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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
PAGE SIX
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1947
The Editorial Page
From The Daily Kansan Christmas Tree
Merry Christmas, everybody. To every student and faculty members the University Daily Kansan extends hearty good wishes for an enjoyable 16 days of glorious vacation. Most of you will be hitting the road this afternoon, so before you get away, we'd like to make a few special presentations from the Daily Kansan Christmas tree. Here they are.
To Band Director Wiley—A dozen chaperons for that Miami trip.
To Dean of Women Habein—Make it two dozen.
To Chancellor Malott-A crystal ball which will tell when to get on the "band" wagon.
To Deam of the College Lawson-
An antidote to "baldheaded" jokes
To the physics department—Some new grading pencils.
To John Ise—Rose colored glasses.
To Watson library—Candles.
To Basketball Coach "Phog" Allen—Many repetitions of the Colorado game with those "sophomores."
To the journalism faculty—A long long vacation.
To Director of Athletics Quigley—A newbook of pronouns.
Lasting Memorial
Once there was an Egyptian pharaoh named Cheops. In order to preserve his name for posterity, his subjects built for him a great stone memorial, the largest in the world. His name was to be remembered throughout the ages—but it wasn't. His memorial was known only as the Great Pyramid, and Cheops was forgotten.
The latest persons to recognize the lasting qualities of a scholarship or annual award are Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stauffer, Topeka, who re-
The University has its "Cheops" memorials and it has its "Nobel" memorials. Among the latter type are the many scholarships and awards given to worthy students each year. The William Allen White School of Journalism has an annual award established in memory of Henry Schott, who died in 1926 after a career in journalism, including 14 years on the Kansas City Star.
Centuries later another man of wealth decided on a different type of memorial. He built no monument, but bequeated money to recognize outstanding works of man each year. He was Alfred Nobel, and his name still lives.
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cently donated $5,000 to set up an annual journalism award. Though Mr. Stauffer may not have intended the gift as a future memorial, he will be remembered each year when the prize is awarded.
Like Alfred Nobel, Mr. Stauffer has recognized that annual awards set up from a trust fund endure many years. Unlike the tomb of Cheops, scholarships and grants have the attributes of a good memorial—utility and lasting identity.
No Shoving, Please
America has set for itself a monumental task. Our country has a thumb in every pie and is furnishing the ingredients for most of them. Our avowed goal is a democratic, peace loving, unified world. Our big error is that we are trying to do this by imposing our methods and systems upon foreign structures. It can't be done.
Roots Grow Slowly
Human institutions have come into being by a process of historical evolution. Americans have little patience with an abstraction like historical evolution. We want to "get on with things." The result is that our overseas roots aren't deep.
In Germany we are trying to set into democratic paths the feet of a people who have never experienced the responsibility of a democratic voting public. The result is confusion and resentment on both sides. We can't understand why the Germans don't snap up a bargain when they see one; and the Germans, who have always depended upon their government for the solution, are bogged down in political apathy. Japanese Only Emulate
Japan presents a different picture. The "Sons of Heaven" are busily imitating the political philosophy of the West just as they have imitated everything else. They copied our machines and production methods but they never really understood them. They are doing much the same thing with our philosophy and our government. They don't understand hem, either.
Democracies of which we approve are all the result of an inner growth. That they were influenced by outside powers goes without saying. The best we can do in Japan and ermine is to give them a nudge in the direction we want them to go. The Germans and Japanese will have to make up their minds about what they really want. America can't do it for them.—W. C. Von Maurer.
All Dressed Up
feeling, especially if you haven't been away for a long time.
Did you ever get all dressed up with no place to go? It's an empty
Many of the 59 foreign students in the University will spend Christmas in the dressed-up holiday atmosphere of Lawrence but with no place to go unless you help. Willis Tompkins, assistant dean of men, said Wednesday that some foreign students are still planning to spend Christmas alone.
An invitation from you for a holiday visit, even if only for Christmas day, might keep someone and perhaps you from spending a lonely Christmas.
Don't Be A Sucker
When you join the motorcade tomorrow or Saturday and your passengers start clamoring for a quick trip home, just remember that hospitals and morgues are dreary places to spend Christmas.
The expression about a sucker being born every minute is old and grey, but it still applies to auto drivers. Like the poker-playing sucker for an inside straight, there's the auto driving sucker for a blind inside curve. Like the baseball sucker for a fast one over the outside, there's the motorist sucker for a fast, looping turn on ice pavements.
If you are one of the many hundreds of auto drivers on the campus, take a glance at the speedometer once in a while. It might surprise you.
Retrieved From Our Janitor-
A new computer at the Aberdeen proving ground, Aberdeen, Md., is called a "mathematical brain" and does 10,000 man hours of actual work in two hours. That's fine for the engineers and statisticians, but we're looking for a "computer" of themes, term papers, and essay exams.
Disgusted, disgruntled, and disaffiliated, John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers may have pulled out of the A. F. of L. to avoid receiving a "Dear John" letter from William Green.
Governor Frank Carlson made a perfect catch of the football marked "K. U. Band Orange Bowl Trip" when University officials decided to let someone else perform the quarterbacking duties.
Attention, men. We may now step inside the door of women's organized houses before and after the regular week-day calling hours, 4 to 8 p. m., but must wait in the hall. Reason for this sudden overwhelming show of hospitality must be that the women tired of the male reluctance to linger on cold porches.
Kansan Correspondents
Military Justice
Dear Editor.
The editorial, "Army's Military Injustice," published in Monday's Daily Kansan and signed by John Finch reflects so graphically some popular misconceptions of army courts-martial that it requires an informed rebuttal.
Military courts are in most cases more just and impartial than comparable civilian courts. The rights and privileges of the accused are more jealously guarded. The accused has the right of choice of council, the right to challenge any or all members of the court for reason and one challenge without cause, the right to advice on all his rights from the prosecutor even before the investigation of charges is begun, and the right to object to any evidence or testimony.
CO Cannot Dictate Proceaure
While all members of the court and the attorneys are appointed by commanding officers, neither their handling of the case nor their findings are subject to his censure. Few commanders would risk reprimand from higher headquarters by allowing slovenly conduct of court procedures.
I served as defense counsel on several army courts-martial, so I know whereof I speak. The findings in two cases were contrary to the colonel's wishes, but he had to accept them. As in American civil law, wide legal experience is not deemed necessary to justice and impartiality.
I do not wish to defend the army courts-martial system as perfect, but wish to point out that most widely-expressed objections to it are based on ignorance and lack of proper investigation. A few rotten apples should not condemn the whole orchard.
Committee Recommended Changes A committee was organized in the fall of 1945 to investigate the whole field of military justice and morale,
and they recommended several changes, most of which are being incorporated into the system.
The greatest need is for instruction of all troops, officers and enlisted, in their rights and obligations under military law. Also, the lower courts, special and summary, should be given jurisdiction over minor offenses by officers. And provision should be made for punishment of officers by reduction in grade. The exemption of officers from all but serious court action results in many abuses of the present system.
Jack N. Butts,
Junior, Engineering Physics
UNESCO Board
Dear Editor.
In your story Monday regarding the election of Chancellor Deane W. Malotto to the Kansas executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural organization you failed to mention another Lawrence person, Mrs. E. M. Wallace, who was chosen for this group of 15.
A number of your readers, both students and faculty members, know Mrs. Wallace as president of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy. The fact that she is a Negro would seem to speak well for the declared U. N. E. S. C. O. aim of "international peace and the common welfare of mankind."
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