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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1950
Thought For The Day—
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation."-James Freeman Clarke.
Open Letter To A.M.A.
Gentlemen.
I have heard of the $20,000,000 campaign your organization is conducting to educate the ignorant public on the horrors of adequate medical and surgical care, medicine when it is needed, and dental care before all one's teeth fall out.
While reading one of your large newspaper ads, extolling the evils of (as you so picturesquely put it.) "socialized medicine," the thought occurred to me that $20,000,000 would go a long way toward financing scholarships for worthy students to study medicine and thus lighten the burden on some of your overworked, underpaid colleagues. It would also be possible to enlarge the medical school facilities in areas where there is an acute shortage of doctors, if every year your organization would devote the same energy for fund raising that you have shown yourself capable of. After all, what's a $25 assessment a member, when compared with the service you can render humanity?
If we were fortunate enough to get national health insurance, I would gladly donate the $72 I pay each year for my inadequate Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance.
Hippocratically yours,
J.A.B.
The Public's Pulse Who Knows?
Dear Editor:
It is with interest that I note your interview with Mr. Rudi Hofmann, German exchange student, and his comments on Germany during the Hitler regime. I especially would like to question his story of the German people's ignorance of concentration camps and gas chambers which were in existence in those years.
To those of us who fought in Europe when the war was quite "hot" and were among the first allied troops entering Germany, an entirely different picture was presented. We found the German people were well aware of Dachau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald and the extermination of millions of Poles, Slavs, Jews, and many French and Dutch people. The reasons given us wherever we went, were that the Germans were merely eliminating some of the "inferior parts" of the human race. Perhaps Mr. Hofmann was unaware of what was going on all over Germany and Europe but the majority of the German people did know and only a small minority tried to stop the slaughter. It was not until the Allies had conquered Germany and civilization had turned an accusing finger on the Germans and the label of "butchers" that the story of German innocence was born. We who watched the German people in the process of being defeated and occupied knew that they were horribly aware of what their government was doing.
To Herr Hofmann who is here to learn some of the nobler aspects of our democratic way, I wish all the luck, and I hope he takes back to Germany the best we have to give. However, I would like to see on the part of Germans a little more honesty and little more soul-searching as to why a civilized people ran amok for 12 years, instead of professions of ignorance of any crimes committed.
Respectfully yours,
Morris M. Birnbaum
Graduate Student.
Dear Editor:
In the Daily Kansan of Nov. 13 the atrocities of the last World War were
brought up by Mr. Hofmann, an ex- member of Hitler's SS-troops. We regret this happened, because Mr. Hofmann's statements do not leave us another choice than to use the right of free speech we enjoy in this free and democratic country.
Both of us have suffered more than a year in altogether nine German concentration camps.
We have witnessed that our SS-guards were frequently sent to the fighting areas while others took their places.
German civilians entered and left our camps every day.
Victims of concentration camps have fled Germany as early as 1938, and they talked loud and frequently.
The British Broadcasting Company has done a good job of spreading the news of atrocities in German concentration camps all over Europe, and we know from our own observation that many Germans who were not allowed to listen did so nevertheless.
The next SS-man who wants his sacred memories printed better think up a more convincing excuse than the common place "Wir haben es nicht gewusst."
Erwin David Ted T. Szabo Editor's Note: The German phrase means "We didn't know."
Illusion Of Victory
Anyone who was not satisfied with the outcome of the Kansas-Oklahoma football game need only to see the movie of it to become consoled. Thanks to a camera breakdown, the first, third, and fourth Oklahoma touchdowns were not filmed, so in the movie version of the affair, we won, 13-12.
Dear Editor:
Ah, the movies, God bless 'em! What would we ever do without them?
John S. Altenbernd College Senior
Jacksonville, Fla. (U.P.)—A Daytona beach mailman pleaded guilty in federal court here of failing to deliver letters containing money. He was trapped when post office inspectors, after receiving complaints, prepared two test letters with money enclosed. Neither was delivered.
Test Letters Trip Truant
As proof that Kansans are airminded, the state boasts more than 200 private and municipal airfields.
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