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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 29, 1955
'Right-to-Work Veto Sets Pace
"Right-to-work $ ^{b} $ legislation for Kansas has passed—at least temporarily—into the limbo, along with compulsory arbitration for labor disputes.
Gov. Fred Hall is showing what he meant by his campaign promises for a new brand of Kansas Republicanism. It is one of the most encouraging signs of an active political spirit alive in Kansas today.
The veto characterizes a new attitude for a Kansas which is changing from farming to industry as the basis for its economy.
The attitudes of Kansans are changing because of the rise of Kansas industrialization.
They are changing because Kansans no longer feel that the State should not export well over half the graduating classes of its universities; that it should stop providing the manpower for out of state industries.
The controversial young governor's veto of the so-called "right-to-work" measure was needed because the Kansas House and Senate wilted before the power of the interest groups which are pushing the proposal.
Changing from learning to industry as the basis for the economy The House and Senate missed their chance to initiate this new attitude. It was left to Gov. Hall to recognize that a Kansas striving earnestly to industrialize cannot exist on the laws of an agricultural economy.
The proposal, itself, came to Kansas from the 17 states which have already passed such laws. These states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North and South Carolina, North and South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. These states proved their agricultural basis and their domination by business interests in passing these laws.
Industrialization would provide these jobs.
It isn't that Kansas graduating classes would not like to find jobs in Kansas, but the state can not keep personnel "down on the farm." The youth of the State will not stay here if no jobs are available.
"Right-to-work" is reactionary and primitive. It has no place in the new Kansas Republicanism that is emerging from the changing views of Kansas voters.
Gov. Hall is to be commended for his statement concerning the proposal, "The enactment of the right-to-work bill may be remembered as a dark hour in Kansas legislative history."
Another aspect of a new Republicanism for Kansas is the fact that industrialization means an industrial population. Laws must be passed with the consent of the governed, not on the whim of an agricultural legislature. The Kansas House and Senate proved themselves still in this farming state of mind when it passed the "right-to-work" bill.
Bravo to the governor for setting the pace on a new brand of Republicanism for a growing Kansas! —Ron Grandon
Colorado Parking Move Might Be Worth Copying
Colorado university has taken action on its parking problem by prohibiting freshmen from bringing automobiles to school. CU says the move was made to help freshman adjust to college life, but will probably have more effect on the parking problem. Colorado university, a school slightly larger than KU, has parking difficulties similar to those experienced here.
Is that what needs to be done here to alleviate congestion? Visitors attending basketball and football games are appalled by the congestion that faces them. In a sizeable university such as ours, the elimination of freshman-owned automobiles would make quite a cut in the number of cars that continue to jam parking lots and streets.
The ASC has attempted to find a solution by providing more parking areas. The answer lies in eliminating the number of automobiles, not in finding more room for them. Here is a possible solution dwelling upon that thesis.
All parking on the campus proper would be eliminated except that of staff members, visitors, and certain exceptional cases where the individual is physically unable to walk to classes. License tag stickers would be issued similar to the ones we have now, except that no zone would be designated.
Although a radical move, this plan might provide a ready answer to the problem without creating any significant new problems. It would make not only for much safer walking but would reduce the traffic congestion at noon and at 5 p.m. It goes without saying that the job of the campus police would be much easier.
Visitors would be requested to obtain a windshield sticker which would grant them permission to park on the campus for not more than two days.
In Chicago, Julius Rosengard thought he burglar-proofed his grocery by installing iron bars on the front door and a steel door at the rear entrance. Burglarls ignored his elaborate protection, broke through a brick basement wall and stole $2,000 worth of merchandise.
The biggest problem it would present would be getting used to the new change but it is possible that it would be well worth the effort. —Gordon Hudelson
Letters
Dear Sirs:
Of course we are all agreed with Dr. Murrill (letter to UDK, March 25) that it would be a desirable thing for the UDK to send competent reporters "to cover" plays, concerts, lectures, football games and pinnings. I believe we may assume that the editors consciently attempt to do so. But, like the University theatre, our campus newspaper is in some measure a teaching as well as an informing and entertaining organ. In fact, unlike the University theatre, the UDK probably cannot draw upon University faculty and staff, or their wives and children, for the better performance of its task. The editors, themselves apprentices to their profession, accordingly operate within limitations that it is easy for the rest of us sometimes to forget.
