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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
He's Not Complaining
The American wheat farmer, as usual, seems to be facing difficult problems. The price of wheat is just about the same as it was last harvest, perhaps a few cents a bushel higher, but the price of the farmer's shoes, overalls, and his wife's housedresses are much higher than they were a year ago. Yet, he is not complaining.
The wheat prospects in Western Kansas are better than many of the residents ever dreamed were possible, but the hitch is that too much manpower has been diverted to the armed forces or to war industries. The harvest labor situation will be acute. It looks very much as if the farmer and his family will harvest their crop alone (if the sons aren't in the military service.)
The farmer will be equal to the occasion, however. He has put up with a lot since the last World War. True, in the late twenties, he enjoyed a period of prosperity. Too prosperous for his own good. But in 1931 he reaped the bitter results of high prices and over-speculation. He raised a lot of wheat—for 25 cents a bushel. The next nine years were difficult for the Western Kansas farmer. He had expensive machinery to pay for and interest to pay on the land he had purchased in boom days. He also fought the drought, grasshoppers, assorted bugs, and if he raised any wheat despite these obstacles, the price was low. Because of the drought, he could raise no feed for his cattle. Many farmers were forced either to buy feed (expensive) or to sell Old Bossy and buy canned milk.
The first Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 was declared unconstitutional five years later but there were conservation payment plans and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 that tided the farmer over the bad years. Nevertheless, many farm homes were lost and some farmers were forced to go on relief.
Causes of this situation is traced to earlier in the century when the United States changed from a debtor nation to a creditor nation, and the tariff laws were not altered to suit this change.
In 1942, the farmers again will market their wheat under the quota system. Under this plan the market will not be flooded and it will be possible for the wheat-farmer to get a good price ($1 a bushel or more) for his product. He can store his wheat on the farm or in elevators, and, when the occasion arises, he may sell it.
We hope that better days are in store for the farmer. Just how prosperous he will be depends on government regulation and the support given the quota system by the farmers—M.E.F.
To brew a monster capable of leading his people and civilization to the brink of disaster for the sake of personal power, a nation need but follow these instructions:
Recipe for a Hitler
Begin your cookery with a weak, unhealthy democratic government, and add large portions of seething discontent and hunger. A teaspoon of anti-Semitism and a pinch of well-aged belief in the super-race will add flavor. Stir the concoction well with the resentment of defeat.
If it suits the cook's taste, a drop of strong propaganda can be added to the brew. Allow
the concoction now to simmer over a centuries-old flame of nationalist and militarist philosophy, the fuel for which has been lately supplied by wealthy industrialists. When the brew has boiled over into an economic depression, an Adolf Hitler is guaranteed to emerge.
Then let the cook be careful of his own welfare, lest the monster he has created turn upon him and devour him. Then let the cook protect his kitchen from the ruthless actions of his own creation. That will be no easy task.
We think we will confine our culinary efforts to pulling taffy, and popping corn. Thank God all Americans are so inclined.
Humans outnumber all other kinds of animals except chickens. This enlightening information was presented by the general manager of the American Humane association. Anyway we will probably have enough eggs.
---O--position in 1929. By 1940 he had worked his way up to the editor's post.
The boys in the service abroad will have to do without their fudge and cake from home from now on. The Post Office Department has issued regulations to the effect that perishable goods cannot be sent outside continental United States.
In Indiana, a farmer keeps a radio going in his corn crib to keep the rats away. Some programs will.—Carl Brown in the Topeka Daily Capital.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, May 14, 1942 No.136
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
SENIORs—The Diploma Fee should be paid by May 15. Seniors expecting to receive degrees either in June or at the end of summer session who have not filed application for degree cards in the Registrar's Office should do so immediately.—Laurence C. Wood-ruff, Assistant Registrar.
