UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE SIX APRIL 14, 1947 Kansan Comments Proper Training For Abnormal According to Dr. John J. Lee, dean of the graduate school of Wayne University, who spoke to the group, Kansas has a long way to go to meet the needs of its handicapped children. He said that the state should have expanded facilities and a broader educational program for these abnormal children. It would be incorrect and unfair to imply that all crimes are committed by persons who are mentally or physically abnormal or that all such persons have criminal inclinations. A great many are able to successfully adjust themselves to society. A conference of 150 Kansas educators at Topeka last week deserves the attention of Kansans. The group met at the request of the Kansas department of public instruction to study the needs of exceptional children in the state. This conference has special significance in relation to the recent F. B. I. crime report (reviewed in this column April 9). The F. B. I. disclosed that there had been a 21 per cent increase in crime during the past year in Kansas. Dr. Homer B. Reed of Fort Hays State College estimates that there are approximately 68,000 school children in Kansas whose physical or mental makeup places them above or below normal. The high-tension nature of our complex present-day life is a strain on even the normal individual. Its effect on those who are physically or mentally handicapped may often be tragic. Improper adjustment of such persons to society has in some cases resulted in the development of persecution complexes and other psychic conditions that may often lead them on a path of crime. society. But is society doing its full share in assisting these persons to become normal, self-supporting and content individuals? Dr. Reed pointed out to the conference at Topeka that "From a business standpoint it is better to train children to become independent than it is to allow them to become more expensive by letting them lapse into indigence or crime." Kansans should rightly be concerned over the current crime rate. Expanded educational and adjustment facilities for the exceptional children in the state has its proper place in any campaign to reduce the causes of crime. The one great change that has come is the explosion of the possibility of setting up any rules at all for unlimited mass murder. The last sorry hopes were buried beneath the radioactive rubble of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What the world needs, said Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, is a new set of rules for waging war; "it is perfectly obvious these rules are obsolete as they stand." Presumably he was serious. Certainly, if he was, he stood ankle-deep in Winnie the Pooh fantasy. New War Rules All that Mr. Jackson said about the changes that have occurred since last the rules of warfare were amended in 1929 is quite true. But he did not say nearly enough. Talk of "civilized war" never has made sense, anyway; the two terms contradict each other. But now there cannot be even a pretense that battle might be conducted with fine chivalric distinctions between this method or that. Any war will have to be, as the last one was, a total war, and that means entire nations are put on the front firing line, to kill or be killed. When survival is at stake, no one can ever again be bothered to consult some neat Hoyle on Battle; any means—blockade or bombardment, war by bacteria or war by A-bomb—will find its justification in the sheer need for existence. It is not war's rules that are obsolete. It is war itself—or else, as Norman Cousins long since suggested modern man is obsolete. Those are the alternatives. St. Louis Star-Times Dear Editor--- Student Employers Deserve Thanks It is time for the unselfish parttime employer of K. U.'s working students to take a bow. He is the one that makes college educations possible for veterans and non-veterans alike by supplementing that monthly check or the allowance from home with a tidy wage for work students can fit in between classes. Probably no other school in the country can boast as high a student wage scale as the University's. Fifty to 75 cents an hour will buy groceries and other necessities that many students could otherwise ill-afford. In some cases employers have had to go far out of their way to arrange work schedules for students who have irregular class hours. They have had to take special pains to train student workers who may be only on the job for a few weeks. Some of the more fortunate students have been given an opportunity to learn a trade which they may find useful in later life. In many cases there is another advantage to using this student labor—they can lighten the load on badly overworked full-time employees. These employers well deserve a vote of thanks for their service to University students. College Junior (Name withheld by request) Unrest in India—unrest in China—unrest in the Balkans—unrest in South America—no wonder this is such a tired old world. The University Daily Kansan Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn. and National Journal Association, Associated Collegiate Press, Represented by the National Advertising Services Center Ave. New York City, Verks Clyw Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Managing Editor Marcella Stewart Editor in Chief LeMoyne Frederick Asst. Man. Editor Martha Jewett Asst. Man. Editor Willard W. Abbey Asst. City Editor Wallace W. Abbey Asst. City Editor Shirley E. Bales Asst. City Editor Alan J. Stewart Telephone Eliseon West Editor Eliseon West Business Manager Bob Bonehrake Advertising Manager Alma Wuthnow Circulation Manager John Beach LeVance Keeve Nats. Admin. Manager Kenneth White Promotion Manager Mel Adams French Club To See Movies At Next Meeting Movie reels of French countryside scenes will be shown to the Cercle Francais at the club's next meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The films will be shown in Fraser projection room. Delicious JUICY STEAKS Our Specialty Across from BILL'S GRILL 1109 Mass. Court House Phone 2054 Copyright 1947, LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO.