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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943
The Editorial Page
Freedom From Want Is A Cornerstone Of Peace That Must Come from America
The foundations have been laid for the peace, four cornerstones upon which to build a structure unequaled in the history of man. The cornerstones are the four freedoms, and one of the freedoms is freedom from want.
Cynics may sneer: "The poor we shall always have with us." But such has never been the attitude of America and Americans. America has been the land of plenty, the land of technological developments, where engineers have built dams and skyscrapers, tunneled under mountains and rivers, harnessed the forces of nature to our chariots. Here is where the realization of the ideal of freedom from want must come, from here we must take it to the world.
It will not be simple seeing that the whole world is fed and clothed and kept warm and well. It will not be an easy thing, but Americans have never asked for the easy things. It will mean work, hard work, not for oneself or ones country but for an ideal. In reality it will be bread cast upon the water, for when the world has plenty we have plenty, when the world gets sick, we too will soon succumb.
That it has never been cannot be argued. America is where new things are born. And it cannot be suppressed. Hundreds of millions of people believe in it, the little people, the starving people. It will rise and go on and on, carried by a million tiny hands, demanded by a hundred million tiny voices. But together they will not be tiny, together they will not be unheard, together they will ring out across the land, singing, shouting, demanding freedom, freedom from want.
We can do it. We are the only ones who can. We, in the land of plenty, surrounded by our factories, untouched by war, must do it if it is to be done. And it must be done, if ever war is to end.
We can do it. Like the army air corps: "The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer"—J.G.
Public Asks Davis To Continue Giving Truth on War Actions
Open letter to Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information:
Dear Mr. Davis,
Perhaps no voice on the radio is better known than yours. Undoubtedly the public hears no voice with more confidence of the truth behind the statements made. For many years you have inspired the people to believe in you and give you their trust.
The President has now appointed you to handle one of the most difficult jobs of the war that of the head of the Office of War Information. Through your office comes all the news of the battlefronts, who is winning and how much. You regulate the scope and the authenticity of the news.
Your appointment was received with enthusiasm by the Congress as well as the people of the country. You have given the public the feeling that one czar, at least, is a common person who understands the dilemmas of the man on the street during a war.
Your small town background may have been a basis for your early popularity, but certainly
Just Wondering
--the common sense that you display in your commentating and reporting of news is the primary cause. To put it another way, the trust of the American people in you proves optimistically that they realize the importance of common sense.
If there is really any need to accept applications for a dance manager for next year?
At the beginning, your job was especially difficult. The O.W.I. was a combination of four agencies, MacLeish's Office of Facts and Figures, Lowell Mellett's Office of Government Reports, Robert Horton's information service for the Office of Emergency Management, and part of Colonel William J. Donovan's Office of Coordinator of Information. You took over 3,000 employees and many unsolved problems of policy and procedure. The result has been satisfactory from the public's standpoint.
Naturally, persons realize that much of the news you want to report is necessarily impossible to give out. The American public has been used to free speech too long. They know this, and they want to be as patient as possible.
At the present time you are fighting for the right of the press to cover the coming food conference among Allied nations. Here again you are proving that you are interested in bringing American people the truth and all the information that it is possible to print.
The only thing asked of you in the future, Mr. Davis, is that you continue to bring the public the truth in as near a complete manner as advisable. Keep Americans going at an even keel by informing them on all matters.
Don't let us down!—B.L.P.
The Tokyo radio says the recent talks between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have solved the whole war problem. No doubt, Mussolini was the "silent partner."
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Brown, Clara Lee Oxley
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By MARY MORRILL
Ah-00-00-000-0: John Taylor, Dell Perry, Jim Roark, and Hank Ferrell stood at the bottom of the Delta Gamma stairs and sang, "I only want a buddy, not a sweetheart" as their dates—all publicly interested in other men, came down.
Gerry Powell, Dorothy Jameyson, Comora MacGregor, and Gerry Shaw were the escorted ones. Although it has been suggested that the dates were a foundation for future wolfing, it has also been denied.
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Maybe she was doing research: Larry Hickey lives in the A. K. Psi house with other commerce specialists and Prof. and Mrs. John Sheaks and their young daughter.
Larry was taking a shower when he became electrified by the nearness of a feminine voice. The shower curtain suddenly jerked open and there eyeing him with interest stood the young Miss Sheaks.
"Hello," she said.
Larry dropped the soap and looked at the wall.
"Oh please don't stop," pleaded the wide-eyed young woman, "I (continued to page seven)
How to build a 20-mile bridge ..in 20 MINUTES
Nature in a destructive mood can put miles of telephone line out of service.
To bridge such gaps, while repairs are being made, Bell System men have devised special portable radio equipment.
An emergency radio unit is rushed to each end of the break and connected to the undamaged part of the line. In a few minutes, a temporary radio bridge has been set up and telephone traffic is re-established.
Being prepared for emergencies is part of the daily job of Bell System people—part of the tremendous task of maintaining the lines of communication on the home front.
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