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University Daily Kansan Wednesday,Dec. 5,1951
Kansan Editorials La Prensa And The Executive Order
A very different La Prensa came off the press Nov. 19 in Argentina, bearing the inscription on the masthead, "Year 1, Number 1." When the old La Prensa bit the dust 10 months ago, the final issue read "Year 82, Number 29,474."
The new newspaper carried a six-column banner headline which said, "By Decision of 5,000,000 Workers La Prensa Renew Activities Today." Thus President Juan Peron carried out an earlier promise that "La Prensa must be surrendered to the workers."
There was very little to criticize in the early issues of the new paper, other than that it gave more favorable writeups of the dictatorial administration and that it was not being run by its rightful publishers, members of the Paz family.
The first issue carried two-column cuts of President Peron and Senora Peron, as well as congratulatory letters from them. Most of the edition was devoted to sports news, although a special section devoted to labor news and trade union activities appeared the following day.
New York Times reporter Foster Hailey cabled his paper that 30 of the former news staff of 150 are working for the new La Prensa, including most of the former foreign desk. He also said that 400 of the former 1,000 to 1,200 mechanical and office staffs have their old jobs back.
In a talk several weeks ago, Peron said Argentina is becoming a "labor union state" and that politics is "on its way out." Until La Prensa started up again, newspapers controlled by the Peron administration had refused to allow any opposition statements published therein.
But, surprisingly, a report critical of unfair governmental policies in the conducting of the election campaign was carried in the second issue of the new La Prensa. This was seen here as an effort to appease the wrath of those in the U.S. who are shouting "freedom of the press."
La Prensa's untimely fate was a shady affair, but there are a few details which resemble situations existing in the U.S.
Argentina is not the only country that undergoes strict censorship. Since President Truman's executive order on security information, there has been a steady tightening up by U.S. military news sources. While the order was only the first step toward complete governmental control, it has caused the withholding of information which has had no bearing on the security of this country.
Person considers big business and capitalism as his biggest enemy, so he forbids statements by the opposition, with some exceptions, as indicated by the election report printed in La Prensa. In the U.S. Congressmen and military leaders consider Communism as America's biggest foe. And notice the comparison.
Even if a person writes an objective analysis of
Communism, forgetting the warped viewpoints of the Soviet Union and writing from a sincere desire to evaluate the merits and defects of the system, he is likely to be branded by members of Congress as a Communist.
Security is one thing. And giving aid to an enemy or promoting a revolution must never go unchecked. But unlimited discussion of economic and political values must be tolerated if America is to maintain world leadership in the future.
The problem is. Where does free speech end and governmental control begin? Peron has overstepped the line in Argentina. Is the U.S. far from doing the same thing?
Jim Powers.
Oatis And The Press
While we're on the subject of press freedom, let's change the geographical setting from South America to Czechoslovakia. For there is a case in point of the ever-tightening restrictions on the press.
Bill Oatis, an Associated Press correspondent, is being held in a Czech jail on a trumped up charge of "working for the United States government." It all boils down to spying.
What this means is that Czechoslovakia cannot stand a free press that may criticize the actions of its government. When Oatis began hitting close to home, he had to be called off. To the Czechs, jail was the only way of doing it. And, knowing the traditions of the American press, they were probably right.
When the Oatis imprisonment was first discovered the American press set up a terrific howl. The State department took up the case. But nothing happened.
The Indiana Daily Student is sponsoring a nationwide campaign of college campuses. They ask each college and university to "sponsor a petition to Congress for the immediate release of Bill Oatis from his Czechoslovakian prison."
What comes of the campaign remains to be seen. It is a part of the over-all campaign that we believe will continue until Oatis is released. It is also a basic component of a continuing fight by the American press for its freedom.
Best selling novels and top box office movies are those that are banned. The Socialist Study club got wise—they got Anvil magazine banned from the campus. Result—sold out.
-A.G.M.
A Daily Kansan feature editorialist observes that a queen shouldn't be a "cultured babe." We'll pass the word on to Elizabeth.
2. Some of the same material was used by President Taylor in a speech at Boston university March 12, 1949. The occasion was a human relations institute sponsored by the National Students association and the National Conference for Christians and Jews.
3. Various people heard about the speech and in response to numerous requests for copies, the Community Relations service in New York City printed and circulated it. The Boston speech is in pamphlet form, and is obviously an educational pamphlet.
Dear Editor:
Letters To The Editor A Reply From Sarah Lawrence
Comments . . .
Writing about "campus intellectuals," a Michigan State News columnist declared, "The majority of them wear horn-rimmed glasses, sport long, wavy hair, and delicately hold king-size cigarettes in their long narrow fingers. Many of them feel that, being philosophers, they should smoke nothing but pipes, and are rarely seen without one."
1. President Taylor made a speech on student government at the University of Wisconsin in March, 1949. The speech from which the New Yorker quoted was then rewritten as an article for the Harvard Educational Review. Vol. 19, No. 2, in the spring of/1949, and entitled, "The Student as a Responsible Person."
Editor's Note: With a cigarette in one hand and a pipe in the other, how the hell do they put on their horn-rimmed glasses?
This is in reference to Roscoe Born's Nov. 23 column in the Topeka State Journal, called "Fits and Starts." Mr. Born speculates on the funny coincidence published in the New Yorker magazine reporting the similarities between Deane W. Malott's Cornell inauguration speech and an article of Harold Taylor's, president of Sarah Lawrence college, printed two years ago.
