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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1943
Armed Forces' Drain on Doctors Threatens Welfare of Small Towns
In a report from the telegraph operator in Telegraph Creek, a tiny northern British Columbia settlement, eight persons were said to be sericken fatally by an influenza type of disease, and the rest of the population of 152 persons were "suffering and dying without medical aid."
This is not merely a regrettable incident. This is no isolated scene of tragedy laid in northern Canadian woods. This is an example of what is happening in communities all over the United States and Canada. Yes, even in Kansas. As all available doctors and nurses are called for service with the armed forces, communities sometimes entire towns are left without medical aid.
In some areas, more fortunate than others, a single doctor, too old for active service, attends to all cases. Now through necessity a surgeon, obstetrician, and physician all in one, the ordinary small-town doctor has often had insufficient training to undertake these important duties. Expectant mothers have only practical nurses to look to when labor overtakes them. Those suffering in communities without medical aid can only hope.
Large cities are feeling the pinch of medical insufficiency. One doctor to 12,000 persons is the best average in the present wartime. Medical attention will be reserved for serious cases, eliminating attendance on hypochondriacs.
It is in the small towns, however, that the situation is growing critical. The best of medical attention should, of course, be given the fighting men. Yet civilians are doing their parts, too. They are holding down the home front, and because of their self-sacrifice and effort, deserve some regard, too. The continual drain of doctors and nurses must be checked.
—J.M.
Pay-As-You-Go Tax Needed to Cut Purchasing Power of War Worker
A pay-as-you-earn plan for Americans to pay income taxes is expected to appear before Congress this week.
This plan, proposed by Beardsley Ruml, New York banker, is designed to make the income tax burdens of the 40 million U.S. taxpayers more evenly distributed over a given period of time. The tax would be paid monthly,12 times throughout the year, instead of one lump sum being paid over the entire preceding year's income.
This sort of plan would be a boon especially to the lower salaried workers who, for the first time this year, will be paying income taxes on war-inflated pay checks. Many of these workers have greater purchasing power than they have even known before. Their living costs, however, are higher also, and, instead of saving a portion of what is left from living expenses for taxes, they use this increased purchasing power to buy personal articles they have never before been able to afford.
The pay-as-you-go plan will keep down the purchasing power of these workers. Not only will it act as a preventive to inflation, but it will also give the purchasing public as a whole
Just Wondering
What has become of the drah-ma on the Hill. The Kansan hasn't carried a play criticism for quite some time.
a more equal chance to buy certain market commodities. For those temporary big-earners, it will cushion the shock of their lower earning power after the war.-D.S.
Whistle Causes Inconvenience By Blowing Several Minutes Late
University students and faculty members have experienced difficulty recently in adjusting their daily schedules to a power plant whistle which insists on blowing several minutes late once every hour.
The lack of coordination between University time and actual time may seem inconsequential, but even a few minutes deviation can be the cause of many incidents of individual irritation.
The University timepiece has a large audience. Why can't it be on time?
An educated man is one who can make the right decision at the time it has to be made. C. F. Kettering.
The only time an inventor doesn't fail is the last time he tries.—C.F.Kettering.
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I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future.—C.F.Kettering.
A new way of saying, "We've got pull" is "We've got suction."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Editor-in-chief...Bob Coleman
Editorial Associates...Dean Sims, Joy Miller.
Feature Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins
Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus Editors ... Alan Houghton
Clara Lee Oxley, Milo Farneti
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
News Editor ... Florence Brown
Picture Editor ... James Gunn
Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager Charles Taylor, Jr.
How to skin friends and infuriate people department: Bob Barton, Phi Psi, has a mania for using his private telephone, which is directly connected to his room. He calls camped females, women confined indoors because of sickness, and those unfortunate ones who never have dates, to his—and their—unceasing delight. Weekends find him hovering over his telephone, amusing himself no end.
And—oh, yes he always assumes someone else's name—usually that of another Phi Psi whom he wants to establish socially on the Hill.
On relativity and such: On browsing through a musty, cobwebbed volume discovered recently in an ancient cellar (purportedly once inhabited by witches and bats), your columnist discovered the following spell. Experts on witchcraft have ventured the opinion that it was used for that lost of-all-lost arts, time travel.
There was once a young woman named Bright
She went off one day
Whose speed was much greater than light.
(In a relative way)
And returned on the previous night.
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That's doing it up brown: Wilma Watson, Corbin hall, was taking no chances when a girl in her corridor came into her room with the information that she had the measles. Wilma took one look at the girl's face and rushed for the medicine cabinet where she gargled a whole bottle of Listerine.
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Retribution: Your columnist has had two wisdom teeth removed in the last two weeks. When the last one came out, Saturday, the 220-pound dentist—a former champion wrestler—dropped into a chair with a sigh of relief.
"Jim," he said, "You're killing me."
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A new variation of an old theme: Ralph Dagenais, Battenfeld hall, is wearing a black eye around the campus lately. His story is that it happened in his 9:30 physical conditioning class, when Warren Hodges, the instructor, swung a medicine ball. That's your story Ralph; you stick to it.
Fine Arts Mary Kay Brown Is To Business Jay Jane President, Enthusiastic Senior
The many students who know May Kay Brown will readily agree that she fairly bubbles with enthusiasm. She is active president of the Jay Janes, secretary of the School of Business, a member of Phi Chi Theta, girls business sorority, a member of Chi Omega sorority, and a member of the YWCA
By MARTIN HATFIELD
Although this business major doesn't claim to be a shake-down artist,
Having been many places and seen many people, Mary has cultivated a desire to travel beyond American borders and see life in other countries. She spent a summer in Mexico City and says, "Mexico holds great wonders with its strange language and beautiful scenery." She liked especially the beauty of the floating gardens located outside of Mexico City.
A senior in the School of Business, Mary is eagerly seeking the opportunity for a job somewhere in the West, preferably in personnel work. Mary is engaged to Bert Dickerson, but says she, "he is awaiting call into the service, so our plans are uncertain for the duration."
Mary is fond of classical music, and she plays it as well. Until her junior year Mary majored in piano. The word versatile might well fit her, for she jokingly speaks of herself as being "about as accomplished on the violin as Jack Benny's understudy." Her favorite dance band is Harry James.
she enjoys the rhumba. She credits this to her visit to Mexico.
Every summer for the past ten years, excluding last summer, Mary has spent the summer months either on the west coast or riding horseback and hiking in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. What little time remains after school work and activities, Mary uses for equitation and drinking cokes.
This likable girl indicated her desire to live in a city about the size of her home town, Wichita. "New York and Chicago are too overgrown but Seattle would be just right."
"Although I don't really intend to fly I do possess a secret desire to do so." Mary thinks that post-war aviation will affect every car owner and become the biggest transportation development.
Grand Coulee Dam Is Reservoir
Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, Washington, creates a reservoir 151 miles long. It is the key structure of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project and will furnish water to irrigate 1,200,000 acres of fertile arid land now largely sagebrush.
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