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Monday, February 15. 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
The Welfare Dilemma
Welfare and welfare reform have become hot issues lately, and with the call of Lt. Gov. Reynolds Shultz for state reform and the recent introduction of a rather amazing bill in the legislature, the welfare debate has come to Kansas.
Shultz called for investigations of those receiving welfare in an attempt to weed out those receiving assistance who are able to work. Nevada and California have cut their welfare rolls considerably as a result of such "investigations," (much to the chagrin of the National Welfare Rights Organization).
A bill was introduced last week in the Kansas Senate that would require the publication of welfare clients' names once a month. According to its author, Sen Tom Van Sickle, R-Fort Scott, his wife, Sara, R-Fort Scott, learn who is getting the aid and pay for. In his view, it would discourage those not in dire need from staying on the rolls.
What about those who are in dire need?
Why should they be punished in this case?
way should they be pampered in this way. A recent survey undertaken by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare shows that only four out of every thousand persons on welfare should not be on the welfare rolls.
Who are those on welfare? The majority are children, the aged and the disabled as well as deserted mothers with young children. Do these people not bear a severe enough burden as it is without the humiliation and disgrace that would
inevitably be their lot if Van Sickle's bill passes?
Time Magazine emphasized in a recent examination of welfare in the United States that "no most Americans, hold certain beliefs about welfare that are largely myths."
Very few people live better on welfare than they would if they had a job. And they know this.
The HEW survey also estimated that of those on welfare, at the most five per cent could be helped to working status.
To these Americans, the composite picture of a welfare family is something like this: "black, recently arrived from the Deep South to get higher benefits, a woman who stops conceiving babies only long enough to have them, an able-bodied man who drives to the welfare office in a pink Cadillac, and a dozen children who cannot wait to head their own welfare families" just waiting to cheat their way onto the welfare rolls and a better life under welfare than if they had a job.
Those on welfare need help and compassion. The problem of burgeoning welfare rolls needs thoughtful recommendations for possible solution. The cruel and unusual punishment being masqueraded as a solution by Van Sickle could only serve to worsen the plight of people who are already suffering enough.
Our Anonymous Donors
Last Thursday the Kansan published a letter signed "Several KU Laws, KU law School, Green Hall." The signature was prefaced thus: "We have thoughtfully provided a cop out for the staff of the Kansan. We are not going to sign our names as is required by the editorial policy of the Kansan."
In that last sentence we find the kind of fallacious reasoning that is used so commonly to justify the accusations that float across this campus. This is why we published the letter.
In the first place, the letter didn't "thoughtfully" provide us with anything. Its authors asserted that since the Black Student Union and the Black Veterans on Campus asked for a total of $59,395 in student fees the Senate would automatically grant them this amount. If last semester is any indication of things going well, they will be able to request requests, including the BSU's were down before approval, some even eliminated (lest we forget the Athletic Association).
Furthermore, practically every organization that requested fund is in season.
The percentage of KU students who utilize the Kansas Law Review that requested $2,891 is probably no larger than the back Veterans on Campus organization.
Now I'm sure that those responsible for the publication of the Law Review that any student is eligible to contribute are also members of the BSU say that any student
Each organization has its merits and should be subsidized accordingly.
To use the reasoning outlined by "Several KU Laws," we should encourage military spending because it involves large numbers of people.
We should, then, spend small amounts on helping the poor in our largely affluent society.
But the biggest flaw to be found in the letter lies (which in this case is a good fit) in the phrase: "We have thoughtfully protected a cop out for the staff of the Kansan."
The only coping out that has transpired in this exchange of communiques has been on the part of the "KU Laws" who think it necessary to interject their opinions anonymously in an open forum, but instead decide to identify themselves as members of KU Law School, which is no doubt suppressed to make their accusations credible.
Sorry fellas, but how are we supposed to know whether you really do make your way past the stately columns of Green Hall (that was included in your 'identification') if we don't know your names?
We seek on this page an honest expression of divergent views. But opinion is seldom honest or sincere when voiced anonymously.
Mike Moffet
The Lighter Side
By DICK WEST
Revenue Sharing Comedy
WASHINGTON (UPI)—It came as a shock to learn there is an active revenue-sharing ring in the capital and that the President of the United States himself openly advocates the practice.
I try to keep an open mind and a modern outlook, despite advancing years, but I'm sharply not ready for anything that unconventional. It's my strait-laced upbringing. I guess.
As a child, I was taught to believe in fiscal fidality. America in those days was a monetary society in which the government that collected your taxes spent taxes. And no horses around.
I even went to see a movie about revenue-sharing. It was called "Vermont and Georgia and Indian and Oregon" and it dealt with four states that were exchequered with each other's exchequer.
I had, of course, heard rumors that a revenue-sharing cult was Washington. But I always figure these tales were grossly exaggerated.
But it was primarily a comedy and didn't impress me as being very realistic. At any rate, I never thought I'd see the day when revenue-sharing would become more or less respectable.
