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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 2, 1962
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
P-T-P Growing
Introduced here on the campus level last year People-to-People has grown to become one of the largest organizations in the nation for dealing with foreign students and international education. Although apparently reaching its maximum activity last year, People-to-People has further expanded and become just that much more worthwhile to every KU student.
SOME OF THE LARGER programs which are provided by People-to-People include:
- The Brother and Sister program which provides specific friends for international students and allows an excellent opportunity for an American student to become acquainted with an international.
- The series of Happy Hours, usually sponsored by some living group, at which there is a general mixing of interested persons and provides another fine opportunity for exchange of ideas and interests.
- A broadened job placement branch which aids international students in finding employment and will further expand to include a program wherein there will be a one for one summer exchange with foreign students to provide opportunities to further enhance the international education of both KU students and international students.
- The American study abroad program which is a chance for students to vacation in Europe. This is expanding to allow considerable educational facilities for the traveling students on campus in preparation to their trip.
- The home placement function which puts international students in local homes for weekends, vacations and arranges industrial and cultural trips to give the visiting students an opportunity to learn more about this country.
A NEWLY ANNOUNCED program is a sports committee which is designed to teach the games of various countries to students of other nations and possibly organize competition to apply this learning.
One of the encouraging aspects of the program is that, with the exception of some assistance at the start from the national office, all of this work has been accomplished with funds from local sources such as contributions and All Student Council appropriations. And this brings up the interesting point that the ASC chose to undercut the People-to-People request by some $300 and reduce the budget for the group by $105 from last year.
THE LEADERS of the committee are, of course, perplexed by the ASC action last week at its budget session. They feel that since People-to-People is a student organization, and an arm of ASC, it is the students' obligation to sustain the program.
Much of the complaint of the committee heads is that the Peace Corps committee had its budget increased over $1,000. The complaint is that the Peace Corps committee serves very little function which is of direct benefit to the individual student.
The administration and student leaders have apparently decided that there is a growing future for the Peace Corps committee on campus. If it becomes anything in scope to that of the People-to-People committee it will prove itself worthy of such attention as it got from the ASC and will make KU one of the driving national forces in international relations on a student level.
—Bill Sheldon
Birth Control
Much has been said and more will be forthcoming in the next few weeks against "public works" programs, "depressed areas" spending, and "welfare state" programs. For the purposes of this election, conservative politicians will be able merely to take a stand against these political bugaboos. It is unlikely that they will be forced to present any alternatives.
But, sooner or later, politicians—no matter what their predictions—will have to accept birth control as a political issue or else accept the political responsibility for the financial burdens of ever-increasing welfare programs.
AT THE 42ND ANNUAL meeting of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, held in New York recently, Adolph W. Schmidt, governor of T.Mellon & Sons, said the United States is "faced with the likelihood that we will have to devote all the physical growth of our economy just to the task of standing still."
Birth control is a dirty word to many people, especially when it is thought of as mass dissemination of birth control information and contraceptive devices. But the fact remains that we already have too few of the necessary kinds of jobs or too many of the unnecessary kind of people.
At the same meeting, Lammot du Pont Copeland, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., said the prevalent notion that America's high birth rate is "a good thing" for the economy is false. "It has been widely assumed," he continued, "that more people will mean more economic benefits for us all. The time has come for some sober second thoughts."
THIS IS INDEED a sobering thought for an aspiring lawmaker. Procrastination and a purely negative attitude will suffice for a while longer, whether justified or not, but it is past time that our lawmakers either quit dodging the issue by complaining of the cost of welfare, or else propose some constructive means of getting to the source of the problem. For some it will mean merely alienating some constituents—for others it may mean taking a stand on an issue which is against their own secular beliefs.
—Bob Hoyt
Republicans Confident In Missouri
By Margaret Cathcart
"If we don't win this year, the Republicans will never win in Missouri" was the way one Republican committeewoman viewed the U.S. Senate race in Missouri.
