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University Daily Kansan Friday. May 2, 1958
Third Time Is A Charm
"Third time is charm, we hope." Rep. William Mitchell (R-Reno) Republican floor leader, said Wednesday when making the motion to override the veto Gov. George Docking had placed on the bill to increase the sales tax.
He was speaking of the two previous vetoes by Docking of sales tax bills. The first one was during the 1957 legislative session and the next one was during the 1958 budget session.
The financial situation in Kansas has not been a healthy one for the past five years. We have continually appropriated more than we have taken in. Last year the deficit ran to almost $20 million.
"We are adding more than a million dollars a month to an almost unbearable debt." said Rep. Jess Taylor, speaker of the House, in urging members of the House to override the sales tax veto.
As the political situation in Topeka would indicate, with a Democrat governor and Republican majority in the legislature, there were two completely different tax programs presented.
The administration proposed an increase in income taxes and corporate taxes and a severance
The budget session ended in a deadlock because neither side would give in to the other. Now in the special session a compromise has been accomplished. The governor's pet peeve was passed but the finance picture for the state appears at least somewhat brighter.
tax to broaden the tax base of the state. The Republican majority in the legislature again wanted an increase in the sales tax.
But again, what of the future? Most of the legislators realize that the expenditures for the state will keep on increasing. The main increases will be along the lines of education with a large increase in enrollments at all levels of public instruction.
To meet the added expenses the tax base will have to be broadened wider and wider. Most likely the income taxes and the corporate taxes will take the brunt of the tax increase from now on.
The efforts expelled in fighting tax increases are not going to get lasting results. In a few years the revenue needed by the state will require that no possible tax can be overlooked
What's Your Excuse?
Gary Hale
Wednesday the House of Representatives in Topeka voted to override the veto Gov. George Docking had attached to a bill authorizing a half per cent increase in the sales tax.
This has in effect ended the special session. It appears that the Senate will have no trouble at all in finding enough votes to override the veto, since it passed the first time by much more than will be necessary.
Sen. Paul Wunsch, president pro tempore of the Senate, was confident that the severance tax bill, already passed by the house, would reach the floor of the Senate by Friday. Passage of
that bill would raise an estimated three million dollars. Passage of this would also complete the compromise of the two Houses, namely that if the House would override the sales tax veto the Senate would pass the severance tax.
The estimated 13.2 millions from the sales tax, 6 millions from income tax, and 3 million from the severance tax in additional revenues will balance the current expenditures. This hasn't happened in four or five years in Kansas.
Evidently the financial problem is solved (or the present, but what about the future?
Reflections At Finals Time
Final exams are nearly upon us. Now is the time to practice the great art of rationalization to atone for all the D's and F's. The following is a handy guide for finding plausible excuses in otherwise insulting circumstances:
"For somebody who cut class ten times I thought I did pretty well to get a high 'F'."
"I knew the stuff, but the exam was so stupid I couldn't put down what I knew."
"But you see, I seem to absorb the broad general aspects and theories of the matter, and the prof always asks the minute details."
"Everyone in the class is a major but me."
Gary Hale
"I have the class at 8 o'clock."
"This prof doesn't even look at the papers. I know for a fact because I
copied the guy's next to me word for word and he got an 'A.'"
"Sure I got an 'F,' but there were no A's and only one 'B' in the whole class."
"The instructor hates my fraternity."
It's a rare individual who says, "This instructor knows me for what I'm worth."
And then there are those on the other side of the curve who must also use subterfuge to keep themself in good graces.
"Sure I got an 'A' but this is the third time I've taken the course."
"Pure luck."
"I got good eye-sight."
Of course, some are more blunt. "An 'A', Yea, ven, I got an 'A'."
But most often echoed through the hills and across the hill, "Eh...a 'C' . Eh."
And the people you meet... How does the old saying go? It's not what you learn at college, but the people you meet.
"I hear you have some dead wood around this fraternity."
"Yeah, me for instance. But I pay my bills anyhow and that's more than you can say for some of these guys. But I don't care. There are too many idiot wheels in this house anyhow.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"Onc thing about me though, I'm very serious I don't think you have to be sober to be serious. Sometimes I study and every now and then you'll see me in the library, I wouldn't exactly say I'm a real good student, but I do have a high 'D' average.
"BEFORE WE GOT TO THE LAB - WE HAVE SOMEONE HERE WHO WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE MIX PODASIUM PER MANGANATE WITH CONCENTRATED SULFURIC ACI."
"I go in for sports quite a bit, too. I do pretty well in football. I remember once when I was playing for the house. I broke this guy's nose. I was a real bear. But it's kinda hard when you weigh 90 pounds to do much.
"But, you know, what I really like is my good old trumpet. Sometimes I play for parties and stuff, but mostly I play in my room after I make it sound proof. Sometimes the guys don't appreciate it too much. Actually, I'm quite good. In fact you might even go so far as to say that I'm a musician. I wish I played in a band, but no one around here goes in for music, just this guy who plays a banjo. How can you have a band with a trumpet and a banjo? Ya can't. I play with records quite a bit, though; I must say I'm getting better and better all the time.
"Actually that's the only thing I like to do, blow that horn. I don't go in so much for that conventional type mush. I need stuff that loud and ripping. Music has got to rip you. I play so it'll rip. I blow and I blow and the music can just walk over and sock you. It'll knock you right off your feet.
"When I play I can walk on top of all that smoke. I'm out of it. There isn't even any roof on this fraternity house. Just me and the sounds. Cold and soft on red lightning.
"That's really me when I play my trumpet. Otherwise I'm just dead wood."
Quotes From The News
LONDON—Lady Astor, protesting because South African high commissioner John Holloway kissed her in public at a flower show:
"I will not be kissed by prominent people."
Marilyn Mermis
CHICAGO—A doctor, who asked to be unidentified, reporting on advice to Cardinal Stritch to take care of his sore arm before he left for
Rome and cut down on overwork:
"If he had remained in Chicago three more days for treatment, the arm could have been saved."
WASHINGTON—Vanguard chief John P. Hagen on the failure of the Navy's latest satellite to go into orbit:
"It was a great disapointment."
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