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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 8.
The Editors Report -
HOW NOT TO STOP
Gambling
The worthy motive in Washington to shape means to reduce organized gambling is showing a tendency to get off the track in a race around Robin Hood's barn. Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has told a Senate subcommittee that he favors a federal prohibition of the interstate transmission of horse race odds, bets and track prices paid, for any purpose whatever, including publication in newspapers.
Attorney General McGrath has sent to Congress a bill—to which Mr. Coy takes some, but not enough, exceptions—that would bar interstate transmission of gambling information on horse races, football, baseball, basketball or any other sporting event.
It would exempt the reporting of sporting events for publication or broadcasting as news, although curbing to some extent the broadcasting of horse races.
Do these gentlemen think for a minute that censoring horse racing or other sports information out of newspapers will hamper bookmakers? Are we approaching a time when it will be a crime to print the news that it rained, on Derby morning, at Churchill Downs? Or that a Man o' War strained a tendon in a workout? Or that Joe DiMaggio's heel is bothering him (which heaven forbid)?
The time element required for publication rules out the printed word as an essential in the betting operation. The Senate subcommittee already has testimony before it showing that it is the special, non-news communication by telephone, telegraph or radio that is the vital link in the present bookmaking operation.
Newspapers do not make gamblers, and the lack of one never prevented anyone from laying a bet. The reformers are on a muddy track when they approach the gambling problem by way of censorship of the news wires.The New York Times,
TOO LITTLE HISTORY
Poor Citizens
The study of U.S. history still does not find much favor in the colleges and universities of this country. Although more of them now require it than before the war, two-thirds of them still do not insist on the course. But, strangely, an overwhelming majority of the nation's educators hold that a study of the subject is necessary to enable students to become high-type citizens.
Benjamin Fine of the New York Times recently completed a survey of 1301 institutions of higher learning to determine how the subject fared in their curricula—in how many it is a required course.
Comparing his findings with those of a survey made by the Times in 1942, he reports that virtually no change has taken place in the requirement of U.S. history for admission to college. Today 27 per cent of these institutions ask for a year of history, only 2 per cent more than required it eight years ago.
"Some educators," says Mr. Fine, "express concern at the large number of institutions that permit students who are majoring in such subjects as government, political science, education or economics to go through their four years without at least one course in U.S. history.
Of all history, the most instructive for Americans is their own. This was the idea of the old schoolmen, and U.S. history was a required subject on a generous time schedule in the high schools and the colleges. But this idea evidently does not appeal to those who now order affairs in these institutions.
"They point out that future teachers, social scientists or economists will be-handicapped if they are not aware of the forces that helped mold this country into the world's greatest democracy."
Knowledge of the history of this country will give the students a better understanding and appreciation of democratic government-at its best. Lack of such a background leaves young Americans unarmed against subversive ideas, which are pressed with skill by the well-schooled agents of Communism and some so-called "liberals."
The propagandists of totalitarianism know their book thoroughly, and too many Americans lack knowledge of their own historical background to combat foreign ideologies.
The principal concern of Soviet Russia is to prevent the spread of American ideals, based on the dignity and worth of the individual—ideals such as are established in the Bill of Rights. The principles of it embody the hopes of men of good will everywhere. With despotism so strongly on the march, American democracy has come to represent in a very real sense "the last best hope of earth."
But the programs of many schools and colleges make the tenets of Americanism, as developed in our history, a matter of minor importance in education. What greater justification can these institutions have than to train their students for intelligent citizenship?—The Buffalo Evening News.
Looking into organized crime while ignoring its tie to machine politics corresponds to the joker's remark to the Siamese Twin, "Haven't I seen one of you girls some place?"—Buffalo Evening Times.
TODAY'S MAIL Samples
Sir:
Have been most interested in some letters you have been publishing concerning snake-eradication here on our Hill-top. Is the University Daily Kansan offering a bounty on snakes?
Or do you perhaps know of any anti-snake campaigners who are interested enough in getting rid of snakes to make it worth while? We enterprising zoo majors have ample access to snakes.
And just to show I ain't kidding, enclosed is a sample of my work. Be happy to furnish more on request.
Terry Schreiber College senior
Editor's note: The U.D.K. is offering no bounties for snakes nor know of anyone who is...so we are returning Miss Schreiber's sample. It is dead and so not fit for fondling. Please do not send any more samples—especially live ones. Journalists are widely known for their squeamish stomachs. Mangled corpses we can stand...but not live snakes.
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Kay O'Connor John Hill
Ralph Heinemen
City Editor Edward Chapin
Feature Editor Female Ice
Photograph Editor Frankie Waits
Telegraph Editor Robert Sigman
William Graves
Richard Tatum
Lloyd Hollis
Sports Editor Richard Dilsaver
Society Editor Fave Wilkinson
Asst. Society Editors Billie Stover
Emily Stewart
Editorial Assts. Keith Leslie
Adv. Mgr. Charles Reiner
Cir. Mgr. Yvonne Joserwerd
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'Small Things'
Camden, N. J.: An elderly lady cited an alleged beating received twenty-nine years ago. She won a recommendation for a divorce after being married fifty years. Ed. note: Everybody has his sore spots.
CALIFORNIA OR BUST!
Philadelphia—A 30-foot trailer fitted out with a cracker barrel and pot-bellied stove left Philadelphia today to arouse public demand for reorganization at the federal government's executive branch.
The trailer depicted an old fashioned country store, a symbol of what its sponsors call the outmoded condition of this country's executive governmental branch.
Ed. note: Why don't they go a little further and include the traditional free candy and cigars?
A headline proclaims, "A College Head Resigns." Over the vociferous protestations of the stomach and liver we'll bet.
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