THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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The Editorial Page-
No Help For Indians
The Navajo and Hopi Indians are in desperate need, but we are inclined to agree with President Truman that the bill recently presented for his signature was not the bill to help them. His veto offers a chance for further study and enactment of a better bill by the next session. This requires immediate action by all real friends of the Indians.
The long-range proposals of the $88 million bill were well drawn. They provided for road building, health, education, and other good works over a 10 year period. But the senate and house conferees, trying to reconcile the two versions of the measure, tacked on two riders that were dangerous. One piece of added legislation would have subjected water rights and other rights on the reservations to control by the redmen's white neighbors. Another addition would have impaired the social security rights of the Indians, requiring the federal government to pay a special subsidy (in addition to the regular contribution) to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, within whose borders most of the Navajos and Hopis live. The states would have won tighter authority over the Indians, along with less accountability for their welfare.
Admittedly, Indians are primarily the moral and financial responsibility of the federal government. But they are not chattels, to be shoved back and forth without regard to their rights and needs. They are not a large minority as minority groups are recorded on the world's map, but Americans interested in human rights and fundamental freedoms for minorities in far-away places had better pay a little more attention to such precious possessions for the ancient and honorable minority in our midst.
—Christian Advocate.
Small Things
Government scientists have lost a pesky little virus called M.R.-1 which they have been studying for three years. They had thought that it might be the cause of the common cold. From the sound of the sniffles, we'd be willing to bet that M.R.-1 has settled in Lawrence.
Professor: "Do we have any Gothic architecture at K.U.?" Students: "Yes. Hoch auditorium and the library." Professor: "Do we have any Renaissance architecture?" Students: "No."
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The ASC
I'm sorry for the leaders of the A. S. C. . . . These young men, swelled with their own opinions of self-importance, have done more to ruin their own names than any mud any opponent could sling at them. Most students laugh at their posturing and pouter-pigeon attitudes, but the handling of student funds not a laughing matter. . . .
The tragedy of the whole thing is that these young "leaders" think they are preparing themselves for politics and public office when they leave school. They think that sly, dishonest political maneuvering is the accepted thing, and that they must learn their fundamentals now. They are only partly right. .Crooked politicians sometimes survive and prosper on graft, but James Curley and Pendergast went to jail, and others have been turned out in disgrace.
The salary matter is only one incident. The Forensic league was recently given an appropriation of $120. This "deal" squeaked through only after President Friesen voted to break an 8 to 8 tie. . . Friesen is an active member of the Forensic league. . . This generous appropriation, in the light of others which the Council has denied, is clearly unethical, and the close vote indicates that the more honorable members of the Council opposed it. . .
The money is relatively unimportant. What these young men have done to themselves the countless enemies they have made climbing to their present positions and the harm they have done to their own reputations and to the reputations of the organizations they represent—these are the really sad results of immature, spoiled, selfish minds.
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Chicago—(U.P.)—Scholars have found "hundreds of differences" between the wording of the 2,000-year-old Book of Isaigh found in the Holy Land and the text of the King James version of the Bible, the Rev. John C. Trever said recently.
But one of the most significant findings he said, is that the basic message of the old writings has come down to us virtually intact.
A revised English Bible incorporating the changes will be published in 1952, the Rev. Trever said.
The Rev. Mr. Trever, head of the Bible department of the International Council on Religious Education, said that scholars of several countries have confirmed the authenticity of the scrolls.
Scholars have found only words and phrases changed in the old version, but nothing that changed the basic sense of the scriptures.
They hope to publish a translation of the old Isaiah text next April along with the text of the Book of Lamech believed to reveal details of the early life of Noah. The books were found in a Holy Land cave by a goat-herd boy early in 1947.
The Isaiah text should contribute to the background picture of Jesus' life and help make the Bible more meaningful to the average person, the Rev. Mr. Trever said. It has clarified the meaning of many passages of the Isaiah that we know today.
However, the Rev. Mr. Trever said disputes over whether the books of the bible are the actual "word of God" are still not settled and are not a factor in the present work.
The Isaiah scroll now under study was written down in about 125 B.C., long before the book was accepted by a council as "divinely inspired" for inclusion in the Old Testament about 90 A.D., he said.
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