-Lee Sheppeard
Because Culprits Are Too Cowardly
The Syracuse Orange, University of Syracuse, worried over inter-campus vandalism as well as the local variety, preached a solution:
"It requires so little of the individual, actually. It merely asks that he protect his own safety by not embarking on ventures originally intended to, prankishly or otherwise, place the safety of another individual in jeopardy.
"Forget the empty 'heroism' of enemy-campus raids. Why play little boys' games with their statuary and other property, when it can only result in your university's getting a bill which it will have to pay because culprits are characteristically too cowardly to admit their part?
"Why block roads and have wild midnight drives when automobile fatalities never give special exemption?
"Why strive to shave a man's head, when shears are sharp; when he may struggle to escape and when one of both of you are more than likely to be injured?"
"Rather, why not merit your self-respectability by proving that the faith of the few in you—the student body—who are the many, is a well-justified faith?
"No vandalism."
To which we might add: What kick is there in throwing paint on a statue, when you know that state-employed workmen will simply clean it off at so much an hour, costing each taxpayer so many insignificant thousandths of a cent, and costing you the price of a can of paint. So what?
Joe Taylor
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The picture in a recent magazine of a wild haired Greta Garbo getting off a plane in Paris makes us think that the "good old days" our folkks talk about really weren't all they have been cracked up to be. That couldn't have been the glamor girl who used to give the old man goose pimples on Saturday afternoon at the Bijou.
Some small towns make their claim to fame by producing famous baseball players or by having huge county fairs. But look at the originality of that small Pennsylvania community which can boost of having three separate bank embezzlement cases in two months.
The president of the American Sunbathing society last week charged the president of Bethel college with aiding the Communists by firing a professor discovered to be a nudist. But judging from condition of most sunbathers, that guy making those charges had better be careful who he says is Red.
Which page are you supposed to read?
From the Michigan State News. Sept. 25, page 2: "From Ann Arbor—the Wolverines too are concerned over State's unimpressive victory. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan expressed the opinion in an Associated Press interview yesterday that it will be much harder to fire up his team now . . ."
From same paper, same issue, page 3: "—AP — Coach Bennie Oosterbaan began to put the pressure on yesterday amid mounting signs of Wolverine enthusiasm . . ."
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UN Army Could Be Basis For International Police
By HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Foreign News Editor
There are three full-fledged shooting wars going on around the world and four other places where one could break out any day. The United Nations—set up to preserve peace—is passing through one of its most trying periods.
Unless the rules are changed, there appears to be no immediate solution to the problem of how the UN can settle quarrels between nations. Britain and Iran took their controversy over the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil company, to the UN security council. The problem now is right back where it started because the UN found itself powerless to compel either party to take a course of action that would lead to a settlement.
The cold fact is that the United Nations was most effective when it was the least united. It moved with boldness and sureness when confronted with Communist aggression in Korea. But it was able to do so only because the Russians were in a huff and had decided to boycott the UN, when they came back, it was too late for them to act.
The suggestion was made, in the light of the Korean experience, that the best procedure for the UN would be to kick out Russia and all her satellites and form a new world organization based on a broad anti-Communist coalition. The argument was that so long as Russia held a veto and the power to sabotage and delay, the UN would be powerless. That idea never gained headway except in an indirect way. Nations with common interests and common perils began to band together independent of the UN. The outstanding example is the North Atlantic treaty organization. It is made up of the nations which are most likely to be attacked by the Russians. It has its own army and navy.
Men are shooting at one another in Korea, Malaya and Indo-China. There is an uneasy peace in Egypt, Iran, Kashmir and Palestine. The UN general assembly meets in Paris next month. It has 67 separate items on its agenda, an indication of how many quarrels and problems have developed since the day when the nations of the world, with high hopes, met at San Francisco and drew up their covenant to keep the peace. The difficulty is that it's easy to get something on the UN agenda but almost impossible to get anything off.
Processes of democracy, whether in a world organization or a congress or parliament, are pretty much the same. The senator from Mississippi can get excited about cotton but not about coal. The senator from Pennsylvania is almost always excited about coal but remains calm about cotton. But in the face of a national peril—such as the attack on Pearl Harbor — they forget about both cotton and coal. That is what happened in the 'UN' when the North Korean Reds crossed the 38th parallel.
