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University Daily Kansan Monday, February 9. 1953 Letters
No Federal Help If KU Budget Cut
The facts are clear, although one issue has become confused.
The misunderstanding has arisen over the proposed 1953-54 operating budget for KU. The original $12½ million budget requested by the University was cut to less than $12 million by the board of regents, a reduction of 5 per cent, and then slashed 11.3 per cent more by the governor's budget committee—lowering the total to $11.3 million.
A budget bill of this amount will go before the Legislature after the University has a hearing before the Senate ways and means committee sometime this month.
But it is to be hoped that the Legislature does not forget that the biennial budget in 1951 was reduced $1,136,000, forcing the University to use federal funds of the same figure to close the gap in operating funds.
So in effect the Legislature owes KU for this action two years ago. For this reason—in addition to others—officials feel that this year's slices should be restored in the Senate ways and means committee or on the floor.
Other vitally important factors why the budget request should not be cut in the final legislative action are anticipated increased enrollment beginning during the next two years, the deterioration of temporary wartime facilities, and a possible increase in inflation.
The governor's budget committee's action was based on the fact that inflation has stopped—a very debatable premise.
Here lies the bone of contention. The federal funds came from a provision of the original GI bill of rights and consisted of a sum for each enrolled veteran to be used as "overhead" by the school. The University had planned to use this money for permanent improvements before the legislative cut.
Nor will there be more help from the national government. The present Korean GI bill no longer has the "compensatory fee" provision which provided the federal funds two years ago.
Chancellor Murphy has said that the Legislature will denounce federal aid to education if they approve a budget similar to the one requested by the University.
It is an opportunity to put belief into practice.
Jerry Knudson.
Short Ones
After seeing the huge spreads the newspapers gave Eisenhower's decision on the Seventh fleet, we can only wonder what they would have said if Truman had done the same thing.
We know that Operation Smack could not have been one of those Hollywood productions, not only did we get thrown back, but Robert Mitchum wasn't there to re-group his forces and lead a counterattack to rescue a pretty nurse held captive by the Reds.
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Groundhog came out of his hole the other day, and with housing the way it is, he had to chase three real estate agents out of there before he could get back in.
The new President has cut out the coffee hour for government workers, no doubt the administration is trying to figure a way to do the same thing during convocations.
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POGO
Austrian Defends European Politics
Whereas the reverse can hardly be said, I agree with most of what my Indian colleague had to say in his interesting reply to the Daily Kansas last Friday, Jan. 16.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
It was my intention to attempt an explanation and not an apology for shortcomings and errors of European politics of today. When we speak of American isolationism and apply the term "nationalism" to political trends in Europe we describe symptoms of historically the same utopia. If I were asked where it had stronger roots I would without hesitation answer that it is more dominant in Europe beyond comparison.
The pointedly internationalist foreign policy of United States during the last decade is evident; the very fact that we are here is an obvious example. It won the last war and may, so we hope, win the peace.
It is a reversal of this positive attitude toward the rest of the world which not only I am worried about. Signs of it could be noticed during the presidential election campaign. The success of certain members of the Senate "class of '46" at the polls cannot be interpreted as a vote for cosmopolitan spirit. The atmosphere of a college town is, of course, not representative for American public opinion.
It was not a difficult task to point out the dangerous mistakes this attitude can lead to—the same which are so plainly and discouragingly demonstrated by its European equivalent right now. It is because I think that the readers of this paper can do more about potential trends in this country than about those overseas that I stressed the imminence of political self-sufficiency in the U.S.—probably in too dramatical a way.
Our reason for being here is not only to have a good time and to tell Americans that they are a nice bunch of people—which they are; and the value of a newspaper article should not be judged according to its effectiveness as a soothing dope which makes the reader feel content with himself, if not always with the rest of the world.
I disagree with my critic in his emphasis on emotional values in international relations. Love and "traditional friendship" have proved to become questionable magnitudes as soon as they are transplanted to groups and peoples. In my opinion politics can only gain if passions are replaced by practical sense, mass enthusiasm by logical thinking.
Egon Sohmen
Austrian Exchange student
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Today's Youth's Plight Due to Mixed-up World
Philosophers, psychologists, columnists, and the man next door all look at their morning papers and see the headlines, "Youth Arrested for Theft," "Teen-Age Dope Ring Uncovered," and "New Sex Crimes Discovered." But they don't read the stories behind the headlines, because they are not printed.
Today's generation is blamed for everything from candy-store thefts to treason, and rightly so because the crimes are there. But the real reason behind these crimes lies not solely in the individuals, but in the generally fouled-up state of the whole world. Today youths are said to be wilder, more mixed-up, and just plain worse than any other group of individuals in the history of the country. But no wonder—look at their heritage.
Today's generation is not as bad as it is painted.
Born and raised in a depression, fostered in a global war, and matured in a cold war, today's youth has more reason to be "mixed-up" than has any other generation. A sick world can produce only a sick crop of individuals.
This is only another reason on the list of millions for a world without war and tension, but it is far from a minor one. Just to keep the records straight, however, we think that today's group of individuals has done, and will do, more toward straightening out the mess it inherited than any group in the past has done.
—Don Nielsen.
"The Man" Lacks Ability To Show Religion's Worth
Editor's Note: This is one of a series of reviews on books of religion. The reviews are being carried as an introduction to Religious Emphasis Week.
THE MAN CHRIST JESUS by John Knox, published by Willett, Clark, & company: 1942.
Morally speaking, a book, article or story about Jesus is an admirable thing. But "The Man Christ Jesus" is an intellectual failure for it gives the reader no information which he has not picked up (thanks to our Sunday schools) by the time he is able to read the book.
"The Man" fails to give the reader something he can intergrate into his daily life to make it fuller and richer in the form of a quiet peace of mind and assurance that life is worthwhile.
Many college students complain that the sermons they hear in churches today are too abstract and nonrealistic. It is unfortunate that this book cannot take up where most authors leave off and give the college student an intellectual, realistic, unemotional approach to life with Jesus.
Granted that in the last analysis the acceptance of God and Jesus must be taken on faith alone, yet it is possible that a book could be written to show the advantages gained by accepting Jesus' way of life even if mankind hasn't any mathematical, physical, or historical way to prove he said a specific quotation in a certain passage in the Bible.
The book, printed in 1942, is neither recent nor readable.
But this book did not do this. It rambled on about the historicity of Jesus, his basic teachings and his great interest in sinners.
Jerry Renner.