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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 9,1947
Kansan Comments
Atomic Control And Sen. Taft
When the 80th Congress convened the American people looked hopefully to the Republican majority to supply a clear-thinking leadership based on good judgment for the difficult problem ahead.
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However, as the weeks have pressed this leadership has been sporadic, to say the least. On some issues of importance these congressional leaders have demonstrated a lack of vision and judgment that is disheartening in these critical times.
A recent example of this type of thinking was Senator Taft's denunciation of the Acheson-Lillienthal atomic energy report. Through this report the Ohio senator believes that Russia would get full knowledge of our secret production processes and have a direct say in the management of our installations. On that premise he tries to discredit the proposals advanced in the report.
Thus we would not be revealing anything which is in our power to keep. Instead, we would divulge that knowledge under a system of control and inspection that would safeguard ourselves as well as the rest of the world.
Concerning the first point, the Baruch plan for atomic energy control (based on the Acheson-Lillienthal report) does advocate the revelation of our atomic knowledge. But virtually all authorities agree that other nations could discover that knowledge by themselves in a few years.
Senator Taft's second point is that Russia would have a direct say in our installations related to atomic energy. According to the plan, however, it is the U. N. that would have the power of inspection and supervision.
Surely the senator cannot really believe in a system of control that is one-sided. He seems to imply that we can hold secrets that don't really exist and campaign against atomic development elsewhere in the world while denying other countries similar rights in America.
A public official of Taft's position must be continually conscious of his obligation to the public to clarify issues and supply rational leadership. Negotiations for the world control of atomic energy have reached an impasse in the U. N. security council. Clouding the picture further on this tremendously important matter with such statements as that of Senator Taft is a disservice to the American people.
Crime In Kansas
The recent report on crime by the F. B. I. for 1946 contains some alarming figures that should be of concern to the citizens of Kansas.
The crime rate in Kansas jumped 21 per cent during the past year over the totals for 1945. This figure is almost twice the rate of increase for the nation as a whole.
These facts should in themselves
Here are some of the figures for Kansas. Cases of murder and non-negligent manslaughter increased from 16 in 1945 to 27 in 1946; rape cases increased from 44 to 76; robberies rose from 212 to 230; aggravated assaults numbered 138 in 1946 and 115 in 1945; there were 683 more burglars during the past year than in 1945; larcenies jumped from 5,500 to 6,478; and car thefts increased from 1,320 to 1,328.
call for some serious thinking and action by the people of the state. But there is another factor revealed by the F. B. I. report. The crime increase in rural areas of the country was 14.1 per cent while the urban crime rate jumped only 7.4 per cent. This is contrary to the traditional belief that crime and density of population go hand in hand.
It was expected that there would be an increase in crime following the end of the war. It is not easy to see, however, why the increase in Kansas should be so out of proportion to the increase for the nation as a whole.
It would be foolish to attempt to point out any particular cause for his increase. Present-day social conditions are so complex that an increase in crime is a result of many interdependent factors.
Likewise, there is no one cure all for this condition. The problem must be approached from all possible angles in order to hope for a solution. All social organizations and groups from the family to our state government need to appraise their moral efforts and influence to see wherein they can reduce the causes of crime.
Big Six Needs Aggies
Dear Editor---intended to affect Oklahoma, but to avoid decreasing the opportunities which K. U. Negroes would have to participate in athletics. If it were necessary to sacrifice either a position in national football circles, or a principle that all men are created equal, which would be most important?)
Last week's Daily Kansan carried a front-page article revealing a petition to the governor, signed by 16 K. U. organizations, which would prevent Oklahoma A. and M. from entering the Big Six conference because that school discriminates against Negroes in intercollegiate athletics.
That petition is based on illogical thought. The racial discrimination at Oklahoma A. and M. has not come about in the past decade or two. It is a way of life that goes back to the years before the Civil War. Custom has never been, and cannot be, changed by any type of law or decree. And custom certainly cannot be changed by a university petition from outside the state whose custom is being challenged.
What does K. U. hope to gain by withholding admittance to her conference from a great school like Oklahoma A. and M.? Certainly such action will not have the slightest influence on a long-enduring custom of racial discrimination in Oklahoma. The Big Six has all to gain and nothing to lose by admitting a strong institution like Oklahoma A. and M. to its conference.
If this petition succeeds against the Aggies, then the Big Six has no choice but to dismiss Missouri and Oklahoma universities also, as they are both guilty of the same racial discrimination. K. U. students, let's reconsider what we are doing. For we may end with no conference at all.
College Freshman
(Name withheld by request)
(Editor's note: The action was not
College Freshman
225 Attend Meeting Of Science Academy
About 225 members of the Kansas Academy of Science attended the annual meetings held at the University April 2 and 3.
The annual presidential address was given Thursday morning by the retiring president, Dr. Claude W. Hibbard of the University of Michigan and formerly of the K. U. zoology department. Sectional meetings in botany, chemistry, geology, psychology, zoology, and physics, for junior academy members and science teachers were held Thursday.
The Kansas Entomological society, and the Kansas chapter of the American Association of University Professors also held joint meetings with the academy.
Open houses were held by the State Geological Survey in Lindley hall, and the Zoology department in Dvche museum Wednesday.
Officers elected for the next year are Dr. John C. Peterson, Kansas State college, president; Dr. F. W. Albertson, Fort Hays State Teachers college, president-elect; Dr. Paul Murphy, Pittsburg State Teachers college, vice-president; Dr. F. C. Gates, Kansas State college, secretary; Dr. S. V. Ralin, Fort Hays State Teachers college, treasurer; and Dr. Robert Taft, Kansas University editor.
Dean Paul B. Lawson was elected editor for the Kansas Entomological society.
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Paintings By Green Shown At Spooner
The first local exhibition of the paintings of Robert B. Green, assistant professor of painting and drawing, is now on display at Spooner-Thaver Art Museum.
Professor Green won the Prix de Rome in painting in 1935 and 1936 and was awarded a fellowship for a third year. While at the American academy in Rome, he'won the Gold Medal for his mural painting problems with architects, landscape architects, and sculptors.
During his three and one-half years in the army, Professor Green won a medal for his paintings in an army at exhibition at Fort Benning, Ga. He received degrees in painting from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Yale university.
Anatomists Attend Montreal Meeting
Eight members of the department of anatomy attended the annual meeting of the American Association of Anatomists in Montreal April 3 to 5. Two papers prepared by members of the group were presented.
Faculty members who attended are Dr. Paul Rooge, Dr. Henry Tracy, Dr. William Young, Dr. Homer Latimer, Dr. Alfred Hinshaw, Richard Webster, Wesley Innes, and Robert Corder.
Inter-Versity Fellowship
To Attend Spring Meeting
Plans to participate in the spring conference of the Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship to be held at Lake Shawnee, Saturday, and Monday, were discussed at the opening of the fellowship in Barlow chapel.
Lars A. Almquist, student minister, led a discussion on "What it takes to be a Christian."
Five Students Dismissed From Hospital At Easter
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five tonsillectomies were performed at Watkins Memorial hospital last week. All were dismissed Saturday.
Students operated on were Corwin McIntyre, pharmacy freshman; Wilda Horton, College senior; Twyla Talbert, Fine Arts sophomore; and Howard Fox and Elizabeth A. Ward, College sophomores.
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