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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Nov. 23, 1954
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
For Thanksgiving:
A monument to America's fortitude.
A day of prayer for America's bounty.
A time of gratitude for the opportunities America affords.
This is Thanksgiving, to be celebrated two days from today by all of us in our homes, dorms, sorority and fraternity houses, or as a guest in the home of another.
To most, we fear, it will be a welcome event primarily because the Calendar committee deemed it important enough to give us a few days away from classes on its account.
the "fine meal Ma usually cooks up for the occasion."
a classes on its account.
And, it will be looked forward to because of
The thanks given Thursday should be for much more than a rest from school and a well-set table. The day should be a much deeper experience.
Thanksgiving is the day for thanking God for the privileges that we—above almost all other nations—enjoy.
And it should not be a day in which we remember, then forget our thanks. It should be a day to remind us to remember them—until we reaffirm them at another Thanksgiving.
—Letty Lemon
Vishinsky Was Communist Yes Man
With the death of Andrei Vishinsky, Russia lost one of its greatest followers of the Communist party line.
He didn't have anything to do with policy-making but he was a major world spokesman for that Soviet policy. With a vitriolic sarcasm that was his trademark, the Russian chief delegate to the United Nations followed closely in the foot-steps of V. M. Moletov—steps that veered little if ever from the path mapped out by the Communist party.
munist party.
Through the great purge trials of 1936, '37, '38, and '39, Vishinsky earned the title that historians may choose to remember him by—that of "hatchet man" for Josef Stalin. Vishinsky was the prosecutor for the former Russian premier in the purge.
It was under the former premier that Vishinsky gained his greatest power—and yet he was never powerful enough to have a hand in the making of Soviet policy.
In 1920 Vishinsky joined the Bolshevik government of Russia, although he took no part in the revolution of 1917. In 1940 he joined the Soviet foreign office.
And from 1946 until 1949, he was principal Soviet delegate to every United Nations meeting. In 1949, under Stalin, he was named foreign minister, succeeding Moletov.
But shortly—within days—after Stalin's death
in 1953, Vishinsky was removed from the foreign minister's post and Molotov was re-installed under Georgi Malenkov.
Georgi Malenkov. Then he became chief Russian delegate to the United Nations.
In the UN Vishinsky was the sharpest critic of Western policy. His was the "nyet" that stymied action on many UN measures.
He carried the Red line right up to the time of his death. Over the weekend, Vishinsky had reiterated Russia's demand that the Security Council should have veto power over President Eisenhower's atom plan.
With the death of the acid-tongued Vishinsky, Russia's representation—at least for the present in the UN falls to Vishinsky's chief deputy, little-known and little-heard-from Arkady Sobolev.
Obviously Mr. Sobolev—who once served as assistant secretary general of the UN—has no choice but to go down the line with Kremlin and Communist party desires.
Communist party leader It may be that the Kremlin will decide to leave Mr. Sobolev with the chore of carrying on Russia's wishes in the UN. Probably, though, the powers that be in Moscow will fill Vishinsky's shoes with a "tried and true" party-line follower.
Regardless of who gets the job, Russia's "nyet" in the UN will be as loud as ever.
—John Herrington
Malan Leaves S. Africa in Turmoil
Daniel Francois Malan, the grim old leader of the Nationalist party in South Africa, has announced that he will step down from his position as prime minister the 30th of this month, thus ending a 30-year career of building "apartheid" into a symbol of un-Christian racial intolerance. His resignation was foreseen by some last November when he announced he was quitting as leader of the Nationalist party in Cape Province. He had dictated South African policies since 1948, when he succeeded Jan Christian Smuts as prime minister.
Mr. Malan, clergyman and editor, rose to political leadership in the Union of South Africa as a relentless advocate of ultra white supremacy. A trained predikant (preacher) in the Dutch Reformed church, he preached to his people that they were a chosen people, "elected" by God to build in South Africa a "New Jerusalem."
build in South Africa. In the final result, he did most of the building himself as the crusading editor of the anti-Semitic Boer paper, "Die Burger," and as founder and leader of the now all-powerful Nationalist party.
To carry out his policy of white supremacy, Mr. Malan shouted the word "apartheid" into the ears of his people. He says apartheid aims at reserving certain rights and privileges and duties for the whites and also offering the natives the same opportunities in their own communities. It is a "state of being apart" between the two racial groups, the prime minister claims.
