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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1943
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Will People in Future Years Remember Victorious Day Ending War and Chaos?
Some beautiful day, a year, two years, three years in the future, whistles all over the land will begin to shriek, factory whistles, air raid sirens, and little penny whistles; bells will clang and clash, school bells, church bells, big bells, little bells, cow bells; a people gone mad with relief and joy will dance into the streets and shout themselves hoarse—for on that day the war will be over.
After an hysterical day and night, the world will gradually, imperceptibly slip back into the ways of peace. The great gears of war factories will grind to a stop; for a while the smokestacks will no longer belch their fumes across the land, while the production lines retool. One by one the warriors will drift back into society; some maimed, some whole. Some never will return. The signs of war will disappear. We will forget. The war will be over.
The war will be over. The guns, the long, snarling mouths of death, will be silent. Silence will lie like a sodden blanket over shell-pocked btatlefields. Silence will bloom like poppies above the dead. The world will be at peace after a decade of world cataclysm, a decade unequaled in the history of man. The world will be at peace once more. The war will be over.
We will forget what we fought for. We will forget what the millions died for. We will forget the menace of the Nazi and the Jap. We will forget our promise to ourselves to make this the last. We will forget—a hundred things that we ought to remember. And some day someone will ask us, and we will say: "What war?"
There will be some to remind us, dreamers, prophets, statesmen. They will try to mold a better world out of the chaos of the victory. They will try to get the people behind them, get them to throw their weight behind the movement for world peace now and forever. They will try to remind us of the fight. And on that day when it is up to us to cast a ballot or to lift a voice, will we remember? The day will come.-J.G.
Congress Turns Back on Bill Enforcing Salary Limitation
The United States Congress has, with its erasure of the President's salary limitation, at last shown beyond a doubt just where its interests lie in the present struggle. All the eloquent words of the press in 1942 concerning "the most promising legislative bodies since 1932" are now empty words, for those same legislators have shown themselves unable to arise above class interests and fight the war as it should be fought—as a people's war.
While the President's plan was publicized as a $25,000 limitation, it was practically a limitation placed at $67,200. Under such a ceiling there could have been no want—no need. It was merely a measure to insure that the war would prove of no special profit to any one small group. Wage earners have been placed at a very strict ceiling some $65,000 below this figure, and their demands for increases have been denounced as unpatriotic assaults upon the anti-inflationary program. Capital, however, champed at their higher level, strained and burst that ceiling with the aid of a pressure group more powerful, more selfish, than any Congressional labor or farm bloc.
Just Wondering
If Elmer Davis' charge that meat is being "piled up" in the Middle West is true, why aren't we in the Middle West seeing more of it.
--ever, champed at their higher level, strained and burst that ceiling with the aid of a pressure group more powerful, more selfish, than any Congressional labor or farm bloc.
The President's order was attacked by Senator Walter George as a Communistic measure meant to produce an equality of earnings. If Senate George considers that $67,200 and the $3,000 received by the laborer to be equality, then his mathematics are not those commonly practiced in the public schools of America. Faced with a choice between these two "equal" figures, the Georgian reactionary would probably waste little time in indicating the former.
Senator George declares that millions of Americans like to feel that it is within their power to earn more than $25,000 a year, ignoring the millions who like to feel that from this war there will emerge no new millionaires—no men who have profited while others died.
Congressmen such as George and Taft in the past have shown a touching regard for the salary differences between the man on the front line risking his life at $50 a month, and the man at home turning out his weapons for $300 a month. Now, they seem perfectly willing to turn their backs on the contrast of the serviceman receiving his $600 a year, and the millionaire receiving $300,000.
