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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY MARCH 14. 1932
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932
TAXES GO UP
With the preparation of the new tax bills, Congress is thrust again into a most uncomfortable position. A huge deficit must be made up and the national budget must be balanced. Accomplishing this imposing task must result in offense both to lobbying "intests" and to an already over-burdened and critical public.
The proposed tax measure is 'one which will strike directly at the flattened pocketbooks of the great mass of people. Its principal feature is the sales tax, by which it is hoped to raise approximately half of the necessary 1.094 million dollars. The sales tax is a sound move, widely recommended by economists, but one which will ultimately be passed on to the consumer by necessitating higher prices for the goods which he buys.
Broadening and increasing the income tax requirements will make them affect a much larger number. Hugh incomes no longer offer lucrative opportunities for placing tax burdens where they will be felt least heavily. Lowering the exemptions will bring several million more taxpayers inside the fold. Taxes on amusements and similar incidentals also are planned.
The complex tax system under which the United States is governed is making its evils felt with increasing power as all its units struggle to keep alive. The utmost economy in all branches of government is called for if taxpayers' strikes are to be limited. Political heads should fall unsurprisingly in a drastic consolidation and reorganization of overlapping and unnecessary taxing agencies. "Pork barrels" should be nailed tight, and expenses should be pared to the bone all down the line.
Political expediency makes a constructive economy program difficult to realize, but the dizzy climb of American governmental costs must slow down if government is to avoid disaster. Borrowing is only a temporary and a dangerous resort. It cannot be used to pay current expenses without menacing all-important credit standings. Economy is the only solution. Lavishness and waste must give way and politics must be pushed into the background. The legislators of today carry a tremendous responsibility. Their way is likely to be anything but a happy one.
PENS THAT TREMBLE
Do K. U. students interested in writing fiction or poetry have an inferiority complex?
Apparently they do. Quill and Rhadamanti, literary and poetry societies, have had so few tryouts during the second semester that they have extended their deadlines.
Neither society seeks professionals. One does not have to be a Sandburg, a Parker, a Kipling, or a Ben Ames Williams in order to become a member.
But they are looking for students who have ability to write and sincere desire to develop that ability. Tryouts are conducted in such manner that the sensitive applicant is spared humiliation in case his manuscript is returned. And in case the applicant is invited to become a pledge, he wins entry into a group that can do more than any other group on the campus to develop and encourage literary work.
IF THEY WIN, THEY LOSE
One of the most ridiculous aspects of the Japanese-Chinese war is revealed by comparison of the population of the two nations.
There are a million people in Japan, while there are more than 375 million Chinese. Further, eight hundred thousand of the Japanese are Koreans. The ratio is 375 Chinese to one Japanese.
If Japan wins the war and attempts to rule China, it is highly probable that the conquered will absorb the sonquerrors, that Japan's war lords will win while her people will lose their nationality.
STUDY NATURE AND NOT BOOKS
Learning from the enecyclopedia that the hide of a hippopotamus is not only two inches thick but also insensitive, the keeper of Swope Park zoo at Kansas City, a veterinarian, set about inoculating Cleo, the 3,800 pound hippo, with nothing more to distract her feminine mind than a bundle of bail. At first touch of the needle Cleo turned on her attendants and sent them out of her cage.
The authority of the encyclopedia is beyond question. There is no reason for Cloe's disliking the friendly keeper. That leaves only one factor in question. The offering to distract her mind.
Naturally one wonders what flaw is to be found in the keeper's technique. Why should the thick-skinned hippo resent such altruism?
Don't it possible that in this day of fifty-cent orchids, bonbons at two pounds for a dollar, and perfume at the lowest price in history, the keeper could have found something more suitable for a lady with a wisp of hay?
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
The great army of American comic characters is one of the phenomena of American culture. The characters, be they grown men, school boys, or infants in arms, are often painted by age. They seem to have drawn from the mythical landscape for which Ponce de Leon searched.
Garoline Alley is the only national comic that progresses. The characters in it actually grow. Sheezix has grown from a baby, who was found in a basket, to a young school boy. Cooky, the new-
The Katzenjimmer Kids seem to be of a race of imp. They never grow in size, neither do their minds develop above the state of their original imbecility. They persist in the entices that brought laughs from us when our fathers read the Sunday paper to us. The Inspector, who was an old man twenty years ago, is still old and still the target for the twenty-year-old campers.
doffed his diaper in favor of rompers and now toddles along in the footsteps of his older brother.
