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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 13, 1952
Editorials
First Step Taken in Movement To Bring End to Racial Discrimination
The first step has been taken in a student movement to bring about the admittance of Negro students to the privately owned restaurants on and near the campus.
Petitions bearing the names of 1,269 students who have requested that action have been given to the managers of the four places immediately concerned. They are the Call, Gemmell's, the Jawhawk, and the Rock Chalk.
The basic reason which has been given by the managers of the restaurants has been "Our customers don't want it." The answer to this seems apparent. The students—and they are the principal customers of the restaurants—have indicated they do want it. They have signed petitions which state definitely that they desire these places to serve "all University students regardless of race or creed."
The total number of signers of the petitions is approximately one-fourth of the student body. Persons living in University dormitories, scholarship halls, independent housing, and sorority and fraternity houses signed up. The response to the proposition was practically unanimous. Almost every student approached said he was completely in favor of the idea.
The problem is more than just one of principle. It involves the physical welfare of the persons who are denied the service of these places. Aside from the facilities provided by the University in the Union there is no restaurant in Lawrence which will serve Negroes. Therefore, during those times when the Union is not open there is no restaurant either near the campus or downtown to which they can go to buy a meal.
Even when the Union is open the situation is poor. Instead of having the choice of several places to go for a meal or a snack there is always only the Union. It is a matter of going there or not going anyplace.
The first step has now been taken by the students. In overwhelming numbers they have indicated they want to end the present practices of racial discrimination. The next step is up to the restaurant managers.
The state of Kansas has long been a leader of progressive thought. The city of Lawrence was founded by pioneers who believed in equality of opportunity for all. It is time this tradition was remembered. It is time that racial discrimination was ended. It is time we ended it here at the University of Kansas—Joe Taylor.
"They're pledges, ain't they?"
Micronesia Allowed Self-government by UN Still Strong in Home State Ohio Primary Shows Taft
The United Nations Security Council, on April 2.1947, unanimously voted for the United States draft for a UN trusteeship agreement for the former Japanese mandated islands in the Pacific.
The United States, which was designated as the administrating authority by the agreement, has been striving toward the goal of the "self-government by the indigenous people."
Spreading over an area of about 3 million square miles, the trust territory consists of three major island groups, Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas. Its land area, inhabited by some 55,000 native Micronesians, totals about 700 square miles.
The judicial system has been revised to conform with the civilian administration, which took over the authority from the Navy department last year, and to be in line with the principle of the separation of powers. The number of indigenous judges has been increasing year by year.
So far, more than 100 municipalities have been established as basic units of local government and the majority of their major officials are natives elected by popular vote. Each major island has its own Congress as its legislative authority. Plans are being made for the creation of a unified central legislation for the whole territory.
In the educational field, almost universal elementary school attendance has been attained with 90 per cent of school-age children receiving education. Christian natives now number well more than half the total population.
There are some retarding factors to the attainment of the goal. The territory is scanty in natural resources. A little less than two-thirds of the total area is planted with rice, sugar, coconut and other native vegetables, but it has no minerals, except shrinking phosphate deposits.
The administration has set up the Island Trading company of Micronesia, a non-profit government agency, to expedite the trading of the products for various American goods needed for the islands' development. Efforts are being made for developing fisheries and vitally-needed transportation services, but without much success.
Another hindrance is the diversity of native languages. Eight major languages and many more dialects are spoken within the territory, making it extremely difficult to effect a wide circulation of anything like a newspaper.
Although the islands received no budgetary assistance from Japan after 1932, the United States so far has appropriated a sizeable sum to assist the administration to carry out its programs.
Evidently, the UN trusteeship has contributed toward improving the islands' conditions, which were of "somewhat classical colonial type" at the time of the termination of the Japanese administration. However, many things, including the establishment of higher educational facilities for the natives, are still to be done. The islanders need monetary help and ideologic assistance for a long time to come before they are able to govern their own affairs—Yujiro Maeda.
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George B. Simon declares, "Taft lacks courtesy when excited, because of his concern· for issues. During question periods he is apt to give speeches instead of answers.
A speech professor at Fenn college, Ohio, thinks the nation's Presidential candidates have a lot to learn about public speaking.
"MacArthur becomes too dramatic at times," says Simon, "as with his 'old soldiers never die, they just fade away.' He didn't fade away. If he had, his talk might have rivaled Lincoln's Gettysburg address."
As for Truman, Simon has only this to say, "He could announce all income taxes will be abolished first of next month and make it sound humdum."
Sen. Taft's sweeping victory in the Ohio Republican presidential primary May 6 showed that he has lost none of the support he had when he won the senatorial race in 1950.
Not only did he win all the 56 delegates, but the huge turnout of voters indicated that the popular vote gave him a huge majority over his only opponent, Harold E. Stassen. A technicality kept Gen. Eisenhower's name off the ballot, and write-in votes are not provided for in Ohio.
On the strength of his victory, Sen. Taft forged back into the lead in the number of delegates pledged to Republican presidential candidates. He now leads Gen. Eisenhower by a 332 to 281 majority.
The Democratic forces in Ohio were handed a sound defeat by Sen. Estes Kefauver. He entered 33 out of a possible total of 54 delegates, 8 of them at large, and all but two of these won. The atlarge delegates counted a half-vote, so Sen. Kefauver picked up 27 delegates. He was opposed by Robert J. Bulkley, favorite son candidate and former senator from Cleveland.
This strong support for Kefauver makes him an increasingly serious contender to be reckoned with at the Chicago convention by the Democratic bosses who oppose him.—Max Thompson.
Sen. Kefauver's continued victories in Northern primaries probably are a more significant result of the Ohio primary than Sen. Taft's landslide. Mr. Republican had his own state organization working for him in Ohio while Sen. Kefauver had to buck the Democratic state organization.
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