Page 2
University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1962
Fighting for Recognition
Red China has entered the negotiating room of world politics through the door of armed aggression.
The most recent Red Chinese emissaries number 20,000 and carry rifles instead of portfolios, but nevertheless they are politicians. Their mission is to tell the world that Red China is a power which deserves recognition.
If evidence is needed that the attack on India is a move for recognition, a study of possible objectives might prove helpful.
TOTAL VICTORY IN the battle for the disputed territory is a possibility. The land involved is not worth another Korea, and waging wars for ends grounded in principle became outdated in Korea.
Red China cannot achieve national goals through interminable pleas for admission into the United Nations which fall on deaf ears.
But if Red China can successfully unbalance the feeling of security of those countries opposing the admission of Red China, it has everything to gain and nothing to lose but a few hundred-thousand troops.
If Red China can convince the world powers that the only way to stop the Chinese from acts such as the attack on India, the principles guiding away from U.N. recognition may lose their meaning.
It is difficult to believe that Red China launched its offensive to gain the disputed territory, which has little practical value.
And certainly Red China is aware that the West will not allow an invasion of the Indian peninsula, the same as Russia would pull out all stops to prevent a massive defeat that might follow an all-out attack on the China mainland.
The resulting perspective indicates that Red China is fighting for recognition and not for territory.
AND THE PROSPECT of another Korea might be the wedge to open the doors of the United Nations to Red China. It is not a coincidence that the attack came at the time when its membership is being considered and debated.
Time and patience have worn thin for the masters of Red China. They have forced a checkmate in the question of recognition.
The price for barring them may be a continuous battle that poses a threat to world security which can be sensed in terms of human lives and bullets.
The question is whether the price of another Korea will be easier paid than the consequences of a reversal and abandonment of the principles which say that Red China must not be recognized.
—Terry Murphy
Principal's Letter Hit
Editor:
For a total of three years I have read everything from excellent journalism to downright trash in the pages of the Daily Kansan. It is time, however, that I made a criticism which I feel should be made. This concerns the letter written by a Mr. Frank Rosser—supposedly a principal in one of the high schools of Kansas.
MR. Rosser comments on what has been referred to as the "Ole Miss" problem. He seeks to condemn the actions of the federal government in this matter of intervention. He notes that Gov. Barnett is taking the so-called "practical approach to this matter by taking out the students for awhile. Yes, Mr. Barnett took an approach, all right, but was it really the logical, practical one? I ask you, gentlemen, is it logical to pursue a policy which leads to the death of several citizens and to the wanton destruction of public and private property? Is it also logical to pursue a policy which will, in the long run, cost not only the state of Mississippi great financial difficulties, but the average taxpayer of America as well? Mr. Rosser was right in his concluding remarks that the episode of intervention on the part of the federal government did cost a great deal of money. He also notes that it was a needless waste. Then how, may I ask, does Mr. Ross truthfully feel that Barnett took the only logical practical course of action?
Mr. Rosser writes a very asinine letter showing a great deal of misunderstanding. I would expect such a letter from an 18-year-old as we saw a few weeks ago on these pages, but not from a supposedly mature man who calls himself a high school principal. Speaking of the problem in light of social teaching—which is of course a major objective of the high school curriculum—it is difficult to conceive of such a man directing the teaching and, to an extent, the lives of impressionable high school students. It is obvious that he is considering only personal feelings and he does not realize that the public voicing of an opinion of this nature runs contrary to the basic ethics of the educational program.
He suggests that we should not accept the decision of the "nine old fossils" on the Supreme Court in this matter. If Mr. Rosser is advocating the doing away of the Court, let him so say; if not, let him keep his cute little expressions out of print. Further, Mr. Rosser feels that we have over-emphasized human rights and forgotten individual responsibilities. I would suggest that in this matter Mr. Roszer has himself forgotten his individual responsibility with respect not only to his students, but also the whole
... Letters
educational program as well. America—the land of free speech —only in America could such trash (disguised as genuine opinion) ever find its way into print.
