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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1943
War Bonds and Stamps Offer Returns Worth Much More Than Purchase Cost
The second war bond and stamp drive is now being conducted throughout the nation, and every community is putting forth its best effort in the all-out campaign. Every city and town, no matter how small, has taken upon itself the responsibility of raising a part of the national 13 billion dollar goal.
Reasons for supporting the war loan drive are quite evident. In the first place, the money loaned to the government goes directly into the war to furnish more equipment, supplies, and fighting material for the armed forces. Without a steady nation-wide support, production of such materials will be retarded, and the war on all fronts will suffer. In no way can the American people give the fighting boys a stronger vote of confidence than by loaning the money that is needed to furnish them the tools of a permanent victory.
War bonds and stamps aid not only the war effort but also the purchaser. The money put into the war is not a gift, only a loan. There can be no safer investment than that of the government itself. When the national investments in the government lose value, nothing will have any worth. As a saving and a protection for future years, war bonds and stamps are the best method.
Another purpose in war bond and stamp purchasing is to prevent home front inflation. No measure to prevent such a disaster would be too great. To keep the money in circulation and yet have something to show for it, buy war bonds and stamps.
With the nation-wide campaign built on these reasons, the sale has gone forward this week and the University has taken its active part. Members of the Co-ed Volunteer Corps have sold bonds and stamps on the Hill to add the student contribution to the national goal. For each student to purchase a bond is impossible, but the amount with which each student can help in this drive is great. The success of the campaign will depend largely on a number of small buyers, and it is here that University students can support the drive. The CVC goal is that every person on the campus have a stamp book, a small price to pay, considering the dividends.
Fight for Peace Must Be Won With Union and Cooperation
When the war is over . . .
This is the universal preface; all the wishing, all the planning in the world today for tomorrow depends on the "when clause" for fulfillment. When the war is over, we'll get married; after the war, we'll buy a new car; we'll take a vacation; we'll fix the garage; we'll have ham and eggs for breakfast . . . when the war is over. It may take a long time, but the war will be over some day, and Johnny will come marching home.
When the last shot is fired, the war will have been fought; but the fight for the peace will continue. The fight for the peace has already begun, and slowly but surely the minds which will shape the peace are being ranged into two camps, the internationalists and the isolationists. These minds control the world's destiny, and they are answerable to the millions dead
If University band members realize how it looks to an audience for them to sit on the stage and study books during a convocation speech.
--and the millions who have earned the right to live and live fully. Some of these are minds which helped shape the "peace" of 1918 and sold out the world. Millions of lives have paid for the mistake they made. They will have the opportunity again to accept or to reject a plan for world cooperation. Their's will be the choice of union for peace, as they chose union for war, or the peace will be a false one.
A union of nations for peace will have for its great positive purpose the promotion of mutual benefaction among nations involving unrestricted trade right, promotion of industry and exploitation of resources by undeveloped nations not through the control of other powerful nations but through a generous assistance of these nations, political autonomy of all people and absolute freedom from oppression. The great negative purpose of the union of nations must be the outlawry of war; almost universally agreed upon for this purpose is a powerful international army to halt aggression and to prevent the rise of a military power threatening the world with its armed might. The necessity of a world court to enforce decisions of the united nations is also agreed upon by many who are planning the peace. The court will exist as a mediator for disputes among nations. Essentially what is demanded by peace planners today is little different from what was demanded in 1918; that was a good plan, but it was not given a fair trial. By united nations the war is being fought; and by united nations the peace must be fought for if the day is ever to come when the forces to prevent war are strong enogh to forestal the forces which promote it.—P.J.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Editor-in-Chief ...Virginia Tieman
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Gunn, Maurice Barker
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The asthetic side of dating: One of the Battenfeld boys asked Bob Humphrey how long he thought he'd be dating Shirley Sallee. Humphrey said he guessed quite a while—he was only half finished with the book he read while waiting for her and it was pretty good.
At first, horrified by the mercenary statements, Battenfeld, after learning the name of the book, has decided Humphrey knows true love at last.
What else could prompt a red-blooded American to sit in the Gamma Phi library for half an hour every weekend reading "Thoughts That Inspire" before going out?
The fateful question: Clay Hedrick, Phi Delt, was talking on the phone to Patsy Blank, Theta. They were talking about the weather. Suddenly Clay said, "Say, Patsy, would you like to go steady with me?" "What?" gasped Patsy, hearing but not believing. "Would you like to go steady with me?" "What?" was still all Patsy could manage. Clay was disturbed. "Well, good gosh, woman, I'm not going to ask you again," he yelled.
But it's all right. They're going steady.
How to balance one's budget: Gerald Tewell and Charline Johnson weren't going to the prom—it cost too much. But they had to take Tewell's car up to Hoch so roommate Joe Pfaff could use it at intermission.
They arrived simultaneously with the band. They went inside anklets and cords—to check up on the score. Tewell stood at the door and suddenly people began handing him tickets. Tewell and Charline were next seen—in formal attire—enjoying the 5th dance.
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Ways and Means committee: Donna Claire Jackson, Dorothy Kintzel, and D. J. Safford, Delta Gammas, walked into the Phi Bet house last night around 6 o'clock, sat down, and thanked all medics in evidence for being so kind as to invite them to dinner.
The medics gulped and wondered.
After ten tense minutes during which residents mentally pictured their masculine sanctity and their point books shot to, the girls announced they were selling war bonds.
Victory Through Onions Gardening Mania
By JANE MINER
From Bob Hope to your economics professor, everyone's planting radishes, onions, and tomatoes for victory gardens mania of the moment, or product of necessity.
With the coming of spring and the rationing of canned goods the movement has acquired new drive, and the hill faculty has not been aloof to it. Many are
Any student who's made a visit home lately knows what's happened to the old home town as a result of this back to the earth movement. Neighbors who in previous years didn't even have any grass in their yards now have half of the ground plowed up for victory gardens. Probably the outgrowth of this will be feuds over who stole whose prize tomatoes. Worse than the loss of your number 17 coupon is the disappearance of your badminton court—thebackyard; it's now been transformed into a victory garden.
Kiernan Comments
Walter Kiernan, staff writer for International News Service, makes the following caustic comment about the situation. Professors and all others to whom it is applicable may take due warning.
"Be careful, it's your heart. And a victory garden puts a strain on it." "Thousands of men who haven't lifted anything heavier than a letter
head in years are out digging their own graves today.
"Old Dr. Kiernan's advice is 'Better go without cauliflower than be buried beneath it."
"They will be pushing up daisies before the radishes bloom.
"A victory garden should be ap-
proached by oldsters. . . and that's
anybody over 35. . . with caution
and respect.
"Dig an hour today and an hour tomorrow. A straight eight hour session with the pitchfork is not for the man whose previous digging has been with knife and fork.
"Otherwise you'll have flowers and you won't smell them.
"You can have vegetables and live to eat them if you have a proper regard for your physical condition.
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"Thought for the day; Easy does it."
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San Francisco, (INS)—Herbert V. Evatt, Australian Minister of External Affairs, said yesterday: "We want, not security for ourselves, but continuous insecurity for the enemy until disaster overtakes him."
Wants Insecurity for Enemy