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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Jan. 12, 1956.
Courts Can't End Segregation
For some time now, at least since 1954, the American people have been not too rabidly engrossed in a subject which has plagued the country since the early 1800's.
Not all men are endowed with certain inalien- able rights!
If both statements were true, then America would have a classless society—but with man being man, there always will be someone who rises above the multitude, whether to lead or destroy.
The subject is segregation. It has brought forth voluminous and sometimes stupid words from all those who have cared to voice their opinions on the matter.
Regardless of what the esteemed members of the U.S. Supreme Court may rule, regardless of what any segment of the American government may order, segregation always will be with the American people.
The United States Supreme Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission have made frugal moves to end segregation in all sections of America. In the "deep" South, the moves have met with a sudden and dangerous solid wall of opposition. The issue also has crept into the matter of federal aid for schools.
Few people believe in interracial marriage, few believe in dealing with a so-called racially "inferior" group in business, few believe in socializing with an "unacceptable" race, few believe in
Some anti-segregation leaders have run to their copies of the Declaration of Independence to re-read the following phrase:
All men are not created equal!
worshipping in the same church and pew with a member of another race.
As long as there is an American social system as we know it today, we will have segregation. We will have segregation in the Greek organizations on this campus as long as there is segregation practiced at the Lawrence Country Club.
We will have segregation in private schools as long as we have stupid governors of Georgia who make unwise public utterances. We will have segregation as long as we have radical organizations that supposedly preach "advancement for the colored people."
Segregation is an inescapable facet of the American democracy.
It is time for the idealists and traditionalists to change their way of thinking. One believes that "all men are created equal"; the other doesn't believe anything, except what his parents, and their parents, have passed on through the years.
There appear to be only a few who are "politically" involved in the issue today. We hope the vast majority not involved are waiting for an adjustment—not an end—of our segregation problems. There can never be an end to segregation, but there will be an adjustment.
My parents will never see even an adjustment to the problem, nor will this writer. But it will come in time—when we are rid of Northern radicals, when we are rid of "old-time" Southerners with outmoded minds, when we are rid of any man who dons a bed sheet and calls himself a "KKK" follower.
Only when common sense and up-to-date thinking prevail, and there is a complete end of radicalism, will we see an acceptable adjustment to this problem of segregation.
Cellophane Keeps Out Real World
Sam L. Jones
What are college students talking about today? If you listen in on a conversation among students you probably would find Grace Kelly's recent engagement to the prince of Monaco topping the list. The January weather enters a few minds and how long we can keep our New Year's resolutions is being considered by some.
What is happening in the outer world? Many students haven't the slightest idea. In their own cellophane world, conversations vary from basketball games to the latest movie showing downtown. Dinner conversations range from how poor the food is to how slow the waiters are.
or Germany or Egypt or anywhere—except Mt
Oread.
Outside their world of classes, tests, and professors, the future is being debated, fought over, and legislated upon. Most college students have no idea who their state representatives or senators are. They could not tell you who the possible presidential candidates are. They have no idea which states are holding primaries or who is entering them. They haven't the faintest idea what the President said in his State of the Union message. They don't know what's happening in France
College students live in a closed-off, shut-in, and completely obscure world all by themselves. They place Grace Kelly's engagement over the deadly fight between Egypt and Israel. They consider last night's date more important than the turmoil in France's government. Their minds are filled with conversations about the opposite sex, music, fraternities, sororities, the Western Civ test, the English proficiency test, and tests and classes in general.
How many college students read a newspaper daily? How many college students read any newspaper except to glance at the comic section or the sports page? How many students read Time or Newsweek? How many students take advantage of their opportunity to be correctly informed?
College students probably will regret that they have mised such opportunities some day when they leave their cellophane world and are thrown into the outer world of turmoil and unrest. Four years is a long time to be out of touch with the world.
Marion McCoy
Scoop: Grace Won't Marry Prince
Well, now that everyone has predicted things to happen during the fondling 1950 and 6, we now present predictions of things that WON'T happen during the year.
