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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 9, 1962
Student Trip Good
What does the recent trip taken by the KU student body president and head cheerleader have to do with the student body on campus? At first glance there may be no correlation between three appearances by this pair in Eastern cities and what the students in Lawrence are doing. But closer observation should show that such a trip has great benefits for the individual student on campus.
THE TRIP REFERRED to was that taken by Jerry Dickson, student body president, and Tim Hammill, hear cheerleader, somewhat over a week ago which included stops at Boston, Cleveland, and Detroit. This excursion was sponsored by the Alumni Association and the appearances which the pair made were before alumni groups in the three cities.
This was the first time undergraduates had been invited to participate in such an effort and, according to reports, it was a great success.
The KU representatives informed the alums about the changes on campus physically and generally brought the post grads up to date on such things as campus politics, student feelings and activities throughout the University. The interest
The conception of the idea of this closer student-alumni relationship on the basis tried a week ago should be continued for it appears to be an extremely successful way to bring alums, no matter how far they may have scattered, closer to the instant situations on campus and thus have them express a further interest in other ways.
shown not only by Dickson and Hammill but by the alums is one of the encouraging facets of the idea. Good crowds were out in all three cities and the groups appeared vitally interested in what is happening here.
Bill Sheldon
ALTHOUGH THESE MANY ALUMS live at such a great distance from the University, this lasting interest and concern is of great value to, especially, the student body. When everything is boiled down to its final purpose, anything beneficial for the University is done in the best interests of the students. Thus this burst of excitement which was witnessed in the East about the current problems facing KU can be viewed as an air of progressiveness which can lead to better educational conditions for the individual.
Barnett Logic Hard to Buy
It Looks This Way
Blood has been spilled in the Ole Miss integration effort. There may be more bloodshed before the crisis is resolved. Two states remain absolutely unintegrated—if one can call what has been achieved in Mississippi "integration." And Gov. Ross Barnett, who anchors his belief in the superiority of white skin over black in the Bible, has cast the accusing finger at the federal government.
That same federal government has given Barnett 10 days' grace in his contempt case, on the assumption, in part, that Barnett may water down his charges in the meantime and may try to achieve peace at the University of Mississippi. But the governor has levied a nationwide television blast at the government, and many Americans no doubt are still considering the validity—and the logic—of Barnett's contention.
situation, but that death resulted to two persons after federal officers were in control. Rather, the federal marshals seem to have exercised prudent restraint in dealing with the Mississippi mobs protesting the admission to the University of 29-year-old Negro James Meredith. With less restraint, many more deaths might have occurred.
IT IS HARD TO BUY the governor's logic in this case; that no one was hurt while Mississippi state police were in command of the
But the Mississippi governor's charge comes as no surprise. It is a predictable action of a mediocre politician who has abdicated the role of a responsible leader to bask in the brilliant light of emotionally charged popularity. Good conscience is not enough to justify insurrection—the less when the only legal basis that can be blamed is the long discredited concept of "state sovereignty."
The argument that "state sovereignty" is the issue here is a shabby cover-up. The only issue here is the right of a citizen of a free nation to equal opportunity without prejudice because of the color of his skin, the shape of his nose, or orthodoxy of his views. This is
GOV. BARNETT HAS ASKED that Meredith be transferred to another school. Thus can more bloodshed be averted, the governor argues. He pleads for a "cooling off" period and argues that Mississippi can "solve its own problems."
the question on which the federal courts ruled when they ordered "Ole Miss" to accept Meredith.
The governor of Mississippi is patently and pathetically wrong. For the only solution he sees, along with his supporters in the White Citizens Council, is outside the framework of the concept which gives the United States its claim to being a free society. Such a solution will not prevent more blood-shed but merely forestall it.
Recriminations, accusations, emotional harangues, and sham appeals to "state sovereignty" can only plunge the state of Mississippi and the people of the South into further agony, an agony which the majority in that area neither wants nor deserves.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"I'm SO GLAD FREDA FINALLY GOT A DATE — SHE SEEMS SO INTERESTED IN BOYS."
