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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER
The Editorial Page
Warning To Students
One of the nation's leading gynecologists, Dr. Joe Vincent Meigs, claims we are faced with a decline in our civilization unless drastic changes are made. Dr. Meigs is worried about the increasing incidence of endometriosis, one of the commonest ailments of women which leads to sterility and many other disorders.
The warning is of particular interest to college students because they are the people Dr. Meigs is talking about. This group of society marries late and limits the size of its families and is most affected by endometriosis. Dr. Meigs relates the disorder with delayed marriage, contraception, and delayed child bearing.
College students tend to delay marriage until after their training is completed and sometimes even for several years after college. By their training and education, they are inclined to attempt to plan their marriage on the basis of security from financial worries. Their child-bearing habits follow the rules of the society in which they live and contribute to the increasing rate of sterility in the so-called "upper" classes.
Medical statistics show that endometriosis causes absolute sterility in 20 to 70 per cent of cases and relative sterility in 50 to 90 per cent of cases. There is the danger to our society. Unless it is checked, the ailment points to the eventual displacement of the healthy and educated people as the dominating class in our society by the weak and unintelligent.
Dr. Meigs suggests that endometriosis is more a social problem than a medical one. He advocates that the ailment be attacked by parental subsidy of early marriage and some restrictions on birth-control counsel.
College students have social obligations to reproduce themselves, Dr. Meigs claims. This is important to the welfare of future generations of Americans.
Perhaps Dr. Meigs does not have the best solution to this problem, but he is giving it the kind of serious thought which it deserves.
—J.L.R.
- Letters To The Editor -
No Excuse
Dear Editor:
I, too, believe that we Americans are "haunted by the dual spectre of guilt and fear." Certainly, anyone who has read John Hersey's "Hiroshima" is aware that the 135,000 persons killed or wounded there were not the "backbone of the Japanese war machine," as Mr. Moser insists.
I will admit that the Japanese did not hesitate to bomb civilians at Pearl Harbor or at the open city of Manila. However, I believe this does not present to us a valid excuse for performing similar acts.
If the atomic bomb was the alibi that Japan needed to surrender, as Mr. Harris maintains, we could have dropped it on an uninhabited mountain where the Japanese military leaders could have observed its destructive force. Such a method very likely would have achieved the same results as the act which was done.
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We shall have a difficult time telling the United Nations to allow no further use of the bomb when other nations can point to us as the first users of such a weapon. I pray God that we in the United States can make up for our use of the bomb by constructive work for world peace.
Howard Hallman, College junior.
Hitching Mules Costs Nickel
Goshen, Ind.—(UP)—Truck gardener Noah Frahigher doesn't believe in letting modern contraptions change his way of living. When Frahigher comes to town these days, he drops a nickel in one of Goshen's new parking meters and hitches his mules to it.
Who's His Grandpa?
Fort Worth—(UP)—Joe Heath's wife here also is his step-sister. Further, his father-in-law is his stenfather.
Peace Justice Frank Hurley is the reason. He married Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Losier, and later wed Heath, son of Mrs. Losier, and Miss Verna Helen Losier, daughter of Losier.
Freshmen Vote To Decide Student Council Control
Essentially, the issue at stake in the Freshman election Wednesday lies in which party holds the working majority on the All Student Council. With Pachacamac presently holding an 8-7 majority, the Independents will be attempting to win both freshman seats.
By CHARLES ROTER
Should this occur, it is probable that drastic changes would be made in election procedure, most of which $ \textcircled{4} $
Should this occur, it is probable the election procedure, most of which would give the Independents a big advantage in future elections.
Robert Bennett, Independent ASC floor leader, said, "If we gain the majority on the ASC this fall, we intend to put through a series of political reforms which will be more equitable to both Greeks and Independents."
Samuel McCammant, president of Pachacamac, believes "the present system is very fair since all groups, even those in a minority, are guaranteed representation on the ASC"
A Greek sweep of the election would raise their majority to 10-7 and a split would not change the present situation. An Independent sweep would reverse the majority and leave it 9-8.
The outstanding example of this group is Beta Theta Pi, formerly a member of the Independent party. Edward Stolenwerck summarized
Wallace Talks
Dear Editor:
Henry Wallace will be making 15-minute radio speeches in support of the Progressive Party candidates at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8:15 p.m. Friday, and 6:15 p.m. Sunday. I urge that voters and non-voters alike make an effort to hear his statement of the Progressive Party position on national and international policy.
The American tradition of free elections involves a responsibility on the part of voters to be informed on the position taken by the various candidates and to get the information from the source rather than relying solely on information and evaluation from rival candidates and their supporters.
Agnes Lilley,
Graduate School
Back For Winter Residence
Springfield, Ill.—(UP)—The first hint of fall sent 70-year-old Henry Lyman back to jail for six months. For several years he has managed a six-month sentence for vagrancy from Judge William Conway when the weather starts to get nippy. Lyman explains that a "man needs a warm bunk—even if it's in jail" during the winter.
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their position. "We, as a chapter, take no positive stand on the freshman election and our freshmen will not be directed to vote for either party. They may vote as they wish." Other members of this group are Alpha Kappa Lambda, Acacin, and Phi Kappa Tau.
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Past records indicate 68 per cent of the freshmen will vote. If the Greeks get out their usual 90 per cent, the election should follow this pattern; men's A.S.C. representative, Greek 510 to Independent 400; women's A.S.C. representative, Greek 193 to Independent 97; and class officers, Greek 693 to Independent 507.
This may well be the last year the Independent party will be able to show any power in student politics. Two factors which may bring this about are: (1) Enrollment next year should show a considerable drop thus increasing the proportion of Greeks; and (2) increasing number of Greeks due to the influx of new fraternies and sororites.
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