First: Kansas will not go without rain sometime during the year—which means there WONT be a drought.
Second: Grace Kelly WONT marry Prince Monaco or whatever his name is. She's to be away from him for two months. And, this Spanish gal that bussed the prince when Gracie's back was turned may very well upset the whole situation.
Fourth: Mt. Oread WON'T suffer an earthquake, consequently resulting in the destruction of the University.
Third: Hell will not freeze over.
Fifth: No one will construct a vast cavern under Mt. Oread, to provide better parking facilities for the students—who only pay out their folk's hard-carned money to get a sheep-skin.
Sixth: The world will not come to an end.
Seventh: The international situation won't
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Eighth: There WON'T be a war between the states.
Ninth: Marilyn Monroe and Sabrina ("the cheiest British TV star") won't pose for any more calendar or playing card pictures.
change. There will be a continuation of west is west and east is east.
Eleventh: Oklahoma WON'T go to the Orange Bowl.
Tenth: The Western Civ course WON'T be dissolved.
Twelfth: Neither will Kansas.
Sure is interesting to try and cram a whole semester's reading into one week. We'd have it made if we weren't taking three courses.
Twelfth: Neither will Kansas.
—Sam L. Jones
A friend of ours who claims to be an activities major reports that once again we are entering the pre-final week lull during which all clubs, organizations and what have you, have closed up shop.
Saw a picture of where Malott Hall made the front page of the downtown paper. Heck, we knew it was there all the time.
- A CHIMNEY SWEEP MY EVE! - THERE HASN'T BEEN A FIRE ON THIS FLOOR FOR TWENTY YEARS!"
Polio Research Must Continue
Polio is a disabling and very costly disease and for these reasons we fear it and fight against it.
This fight has been spearheaded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938.
To reduce the disabling effects of polio, the National Foundation has paid for the training of hundreds of physical therapists and other specialized personnel and has provided equipment for their use. At the same time, the search for a preventive has been carried forward and scientists throughout the country have received millions of dollars in research grants to aid them in this search. Important discoveries in recent years that finally led to the Salk vaccine were made through such grants. And, of course, the work of Dr. Jonas E. Salk, creator of the vaccine, was sponsored by the Foundation.
The vaccine, as scientifically evaluated in the 1954 field trials, was from 60 to 90 per cent effective in preventing paralytic polio. Thus, some paralytic cases may be expected, even in vaccinated children. This is why March of Dimes money is being used in further research for an improved vaccine.
But in addition to these important programs for research and training, there is still another aspect of the fight against polio that is vital to all of us—the National Foundation's patient aid program. Because of this program, since the early days of the March of Dimes, none of us has had to fear
KEEP A SAFE DISTANCE BEHIND THE CAR AHEAD NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
...Letters..
I was interested in your frontpage photo (Jan. 9 issue) showing the "correct manner for attaching parking permits" to license plates. The only trouble is that the "correct manner" doesn't permit the car trunk lid to be opened and closed on many cars. Perhaps the traffic committee should design a permit that CAN easily be attached to the license plate without being a nuisance?
Editor:
Elmer F. Beth Professor of journalism
inability to pay for costly polio care.
Because of the March of Dimes, we are all assured that should polio strike us or members of our families, funds will be available to pay for the very best treatment medical science can provide. The goal is to save life and restore human beings to useful living. Towards this goal more than $20,000 has been spent by the National Foundation on a single patient. No limit is or can be put on the value of a life.
During the past year, we have all heard encouraging news of progress in the polio fight. Polio is not licked yet, but now, at last, there is good reason to hope for eventual control of the disease.
Meanhwhile, research and professional education must go on, along with aid in mending the lives of those thousands for whom the vaccine comes too late. Contributions to the March of Dimes accomplish these tasks. They also help to give every one of us continued freedom from fear of the kind of personal economic disaster that a serious case of polio brings with it.
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