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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1948
The Editorial Page
The Marshall Plan—Too Late
When the peasants and factory workers of Italy go to the polls April 18, they are going to be thinking about how they can best benefit themselves when they cast their ballots. That seems to be a common reality of voters everywhere. Italian Communists have promised the peasants a re-division of the land. Other workers have been told that they will share in the management of the factories. These are tangible, luring rewards. The peasant can see the piece of land he covets. The factory worker can put his hand upon the very improvements he would like to make in the factory where he works. The non-Communists have no such concrete assurances of a personal bonanza for those who would vote for them.
The non-Communists in Italy must depend upon appropriations from the United States in the form of the Marshall plan as a basis of assurance that the voter will have his reward. At most this promise is a vague and illusory one. To the average Italian the Marshall plan is only a sheaf of papers being debated in the American congress. The Marshall plan can do little at this stage to determine the course of the Italian elections. It is too late for that.
Dear Editor Our Intellectuals
Dear Editor,
It is certainly reassuring that we have in our midst a group of understanding young "intellectuals" who are so well prepared to give us the benefit of their various experiences, derived almost totally from living, rather than from reading. In the columns of The Dove, our careful reader will find facts void of the passion, intuitive rumblings, and the phlegmatic maunderings of the all too prevalent, conservative press. Those well-phrased Dove aphorisms leveled at the school of "Luce Thinking" are indicative of a restive spirit which evinces the thinking, groping mind. Each staff writer is in a literary (and literal) sense a poor man's Oscar Wilde.
Yes, dear reader of The Dove, there are many, many horrors which we as American citizens have been spared, yet are we sufficiently intelligent to grasp the meaning of these past, present, and future perils welling out from the forces of reaction? Can we escape the memories of the last great conflict in which "the aliens, the radicals, the inferior races, and the rest of the people" united to win victory?
Under the unfortunate auspices of the University administration (of late suspected of a neo-fascistic-Thomistic complex) we have been exposed to the corrupt trappings of Hapsburgian monarchy at its purplest; we have jumped overboard for the sophisticated bon mots of a decadent Greek prince. And bear in mind, dear reader, that there is nothing so unintellectual and grossly uninformed as a Balkan despot, who fattened by adult American politicians, takes delight in the obliteration of free totalitarian (I mean in the democratic sense) thinkers. Note that we must emphasize the word "thinking"—and emphatically, I suppose—because we must think. Yes, we must think constantly to prevent our being absorbed by the non-intellectuals. And our critics
are forever non-intellectuals. They are, to use the language of the learned, mere freshmen, so balefully oblivious of the refined glow of our sophomoric pattern.
M. C. Slough
M. C. Straughan Assistant Professor of Law
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Vote Amendments For Pi Tau Sigma
Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, recently appointed committee members and voted on amendments to their national constitution.
The fraternity is considering a memorial for the late Prof. Ellsworth S. Gray, former national secretary-treasurer of Pi Tau Sigma.
More advanced work is responsible for the division. Work will include folded scales, adjustment of the slide rule, and complex problems.
Committees appointed were; Morris E. Borene, Robert H. Harris, William R. Nation, and Grady L. Handle, by-laws; Marion L. Burgert, historian.
Edison E. Mincheff, John P. Singer,
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