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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940
The Kansan
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From Chicago—The nation's milling industry is ready to manufacture flour impregnated with rich, health-loaded vitamins—the most revolutionary step in 75 years in the age-old process of bread making.
So now bread, the "staff of life," becomes the "guardian of health," and the "builder of beautiful bodies."
From New York—A huge show of western hemisphere style trends hailing New York as the world's style capital proclaims the glamor girl as old-fashioned as her great aunt's bustle, and the "vitamin girl" her successor.
Processors are awaiting only the official sanction of the pure food and drug administration before they begin to make and market the new "superflour."
PLEASE, KEEP THIS QUIET
To meet the demand for white bread, millers have for years been grinding out the properties that contain most of the vital elements—thiamin, riboflavin and nicotinic acid. Vitamins will now be returned in synthetic form. The cost has only recently become low enough to make this possible. Thiamin has been lowered from $700 to 80 cents a gram.
Perfect women will probably be developed from simple diets of bread and milk, and they will undoubtedly have sons who will all be "Supermen"—and all because of this "superflour."—But, please, don't anyone tell Hitler.
And don't tell the millers and processors, but it looks as if whole wheat bread must have all of the qualities which they grind out of and put back into this new kind of white bread.
THE OLD ARMY GAME
Churchill now comes out with the statement that Britain can only win an "uneasy peace"—if the United States does not pitch her planes, production, and privates into the ring, and quickly.
It looks remarkably like that old army game. One, two, one, two; Roosevelt, Churchill, Roosevelt, Churchill; soaping up the skids for that smooth slide into war.
DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE!
- Industry is dancing a merry tune to the strains of National Debt for Defense Production, but just around the corner of the treasury building is that fiddler man waiting to collect.
We may be able to stall him off for years and years. In fact, he might be quite willing to keep right on lending, but you can bet that he will keep on waiting, too. He'll be perched with a Vulture's eye on the golden gleam coming from Ft. Knox, Kentucky, long after his music has changed from martial airs to songs of joy and peace.
He will be glad to keep right on playing because he is getting a very comfortable living from interest on money that the Government is obligated to repay in full some time in the future.
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In 1940 the fiddler's income was $1,040,935,-696.71. His estimated "take" for 1941 fiscal year will be $1,100,000,000. Estimated for 1942, $1,-225,000,000.
A billion and a quarter dollars for interest on the public debt in 1942! And there is talk every day of lifting again the legal limit for the national debt.
LETTERS★
Total receipts from taxes on individual incomes and estates is expected to reach almost two billion by 1942, after a very considerable stiffening of the rates. Even so, considerable more than one half of the gross amount expected from individual and estate income taxes will be written off for interest on borrowed money.
The proposed budget for 1941 is $ 17 \frac{1}{2} $ billions—10 billions for defense—and the President promises that this is only the beginning. Present spending is beyond anything our fathers even dreamed. Public debt can be expected to rise to heights of staggering unreality.
The huge amount we are now paying yearly in interest is a grim reminder that the fiddler plays infectious music while the party is in full swing but he drives a hard bargain and he has a cold, cold business heart on the morning after.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Friday, Jan. 10, 1941 No.68
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room of the Union building. All students, graduate, and faculty members are welcome.-Patricia Neel, secretary.
KAPPA PHI; There will be a meeting this evening at 7 o'clock at the home of Mrs. E. F. Price, 1209 Tennessee. Everyone be sure and come—K. Schaake, publicity chairman.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: There will be a meeting Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 8 o'clock in the Pine room.Jim Burdge, secretary.
ROGER WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: There will be an important business meeting at 9:45 Sunday morning of the University class. At 6:30 there will be a "Dad" Elliott union meeting at the Union Building. Please attend.-Stanford Splitter, president.
PHI CHI THETA: Initiation services will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Old English room, Tuesday, Jan. 14.—Marjorie Newmann.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB: Tryouts for new members will be held at 4:30 Friday, Jan. 10, and at 4:30 on Tuesday, Jan. 14, in room 306 Frank Strong hall—Irene Peabody, director.
Y. M.-Y.W.; There will be a Y.M.-Y.W. skating party Friday from 9:30 to 12 p.m. Admission will be 15 cents. All Y.M. and Y.W. members are invited.—Helen Martin.
