Inflation Is No More
Friday the people of Lexington did
a wonderful thing they worked a
miracle that the nation's top economists have been trying with much
blood and tears to accomplish for
the last decade.
They stopped inflation. Or so they
say.
And we arc forced to bow our
heads in abject and utter shame,
condemned to wear sackcloth, cover
ourselves with ashes and gnash our
teeth continually. For we completely
missed the crux of the campaign
raise in
against the
school taxes.
In our naivete, we thought the opponents of higher taxes were looking
out for their own selfish interests.
Questioning their motives, we even
pointed to desires for second cars,
new houses or color TV's as their real
reasons for stumping against additional taxes and neglecting the education of Lexington's tots.
now-defeat-

ed

In reality, however, these enlighforming the
tened citizens were
avant-gard- e
of this movement of
radical idealism and noble purpose.
Tired of exorbitant prices, sick unto
death of the high cost of living, they
united to stop that heinous force
which is paralyzing the nation's eco-

nomyinflation.
So today inflation is no more. With

one blow of their little ballots,
killed it dead.
We throw up our hands in ecstasy
at the portents of this dynamic action. Lexington will becomf a veristeak dinners,
table paradise:
ciganickel coffee at the Grill,
haircuts, less than 200
rettes,
on used books. It
per cent mark-up- s
staggers the imagination.
cigar, the
Back to the
gasl
movie and
Back to. the Charleston, the Stanley
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might corrupt whole generations of
youth. It would perhaps even precipitate a wave of nudism that would
engulf the nation, thereby causing the
deaths, from pneumonia, of half the
citizens of the northernmost United
States.

We're glad to see the alertness of
the postal officials, their maturity,
their perspective. Besides being nude,
the maja painting was done by a
foreigner, and we don't need such
things when we have such excellent
magazines in our own country, featuring clean, healthy American girls
in all their clean, healthy nakedness.
Matter of fact, we can hardly wait
for the postman to arrive with our
latest copy.

Kernels
A University coed, doing a term

paper for a journalism course, proposed to study the operation of a local
home for unwed mothers. She wrote
the home's officials for information
last week, and received by return mail
an application form for admission.

fool some of the people all of the

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The Vile, Wicked Nude
Francisco Goya, the cognoscenti
and critics avow, was one of the
world's greatest painters, a man who
rose from an humble birth in a Spanish village to the ultimate peak, in
1789, of court painter to the king
of Spain. On his way up he acquired and discarded several mistresses,
the last and most famous of whom
was the Duchess of Alba, a woman
of considerable beauty and fiery
temperament.
Among Goya's more famous paintings, though not his best, is one
called the Nude Maja, a work that
has become renowned because it is
popularly believed that the Duchess
of Alba posed for it. And, for 250
years, popular belief has held that
it is art.
The United States Post Office Departmentthat omniscient arbiter and
guardian of the public morality disagrees, however, and has just barred
reproductions of the painting from
the mails. It is not art, says the department, but obscenity. As such, it
is therefore nonmailable because its
presence in American mailboxes

Kfrotl CarUaa By Bab Herndan

To The Editor:
Whats all the noisee about drinkbng
on campus- - Thatp all I read about in
your papr and nobody has the righh
idea. EVERBYODY fooled up. Whys
dont thos want to drink drink, and
thoes dont watn to drnk dont drink???
Thast what I say, and I got to does
now and go study. Love,

George

Vanishing Loincloths

time."

The Herald, which made such a
"thorough study" of the proposal, completely duped the public. It turned to
a "dirty" word, inflation, which, like
Communism, is handy when needed
to scare the ignorant. Did the editorial tell the voters the referendum
might have lessened taxes in the long
run? Certainly this is a possibility,
because assessment of property in the
next two or three years probably will
make school taxes surpass those which
would have been paid under the referendum.
I seriously btlieve the chairman of
LHO really meant it when he said the
voter would votQ intelligently if confronted with the real facts. The only
discrepancy is that all the facts were