They can cloak their actions in all the eloquent ravings against Communistic tendencies they want to, but many Americans strongly suspect that Congress has a few tendencies of itself—not the least of which is a dogged determination that this war, when won, will be a victory for the big men in the swivel chairs—the men who stayed behind and didn't sweat—not those who worked and fought.—JDK
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Virginia Tieman
Editorial Associates ... Don Keown, Jimmy
Gunn. Maurice Barker
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NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor    Joy Miller
Sunday editor    Bill Haage
Campus Editors    Jane Miner, Florence
Brown, Clara Lee Oxley
Sports Editor ... Matt Heuertz
By MARY MORRILL
"This is 2315J, Buzzy Robbins, Phi Gamma Delta, speaking. What's this?" asked Buzzy.
The Genesis: Buzy Robbins was called to the phone at dawn. The conversation wasn't very coherent. "What number is this, anyway?" a voice asked.
"This is April, Fool."
Even in the classroom: The spirit prevailed. A professor named Johnson gave his applied mechanics students a shot gun. "This is an April Fools shot gun," he said. Those of you who didn't study are April Fools."
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Gamma Phi Beta: Had an April Fool's day party. It was a very interesting party. Sarepta Pierpont wore a lampshade. 'Janet Hawes and Jackie Starr wore diapers.
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Delta Gamma: Sara Jane Worsley spent many long hours on the 31st loading explosive cigarettes. Thursday morning she woke up without a care in the world and had a smoke. Crime doesn't pay.
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Delta Upsilon: Spent the evening feeling for Clark Henry. Clark had a string of dates beginning Thursday and closing with a lively finish in K.C. Saturday with Nancy Jane Peterson. When he arrived at the Theta house Thursday, Clark was confronted with a huge sign announcing the setting out of the Clark Expedition for the purpose of exploring the great northeast and other things of interest. Editing comment at the bottom of the bill compared Clark to other explorers and said that at least he had lots of hair. (This alluded Bob Bellamy.) Clark was embarrassed, Nancy was embarrassed—but they left on the expedition.
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Alpha Chi Omega: A house boy came upstairs to deliver laundry and the usual call of "man on second" rang out. Mary Christensen thought it was just another joke, so she left the room in a slip, promptly running into and nearly upsetting the man on second.
Kappa Kappa Gamma: Joe Cassidy, Metz Wright, Beta; Dick Rosberg, Sig Alph; and Byden Crouch, house boys, entirely on their own initiative, served dinner backwards, poured water into rainhats, wore overcoats to pass "frozen" articles, sang and danced between courses, threw dishes on the floor when they felt like it, and trumped up the pinning of Bev Frizell to Bobby Blackwell, Sig Alph.
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Honoring Blackwell's scheduled arrival at 7, the four terrors donned skirts, sweaters, and lipstick and became "the line." Blackwell arrived.
He will perhaps be in condition to make some sort of statement by tomorrow.
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Phi Gamma Delta: Charlie Roberts, freshman trainer, was highly displeased Thursday morning when he learned that the egg about which he complained so bitterly, had seemed tough because a piece of cardboard had been fried in it. The chefs—freshmen Warren Bowman and Ned Smull.
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Corbin hall: April fools dinner was rendered confusing by a darkened dining room, chairs stacked under tables, and waitresses who conged instead of waited.
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Watkins hall: One faction began the day right by getting others up at 12:15 for a pinning feed. The farce of it all came out when the foiled ones found themselves munching frosted hunks of cotton instead of cup cakes.
Coeds in War Work ★★★ ★★★ On Home Front
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By FLORENC BROWN
"The women are in it, too," has often been said in commenting on the present World War, and so they are! War Work possibilities for women are numerous. But not every patriotic American female can be "Rosie the Riveter" on the home front or the driver of a jeep in North Africa with the WAAC's.
The things women can sensibilities here for University women range from actual enrollment in specialized training classes to jobs that can be done outside of classroom hours.
The things women can do on the campus are vital, too. Possibilities here for University $ ^{\circled{1}} $
One type of work is with the Red Cross. An organization that is always in need of additional help during a war, the Red Cross has
provided a sewing room here in Lawrence at the junior high school where University students may help with the making and rolling of surgical dressings.
Help in Drives
Another way in which women aid (continued to page seven)