Andy Gump his drives the same car since his advent into the colored supplement. Chester has continued to go to school and keep his childish size and figure. All seem to forget about growing. They surely must have some supernatural power that keeps them in this size of immobility for so many years.
Mutt and Jack have never tipped of playing pinch in the Lion Tamer's club. Ciceroy, the son of Mutt, has never passed his fifth year. Jigg has been on the receiving end for years and never aged a month.
Toes are coming out this season with a manicured effect, says an advertisement. Well, perhaps the manicured effect is new.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXIX
Monday, March 14, 1932
No. 132
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 11:50 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:20 a.m. for Sunday leaves.
COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING:
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, March 15, at 430 in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration Building.
JAY JANES:
There will be pledging at the Cube.12 room at $30 Thursday followed by dinner and initiation. Attendance is required. All those unable to attend must be admitted as a substitute.
NELL REZAC, President.
KAPPA PHI:
There will be a regular meeting Tuesday, March 15, at the cafeteria at 5:30, followed by a the meeting at Morgell Hall at 8:45. All activities and pledges will be announced on Monday.
MacDOWELL FRATERNITY
MacDowell fraternity will hold its next regular meeting Tuesday evening, March 15, at 8 o'clock in the rest room of central administration building. Members from the design and painting department will have charge of the program. IUDOLPH WENDELIN, President.
Snow zoosyl club will meet Wednesday, March 14 at 6 p.m. De Tufl
f the department of chemistry, will address the club, discuss some phase of
biology for the day.
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB;
U A A
W. A. A. meeting will be held Wednesday at 4:30, Nomination of officers.
ELIZABETH BRYAN, President.
Campus Opinion
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Editor Daily Kansan:
(Kanman, of March 9). the directory supplement is being published at a cost of $82.00 less than the bid accepted by the directory manager. The item stated that the publishers are waiting for more copy. Why? G. C.
As to publication dates of this and previous directories, what criteria do we have for comparing date of publication except directories published by managers of the same political party or by other sources? In checking last year's directory wrong in checking telephone numbers with the city directory causing later publication, or was the present manager wrong, or was it political expediency?
Tries Youthful Trick
According to the latest information
Cercailand, March 14—(UP)—An attempt to "cut a figure eight" rool skates as he did some 20 years ago, brought W. J. Baird, superintendent of schools at Formica, a fractured ankle when he slipped and fell. Baird is now walking on crutches and school poses for photos while skating misdept in it whimsily.
15 On the Hill Years Ago
March 14. 1917
Count Ilya Tolstoy, broad shoulders, ranged of countenance, told of his father's burning love for humanity and his bravery in facing death. Prince yesterday. He told of his father's struggles because of his strong passions and his ardent love for a woman he knew. Leo Tolstoy, a man of eighty-two years of age, who gave up all his possessions and fed the world that he might not have to die, was in remarkable善 with his surroundings.
The biggest liar on the hill—the physics cloak.
"Opinion in the United States concerning our foreign policy has undergone a revolution during the last six decades," he said. "The department of the department of history, who will lecture on 'Foreign Policy' in Fraser hall tomorrow, Precede Davis is particularly interested to modify the Monroe Doctrine and the evident intention of the German and Japanese governments to advance the United States to abandon this doctrine."
Features from the office of Registrar George O. Foster show that the enrollment of the University has reached 3,437.
Plans for the creation of a $200,000
stadium at Erupt University have been
completed. The structure will seat
90,000 persons.
Unanimous endorsement of universal military training was given last night at an informal meeting of republican leaders in a veteran club. "A short period of training for every able-booted young man at a suitable age in life will give the nation a certain salary ready to describe," Mr. L. Fridtjebeck's opinion.
ADVISES AGAINST ONE-ARM
LOVE-MAKING AND DRIVING
Macon, Mo. March 14 (UF)—DON'T mix love-makeup with ear driving is the advice of Capt. S. S. Frencen of the U.S. Air Force, who "love-makeup in driving, it takes two arms to get best results," the officer said. "Don't try to do both a: the same time, and get only half as much fun." You will likely if you ask them one at a time.
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