University Daily Kansan
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Mud in the Holster--
Thursday, Oct. 1, 1954
Kansan Writer Answers Townsman
The latest growls from persons disagreeing with Tom Stewart's editorial of September 18 ("TV Probes Amusing, Unfair") come from a local editor of weekly papers, Ed Abels, who keeps a shop on Massachusetts avenue. Mr. Abels also dispenses folksy advice on how the world might cure its ailments on a 15-minute broadcast over KLWN each Sunday. On Sept. 20, the half dozen or so persons listening heard him chew out Tom Stewart for the obnoxious opinions he wove into his Daily Kansan editorial.
Ordinarily, we pay little attention to the homely philosophy being peddled by homely old Ed Abels, but since he got personal, we think some of what he said should be given better publicity.
"Today," said this defender of things good and pure, "there are many who criticize any and all who are attempting to protect this nation by exposing those who have infiltrated our government."
Outside of the fact that Stewart's editorial
(and the hearing in Kansas City, about which it was written) never concerned "infiltration" or "government," but rather was centered about labor disputes in the Kansas City area, we think Mr. Abels is absolutely right.
Further on in his talk, the editor-commentator, who apparently lives between panic and terror of the possibility that the Hill is covered with Reds, said, "Now the stooges are attempting to smear and belittle our congressional investigators.
"It is a part of the propaganda used to keep the facts from the people about Communism in America. It has every appearance of being a part of the propaganda intended to help throw us into world government. Every loyal citizen should resent this smear attack on Congressional hearings and the FBI."
Well!
Again, we would point out that Stewart never approached the subject of Communism in his editorial, and if he was smearing the FBI he wasn't aware of it, because that
worthy agency was also not even mentioned. Then, too, Stewart had not a single word about "world government," regardless of what the hysterical Mr. Abels happened to say. Which brings up a point. Mr. Abels did have quite a bit to say about world government Sept. 20.
It should be explained that he is an isolationist from way back. The bulk of his broadcast was concerned with why he feels that we have latched onto a bad deal by participating in the United Nations. We will not flatter him by printing any of his rather warped theories on that subject.
Perhaps these paragraphs will help to clear up the screwball criticism of Stewart's editorial launched by this local foghorn. The unflattering truth of the situation seems to be that Mr. Abels needed about four minutes of talk to fill his broadcast, and so made a rather untidy shot in the dark.
The writer of this editorial? You guessed it. Tom Stewart
Letters
To the Editor:
—Tom Stewart
In your issue of the 28th, "Aid Offered on Publicity," you made a minor error. You left out one of the most important of the publicity media on the campus, station KDGU.
Certainly, we are a commercial enterprise, as is the Daily Kansan. But, like the Kansan's bulletin, KDGU has a program designed to keep students up-to-date on what's happening on campus. In fact, there are two shows. one sponsored by the Student Union, featuring what's going on in the Union. the other sponsored by Pach, featuring what's going on on campus.
Material for the shows must be in KDGU's office (217 J-building) by 4 p.m. on the day preceding the time it is to be used. There is no charge for meeting announcements, or announcements in the interest of the student body...but any organization selling something will be charged a minimum fee for a commercial announcement.
Davidson G. Hicks college senior
In 1952, petroleum and its running-mate, natural gas, supplied 62 per cent of the nation's energy.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"I promised you could play during th' last half an' I want you to know I'm a man of my word."
Short Ones
Tip to new students: The sight o. top administrators in nighttime regalia is sure to regale yuh. Don't miss the nightshirt parade!
The Union Book Store advertises two copies of such books as "Jenkins Ear" for $1. Who but Jenkins would want two of that book?
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Also on the list of bargain priced books is the "Metropolitan Opera Murders," by Helen Traubel, until recently a leading Met soprano. If the book were revised, perhaps Manager Bing would be among the murdered.
Standard broadcast radio waves, unlike frequency modulation (FM) and television waves are reflected from an ionic strata, known as the Henry-Heaveside Layer, and travel indefinitely around the world in a series of bounces. FM and TV waves penetrate into space.
Until the atomic era, uranium was merely a byproduct of radium and vanadium mines, useful for coloring glass, pottery, and artificial teeth.
Korea Poor from War, But Rich in Resources
Although for the last eight years Korea has been a land divided, until half a century ago it was one of the world's most independent, homogeneous and stable nations.