I said, "To me, taxation is an intensely personal experience. Unless I feel emotionally in touch with the government to which I pay taxes, the whole thing becomes sordid and meaningless.
"At the present time, for example, I am domiciled in Virginia. Its government limits the tags for my auto and permit other services of which I am unaware. Two of my children were born in the state. Consequently, I am a sentimental attachment.
"Government is by nature polypecnary," he said. "In these modern times it is too much to expect the government to do a single tax standard, the way it did when you were a boy."
"But if the federal government were to share my taxes with, say, South Dakota, with which I have never enjoyed an intimate relationship, I would feel indifferent and unfulfilled."
Quotes from the News
By United Press International
"I go as quickly as I can, yet steady, and I never stop because there may still be people alive. What's down there is the most important thing and there's nothing else on my mind."
LOS ANGELES - Sam Thompson is searching for persons who may have been buried when a hospital during Tuesday's earthquake.
party's potential presidential candidates have agreed to campaign only against the Nixon administration:
"While it is likely that several we be competing against each other, it is also clear nominating process, it was also clearly acknowledged that the opposition is the Republican in its policies, and not ourselves."
WASHINGTON-Leaders of a women's liberation group, in a telegram demanding that Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, R-Ariz.
WASHINGTON—Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien, announcing that the
apologize for a remark about women and the military draft
LEEDS. England—Harry Eakworth many of a computer specialist, who static electricity from nylon pantiles can cause computer damage.
"Daily we fight this kind of thoughtless stereotyping of men, not expect such statements from a senator. We ask for an apology."
"The more delicate new computers are particularly prone."
'Phantom Five' Talks Issues
Ed. Note: Normally we do not accept articles with this kind of signature. However, we have been informed who the "Phantom Five" are, and they wish to remain in their positions without pressure from candidates or their supporters.
Making Our Case
By the 'Phantom Five'
Now's our chance, students, to participate in that annual exercise in rhetoric, propaganda, and meaningless promises which is labeled on the University Calendar as "Student Senate Elections." Judging from past performances, use of the term elections is a misnomer. Voting has been based on impractical promises, a cannon's appeal to a certain clique (or subclause), if you wish it to be used for an individual candidate party organization. If any efforts to improve this anachronistic process have occurred, their effects have been indiscriminate.
we are to have a Senate we should damn well have a good one. With which our group agrees; however the Senate is only as good as the people in it and those people are chosen by student voters.
We are a group of five KU students who have participated in student organizations and governing bodies of several different types. We have come together out of a concern for representative student government as the desire of intelligent, issue-oriented campaigns. We have chosen to participate because we remain an隐amous. We intend to intrigue throughout the campaign that student voters have every opportunity to become fully acquainted with the philosopher and ex-
A cancer of our democratic system has been a feeling of non-involvement, that one's vote doesn't count. Well, now's our chance; should the same number of votes be cast in this year's election as in last year's, the student body president, who ostensibly represents the entire class, should be elected by less than five per cent of the student population or home, student senators from individual colleges, that the voters (translate that us) extensively familiarize themselves with the candidate's views, will be able to authentically speak for their constituency.
KU students now realize that Student Senate elections are not more form; the men and women we elect will be responsible for appropriating nearly half a million dollars. In addition, the Student Senate could well be the most effective agency in stabilizing a campus polarized by ethnic differences. From the citizens of its state. During crisis situations the Senate should be looked to for cool-headed leadership; complementing this function is the Senate's potential role as a resource area for beneficial, rather than harmful, public relations. The Senate, should it choose to do so, could be a prime move in effecting educational progress. But the Senate's stature as a national respected institution is trembling. Students have expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of the Senate—some question its validity and assert that if
For an educational institution which prides itself on rational thought and knowledgeable concern, it seems that we have disregarded those principles in acting and voting hastily and on the basis of truths. We hope this election will turn on issues; we hope that students will experience every opportunity to ask probing questions; and we hope that the real responses of the candidates to touchy issues. Perhaps best be said that our group is declaring on war the application processes and standards; a war which we hope will be unique in that this university will be the winner.
peceptions of the various candidates. We hope to reverse the tradition of ineffective democratic processes, a tradition which has led to a diminution in voter response and responsible voting. We intend to utilize the Kansan and other media in ascertaining the facts regarding the candidate's opinions on University issues, facts on the past and upcoming elections, and on the necessity for change. We also aim to ensure that we sincerely aim to maintain a non-partisan posture, with the hopes that the end result could be accurately described as responsible student government in every way.
Washington Window
Demo's Chairman Wise Decision
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Democrats in the Senate have turned to a comer from the land of the magnolia blossom and the soft drawl to lead them to continued dominance over the GOP in 1972.
By STEVE GERSTEL
They elected Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollins of South Carolina as chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee.
It was, any window dressing notwithstanding, a hard-headed, political decision by the senators. The fact is that more than half-seven out of 13—of the democratic Senators up for reelection in 1972 are Southern Democrats.
