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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Chiang, The Savior
Chiang Kai-shek so loves the Chinese people that he's bringing back the Japanese to protect them from the communists.
Armed with four million dollars in American money, the Nationalslts have made a deal to recruit 500 veteran Japanese pilots to fight the Reds.
The fliers are to be given 215 thousand yen for joining up, 60 thousand a month for pay, and their families are to receive one million 500 thousand yen if any of the pilots are killed. One American dollar equals 360 yen, so the pay is not peanuts. An advance party, headed by a former Japanese general is supposed to be in Formosa already.
This move should further endear the Generalissimo to the hearts of the Chinese people. It is doubtful that even those patient people have forgotten the years of bloodshed and slaughter they suffered at the hands of the Japanese. Perhaps they even remember the fall of Nanking where hundreds of Chinese were soaked in gasoline and lighted like strings of firecrackers.
From our own experiences, we have learned that Chiang no longer holds the loyalty of many of his own troops. We have sent millions in arms and aid to the Nationalist armies, only to see the equipment fall to the Reds through desertions and the back market.
Chiang's latest move, the taking on of the Japanese pilots, seems to vindicate the State department's White paper—the writing off of the Nationalist government.
Paul Robeson's America
Paul Robeson, Negro singer and left-wing enthusiast has made gallons of 100 per cent American blood boil with his recent speeches concerning life in America and the Soviet Union.
Robeson pictures Russia as a land of milk and honey where freedom reigns, and his own country, the United States, as a hotbed of despotic fascists and tyrants.
“What kind of a man is this?” we ask. “Robeson owes his wealth and fame to the very country he seems to hate.”
We disagree with Robeson when he says that the American Negro would never bear arms against the U.S.S.R. in the event of war. We disagree with him when he claims that only in Russia does "true" democracy exist. We disagree with him when he predicts fascism for America, and sees the savior of the world in the Soviet Union.
But now that we've disagreed with him, let's ask ourselves what is behind Robeson's seemingly gross ingratitude to this country.
Paul Robeson is no ordinary man. He is one of the foremost concert singers of our time. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Walter Camp All-American football player. Some consider him a great actor.
Robeson has an array of talents seldom found in one individual—enough for a dozen men.
Yet with all his brains, talent and athletic reputation—with all his fame, wealth and education, Robeson would be refused service by a waiter in almost any restaurant in the country. Most bus drivers would tell him to "sit in the rear." Most hotel clerks would turn him away.
This is no defense of Robeson's beliefs. It's an attempt to understand what makes him tick. In the light of the above facts, is the political development of Paul Robeson too difficult to comprehend? J.W.S.
Just A Suggestion
Certain professors around this place require their students to keep notebooks on their class lectures. Other eager instructors make their classes turn in research papers of several thousand words. Still others bravely struggle through hundreds of questions and answers that their students copied from last semester's class.
After some 16 or 17 weeks of lectures, notes, questions, answers, and other things, the professors and students play an elaborate game called final examinations. The professor dreams up obscure questions, and the students dream up obscure crib notes.
Most of the notebooks, lecture notes, questions, answers are tossed into the "round file" after the final exam. And most of the information is forgotten in two or three months.
It looks like both professors and students are overlooking what could be a valuable dividend from the class. If the professor would require the students to keep a list of recommended references on his subject, then the student would have something worth keeping.
The professor could list and recommend certain books in his field and require the students to keep one on a card with a few short notes about the book. If this were done for every class, and the cards kept in a small file cabinet, the student would have a valuable collection at the end of four years at the University.
The students could be required to become acquainted with some of the works. That wouldn't hurt anything. But the most valuable thing gathered from the course would be that set of cards. Marvin Rowlands
Your editorial on the Five Percenters was appalling in its display of moral obtuseness and economic ignorance.
Five Per Cent
Dear Editor:
The Five Percenter corrupts government officials by bribery. This results in an allocation of contracts to undeserving companies—inferior products are purchased at too high a price. It may be that "decent" businessman want this graft and corruption to exist; but decent people in general would not condone and defend the system as you have.
Not only is the Five Percenter morally wrong, but he cannot be justified economically either, as you have tried to do, feebly. His only function is to channel contracts to companies that are powerful and wealthy enough to resort to bribery, and thereby to prevent the awarding of contract on a merit basis. He does not increase or decrease employment, as you imply, for if his company does not get the contract, some other company will, so that the net effect on employment is zero.
Walter Conrad
Helen Ulatowsk
Editor's note: You completely missed the point of the editorial. It was not a defense of the five per cent man, but merely an observation that he is not such an oddity in this predatory world.
Neither did we try to justify him economically. For the individual firm, tomorrow's profits are most important. That the five percenter would not affect business or employment in the entire industry means little to one firm. That one firm must have the business today or go out of existence tomorrow.
Memorial Scholarship Honors Professor Morrison
A fund for a memorial scholarship to the late Prof. Beulah M. Morrison has been started by Delta Gamma sorority at the University.
Miss Virginia Brand, a member of the Beulah Morrison scholarship committee, said approximately $800 had been raised. Contributions are now being solicited from former students of Miss Morrison. The K.U. Endowment association will administer the fund which will provide an annual scholarship for an undergraduate student in psychology.
Miss Morrison, a professor of psychiology died last May. Cancer reached the age of 52. She had been a member of the K.U. faculty since 1924.
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