When the industrial north was split from the agricultural south by the 38th-parallel division in 1945, Korea's economic life line—exchange of power, lumber, minerals and agriculture—grown rice was severed. Since that time, neither region has been able to benefit from its resources.
A narrow mountainous peninsula, Korea stretches 660 miles south of the Manchurian border between the Yellow sea and the Japan sea to within 110 miles of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost island. The country covers 85,250 square miles, about one and one half times the size of Florida, which it roughly resembles in shape.
Before World War II, Korean industry—concentrated mainly in the north—was larger than that of either Mexico or Turkey. Its hydroelectric potential was estimated at 5 million
ASC Can Work Now Meaty' Bills Proposed
Weather forecast—fair and calm.
It isn't clear yet whether those connected with the All Student Council aren't raising any political dust because of a keen desire to keep things on an even keel and lose as few friends as possible, or whether there has been no particular dust to raise. More possibly it is the latter.
Business at Tuesday's ASC session involved only three matters of any importance at all—queen selection, ID card transfer changes and parking.
The queen ban has some solid merits, and furthermore has relatively solid backing. The only persons likely to object to keeping freshmen women out of the major men contests are the freshmen women and a few men who happen to go with freshman queen material.
Furthermore, there has been a definite current of opinion among students in years past that queens selected by photo have not represented the best pulchritude in the best place, and that these selections have to proximate "model material" instead of the typical "luxious KU good."
Students might like to see a uniform set of standards for picking campus queens, instead of having one girl selected on only what meets the eye, and another girl selected on activities, intelligence, and faculty approval—including here the opinion of the dean of women)—but hardly at all on beauty. At present, though, such action lies within the jurisdiction of the Associated Women Students.
The other two measures conside ered in Tuesday night's session de with matters which directly affect the student pocketbook.
killowatts, more than the 1937 electrical output of either Italy or France.
However, since the autocratic Athletic department and the acquiescent administration back the dollar exchanges, the matter is effectively removed from the ASC's jurisdiction.
As Farrell Schell, engineering senior, pointed out, fraternities which regularly rush prospective pledge material from outside the University with free tickets to KU gridiron matches will find the 400 per cent increase in the cost of such activity hitting harder at the bank balance.
The bill referred to the parking committee is a measure to raise the ante on overtime parking tickets. As it now stands, the first blue ticket is "free," the second and third are $1 each and successive overtime parking citations are $2.
Under this system, overtime parking bills ranging up to $150 have accrued to some individuals in the course of two semesters, it is reported. The revision suggested is a system retaining the first free ticket and the $1 second ticket, but raising the ante on the second, third and fourth to $2 and all successive tickets to $5 each.
The bill's sponsors think perhaps this will be a deterring factor to individuals who "like to drive to class."
To date, there is no organized opposition to and not much organized promotion of any of these measures. The weather forecast—fair and calm —Jim Baird
The land is known to hold highly strategic mineral reserves, largest in the Far East outside Manchuria. Fifteen years ago Korea produced about one-third of the world's graphite. Gold production ran as high as $50 million a year. Coal reserves are well over 1½ billion tons, and the iron ore reserve is estimated at more than a billion tons.
But despite its industrial potential, four-fifths of Korea's people are farmers, committed to rice agriculture on the fertile mountain slopes. In 1940, the nation was the world's fourth largest rice producer.
Korea also ranked third in the world in commercial fishing in 1939. Some 75 kinds of edible fish are found along its 11,000-mile coastline, where warm and cold currents meet. The country has 10 major weather ports, 20 secondary ones, and 139 other off-shore anchorage.
Korea's legendary history goes back about 4,000 years. Its independent kingdoms were well known to the Chinese 3,000 years ago. From an early base of imported Chinese culture, the Koreans developed an individual civilization with a semipublic state, renamed the "Irish of the Orient" because of their spiritized, independent nature, they have been engaged in a tragic struggle for freedom, unity and independence for half a century.
A "hermit" nation during most of the 19th century when communication with the rest of the world was discouraged, the country was claimed as a protectorate by the Japanese in 1905. Five years later it was annexed into the Japanese Empire, and its name changed to Chosen, which means, ironically, "Land of the Morning Calm."
In 1919 Korean nationalists staged a "passive revolution." A republic-in-exile was established under the presidency of Dr. Syngman Rhee. In 1948, the Rhee government was recognized by the United Nations, although the northern half remained under Russian domination.
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