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University Daily Kansan Monday, May 18. 1953
State Hot Potato-
Apathy Could Endanger Kaw Valley
Editor's Note: This is another in a series of editorials on the Kansas flood control controversy, invoking concerns about how a state agency should take new powers of both leading factions. The following was written by a member of the Daily Kansas staff. The letters column is open.
Rise, you farmers of the Kaw valley! For if you don't, your neighbors from up north of Manhattan in the Blue valley are going to get the real jump on you.
They have already won the first round with the recent cancellation of funds by the government for further work on the Tuttle Creek dam. They're just liable to get that ruling to stick, you know.
Don't let some of these no-dam advocates fool you into thinking that the big dams are just to protect your fellow men living in big cities such as Kansas City or Topeka. You have a stake, and a large one, in this Tuttle Creek business.
But that minority against the dams, (and it is
a minority if you consider the number of people affected either way) has one advantage on you.
They're at the scene of the action, so to speak. Every day they see that pile of dirt rising higher and higher and becoming wider and wider across the beautiful Blue valley. They see it as a threat to their homes and they are fighting—fighting hard.
Maybe it will be 50 years before you see these signs of trouble. Then again it might happen this July.
Perhaps if you could see something rising little by little, say the old Kaw river, bringing portents of disaster to your land and farms all over again, you might swing into a little action yourself.
If you really want anything done, don't let the apathy of this dry spring lull you into compacency. It could happen here! —Clarke Keys
Press' Renown Upheld By 'Nosey' Reporters
Some biting comments by a member of the working press were uttered Saturday by Alvin S. McCoy, Kansas correspondent for the Kansas City Star.
Mr. McCoy, speaking at the annual Kansan Board banquet thrilled editors, publishers and embryo journalists alike with his straight-from-the-shoulder slaps at "little" politicians, lazy reporters and news suppression.
The comments assumed even greater pertinence because of Mr. McCoy's recent role in the investigation which led to the resignation of C. Wesley Roberts, Republican national committee chairman. The correspondent dug out the original stories on the $11,000 fee Roberts received for his part in negotiating the sale of a Norton hospital to the state.
But for a penchant for following up tips and digging deeper than the surface for news, Mr. McCoy easily might have missed out on the biggest state news story of the year—and Roberts might still be GOP national chairman.
Along this same line, Mr. McCoy was vehement in condemning news-gathering by use of government handouts.
"I feel deeply," he said, "that the handout is often a one-sided presentation colored favorably to suit the interests of the bureau or department. It should be used only as a starting point. I am in favor of the nosey reporter who can ask pointed questions."
The handout is now a standby of any agency wishing publicity. In many instances, the handout has fostered laziness among reporters, who formerly would have had to dig out the facts.
Mr. McCoy's remarks deserve to be trumpeted far and wide to reporters on the smallest country weeklies and on the largest metropolitan dailies. They not only advocate what should be done, but have the backing of an outstanding example of what has been done in the reporting area.
The high reputation of newspapers has been built on the efforts of tireless reporters such as Mr. McCoy. This reputation can only be maintained by a continuation of these efforts. Not only newspapers but the American public will benefit.
Bob Stewart
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Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler
Junior Questions Pach Envoy Choice
Editor. Daily Kansan:
I noticed in the Daily Kansas the other day that Pachacacmac decided at its "iron curtain" meeting that Pach president Larry Loftus is to attend the meetings of the NOW from now on.
Heidi Bloesch
I live in a NOW house and I would like to know whether MOW was consulted in the making of this decision. I do know that it was never discussed in our house.
education junior
"Good morning and 'Happy Halloween' professor Snarf- Trick or Treat."
Trick or Treat."
Pakistan Seeks to Enhance Reputation
A country suggested to the UN to be the neutral country in the POW exchange is Pakistan.
The nation, covering 361,007 square miles with a population of 70,103,000, is divided into two sections which are separated by India.
The POW headquarters probably would be located in Pakistan's capital, Karachi, situated on the southern border of the western section.
Pakistan is surrounded by some of the world's hot spots. Besides India, Iran, Afghanistan, and China are neighbors of the western section.
The government of Pakistan since Aug. 15, 1947, has concentrated on
Comments
A state senator who feels that taxation is getting a little out-of-hand offered this plan for taxing. "Put little meters in our throats and tax the air we breathe."
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Improved pictures for the Kansan are promised with a new electronic machine but it doesn't look like it will do away with the photographer yet.
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Pakistan leaders are more interested in self preservation. The immediate objective is to maintain their new and admittedly unique
national problems. Pakistan has not concerned itself very much with broader world issues apart from support of the United Nations and the general cause of world peace.
The Indian Independence act, passed by the British Parliament in
July 1947, provided for the settin up in India of two independent dominions—India and Pakistan.
Pakistan leaders realize the must keep a half dozen of their ablest men on duty in world capitals to put Pakistan on the map and to build up its prestige as the most populous Muslim nation.
If Pakistan is chosen for the neutral nation, this will be achieved
—Velma Gaston
Austria presents another instance of ill-fated European leftism potentially strong and still the best challenge to Russian communisn for the workers, but constantly overcome by conservatism allied with the Center parties or with Neo-Fascists.
Neo-Fascists Hamper Austrian Anti-Reds
The leftist Socialists are now stronger than any other single political party in Austria, commanding a majority of 79 seats. Following is the Catholic People, with 71 seats. But the head of the Government is an out-spoken right-winger, Julius Raab, leading the coalition brought out by the last national election.
When the Catholic People's party lost three seats at the beginning of this year, the right-wingers charged Chancellor Figl with softness toward the Socialists—who so far have proved to be goo Democrats—and openly favored a coalition with the Neo-Nazi Union of Independents—whose platform needs no further explanation.
Details of his uprising show how Neo-Fascists are no longer power working behind the scenes of the European politics. The are working legally and efficiently, giving grist to the Cominform, spokesmen and uneasiness to the Western Allies.
Figl had spent eight years in a remarkable balancing of power between the two parties, using tact, humor, parliamentarianism, an fair play. But now he is out as chancellor.
A strong opposition within the People's party itself and chief among the leftist Socialists kept the Neo-Nazis out of the government, even though for the game of votes and alliances the Socialists were able to make use of their majority and the chancellorship went to a former Nazi. Raab.
If the theory of evolution holds good in politics too, this very possibly may be a first step toward the complete restoration of fascism as a force able and allowed to lead a European government again.
In 1930 Raab took the facous "Heimwehr" oath" saying "... W reject the democratic western Parliament." The oath was compulsor for the members of Starhemberg's fascist private army.
While Figl and other democrants were in concentration camp Raab served in the pro-Nazi cabinet appointed by Schuschnigg appease Hitler in 1938, and then took the job of aligning Austria economy with German rearmament plans.
A tough-talking 61-year-old engineer, respected by friends and enemies for speaking frankly, Raab will be confronted with a very difficult series of international and internal problems.
But he and the present coalition are likely to have a very short time to last eight years. —Al Traditi