1987 --- University Daily Kansan Page 2 Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1952 Kansas Defends Negro Segregation Complacent Kansans are apt to think the racial question is confined to the southern portion of the United States, but the state attorney general is sending an assistant to Washington next week to present the case for the Kansas segregation law to the Supreme Court. Court. Most persons never realize that Kansas has a law which allows first class cities to segregate Negro children from whites in elementary schools. It is an old law, adopted in 1879. It provides that cities may segregate by building schools of equal facilities. The law is wrong in spirit, even if it does not violate the Constitution. The federal district court, in a hearing on the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, declared that the segregation was detrimental to the education of the Negro children. The argument was based on the fact that segregation is intended to keep a race considered inferior from mingling with their supposed superiors. And such a policy of denoting the inferiority of a certain race by legal act tends to give those children discriminated against a sense of inferiority. a sense of inferiority. We know that persons differ in ability and talent. But our government is predicated on the belief that individuals should have equal opportunity to develop their abilities and talents. equal opportunity to develop this Any law which sanctions or encourages segregation is harmful to that belief. Say what you like about equal facilities, we think different facilities in themselves, make it unequal. Dean Evans Senator Thye's Victory Resulted from Service There will be an "era of good feeling" in the 83rd Congress. The Eisenhower landslide, carrying with it a slim Republican majority in both the House and the Senate, is now history. Not only were the Republicans' "safe" seats insured in the Senate but the Crusade's surprise ending also found GOP standard bearers in places long held by Democrats. But one of the Republican victories came as no surprise to Minnesota. In the North Star State where 37 per cent of the voters are classed as "independent" and where both the steelmakers and farmers' cooperatives wield great power—there was general agreement that the 56-year-old Edward J. Thye, incumbent senator, would win easily over the uphill fighting state legislator, William E. Carlson. Minnesota—spectacularly varied, proud and handsome—has a progressive political tradition. The state went for Roosevelt all four times he ran and for Truman in '48. But there wasn't any doubt this year about its Republican leanings. Sen. Thye won with no trouble, and Gen. Eisenhower carried the state by a big margin. The Minnesota senator was too popular to beat. His record was classified as "liberal and internationalist" by even the New Republic which, in general, found many more knaves than knights among the GOP cruders. Prior to the Washington assignment, Minnesota's senior senator had served his state as lieutenant governor, and in April, 1943, had succeeded Harold E. Stassen, when the latter resigned to enter the U.S. Navy. In the autumn of 1944 he was re-elected for the full two years' term by the largest majority ever accorded a Minnesota governor. The future governor and senator was initiated into public life through his local government and regional activities. He had held several county offices and when his young friend Harold Stassen defeated Elmer Benson for the governorship, Thye found himself, in 1939 appointed dairy and food commissioner and deputy commissioner of agriculture. When Gov. Stassen was commissioned in the Naval Reserve, Thye was designated his successor, ran for lieutenant governor and took over Stassen's position to continue the latter's policies. The old Farmer-Labor party lost ground and in April, 1944, merged with the Democratic party. But the combination failed to defeat Thye, who was re-elected governor that fall, even though Roosevelt led Dewey in the state's presidential contest. In 1945, Thye contested the renomination for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate of the veteran isolationist, Hendrick Shipstead. They won. "In Washington," wrote Richard L. Stout in the Christian Science Monitor just after the Minnesota primaries, "The Thye victory reminds conservative GOP leaders that they must reckon with the liberal-internationalist wing of the party. The new Minnesota senator, who was assigned to the Agriculture and Forestry, Civil Service and Expenditures in Executive Departments committees, after taking his seat in the 80th Congress, became in March, 1947, one of 16 new senators to sign a round robin demanding a greater voice in party policymaking. With the defeat of Republican Sen. Joseph H. Ball by Democrat Hubert J. Humphrey in November, 1948, Thye became in the next Congress the senior senator from Minnesota. The "big, broad shouldered six-footer" from Minnesota has consistently voted with liberal Republicans and Democrats on foreign aid and has favored forward-looking housing, education, and health programs. He is an advocate of the St. Lawrence Seaway and has been particularly interested in agriculture and appropriations legislation during his six years in the Senate. Thye, ranked 42nd out of 95 senators by a New Republic poll of political scientists, was re-elected by a progressive state that he has served well. News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 373 Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn., Inland Daily Press Assn., Associated Collegiate Press Assn., Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City. Daily Hansan EDITORIAL STAFF FORUMIER Editor-in-Chief Roger Yarrington Editorial Assistants Charles Buch Bv DOT TAYLOR University of Kansas Student newspaper News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 373 This is an editorial about the All Student Council. But it's not blasting the "piddling politicians" or "corruption in high places." The Kansan in its editorial leadership hopes to be as quick to compliment as to criticize. NEWS STAFF And here we would like to point out that the ASC wranglings, like other manifestations of our imperfect but struggling democracy have resulted in some creditable things along the way. Sometimes we just don't hear about them. **NEWS SUPPLEMENT** Managing Editor ___ Diane Stonebraker Asst. Mgr. Editors ___ Mary Cooper, Bob Stewart, Chuck Zuegen Max Thompson City Editor ___ Debra Evans Society Editor ___ Jeanne Fitzgerald Sports Editor ___ Nielsen Asst. Sports Editor ___ Clarke Keys, Tectograph Editor ___ Chuck Morelack Picture Editor ___ Phil Newman News Advisor ___ Don Sarten News Advisor ___ Victor Danilov