If the Senate Democrats have adopted a "Southern strategy," it
Hollings speaks their language, knows their politics. No northerner or westerner could help them more. Certainly no easterner can help them more. And not the election. Hollings doesn't have to worry about the big industrial states where civil rights is a big issue. He doesn't have a negative impact.
The other senators up for reelection are from states like Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.
They are Sens. Allen J.
Ellender of Louisiana, James O.
Eastland of Mississippi, B.
Everett Jordan of North
Carolina, John L. McChellean
Gerald L. Guchero of
Georgia, John J. Sparkman
of Alabama, and William B. Spong
of Virginia.
makes, in this case, plenty of political sense.
It also makes a lot of sense for Holings. As chairman of the School Committee, Hollings will get more exposure to more party wheels in more states than he has despite his long political career.
And Hollings is not a man without ambitions of his own.
The speculation that the Democrats, after naming a liberal from the North or West for their presidential candidate, may turn South for a runningmate has not escaped Hollins. It is a long-standing concern at the convention in 1972. What would the Democrats get?
He can and is going down the with other Southern senators in the debate, weakening a weakening of the filibuster rule. In fact, he wants to make it even more difficult.
As governor of South Carolina in 1960, Hollings played an interesting role in the campaign which gave John F. Kennedy the Democratic presidential nomination.
Traditionally, South Carolina had voted as a unit and Lyndon B. Johnson wanted the entire state to be the base for his nomination drive.
But that year, the delegation cracked the unit rule and led some of the delegates into the Kennedy camp.
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LETTERS
Space and the Med School
To the Editor:
Craig Peeper's recent editorial criticism of the space program failed to recognize two points. First, is it really fair to single out as a waste the one government program that has met its objectives and to mention longer and more dubious expenditures on defense and highways? Second, Mr. Parker didn't see the implication in the quote from Herman Badillo. That is, can we really assume Congress would have applied the same dollarizations "wasted" on the space program to the solution of the problems Mr. Parker cities?
Given that Congress probably wouldn't have, then we must compare the benefits of the space program to the foregone uses in the Vietnam War or by the taxayers (the two most likely alternate uses for the 24 billion), rather than to the foregone
benefits from expenditures on housing, education, etc.
Now, perhaps what we need in KU is someone on the Student Senate to use Mr. Parker's analysis on the allocation of resources obviously pressing needs for student fees, our critoice will look at the approximately $40,000 of student fees given to the Kanan every year, and then (to use Mr. Parker's words) decrey the "... of energy, money, talent (sic) and resources" for the Kanan.
Brent A. Reppert
Osawatomie graduate student
Every citizen of Kansas, especially those who have recently moved into a new town, realize that a critical shortage of teachers is present in people, however, may realize that the Kansas University
To the Editor:
School of Medicine is attempting to meet its responsibility to Kansans. The School of Medicine is requesting 2.1 million dollars in its proposed 1971 budget, which would provide for acceptance of students from all schools and students presently being taken into the School of Medicine. Also, the program of study would be altered from a four-year program with summer vacations a continuous three-year program with a race run which medical doctors could be doubled.
As concerned citizens, we urge all Kansans to write their state representatives and senators, encouraging them to accept the School of Medicine's proposed budget.
Barry Halpern
Philadelphia senior
Gregory Hogle
Lawrence senior
WALKER JOURNAL
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Mr. Connally. Would you care to comment on the speculation as to why you were named Treasury Secretary?
Those Were the Days
Chancellor Lindley announced that 16 men were suspended from the University in what the Kansan called "one of the most drastic disciplinary measures in the recent history of the University." They were alleged to have participated in an unauthorized dance, where liquoring was present and conduct was disgraceful, according to Lindley. The names were not released.
50 Years Ago Today—1921
Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen commended KU basketball fans' sportsmanship, but said University of Missouri fans were better. He also announced that print for the new stadium were ready for the architect.
A recent earthquake in South America was also documented in a photograph in Blake Hall, said Poey. Photograph of the earthquake by
25 Years Ago Today—1946
KU's new football coach, George Sauer, was introduced to students at halftime of the Nebraska basketball game in Hoech Auditorium. KU beat Iowa in a new Big Six scoring record for a single game.
aeroengine engineering through the Richard Ira
bneum Memorial Foundation, Chancellor Dewe N.
Wang
20 Years Ago Today—1951
KU was selected to train scholarship students in
Cancellor W. Clarke Wascens was included on a committee named by Lawrence Mayor John T. Weatherford to study the civil rights situation in Alabama during the time if a human relations commission was needed.
The Ford Foundation announced that a $114,000 grant would be given to KU to be used in cooperation with K-State and Wichita University to develop a legislative internship program.
The Kansan announced that S. I. Hayakawa, a world renowned expert in semantics, would deliver his lecture at the University of Toronto.
THE HAGUE (UPI)—Eleven per cent of Dutch high school students have taken narcotics at least once, according to a survey by the Criminology Institute of Groningen University. One out of 40 students was a regular user, the survey said.