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Wednesday, April 7, 1971
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The Legislature's Failure
This year's session of the Kansas Legislature is nearly dead.
Bills on bingo, bowling and basketball occupied much of the lawmakers time, while legislation on pollution, population and progress languished.
The governor, shaking a righteous finger at the solons, admonished them for their failures.
It takes no particular savy to see that this session fell flat on its face. Where to point the finger then?
Who, not why, may be the most interesting question of the session.
The Governor is bathing in his own self exoneration of the legislature's failure
The legislators seem to hold a nonpartisan distrust of the Governor. A few Democratic Senators claim Docking them up as bait on the legislative pay
These charges and counter-charges make for confusion for the Kansas voter.
raise—then presided at their blood-letting.
The revenue bonds will be guaranteed by assessing a fee of $5.50 or $6 per student each semester.
Law and order may have strangled the legislature.
When the Governor says daily that he can't be intimidated and the Attorney General still rides the crest of his campaign founded on fear, prejudice and hatred—rational legislation takes a back seat.
In this game of legislative penalty pellet chiting it is the voter who really loses.
Legislative failure is a complex problem, and the blame can't be simp-
plifiedly piled on any one of the persons or groups mentioned—but as yet, nobody has been man enough to say "we killed it."
—Tom Slaughter
Take heart. Good news can still come from the Kansas Legislature.
Good tidings came Monday in the form of news that a new KU Student Health Center had won final legislative approval in the Kansas House.
Cost of the new structure will be approximately $2 million with an interest subsidy from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
KU was authorized to issue revenue bonds and construct a new hospital to replace the antique, maze-like Watkins Hospital.
The new structure is now in the final planning phase and it will be located southeast of Robinson Gymnasium.
Dr. Raymond Schweigler, director of the KU Student Health Service, has taken
an active role in the planning of the facility, and recommendations of the physicians who will use the building have figured prominently in the plans.
Also of interest to the Health Service physicians, who labor so tirelessly and with such self-sacrifice to meet the health needs of students, is a related bill passed by the Legislature. This bill transfers physicians serving students from mass hospitals to institutions that offer better salaries for the doctors, who are prohibited from maintaining private practices to supplement their below-par incomes.
Students welcome this dual action by the Legislature. There will be no tears shed over the passing of Watkins and $6 per semester is a small price to pay for the excellent health care the new hospital will offer.
—Bob Womack
An Ominous Silence Covers Kansas City
Kansas City has once again shown the nation that it is determined to become the cow town that non-residents think it is.
The musicians' union said this week their members could not afford to continue performing for the salary being them. So the Philharmonic just shut down.
It seems the Kansas City Philharmonic is not going to complete the last seven weeks of the schedule because of financial difficulties.
People in Lawrence, students included,
should begin noticing the formation of a
diamond shape.
Now the city is facing the absence of one of the few cultural assets remaining in the city.
Lawrence isn't exactly a hot bed of cultural affairs. Except for a handful of University concerts and programs, this town is fairly barren. So most of our look to cultural attractions like stage plays, operas, and orchestra concerts.
But all of these things are slowly but surely fading from the Kansas City scene. The Starlight Theater and the Nelson Art Gallery seem to be the only art centers that are financially healthy, and Starlight functions in summer, when most KU students aren't here to enjoy it.
The loss of the Kansas City Philharmonic will deprive the city of a fine showpiece, and area citizens, especially children, will be deprived of a facet of the arts rarely encountered on the radio or television.
The parties involved with the orchestra-musicians, management, and the public-should make every effort to keep the Philharmonic alive, and at the same time try to halt the local trend toward neglecting the fine arts.
If the trend is not reversed, Kansas City may become nothing more than a community of bars and sporting events, and that sounds like a cow town to me.
Ted Iliff
They found two cats had set off the alarm. The intruders were taken to a precinct headquarters,
The floods were causes when a dam on the Liro Valley in Lobito burst following 24 hours of torrential rain.
MEXICO CITY (UPI)—Fir- police cars sped to the Bank of London branch early today in response to a clanging burglar bell. Police officers in tappalapa district. They charged inside with revolvers drawn.
