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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1947
The Editorial Page
Marxian Fallacy
Karl Marx's appeal to the wage earning classes and a call for organized political action by wage-workers was the basis for his communistic doctrine.
His ideas dealt with a capitalistic society which would proceed naturally to its own destruction. He said that the tendency under capitalism is toward large-scale production and monopoly. As a result of this tendency, wealth becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, so that smaller capitalists are more crowded out and pushed down into the proletarian class. The workers become dissatisfied, there is an increase in the misery, ignorance, and the dependency of the workers, and this aggravates their hostility and discontent.
Said Workers Will Take Over
Throughout the whole process, as described by Marx, there is the element of workers in a capitalistic society rising up to take over the powers of the ruling class.
Marx mentioned nothing about the agricultural classes having an active part in the movement, but said that communism cannot succeed as long as a nation is predominantly populated by the peasantry.
Russia's agricultural classes are largely made up of the peasantry; in fact, most of the country's population is employed in agriculture. Russian Reversal
The Russians are said to be following Marx's doctrine and proclaim him "Communist Manefesto" as their gospel. But their attack on modern society has necessarily taken a different turn to blast Marx's theory of the inability of communism to spread among agricultural classes and nations.
Whereas Marx said the goal to be striven for is equality of wealth, the Russian Communists say equality of social status and cultural opportunity is the goal. The achievement of that goal involves the destruction of a political as well as an economic system.
The Communist state, its spokesmen contend, is unique in that it represents the largest class within the community and is a definite preparation for a future class-less and state-less society. The Communist program is intended to destroy eventually every group that insists on remaining a class.
Masses Indoctrinated
The Communist writers do not deny that it is necessary to have the masses made ready by practical experience, technical knowledge, social outlook, and moral conviction, to participate in the activities of a completely communistic society. Until then, the actual direction of social policy must be in the hands of that minority whose interest and point of view most faithfully represent the long-run interest and point of view of the entire working population.
The policy of "making ready" is being followed in Russian dominated nations today. The masses, including agricultural workers, may become dissatisfied with their present plight and may desire deliverance by remedies offered by Communist leaders.-John Finch.
Someone has suggested this as a solution for basketball game seating: Admit only the students and let the legislators stay home and wish they had voted for a field house.
Student Prosperity?
If demand for student loans is any criterion, campus prosperity is at an all-time high.
A recent Daily Kansan story revealed that student loans funds are going begging. Out of a $25,000 fund, only $400 has been loaned since July 1. Very few applicants have been turned down, which means that there's little demand for University loans.
Some veterans have drawn on a stop-gap aid fund set up to tide them over when the V. A. checks come late. But this is not technically a loan.
What About Living Costs?
Why then this lack of student loan demand? It would seem that a rising cost of living would hit hardest at the student. It's true that wages have also gone up, but the student is like the white collar worker and investor in that his take-home pay, has actually decreased. All of which would further indicate that there should be a line at the bursar's door.
There are three probable answers First, there are 5,500 students on the Hill receiving Veterans administration subsistence. For many of them, $65 or $90 a month is the difference between staying in school and packing the bags for home. It's not much more than a pittance, but it fills out what they earn on the side.
Second, a few students would rather take a private or Red Cross loan. Some would even drop out of school before borrowing from the University.
Third, many students are either living off the "old man" or drawing on war-fattened bank accounts.
Whose Invention?
Dear Editor,
Looks like the old saw about there not being anything new under the sun is correct.
In a recent Daily Kansan there appeared a United Press release datelined Memphis, Tenn., which credited the University of Tennessee with the invention of a "hypospray" which is used, instead of a hypodermic needle, to give hypos.
About ten days previously almost the same article appeared in the Daily Kansan except that that time a university in Texas was given credit.
Who should get the credit? Flip a coin and give it to your favorite university
Gus August,
(Editor's note: With the ubiquitous United Press, who knows what can happen!)
College junior.
'Name Withheld' Dear Editor,
Every day you run letters to the editor, some praising, others critical of various campus events and authorities. This letter is more to the writers of other letters to the editor than to you.
letter that uninformative phrase, "name withheld by request." It's obvious that it is a means of protection for some letter writers who might suffer if their names were published.
Public Postcard
I don't like to see at the end of a that informative phrase.
To Leonard Snyder, Reporting II Student
You are to be commended for your initiative in coneving and carrying out your plan for an Armistice day ceremony on the campus.
Had you not taken action with University authorities, Armistice day might have gone unrecognized University Dolly X
I agree that you should offer that protection to your letter writers.
But what danger lay in the letter concerning the jazz concert, written by an anonymous graduate student? Was the fine arts student liable to be expelled from the University if he signed his short letter concerning the post office line?
I admire the fortright stand of Ernest Schlachter, College junior who complained about unfair methods of physics examinations. I was glad to see Arthur Toch back up his complaint of cafeteria costs with his name.
University Daily Kansan
I suggest that writers strengthen their letters with their signatures.
Robert E. Dellinger
College Senior
University
(Name Published by Request.)
(Editor's note: We agree with Mr. Dellinger that a letter is weakened when the writer's name is withheld. Some letter writers have told us they are afraid of being accused of publicity seeking. Sometimes they have close friends connected with the object of their criticism.
Whether names are published or not, the letters must be signed. We still welcome all kinds of letters and will publish them according to their campus interest and consequence.)
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A man and a woman marry, set up housekeeping, and raise a family. Both are managers.
But, in America, management probably has had its most scientific application in business.
Management occurs at all levels in government, charity, education, lodge. It is the plumber with his helper, the elevator starter, the superintendent of schools, the master of the grange.
Management is as old as the hills. There is nothing complicated about it at all. It is a natural function of human society.
WHAT IS MANAGEMENT?
They manage as they buy a home, educate the children, plant a garden, pick out a car, a refrigerator, a piano. A hundred decisions a day around the house are management decisions.
Business management, even before World War I, helped build up a volume of production surpassing that of any other nation. In World War II, the results were even more spectacular. America outproduced all other countries combined.
By 1941, the value of an hour of work in terms of the staple necessities of life, bread and butter, had so been raised that an American could buy from 2 to 8 times as much as a man in Europe. This didn't just happen.
Neither the men and women in industry nor the money in industry can be effective without good management. Nothing else is so important to the workers' welfare, the investors' welfare or the public welfare.
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