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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Modern Times
Once, in a long-dead past, family life was the all-important factor of living. Things have slipped a long way since then. Marriage has lost the enduring patience and understanding that once characterized it. Children are shifted from pillar to post, father to mother, parents to grandparents, with little or no thought given to the muddled spirit forming within the child. Divorce-ridden homes are now commonplace.
Years ago, the American family was a hardy, permanent unit. Pioneer families shared privations, secure in the knowledge they could work out their problems together. True, man and wife had their quarrels then as now, but their differences weren't settled by heading for Reno. They stuck it out through thick and thin, right and wrong, and their children had normal homes.
Today, imagined or real differences arising in the current crop of hasty marriages are handled in a different fashion. A fancied insult to dress or cooking will send the modern young wife packing off to mamma where her troubles can receive a proper hearing. Loose moral standards result in broken homes and shattered dreams. The child is an innocent victim of the parents' folly, and the child suffers most.
And what happens to the child? He is the center of an all too often sordid court litigation, being finally awarded to one of the parents to live in half a home. He may see the other parent only at such times as the court specifies.
One such case occurred in Kansas City, Mo., recently. The child was awarded to the mother in the divorce hearing. The father was permitted to see his son one hour a week. This arrangement continued for some time before the father asked a
rangement continued for some time before the father asked a modification of the custody grant. He complained that he was unable to see his son alone for a minute—that is, his former wife or her parents were in the room when he visited his son. This court-imposed relationship became unbearable. The judge
in the hearing agreed that the situation was not satisfactory. He modified the custody grant and the father is now allowed to see his son between the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the first and third Sundays and the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.
But even with this slight improvement, think of the effect such an arrangement would have on the mind of the child.
Such is the way of altogether too many present day marriages. It's enough to make great-grandfather whirl in his grave. . . and the child-victim wonder what was so merry about Christmas.-Francis Kelley.
'Small Things'
Of course she's a terrific brain. Who else but a genius could work such a complex crib note system?
Some say that the campus cops are a little too conscientious. Who would expect them to go around putting tickets on cars in sub-zero weather?
The mid-year graduate is faced with the task of finding a job. "Trouble is," says the senior cynic, "they actually expect you to work!"
When faced with work, the wise student will ponder the desirability of doing a little graduate study. After all, one can't have too much education, can one? One must prepare one's self, mustn't one?
Horrifying is the thought that jobs on the outside world provide an infinitesimal two week vacation during the work year. No more leisurely Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving holidays. Maybe this teaching racket isn't so rough after all.
Lawrence bus drivers are sporting new gray wool whip cord uniforms, and when they tell us to move to the rear of the bus, must we now answer "Yes sir!" with a snappy salute?
A Chicago man has inherited a dozen Egyptian dancing girls and doesn't know what to do with them since his wife doesn't want him to bring them to America. The sophomore wolf has an excellent suggestion which we will print if all the faculty is ever out of town on the same day.
K. U. women, according to a Kansan poll, think the knee length socks are both attractive and warm, and why not bring back the bustle to warm certain other parts of the body?
The modern bustle, of course, could conceal a small electric heater and a set of batteries.
The New Year is here And finals are near. But don't be upset Kansas is wet.
Dear Editor-
Conservative?
Dear Sir:
The impulse to write this letter struck me when I heard a cynica friend of mine say he had just finished The Eagle, and hadn't had so much fun since Alf Landon though he would win the presidency and couldn't even carry his own state. The Eagle may do real missionary work with such heretics. The article written in sympathetic praise of the Spanish fascist chief Franco was excellent; I am hoping that another famous anti-communist, Mussolini, who also had the Pope's blessing in combatting the Red Menace, will be featured in the next issue. The expose' of the ultra-powerful organization C. O. R. E was timely and helpful; perhaps we may soon expect from The Eagle a contest to determine the best way of quarantining the races so they won't contaminate each other.
We conservatives were delighted at the praise given Senator Byrd and "Kissing Jim" Folsom; perhaps there wasn't room for the mention of John Bricker and our leading spokesmen, Hearst and Westbrook Pegler. An investigation might also be launched into the loyalty of members of a genetics class that only recently studied a Russian theory of heredity.
Some readers may think this has been written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, but I assure you that it is only derisive of the Grand Old Party line.
yours conservatively Jim Thompson, College sophomore
Humor Mag
Dear Sir:
"I do not favor prejudice against . . . regardless of what his color or creed may be; however. . ." These famous and somewhat trite words have been the apology for the prelude to some subsequent eloquence by hypocrites for a number of years. It was amusing to pick up the late issue of The Eagle and find them gracing its otherwise barren pages. Oh, there were a few other jokes, but these are of a more subtle nature; "inactive violence", "the meeting of force with force," and the fact that someone is selling meal tickets without "any real collateral."
On the whole, this issue of the "Eagle" is a rather good example of the present type of college humor magazine, although it lacks pictures, accurate reporting and cartoons. It is an excellent parody on the newspapers of a bygone day of political thinking. Keep up the good work, debaters. What K. U. needs is more humor magazines like the "Eagle".
John E. Findley College senior
Editor's note: At first glance, we, too, thought the Eagle writers were trying to be funny. Evidently, we're expected to take the paper seriously. Oh, well, there's the old saying: "If you can't get your name in the papers, start one of your own."
Freedom
Dear sir:
The content and character of The Eagle deserve the widest kind of coverage in the Daily Kansan. It is the rather crude expression of reactionaries fumbling to retain a veneer of democratic phrases to mask their dangerous ideology.
The Francophile's admiration for El Caudillo and his obvious brand of Fascism is a rosy reverence which is not shared by millions of G.I.'s of this and other lands who fought and perhaps died to rid the world of Franco's axis henchmen.
Education
Dear editor:
The recent issue of The Eagle should be sent to all university officials, teachers and students who are inclined to be optimistic about the results of a so-called college education. If one of the results of such an education is to teach people to think clearly, then this education has failed—especially with reference to the editorial staff of The Eagle.
For instance, the headlines read: "Stop Reds." Compare this with a similar headline from a communist paper: "Stop Wall Street Fascists." What is the essential difference between the two headlines? Both are designed to inspire fear, hate, and confusion. Both are ridiculous over-simplifications of a very complex problem. Neither inspire man to think clearly. And is it a disgrace for man to think clearly?
In addition to the semantic jumble - mumble throughout the publication, the whole publication is also destructive and accusative in tone and emphasis. It seems to be anti-everything. It does not offer one concrete solution to replace the solutions to problems which it so ferociously attacks. It accuses the "liberal" of being "abstract," and then appeals to such abstractions as "hesitant evolution," "more moderate actions," "militant conservatism," etc. In one breath it praises democracy and in the next it praises Franco.
And so forth.
I suggest that something be done to make so-called modern education a little more successful in teaching some of its students how to think—to think clearly and honestly; that is if these students do not consider it too "intellectual", "liberal", or "radical" to think.
Neal Nichols Education senior
University
Remember that Hitler, too, rode the red scare to power. The Spanish people, he writes, are not ready for democracy. What a flimsy rejection of democracy and espousal of fascism this is!
If this geyser of gush were an isolated outpouring, it could be laughed at and then forgotten. Unfortunately, these students are a pathetic reflection of larger and more influential groups which are abroad in the land. They choose to
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Bernard Greenberg Graduate student.
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