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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Aid To MacArthur?—How?
Several congressmen and self-styled influential individuals are soap-boxing galore in attempts to raise the public ire; they feel that insufficient aid is being sent to General MacArthur and other forces in the imperiled Far East, and that they can bring about some sort of a revolution or something. The whole idea behind this grandstanding is silly, as well as futile.
The American public is well-read; it knows that the defenders of the Philippines are working on "borrowed time." It is unbelievable, too, that the war and navy departments are unaware of MacArthur's need for reinforcements. It is only fair that we have faith in these departments' consideration of all possibilities. Yes, the existence of "dereliction of duty" at Pearl Harbor has been proved, but that furnishes no grounds for a formal and undying distrust in our leaders! A bad start is indicative of a good ending; we sincerely believe the important lesson has been learned.
Suffice it to say that no methods for sending reinforcements have been discovered. It's the same old problem again. We'd all like to be millionaires (in spite of the war taxes), but wishing won't make it so! We want to, and intend to, win this war, but just saying so isn't going to do it. Strategy must be relied upon, and that strategy must be the result of careful planning, not of makeshift mob-style reaction.
Sending troops into Pacific waters over which the Allies have little control and where perhaps we have even less control in the air, is inviting catastrophe—a tragedy that might be much greater than if we were to lose the Philippine Islands. We do not mean to slight MacArthur's work or his importance, but from a military standpoint, his position is at the worst "bothersome" to the enemy. His resistance has failed to slow down materially the Japanese advances in the many directions.
---O--forced to bear a greater proportionate tax burden than those companies with war orders.
Some persons in Massachusetts are making the supreme sacrifice. They have donated their carrier pigeons to the army for active duty. Owners will probably be gold-star mothers some day.
Morgenthau's Program
The new tax program proposed by Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, will not meet the revenue needs of our country in this war. It will not prevent inflation.
Several facts expose the shortcomings of the proposed program. First, except for excise taxes, it leaves more than one-half of our national income untouched. Morgenthau and the press made much of how the proposed levies would increase the burden on these low-income groups. It would not. More than 50 percent of our national income goes to those who receive less than $2500 a year. The exemption for a family of four is $2300. The remaining $200 could be covered easily by charity contributions.
Second, the program will not aid in preventing inflation. It is designed to tax savings, but it should make it desirable for persons with savings to invest them in enterprises of production. It leaves the volume of purchasing power in the hands of those who will spend it for consumption, while it should cut down the demand for goods.
Third, firms without war orders would be
A sales tax, a withholding tax without exemptions, or a combination of these two, would be possible alternatives to the program proposed, and might obtain the amount of revenue necessary to prevent inflation.—R.B.
According to latest reports, women may be assured that lipstick will not be rationed. But it may be sold in bulk, because metal for the containers is almost impossible to obtain. That will cause a problem, won't it girls?
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Tuesday, March 17, 1942 No. 105
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.
RHADAMANTHI: Because of the conflict with the Quill Club meeting, the Rhadamanthi meeting scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed until Thursday, March 19, at 8 p.m.-Betty Lee Kalis.
The Y.M.-Y.W. group on "Interpretation of Religion" will meet Wednesday evening at 7:00 in Henley House-Hope Crittenden, Student Chairman.
QUILL CLUB will have a dinner meeting this evening at 5:30 p.m. in the Cafeteria which will be followed by a club meeting in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building. All members attend. Important. Jean Sellers, cendantor.
Emil Lengyel, world's leading authority on "Dakar" will speak at a Convocation Thursday, March 19, 10 a.m. The public is invited to attend—J. H. Nelson, Chairman, Convocation Committee.
All girls interested in attending the training course for G.R. sponsors should sign in 103 Fraser or Henley House, Friday, March 20—Letha J. Curtis.
Everett Rich, author of "William Allen White: The Man From Emporia," will lecture in Fraser Theater Wednesday, March 18, at 4:30 p.m., on "An Adventure in Biography," under the auspices of the department of English. The lecture is open to the public--Miss Rose Morgan.
W. S.G.A. Tee Wednesday, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Women's Lounge, Frank Strong hall. Corbin hall will be hostess—Lois Worrel, Social Chairman.
K. U. YOUNG REFUBLICAN CLUB: There will be a meeting of the club next Wednesday, March 18, at 8 p.m. in the Blue Room of the Memorial Union building for a discussion of the club's charter, and to make arrangement for the state convention.-Bob Davis, Sec.