Bill D. Bell
Highland senior
Editor:
Principal Answered
Hurrah and congratulations, Mr. Frank Rosser, Principal of Delia Rural High School! Your beautiful letter of Oct. 17 made interesting and refreshing reading. However, since no doubt you are a Christian, expressing such an unChristian opinion, it bothers my Christian conscience not to answer you.
Mr. Rosser, you are so free that you have the audacity to call eminent judges "fossils" they who have shaped and steered the course of freedom and justice to make your mother country great. And you are so free and woefully naive on racial matters that you call Southern Negroes "ignorant." Splendid! But what is the argument?
MAYBE YOU wish that the Blacks were extinct. Mr. Rosser, I must confess that I am ashamed of you. Before you rushed your letter to the editor, did you ever take the trouble to ask yourself who made the Southern Negroes ignorant?
Mr. Rosser, I sympathize with you in your cogent argument to uphold segregation and also your worries about the ignorant Negro holding a position of responsibility. On the other hand, I am also worried about you teaching rural children and infusing Barnettesque ideas into their heads to some day grow super Barnetts and Faubuses. Please, let them grow up healthy of mind and sympathetic to humanity, yellow, black, and white alike, so that in time, they will put your vile ideas to shame.
Had slavery not happened, Negroes would be enjoying the unsoiled peace of the African jungles with us today; and probably there would be nothing of this stab in the human heart to be kicked out of a barbershop or a tavern in downtown Lawrence, the seat of KU. Anyhow, Negroes were forced here as slaves, put on plantations, punished if they were found trying to learn to read and write, etc., and so very well suppressed. Thus, they were perpetually deprived of cultural opportunities. Now, you turn around to use the results of this deprivation to justify segregation and the monstrosities of Gov. Barnett.
AND WHILE YOU, Mr. Rosser,
dabble in rural politics in the face
of your nation's fight to forge ahead, please let me remind you that strong as the USA is, she does not stand alone. Today, nations are independent. And also the mind of the world's people must be won to her side.
I certainly share with you for being so much concerned about federal marshals protecting Meredith indefinitely. You, like me, finally woke up to the stupendous cost of suppression.
Sorry I had to disagree with some of your dated ideas. But let's hear more of them while the U.S. moves on progressively.
Augustine G. Kyei Ghana 5th-year student
Augustine G. Kvei
Editor:
The Senior Gift
The proposed Senior gift ($5,500 electrically lit relief map of the campus) has triggered in my mind a few improvements on the scheme. I was at first struck with the similarity of the idea to the maps in the Paris Metro, which one uses to find his way by pushing a button which lights up the line and direction to take. Thence I recalled the London tube system which has the lines differentiated by colors, and thought we might borrow from this system to improve the existing map scheme. According to the color scheme, the Lawyers would be assigned one color and the Engineers another, etc., until the entire university was properly differentiated. Then we could line out the grounds like a cross-country course, so that the Lawyers would follow their line and so forth. Of course there would have to be a radiating series of black lines converging on the Union so that people wanting to consult the Marvelous Electric Map (Gift of the Class of '63) could find it.
K. C. King Junction City senior
Daily Hansan
Telephone VIking 3-2700 Extension 711, news room Extension 376, business office
University of Kansas student newspaper Founded 1889, became bweekly 1904, trweekly 1908, daily Jan. 16, 1912.
Member Inland Daily Press Association, Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by National Advertising Service and published in NY News service: United Press International. Mail subscription rates; $3 a semester or $5 a year. Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. Subscription and amination periods. Second class postage paid at Lawrence, Kansas.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
(This is the first in a series of articles
progressive contests in the 1962 election).
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Scott Payne
Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Mississippi Herder and Co-Editorial Editors
Bill Sheldon
Two big men, fighting it out for the governorship, are casting long shadows over the Oklahoma political scene this year. As it looks now, Oklahoma will break a Democratic tradition by electing a Republican governor.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Charles Martineau .. Business Manager
Oklahoma May Elect Republican Governor
By Rob Hoyt
Some newspapers are supporting Republicans for the first time in their histories, and the contention has involved the Daily Oklahomaan and Times in a $10 million libel suit for an editorial attack on the Democratic candidate, W. P. (Bill) Atkinson. Atkinson is running against Henry Bellmon, a six-foot two-inch war hero who is both a successful farmer and businessman.
