Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1953
Letters
To the Editor:
"You know—sometimes I think this 'Dragnet' craze goes just a little bit too far!"
University Daily Kansan
I trust that the Kansan for Monday will correct the pro-Pachacamac errors in the articles on pages 1 and 7 of last Wednesday's Kansan-articles for which I understand the information was provided by Dana Anderson, Chairman of the ASC Elections Committee and a Pachacamac member.
These errors are as follows:
Pettitions are not required of candidates for ASC seats as stated in these articles, but only of candidates for class officer positions.
Page 2
(2) The ASC Bill on Elections specifies that two freshman men will be elected to the House of Representatives, not one as stated in the article.
(3) The article on the front page also credits Anderson with ruling that the election and petition deadline dates would be decided at the ASC meeting Tuesday. It failed to say that Anderson unsuccessfully attempted to have the ASC senate set aside the elections bill to permit the freshman election to be held on the Thursday of the ASC bill and without consultation with the Elections Committee.
I suggest that Anderson call a meeting of the Elections Committee before he next makes an announcement "as decided by his committee"—he has not yet called a meeting this semester.
To the Editor:
Bob Pope, Member
ASC Elections Con
Why don't you and your colleagues of the editorial section gently reach up and remove the chip from your shoulder?
I have not in my years here see such a sickening display of childishness as has appeared in the Daily Kansan so far this fall. There are other aspects of our paper that I do not like too, but, if I should criticize any manner, I would suppose that in place of name-calling and sly digs for character or proposed profession, you would deeper into the subject of just why our paper isn't pleasing the subscribers.
I should think that in your "respectable" profession of journalism, it would be your goal to please the readers. Instead, when anyone offers criticism, you manipulate words and present prejudiced facts in order to squelch the upstart who dares to criticize your work.
Why don't you grow up? Spend your hours thinking of methods to improve the Daily Kansan, and stop wasting your time and ours with your superior, never-make-a-mistake, kindergarten attitudes!
Water Ash College Senior
Walter Ash
To the Editor:
It seems to me that Ken Bronson, Daily Kansan sports writer, is asking for a broadside—right between the eyes. I refer to his sarcastic comments about the lack of a rally for the football team and his induction from this point to a statement deploring the lethargy in school spirit here.
School spirit, it seems to me, should be a spontaneous thing. It is not an artificially created blob of hysterical and meaningless shouting for "our boys" on the gridiron, the court, or the track.
The spirit and enthusiasm exhibited at athletic contests is only sincere when it comes in response to a well-conceived and skillfully executed play or, equally important, a gesture of fine sportsmanship on the part of some player.
It is self-evident that the "school spirit" here and at most universities is most often artificially induced. I do not respond to it, and I have many friends who feel the same way.
Worse yet, we continually ask ourselves the question, "Why should we cheer for a fine performance on the athletic field, particularly the football gridiron? After all, we are not witnessing a contest between amateur players. We are watching a match between intensely coached and highly indoctrinated players who are playing under the hypocrisy of amateurism. Their skill represents the effectiveness of the coaches' training, not any initiative on their part."
Now I wonder whether or not there are many students who perhaps feel the same way? I would like to think so. I would like to think that this explained the lack of a pep rally last week. Possibly the KU student has at last begun to say to himself, "I'll cheer when I'm cheering for true amateurs, not professionals playing under the guise of amateurism. I'll cheer for a team of volunteers, not for a group of scholarship-bribed recruits."
Donald Stewart graduate student
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Executive Editor Clarke Keys
Managing Editors Ken Coy, Rocanne
News Editor Clarey Piatt, Chuck
News Editor Elena Foley
Society Editor Velma Gaston
Sports Editor Don Tice
Athletics Editor Ed Howard
News-Editorial
NEWS STAFF
Big 4 Parley Might Injure Plan for Unity
Aneurin Bevan on the eve of the opening of the 52nd annual Labor party convention at Margate, England, devoted most of his time to criticizing the United States foreign policies in Germany and Asia and suggested a four-power conference.
Adviser ... Calder M. Pickett
The United States should oppose such a conference. In all probability, nothing would be accomplished and a split could be caused between the United States and her allies.
We should ask ourselves a very simple question of whether anything can be accomplished by a conference on that level. If some member of the group is so unhappy about his position that he might be prepared to make concessions, something might be accomplished. If not, such a conference would be purely a propaganda show.
