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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 7, 1958
Library Still Confusing
From the time we are freshmen we are taught to use Watson Library correctly. We are taken on a guided tour, in connection with freshman English courses, through the various rooms and are shown where we may find certain reference material and other desired information.
We are also carefully instructed as to the proper method of filling out call slips. Most of us soak up enough of this library procedure to at least know how to get our Western Civilization reading material.
With all this instruction, something still seems to be wrong. The students just don't seem to know how to return books once they get them. Every semester the library has a large bouquet of hold slips which are sent to the Registrar's office. Students cannot enroll until they have paid their overdue book fines.
At this point excuses come flying in to the library. One student says he returned the books he borrowed, but mistakenly took them to the wrong desk. Another may offer the excuse that he gave the book to a classmate who promised to return it but apparently never did. Many of the excuses are sad and very long.
Just the same, the student must be fined. The book was checked out and was not returned on time to the desk from which it was taken. Only that desk has facilities for recording its return properly.
To avoid unpleasant encounters with the library, the student should himself return books he has borrowed. Then he will be sure they were taken back to the right section and desk of the library.
—Evelyn Hall
Will We Panic?
It is less than two years until the 30th anniversary of one of the United States' worst tragedies, the depression. In the past few months there has been growing discussion that we are again heading in the same direction.
Many of the so-called experts on economics feel that this country will soon be in a recession; next step depression. Their reasons have basis, such as rising unemployment, and an increasing number of workers being laid off work.
On the other side of the fence, there are indications that our economy is still strong. Two such indications are a sharp and sudden rise in home construction, and the rising tide of consumer spending.
1558 is an election year, and all this talk, from both angles, could be just campaign talk. It's not that these facts are being invented, the question is whether or not these points are as significant as they are played up to be.
There are two things about this issue that should be avoided. One is that the administration shouldn't be so overly confident that our economy is still strong that they fail to be prepared for such a thing as a recession. The other is that the other side not twist the facts to prove that there is a recession, in such a way as to panic the American people.
The American people, especially those controlling business, also have a job to do. They must realize the possibility of and prepare for an economic downturn. Yet they must not jump to the conclusion that it is unavoidable, decrease production, and therefore contribute to a disaster that could have been avoided with an intelligent approach.
If the people of this country think there is a depression, whether in reality, there is one or not, they are liable to act as if there is one. Then, like a rumor, the panic would grow, and a depression would be very likely to follow.
He put up a sign on the highway telling how good they were. He stood by the side of the road, and cried: "Buy a hot dog, mister." And people bought.
The following story from a Quaker State Metals Co. advertisement shows the reaction a typical American could have to the talk of a depression.
A man lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs. He had no radio. He had trouble with his eyes, so he had no newspaper. But he sold good hot dogs.
Dartmouth's first intersectional football game was a 4-0 loss to Chicago A. A. in 1894.
He increased his meat and bun orders, and he bought a bigger store to take care of his trade. He got his son home from college to help him. But then something happened.
His son said: "Father, haven't you been listening to the radio? There's a big depression on. The international situation is terrible, and the domestic situation is even worse."
Whereupon his father thought: "Well, my son has been to college. He listens to the radio and reads the papers, so he ought to know."
So, the father cut down his bun order, took down his advertising signs, and no longer bothered to stand on the highway to sell hot dogs. His hot dog sales fell almost overnight.
"You were right, son," the father said to the boy. "We are certainly in the middle of a great depression." $ ^{*} $
Approximately 132,000 South Carolinians are employed in the textile industry.
—Del Haley
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"YOU CAN KEEP THE 'A'—BECAUSE YOU WERE SO CLEVER THAT NO TIME DURING TH EXAM WAS I ABLE TO DETECT HOW YOU WERE CHEATING."
One of the discoveries of the Geophysical Year is that the aurora occurs simultaneously at both the North and South Poles.
Greenland's icecap, a great flat dome cavassed on the edges, covers 700.00 square miles. In some places the ice is more than 10,000 feet thick.
Use of eye glasses increased tremendously after the invention of printing by Gutenberg around 1450.
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Actress Marie (The Body) McDonald, on her off-again-on-again husband's most recent request for a divorce;
"February figures to be released next week will probably show about five million unemployed, but the March figures, available next month, will show a downturn."
Ted Winkler Business Manager
John Clarke, Advertising Manager; Ann Huston, National Advertising Manager;
Bill Irvine, Classified Advertising Manager;
Tom McGrath, Circulation Manager;
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Quotes From The News
"I'm a cultural exchange, but they haven't decided what to exchange me for yet. They haven't got Mickey Mouse."
WASHINGTON—Comedian Bob Hope, on his trip to Russia;
ST. LOUIS—Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell on the nation's unemployment:
"Oh, fiddle-dee-dee. I love Harry and Harry loves me. The children
and I will be waiting until Harry gets over this latest bit of foolishness."
PASADENA, Calif.—Dr. William H. Pickering, director of the California Institute of Technology jet propulsion laboratory, on the whereabouts of the second Explorer satellite:
"There is a great probability that it is not in orbit. It could even be down in one of the oceans."
MINNEAPOLIS — Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, speaking before a chamber of commerce forum:
"Agriculture is neither Republi-can or Democrat, and it must not be sacrificed on the policicial auction block."
New Library Book
"Tales of San Francisco" written by Samuel Dickson.
Seventy-two colorful stories about the men and women, the places and events that have contributed to San Francisco's flamboyant history are included in this one-volume edition of Samuel Dickson's popular books.
Among the famous personalities whose exploits and escapades are
related are Ambrose Bierce, Lotta Crabtree, Black Bart, David Belasco, Shanghai Kelly, Isadora Duncan, Frank Norries, Luisa Tetrazzini, Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The U. S. Atomic Energy Commission has a London, England branch office.
Scared of being boxed into one narrow specialty? Afraid you'll be walled off from the big picture by routine humdrum? No need to be, if you're an engineer. Let Vought's representatives show you why there aren't any closet cases among Vought engineers. Make your appointment today for a campus interview.
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Reserve your career decision until you have talked with the Douglas representative. It may be the most important interview of your life.
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