BUT BELLMON has no monopoly on material success. Atkinson is also a big man with money—he built and developed Oklahoma's sixth largest city, Midwest City, and has a real estate and construction fortune estimated at more than $5 million.
However, money does enter in. Bellman says the state now has enough revenue if it were properly managed. Atkinson takes the stand that the state sales tax be increased from 2 to 3 per cent.
Another advantage for the Republicans is a split in the Democratic party which came during the primaries. Atkinson won by a margin of less than 1,000 votes, and the break in the party lines has not been mended.
BELLMON SUPPORTERS are making the most of the Democratic party split and the sales tax issues.
Fortunately for Atkinson, he has the support of incumbent Gov. J. Howard Edmondson. Edmondson cannot succeed himself by law and he has joined in stumping the state for Atkinson.
Democratic candidates for all the offices are out beating the bushes in an effort to retain their traditional control, but, unless something unforeseen occurs, Oklahoma is likely to have a Republican in the governor's mansion after 55 years of rule by the Democrats.
This is neither the conventional Mormon approach of absolute doctrine or the historical approach (as personified in Bernard Devoto) that writes off Smith and Mormonism as the greatest fraud ever perpetrated in the name of religion.
This is a rich edition of the magazine of history. Best of all is the first of several articles by Carl Carmer on the Mormons, Carmer, whose knowledge of the New York past is deep, does an effective, low-keyed approach to Joseph Smith and the beginnings of the Mormon church in old New York state.
As usual there is a splendid color portfolio, this one dealing with the rather grim genre paintings of David Gilmour Blythe. Another section shows turn-of-the-century American postcards, and it's a nostalgic. warm study.
American Heritage this month has a first: the love letters of Woodrow Wilson and his first wife. It also has a brief sketch of Booker T. Washington in its "Faces from the Past" series, an analytical study of the electoral college (pretty loaded against the college), a story of the legends surrounding the Pilgrims and that rock they never landed on, an article of George Rogers Clark and his campaign in the West.-CMP
Furthermore, Miss Wharton, in her zeal to expose the Midwest as being a haven of Philistinism, paints a New York which is as parochial in its way as the Illinois town which sends forth Vance Weston. One senses that her knowledge of the hinterlands came exclusively from a reading of Sinclair Lewis or Mencken.—CMP
Its unruly hero, Vance Weston, ostensibly is a kind of Thomas Wolfe. So says the man who wrote the "afterword." But his talent seems unlimited, and though we might assume that we are supposed to like him, he is both a boor and a bore, and the women he loves are little better.
AMERICAN HERITAGE, October, 1962, $3.95.
Once again, the question must be asked, "Why does Signet regard this volume as a classic?" The name of Edith Wharton is a sizable one, but this novel is a good many miles behind "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence."
MS
* *
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED, by Edith Wharton (Signet Classics, 75 cents).
M
proj
in v
spri
mar McC of 1
$$
* * *
$$
are ben sent
H emp gov a po
This is worth your money. More than an outline, this new paperback is an excellent summary, which gives detailed discussions of writing, style, language (the writer is an exceptionally literate person), subject, purpose, definition, development, judgement and persuasion, strategy, and a handbook and tables for reference. It is good reading as well as being a handy desk volume for university students struggling with the language.
$$
$$
AN OUTLINE OF ENGLISH COMPOSITION, by Alan B. Howes (Doubleday College Course Guides, $1.45).
GALE WARNING, by Hammond Innes (Ballantine, 50 cents) the story of a "ghost ship" still afloat after being reported sunk in a convoy to Murmansk. New York Herald Tribune: "lively imagination and a seaworthy style."
* *
BRUCE TEGNER METHOD OF SELF-DEFENSE (Ballantine, 50 cents)—includes judo,jiu-jitsu, karate,savate,yawara,aikido and ate-waza. Tegner is known as one who has no equal as a teacher of the un-armed arts.
$$
---
$$
KILLER, by Wade Everett (Ballantine, 35 cents)—an original paperback western about a hired killer sought by the Texas Rangers.