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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951
Marvin Arth the editorial page
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Maybe Ise Won't Agree, But—
Last Wednesday Argentina's Peron signed into law a bill ordering the government to take over the independent newspaper La Preusa. His action ended the life of the 82-year-old paper, which, before it was closed by strikes of pro-government unions and federal court action, had been a consistent critic of Peron's regime.
Why worry about one newspaper Why get up in the air just because the government takes over a wealthy newspaper that has been criticizing it?
Why worry about one newspaper? Why get up in the air just be on newspapermen. "A journalist! That means a grumbler, a censureer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations! Four hostile newspapers are more to be dreaded than a hundred thousand bayonets."
Napoleon knew what newspapers meant to the freedom of a country. As long as La Prensa was able to exist and exist under its own terms, there was a chance for the free people of Argentina; a chance that they might some day throw off the Peron regime. Now that chance has been dimmed into oblivion.
The Argentine government is going to buy La Prensa, largest Spanish-language newspaper in the world, after its own appraisal of the value of the paper. A drummed-up count, claiming the paper is a "public utility", makes it possible for the government to buy it under legal guise.
The shutdown—which brought protests from Western Europe and the Americas and caused Washington newsmen to lead a half-day of mourning in our nation—is even more alarming when one considers the fact that La Prensa wasn't just a small, weak paper, but the largest, most modern, and most powerful in Argentina.
A country is no freer than its press. A Dictator attempts to first control a country's press, and then its people. It is his way to control and "educate" the populace; to let them know his version of the news; to keep them from knowing what is unfavorable to him. It is the lead sheep in the herd headed toward totalitarianism. A country is no freer than its press.
It's not a new idea either. Way back in Revolutionary times, Thomas Jefferson presented his opinion on this when he said: "I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government, than in a country with a government but without newspapers."
And so would we.
Francis Kelley
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The Kansas Relays last weekend brought many of the old alums back for another look about the campus. To many of them, the campanile and the "big hole over by the Union" were something new and something which had to be explained.
The campanile was relatively easy to explain. It was simply a stone monument which would support 63 tons of bells dedicated to the memory of war dead. Such a memorial campanile was entirely within the grasp of the alums. It was nice and real pretty, they said.
But the "big hole over by the Union" was something else again. Why on earth would anyone need a bigger Union, they asked. Enrollment's dropping and prices are going up. Why build now? It was hard to explain.
And it was harder yet to explain the hole to one old fellow. "Say, young feller," he said. "What's that big hole there for?"
"It's for an addition to the Student Union," he was told. "When completed it will provide students with many services not now available on the Hill."
"Stucks," said the disappointed old alum. "I thought they might be readying it as a burial place for Fraser hall."
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The New York Yankees have laid an awful lot of their future baseball hopes on the Mantle.
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The buildings and grounds department should put on a comic opera this spring. Suggested title: Vigoro.
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History note: Columbus was the first Democrat because: He didn't know where he was going; he didn't know where he was when he got there; and he went on borrowed money.
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Platonic love is like being invited down to the cellar for a bottle of ginger ale.
The days of buck teeth are gone forever. Nowadays you're lucky if you can get a set for less than 100 bucks.
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We hear that lignin, a chemical found in wood pulp, has been the paper industry's biggest waste problem. And all the time we thought it was Elmer Wheeler's fat boy diet.
An Illinois Institute of Technology professor announced a new protective-packaging principle that permits objects as delicate as an egg to be dropped from a plane without breaking. Now if he would only tell us why we should drop eggs from an airplane. . .
(Because of space limitations, the editor reserves the right to condense letters of more than 100 words. Anonymous letters must be published, but names will be withheld on request. Letters should be addressed to the editor of the Kansan.)
Letters—
KU House Cleaning
In the midst of all world-shaking news about the return of You-Know-Who, there is a little campus news which should not be allowed to pass without editorial comment.
To the editor:
A new low in petitness was achieved by the defeated Pachacamacs at the first post-election session last Tuesday. It is said that one's real character is demonstrated by his reaction to defeat. The Pachacamacs seem to be showing some of the political depravity developed in these years of uncurbed rule. If the words of the outgoing A.S.C. president are true, he was not even sworn in legally!
We can be thankful that at least we are having a political housecleaning at KU.
Al Dewey College Senior
Yesteryears
No Oscar For Rex
(From the UDK, Feb. 5, 1918)
VARSITY—Today: One show 7:30 admission 17 cents.
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Tomorrow—Earle Williams in "A Mother's Sin." (Advertisement).
Crow 'Didn't Taste Too Bad,' VFW Officer Tells Onlookers
Wichita (U.P.)—The national adjutant general of the veterans of Foreign Wars literally ate "crow" at a banquet here recently.
Julian Dickenson of Kansas City, Mo., a former Texan, promised one year ago to "eat one tough crow" if Wichita replaced Lubbock, Texas, as the largest V.F.W. post in the world. The Wichita V.F.W. post held a victory dinner recently—in celebration of surpassing Lubbock in the membership drive—and all were served steak except Dickenson.
He sampled his crow before members relented, and remarked, "It did not taste too bad."
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