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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
Some appropriation will have to be cut. The one most likely to elicit the least kick-back will get the axe. Obviously the national defense appropriation will be sliced to the thickness of a Hill cafe slab of ham. The trend is toward more butter and less guns. The defense forces will not surrender without a fight and, too, the president loves that bill.
Still more manna from the heavenly fathers in Washington is to come. An increase of around $325,000,000 over the billion dollars in the presidential budget for the W.P.A. is expected. Laying off W.P.A. workers in an election year is political hari-kari of the violent variety. Flood control, river and harbor projects, all are waiting to come in for a luscious share of the Congressional largess.
Just how will Congress appropriate money exceeding the debt limit? If they continue at the present rate, they will be past the limit in
'Roll Out the Barrel'
From a bunch of professed penny-pinching skinflints, members of Congress have changed into a gang of pay-happy politicians spending money like sailors on leave. The latter, however, do not have a debt limit or a national election leering them in the face.
Up until the farm appropriation bill hit the Senate, it looked like "a penny saved is a penny earned" would be our statesmen's slogan. The minute the agrarian Senate upped the bill, kept low by a house of representatives where the urban interests predominate, the lid to the pork barrel was off. With youth hollering "pappy", house members upped the appropriation for NYA recommended by President Roosevelt $17,450,000; an additional $50,000,-000 was dropped into the C.C.C. tineup.
Yes, the coed has learned one of the biggest lessons there is to learn: Mow to do it herself and do it well.
Granted that with Mrs. Roosevelt, Hill women failed to make the list of our nation's best-dressed women, University coeds' slim budgets take a terrible beating and come out with a brand of remarkable, satisfying, and often "yumphy" results—a species of effects the group of actresses,'business women, and potentates' wives couldn't achieve in all the Schiaperelli, Patou, or Lelong originals that Paris turns out in an entire season.
In Defense of Coeds
Criticize the college girl for Irish-stew color combinations and dirty shoes. But admire her for her everyday variety of clothes sense. Bow to the busy class woman who can dive, unmaided, into a closet and don an attractive garb which seldom has to be pressed. Congratulate her for her simple hair styles, her neatness, her group of washable blouses and sweaters, her intelligence in discarding orchids, eye shawodw, and fan-dangles.
Any piece of clothes looks better on a living model than on a coat hanger. The general atmosphere of an exorbitant-priced suit on a 30 to 40 year old is rivalled right out of the picture by the general atmosphere of a middle-priced spring suit on an 18 to 21 year old. The former makes the man-about say "How stunning your suit is". The latter makes the onlooker mumble college man style, "Gawd, you look slick".
no time. More taxes is one way; cracking down on the small business class is another. The business men, as well as WPA workers, have votes. Congress could dig out the silver and gold hordes, wave it around in the air with a couple of "hocus-pocus, diddledy ocesses" and create something that might pass the citiezenry as legal tender.
A way will be found to evade the debt limit if necessary. The present administration has a peculiar will for that sort of a way. After November of this year will be time enough to talk economy. Right now the good-will of favor-seeking voters is first on the docket.
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William Dudley Pelley, the silver shirt leader, is alleged to have entertained plans of marching on Washington and becoming the "white king" of the country. Who does he think Roosevelt is—Emperor Jones?
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 37 Friday, April 5, 1940 No. 122
FIRESIDE FORUM: Fireides Forum will meet at the home of Reverend and Mrs. King at 1100 Ohio this Sunday evening at seven o'clock for an informal discussion. All those who are interested are invited to attend. Lorraine Polson, publicity chairman.
GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE: The last meeting of the Girl Reserve Training Course will be held tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in the basement of Spooner-Thayer. It will be followed by a luncheon with the Girl Reserve cabinet of Lawrence Memorial High School—Eda Paddock, secretary of Y.W.C.A.
K. U. TOWN MEETING: The regular "Town Hall of the Air" meeting will be held this evening at 8:30 in the Union Lounge. The topic for discussion will be "Are We Americans Basically Immoral People?" Everyone is invited—R. S. Raup.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: There will be a regular meeting of the Men's Student Council Monday at 8:15—Irving Kuraner, secretary.
NOTICE TO ALL SUMMER CAMP COUNSELORS:
Mr. W. T. Raney, The American Red Cross Water Safety Field Instructor; for this area, will speak on Water Safety in Summer Camps tomorrow in room 202 of Robinson Gymnastium at 2:30 p.m.-Frank Irwin.
