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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 12, 1952
Editorials
No Sex, No Ballyhoo Just A Serious Plea
On May 14, 15, and 16 there will be a drive for blood donations at the University
It won't be a very glamorous drive as drives go these days. There won't be a bunch of hippy, half-clad women prancing around on a makeshift open-air stage, and there is very little chance the affair will get any write-up in a national magazine.
There won't be any bands, decorations, ballyhoo, or special recognition for the donors. In fact, there won't be any kind of entertainment to encourage donors.
Despite this we think the drive will be a success. When you stop to think about it there is only one thing needed to assure the success of a blood donations campaign and that's need. This drive has it.
There are some young fellows over in Korea who need a little blood from time to time, and as far as we're concerned that's enough need to justify any blood drive.
So, the drive here won't fool around with entertainment—it will be just an attempt to get blood. There won't even be any fancy committees run by fancy characters who rush around yelling fancy slogans and using high-powered tactics.
This drive was proposed by some students who heard about successful drives on other campuses and decided that if other schools could do it KU could. They presented their idea to the All Student Council and got an immediate approval.
Representatives for the drive will be chosen from all houses. They will concentrate on personal contact but won't try to pressure anyone into anything.
anyone into anything.
The representatives will be working on their own time—their study time—so listen to what they have to say and give it some serious thought.
—J.W.Z.
Short Ones
Judge Elmo B. Hunter of the circuit court at Kansas City stayed home. His doctor suspected him of having the mumps. A newspaper account adds that his home is at 5424 Main street.
Just a warning to the people who live at 5422 Main street?
From the personalists column: "Applepie—Don't understand, lots to tell you. Sincere friends. Signed Broken Doll." And what we want to know is how did this "sincere friend" get in the picture?
The Moscow press has it that Communist Outer Mongolia still has not chosen a premier to succeed the late Marshal Choi Bol-San, who died Jan. 28. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
Queen Elizabeth has set her "official" birthday at June 5, although her real birthday is April 21, to conform to the custom laid down by Edward VII. Ed seemed to think it would be handier to have royal births in June to fit in with national holiday schedules. And there's simply nothing like a June birthday.
Now Newbold Morris, government corruption investigator, is accused of having participated in many "Communist front" activities. With a name like Newbold how could he help himself?
Tarzan has pierced the iron curtain. A release from the Kremlin explaining the entrance of American films is reportedly to have said, "although Tarzan was the child of a rich Englishman, he was the only survivor of a shipwreck and was nurtured by apes, and so was uncorrupted by bourgeois civilization."
When Sen. Robert Taft and Tex McCray ("I like Ike") recently got into their rousing argument on the TV program, Author Meets the Critics, it was probably the first time that Faye Emerson, the moderator, hasn't been the main attraction.
Some of the critics claim that John Wayne, Hollywood's top box-office attraction, has played some 150 imperceptible variations of the same role in the last 24 years. His constant re-enactment of the triumph of virtue is as reassuring as George Washington's face on a series E bond. At least that's the observation Time magazine makes.
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Next on the popularity contest schedule for aspiring presidential candidates is the Minnesota primary March 18.
Minnesota Preferential Primary Next Test For Candidates Who Want To Be President
Minnesota's primary has an unusual twist. A 1949 law says that any candidate who wants to remove his name from the ballot must sign an affidavit saying that he is not a candidate for the presidential nomination of the party for which he has been filed, and that if nominated by such party he would not accept.
Minnesota originally had six delegations filed, one each for Stassen, Eisenhower, Humphrey, Kefauver and two for MacArthur. The requirement was ruled invalid by Atty. Gen. J. A. A. Burnquist, and so the Kefauver delegation and one MacArthur delegation were taken off the list by request. The other MacArthur delegation is represented by the state chairman of the "Fighters for MacArthur" delegation and says that he is still a "stand-in," although MacArthur has requested that his name be withdrawn. Neither man has signed the affidavit.
Senator Humphrey has disavowed any presidential hopes, according to the March 8 issue of Nation. However, the March 10 issue of Quick lists him as an entry.
