FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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The Editorial Page-
Thought for the Day
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. —Franklin Roosevelt.
The Public's Pulse-
Is The ASC Necessary?
Dear Editor:
If the U.D.K.'s reporter who attended this week's meeting of the All-Student Council reported to the students accurately in the lead story in Wednesday's issue, several interesting things should be noted.
Excluding only two, the Pachacamac block, apparently led by Jack Howard, voted solidly against the anti-discrimination petition which was to have been sent to the governor and state legislators in support of the Fair Employment Practices commission bill.
Mr. Howard gives two reasons for this non-support.
(1) The petition might create an unfavorable attitude on the part of the legislators against K.U.—an attitude which could be detrimental in the coming issue of the cuts in K.U.'s budget.
(2) The A.S.C. should not send a petition representing the student body when such a petition would only reflect the council members' opinions.
What have we here? In reason (1) it is obvious that Mr. Howard and his block are willing to prostitute the convictions of a "democratic" assembly in exchange for appropriations to maintain an institution which supposedly prepares its students to be intelligent citizens and to act on their intelligent convictions.
In reason (2) Mr. Howard and his block admit that the A.S.C does not represent the student body.
Two alternative conclusions may be drawn.
A. Mr. Howard and his block have not given the students, their electors, the real reasons for not supporting the bill against discrimination and undemocratic practices.
B. Since nearly everyone, including the Pachacamac block, now admits that the A.S.C. does not represent the student body, there is no reason why the A.S.C. should continue to exist.
A logician would define statements (1) and (2) as admitting the possibility that (A) and (B) are true.
Don Simpson College senior
No Chili In Chili Dogs?
Dear Editor:
You have undoubtedly heard of the straw that fractured the dromedary's vertebra. Well, Mr. Editor, my back got busted today, too. And I'm no camel!
It all happened in the Student Union Fountain. Many times previously I have suffered because of the fare served there, but today really finished me for good. It seems I ordered a chili dog—this being a hot dog upon which chili is poured. As I sat looking dreamily into my cup of coffee, waiting for this succulent morsel—said morsel being the chili dog—I thought of how fortunate that we have a coffee bar so students do not have to wait to eternity in the booths.
Then, Mr. Editor, my order—the chili dog—arrived. That ended the happy thoughts running through my little mind. I paid the 20 cents for the chili dog quite willingly. But when I lifted the lid—oh, if I had only not done this—what did I find, but a split portion of warm wiener and over a very minute section of the top of said wiener an itsy bitsy dab of chili. Believe me, it was an insignificant amount.
Now, look, I know my Scotch is showing, but there wasn't more than a level teaspoonful of chili on top of that hot dog! And that is not worth a nickel of my money—not for a teaspoonful of chili.
If a hot dog costs 15 cents, and a chili dog costs 20 cents, then it can be presumed the chili costs 5 cents. Then for the sake of a disillusioned student, let's have a nickel's worth of chili on all Fountain chili dogs.
I asked the manager of the Fountain if this was all the chili they put on the blessed things. She said it was and offered no more. I am only writing of chilli. I'm sure there are many things I could write about the Union Fountain. Perhaps others who have had similar experiences could do this for me.
Dale W. Fields
Would You Mind Telling Us?
Journalism senior.
Letter to Melvin Clingan.
President of the All Student Council, Dear Mr. Clingan:
Would you mind telling your constituents in an open letter in this column why you voted Tuesday against the A.S.C.'s voicing its support of the Fair Employment Practices commission bill now pending in the state legislature?
Jack Corporon,
Journalism senior
Privileges Are Labeled 'Freedom
《K顾溺湖飘剧影版宏州舒靖剧影戏装王幼的欢乐故事"家家户户都爱唱歌也爱演奏了！》
I have read with interest the definitions of the term "freedom" which have been appearing in the Daily Kansan. I do not wish to make an attempt to define this term. I would, however, like to make a few statements relative to the attempt to define it.
Dear Editor:
It appears to me as though some who undertake defining the term are merely pointing out a good many things which are privileges here in the United States and ascribing to this bundle of privileges the term "freedom." Thus, we necessarily restrict the scope of the term by arbitrarily selecting a limited criterion. I say it is limited because it applies to us here in the U.S. Actually, all that is being done is that a few of the sum total of our privileges are being enumerated and to these we append the label "freedom."
privileges takes away part of the "freedom."
This is similar to starting with a dog which is sound physically and then when his leg becomes infected amputating it. What do we have left? Oh certainly, we still have a dog in the loose sense of the word, but to be more explicit we have a three-legged dog. An airplane without a propeller might still be called an airplane, but will it fly? It should be essential in the recognition of any thing that when a part of the whole is taken away that we make a commensurate adjustment in defining the part or parts that remain.
Are we willing to accept some of the defi-
nitions proffered by making this adjustment?
If we say, for example, that government interference with an individual person's rights is an infringement upon his freedom and then price controls are set up for the country, have not the rights of the people been interfered with? How then shall we apply the term "freedom"? Shall we qualify it by calling it "limited freedom"? If freedom is actually dependent upon enjoying a number of privileges then we may say that the taking away of any of the
I said originally that I did not wish to attempt to define freedom, but I will make a statement about it which I believe might be used in an attempt, even at the risk of becoming "Headless Gray."
Define freedom, then, if you wish, try to find some place in this world where it is being practiced as you have set it forth. One don't: Don't pick one country and then try to define freedom in terms of that particular country's working adaptation of government. As a starter we might say that freedom is: absence of duty.
Yesteryears
Dinner For Loyalty
(From the UDK, Nov. 7, 1919)
Tickets for the Fine Arts dinner,
which is to be given in some building
on the Hill to promote the Loyalty
movement, will be on sale next
week.
(From the UDK, Nov. 7, 1919)
Only One Authorized Campus Fund Drive
This year the Lawrence Community chest and the World Student Service Fund will each get 30 per cent of the chest funds. Ten per cent each will be given to the American Heart Association, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, C.A.R.E., and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Clay tiles manufactured about 1715 were found in the ruins of the colonial governor's palace at Williamsburg, Va., and were in such good condition that they were reset when the building was restored.
University
The goal this year is $1 a student.
Daily Hansan
Students are advised to contribute only to the Campus Chest drive, Pat Gardenhire, committee chairman, said today. There are many organizations soliciting funds on the campus, but the Campus Chest is the only drive authorized by the University.
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Freedom Is A State Of Mind
Dear Editor:
Before this freedom controversy on your editorial page goes a farther. I would like to submit my definition.
Freedom consists of two things; man's duty to man and the practice of that duty, and man's duty to God.
If a man does not fulfill his duties of brotherhood to his fellow he ceases to be free and becomes a slave to his own vices. Freedom defined as "rights of the individual" is only a nice word for man injustice to man.
It may now occur to you that if these things are true freedom contrary to Miss Young, can and does occasionally exist in Rus while on the other hand there are many people in our country we are not truly free. Freedom does not mean happiness nor does guarantee a person against pain and suffering. It is more a state of mind than a state of existence and as such can never be take away.
God created man with free will but this gives him not the u limited right to choose between good and evil but only the right choose good. The only other alternative is the destruction of I own soul.
Thomas Regnary College Freshman.
Little Man On Campus
by Bible
"This will always work if you feel you're burdened with an extra large class."