Yet since Missouri traditionally votes Democratic, Republican Crosby Kemper will have a difficult time defeating Democratic incumbent Edward V. Long.
THE "LITTLE DIXIE" section of Missouri votes Democratic in allegiance to the South. "Little Dixie" is comprised of counties lying along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. It was settled in the late 1820s by settlers from Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and other Southern states.
St. Louis, one of the two metropolitan voting centers in the state, houses a staunch Democratic population. Forty per cent of its population is Catholic, and Catholics traditionally vote in a solid Democratic bloc. The descendants of the Germans who immigrated to St. Louis in the 1800's, also vote Democratic due to their labor and
In Kansas City, the other Democratic urban vote center, the labor unions again support the Democratic party. During the expansion of the western frontiers, Kansas City was the "jumping off place" for the West. It attracted a restless progressive-minded population. Today Kansas City still is dominated by Western-minded, forward-looking people, interested in the Democratic party.
MISSOURIFS traditional Democratic voting trends point to failure for Kemper, yet Republicans are still hopeful he will win next week.
machine-controlled vote.
One section of Missouri is sure to vote Republican—the Ozarks. The Ozarks were settled originally by non-slave-owing southerners with deep roots in the Republican party. In addition, present Ozark residents are critical of President Kennedy for not having moved more quickly in the Cuban crisis.
And rarely do Republicans finance a state campaign to the extent they have financed this one.
Kemper's wife, Cynthia, is another added advantage in her husband's attempt to win a Senate seat. In one campaign week she made 20 speeches before groups of Democrats and Republicans. Mrs. Kemper goes beyond the usual chit-chat. She examines campaign issues and submits to questioning after her talks.
Rarely does a Republican candidate pull together an organization such as "Neighbors for Kemper," a volunteer telephone campaign.
And Kemper has helped himself by blasting Long for endorsing Senate proposals to send aid to Communist countries. Through this issue Kemper has licensed much of the voting rank against Long.
KEMPER SCORED another victory last week in St. Louis as Kennedy was forced to cancel a Long promotion campaign trip.
Kemper is fighting hard. If the Republicans do not win this time, they never will.
Yet Missouri is a Democratic state.
"IF YA ASK ME, HE IS JUST ANTISOCIAL —HE WANTS TO STUDY FOR FINALS FOR A WHOLE WEEK-END."
WHY ENGLAND SLEPT, by John F. Kennedy (Doubleday Dolphin, 95 cents).
There is method in the reissuing of "Why England Slept" today. It has a famous author, it has a new foreword by Henry Luce (who wrote the original foreword in 1940). It has quite a message, one that should remind us that today's pacifists are not greatly different from the pacifists of the 1930s.
The book itself is an incredible achievement; it was a senior thesis by the young Kennedy when he was a student at Harvard. Even then it was a good-selling book. Its perceptions and its scholarship are amazing.
Kennedy gives us here a well documented and startling story of England drifting into war, fighting the idea of rearming, remaining essentially uncritical of what was occurring in Nazi Germany, ignoring the warnings of the Churchills and the Edens. England was absolutely unprepared. An interesting notion, in fact, is this one: Chamberlain may have been right to forestall war at the time of Munich, because in October 1938 England would have been destroyed—CMP
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This is a comprehensive—and quite selective—anthology of American poetry. Daniel Hoffman makes no effort to include everybody here. He mentions many poets in his introduction, but when it comes to inclusions he limits the book to Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Freneaul, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Lowell, Longfellow, Whitman, Henry Timrod, Melville, Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Santayana, Robinson and Frost.
AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS, edited by Daniel G. Hoffman (Doubleday Anchor, $1.45).
An interesting group, interesting in part for the virtual ignoring of recent moderns. Interesting, too, for the inclusion of such persons as Melville and Santayana. The selections are good, though predictable ("Song of Myself" must be in all anthologies, one would gather). Hoffman also provides a section of critical essays on the writing of poetry, from John Cotton's introduction to "The Bay Psalm Book" to an essay by Frost.—CMP
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