SQUARE DANCING: There will be square dancing this evening at 7:30.-Ruth Hoover.
NOTICES
Jan.24 on The Hill: Quiz Kaleidoscope
By BETTY COULSON
January 24, 4 a.m. Final week on the Hill! Two sorority girls in flannelette pajamas stumble into an icy sleeping porch mumbling the last five classifications of rocks for Geology. . . On Tennessee street, a Phi Beta Kappa climbs grudgingly out of bed, shuts off his alarm clock, and reaches for a stack of class notes. . A tired waiter at Miller's sweeps up bits of broken glass. . . A page of history notes blows off $ ^{\circ} $ the Hill! An English poetry class throws quiz books on the hill.
January 24, 8 a.m. Final week on the Hill! A white-haired professor sorts out mimeagrapher quiz sheets in Fraser. . . . A red-eyed freshman dashes into Rowlands for a quiz book... A senior lights a cigaret with shaking hands. . . . Two boys try frantically to get their flivver started in front of an apartment house on Missouri street. . . Six girls huddle over notes by a water fountain in west Frank Strong. . . The Chancellor strides calmly into his office. . Someone on the steps of Marvin mutters, "I took benzedrine sulphate at 3 o'clock." . . . A student waiter at Brick's whispers, "Take my place, will ya? I've got a final this hour."
January 24, 10 a.m. Final week on the Hill! An instructor paces monotonously up and down the aisle in Green Hall. . . A fraternity man with no quizzes today turns over luxuriously in bed out West Hills way. . . A young professor writes "Question 19" on the blackboard of a room in Frank Strong. . . A frail-looking girl borrows ink desperately in Myers Hall. . . A frowning engineer in Marvin runs his fingers nervously through his rumpled hair. . . 40 students clamor for the same book in the library. . Two girls and two boys play bridge in the Union. January 24, 12 a.m. Final week on
the Hill! An English poetry class throws quiz books on the desk. . A French professor says, "I'll have to have your papers, please." . . A tall red-headed girl grins wearily, "Well, that's 'nother one I've flunked. . . Groups leave rapidly. . Someone in accounting class makes a quick computation. . . A girl's white mitten lies forgotten on the floor in Snow Hall.
... A lame professor drops a postcard on his way to the office. ... A fellow meets his roommate's "How was your quiz?" with "You've got me. I probably flunked. But at least it's over."
University seniors interested in the junior professional assistant examination may make applications now which will be accepted in Washington, D.C. The type of job and salaries differ; some of the available jobs are as follows:
Dental laboratory mechanic, assistant dental laboratory mechanic, dental hygienist, $2,000 and $1,620 a year, respectively.
Metallurgical engineer and metallurgist, various grades with salaries ranging from $5,600 to $3,200 a year.
Junior calculating machine operator, $1.440 a year.
Seniors May Make Exam Applications
Junior professional assistant, $2,000 a year.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
After he got four tickets for parking in front of the hospital, Phi Psi pledge Charles Ege had to face police court. The fine was sizable, so Ege decided to think before he paid.
Crippling to the hospital with a bad leg, (which he insists was genuine), he asked for a permit to park in front of the hospital at any time.
He got it.
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Since it was announced that Fred Gades, Delta Upsilon, would be a contender in the Golden Gloves tournament, his position in the house has been powerful. Actives as well as freshmen respect him and hope he will pull all punches.
At the Phi Gam and Phil Delt houses several boys are trying to forget dollars sunk recently in fines for parking.
Niell Lysaught, Delta Chi, pulled a boner Wednesday night. He was presented a sweater by Lorraine Peacock, formerly a Theta here and now at Ottawa U. Lorraine told him that he would probably flunk out of school because of the sweater.
Not getting it, Lysaught asked her if she had cut an important class to buy it.
The swater had been painstakingly hand-knit by Lorraine herself. The lady was irate.
Bill Farmer has been worrying lately because he has not been getting any publicity. Stop worrying, Bill. This is some.
Joe McAnarney, who fronts and arranges for Clyde Bysom's band and also does arranging for the University band, is back on campus. When his draft number came up, he had to leave. He had a close call, but Bysom fans need not fret, because he'll be here the rest of the year.
In sorority houses bull sessions are turning from the "marriage before war" topic to "who shall be Valentine queen?" All candidates will be selected by Saturday.
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