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University Daily Kancou
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1953
New Order May Ease Life of Russian People
Hopes in the world were high last week that the Moscow decree ordering an increase in distribution of domestic goods meant that the Russian industrial arm was changing from making weapons of war to making goods for peace.
The decree, by the Council of Ministers and Central committee of the Communist party, ordered a 72 per cent increase in distribution of civilian goods and shelved the 5-year-plan started in 1950.
This latest decree is apparently better for the Russian people than the plan it replaced. The 1950 plan called for a 70 per cent increase in the distribution of goods by the end of 1954. The purpose of the decree obviously was to show the Russian people what efforts the Malenkov government is making to speed goods to the public.
Forty thousand new stores were ordered to be opened before 1956, along with 11.000 dining halls and restaurants. Other goods affected immediately were refrigeration equipment, mechanical loading equipment, building supplies, meat, butter, furniture, clothing, sewing machines, radio and television, and household machines of all sorts.
Not only were these goods ordered to be more widely distributed, but distributors were instructed to watch the quality of the goods.
Sales groups were ordered to dispose of all the old-fashioned stock by putting it on sale at reduced prices. The reductions were supposed to amount to 30 per cent in many cases.
They are to refuse shoddy equipment and manufactured goods. Factories were ordered to improve the assortment of goods and to publish catalogs.
The campaign seems to be part of the program to improve agricultural standards. It is also part of the fulfillment of the Malenkov promise of Aug. 8 to improve the living standards of the Russian people.
Some Western observers think this is a sign the Malenkov government has been having many internal problems and that this is a giant effort to reduce some of them.
It is a way to pacify the Russian people and stop any sign of a drift toward the West. This action comes as Russian officials all over the world are loosening controls and even letting people through the Iron Curtain to glimpse life on the other side.
Perhaps it is a good sign, perhaps Russia is preparing to give her people the rights people in other parts of the world have long enjoyed. —Ken Coy
If Mr. DeVoto wants to see escapism at its best, let him visit the foreign language laboratory with a couple of beginners. Since they aren't allowed to speak English, their conversation is quite limited to textbook grammatical constructions.
A medical student offers the UDK his opinion of the Kinsey report, which doesn't differ much from others except it is written in more technical med-school lingo. Oh, well, it's sex of one, half a dozen of another to us.
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A Kansas sports writer, writes of a "mastodoid," probably meaning an elephant with the ear ache.
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Pach Answered by Sheldon
The letter from the four Pachacamac representatives says three things: (1) that I am working for my party; (2) that I am debating; (3) that I have grossly, consistently, and maliciously twisted the rules of parliamentary procedure.
To the Students:
ASC. And I have the right to debate this year if I wish.
I am working for FACTS because I believe in what it stands for and do not believe in what Pach stands for. I am working for my party just as the above mentioned four work for theirs. But in no way has my party affiliation influenced my behavior on the ASC and it never will. That is the important thing.
I resigned from debate last year in February months before I even thought of running for the
I am malicious because I called an extra meeting of the ASC to dispose of important business essential to the efficient operation of the Council as soon as possible-budget approved, faculty advisers approved, Campus Chest chairman chosen, etc. My weak knowledge of parliamentary procedure has improved greatly, as I believe was evinced in the last ASC meeting.
I shall continue to work for my party,FACTS, and I shall continue to let my party affiliation in no way regulate my running of the ASC or affect my whole-hearted desire for better student government.
Sincerely, Dick Sheldon
Bishop Being Fired at Again
The "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" sign is being applied in a new manner out in Los Angeles.
Ordinarily, the sign is used in restaurants to inform members of minority groups that unpleasantness might result if they were to demand service.
Bishop Oxnam hit the front pages across the country this summer when he testified before a Congressional investigating committee in an effort to meet charges that he has gone overboard in being friendly with the Reds.
His appearance came at about the same time J. B. Matthews was expelled from Sen. Joseph McCarthy's committee for having written an American Mercury article which led off with the statement that the largest single concentration of Communist front Americans is in the Protestant clergy.
In this instance, however, it is being displayed in a civic auditorium, and is a snub toward—of all people—a Methodist bishop. The Rev. G. Bromley Oxnam has been refused the use of the Philharmonic auditorium in Los Angeles.
We care little for Mr. Matthews, and feel that in each of his attacks on several professional groups he was too far off base to be excused. However, we feel that Bishop Oxnam's hands aren't too clean either.
The clergyman admitted to being a member of or having been a member of, a good many organizations that have been shown up as lined with Red. Naturally, his defense was that he didn't realize the true nature of some of the groups, and he denied that the other organizations were Red.