Students who have taken the courses in Home Nursing and Child Care are eligible for Red Cross Certificates in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. Former students who are interested should make inquiry at the office of the Department of Home Economics. Room 104, Fraser hall.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... Kenneth Jackson
Managing editor ... Floyd Deeaire
Campus editors ... Charles Pearson,
Ralph Coldren, Joy Miller, Bob Coleman
Sunday editor ... Bill Feeney
Sports editor ... Alan Houghton
Society editor ... Ruth Beeler
News editor ... Virginia Tieman
NEWS STAFF
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Mary Frances McAnaw
Associate editors ... Alan Houghton
Don Keown, Joe King, Charles Roos
John Hewlett
Don Keown, Joe King, Charles Roos
Feature editor John Harvey
BUSINESS STAFF
Business manager ... Frank Baumgartner
Advertising manager ... Wallace Kunkel
Advertising assistants ... John Harvey,
Guelph, Birmay, L'Morne Fradevik
Charles Roos, LeMoyne Frederick
Rock Chalk Talk DEAN SIMS
Loreta Botkin, Pi Phi sophomore, recently contracted poison ivy on a geology field trip. Between spasms of scratching like mad, Miss Botkin commented:
"I hate that damn geology."
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Heidi (Janet Adelheit) Viets received a telephone call from a local railroad station Monday night.
"Say," the station agent (supposedly) greeted her. "Is your name Viets?" "Yes," truthfully, stated Heidi.
"Does it have an 'Adelheit' on the front of it—and in front of that a Janet?"
"Yes," again said Heidi.
"Well, we've got a big ham down here at the depot for you. I wish you'd come down and claim it before we close up."
Heidi told the man—no one would send her a ham so to forget it.
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The Sig Alph's held their annual senior dinner Monday night. At the banquet-dinner the leaving Sig Alph's bid their farewalls to those staying behind. Following this seriousness, the frosh of the house, under the leadership of Davie G. Thompson, chief frish, imitated the leaving members according to the personal mannerisms of each.
John Harvey, college junior and journalism department inmate, chuckled as he had fun in galloping along the top of the stone wall behind the University hospital Tuesday afternoon.
--position in 1929. By 1940 he had worked his way up to the editor's post.
The the wall collapsed around the still chuckling Harvey. This panicked him.
T. C. "Mickey" Ryther, instructor in the department said:
"I guess its a good thing the wall is broken—children playing on it have been a menace for quite a long time."
Latest communique on the Theta-Phi Psi feud is that the Phi Pi's successfully "stink-bombed" the Theta house Tuesday night.
Complications have not set in as yet.
Stand by.
"The most quoted young squirt in Kansas" was the way the Kansas City Star once described Ben Hibbs, University department of journalism graduate and new editor of The Saturday Evening Post.
Hibbs moved recently from his post of editorial head of the Country Gentleman to Philadelphia to take over the direction of the Post, oldest of the popular weeklies. The move comes at a time when the Post finds itself in the direst financial straits in its history. Competition and the war have cut deeply into the periodical's advertising revenue. It will be Hibbs' task to recover the lost ground.
Those who have followed the career of Hibbs are certain of his ability to meet the situation. Born in Pretty Prairie, Kans., Hibbs received his elementary education there. His vacations were spent laboring in the nearby clay pits, or in harvest fields. There he earned the funds to continue his education at this University.
While on the campus he became a member of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, and served as editor of The University Daily Kansan. So impressive were his scholastic accomplishments that as a senior he served on the department's faculty. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1923 at the age of 22.
However, it was as managing editor of the Arkansas City Traveler that Hibbs began to obtain a reputation in the field of journalism. Said William Allen White of his work there: "He is turning out more first-rate editorial stuff than any other man in the state." Attracted by his growing reputation, The Country Gentleman offered him a
During the following years, Hibbs worked on newspapers in Pratt, Kans., and Fort Morgan, Colo. For a short period he taught journalism at Hays State Teachers College. From there he moved to an editor's chair at Goodland.
Under Hibbs' guidance the Gentleman reached new heights of popularity. Brighter fiction and a livelier interest in modern topics were the chief features of his editorship. When Wesley Stout resigned his position of Post editor two months ago, it was only natural that the eyes of the Curtis Publishing Company officials should turn toward Hibbs.
The new editor's acquaintances describe him as a quiet, hard-working, level-headed man of great energy and determination. These are the qualities which observers are confident will see him through his difficult situation. Perhaps the scholarly Kansas graduate will not succeed in putting the Post once again on top of the weeklies, but those who know him are betting otherwise.
His career is a "straight-from-
American soil story of Democracy
and the way it works," says one
admirer. And from Kansas soil, too,
we can proudly add."
Ferry holl, men's dormitory at Washington State college, has been evacuated to make room for a special detachment of 150 air corps men from Geiger field, Spokane.