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MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1950
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Americans Must Understand Human Rights, Orrick Says
If the United States is going to put its full weight behind the United Nations, its people should know and understand the Bill of Human Rights of the United Nations charter.
That was the view expressed by James B. Orrick, chief of the Non-Governmental organizations section of the department of public information for the United Nations, in a roundtable at the second annual U. N. conference at the University. The conference, arranged by University Extension and the Non-Governmental organizations section of the U. N. was attended by approximately 250 persons from various Middle Western states during the two-day session, Jan. 23 and 24.
Gilbert Yates, secretary of the Economic and Social council of the U.N., and Orrick were the official U. N. representatives at the conference. The principal representation of the Kansas organizations were F. L. Schlagle, superintendent of schools for Kansas City, Kan.; and Mrs. Benjamin O. Weaver, Mulinville, interim chairman of the Kansas U.N. committee.
"The Economic and Social council was set up as a counterpart of the Security council to help remove the basic causes of war," explained Mr. Yates and he went on to show how "a certain amount of know-how can help backward countries without the addition of capital." "For instance, the substitution of the scythe for the sickle and the replacing of the boom and bucket by a waterwheel can improve crop production in many of the backward agricultural countries," he said.
Yates also outlined the purposes, the organization, and the accomplishments of the council. He said that the council has brought order to a group of 13 complex international organs known as the specialized agencies of the Council which may be grouped into sections. Two of the agencies are still in the 'comoyo' stage, the International Trade organization and the International Maritime commission. These agencies must await the signing of a treaty by a sufficient number of nations to grant their existence.
The Food and Agriculture organization; the U. N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural organization; the International Civil Aviation organization; the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and the International Monetary Fund which were all set up with clauses in their constitutions allowing them to be drawn together and merged, comprise a second group.
The third group of organizations has to do with communications, the Universal Postal Union, the International Telecommunications Union, and a kind of world weather bureau, the International Meterological Union.
"The World Health organization was the first permanent agency brought into existence by the council," said Mr. Yates, "and there are many temporary agencies which are created when a need for them arises."
Mrs. Weaver, interim chairman of the Kansas U. N. committee, reporting on her recent visit to a meeting of the General assembly of the U.N., paraphrased a remark of Gen. George C. Marshall. "General Marshall said the U.N. can succeed if enough people want it to succeed and our job is to go back home and help make enough people want it to succeed."
Yates said that two agreements are necessary for setting up a specialized agency under the council. First of all, the delegates who are setting up the agency must agree on the terms and the constitution. Then the nations which the delegates represent must agree. The Trade and Maritime organizations are now in this second stage.
Commenting on the political aspects of these organizations which sometimes present difficulties, Yates said that "same internationalists feel that the social and economic aspects can be divorced from the political, but I don't feel that this idea is sound."
Yates suggested that the United States solve its own problems of economic, race, tariffs, and low refugee quotas before being too harsh with such things as the Hindu caste system.
"Too much is expected of the United Nations," Mr. Schlagle, superintendent of schools in Kansas City, Kan., told the assembled delegates. "The U. N. was made to keep the peace, which it has done, not to make the peace," he explained.
The Little Stinker Lets Guard Have It
Tacoma, Wash., (UR) - Soldiers at Fort Lewis had to shun one of their boys. Pvt Norman Risco was walking post when a skunk stopped near-by. Risco challenged the animal but the skunk shot first. A relief guard had to take over the post 30 paces away.
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Reverse Seats For Safe Air Ride
Washington, u. (U.P.) Passengers seated backwards in planes would have a better change of surviving air crashes, air force tests showed.
Six human "guinea pigs", the air force reported, came through unharmed in simulated air crashes on a rocket sled when they faced backward or while facing forward, were tied in their seats with a harness.
The six members of the air force participate in the experiment at Edwards Air Base, Muroc, Calif., have undergone up to 35 "G's"—or a strain on their bodies equal to 35 times their weight. None have suffered any injuries or ill effects, an air force spokesman said.
Observers said it probably would be more feasible for commercial airplanes to reverse the position of their plane seats permanently than to put a seat harness on each passenger for takeoffs and landings.
Undergoing 35 "G's" is about the stress an automobile driver would experience if he stopped his car going 75 miles an hour with a distance of 9 feet.
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Stage Professor Needed
Pullman, Wash.—(U.P.)The community theater had to hold up rehearsals of the play "Parlor Story" because of the lack of one character. In the whole town of Pullman, home of Washington State college, the director couldn't find a man to play the part of a professor.
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