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University Daily Kansan
Friday, January 7, 1955
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
CAMPUS
Look for the KU football pot to start boiling over again in a few weeks when several KU grid stars will not re-enroll in school here at the semester.
About the unusually high number of people rumored to have flunked the English proficiency test—it will turn out to be just another rumor.
STATE
Gov. Fred Hall will be successful in getting his appointments approved in the Kansas legislature. It will also be a striking defeat to the Ed Arn forces.
NATIONAL
The headline in Wednesday's Kansan states that, "Democrats Take Hold of Congress Today." Don't be surprised if the Democrats so-called hold on Congress is somewhat weakened by the new surge in popularity of the President.
Watch for the Democratic-controlled Congress to turn down proposed manpower cuts in the armed forces.
INTERNATIONAL
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold of the UN is being treated like a king by the Red Chinese government. The Reds are even throwing cocktail parties for him. But don't be surprised if the secretary general comes back to the U.S. empty handed—without the 11 airmen imprisoned in Red China.
It looks as though the U.S. State department is carrying on a rather toadying "copy the Communists" technique, if the banning of Russians in certain non-significant areas of the U.S. is any indication. The reason for the ban: because the Soviet prohibits American citizens in various insignificant sections of their territory
SPORTS
The American league pennant won't be hanging in Kansas City next September but look for the Athletics to do better than most experts predict. They'll probably grab fourth place.
The NCAA committee now meeting in New York will propose several drastic changes in rules governing football.
Need Change In State Law
In the unwieldy, simulated-leather-covered volume, "General Statutes of Kansas (annotated)" many little abnormalities are cached. Purluing a fowl by night is a felony, and Bolshevism and flying the flag thereof is also illegal, punishable by some good long time in the penitentiary.
But, even with perfectly sound wording, with cogent and consistent phrases, and literally knee-deep with good intentions, the statutes can nevertheless be awry.
Article 32, 74-3201 is a case in point. With little fanfare, it creates the board of regents, hereby. It says that the governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, nine citizens. Five shall be members of the political party casting the most votes for secretary of state in 1938 (a delicate way of saying five Republicans, true?) and four shall be of the political party casting the second highest number of votes for the same personage at the same time.
One interpretation of the Kansas Statutes—the interpretation that Gov. Edward F. Arn evidently decided was valid—says that there must be a successor appointed and qualified at the expiration date. Which means that the governor almost has to appoint successors before the 31st. Which means that what happened this year—outgoing Gov. Arn's appointing an old political pal to the board of regents without consulting his political enemy, incoming governor Fred Hall—could happen again
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
The governing clause could be changed, it seems to us, by amending the statute to read "or" instead of "and."
Radio Free Europe Brings Hope
—Letty Lemon
Such action on the part of the legislature could prevent further such face-slapping by political factions, reduce the chances that appointments to the board be a political "thank you" and keep politics away from the all-important board.
"When Russia thinks it can win a third world war, there'll be one. . . so our problem in maintaining peace is to make sure that Russia never thinks they can win" This is one of the reasons the supporters of Radio Free Europe call their program the "practical way to peace."
What is Radio Free Europe? It consists of 22 powerful transmitters along the Communist border in Europe that broadcast messages from the free world through the Iron Curtain into Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. These countries were chosen to be the main receptors of Radio Free Europe because they are considered the most likely places that the Communists would choose to expand into other parts of Europe. This battery of transmitters is perhaps the most powerful and modern in the world.
The Communist reign of terror is maintained in these Iron Curtain countries by radio. It may be carried out by Red police, but it is maintained by radio. This is why Radio Free Europe is such a vital weapon for the free world.
After the Communist broadcasts,each day, Radio Free Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia go on the air to refute Communist lies and present the truth,the great weapon of Radio Free Europe,to these people.
Radio Free Europe is supported by private American citizens. The stations are run by people from the countries into which they are broadcasting. It is a people-to-people program. Many of these workers were leaders who escaped the
country when the Reds took over.
Three years ago, when Radio Free Europe was established, the people in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia averaged about 80 per cent Communist and 20 per cent democratic. Today these percentages have been reversed. This is a remarkable change when one considers that the course of history usually takes 25 to 50 years to make such a change.
Recently, Radio Free Europe was able to get over half of the peasants that had been placed on Communist collective farms to return to their own land. This was a great victory and brought them one step closer to their ultimate goal. That goal is free elections for the people of these countries. This,Radio Free Europe workers and supporters believe, will "crack" the Russian "bloc." If they can obtain free elections for these people, Communist domination of these countries will be over.
Radio Free Europe is breaking through the curtain as much as 20 hours a day, instilling fear into the minds of the rulers and putting courage into the hearts of the people. Over Radio Free Europe the exiles tell the enslaved millions what is happening in their own countries. It brings the truth, forbidden religious services, poetry, and drama, but most of all, it brings them hope for the future.
Radio Free Europe provides a daily lifeline of hope and truth for the millions who have lost the freedoms which we too often are prone to take for granted. Georgia Wallace
"Worthall! Say, I haven't seen much of you since you got that
cute little sports car."
Letters
The slice in veteran's benefits is fair. When I joined the service in 1950, there wasn't any G.I. bill or any material gain offered to me as an inducement to put four years in for Uncle Sam. I wasn't making any sacrifice but fulfilling a time-honored obligation of offering myself to help stop aggression on democracy.
To the editor:
Two years of obligated service for high school graduates is the best thing in years. It is my opinion that a lot of these so-called men could use a little "squaring away" and the service is the best place to learn.
How any person can say that the Korean G.I. bill is not a "giveaway" for anyone entering the service after the Korean war stopped is beyond me.
Whether you know it or not, my friend, the armed forces have almost reverted back to peacetime status. A peacetime army's 1-day schedule is parallel to an eight hour civilian work day. You come to work at 8 a.m. and leave for home at 4 p.m. This heavy load of hours must really be a sacrifice to the members of the armed forces.
Lowell H. Heinz
college freshman
You cry again for these horrible Bermuda shorts. Why don't we thank old man winter that they are forgiven! To me they look like a boy's first long trousers he has outgrown or a pair of shorts a young girl gets while she is still growing. Well, with that length they will last at least a couple of years until they will be too short again.
But the Bermuda shorts are not the reason why I want to write to you. In your, . , well let's say article, you showed a great and unforgivable ignorance. I was shuddering when I read your second paragraph, not because of your image of the cold in the Swiss Alps, but because of the Swiss mountain climbers who are supposed "to wear a reasonable facsimile of the shorts in a leather version and surely those Swiss
Alps are colder than the Hill." At least the last part of your statement is true.
But we Swiss have to say it once again: You will find no Swiss wearing leather trousers. It is a typical custom of our northern and eastern neighbors and if you should ever find a Swiss wearing such shorts then he must have bought them across the border for some strange and unknown reason.
So if you ever come to Switzerland and you see a man running around in leather shorts you can be dead sure that he is a foreigner. But wearing leather trousers for climbing in the Swiss Alps among ice and snow is not only no Swiss custom, but it is crazy and insane as well.
We do not know why so many Americans have the idea about Swiss wearing leather trousers. But there was a time when some people who are attached to this custom liked to pretend to be Swiss. But as this time is forgotten we sincerely hope that the wrong idea which is still resulting from that time will soon be forgotten too.
Guy R. Manger exchange student from Switzerland
The only real proof that football has a future comes when the board of regents gets a new appointment.
It's going to take more than a shot of adrenalin to get us ready for final week. Maybe no-doze is the answer.
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