University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1952 Letters
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"Hey, you in th' back row—no cheating."
Editorial Board Was Explained
A note from Dean Glasco of the ASC has been received by the Daily Kansan editor advising that a council "motion" was passed at the last meeting which read:
"The ASC requests a statement to appear in the Daily Kansan presenting in an objective fashion the newly instituted function and effect of the Kansan editorial board."
Says Mr. Glasco's note, "It was pointed out that several Kansans had presented the material in some degree but it was felt that the student body as a whole was not fully cognizant of the situation."
The Kansan board approved the editorial board on Nov. 13. The Nov. 14 issue of the Kansan carries not only a front page news story reporting the passage of the bill, but also an editorial which attempts to explain how the bill was passed.
As for objective treatment, the same issue of the Kansan carries the full text of the amendment which created the board. The text is printed below the editorial on page 2. That is an objective presentation in our minds.
We sincerely regret that the board, its function and its success are not clear issues to all of the students. We believe, however, if the Nov.14 presentation is carefully read, the function of the board can be understood. Its success will only be determined by time.
The Daily Kansan will be happy to supply back issues to any-one wishing them. —Roger Yarrington.
Supreme Court Hears School Racial Problem
The Supreme court took up one of the most explosive issues in American life Tuesday at an historic hearing on the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools.
Two famed attorneys, one Negro and one white, are pitted against each other in the courtroom drama which climaxes a 30-year legal fight by Negro groups.
Before the high tribunal are five separate cases, all raising the same question: Does the mere fact of segregation put the stamp of inequality on Negro students, even if they are provided school facilities as good as those provided for white children?
The oral arguments will run into Thursday. On the court's decision—which may not come for several weeks—depends the continuance of the South's time-honored doctrine of "separate but equal" educational systems for the two races.
The intensity of the feeling which the court test has aroused in the South was indicated last month when South Carolina voters repealed the section of the state constitution requiring the maintenance of free public schools. Gov. James F. Byrns sponsored the repeal, asserting that the state must be ready to abolish
The first of the five cases to be argued arose in Kansas. This state does not require segregation but permits it in cities of more than 15,000 population.
its public school system if the Supreme court should require nonsegregation.
Other cases come from South Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Delaware.
either, white-haired John W. Davis, New York, one-time Democratic candidate for president, represents South Carolina. Davis won one of the most far-reaching decisions of modern times last June, when the court struck down President Truman's seizure of the steel industry.
Key Negro lawyer is Thurgood Marshall, 44, New York, representing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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The "separate but equal" doctrine stems from the famous "Plessy vs. Ferguson" decision handed down in 1896. The court then held that state
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
I was glad to see your editorial "Library Index in Need of Revision" in the Daily Kansan because it assures me that some of our recent work and discussion here in the library is along the right track.
Library Director Promises Change
we have recognized that the problem you present is an awkward one for students and that it extends even beyond books on reserve. The same case generally holds for books in the reference room and books in other libraries on campus (such as Lindley hall library).
You will be interested to know that my colleagues recently started a program to correct this situation. At present we are in the midst of a project of adding a location symbol for books in the Reference room.
We have already agreed on a similar pattern for books that will be in our new open-stack Undergraduate library (in the present Reserve room). Since that development, which will get underway this academic year, will alter the character of the reserved book set-up, we probably won't try to give location symbols.
At that time we plan to take care of reserve books. The next move will be in the direction of books in other campus libraries.
In the meantime please always feel free to ask for help and advice at any of the public desks, and particularly at the reference desk in the main reading room. The Reference staff is there especially for this purpose.
Robert Vosper Director of Libraries
Short Ones
The new name for the upper portion of the Hawk's Nest seems appropriate considering the trail of coffee that is spilled there every morning by drowsy students.
Understand that the Taft-Eisenhower split was really completed when the Ohio senator scraped his "I Like Ike" stickers off his car windows.
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Read where a Pittsburgh teacher invented a snowball gun. Wonder if it were for police or retaliation action?
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Let's hope the basketball team doesn't have the same high casualty rate as the football team.
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The Pentagon considerately has abandoned the word "casualty" but it's doubted that this will help much.
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South May Lead Senate Minority
segregation laws "do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power." — United Press
Several Southern senators are expected to lead the minority Democratic party in the 83rd Congress after the GOP capture of vital committee chairmanships in both House and Senate.
Foremost among the names of Senate leaders mentioned are Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, a candidate for the Presidential nomination the past summer.
In Texas, Senator-elect Price Daniel issued a statement recently in which he endorsed Sen. Johnson for the post of majority leader in the new Senate. Democratic Senators Earle C. Clements of Kentucky, J. Allen Frear, Jr. of Delaware, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. of Missouri, Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island, and Sen.-elect Mike Mansfield of Montana have all voiced approval of Sen. Johnson for the position.
the position. In statements, several said they were backing Sen. Johnson because they believed he'd be a "unifying factor" in the party.
Sen. Russell—who also has seniority over Sen. Johnson—probably could have the minority leader job if he wanted it. However, he's understood to have passed word to other Southern senators that he would support Sen. Johnson for the leadership.
Sen. Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona, present majority leader, lost to GOP Sen. Barry Goldwater in his bid for re-election.
Generally, the Democrats in the upper house are split on domestic policy with 16 senators, mostly Southern, backing Gen. Eisenhower and 19 in the middle.
Getting around to other Senate committee positions, Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia is ranking minority leader on the foreign relations committee. Seventy-four years old, he's the ranking Democrat in the Senate, having served since Nov. 8, 1922. His present term expires in 1957.
New Mexico Sen. Dennis Chavez is ranking minority leader of the public works committee which is vital to aid in reclamation work in many sections of the West including Sen. Chavez's home state, Nearby Arizona's Sen. Carl Hayden, 73, is ranking minority leader of the Senate rules and administration committee.
election. Democrats in the House were dealt a blow by the death of the House ranking member, Rep. Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois just two days following election to his 24th consecutive term.
The leadership of the Senate committee on interior and insular affairs is to be taken by Nebraska's Sen. Hugh Butler after former leader Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming lost in his bid for reelection.
days following election to his Bomar position.
Meanwhile, the ranking Democrat of the interior and insular affairs committee of the House is Rep. Clair Engle of California. The 39-year-old Rep. Engle is in ranking position because of the defeat of Rep. John R. Murdock, Arizona, for re-election.
Rules committee ranking minority leader is to be Rep. E. E. Cox of Georgia. Rep. Francis E. Wood of Pennsylvania is expected to be leading Democrat in the House Un-American Activities committee because Rep. John S. Wood of Georgia did not seek re-election.
Head of the veterans affairs committee minority is to be Texas' Rep. Olin E. Teague who will replace Rep. John Rankin, Mississippi's old war horse of white supremacy who was finally ousted from the House.
While he's mentioned by some Democrats for the job, Rep. Carl T. Durham of North Carolina predicted recently that Rep. Sterling Cole, New York Republican, would be the next chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy committee. Rep. Durham, who became acting head of the group when another famous Democrat, Sen. Brien McMahon of Connecticut, died last summer. Evidently trying to back away from the job, Rep. Durham has referred to his Republican rival as having "a very friendly attitude toward the atomic energy expansion program." —Phil Newman
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