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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Round Table Discussion
Kansan Comments...
All's Fair In Love, War, And The Student-Faculty Conference
"If to do were easy as to know what to do
"If to do were easy as to know what to d Then chapels would be churches And poor men's cottages palaces make."
—Portia in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."
The Mortar Board-Sachem student-faculty conference Saturday will proceed on the theory that "If to do were easy as to know what to do, and if to know what to do were as easy as to do, this conference would not be necessary."
Perhaps the best thing about these annual conferences is that responsible, thinking representatives of the student body, faculty members, the chancellor, and members of the Board of Regents are given an opportunity to be completely frank in their criticism of each other. Even within one of these groups persons may differ vigorously, and minority views of organized plans may be heard by the whole conference, even though they are overruled. One courageous student last year believed in her argument enough to bring it to the attention of the group, in spite of her committee's attitude to the contrary.
--changes in courses to make them more practical, as concentration on social and economic background in foreign language courses. Some recommended projects coming from any such conference as this are too big to be worked out even within a year; some ideas may die for lack of proper promotion or attention by groups which should be concerned with them.
This conference, in contrast to the one last year, intends to offer no specific plans for solving the problems discussed. It will be less formal than the previous one, aiming to conclude from the many views offered what seems to be the basic nature of the problems. Last year student committees worked out concrete programs for improvement and presented them to the conference, only to find that many of their proposals had been or were being tried. The sponsors feel that more might be accomplished in the long run if this discussion attempted only to get a broad picture of the total situation, leaving fields open for action by qualified persons or groups.
Some of last year's proposals have not been carried out. They include an all-university job placement bureau; an organization having equal representation from the All-Student council and the faculty senate for emergency questions; and specific
The discussion will be limited to campus problems. While we are aware that these are trivial compared with world affairs, say the sponsors, we want to spend the time on things within our scope of action. Some concrete questions to be aired will be ways to give students more voice in University affairs; Union cafeteria problems; the honor system; better teaching staffs for the emergency situation; curriculum changes in human relations courses and language requirements.
This conference is the kick-off to a better University, but it will have little value unless someone else carries the ball. Twenty faculty members and 50 students haven't the power nor the time to be sure their wishes are carried out by the administration and the student body. This is the job of a student government or a faculty organization which takes its duty seriously and has the backing of the body it represents. It's easy to criticize University rules and practices, but it takes honest thinking, hard work, unselfishness and courage to change them. Can you do it?
He Didn't Say It
Dear Editor---hone 138
Belatedly we write you regarding the editorial which appeared in the University Daily Kansan on April 26, 1946. Although similar editorials appeared throughout the country, we have not taken the trouble to answer each one; but inasmuch as this appears to be a university paper, we thought it might be worth while to combat this perfectly futil lie which was first published in the Nation and later given wide publicity by Walter Winchell.
We could send you a copy of the letter which we sent Walter Winchell, but this would do no good, as it did no good in his case. Suffice it to say that there is not a word of truth in any part of the report made in Nation magazine by Tris Coffin.
Tris Coffin, a young reporter on C. B. S. in Wahsington, was personally interviewed and he admitted to the writer that, first, he did not get his information from a senator or congressman; second, he did not know H. R. "Cotton" Northup; third, he had never seen H. R. "Cotton" Northup; and fourth, his information came from a "protected" source on Capitol hill.
The name "Northup" spelt without an "R" indicates that he belongs to the Northup families that fought with the Continental army against the British during the Revolution. All of the Northrup families fought with the British except those who changed their names.
With such a background, does it appear likely that Cotton Northwick would have made the alleged statement? He was not even in contact with a congressman during the period to which the Nation's report referred.
The reference to the one to five million dollars is, of course, a pure myth. The entire "war chest" of the National Retail Lumber Dealers association was something less than $10,000, as opposed to $12,500,000 spent by OPA alone in rebuttal.
Paul W. Watson
Public Relations Director
National Retail Lumber Dealers Association
Association
(Editor's note: The Daily Kansan editorial referred to a reply by Cotton Northrup, asked not to block veterans housing for selfish interests, that "They weren't fighting for me."
The one to five million dollars mentioned was credited by the Daily Kansan to "a group of lobbyists" fighting the Wyatt Housing program. )
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1947
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Kansas City...-(UP)—Don C. Me Combs, mayor of Kansas City the past 20 years, announced shortly before noon today that he would not seek reelection to that office in the forthcoming city electoin.
The world's most pressing single problem is starvation, Dr. Paul R. Cannon, head of the University of Chicago pathology department, told medical students Wednesday. Dr. Cannon was filling the 14th annual Porter lecturehips in medicine.
The diets of most people have so little protein that energy is lacking. Dr. Cannon said.
Kansas City Tuesday rejected the city-manager plan of government by a two-to-one vote.
"There is far more starvation in the United States than people realize." Dr. Cannon emphasized in criticizing food habits. "People are unknowingly starving themselves by eating too much over-refined white flour and cereals."
Cannon Criticizes Diet Deficiency In Protein
Vaccination against disease is not effective among starving people because of the lack of protein.
"We throw away the most important parts of our grains, or feed them to livestock, and eat what is left," the speaker said.
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