Malenkov in his present position is not likely to make any concessions to the West. Any agreement made wouldn't be respected in Russia, unless the kind of agreement that can enforce itself is achieved.
Meanwhile, Britain is clamoring for the United States to recognize Red China. The British believe the United States should talk pleasantly to Russia and ditch Chiang Kaishek and Syngman Rhee as disturbers of the peace. Socialist politicians are using anti-American feeling as a way to get back into power.
Anti-American feeling is found in France because the French do not want to join an European army which they themselves first proposed. France could pull out of the North Atlantic Treaty organization and line up with Russia.
With this type of feeling toward us, a split could develop among the United States and France and Great Britain if they should meet in a Big Four conference.
The best we could hope to accomplish with Russia would be a compromise — and who wants to compromise with a gangster type nation that starves, beats, and tortures its people?
Elizabeth Wohlgemuth
South Africa Goes As Malan Dictates
Dr. Daniel Francois Malan, the tough "superman" premier of the Union of South Africa, is slowly choking the financial life out of his country with his policies.
Malan has disrupted the life of South Africa with his "white supremacy" ideas. Racial strife, with the Negro of South Africa demanding certain civil rights from the Nationalist government, has made South Africa a hotbed of tension.
Johannesburg, Capetown, and Dunban, the population centers of the country, are the most explosive parts of the colony.
Malan is trying to institute more rigid segregation in the colony. This doesn't go too well with the natives of the country, who unjustly (according to Malan) seem to think they have some rights in their own country.
With the present Malan policy, money has become as scarce as snowballs in the middle of July. The crisis should be reached around the end of this year.
around the end of this year. Foreign investors simply won't invest capital in such a turbulent area. Tourists have become practically non-existent in the colony.
It is estimated that the government of South Africa needs about 150 million a year in foreign investments to keep the developments going and to bolster earnings of foreign currency.
The total this year should run to about $60 million or just $90 million less than they need. Financial houses, which once recommended investments in the colony, no longer give their approval of these investments.
They fear an uprising of the predominately black African population.
As if this weren't enough, the costs of mining gold have risen sharply. In some cases part of the mines have shut down their operations.
The businessmen of South Africa were shocked with a report from the finance minister. He said that foreign exchange reserves were melting away at a rate of $15 million a month and that less than $300 million remained.
In short Malan has practically committed financial suicide for the colony and the prospect of change isn't very likely until he allows some form of peace to come to the colony. —Ken Coy
Warren Well Qualified For Chief Justice Job
A man tabbed by President Eisenhower to become the "great Chief Justice," Earl Warren, has all the attributes to be just that.
Justice Warren, former governor of California, is a Republican, but a middle-of-the-road Republican. He has no set policy on controversial subjects, often voting differently on the same subject in different surroundings.
From past experiences in dealing with the mirid of differences encountered in the vast storehouse of thought known as California, Justice Warren should be able to cope well with problems and opinions which he will encounter in his new job.
California is a breeding ground of everything new, different and subversive which hits the American scene, and Mr. Warren's experiences in dealing with these problems will soon make known his abilities to iron out difficulties of all sorts.
On the question of civil rights questions, the court has been seriously divided, as it has been on many issues.
Mr. Warren will also get an opportunity to smooth over the rift which has existed in the Supreme Court for many years. The rift is caused by personal rivalries and antagonisms, and seriously endangers the effectiveness of the court.
On the agenda of the court in the coming term are many touchy issues, among them segregation, loyalty oaths, subversion restraints, rights, of aliens, offshore oil, public power, and limits of legislative inquiry, issues which will sorely test the justice's abilities.
The chief justice will disqualify
himself on offshore oil cases, because he has been an open partisan of state control of submerged lands and resources. To counteract this case, an upcoming decision must decide whether to overturn a Court of Appeals ruling which gave a private corporation the water-power rights along the Niagara river.
The justice is the son of immigrant parents. He worked his way through high school and college, including the University of California School of Law. His public career began when he was appointed deputy city attorney for Oakland in 1919, and from there was elected for three terms as Alameda county district attnory.
When he won the election for governor in 1942, he carried every county in the state, even though there were more than 1,000,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.
Examples of his nonpartisan philosophy are "age-old dynamic of intelligent self-interest released thru the system we call private enterprise." On the other hand, he fought for public housing, prepaid medical insurance, and the highest old-age pensions of any state.
He arrives painstakingly at a decision, but when he does, he fights for his beliefs with a strong tenacity. This tenacity should make him one of the greats among great chief justices.
—Ed Howard
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