Since the source of Mr. Born's column was a story written by Daily Kansan reporter Joe Taylor, it is important that the following facts be referred to him so that he will have an accurate picture of President Taylor's position in this matter:
Motorcycles were involved in two per cent of all fatal motor vehicle accidents last year.
It was distributed to organizations, educators and universities all over the country. This seems to be the educational handout, ephemeral in nature, that President Malott refers to in his statement to the Kansas City Star. This also is in answer to Mr. Born's wish that reporter Taylor "had asked Malott what 'some educational organization' it was that contributed so heavily to the wisdom of our university presidents."
Claire Aub
Clare Ann
Editor-In-Chief
THE CAMPUS
(Student newspaper at
Sarah Lawrence college)
Hits Allen Article
Dear Editor:
The most recent editions of Quick magazine and the Jayhawker featured articles by one of our most prominent members of the faculty. Both articles deserve comment, one being very misleading and the other as undemocratic and as untypical of KU as I ever expect to see.
In the Jayhawker, referring to the basketball scandal in New York in particular he says, "...the dead end kids from the cesspool of New York sold out." Anyone in close contact with the true story of the scandal realizes that this dynamic phrase which really sounds good is really only a poor substitute for the truth.
In Quick he states his cure for fixes. However, this "cure," printed in a magazine with national circulation does not speak well for KU. In these times when the big democratic sales point is equality and when we like to think of the kid from the other side of the tracks attaining success, this kind of "cure" is as great an evil as that which it is supposed to combat.
A cure was stated as follows:
"Don't select boys from the lower strata of sociological. . life for your college teams." I hope, with an amount of certainty, that Dr. Allen does not practice what he preaches, So, Doc, let's not bleimish the name of KU just for a little publicity, OK?
Then again, is it publicity or is it an attempt to whitewash KU and keep investigators from poking their noses around here? I wonder .
Lawrence C. Kravitz
Engineering sophomore
News From Other Campuses
Students To Select Program
Students 16 Select Program
Texas A&M students, anxious to be considered actively interested in music, will study whereby they will pick the music program for Houston symphony orchestra.
Band Protects Low Budget
Students in the Syracuse university band have recently protested the low budget the organization is allowed. Wrote one member, "Our budget does not even allow us to purchase a paltry sousaphone."
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Two Cent Postal Card Has Red Stamp
When you stop at the post office window after the first of January to get a penny post card, you'll be in for two surprises.
The first such cards went on sale Nov. 16 in New York City in connection with the National Postage Stamp show of the American Stamp Dealers' association. They were cancelled "9 a.m. November 16, 1951," so that all stamp collectors had an equal opportunity to get the first cards mailed, called "first-day issues."
In the first place, the postmaster will ask for two cents, and instead of the card with a green stamp, you will get one with a red-colored, rectangular stamp.
These changes are but part of several postal rate increases voted by the last session of Congress.
The new two-cent card has a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. It replaces the picture of Thomas Jefferson now printed on penny cards.
The new cards are the same size as the present one-cent card which is $ 3 \frac{1}{4} $ inches wide by $ 5 \frac{1}{2} $ inches
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year. (in Lawrence add $1.00 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kans., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University administration periods. Entered as second class mail. 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kans., under act of March 3, 1879.
The post office department was expected to reap as much as $10,-.000,000 profit a year in increased revenues, but the plan was a disappointment. Its first year's effect was a $6,000,000 decrease in revenue; it was quickly repealed.
Across the top of the stamp in a shaded panel appear the words, "United States," and across the bottom, "Postal Card," in white-faced gothic lettering. The name, "Franklin," on a ribbon at the bottom of the portrait completes the design.
long. The figure, "2," and the word, "cents," is arranged vertically to the left of the portrait of Franklin.
This is not the first time the government has tried the two-cent idea for cards. The last attempt was made in 1925 when Congress raised the postal rate for souvenir and private mailing cards from one to two cents.
Goddess of Liberty. It gave s- m
that card was 3 by 5-8 inches in
size. Goddess of Liberty. It gave explicit
instructions to its sender. In the left-
side.
Another such attempt was made near the end of World War I, it too, was quickly abandoned. The stamp of that card was also printed in red.
The post card has been used in the United States for 78 years. It was introduced in 1873 when U. S. Grant was president.
hand corner were these directions:
"Write the address only on this side—the message on the other." In addition it bore the name, "United States Postal Card," and the word "To" with two lines for the address
Undoubtedly there were some vii- lators of these instructions because in 1875 the following directions appeared on the card:
It was 12 years before anything but the Goddess of Liberty was used for the stamp design. In 1885 Jefferson's head was used. It was followed by portraits of Grant, Adams, McKinley, Sherman, and Sheridan for double cards, Washington, Mrs. Washington, and Lincoln plus occasional returns to the Goddess of Liberty.
"Nothing but the address can be placed on this side." Now the instructions are: "This Side of Card Is for Address."
About 60 million cards were printed the first year the card was in circulation in this country. Now more than two billion cards are issued annually.
The postal card came to this country from Great Britain where Prime Minister Gladstone had introduced it in 1870.
They are printed at a rate of 250,000 an hour by the government printing office in Washington, D. C.