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A Pint of Your Blood Could Save a Life
Next week, May 14-15 will be B-Day on the Campus. B-Day is blood day and everyone's help is urgently needed.
Blood has played a large part in setting a new, record-low death rate among American soldiers. A Korean fighter recently wrote his sister, "The blood that the Red Cross has sent us us has probably saved three-fourths of the wounded right here in the battle field."
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But with finals coming up and everyone talking about what they are going to do when they get out of school this summer, the thought
of donating blood just isn't with us. But nevertheless, the blood is badly needed on the Korean fighting front—NOW.
This writer would be the last to go in for flag waving, and regardless whether you or the next fellow believes Americans should be fighting on foreign soil or not, the fact is that we are fighting and will be fighting for sometime to come.
And the fact is that when these fighting men are wounded, they need blood—our blood. The only source of human blood is from other
humans—it can't come from a labor-
oratory.
At present, the armed forces are using more than 300,000 pints of blood a month. This means that if every student on the Campus would give a pint of blood, that this supply would last our wounded fighting men approximately a half a day. As a student at the University would you be willing to give a pint of blood to keep a soldier alive for a few hours while doctors nurse him back to health?
So if you are in good health, between the ages of 18 to 59 (18 to 21 need consent of parents) won't you sign to give a pint of blood? American troops overseas need it badly.
Late Tuesday only 65 persons had registered to give blood May 14-16. But the Bloodmobile can handle 630 donors during this three-day period; therefore 565 more volunteers are needed to sign at the hospital before the Thursday (May 8) deadline.
—Charles Price.
Interpretive Article
Indonesia Ruled by Dutch Until 1949
Indonesia is a group of islands located on the equator south of the Philippines and northwest of Australia. It was ruled by the Dutch as a colony until Dec. 14, 1949, when it became the independent United States of Indonesia. Indonesia was not unified in culture or geography, so a national spirit did not arise until this century.
When the Dutch took over they encouraged the different native customs which tended to decentralize power, and to ease the reluctance to foreign rulers. The Dutch did not encourage education. They did not let the Indonesian enter into business, so there wasn't a rise of the middle classes.
Religion was another drawback to unification. Nine-tenth of the 75 million population is Moslem. The pagan religion ranks second with three million followers and in third place with two million are the Christians. The Hindu religion exists in the minority. The Dutch catered to the Moslems because they were less anti-Dutch. They treated each group differently. No group wanted to unify and give up any of its powers.
However, when the Dutch began to industrialize Indonesia in 1908, there were more higher salaried jobs available. These went to the Europeans. To counteract this, Indonesian political groups began to grow. The first was too idealistic and was surpassed by a religious political group, the Sarekat Islam. It linked religion and economic welfare which gave it wider popularity.
In 1920 the Communist party, the Proletariat League, gained some headway with the working
masses. Study groups and youth movements with these early political groups tended to unify Indonesia.
The Dutch aided the Indonesians by encouraging them to gradual self-government by allowing them representation in the East Indies parliament. After the war Indonesia pressed for independence because the Dutch were weak from the war and couldn't oppose the move.
The Indonesians appealed to the UN for help in 1947, and became an independent constitutional government in 1949.
In the recent cabinet talks the Indonesians agreed to a friendship accord of eight brief articles. The draft pledges the two countries to seek to maintain good relations, provide for exchange of diplomatic representatives, guarantees reciprocal "most favored nation" treatment, provides for arbitration of differences and pledges both parties to avoid the use of force under any conditions and to comply with the principles of the UN charter. The agreement also maintains the Dutch military mission to train forces.
The cabinet has not reached any agreement on how to handle the trade problems between the two countries. The Dutch demand more protection for their investments while the Indonesians want the Netherland companies operating in Indonesia to make their domicile there.
It is hoped that these and other objections will be settled when talks are resumed in June.— Nancy F. Anderson.
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This one comes from the Notre Dame Scholastic:
RELIEF . . .
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The lecture dry, the subject deep;
If he would quit before I wake,
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At Briar Sweet College, Va., overburdened students are finding some rest. They've been instructed to tell professors when their assignments are too long. It is not known how many students took advantage of this. Perhaps it was unanimous.
BELL TO EINSTEIN . . .
"Trying to reach a department from the outside world is a task that would perplex the mind of Einstein."
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Huey Long's Senator Son Not Like the Old 'Kingfish'
Russell B. Long, 33-year-old Democratic senator from Louisiana, has inherited the looks and manner of his assassinated father Huey P. Long, former Louisiana governor and U.S. senator from the state, but not his policies.
Young Long first took his seat in the Senate Dec. 31, 1948, to fill out the two-year term vacated by the death of John H. Overton. He was returned to the post in the August 1950 elections by defeating Malcolm E. Lafargue, acting U.S. district attorney.
Unlike his father, "Kingfish" of Louisiana, whose political slogans included "Every Man a King" and "Pensions for the Poor Old Folks," the young senator has never promised to make everybody a king, although he would try to carry out "some of the ideals" of his father, who, he feels, has been unjustly maligned.
Mr. Long's voting record in the past shows that his goals are among other things, a strong national defense program, expanded reciprocal trade agreements, federal public works and public housing projects. He voted for a long-range housing bill and federal aid to education in April and May, respectively, 1949, NATO projects in July, the same year, and the record military spending bill of $39,000 million in September, 1951. He opposed a labor bill keeping the basic principles of the Taft-Hartley act in June, 1949, and a motion to limit the debates on FEPC in July, 1950.
The record also shows that Senator Long is a supporter of the Fair Deal in Washington, as pointed out by his political enemies in Louisiana represented by Mr. Lafargue.
Inasmuch as the senator is in his early thirties, he has a long-term future. Whether or not his political life will prove a lasting me, however, depends on if he will strive with sincerity for the fulfillment of his modest political pledge that has bestowed on him he honor of the youngest U.S. senator.—Yujiro Meda.
Senator Long also is known for his "respectful, respectable demeanor" in his debates in the Senate, where he currently holds membership on the armed services, banking and currency, and interior and insular banking committees.
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