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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 14, 1951
Marvin Arth
the editorial page
--our military spending is merely the result of a panic created by Big Business, afraid prosperity is in danger—that the threat of Russian domination is irrelevant?
Television Opportunity一
Many television viewers will welcome the decision of the state board of regents to set up a state-wide TV education network. It is possible to exaggerate the shortcomings of commercial TV, for there are a number of good programs mixed in with the bad. But even in the comparatively few years of commercial television's existence it has become apparent that the necessities of promoting mass sales have left most commercial sponsors unwilling to experiment with programs that do not have ready-made mass audience. Most current TV shows are undeniably aimed at the lowest common denominator among audiences, and many of the opportunities inherent in the new medium are thereby being lost.
Against this background, the board of regents project has a great contribution to offer. Since it is an "educational" project, much of its impact will be directed at schools. This certainly is an important facet of the program, for it is conceivable that the development of audio-visual aids in the classroom can do much to enhance the educational process. But the regents' plan has even wider possibilities, in that the eleven-station network it envisages will be available to home audiences, too. The regents supervise many of the state's museums and art galleries, and one imagines that they could obtain also the co-operation of orchestras, opera and drama companies, and public leaders in all fields, in arranging programs that could easily make television into something far different from the futile dial-twisting it too often now is.
All this may be a little ahead of the event, for the new project is far from the operations stage, and even when it goes on the air it will still be frankly experimental. But it certainly is an experiment worth trying. It is up to the regents to show that education can be interesting as well as edifying, entertaining as well as instructive. If they miss out on this opportunity, they may never get another one. We hope the new project goes through, and that the regents will measure up to the opportunity they are asking.New York Herald Tribune.
Francis Kelley ___
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The huge building program here at K.U. reminds us of a story about Shanks Village at Columbia University, the largest veterans' housing unit in the country. It appeared in a little book by Donald H. Seehan, entitled, Inside Shanks.
Referring to a remarkable sociological trend in college life, he writes
"In Architecture, the kitchen was put in the living-room for the convenience of young mothers, as was the furnace to assist student-husbands. There was some talk of putting the bathroom in the living room, but this idea was put aside as too modern and apt to leave too little space for the dining-room, the baby carriage, and the convertible sofa used by visiting in-laws and baby sitters under 10 and after midnight."
Which reminds us that custom is firmly fixed at Columbia. The trustee's room has always been a veritable sanctum, an inviolate shrine of ancient decorum. But even trustee's can change their habits as evidenced by this story concerning one of our outstanding Kansans.
This incident is reported to have happened during Eisenhower's first meeting with the trustees. One authority became alarmed when "like" lighted a cigarette in the sanctum.
"He can't do that in here," objected a representative of status quo to an old friend.
"Damnit, he's the president." replied that worthy. "Go, get an ash tray."
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A Swiss judge visiting in this country observed: "In the American family, the wife comes first, the children second, the family car third—and the husband fourth." What the judge failed to realize is that if the family has a dog and cat the husband comes sixth.
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A rather famous Parisian has brought out one of the most expensive perfumes in the world, "Joy," selling for $54 an ounce. A friend of ours says that he'll stick to that other kind of "joy" that you get out of a bottle selling for 5 bucks a fifth.
The Kansas State Dental association held its 1951 convention recently in Wichita and capped it off with a dinner. We trust there were no biting remarks among the members as they gassed over the plates.
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"Now, Junior, be a good boy and say 'ahh-h' so the nice doctor can get his finger out of your mouth."
Old-soldier's-lament dept.: "Ours not to disobey; ours but to fade away."
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Just found out that the way to drive a baby buggy is to tickle his little feet.
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We know a guy so stingy that he sends his friends homing pigeons for birthday presents.
SHE WAS IN PERFECT SHAPE, TOO - EXCEPT FOR THE BRAKES!
Courtesy of the National Safety Council
Now Hair This . . .
There's a photographer "operating" on campuses in the south who has a unique way of taking pictures. His subjects aren't too fond of his methods, if a notice posted in a women's dormitory at a southern university is any proof. The notice said:
"It has come to our attention that a psuedo-photographer is operating on different college and university campuses in the southern area. He is reported to follow this procedure:
"He calls the coed by phone, usually by name, stating that he is a professional photographer taking pictures for magazine covers and stating that the coed has been referred to him by one of her friends; he then makes an appointment with the coed, takes a few pictures, and then (without the knowledge or consent of the coed) cuts off large chunks of hair from the back of their head.
"This individual only operates on girls with long hair, shoulder length or longer. There is reason to believe that the individual may be going from school to school."
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This "declaration against war" that the Socialist Study club has adopted, for example.
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"Having no positive ideology with which to appeal to the peoples of the world, the U.S. can meet (Stalinism) only by force of arms," says the declaration. Could it be that American economic aid, which in its own filthy imperialist way has saved some of the "peoples of the world" from a sub-minimum standard of living, represents a "positive ideology" of humanitarian spirit?
"Moreover, the domestic economy of the U.S. is so unstable that it can be kept in working order only by vast deficit spending for a war economy." Are we to presume that
My criticism is not of the declaration's conclusions, but of its tone—the blind "anti-" attitude. Fight fire with fire, answer emotional phrase with emotional phrase.
"The American ruling class, its supporters and apologists, today demand that the American people submit to the all-out race for world domination." So design a flag for the cause, write courageous anti-imperialistic lyrics to some stirring march, and that will protect us from the irrational appeals of the "ruling class." Yeah?
An honest perspective is necessary to fairness and justice. As long as socialists continue to picture their aim as a mighty crusade—pure white against dirty black—it looks as if they are willing to subordinate that perspective to ends which are meaningless without it.
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