to Haage and Gunn is the income from a fund established in 1928 by Mrs. Schott in memory of her husband, a graduate of the University in 1902. He was during his lifetime on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star, advertising manager and sales director of Montgomery Ward, vicepresident of the Seaman paper company, and associate editor of "Nation's Business." He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Guest speaker at the dinner was John Cameron Swaye, newscaster on radio station KMBC, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Swaye related incidents in his career as a newspaper man. Joe Gallagher, INS wire man in the Kansas City, Mo., bureau, and Mrs. Gallagher were also guests.
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Womanpower Shortage Noticeable In Nursing
Washington, (ACP)—Attention of tomorrow's career women is hereby directed to today's number one womanpower shortage nursing.
Public health officials in Washington are gravely concerned about this shortage. Fighting and working America must be kept well. It takes good nursing to do it. Thousands of nursing vacancies now
Industrial Towns Suffer Most
The result is tremendous pressure on available nurses . . . and average of 2.54 patients per nurse every 24 hours including all administrators, supervisors, instructors, staff nurses, and student nurses . . . 10 patients per nurse in tuberculosis hospitals . . . 75 patients per nurse in mental hospitals.
Unless the nation's nurse power is reinforced by enrollment of 65,000 students in nursing schools this year, America faces a real threat of great suffering and loss of life through epidemics, disaster, accidents, or enemy action.
The statistics which picture this shortage are astounding, especially for industrial boom towns near war plants. Thousands of nurses are in demand in such spots—yet hospitals are frequently non-existent. Sometimes even doctors are not available.
The average number of patients under treatment in hospitals at any one time has increased 8 per cent over 1941 and is mounting steadily.
Thousands of nursing vacancies now exist in government and civilian institutions.
The shortage is aggravated by entrance of about 33,000 nurses into the Army and Navy nurse corps, which still require 3,000 more each month.
More and more nurses—65,000 more this year-is the only hope of thousands of sick and injured. That's a wartime challenge to women to plan their lives so that others may live.
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