RED CROSS SEWING ROOM—The Red Cross Sewing Room of 116 Fraser is open from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons. Knitters are asked to report to the room in Fraser on Friday afternoon.—Mrs. P. B. Lawson.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Applications for scholarships for fall, 1942, should be made in Room 1, Frank Strong Hall, before April 1.-Lela Ross, Executive Secretary.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Roos, LeMoyne Frederick
That red, white, blue, brown, pink, and green jacket which Prof. F. A. Russell has been wearing to his Engineering classes recently, is a thing of blinding beauty. It looks like an old awning, but it serves its purpose admirably. It seems the professor's classes have been complaining that they can't see him, so this is his solution to a nasty situation. It makes him stand out from his students like the Aurora Borealis in a blackout.
Millard Aldridge has but recently plighted his troth to Comora McGregor to lay off the panther sweat, the coffin varnish, the mountain dew, or do we make ourselves clear? Last Saturday night, poor Millard slipped a little, waking up on Sunday morning with a slight headache. He made his way to the telephone, called Comora, and with a great display of authoritarian nonchance, informed her that he had been to see "Roxie Hart" the night before. Do you wonder that Comora doubted him, when any fool knows that "Roxie" didn't arrive in Lawrence until Sunday? The hitch in Millard's crime was that he had gotten hold of an advance Sunday Kansan.
A. T.O.'s Bill Wood and Bob Erickson are having a racial feud. Both from Viking stock, they are constantly warring over the respective merits of the Swede and the Norwegian. Their brother A.T.O.'s get a good deal of pleasure out of their verbal wars, and pass on this bit of anthropological lore, courtesy of Wood. "A Swede is a Norwegian with his head bashed in."
Marge Rader is carrying on her longstanding feud with Gamma Phi's Helen Wilkins and Jane Harkrader. They put a deagogatory want ad concerning her merits in the paper last week, so in retaliation Margie sent them a great, huge box of live worms one day just before luncheon. Saddest and most ironical part of it all was that the girls were served noodles for luncheon that day.
Inside Ireland--me fayther used to sing to me mither. I call it "R-r-r-rose O'Day'."
Eire Must Be Heaven For Rather Obvious Reasons
By FORREST McHASHBARGER
Saint Patrick's day. The day when the sons of Eire hold sway.
After a quick trip to the Emerald Isle by space ship, your correspondent was wandering through the country-side when he came across a quaint old fellow, who was sitting on a corner of the Blarney Stone, blithely humming a bit of an old Irish folk song. When asked the name of the song, which had a familiar sound, the old man replied, "Tis an old family tune, which
"Ah!" thought your reporter, "there's one mystery solved. Perhaps he can help me clear up this question about the origin of St. Patrick's Day." Indeed, he seemed almost happy to do so, when I propositioned him. Knocking the head off his ale with his shillelah, he settled back so he was comfortable, and started:
"Many years ago, when snakes infested the beautiful shores of the land of Erin, a simple, gentle old man perfected a wonderful cure for the evils of snake bite. It had hardly come into common use when Saint Patrick drove the bally creatures away from the sunny shores of dear old Ireland, thus taking away the need for such medicine.
Just when it appeared that the remedy was to dissappear through lack of use, dispatches from the West brought the cheering news of a discovery which promised to keep the efforts of the old scientist from having been in vain. The headlines of the Dublin Post-Democrat and other leading papers were full of news of the event. The year was 1492. A brave young explorer, Christopher Colombus, had just returned from a voyage of exploration, on which he had stumbled across a place (later called America) whose shores abounded in countless numbers of varied species of the reptile family which had until then been unknown to the widely developed scientific knowledge of the times.
"Here was a supply of snakes
which would have warmed the cockles of the old inventor's heart, had he only been present to witness. There were multitudes of rattlesnakes, copperheads, and other such poisonous creatures. A marvelous field for the development of such an elixir.
Brews In the Night
"Today, thousands are still constantly searching for ways to improve this, the oldest and probably most widely panacea known to marking
the oldest and probably most widely panacea known to mankind. "One drawback has completely baffled experts in this field. While the medicine cures the effects of physical contact with reptiles, equally displeasing and possibly more serious results occur from mental visions of these creatures which it causes. The more the patient doses himself, the farther the illusions go. Not only is he plagued by visions of reptiles, but with horrible hallucinations of elephants of various brilliant hues, kangaroos with four-wheel brakes, eels with neon advertising along their sides, boogy men measuring cigarets, grand operas enacted by mules and horses on roller skates, and equally indescribable objects are often suffered. Science will find a way, though, someday.
"It is fully appropriate that the country which fathered the creation of this unusual elixir should today be outstanding in the production and development of the cure. Not only is their product more advanced in flavor and blending, it also surpasses by far all others in potency. In Ire-
The Modern Design
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