"Lt. Calley should receive the medal of honor." — Rossville, Ga.
LOBITO, Angola (UPI)— Fourteen persons have drowned as a result of the floods in this mining town 300 miles south of Launda, according to a local radio station.
"We want a complete reversal of the verdict." —Milwaukee, Wis.
"Please save this true and great American patriot, Lt. Calley." — West Point, Ga.
"How could you? It was clearly self-defense." — Tampa, Fla.
"Court martial should never have taken place."—US Congressman
minting of the cupranickel dollars.
given a platter of milk and released.
The first 150 million Eisenhower dollars will be about 40 per cent silver and are designed for collectors.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—The United States last week minted the first silver dollars made since 1835.
General circulation cart-wheels, which will be minted in, Philadelphia and Denver, will consist of cupranickel, an alloy of copper and nickel. No date has been set for the first
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"I am saddened to think that one could fight for his flag and then be court martialed and convicted for apparently carrying out his orders." — US Congressman
Local Elections Boost Allende
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While Chile's municipal elections scarcely can be said to have given President Salvador Núñez a mandate to undermine, they nevertheless can be
considered an impressive victory for South America's first freely elected Marxist president.
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By winning approximately half the votes, the president's leftwing Socialist party and its coalition partners showed a gain of some 14 percentage points over the opposition to put him in office last November.
Since the elections were strictly on the local level, they were of only moral value to Allende who has described his course as "genuinely Chilean, adapted to Chilean realities."
3) Much less important differences the readers who will oppose this article will try to raise up make the case more confusing and harder to understand.
Some people argue that Lt. Calley, although he is guilty, should not have been sentenced to life in prison because there are others who are also responsible for what happened. Here I can not help wondering if the Nazi Germans could have made a different argument when the Nadik Germans were sentenced to death for war crimes.
Now let us see how these differences have affected the public and official opinion. All of a sudden what the American public considered a crime punished by death to the Nazi Germans and to the Japanese after World War II is no more such an ugly thing. And all of a sudden, from the point of view of most Americans, massacring civilians is the same as bombing cities.
The opposition Christian Democrats again showed themselves to be the country's strongest individual political
Another Calley View; Alumna Lectures Us
When the Nazi leaders responsible for the mass killing of civilians in World War II were tried and sentenced to death, with the help of the United States government and the blesses of the American people, I and people admired Americans because of their noble and just principles.
To the editor:
I have been living in this country for two years, and I admit I started to believe that this is a free democratic country. As a matter of fact, I have been trying likely to convince some foreign students to get rid of their prejudice and admit that this is the country of justice and freedom. But unfortunately L.I. Calley's case has not only dealt a hard blow to my efforts also to but my whole image of this country.
In its first five months in office, the Allende regime has sought consistently to break down the reserve with which it has been greeted by the United States even as it moved closer to the Comprehensive Agreement gradually but firmly its Marxist program of nationalization.
Probably some Americans are interested to know how a foreign student like me feels about Lt. Caller's case.
2) The civilians who were massacred were Vietnamese not Europeans.
An agreement to take over the Bethlehem Iron Mines Company of America is reported already to have been sigmed.
So far, the government attitude toward foreign compensation for Peruvian oil workers is sharp contrast to. Peruvian seizure of the American-owned International Petroleum Company, done without any compartment.
From now on I hope that no American will ever accuse communists or others anywhere of being human, cruel or bigoted if they slay a woman or an aged person than they a war. And I hope that all Americans support the war against them, the threat to their support of Calley is their belief that the lives of all the Vietnamese people are not worth the life of Calley or any other American. I am a Palestinian from Jordan, and a U.S. troops intervention in the
What happened in My Liai was not as shameful as convicting I. Lail of killing 22 civilians, only to have the American army ask for help.
Today I look at a similar case with the following differences.
I am a Palestinian from Jordan, and a U.S. troops intervention, the Mideast crisis is a possibility. Does this mean that I should start worrying about my people being massacred by a lieutenant and then about him getting away with it?
Allende's program as it has developed thus far is a mixed bag.
Despite his Marxist approach to business and industry, he seeks foreign investment.
He hopes the United States will understand and sympathize, but it not, it will be on the United States' own head. He points out that the U.S. Peace Corps and a United Nations continue to function in China.
