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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940
The Editorial Page-
Dig Deep This Time
We have again come to that time of the year when everyone is asked to dig down in his pockets and donate to a worthy cause, a cause that has our full and whole-hearted support. The event to which we refer is the March of Dimes campaign in the interest of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Since the March of Dimes campaigns started in 1938 at the suggestion of the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt, upwards of 40 million dollars has been collected. Of this sum, more than 12 million dollars has been used for education in the form of special grants for research and scholarships.
This is a humanitarian movement of the highest order in that it is designed to aid those afflicted with infantile paralysis and lend a hand inhelping those so afflicted to return to a normal life if it is at all possible. In 1946, there were 25,000 cases in the United States and 85% of these victims were children under 15 years of age. During the past year, there was a more serious outbreak of the disease than in previous years and the present campaign is aimed at larger contributions. And simply because this immediate area was not hit hard by a polio epidemic, is no reason we should be stingy in our donations. It should also be remembered that 50% of all that is collected, is used in this area.
So, why not think about this thing seriously and be a little more generous in your donations. It should be a comforting thought to realize there is such an organization as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that can take out donations, however small they might be, and make use of them constructively in helping children walk who might otherwise be denied the advantages of a normal life.
-M.C.L.
Change The Law?
Among other things, the new congress will be asked to provide bigger and better penalties for contempt of congressional investigating groups.
The investigators are irritated because too many witnesses have been using the constitutional guarantee of immunity to questioning by claiming that their testimony might be self-incriminating. The practice is so popular that a former investigator used it himself when called before a grand jury not so long ago.
called before a grantor advocates of sterner penalties are the investigators themselves. They haven't said what they think the new penalties should be, but they are positive the present year of imprisonment and $1,000 fine is not sufficient.
The practice of claiming immunity has been abused in some cases. It's hard to find a privilege that hasn't been taken advantage of by someone. Before pressing their proposal too far, however, the investigating committees should take stock of and perhaps reorganize their own groups. Their attitudes in many of the investigations has been far from desirable in that they have sometimes attempted to "brow beat" witnesses into answering questions.
The committee might get better co-operation after a change in questioning technique than from the change of a law.
—John Riley.
Censored
Local government in 50 cities has seen fit to take upon its own shoulders the cloak of censorship by legislating against certain comic books; thus the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press is again violated.
Consider among these ordinances one which prohibits the sale of comic books prominently featuring crime. If a city council can tell minors they cannot read of crime, could they not tell anyone what to read?
Sale of crime stories has flourished in the United States for many years because the public has bought such material. If it were not snapped up from the news stands, the magazines would not appear in such number. We doubt that a father who reads crime stories is likely to deny his son comic books because they deal with crime.
Until and unless parental rule is invoked such legislation will have the effect of making the prohibited books doubly desirable. We have seen adults express a preference for books that are banned. These laws, so long as children want crime comics, are likely to amount to wasted words on paper.
The supreme court, we believe, will eventually strike down such censorship. —Richard Jones.
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Robert B. Krueger, College junior, was elected president of the Interfraternity council Monday.
Krueger Elected IFC President
Other officers elected are John B. Touhey, business senior, vicepresident; Robert M. Petitt, College junior, secretary; and James R. Sellig, College sophomore, treasurer.
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Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity was granted a permanent seat on the council. The meeting was held at the University chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
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