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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951
Thought For The Day —
"War does not of choice destroy bad men, but good men ever."—Sophocles.
'The Dove' Did It
Yes, the Dove, campus liberal magazine, finally exposed the sad state of affairs on the campus as far as student salaries and politics are concerned.
The ridiculous condition of campus politics is surpassed only by the more ridiculous condition of campus salaries, both student and faculty.
In keeping with the general policy in Kansas, wages at the University are far behind the rest of the country. The congress has determined, after loud and long debate and inquiry, that 75 cents an hour should be a minimum wage in any industry vitally affecting interstate commerce. In reaching this figure, the cost of living (which has risen about 10 per cent since the figure was determined) was an important factor, but evidently students and professors have a lower cost of living than the average citizen.
Granted that the University does not come under the minimum wage provisions of the federal law, it would seem only logical that student-employees should get at least as much pay as the lowest paid laborer under the federal law.
The false sense of economy which seems to be quite prevalent among state budget committees is in part responsible for the situation in addition to the "lowest-wages-possible" philosophy so marked among Kansas employers.
When will these "economizers" realize that low wages do not save money, but rather lower the quality, initiative, and efficiency of those subject to this order-line peonage. The lowered production reduces profits as well, and that, if nothing else, should shock employers into letting some of the gravity drip down to the wage earner. —J. A. B.
The Public's Pulse The Eagle Screams
Dear Editor:
I should like here to comment about the article entitled, "The Election. . . Who really won?" by Bromleigh S. Lamb in the recent issue of the Dove. I am frankly puzzled.
In it, Mr. Lamb complains bitterly about the outrageous treatment cued out to Owen Lattimore by Senator McCarthy and Co. He states and I quote:
"Thus the more we have become terrified by the spread of Communism in Asia, the more we have tended to label as Communists and reeds those who have constructive suggestions to make. The recent treatment of Owen Lattimore is perhaps the best care in point."
I would like to know if Mr. Lamb has bothered to look at the facts. Here is a little history on Mr. Lattimore that he seems to have overlooked. Several years ago, Lattimore appraised the net result of the Moscow Trials and the blood-purge by which Stalin secured his dictatorship in 1936-39 as "a triumph for democracy." In 1945, when Mao Tse-tung and his Communist hordes were in the midst of overthrowing the constitutional government of Nationalist China, Lattimore urged the U. S. government in a book called "Solution in Asia" to accept cheerfully the spread of "the Soviet form of democracy" in central Asia. His publishers thus indicated the drift of his book on its jacket;
"He (Mr. Lattimore) shows that all Asiatic peoples are more interested in actual democratic practices, such as the ones they can see in action across the Russian border, than they are in the fine theories of the Anglo-Saxon democracies which come coupled with ruthless imperialism."
We all know what kind of democratic practices they have in the Soviet Union. One candidate on each ballot, a constitution which Stalin himself states "leaves only the Communist Party as the ruling force," a constitution which is a facade for dictatorship, a dictatorship which
has shot anyone who protests the fact and sends the lesser offenders to a concentration camp. These are only a few of the "democratic practices."
Pardon me, Mr. Lattimore, Russia is only a democracy and China can safely be left to Russian influence.
Pardon me, Mr. Lamb, Lattimore is an anti-Communist and can safely be left alone.
He's not a Communist, is he, Mr. Lamb? He just likes Russian democracy. By all means, he has been outrageously treated.
James Sunye College senior
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City Editor ... John Corporon
Assistant City Editors: Dewayne Oglesbe-
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Klewer.
Photograph Editor .. Harold Benjamin
 Society Editors: Janet Ogan, Melva Lutz
Asst. Sec. Editors Virginia Johnston
Telegraph Editor ... John S. Hill
Asst. Tel Editors: Bill White, Lee Shep-
pear, Lloyd Holdek, Steward, Bob
Nelson
Asst. Sports Editor Marvin Arth
Editorial Asst. Pete North
Advertising Mgr. Joseph Ward
National Ad. mgr. Charlotte Gesey
Circulation Mgr. Joseph Lewis
Classified Ad. mgr. Virginia Gibson
James Murray
Editing Students Manage Kansan
Students in the Editing II class, as part of their class work, have taken over the running of the University Daily Kansan until Tuesday, Jan. 16.
Wednesday's paper was managed by Bud Rodgers, journalism senior. Today's issue was managed by Pete North, journalism senior, and Melva Lutz, College senior.
Burglary Made Easy
Jacksonville, Fla.—(U.P.)-Burglaries who entered the Mayfair Baptist Church here didn't bother to open the safe. The Rev. Edgar B. Cooper found that his desk drawers had been riffed. The culprits had just walked away with the safe.
If the sprinkling of boards around the excavation south of the Union is to prevent anyone from falling in, we suggest safety rail of a more satisfactory nature. If that isn't why they are there, we suggest a decent guard rail be installed. A few warning lights would be useful, too.
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Another tidbit from the chancellor; "Improvements, including roofing replacements which have gone unimproved for more than 50 years, have been declared null and void." It's a good thing. If basketball players keep getting taller, they'll need to build higher roofs anyway.
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