To The Editor:
That such inequalities can exist in
our own "Land of Opportunity" continues to amaze me. I am shocked,
and what's more, I intend to do something about it.
Application will soon be made for
not revealed.
.,
the proper charter for the
Yes, the Herald and the LHO chairand it is my hope that
your newspaper will give full support man should receive a nice pat on the
in our fight. Young men and women, back. By downing inflationthey have
helped foster it.
too interested in being charter memBill Neikirk
bers may address:
Society for the Procurement of the
Students And Spindletop
Everlasting Right for Males to Drop
the Loincloth in Artistic Assemblies; To The Editor:
I notice the Students' Party proBox Y, Baretown, Kentucky.
P.S. Baptists need not apply for poses to attempt to obtain use of
membership.
We are expecting recently purchased Spindletop man(them) to give us full support when- sion for student use. I was fortunate
enough to visit the mansion recently,
ever it is needed. and it made quite a lasting impression
Cezan B. Anthony
so much so that I am prompted to
say that any student use, with the
'Inflationary' School Tax
possible exception of a worship servTo The Editor:
ice, of the mansion would be a defileschool-tareferThe defeat of the
ment of the highest order. The house
endum Friday perhaps may not hurt is of such magnificence that even stuUniversity students too much, but dent receptions, teas or formals, not
the methods used to influence Fri- to mention something as unrefined as
day's voting were too disgusting to an after-gam- e
open house, could only
leave without comment.
result in marring a thing of beauty.
An editorial in the Lexington Herald
I don't know exactly what the Stuon Friday said defeat of the proposal dents' Party meant by suggesting that
would help curb inflation here. A students have access to Spindletop,
statement by the chairman of the Lex- and I have no idea what useful purington Home Owners, after the pro- - . pose the University can put the manposal was defeated, also said the prosion to. But better to let the house
posal would help curb inflation. He remain empty and idle a year or two
also said defeat of the referendum was until some good idea is decided upon,
a "public indictment" of the presenrT than to let a spilled drink or a loose
heel-taLexington educational program.
make one mark on that house.
The Herald and the LHO chairman
Readers can vote for the Students'
to be congratulated. They both Party if they like, but I hope not for
are
have done something Ben Franklin that reason.
said could be accomplished: "You can
Gurney Norman
S.P.E.R.-M.D.L.A.A-

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Other Editors Speak:

The Real Trouble In Harlan
Unless or until other information
is forthcoming, it must be deduced
that the request to President Eisenhower for troops by the attorney for
some Eastern Kentucky coal operators was largely a play to call public attention to an
unsettled
strike. Gov. Chandler declares he has
received "no' reports of any incidents
which would warrant sending troops
there" that state police have the situation in hand.
Not that violence has been absent.
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The strike center is Harlan County,
made famous in the 1930s as "Bloody
Harlan," lying in a region where,
traditionally, men tend to settle their
own quarrels, and dependent upon
an industry with a history of militancy
centuries-old- .
But even operators say
that today is not like the bitter days,
of 20 years ago.
The significance of the Harlan situation lies in the extent of the economic distress and the inconsistent
role of the United Mine Workers. Before the strike, 13,000 of the county's
56,000 residents were receiving fed

eral surplus food; 4,000 had exhausted
their unemployment benefits. Yet the
UMW is striking for a wage increase
of $2 a day.

The UMW has helped raise the
status of the coal miner enormously.
Its welfare activities are considered
outstanding. It is said to have deposited $1 million in local banks to
aid its striking members in the present
situation. And, knowing something of
how hard it is for a union to restore
wage rates once lowered, one can
hardly expect the UMW to volunteer
a wage cut as a first move.
But to demand an increase in the
face of the coal fields' unemployment
and then to throw more men out of
work by a strike makes no discernible
sense. That appears to place the
UMW pointedly under the onus of
which labor economist Sumner II.
Schlichter recently warned the whole
union movement: of simply "getting
more and more for the best-paiworkers in industry." The Christian

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Jim Hampton, Editor-in-ChChief Neas Editor
Larhy Van Hoose, Chief Sports Editor
Ferry Ashley, Business Manager
Nohman McMuuin, Advertising Manager
Billie Rose Paxton, Society Editor
Cohdon Baeh, Ptuytocrapher
Hank Chapman, Lew King, Skip Taylor And Bob Hekndon, Cartoonists

Bill Neikirk,

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Science Monitor.

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