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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1950
The Editors Report —
PEACE—
It's Wonderful
by Bill Stratton
Until a few weeks ago everybody in Kansas was talking about scandalous Missouri. Then, as if someone had stuffed a gag in their mouths, they "clammed up."
They had been screaming at how rotten Missouri must be with all the gambling the newspapers had talked about. After the revelation of state-wide gambling activities in Kansas, the Wheat State natives found themselves in an embarrassing spot.
Their faces turned even more red when they found the liquor syndicate in Kansas City had gained much of its revenue from unlawful operations in Kansas.
Binaggio had his fingers in the gambling and tax-cheating liquor operations in the major part of eastern Kansas and portions of the West. After the repeal of prohibition, the bootleggers found they still could rake in sizable amounts of money by skipping the state tax and using Missouri liquor.
But now, the Kansans think their state is clean. They think they can rest at ease, now, after one day of state raids supposedly have halted all gambling operations. With the death of Binaggio and the arrest of some Kansas City liquor racketeers, Kansans are relieved.
All the Wheat State natives now have to do is lean back, feeling secure that "all is well," and let the vice in Kansas climb to even greater heights.
ALTERNATIVE TO
Confusion
The controversy over loyalties and Communism in the Government has reached a point of such confusion that it can be labeled as a national emergency. It seems clear that present methods of procedure are making this confusion worse confounded.
There is a mixture in the public mind and in political circles of honest doubts and fears, of partisanship, bitterness and perhaps a little dishonesty here or there. The world is getting a picture of American divisions and weaknesses that is a danger to the West.
We have aroused the same bewilderment, fears and doubts abroad that are manifest here, plus a degree of disillusionment and lowered prestige that can only be a great comfort to the Kremlin.
The question arises whether the time has not come to break through this baneful spell that has been cast upon us. One way of doing this would be to get a judgment on the disputes at issue so lofty and so free from partisanship or bias as to carry nation-wide conviction.
Supposing that Congress, or the Administration with Congressional consent, were to appoint a three-man commission headed by such men as former President Herbert Hoover, General Eisenhower and Bernard Baruch. Other names could be put forward, but these three would be typical of statesmen who are above partisanship.
Such a commission, if created, should have full access to all documentation, including F.B.I. files, however secret. Its members would have to be convinced that they had seen (and heard if they desire to interrogate anyone) everything that is pertinent.
The commission should meet in secret. Its terms of reference could be worked out to include the major issues under dispute, such as loyalty in the State Department, the Amerasia affair and the cases of such accused men as Messrs. Lattimore, Hanson and Service.
The commission might be instructed or urged to present a report to Congress or the Administration within a period of, say, two months.
If such a commission could present an agreed report, it would go a long way, if not all the way, toward ending this distressing and perilous controversy. Where it might prove impossible to resolve the commission's doubts about a man or an issue, there could be further investigation later, but at least the issues would be greatly narrowed.
It would require patriotism and self-sacrifice for men of the required stature to give their time to such a task, but if it is granted that the nation faces an emergency, one may hope that a call to duty would be answered.—New York Times.
'Small Things'
by Keith Leslie
After remarking that we'd seen pictures of several male cows on the front page of a certain Midwestern City's newspaper, Sophocles Mulligan smirked and said wasn't the first time he'd seen a lot of bull on the first page of that paper.
We're awaiting a Republican protest that the pearls Mrs. Truman received for Mother's day were paid for with the taxpayers' money.
TAKES HIS BUSINESS SERIOUSLY
O. D. Jennings, slot machine manufacturer from Chicago, testified that his machines weren't bought by gangsters, and his machines returned 80 percent of the take to the players. Oh yes, Mr. Jennings showed up at the testimony with his right arm in a sling.
TODAY'S MAIL High Time
A recent issue of the University Daily Kansan has come into my hands. In it I find the answers given by some students to the question, "Do you believe the fieldhouse soon to be built should be named Naismith-Allen fieldhouse?"
Sir:
Those interviewed were aware that Dr. Naismith invented basketball, but several made statements which reveal how quickly a great man is forgotten.
One recalled that Dr. Naismith "was at K.U. several years," when as a matter of fact he was associated with the University from 1898 until his death in 1939. Another remarked that "most people don't know who Naismith was or what he was famous for."
It is time they do know—especially at the University which he served so long and so well. And in my opinion the fieldhouse should be named solely for him.
Those who had the privilege of knowing Dr. Naismith will never forget his quiet, kindly ways. As befits a truly great man, he was modest to the extreme about the
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contribution which he had made to sports.
It always seemed to amaze him that a game which he had started in a small gymnasium was being played around the world and was giving pleasure and recreation to so many thousands of people.
One of the high points of his life was the trip given him to the 1936 Olympics where basketball was first installed as a feature of world games. He returned from there, moved by the experience of seeing his game played by teams of many nationalities, but still the same, modest, humble man he had always been.
In naming the fieldhouse for Dr. Naismith, therefore, K.U. would be honoring a plain man who won permanent place of fame in world of sports and who spent the major part of his career at the University. The worth of his life and achievement deserves no less tribute than this.
J. Hubert Anderson, '37 Arlington, Va.
Reese Elected President
J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, was elected president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy at a convention in Atlantic City, N. J. the first week of May. Dean Reese returned from the convention Thursday.
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