PACE FIGHT
AGE EIGHT
1. 2024
FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
he Editorial Page—
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. —Georg Hegel
Thought for the Day
Am I disillusioned now? I was under the impression that a polician never admits anything. Now I read in the Daily Kansan thatack Howard, the Patch party whip, has admitted that the A.S.C. not able to speak for the student body. Could this be because the A.S.C. is not representative of the student body?
Congratulations to the two Patch—NOW members who were not tightened by party threats and voted the way that they felt was right.
After listening to several accounts of the last A.S.C. meeting I can convinced that Richard Bradley's motion to support the F.E.P.C. will now before the state legislature was defeated in a fast party ruffle. It seems that after several votings (and several speeches from the party whip) all but two of the Patch—NOW representatives swung into line and, with the A.S.C. president, voted a straight party line. I wonder what the council's real reason was for defeating his motion.
Where Goes The Moo-lah?
Oh yes, rumor has it that the A.S.C. has given away more money than they appropriated from the students this year. If they are going to give out our money so freely, why don't they publish an account of how the money is used? I'm sure the students would like to know what organizations they are helping out of debt. We all feel that the A.S.C. should make up the huge debt acquired by the LU. calendar. We students do have a right to know how the A.S.C. spends our money, don't we?
Dear Editor:
The Public's Pulse-
Roy B. Zimmerman College sophomore.
Jpstream Is Not Bigoted
ear Editor;
We are sorry that George Rendina has read into "Black Fisher" and "The Handkerchief" an attitude of racial prejudice. We did not see in them anything of the kind. Words such as "nigger" and we like cannot be taken out of context as indicating a bigoted attitude: it is the ultimate meaning of a story that counts, not individual words. And in neither story was the attitude one of contempt or slander for any racial group.
As for the sweeping statement that "the editors of upstream do not understand the meaning of . . . democracy and brotherhood," a refer George Rendina to any of the back issues of the magazine, we have never made a secret of the fact that we are, and have always been, against all manifestations of prejudice—racial, political, redious, social—as anyone who has followed our editorial policy can easily tell.
the UPSTREAM staff
I don't want to enter the exercise in definifi 'freedom.' (Though, taking of definitions, the editor might do well to look up 'seman-')
But I would like to point out some things that I feel have been elected in the debate.
ar Editor:
from Fire To Ashes
The original letter was one which tried to justify Senator Mcarthy's treatment of Omen Lattimore by quoting, out of context and incorrectly, from Lattimore's works. The assumption seemed be that Lattimore's opinions were 'wrong' and that, therefore, Mcarthy was justified in attacking Lattimore, and among other things, causing him of being the top Soviet espionage agent in the United states."
Dan Gallin's reply to this letter tried to point out that, regardless of what Lattimore's opinions are, the assumption that the expression ideas can be 'disloyal' or treasonable is not only fallacious but angerous. The ordinary criminal laws and enforcement agencies are adequate to deal with acts which are dangerous to this country; is neither necessary or desirable to regiment opinion.
Unfortunately, McCarthy's exploits are not confined to this one instance, and he is not the only influential person today who makes the same assumption. Many who criticize Russia for controlling expression of opinion are willing to see opinion suppressed here. Such people are willing, for instance, to jail or deport citizens on the grounds of their opinions, not of anything they have done. If this end continues, our country will be doing exactly what we are citicizing Russia for doing. Those who fight fire with fire must not be surprised to end up with nothing but ashes.
Elmer Rusco Graduate Student
The 10 most commonly used words, in order, are: the, and, a, to,
of, I, in, was, that and it. Those used privately or under the breath
are obviously not included.
Oink! Oink!
In "Holy Writ" is found the exhortation not to cast pearls before swine. By placing such publications as the Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of Kansas in the hands of certain individuals, according to the editorial in the Daily Kansan of Feb. 28, it is obvious that the University has cast some of its "pearls" before swine.
Dear Editor:
Name Withheld
Graduate student in zoology.
As A Matter Of Fact . . .
Bv FRANCIS KELLEY
The youngsters in eighth-grade American history classes of future years will flunk the course as sure as the fifty-cent dollar is here to stay. They don't stand a chance. American foreign policy of our particular generation will leave them as baffled as a sneezing bubbledancer with the hives.
In just five years American policy has done a one-and-a-half gainer from the low board without making too much of a splash. And now it's readying itself for a try at the high board.
Then take the case of Germany, tops on our backlist until recently. The Reich is half for us and half against us and we'd like to arm our half to stop the other half. It's confusing, too.
The past half-decade in review indicates that Uncle Sam has been doing a barefooted toe dance in a cactus bed. One-time buddy China, allied with us against Japan, is now feeling its way for an all-out tong war against the United States. And Japan, for whom we invested more than 100 billion dollars and 350,000 casualties to disarm, is to be reared to protect herself against China and her allies. It's confusing.
Russia, our top flight ally of five years ago, now replaces Germany on our hate parade. It's Communist. So is Yugoslavia. But our Uncle Sammy, who has taken a strong dislike to Commies, is sending aid to Yugoslavia because its Communists are now huffy toward Russia's Communists. And Franco Spain, who fought the Communists, was until recently denied U.S. aid. Franco, who stayed on the bench
during the last war, was also denied postwar aid at the same time that Italy, who played the game with the opposing team, was given large-scale aid. That's even more confusing.
To clarify the situation, let's summarize a bit: The U.S. suffered 940,000 casualties and approximately 300 billion dollars were spent in a war to keep Japan from swallowing China and Germany from taking the rest of Europe and Russia. Now another war threatens us. This time it's to protect the rest of Asia from the grasp of China and to stop Russia from spreading over the rest of Europe. All this in five years.
As a matter of fact, it won't be easy to grade the papers, either.
Yesteryears
But think of those poor youngsters of the future who will be expected to know what the inconsistency is all about. They're going to have a rough time with their history quizzes.
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Of course, these turnabouts in our policy were necessary and expedient measures which our state department used in fighting the spread of Russian influence. And they're strictly in keeping with this nation's inherent fear of "entangling" alliances. Then too, our support to anti-Russian forces will be far cheaper than an expensive "shooting" war.
Adv. Room K.U.376
Billie Stover.
City Editor...Marion Klierwer
Asst. City Editors: Richard Marshall,
Mona Millikan, Robert Sanford, Lee
Managing Editor Business Manager Managing Editor Richard Hale Asst. Managing Editors:
Sour Owl Swoops
The first Sour Owl of the season swooped down on the campus this morning in the form of a 32-page issue of the humorous magazine, full of snappy illustrations and editorial matter.
Editor-in-chief Edward J. Chapin
More short original matter than ever before appears in this issue of the magazine, and the lengthier articles are up to the usual standard. Chief of these is a burlesged interview with a movie "vampire."
(From the UDK, Sept. 13, 1920)
Haroid Benjamin, Faye Wilkinson,
Billie Stover.
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