It seems to us that even if the bishop didn't know what he was endorsing when he lent his name to some of the groups his mistake is too serious to be shrugged off. Furthermore, we don't see how he could have been fooled as long as he was. Some of the organizations had had his backing for a decade or more.
There is no "privileged ignorance" for public figures. They ought not to be excused for passing out their names like business cards. We feel that persons in high places should place the dignity of their names on a plane with the prestige they feel they have attained. Many don't do this, and we feel that their carelessness is a dangerous fault.
If the managers of the Philharmonic auditorium want to refuse service to whomever they please, they have picked a good person to receive the effect of the policy. Bishop Oxnam, though a clergyman—and a high one at that—has slipped down considerably from the top of the heap. Let him earn his way back. —Tom Stewart
One Man's Opinion
The Noble Society of the Followers of the Rising Sun are at it again.
By JIM BAIRD
of the Rising Sun can be found. The four heads of the Noble Society (English translation of Pachacamac) this week issued a denunciation of Dick Sheldon, president of the All Student Council who ran and was elected on the FACTS ticket last spring.
The four-headed political monstrosity accuses Sheldon of violating an agreement they allege was made between Pach and Sheldon to the effect that "if—my running for office on the FACTS ticket will, in the future, politically impair my house, I will not allow my name to be submitted."
The letter states, furthermore, that "he was of the opinion that it was party politics that have kept the ASC from much positive action and caused the students to lose respect for their own governing body." He felt that placing party allegiance before student welfare was not a realistic approach."
The agreement they are talking about probably refers to a time-honored Pachamac pressure tactic: that of denying representation to a house which has a "contrary" or "dangerous" resident, and of cutting that house out of the privilege of nominating candidates to ASC jobs, and for that matter, out of other privileges in the hands of Pach supporters.
Pachamac leaders thereby succeed in attributing to Sheldon what a large segment of the campus population have felt for some time—party politics and partisan interests don't belong in a government that is supposed to represent all 7,000 of the people who pay their 60 cents (the ASC's portion of the activity fee) and not the 40 people who make up the Inner Circle of the aforementioned political group.
Sheldon, if he made such an agreement, probably was worried about
Medical Student Offers Critique of Kinsey Book
Concerning Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Kinsey, Powerey, Martin, and Gebhard.
The flippant treatment of this subject is indicative of adolescent embarrassment and somnambulant intellectuality on the part of the staff of the UDK, the student body, and a certain priggish housemother.
Those who feel the interviewed persons lied concerning their sexual activities are reflecting their own propensity to prevaricate, and their ignorance concerning the perfected interviewing technique employed by Kinsey and his staff.
Those who discredit the book because of an inadequate sample are in disagreement with Kinsey, his staff, of expert statisticians, and other scientists who employ the statistical method. These statisticians are the only ones competent to criticize on that basis.
The number of Kinsey Reports purchased from the Student Union Book Store (7) reflects the lassitude of student minds. It is more convenient to read a sensational, colored report on the report than it is to read the 761 pages of the book itself which only costs $8.
The Kinsey report is more than a statistical compilation of female behavior. One third of the book is devoted to presenting the accumulated non-statistical data on the anatomy, physiology, neurology, psychology, and endocrinology of sex. It was found that the greatest and perhaps the only significant differ-
such tactics being applied and wanted to insure that his interest in non-partisan student government wouldn't cost his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, its prestige.
Personally, we doubt that Sheldon did make such an agreement. If he made any agreement at all, its substance must have been that Sheldon would do his best to resist party pressures if to resist them would be in the interest of better government.
ences between male and female were confined to the psychological aspect of sexuality.
Also, patterns of sexual behavior were not found to be determined by conditioning and experience, and not by a perverse nature or a rampant pituitary or gonad. It was demonstrated that human sexual behavior has phylogenetic origins in mammals lower on the evolutionary tree than the human animal.
For this service he will be castigated, chastized, and condemned by most social institutions. Only recently the American Bar Association, during a convention in Boston (how apt!), voted a resolution to ban the Kinsey Report from publication. Some sensible person among them decided that such an act was not within their jurisdiction, and the resolution was dropped.
Dr. Kiney has rendered invaluable service to humanity, as did Freud, by investigating human sexual behavior and attempting to destroy the superstitious, untenable beliefs in man's inner uncontaminated nature which is supposedly distinct from that of other animals.
It is interesting to note that a feud has existed between the professions of psychiatry and law for some time because lawyers refuse to take the initiative in changing archaic sex laws to conform with the natural behavior of man.
It seems that once a law student becomes a lawyer, he becomes so remuneratively involved in the status quo that any social change endangers his position.
Jim Beatty first year medicine