THE QUESTION OF whether Mississippi must suffer future torment rests largely on whether such leadership will emerge, not only from the politicians but from among other citizens of influence, including educators, the clergy, and members of the press. Such leadership no doubt would find a considerable force of moderate voices in their support.
The federal government has no choice but to enforce federal law. Anarchy would result from the lack of enforcement. It is the people and the leaders of Mississippi on whom the choice has fallen—whether to follow the racist White Citizens Council to more agony and torment or a more moderate path to stability and progress.
To follow a more enlightened path, such as that on which the once equally strong anti-segregationist state of Georgia has already taken the first steps, requires statesmanship and leadership of the highest quality.
Short Ones
—Richard Bonett
Little things affect little minds.
—Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything—Voltaire
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.—W. R. Alger
Our true nationality is mankind. —H.G. Wells
COMMENT
Venusians Infiltrate
You are in the 21st century. The world is full of wonder and awe: the Venusians have landed—not to conquer, but to befriend.
They bring with them the cure for disease, for hunger and for war. Everywhere they are met by crying humans—humans who fall on their knees in thanks for the blessing of the Venusians. A toy company brings out a new line of Venusian toys—"Guaranteed to laugh and wet their pants . . . just like Venusians."
DELEGATIONS FROM every country on Earth come to the Venusian headquarters, seeking the cures for their ills. The cure is given gladly, smilingly.
Twenty-one days pass. The world is enjoying a freshness it has not known since Creation.
Then, an arms manufacturer in Gary, Ind., gives an interview to the Gary papers. He is bitter. He pounds his fist on his desk as he gives his speech. His business is gone; it will take him billions to convert to peace-time manufacture.
A DOCTOR IN DENVER writes a dramatic, vindictive letter to the American Medical Association. The Venusians, he says, are really government stooges. Their purpose? Socialized medicine. The medical community listens with interest. It agrees to stop treating anyone who has done medical business with the Venusians.
The Russians interrupt a peaceful meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, pounding their shoes on a table. Their minister rises and tells the assembled delegates that the Venusians are capitalist spies and war-mongers. As proof they offer the cae of the underdeveloped country which refused a shipment of Soviet wheat. "How," the minister asks, "can this be? There is capitalist skul-duggy afoot."
A businessman in Wichita writes a letter to a friend, a letter which later becomes public and rallies the witch-hunters. In the letter, the businessman offers proof that the Venusians are Comsymps. Anyone who would give the Russians the same powers as the United States is a dirty Commie, he says. His friends rally, begin agitating and raise the hue and cry.
POLICE ARE SENT into a dusty South Carolina town where rioting has broken out. A Venusian stopped at a roadside cafe for a glass of water and was refused service. Angry mobs of women gather around him, spit at him, jeer at him. Teen-age boys carry signs reading, "If you ain't white, you ain't right." The Venusian, blood spattered all over his green skin, is taken to a hospital 200 miles to the north.
The Venusians, amazed and hurt, pack up their cures and leave. High above Earth, they watch Polaris submarines set out for the Baltic. They see Russian troops moving back into Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Berlin. They see India re-enter Goa. They see the manufacturer in Gary push his plants back to full speed.
AS THEY TURN toward home, they see the first mushroom cloud rise from the Atlantic seaboard. They see another cloud rise from the Ural mountains. They see Earth begin to slowly dissolve into a fiery molten slug and see it crumble into dust before their eyes
A Venusian turns to his friend, lights a Venusian cigarette.
Angry letters are sent to every head of government in the world. They claim that Venusian activities have spoiled their crops, ruined their daughters, made their lives a shamble.
"Well, buddy," he says, looking out the porthole at the glowing remains, "there's another month shot to Hell."
The Indian government sends an angry protest to the United Nations. The Venusians have made India leave Goa. "We are not warlike," says the Indian note, "but if this outrage is not obliterated, we shall act."
A proposal is made in the United Nations. All members rapidly sign it. It calls for the immediate removal of the green troublemakers from the Earth.
THE JAPANESE SEND letters saying that the Venusians are ruining their trade. The Congolese cry that the green creatures are interfering with their nationalism.
—Zeke Wigglesworth
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