Some persons feel that Stassen, being a favorite son, is bound to tie up the primary. Others feel that he is losing ground in Minnesota, because many of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor members are pro-Ike, and some of the Republicans are not backing him. Stassen has been called an "opportunist." In case of a Taft-Ike deadlock at the convention, he, like Earl Warren of California, would jump in. It is believed that both are ready for the second place spot, and that Stassen will take a cabinet post in return for his support. It also is believed that the two men will support Ike over Taft
This brings us to Stassen and Eisenhower.
Eisenhower seems to have a lot of support in the primary from the D.F.L., (Democrat-Farmer-Labor), whose leaders say Ike would be the strongest Republican candidate.
To throw a monkey wrench into the Stassen-Eisenhower race in Minnesota, a court action was filed to disqualify Ike from the race, and the state supreme court ruled him off the ballot. It seems some Republicans endorsed Ike before Stassen stepped into the ring. Stassen has denied reports that he had anything to do with the action. The possible effect of the Stassen win in the primary will be to strengthen his position in the Wisconsin primary.
Some forces believe that Taft should have entered the Minnesota primary because they feel his chances would have been good.
It seems the best way to play the primary game is to bet on the surest thing and get into those primaries in which you hope to win. This feat, if accomplished often enough, lines up an impressive list to show colleagues and those on the fence, and those on the other side too.
Consequently, the average reader must be content to follow all of the results, toss them into the hat (convention), shake well before using—then pull out a winner.
—Nancy F. Anderson.
Letters:
Says Scrap Pogo Bring Back Bibler
My Dear Editor:
What in the name of journalism is the meaning of imposing on our student body this ignominious, nonsensical attempt at ill humor which you have allowed, referred to as the non-comical unfunny strip Pogo?
This gross abuse of discretion cannot be remedied by my solitary attack, but it may in some small manner convey a growing disinterest in the reading of the UDK.
Precedent is a fine thing and the UDK certainly has become outstanding through the efforts of its past personnel among the national recognitions given. But I certainly think that the time has come for its present staff to take account of what the readers want to read.
UDK has become a high light of the monotonous class attending day but until you remove this mafeasance of office I would predict a drop in the paper's circulation. Such a creeping decline in circulation until you could not give them away to the destitute to fill the cracks in their windows—for even the poor have a sense of humor.
Eclipse Pogo! Remove Pogo! Right the antipathy which the student body feels for Pogo. As a citizen of the university class I request an inquisition of this, your action. Bring back Bibler or someone with our type of humor and out with Pogo.
Comments
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Chemist To Seek Pozzolana Source
Is there any "pozzolana" in Kansas?
This is the question Russell T. Runnels, in charge of the geochemistry division of the State Geological Survey at the University, will try to answer in his current tour of Eastern Kansas localities this week.
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"Pozzolana," Mr. Runnels, explained, "is a type of cement additive which decreases deterioration and improves its over-all quality."
Mr. Runnels will find out the potential needs for pozzolana and then make a survey of the possible sources of pozzolana materials in Kansas. Main uses for pozzolana cement have been in massive structures, such as dams, Mr. Runnels said.
Hopes Students Will Force End Of Segregated Dances
"It is the policy of NAACP to see that Negro students enjoy the full privileges of being a student," said the NAACP attorney. The dispute arose when the law school association announced its plans to hold an unsegregated spring dance. Five Negro students are members of the law school association.
The University of North Carolina may have a law suit on its hands, if it continues its policy of all-white dances on campus. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says it hopes student pressure will force the administration to reverse its policy. Otherwise, the association will go to court.
A similar case occurred there last
fall when Negro students were given segregated seats at the football stadium. Student pressure later forced the administration to allow unrestricted seating.
The law school voted 82 to 63 in favor of the non-segregated dance. Said the Daily Tar Heel in its news story:
"Law school students yesterday decided that a student is still a student, regardless of the color of his skin, and opened the door for a possible bi-racial dance . . .."
In 1915 an earthquake caused a Nevada mountain to grow 30 feet, says the National Geographic Society.
About nine-tenths of Michigan's people live in the southern four-tenths of the State.
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