At last week's Council meeting Bill Nulton's opportunities committee reported that foreign students have felt like guests at KU. They're treated with respect and a little awe, but they're "foreign" to most students and student groups. In an effort to make these guest members feel like a working part of the University, the Council voted unanimously that a foreign student representing the International club be elected to serve on the ASC as an organizational representative. We also hope that individual students will take advantage of the opportunities here at KU for meeting and getting to know students from other countries. The deans and foreign student faculty committee have a fine program of field trips and orientation programs for our international guests. Women's clubs and church groups in the area invite the students to tea and to speak at their meetings. But often they aren't made to feel "one" of us as students. This writer hopes that this will be the lead for more campus organizations to follow. We hope that more special efforts to include foreign students in University programs and activities will be made. And finally we hope that the new international member of the Council will see a picture of good student government in action. We hope he sees grown-up American college students working for the good of the University as a whole. We hope he sees less petty partisan haggling and more basic issues discussed, and that he sees campus politics as a real training ground for responsible citizenship. RHSINESS STAFF News Briefs Business Manager Clark Aikers Advertising Mgr. Elbert Spivey National Mgr. Virginia Mackey Circulation Mgr. Patricia Vance Classified Mgr. Tom Wiesendahl Business Advisor Don Landes Business Advisor Dale Novotny Detroit—Joseph Rykowski, 57, hailed a passing 'police car and when officers got out to see what he wanted. Rykowski threw a rock through the plate-glass window of a coffee shop. Enroute to the police station for malicious destruction of property Rykowski said he had eaten breakfast there and it hadn't agreed with him. Paris—Roger Duchet, minister of posts, telephones and telegraphs, complained to the Ministry of Interior that someone was tapping his personal telephone. *** Oakland, Calif.-City Councilman Lester Grant has been giving city jailers a bad time since he was sentenced to serve five days for speeding. The ministry advised Duchet to ignore it. It's just the secret police. Saar Elections May Widen European Split The French have won a victory in the Saar, but the future of the coal-rich Saar is as much in doubt as ever. Grant said the 'food was "dull, monotonous and repetitious" and complained there were cockroaches "all over the place." Nonetheless, the French were jubilant over the results of the Saar's parliamentary elections in which a vast outpouring of Saarlanders apparently endorsed French policies and rejected German pleas to refuse to vote. And, more to the point, so is ratification of the European army plan and the West German peace contract. The Germans had hoped that the Saarlanders either would refuse to vote or would invalidate their ballots as a protest against French control of their economic and foreign affairs. The city health director had the whole jail sprayed with DDT. The diet wasn't changed. The French and German tug-of-war over the Saar has taken on an importance far greater than its 900-square-miles would seem to warrant. squares works it is a matter of economics, plus a frank distrust of the Germans. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1) if in Lawrence. Published in Lawrence, Kan, every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination periods. Entered second class master thesis. Post Office 1010 West 1st Street, Kan., Post Office under act of March 3, 1879. To the Germans, it is first of all a matter of national pride. The Saar, they say, is German and must remain so. Ninety per cent of its population is German-speaking. Both nations, particularly the French, have worked themselves to such a pitch that failure to settle the Saar question very well might mean the collapse of the whole post-war European structure. Nevertheless, the actual outcome was as disappointing to the West Germans as it was encouraging to the French. The West German parliament had announced in advance it would not recognize the results of the Saar election. Which is to say the collapse of the plan for European unity, which includes a pooling of iron and steel, and a joint army. Strangely, however, both sides believe there is new reason for French and German talks on the subject on which up to now they have been stalemated. Both sides seem to agree in principle on ultimate "Europeanization" of the Saar but they disagree on method. In effect, the French want another Luxembourg. Meanwhile, however, they insist on retaining their 50-year control of the Saar mines which produce 15,300,000 tons of coal annually. The Germans charge that the ban on pro-German parties in the Saar and the arbitrary economic link with France is a denial of the whole principle of democracy. They want the Saarlanders to determine their own future, and suggest that meanwhile the area can be administered under the Schuman coal and steel authority. They also want guarantees to safeguard German interests—United Press. Short Ones - * * A gangster has been picked up in California for putting two-bit slugs in a pay telephone. Police want him in connection with a series of murders, and the FBI wants him for draft dodging. We'll wager that he'll get a bill from the telephone company, too. We see where Princess Margo is free to marry anyone except a divorcee or a Catholic. Such restrictions would crush an American girl. *** If any Kansas wheat springs up next to Washington's cherry trees, we'll know "cronyism" isn't dead. *** Christmas won't mean very much to the Republicans. They got their Christmas early this year. - * * This is the time of year when merchants jack up prices for the Christmas rush. Then they will drop them back to normal after New Year's, and call it a sale. They get us suckers coming and going. - * * West Germany's chancellor is having trouble getting the peace treaty ratified by the legislative body. Give him some advice, Harry. - * * \* \* \* A congressional committee is after the publishers and writers of "pornographic material." They try to stop the mailing of such salacious literature. All we can say is "duck, Mickey." Republican leaders claim that no national political campaign can be conducted within the national law, which limits expenditures by national political committees to $3 million. You should know, boys. Girls Look Your Best at Your Week End Dance. Have Your Formal Cleaned Now Is A by P1 P1 UN