TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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CAPITAL to CAMPUS
ACP's Jay Richter Reports from Washington
College students—because their "income" is relatively "fixed"—should benefit more than the average person from the Office of Price Administration's over-all ceiling order on prices.
The ceiling on retail goods goes into effect May 18, while that on services becomes effective July 1. Retailers then must charge no more than their highest March price. Here is what will happen to some important items in the student budget:
The inflationary spiral has sent retail prices up 19 per cent the last year. Were the spiral to continue, students would find it tougher and tougher to compete for goods and services in a market glutted with eager buyers.
Room and board—If you live in a war-rental area room and board will be controlled. Some two-thirds of the Nation's population is included in these areas.
Restaurant meals—No price control.
Clothing—Both men's and women's controlled.
Movies and entertainment—No ceilings
Carfare—No ceilings.
Cigarettes, cosmetics, toothpaste, aspirin—Just a few of the thousands of "processed commodities" on the controlled list.
Laundry, dry cleaning, shoe repairing, etc.-Controlled.
Beauty and barber shop services—No control. The government does not recognize beauty as a "commodity," and only services involving commodities are controlled.
You might remember, when the ceilings go into effect, that the order does not wipe out price differences between stores. If a merchant under-sold his competitors last March, he may still do so. On about 100 important cost-of-living items retailers must post signs informing purchasers of the maximum legal price. Also, merchants must give you a sales slip if you request one.
Quisling's order sending 500 Norwegian teachers off to Finnish labor camps in the cramped hold of the S. S. Skjerstad has aroused storms of protest throughout Norway. The 500 were among thousands who refused to join Norway's Nazi Teachers Union, Norges Laerersamband.
When the "Nazi slave ship" docked in Trondheim, it was reported that all the teachers were sick and two of them had gone mad. Even Quilings satellites protested against resumption of the trip. Provincial Governor Prytz wired Quilings:
"Hygienic conditions on board are extraordinarily bad. . . . Many will not be able to lie down at night. . . . Many of the teachers are ill. . . . The water supply is insufficient. . . . Suggest medical examination for all teachers."
The ship was sent on its way after a Quisling physician treated some 100 of the sick.
Kansas Bankers Will Hold Clinic In June
Despite wartime travel conditions, around 250 Kansas bankers are expected to attend the third annual Bankers' Clinic to be held here June 3,4,and 5,H.G. Ingham, director of extension,has disclosed.
The clinic is sponsored by the Kansas Bankers' Association and the University. Credit problems will occupy most attention at the clinic.
The meeting will open Thursday evening with a dinner in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building, at which F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, will preside, and at which Chancellor Deane W. Malott will give a welcoming address.
Speakers during the three days will be Walter B. French, New York, deputy manager of the American Bankers' Association; C. E. Floersch, Manhattan, Kans., president of the Kansas Bankers' Association; H. Umberger, dean of the extension division of Kansas State College; Paul E. Miller, director of agricultural extension at the University of Minnesota; Lawrence Norton, Manhattan, chairman of the state U.SDA War Board; B. A. Welch, Topeka, state bank commissioner; Gilbert T. Stephenson, Wilmington, Del., director of the trust research department of the American Bankers' Association; W. W. Hetherington, Atchison, chairman of the clinic; and Clark G. Kuebler, assistant professor of classes at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
June 1 is the deadline for accepting enrollments for the clinic.
Law Students Take Floor in Two Civil Practice Trials
Two civil cases will be tried by law students Wednesday at 2:30 in the courtroom of Green hall. The first case concerns a suit for damages filed by a spectator who was injured by a foul ball during a baseball game. Attorneys for the plaintiff are Curtis Burton, and John Bremyre. Attorneys for the defendant are Earl Souligny and Chad Case. The judge will be Prof. R. M. Davis.
The second case is the suit of a pedestrian who was injured by an automobile. The case will be tried before Dean F. J. Moreau of the law school. Attorneys for the plaintiff are Robert Miller and Ray Lippel-Bremyer. Attorneys for the defen-tare Douglas Malone and James Malone. All students participating in both cases are second year law students.
L.S.U. Tours South Of The Border
Baton Rouge, La. — Reservations are mounting for Louisiana State university's second "economy tour" to Mexico under sponsorship of the division of Latin-American relations.