At home he hopes to carry out his program within the framework of legality and without violence even though "some Chicans would like to see me boiled in oil."
Zaki A. Hajir Bethlehem, Jordan, sophomore
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To the editor:
Let us recall some of the progress of past generations. By their work we have increased your life span by approximately 50 per cent, and we have improved your health by another 50 per cent. We no longer have to fear epidemics of fus, typhus, diphtheria, small pox, scarlet fever, measles or mumps. And the dreaded poison is no longer on our list.
The now generation expects from the past generation to have the world in a perfect condition. No generation will be handed a perfect society. There will always be problems to solve. Then why does this new generation blame the past generation for so many things?
Many of these people know what it is to be really poor, hungry and cold. And because of this, they determined it would not happen to you; you would have a better life. You would have food to eat, milk to drink, medicine to take, better schools and greater opportunities to succeed than they had.
Because they gave you the best, you are the tallest, healthiest, brightest and probably best looking generation to inhabit the land. And because of them, you will work fewer hours, learn more, have more friends, travel more places and have more of a chance to follow your life's ambitions.
Wage the people who fought man's grisliest war. We are the people who defeated the tyranny of Hitler, and who, when it was all over, had the compassion to spend billions of dollars to help their former occupants. The people of these are the people who had the sense to begin the United Nations.
It was representatives of these two generations, who through the highest courts in the land, fought racial discrimination at every turn to ensure the rights of African Americans.
We have built thousands of high schools, trained and hired tens of thousands of better teachers, and at the same time, made higher education a very real possibility for millions of youngsters—where many students are not only educators, teachers and administrators who have dedicated their lives to teaching the younger generation and studying the best available techniques for training children. How many children ever stop to learn?
Our generation has made a start—although a late one—in healing the scars of the earth and in fighting pollution and destruction of our natural environment. We have set into motion new laws giving con-
sideration to climate change, land for land and your children to enjoy for generations to come.
The now generation can make as much progress in as many areas as these two generations have; you should be able to solve a good many of them.
It won't be easy. And you won't do it by negative thoughts, nor by
tearing down or belittling.
There's no reason why the new generation cannot try to make it a better world even though there may always be imperfections. As Robert Kennedy said, "Each time a man stands for an idea or acts to save others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a ripple of hope."
Maurine Firnet
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50 Years Ago Todav—1921
Those There the Days
Harold L. Butler, dean of the School of Fine Arts, blamed jazz for the undesirable dances prevalent of late." He urged the reform of such music saying Jayz "has no real musical qualities and it appalls only to the lowest tastes through and would most likely be replaced by the old fashioned waltz.
During the night 30 students patrolled the campus trying to apprehend a middle-aged man carrying a knife who was destroying political posters on campus. The marauder escaped.
Annual spring elections were on Mount Ouread today. At noon, 1096 students had voted and more were crowding the polls. An unusually large turnout was predicted.
Josephine Nelson won the Uncle Jimmy Green Scholarship which was offered to a senior
35 Years Ago Today—1936
woman in journalism by Theta Sigma Phi, women's honorary journalism society. The scholarship was $25.
The Peace Mobilization Committee decided to go ahead
The Deathwatch Post of The Veterans of Future Wars met defeat in their first battle this morning when Chancellor Lindley's army, one of the most powerful military veterans' recruiting office. The unauthorized office in the Administration building had been barricaded with sand bags and armed with relics of past wars, and Dozens of students had joined the ranks in the one day of recruiting prior to the attack. "General" Philip Renick, c37, announced as he disbanded the camp, "We want to make a world safe for hypocrisy."
mobilize on campus April 22. A total of 65 delegates from 20 campus and religious institutions in the nation. The central committee was instructed to select a slate of University speakers for the occasion.
20 Years Ago Today—1951
The army faced the problem of having too many soldiers. A reduction began in monthly draft calls.
The Kansas track team went to Austin, Tex., to defend the three titles they won the year before in the annual Texas RELays sponsored by the University of Texas. Professor Allen Cronk, once chair of the department of speech and drama, was honored by being included in the publication of "Who's Who in America."