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2. The main reason for the development of a computer is that it allows us to do more things than was possible with human hands.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951
Marvin Arth the editorial page
Will Our Wheat Save India?—
Can two million tons of American wheat prevent a slowly developing democratic India from tobogganing into Communism? The people eof India have deeply resented the suggestion that their country's vote in the United Nations could be bought with American grain.
In any case, if the two million tons of American wheat which India requested do not arrive in time to save the lives of at least some of the people threatened with starvation, India's resentment against what it will interpret as American callousness will take a long time to cool.
long time to cook.
If one could say definitely that famine will mean revolution in India, people at home would act. But one cannot make such a statement because the issue is not that clear. The food shortage is real, abnormal and frightening. In practically every part of the country the crops have been destroyed by drought or some other calamity.
The city dweller in Madras has watched his grain ration dwindle from 20 ounces a day to 9. Many families in the village are eating grain for one meal a day and are drinking the water in which the grain was boiled for the other meal.
What this means in terms of human lives needs no elaboration. What it means in politics is less certain. It is obvious that political stability may be postponed for years. With respect to Indo-American relations, the question now is how much we can be disliked by the Indian people and still call them friends.
These observations do not mean that if the grain is sent, America will win India's lasting gratitude. But it will enable us at least to hold our present position in India's estimation, such as it is. Paulyne Patterson.
Time On Our Hands—
The last semester of the senior year is rough. It is rough for a number of reasons.
Academically it is probably tougher than any other semester the student has had. You rarely find a student who has managed his schedule so well that he can coast during the last semester. Usually, a check of grade points during last semester enrollment necessitates enrolling in more hours than the student had counted on. Hence, many seniors take, besides their major courses, additional hours in "snap" courses to make up for their lack of grade points.
Then there are the little jobs that are not difficult individually, but collectively consume much time—getting pictures and announcements, selecting rings, and going to parties and senior day.
All this leaves little time for the senior to find a job. Some schools have a job consultation system, but by and large the graduating student must wait until after commencement to job hunt. Certainly, with his added academic load he has no time to take off and look for a job.
You can't ask professors to take it easy on seniors. But, considering that the school system is geared to preparing the student for a job, it doesn't seem impractical to request that seniors be given a day or two to look around. Maybe the "day of grace" idea isn't such a bad one.
Unless an efficient, over-all employment system is inaugurated to aid the seniors, it seems they should at least have time to look for themselves.
Let's face it. Its great to be an alumnus, but no one likes to look forward to being an unemployed one—Jack Zimmerman.
Francis Kelley
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This is the time of year when all worthy newspaper editors keep their readers informed of their progress in their annual front-lawn fight against dandelions. Just so we wouldn't feel left out, we decided to tell our favorite dandelion story:
A man who took great pride in his lawn found to his dismay this spring a heavy crop of dandelions. He did his best to uproot and destroy them, but all his efforts were unsuccessful. He finally decided to write the U.S. Department of Agriculture for advice.
In his letter he described his woes at great length, told of all the things he had done in trying to destroy the pesky dandelions, and ended by asking, "What do I do now?"
In due time the reply came: "We suggest that you learn to love them."
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We hear that the most frequent expression at the recent engineering exposition was a "knowing" uh-uh.
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A couple of weeks ago we noted in this column that Phelps Phelps had been appointed as governor of Pago Pago. What we neglected to tell you is that Phelps Phelps now of Pago Pago was originally of Walla Walla.
First went the cup of coffee, then the soft drink, the subway ride, the telephone call, and now the juke box record. Next thing o go from a nickel to a dime may well be the nickel.
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Whose Open Mind?
The advocates of progressive political and economic systems, after two decades of relative success in breaking down orthodox doctrines, seem to have developed an orthodoxy of their own.
The other day a liberal accused me of lacking "an open mind" after I had objected to some of his remarks which seemed overstated to me. Lacking an open mind—how logical is that?
Debs, for example, was a great liberal. Yet, if a man accepts, without skepticism, everything Debs believed, does that fit Webster's definition of liberal—"independent in opinion"? Is that an open mind?
Granted that the ranks of political, economic, artistic, and religious orthodoxy include minds that are locked shut. Paradoxical as it sounds, however, the conservatives don't have a monopoly on dogma.
This may mean arguing with a progressive when he implies that the state department is only a tool of big business, or that the whole American press slants all its news along the McCarthy line.
It seems to me that anyone with an open mind will make a critical evaluation of any opinion thrown at him, no matter what the source. His own opinions must be flexible, responsive to new ideas and especially to new information. But he must be able to draw the line between a worthwhile idea and an absurd extension of it.
That's still an open mind.—Lee Sheppeard
Yesteryears
Cigaret Hangover
From the U.D.K., Nov. 7, 1928)
(From the U.D.K. Nov. 7, 1928)
San Francisco, Nov. 7 (U.P.)—Some smokers can't get a cough out of a carload of cigarettes, but Mrs. Clare S. Edwards is trying to get a divorce out of a package.
According to her complaint on file here against David C. Edwards, her husband, he became so enraged when he saw her smoking a cigarette that he threw her to the floor, sat on her chest and forced her to eat a package of cigarettes one by one.
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