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University Daily Kansar Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1953 LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
UDK to Withdraw, Towel Thrown In
We're cut to pieces. Our dignity is in shreds. The future of the Daily Kansan, threatened with losing its few readers, is in jeopardy. We're just sitting around now waiting for an executive order to suspend publication.
It's been fun being a newspaper the past four or five decades, but we all have to fold up some time. When faced with deadly competition or an invasion of yahoos, it's sometimes best to concede defeat at the beginning.
Not really, of course. We're just slightly amused at the advertisement on the opposite page which proclaims to the world, and especially to the Daily Kansan readers in the world, that someone perhaps is dissatisfied with our newspaper.
The Someone operates in a Joe Friday-ish manner. Probably if he comes out in the daylight at all (and he seems immensely in the dark), it is to dart from tree to tree while chasing imaginary bad-men
In a particularly amateur cloak-and-dagger maneuver his advertisement, sent anonymously to the Daily Kansan, was paid for with a money order signed with a fictitious name. (The phone number is genuine, however; his wife answered.)
And we can point proudly then and say, "There, but for the disgrace of the Daily Kansan, goes a lawyer."
Every dog must have his day, and every law student his bone to pick, we always say. Perhaps the rival newspaper will succeed to the point where this neophyte shyster can abandon a career of ambulance-chasing for a respectable living in journalism.
But even a lawyer (or law student) should have the g--- to sign his own name. —Mary Betz
European Community Would Unite 9 Nations
Much is being said about a European Defense community. France doesn't want to belong. There is the problem of whether German troops should be allowed to be a part of an all-European army. EDC is only a part, though, of a much larger plan called the European community.
Deputies from the different nations participating have been meeting in Rome and drawing up a blueprint for the community. The nations participating are West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Tentative proposals call for a European assembly elected by the direct votes of 155 million citizens of the United States of Europe
"I always write my term paper criticisms illegibly so th' students won't be able to take issue with what I say."
A European senate similar in function to the Senate of the United States would be set up. The members would be appointed by the Parliaments of the six-member nations.
A cabinet with executive powers would be set up, headed by a president of the United States of Germany. The president would be elected by the members of the Senate.
To allay the fears of France that a reunited Germany one day might dominate the European assembly elections a ceiling was fixed above which no nation's delegation might rise. Luxembourg was pacified by a clause guaranteeing representation for states whose populations are too small to elect even one member to the chamber,
Each member nation would send one member to a judicial court which would settle disputes arising among the participating nations.
The community would have an executive council to replace the EDC Commissariat and the Schuman Plan high authority.
Under these groups would be the European Defense community, which is the main stumbling block in the plan. Thus far the European army has been ratified only by the West Germans and the Dutch. The French are violently opposed to Germany participating in the European army.
Ceylon became a crown colony of the British empire in 1802. It acquired full dominion status within the British Commonwealth in 1948.
—Elizabeth Wohlgemuth
The Schuman Plan in the coal and steel industry would continue under the operation of President Jean Monnet. The name would be changed from the Schuman Plan to the Coal and Steel community.
Other agencies also are being planned to further unite Western Europe against the nations behind the Iron Curtain.
The first plank road in the United States was built in 1846 from Syracuse, N.Y. to nearby Oneida Lake.
An "annular" eclipse of the sun is one in which the moon appears to be slightly smaller than the sun, and a narrow ring or "annulus" of light is visible around the moon when it moves in front of the sun. This differs from a total eclipse in which the moon completely covers the sun.
Tightening of Draft Situation May Affect Student Standing
In an interview with Newsweek magazine last week Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, made some interesting comments on the draft situation for the near future. How will this affect the KU student?
He cited higher Selective Service demands, which would raise the present 23,000 men called each month to from 40,000 to 60,000 men each month late in 1954.
Gen. Hershey explained this situation by pointing out that the build-up in 1950-51 called men for two years' service. This means that needs are higher every other year.
Selective Service now faces the problem of replacing the nearly 650,000 men leaving the service each month for the next year.
He predicted a stricter application of deferment policies.
James K. Hitt, registrar, says that only students who have just been "getting by" for the past few years, those who "serape through" the University program and are exempted, will be immediately affected.
A student coming to the University with a real desire to graduate has several paths open in regard to the draft.
First, if he is drafted during the school year he has an automatic exemption until the end of the school year. However, if he isn't called until he has re-enrolled for the next school year he will have to go, having used his one deferment trivilege.
If the student makes a score of 70 or above on this test he may be deferred, at the option of the local draft board. however.
Secondly, a student may take the draft exemption test, given by the University for the Selective Service office.
Third, a student may qualify for deferment by the official standing in his class. He must be in the upper 50 per cent of his class if he is a
freshman, in the upper two-thirds if he is a sophomore, or in the upper three-fourths if he is a junior. This is also at the option of the local board.
Mr. Hitt said about 90 per cent of the Kansas draft boards, all but about seven or eight, make it a policy to accept both the draft test and the class standing.
Therefore, while a student may run a risk by taking the draft test, he is running more of a risk by not taking it.
Above all, the student should remember that a deferment is not something that lasts forever. It is only to allow him a chance to finish his education, and then it is his time to serve.
Mr. Hitt says he doesn't think the picture will be greatly changed until there is a greater shortage, except for the "goof-offs" who probably wouldn't plan on graduating anyway.
—Ken Coy
Short Ones
Bernard McFadden, representing the Honesty party, has been ruled off the list of New York City's mayor candidates because his petition didn't have enough signatures. That's one case where Honesty wasn't the best policy.
"Big Time Wrestling" in Lawrence says the poster. Probably just an extended hour dance.
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Kansas State college is having a cross-country team this year, the first time it has fielded a hill and dale crew since 1929.
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Then there's the KDGU announcer who read, "Girls, why not take the course in driver training? The life you save may be mine!"
Letters Two More Reply On Discrimination
To the Editor:
I would like to extend my most humble apologies to the readers of the Kansan, Tom Stewart, and most all, to the members of my race. In my letter of Oct. 6, I failed to mention that I am a Negro American being abused by the practices of segregation. This neglect on my part led Tom Stewart, and no doubt many readers, into thinking that I was a pro-segregationalist.
To clarify my views I would like to state that I was attempting to get people to look closely at the way minority groups are treated in contrast with the laws that are on the statute books. I felt that the time for the enforcement of these laws is now.
I feel that there are some people here who share my belief that something should be done immediately. Therefore, I would like to invite all of those persons that are interested in cautiously searching for a solution to this problem to meet me at 1101 Miss. st. at 3 p.m. Sunday. I want to discuss means by which something constructive can be done to further the understanding of the races.
I regret that I was misunderstood but hope that something definite can be arranged as another step upward toward the ideal American way of life.
James L. Blair college senior
The responsibility of opening all the eating places in Lawrence to students of all races rests with us students ourselves.
Subtle editorials have been tried.
Not-so-subtle editorials have been tried. Petition was tried. None succeeded.
To the Editor:
We must do away with this sorry condition. We have the means at our disposal—BOYCOTT! Students, let us use it.
Starting today let every person at KU cease to patronize any eating place in or near Lawrence which does not accept the patronage of other schools on campus in grounds. Within a week let no one set foot in any of these places.
The pattern is set! Now is the time! We have the whole school year to make our stand known. Let's do our duty! We do it in the name of brotherhood!
Let us continue this boycott until each such place of business publishes an invitation of patronage to all of KU students, regardless of race. After such publication, let us again eat in those particular places.
A College Junior Name Withheld by Request
The Army, at a cost of about $1,-800,000,000, has recovered and rebuilt material worth $13,600,000,000 since World War II.
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