UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 14, 1947
PAGE SIX
Kansan Comments
Better Government By Roll Call Voting
The newly-elected members of the All Student council have now taken over the reins of K. U. student government.
We recommend that A.S.C. Bill Number One (A Bill Concerning Legislative Procedure) be amended so that a roll call vote will be required for the passage of all bills, amendments, and resolutions. Those roll call votes should be recorded by name in the minutes of A.S.C. meetings and should be available for publication.
One of their first tasks should be to review existing governing machinery. Past records testify that A.S.C. members have not always acted in the interest of the student body or of prevailing student opinion.
The voting procedure used in the A.S.C. is one of the reasons for this failure. By using the outmoded system of voting by a show of hands it has been easy for members to shift responsibility for past legislation.
This condition can and should be corrected now.
Since there has been no record made by name of voting in the council, members of the student body have not known how their representatives have voted. Neither have the students known when matters have been voted pro or con by a party block to achieve party or group benefits.
It is time the students knew how their representatives and parties are voting on student legislation. It is also time for the members of the council to assume responsibility for the votes they cast.
This is one way to attack the problem of student political apathy. When students really know what their representatives are doing on the council, we may expect an increased interest in student government.
Furthermore, members of the A. S.C. will give more sincere and conscientious consideration to constructive legislation when their opinions, as reflected by their votes, are made public. The student body will then know who to blame and who to commend for future student legislation.
In the past there has been criticism of the council for not doing enough or for enacting faulty bills. This criticism, directed at the entire council, has been unfair to certain members of the council and has shielded other members who were largely responsible.
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Making the roll call vote mandatory on important council actions is a step toward better student government.
Dear Editor--fatal mistake—that of unpreparedness for war. This boner may yet send us into another dark age of oppression and misery when the kings will be dictators and the serfs will be you and me.
An Eagle Writer Replies To Critic
Feeling that my sincerity has been questioned by the College senior who said that I defended "socialistic" New Deal relief agencies in writing for the Eagle, it seems advisable to straighten out the critic's twisted logic before someone gives me a year's subscription to Pravda.
New Deal relief agencies weren't in purpose any more socialistic than the Red Cross or the helping hand. They were for relief to a needy people, formed as such, and not because so-and-so believed in this-or that political doctrine.
They weren't socialistic in practice, because relief was not contingent upon party allegiance. The necessary division between government and private income was maintained.
If it had been otherwise, quite a few republicans would have starved to death. The fact is that some of those receiving relief voted republican.
That's how relief worked in America. Did any White Russians ever get help from Stalin? He killed them. He even traded wheat for capitalist- manufactured machines while millions of good Russian Reds starved.
Governments fail in their purpose because of execution, not solely because of structural form. Extreme left or right wing governments could be fine things if altruistic machines, rather than human beings, were running them. Such has never been the case, nor will it ever be.
Democracy allows for human mistakes and failings by a well-developed system of checks and balances. It can make only one truly
Service Disability Still Compensated
A veterans administration release announces that a veteran suffering from a chronic ailment causing 10 per cent or more disability within one year after being discharged may be eligible for compensation.
It also announces that veterans who become ill and unable to work while receiving readjustment allowances may continue to receive these allowances. Veterans are advised to consult their public employment office for instructions in filing of claims.
Chronic disease causing disability within one year after discharge is presumed to have been incurred in, or have been aggravated by, military or naval service. The disabled veteran is then entitled to compensation if he served 90 days or more, part of it during the war. However, a finding of service-connection may be rebutted by evidence showing previous existence or presence of a new impairment which effects the chronic disease.
Class Of '22 Gives War Memorial Bell
A bell for the war memorial bell tower will be donated as a silver jubilee gift by the class of 1922, it was decided at a meeting Friday night in the Fine room of the Union building.
The class members met to plan for the 25th anniversary celebration to be held during commencement week. Karl Koerper of Kansas City, Mo., is the president of the class. Thirteen members were present from Kansas City, Lawrence, and Topeka.
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Paul Hausman, chairman of the department of shop practice in the School of Engineering and Architecture, has been elected as an honorary charter member of Epsilon Pi Tau, industrial education fraternity being installed at Pittsburgh State Teachers college.
Hausman Elected Member Of Honorary Fraternity
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