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Draft Revision Not Enough
Tough military training under conditions that will promote the highest moral standards was urged recently for pre-draft age youths who volunteer for the six-month reserve program.
These recommendations were submitted to Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson by the National Security Training Commission.
It was this same committee that was responsible for the highly controversial National Reserve Plan.
This new plan is very important to the majority of University freshmen and sophomores because they fall in the age requirement of between 17 and $ 181\frac{1}{2}。 $
The situation is poor for the persons entering the service now because:
2. After they serve their two years they have an active reserve obligation unlike that of the person who has left the service.
1. They receive no educational benefits, which were cut off Jan. 31, 1955.
The National Reserve Plan originally proposed by Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La) would have included those people who were in the service at the time when the bill passed.
However, after Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga), Armed Services Committee chairman, received a mass of letters from draftees who were in the service at the time condemning this part of the plan, he took action to eliminate the obligation for the men serving at that time.
This was great for the person finishing his service obligation, but it was unsound for the person now entering the service.
Our country believes in "equality of sacrifice." Otherwise, everyone should serve his country as equally as possible.
That is why in all fairness to the people entering the military service now, those who serve two years in the army should not have the same reserve obligation as those individuals serving only six months.
It was the belief of Sen. Russell that those people in the service at the time of the bill should not have to serve this long obligation.
The logical conclusion is that since it was not the fault of the individuals going into the service now that they had to come in now, it would be fair for them to receive the same consideration.
Congress then should realize the "equality of sacrifice" for those men entering the service now and give the alternative of serving two years without a reserve obligation or going only six months with a reserve obligation.
David Webb
If Vice President Nixon is one of the best dressed men does that mean he is groomed for the 1956 race?
"That, my friend, is the new ROTC recruiting
program in action."
Filler Facts Frustrate Archie
"Whereas there were 2,418,634 persons aged 18 in the U.S. in 1941, there were only 2,197,506 of them in 1954, despite the over-all rise in population of the country."
Newspapers, especially in fair-to-middlin'-sized towns and institutions of higher learnin' are full of this sort of thing.
I have taken the trouble to test the accuracy of this one about the eighteen-year-olds. It happens that my Cousin Huron was 18 in 1941., so I turned to him. He said from his own knowledge it wasn't worth mentioning. He himself, he asserted, is no longer 18, but 23. Many of those who were graduated with him from Tippecanoe and Tylertoo High (Class of '41) are at least that old; he knows because they got married without permission. Obviously, he argues clearly, you couldn't expect the 18 year olds not to grow up, especially with the draft blowing down their necks. Not in an advanced country like ours. It would be arrested development and un-American. Cousin Huron says the statistic is plain silly: "Of course there are fewer of us still only 18"
I agree. I think lots of these fillers are ignor- and the rest are just plain true.
The kind of filler I like best—though I like them all—is like the following. It appeared recently in my favorite non-collegiate newspaper.
“India exports about $25,200. 200 worth of raws skins, mostly of”
That kind is really a filler, and when it fills like it's full, it stops.
--Archibald Dome
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
"THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASS YOULL BE TAKING — SO ILL EXPECT A LITTLE EXTRA WORK FROM YOU THIS TERM."
Barber Sees The Light
BLISSFIELD, Mich. — (U.P.) — A. E. Belman is an entertainer barber. When a power failure interrupted him as he was cutting a customer's hair, he got another customer to turn on the lights of his parked car and finished the job right down to a neck shave.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Ironically, a few weeks before President Eisenhower's heart attack he signed a document concerning the "physical weakness" of Americans. I sincerely hope that the committee doing the investigating on this matter will give more than a pair of thoughts to the mental weakness of Americans, too.
Editor:
John Herrington ... Managing Editor
Madelyn Brite, Gretchen Irene, Irene C.
Six, Lee Ann Urban, Assistant Manager,
Jessica Patterson, Assistant Director;
Bob Lyle, Assistant City Editor; Dick
K. Walt, Telegraph Editor; Marion
McCoy, Sports Editor; Jane Pecan,
Sports Editor; John McMillion, Sports Editor; Sam L. Jones, Assistant Sports Editor
If the anti-Western Civilization students at KU indicate the nature of general American character, Western Civilization is doomed (both the course and the culture), and no amount of physical improvement will save it. Western Civilization (both the course and the culture) will be ruined by those who refuse to think for themselves—who pay other people to do it for them.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
In my opinion, Mr. McMillion, the new proctorial system was not such a good step forward. By making this concession the Western Civ committee began wiping the nose of little Johnny Kansas. After graduation he still won't know who he likes in the sixth at Belmont; he won't know who's running and he won't care. The old proctorial system at least gave the student a little academic freedom and urged him to pick his own bouquet of obologies.
... Letters
Paul Bunge Business Manager
Robert Wolfe Advertising Manager;
Charles Sledd National Advertising
Manager; Jack Fisher, Circulation Man-
ger.
Well. Johnny Kansas is on the dunce stool now. He's having his Western Civ embryo manhandled by a sluggish discussion group. He proved he doesn't have the integrity and stability to accomplish the job himself.
I hope that health committee knows what it's doing.
Dale D. Morsch College sophomore
Upon reading Miss Sophie Stathopoulos' comments (published in the Kansan on Oct. 4) on the University of Athens, Greece, one could not help observing the following:
First, knowledge of the everyday language does not necessarily guarantee the ability to attend and understand lectures at a University, especially when the subject involved concerns Philosophy. It is not surprising that it was all Greek to Miss Staphotilos, for the Greek she has been taught by her parents cannot possibly have been the pure Greek which is spoken by the University professors and the students, and is used by the newspapers, and which is actually
Editor:
taught at all high schools in Greece. The fact that Miss Stathopoulos was utterly unable to take lecture notes clearly indicates her great deficiency in the Greek language. It is a wonder how she was permitted to enroll without a language examination!
Second, Miss Stathopoulos claims that "passing classes at Athens University is difficult even when you know the language." Does mere knowledge of a language mean also knowledge of Philosophy, Engineering or Economics? Passing classes there, indeed, requires intense studying just as it does here.
Third, I am sorry to refute Miss Stathopoulos' statement that "funking" the course four times happens often. When it does happen, the indication is that the student involved is "in the wrong place." There is, however, the provision that when a student has failed in a final examination three times, he may take the examination for the fourth time before a committee. This ensures the examinee of any partiality on the part of the professor.
Fourth, I might inform Miss Stathpoulos that there is a Union building located on Hippocrateous street and that the students have their own club for all sorts of academic, as well as social, purposes. I am astonished that Miss Stathpoulos, a student from the U.S. and so fond of social activities, could have missed those two things!
Lastly, if Miss Stathopoulos is really interested in knowing more about Greece, the Greek language and the University of Athens, may I suggest that she should try, at her spare time, to take advantage of the presence of Greek students on this beautiful campus.
Demetrius Moutsanides
Graduate student from Greece
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