RELAYS QUEEN: Candidates who wish to compete in the contest for Relays Queen may submit a photograph to 103 Robinson Gymnasium by Monday. The queen and her attendants will be chosen by competing varsity team teams.-S. B. Sifers.
SUPERVISED TEACHING: Students interested in doing supervised teaching next year in Oread Training School or in music or art in the city schools, should call at the Education office.-R. A. Schweiger, Dean.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By Marilyn McBride
There's nothing wrong with a premiere that a miracle couldn't cure.
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The parade was two miles long including the spaces between wagons. One coed caught a glimpse of the prairie schooner and decided it would make an ideal trailer to use for conveying her sorority sisters to class.
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Most interesting part of the cavalcade was the chatter of an unimpressed collegiate crowd . . . down Massachusetts came the stars in new cars and the Lawrence '400' in bustles and sideburns. Said the mob: "That horse is so old, it's been voting for the past three years." "Look at that beard! a bigosh tobacco stained one—looks like its been growing since Quantrill's last raid." Haskell beauties: Pocahontas with a permanent.
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All the girls fell for Walter Pidgeon; the smooth indoor type. Kay O'Sullivan summarized her evening with Walter: "Such a perfect gentleman, he picked up one of my gloves and handed it to me while gracefully quoting Keats. He called me Duckie once. Everything was wonderful, except closing hours . . . . I didn't get to go to the Country Club."
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Dick Mize prepared for his role as glamor boy by getting a nice fresh hair cut, borrowing a tux, and brushing up on Wendy Barrie's past by
reading all available movie magazines. Said Wendy to Dick: "An you still with me, baby?" Gullible' Travels: handsome Ivan Cain make the front page and escorts Ona Munson.
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The burning of the Eldridge House must have seemed like a weir roast to the man who burned Atlanta in "Gone With the Wind." Before the fire, the stars came out of the hotel porch and gave plus speeches on their current radio programs.
Immortal words from Hollywood: Pidgeon at the Granada. I've never been so humiliated If I had known this was such charming town I never would have burned it." (back-stage comment after speech, "Couldn't remember the town's name." Said Ona Munson at the station on arrival. "Boys, please don't confuse me with my part as Belle Wailing in 'GWTW'.
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Quantrill wasn't pioneering back in 1863 when he burned the Lawrence hostelry. Five years before the Civil War, an abolitionist-hunting posse led by the postmaster Westport, Mo., rode into Lawrenc failed to find Robinson and friends, so they burned the Fr State Hotel. Legend has it that certain inebriated U.S. Senator . Missouri fired a cannon at the hot and missed it at a range of 200 feet Kansas was a wild and "wet" tory in those days.
Kansas Farmers Face Another Crop Failure
By The United Press
The farm folk of Kansas fared another wheat crop failure today, a failure that they had hoped to avert through spring rainfall, that thus far has not come.
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Instead of rain it was wind and abnormally hot weather and the combination during the past 10 days completed the ruin of thousands of acres, where previously there had been at least a weak stand of the grain.
The climax came early this week, when 80 and 90 degree temperatures coupled with winds of almost cyclonic intensity to blow away what little wheat was left in the western half of the state and in much of the growing regions of Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska and eastern Colorado.
The Santa Fe railroad agricultural department issued a sensational crop report in which it indicated that at least half of the 13,000,000 (M) acres which were sowed to winter wheat in Kansas would be abandoned. Such abandonment would mean a crop of probably no more than 60,000,000 (M) bushels, which would be one of the smallest on record and less than five times the size of the largest.
According to the Santa Fe report,
the winds, provided a climax to adverse crop season, which start last fall when farmers waited in beyond normal planting time and finally put their seed in dry soil lieu of necessary rain. Much of the seed never germinated at all, a more was eaten by such parasit as the false wire worm. Some can up in a weak stand when belaf rains gave it a start in late October and November.
Although the Santa Fe report regarded sensational and was author in producing an advance scam as one and three-fourths cent a bushel in hard wheat on the Boe of Trade in Kansas City, it has been expected by many vet traders, and therefore discounted
In recent weeks, most of the cc imission houses had issued advice in their crop letters to the eff that a substantial reduction in eier estimates could be expected, hot weather and dry winds ca during March or April.
The Cargill company of Kandi City took the view that the shop age might not be as great as expected, despite the recently adver growing weather. "Many late germinating fields may be allowed grow in the hope that a small vi-
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