The deep-voiced prime minister let it be known that he would assent to South Africa's "cooperation" with the Commonwealth only if (1) the British would stop criticizing South Africa's domestic affairs, (race segregation) and (2) there would be no indiscriminate expansion of Commonwealth membership to non-white countries.
Although Mr. Malan and the Nationalists outlawed the Communist party in 1950, and though they claim that the black population in Africa is in a state of ferment as a result of the world situation and Communist propaganda, Mr. Malan's actions threatened to drive a continent rich in human and material potential to communism by his suppression of the natives.
His consistent boycotts of the Trusteship council of the United Nations and his threats to withdraw from the national organization, sounded very much like Russia's action in the UN. Mr. Malan claims apartheid is purely an internal matter, and as such, beyond the jurisdiction of the UN iron curtain talk.
As the 80-year-old Mr. Malan retires to the university town of Stellenbosch, he leaves behind him a continent with a serious internal problem—which he has created. He rallied his defeated people, quickened their hatred of the British, and kept alive the bitter memories that Jan Christian Smuts before him had spent a life time trying to erase.
Nancy Neville
"Les see—I got 'INCOMPLETE' in math 215, WITHDRAWN in English II, CONDITIONAL in social studies, and a 'D' in PHYS ED—Boy! Thank goodness I didn't flunk anything this term."
Letters
To the editor:
I am amazed and disgusted that a staff member of the UDK would write such an irrational article on a subject so obviously foreign to her experience. I refer to the recent publication of an article entitled "Girls' Basketball Is An Abomination." (by Mary Bess Stephens—ed. note.)
Miss Stephens stated that she asked several basketball devotees just why they like the sport, and these several girls unanimously agreed to three of the most stupid purposes for recreation I've ever heard in my life. (Miss Stephens litsed developing the female form, getting exercise, and promoting teamwork as the reasons given for playing basketball—ed. note) It is a known fact that the feminine form will develop without the help of playing basketball; that walking is also a physical exercise; and, that teamwork can be developed by merely playing bridge.
The women's intramural basketball records show that exactly 356 women of the 2,135 women on the campus participated in this "abominable sport" during the recently completed 1954-55 season. May I say that these 356 numerical figures are also figures in another sense of the word, Miss Stephens. This 15 per cent speaks for itself, and presents a much more convincing ratio than the 2,135 to one Miss Stephens who write such, pardon the expression, newspaper articles.
Yes, teamwork is fine—but a girls basketball team is composed of six—not five—players who keep their "calm and gentle heads" throughout a game, contrary to Miss Stephens' assertion, The American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation girls' basketball rule-book contains 30 complete pages of the stiffest rules of any athletic event, and they certainly do not permit a team to "beat the tar out of five"—correction, six—"opposing players."
With reference to that superfluos-
ly sweaty sweat shirt Miss Stephens mentioned, the saying goes. "Horses sweat, men perspire, but women merely glow."
Girls as well as boys have to deveop muscle tone, as it is a constant physiological function of the normal human body.
These 356 girls participated in the intramural basketball program because they thought it to be a much more heartily form of recreation than walking—or playing bridge, and they wanted to play basketball.
Nixon and Cozens, noted physical educators, say: "The universal function of education in improving social conditions in America may summed up in the indisputable conclusion that the betterment of society depends ultimately upon the improvement of the physical, mental, and social qualities of the individuals who make up that society."
The University of Kansas is an educational institution, and through its intramural program provides the student with the means to "recreationally" improve these physical qualities if he so chooses.
I, therefore, admonish the UDK for allowing this slur upon KU to go to press.
Jean Walterscheid Education sophomore
(Editor's Note: Since the article had a byline, what it contained was not necessarily Kansan policy. However, Jean, we consider ourselves admonished.)
Heat and cold have little effect on some animals and fish. A fish was found in the hot springs of Ceylon at a temperature of more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit. And an Alaskan stonefly lives and carries on its activity in a temperature of 32 degrees—just freezing. Some plants can stand even lower temperatures. In an inactive state some organisms can survive even at temperatures several hundred degrees below zero.
Daily Panan
Playing cards rank among the oldest printed matter on earth. Block-printed playing cards were in use all over Europe by 1400, more than half a century before the Gutenberg Bible was printed.
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