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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. SEPT. 24,1951
Lee Sheppeard-
straws in the wind
(The following passages are reprinted by permission from the September issue of Freedom and Union, Clarence Streit's monthly publication advocating a strong federation of the world's anti-Communist nations).
Who's To Blame?
Secretary Acheson? This surely is his responsibility, if that of any member. He is not meeting it. How much he is relying on money and arms may be seen from this conclusion to his Senate testimony June 2.
Who should be arming us politically, morally, spiritually? Who is to blame for this not being done?
"What it does mean is that we need to use the time we have to build an effective deterrent force. This requires us to create sufficient force-in-being, both in the U.S. and among our Allies, to shield our great potential against the possibility of a quick and easy onslaught, and to ensure that our Allies will not suffer occupation and destruction. And back of this shield we need to have the potential to win a war."
Secretary Marshall? His responsibility is primarily for the material power we cannot neglect.
"This is the measure of the force we need; as we approach it, we approach our objective of preventing war. Can we do this? I believe we can. We and our Allies have the capacity to out-produce the Soviet bloc by a staggering margin."
"The basic premise of our foreign policy is that time is on our side, if we make good use of it. This does not necessarily mean that time must bring us to a point where we can match the Soviet Union man-for-man and tank-for-tank.
"There is also the critical factor of our will. The future belongs to freedom if free men have the will to make time work on their side. I believe the American people and their Allies do have the will, the will to work together when their freedom is threatened. This is the ultimate source of our faith and our confidence. A free society can call upon profound resources among its people in behalf of a righteous cause."
In all this Mr. Acheson is relying on success on material factors for which Secretary Marshall and Charles Wilson are responsible. Then he adds:
Only here, in some 70 words at the end of more than 5,000, does the secretary concern himself with moral and political factors. But even here how little we find. True, he recognizes the importance of that intangible thing, the will. He goes further, makes all turn on the will of individual free men. Then he flounders; he expresses faith only in allies, governments, having the will to work together. And only "when their freedom is threatened" Not before, in time to prevent the threat.
His skepticism is sound, but blind. Sound, because the record shows that sovereign democratic government, British, French or American, even when allies, work together really only when threatened. Blind, because he fails to see that where free men are the sovereign political units, as in the U.S., Britain, France, they work together within their country even in peaceful times and even better than their governments do when threatened.
Thus Secretary Acheson arms the free in the field the cabinet gives him.
What of the White House? It has a still greater responsibility. The Secretary of State depends on the President who, alone in the executive and legislative branches, is responsible to all the people. President Truman has the courage and understanding required to arm the free politically and morally; he is not timidly holding back Secretary Acheson as President Hoover held back Secretary Stimson.
President Truman's fault is rather that he lets Secretary Acheson timidly hold him back in this field. Or that he thinks he can delegate his responsibility to arm the free on the moral and political sides as he can on the material side. President Roosevelt made the same mistake. The political and moral head of the American people can not delegate this responsibility.
If only the president and Secretary Acheson were developing the political and moral side of our security as actively as Secretary Marshall and Charles Wilson are the arms and productive sides how the outlook would brighten!
taylor made
Union leaders are up in arms against Walter Reuther's proposal to put a ceiling on salaries. Personally we don't blame them. If they aren't careful, they will only be making as much money as the capitalists who own the plants where the union men work.
An Air Force general who recently retired at the age of 38 defends his action by saying that he "was not a career officer in the ordinary meaning of the term" because he did not attend West Point. We wonder if General-of-the-Armies George Marshall realizes that the 50 years or so that he has spent in the army are really not his career since he too is not a West Pointer.
Word from the fellows remodeling the White House is that they hope to have the Trumans back in by Christmas. And word from the fellows running things over at GOP headquarters is that they hope to have the Trumans back out by the next Christmas. Guess things are unsettled everywhere these days.
Joe Taylor-
Little Man On Campus
Students from 13 countries received an introduction to the United States and to university life during a six-week orientation program at the University this summer.
Program Acquaints Students With American Way Of Life
Under a joint State department and Army program, K.U. was one of 20 orientation centers to acquaint new students with the United States.
Field trips covering every phase of American life were taken to various points of interest in this area. The students talked with City Manager L. P. Cookingham in Kansas City, Mo., about municipal administration. They visited Baker university and Haskell Institute. The cultural side of American life was emphasized by two trips to Kansas City's new Starlight theater, and a tour of the William Rockhill Nelson Art gallery. The Douglas County fair was also visited.
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$25 For Best "Daze" Script
A $25 cash award will be given by Student Union Activities for the best script submitted for the 1952 spring production of "College Daze. The scripts will be due within the first two weeks of October.
Scripts will be approved by a committee composed of the Student Union Activities board of directors, faculty members and advisers.
The annual presentation is carried out entirely by students from script ideas to actual stage production. The main purpose is not to portray camp life, but to show student ability in presenting a musical production. It is not compulsory that orchestrations be included for the judging.
For additional information concerning the contest, call Paul Arrowood at 994 or K.U. 469.
Alumni Just Won't Quit-Check This
Old soldiers may fade away but the love of former K.U. students for the old alma mater doesn't. At least that might be the conclusion of L.E. Woolley, director of the Union.
Recently he received a large box of books for the Union book store which greatly surprised him and the book store employees. The large box from a New York publisher had unusual markings on it.
On every side of the box in big black letters was printed, BEAT T.C.U. It is still a mystery who or what or how, but book store employees now eye carefully any boxes delivered from New York.
Fathers On Same Day
Newport News, Va.—(U.P.)—When James L. Lupton and Dewey Moore became fathers on the same day, they didn't have to travel far to exchange cigars. They are next-door neighbors.
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