Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Jan. 7, 1954
Don't Mind Our Complaining, You'll Get Us in the End
Relax fellows, and stop complaining about having to serve in the armed forces, it's unpatriotic.
At least that is what Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey said last week. He seemed to have the opinion that today's youth are a little offbase even to think of complaining about their lot.
"Two or three years is not a lifetime," he said, "nor is it a big enough part of a lifetime necessarily to make an everlasting difference, however it might be spent."
That may be, but Mr. Hershey will have a hard time trying to explain that idea to any of the college students who have had their education interrupted to go into the Army.
This doesn't mean that college students should get off any easier than other American draft-age males when it comes to serving their country. Nor does it mean that the American youth of today are afraid to fight for the rights and the country they believe in.
What it does mean is that the American people, regardless of the state of the emergacy, have a right to a good old fashioned beef whenever they feel like it.
It means that anyone has the right to feel that two or three years of their lives spent in the service might make a great difference in his future.
Anyone who tries to take the American privilege of complaining about what one wishes to is taking away one of the greatest pressure-relieving devices a person can have.
The administration may crack down on those individuals who try to get out of serving their country, but it had better be careful when it goes fooling around with age old American rights.
It is interesting to note that a high government official should feel that people's lives are so unimportant.
Ken Coy
Election-Year Worries Beset Administration
The future of the 1954 session of Congress was largely decided in the nation's capital last week when leaders of both the Republican and Democrat parties met for talks.
Just what decisions were reached by the groups will be largely guess work. The question the administration would like answered is just what kind of cooperation it will get from Congress.
There are a lot of factors that could make the next year a hard one for the administration. Most important, it will be an election year.
The voting in November will be on all 435 House seats and on 35 of the 96 Senate seats. For this reason the tension in Congress will be much greater.
The administration is far from happy with its position in Congress now. It will certainly be out to improve it next year.
The Democrats, while not in control of legislative machinery, are actually ahead in numbers in the Senate-48 to 47 and one independent.
In the House the Republicans have 219 seats to 215 Democrat representatives. Naturally the Democrats will be truing to cut this very slight lead,
If they cannot strengthen themselves in numbers they will plan a stronger and more constructive platform, hoping to make gains in the national election.
The Republicans may, as many people believe, make an issue of Communism in government agencies and try to win votes from the nation.
It has also been announced, in addition to party meetings last week, that Senate Majority Leader Knowland (R.-Calif.) and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D.-Tex.) would hold a conference in advance of the congressional meeting Jan. 6.
Last week was of great political importance. However, most of what happened will remain a secret until Congress next meets. —Ken Coy
Short Ones
What happened to the cop on the street corner who was punching ID cards when students walked the wrong way? We heard he joined forces with Mr. Pinkerton.
Is Kansas going to have a football team next fall? If we do, it will be quite a sight with no coaches on the sideline.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Letters
Although people reading the news coverage may not have realized it, such a motion was made at Tuesday's House of Representatives meeting. We House members who opposed the bill want to explain why we felt that a reconsideration was necessary.
10 The Editor.
Why didn't the ASC House of representatives vote to reconsider the Rock Chalk Revue bill?
To the Editor:
Our feeling is that the facts concerning the Y's finances were not fairly or adequately represented at the previous meeting in which the House passed the measure. Before Tuesday's meeting we examined the Y's own financial records—their itemized list of income and expenses.
We wanted to bring to the council concrete statistics which had not been clearly presented; we were equally anxious to see the figures upon which advocates of the bill based their argument. We had also been led to believe that the Y favored the bill. Further we were given to understand that the Y had realized its "usefulness" and had fired a secretary. We discovered later that neither of these contentions is true.
"I don't know why I take this class with ALL boys—I just don't know the first thing about trains."
We simply wanted the House to reconsider the bill so that it could be debated openly with all the relevant facts before the body. Why were the bill's proponents so anxious to avoid such debate?
Margaret Smith
Frank A. Newby Jr.
Bill Arnold
Now that they are giving the coach faculty tenure, how about giving something like that to harassed college editors?
Across The Campuses
Problems Bother Most, But K-State's Happy
What's happening at other colleges and universities? Bandleader Ralph Flanagan and halfback Joe Switzer were in the news at Kansas State college this week, while Oklahoma A&M was concerned about robberies at a women's dormitory and Iowa State college considered problems met by its new president.
Methods used to eat spaghetti were debated at the University of West Virginia, a class ring made news at Texas A&M, and the University of North Carolina talked about segregation in public schools.
Kansas State The music of Ralph Flanagan's orchestra will fill the evening air at Kansas State Friday night. First the orchestra will play a concert, and then it will play at a dance later in the evening. At intermission time staff members of the K-State yearbook will crown the Royal Purple beauty queen and her two attendants.
Also at K-State, an editorial in the Collegian lauded Joe Switzer, Negro halfback for the Wildcats who scored two touchdowns in the East-West game in San Francisco Jan. 2.
"Five years ago Joe was playing six-man football before almost 100 people. Last Saturday Joe played before 63,000," the editorial said, adding that it was an example of the right in America to do what you want to do.
Oklahoma A&M—A series of robberies in a women's dormitory at Oklahoma A&M has baffled officials there. A woman, described only as tall and thin, took at least $125 while she was helping coeds move their luggage into the dormitory as they returned from vacation.
Another problem, arising from a football upset of the University of Missouri, caused three demonstrations including a riot. The Iowa State Daily said Dr. Hilton had solved this problem by granting a half-day holiday.
Tillman Bocock, campus police chief, said the woman moved in and out of rooms almost at will, taking billfolds and purses. Nearly 50 girls were reported to have seen the woman, but all thought she was a student.
Iowa State—Dr. James H. Hilton, new president of Iowa State, was faced by "a pack of trouble for a beginner," according to an editorial in the Iowa State Daily. One problem listed was the athletic controversy, in which many are asking for greater emphasis on sports in the school.
West Virginia—How to eat spaghetti? That's what a student at West Virginia asked in a letter to the University newspaper. "Our once happy home is on the verge of collapse because of spaghetti," the student wrote.
His problem: "Neither of us can stand to see spaghetti eaten in the manner the other eats it. She says that after I get through cutting up my spaghetti it looks like a plate of maggots, and I think her plate of spaghetti looks like a plate of night crawlers." The West Virginia newspaper suggested that the two sit side by side while eating so that neither could see the other's plate.
Texas A&M-J. N.Parks,a senior at Texas A&M in 1945, probably never imagined that he would find his class ring after he lost it on a fishing trip in 1952. If he did expect to see it again,he certainly could not have guessed where it would be found.
Otto Yelton, another A&M man, found the ring lying between the bodies of two dead Chinese on a hill in Korea a year ago, and eventually it was returned to the owner.
North Carolina—The problem of segregation in schools was discussed at North Carolina. J. S. Stewart, chairman of the Committee on Negro Affairs in Durham, said the Negro wants the rights to an equal education with whites because of the lack of economic control he has now over his own situation.
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