June 2-11 is the time set for the tour, which is designated for limited budgets and organized by the division of Latin-American relations in co-operation with the National Railways of Mexico.
Meals en route are the one necessary item not included in the price of $68.08, it is explained. Passengers will have no change of trains between Baton Rouge and Mexico City. Hotel accommodations for the five nights in Mexico City, at the Imperial hotel, and meals during the stay in Mexico City are included in the round-trip price.
There will be four full days of sight-seeing in and around Mexico City with English-speaking guides and plenty of time for shopping and "exploring." Side trips will be made to the famed shrine of Guadalupe, the Toltec pyramids, the floating gardens of Xochimilco, Chapultepec park, and to Guernavaca, famed weekend resort of Mexican society.
No visas or passports are required under tourist agreements between the Mexican and United States governments.
MOST FIRST---fail of itself regardless of the resources of American men and American machines which, backed by American will, would make an ultimate victory certain. It is our principal hope, on our side, that we can so unite and inform and hearten American opinion that the American determination to win will survive any conceivable disaster abroad and any possible propaganda of treachery and fraud at home.
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tie for second among Black (K);
Binning (IS), and Schloesser (K);
height, 12 feet 5 3-4 inches.
High jump tie for first among Eberlein (IS), Ettinger (K), and Darling (IS); height, 6 feet.
Broad jump won by Martin (IS);
2nd, Ettinger (K); 3rd, Black (K);
distance 22 feet 2 inches.
Shot put won by Schaake (K);
2nd, Bliss (IS); 3rd, Black (K); distance,
46 feet 2 1-4 inches.
Discus throw won by Gast (IS);
2nd, Black (K); 3rd, Darling (IS);
distance, 128 feet 8 1-2 inches.
Javelin throw won by Farneti (K); 2nd, Gast (IS); 3rd, Schaake (K); distance, 189 feet 1 3-4 inches. Mile relay won by Iowa State on forfeit.
In the Oklahoma A.A.U. meet last year at Shawnee, Howell won the discus throw and placed in the shot put.
A nutrition course for housemothers or proprietors of sororities and boarding houses has been inaugurated at the University of California.
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Wartime Public Opinion MacLeish Urges Press To Take Responsibility
EDITOR'S NOTE: This material is condensed from a speech given by Archibald MacLeish, head of the Office of Facts and Figures.
Whatever the press may have been in the life of any other country, its significance in the present peril of this republic is obvious. It has been frequently said, but it has not been altogether believed even by those who have said it most, that the real battlefield of this war is the field of American opinion. And yet it is true—and no one knows it better than our enemies. It is their principal hope that they can so divide and confuse and demoralize American opinion that the American determination to fight the war through to an ultimate victory will
Certainly it has played a larger part than government. Under the American system it is not the government which shapes the public mind but the public mind which shapes the government. The duty of government has been assumed to be the duty of reporting to the people any facts in its possession which the people might require to enable them to reach a sound judgment and an informed opinion.
But that hope is a hope the citizens of this country confide primarily to the press; to the great traditional instruments of communication and of information—the press, the radio and the moving pictures. No one, I think, will seriously question the proposition that, over the course of the republic's history, the press has played a larger part than any other instrument in shaping the public, as distinguished from the private, mind.
Press in Quandary
That this American system presents certain difficulties, no one who has given the matter any thought
will doubt. One difficulty is the difficulty of drawing the precise lines between government reporting to the people and the function of the press. The press, in the first few months of the war, as throughout the last, has evidenced a very considerable uneasiness on that subject.
On the one hand gentlemen of the press have felt, although they would not put it, perhaps, in these precise terms, that in certain departments, the government was going over their heads and approaching the people directly in matters which, under the American system, the press should properly handle—if they are to be handled at all. On the other hand gentlemen of the press have felt—and on this point they have spoken with extreme precision—that, in certain other departments, the government was withholding from the press essential information which the press required to fulfill its duties to the people. The government in other words was saying too much in certain quarters and too little in others.
Both criticisms raise substantial issues and rest upon substantial considerations. The government's report of factual information to the country has undoubtedly been inadequate in certain areas. This situation should be largely corrected by the realization in action of the statement on information policy recently issued by the Committee on War Information.
But the difficulty with both cri- (continued to page seven)
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