There is a UN flag and a UN army fighting beneath it in Korea. It is the first international army ever organized and it could be the basis of a world police force. But policemen, to be effective, must be told where the crime is being committed and what to do about it. That is the problem the UN must come to grips with if it is going to live up to the high hopes that were held for it at its birth.
News From Other Campuses
Explosion Injures 3 At Cal
Three students at the University of California were injured when a home-made bomb unexpectedly exploded. The would-be-scientist who had made the bomb explained that he wanted "to see how much noise it would make."
The 500 new general college students at the University of Minnesota were bombarded with more than 20 hours of tests. The tests included measurement of critical thinking, attitudes toward modern life, and general knowledge examinations-
Give 20 Hours of Testing
Allow Bachelors To Remain.
Men still have a fighting chance to remain bachelors. A women's literary society at the-University of Toronto defeated the resolution.
Student President Resigns
The president of the student board at the University of Wisconsin resigned giving as his reason the academic load he was carrying. He said: "Rather than do a mediocre job, I am resigning. I have reached the point where I cannot fulfill both my obligations as student board president and my obligations as a student."
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News Roundup
Clark May Go As Interim Envoy
Washington—(U.P.)—President Truman may up an "interim embassy" in the Vatican until Congress acts on his controversial nomination of Gen. Mark W. Clark to America's first ambassador to the Holy See, informed sources said today.
Truman would like to rush Clark to Rome while Congress is vacationing, but such action may be stymied by an 1870 law barring military men on active duty from civilian government posts.
Clark, the Army's ground force commander, could be sent to the Vatican as Truman's "personal representative," if a recess appointment is impossible, but the best opinion is that the appointment probably will be held up until Congress returns in January.
Underground Looms In Egypt
Cairo, Egypt—(U.P.)—Egypt's former Army chief of staff, one of Britain's bitterest foes in the Mid- East, revealed today he may head a nation-wide underground movement to force British troops out of the Suez Canal zone.
Azis Al Misri Pasha announced he has received invitations from "several political parties" to launch the underground campaign. He said meeting will be called shortly to discuss formation of the resistance group under his leadership.
Reds Back Down In Berlin
Berlin—(U.P.)—The Western Allied command announced today that the Soviets have "indicated" their decision to return disputed Steinstuecken, a Berlin suburb, to American control.
The Soviet back down followed U.S. Commandant Maj. Gen. Lemuel Mathewson's warning that the Allies would take reprisals for the Communist seizure of the American sector suburb. Steinstuecken, a three-square-mile area with 200 residents, was seized Oct. 18 by Communist police.
Jessup Gets Interim Post
The walkout of 20,000 rebellious members of the International Longshoremen's association (AFL) prevented cargo from being unloaded from the Italian liner Vulcania, which brought the mayor home, and from the French liner Ile De France.
The President was forced to resort to a recess appointment after his nomination of Jessup failed to reach a showdown vote on the Senate floor before Congress adjourned Oct.20.
Washington — (U.P.) — President Truman gave Philip C. Jessup, ambassador-at-large, a record appointment in the 10-man U.S.delegation to the UN late Monday. Jessup promptly accepted the interim appointment and said he would go to the forthcoming meeting in Paris.
Strike Burdens NY Mayor
New York—(U.P.)—New York Mayor Vincent Impellitteri and hundreds of other luxury liner passengers carried their own luggage ashore today as a wildcat strike of longshoremen virtually sealed up the nation's largest port.
Face Boxcar Shortage
Topeka-(U.P)-Grain producers faced a critical boxcar shortage in Kansas today as the peak demand for transportation facilities for movement of grain was expected late this week.
Harvesting of milo has been the most important factor in the demand for boxcars. The Rock Island railroad reported a shortage of 290 cars and the Santa Fe railroad was short 745 cars the past week. The figures represented unfilled orders for cars.
Reds Delay Truce Talks
UN Advance Base, Munsan, Korea-U.P.)The Communists delayed resumption of the Korean armistice talks without explanation today.
Only the signature of North Korean Gen Nam II, head of the Communist truce delegation, on a conference "ground rules" agreement already proved by his liaison officers blocked reopening of the talks at Pammunjom. There was speculation in Tokyo that the changes in the Communist delegation might be responsible for the delay.