But Dr. Murrill's plea does raise certain questions that it may be helpful to recognize. He cites two-column, front-page play reviews in the student newspaper at McGill University. Now, on the one hand, it is, I believe, a journalistic principle common to both sides of our northern border not to mix straight reporting of events with editorial comment. On the other hand, a university newspaper is a kind of family affair in a way that other daily newspapers are not. The mere statement that attendance was light at a particular campus event or that an audience was not demonstratively appreciative is liable to hurt local feelings rather keenly; in the spirit of Dr. Murrill's letter, such remarks are likely to arouse a sense that the campus newspaper is not giving "due reward" for efforts expended.
Yet no one seems particularly disturbed when a student reporter criticizes a campus production favorably—even if his judgment is poor; that, we seem to feel, is as it should be; we ought to encourage and appreciate each other's efforts, however poor they may sometimes be. It's good school spirit.
What sort of notice, then, should our campus newspaper be expected to give to University theatre productions? I'm not at all sure. I do feel, however, that anything in the way of a "review" should be signed and should appear in an appropriate review or editorial position, probably on an inside page of the newspaper. If the editors consider a play or an opera to be news—as well as a twice-weekly—the will of course "cover" the event as a news Insofar as possible, I would suggest, the two journalistic functions should be kept separate and distinct.
But will the editors of our campus newspaper consider every University theatre production both news and review-worthy? And ought they to? That, of course, is another question. In the past, the UDK has seen fit to notice every campus play, generally by a rather unsatisfactory amalgam of news item and "review." Where within their pages the editors decide to place the article is a function of the importance which they suppose their readers will consider the event to have. Clearly at KU it would be absurd for them to suppose that most of their readers will consider a University theatre play as significant as an NCAA basketball play-off. In this respect, the editors can be leaders or followers. They can think of themselves quite simply as disinterested spokesmen for what they conceive to be popular opinion, or they can desire actively to encourage those aspects of our University which most significantly distinguish it from their pre-college alma maters. Dr. Murrill does well, I think, to direct our attention to the student newspaper at McGill. —George Herman
The Senate received a committee report with the title: Charalampos-socrates isossifoglu".
Under a bill which the Senate passed, Iossifoglu, a Locust Valley, N.Y., shipping executive, and his family, would be granted permanent residence in the United States.
Through a typographical error, the name "Charalampus Socrates Isoissi" is written.
Authorities in a Nebraska county says it cost them $378 to extradite Floyd Barton from Los Angeles to face charges of cashing a $100 bad check.
Letters
Hospital Accused Of Slow Treatment
Dear Editor:
The University of Kansas General Information bulletin on page sixteen reads, "Watkins Memorial Hospital with its 62 beds and full-time staff of doctors, nurses and technicians, provides the best of medical care for KU students."
It's high time that the public are brought attention to the so-called hospital we have on this campus and for which each student, not by choice, must pay ten dollars a semester. Last Saturday morning a mishap occurred which may or may not have been serious in nature. In any case a young woman required the immediate attention of a doctor. In spite of the fact that our hospital was located only a block away, at least a quarter of an hour passed before an ambulance appeared representing that institution. Of course, in that time the patient cold have been carried on a stretcher by two good men on foot; instead, she lay there on the ice-coated pavement protected only with coats shed by those about her, no one daring to attempt to move her any distance. Not a very comfortable situation in five-degrees-above-zero weather! Now do we have "the best of medical care for KU students" or not? Would it not be better to rely on a real hospital perhaps further away, but capable of meeting emergencies?
This is not the only example that could be offered for the lack of efficiency in our hospital. Once a student lay in a state of shock for over an hour in a University dormitory when finally a Lawrence doctor was summoned. From pharmaceutical dispending to routine physical examinations students meet with obstacles. Fortunate are those students who do not have to call at Watkins—fortunate, that is, until they realize that they must pay ten dollars a semester for service they do not receive.
One might protest, though, arguing that this is a kind of insurance and a premium must be paid. True! But why not use that ten dollars for a real insurance (as some schools do) which would provide students with dispensary and emergency care wherever they be—in New York or in California—instead of a mere partial health service for those who have the motive power and the patience to wait hours for attention in the corridor of Watkins hospital?
John L. Grigsby
Graduate student.
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