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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1943
Official Publication of the Summer Session
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Editor ... Dale Robinson
Business Mgr. ... Betty Lotk Perkins
An Open Letter To The President
This message is a request to you one of the greatest and most powerful men ever to hold the office of President of the United States of America, not to allow leaders of the Democratic party to consider you for the candidacy for the presidency for the fourth time.
Readily, I admit that you have done a marvelous job of pulling the nation out of the depths of a gloomy depression, and guiding it through the storm-tossed days of a super-growth induced by participation in a super-war.
(Editor's note: The following editorial is not intended to express the views of the Kansan, since the paper is non-political. The article is printed simply because it presents one side of a question which is destined to become more and more important. If any University member wishes to take an opposite view, the Kansan will publish his answer, if considered worthy.)
To the President:
Most of this direction unfortunately has been made possible by increased powers delegated to the executive branch of the federal government. Great power, centrally located, makes for smooth and efficient government, and smooth and efficient government is necessary in any time of stress, especially in time of war. A powerful administrative machine has been built under your supervision, so powerful, in fact, that the government of this nation after the war, as pictured by an active imagination could be either bureaucratic or autonomic.
Your desire to go down in history as the United States' greatest president has been a driving power behind almost all your administrative acts. This desire has led you to decisive action, and has been a good thing for the nation. Even your arbitration shows quick, strong decisions. Decisive and aggressive leadership has won you both friends and enemies. Your impressive and expressive oratory relates your beliefs and desires to the nation, and leads public opinion by the hand in the direction and to the conclusion you wish. You have established agencies to dispose, quickly and efficiently, of official business.
What you have done and caused to be done on the whole has been good and necessary for the welfare
of the nation. But authoritative decisions by a single administrator and imperative executive orders by small compact governmental bureaues or commissions is not the democratic American system of government. The American system, though slow and cumbersome, and full of faults and self-contradictions, has been proved egestive in ordinary peaceful times.
The system provides for the sharing in government by three separate branches of government, each eliminating the possibility of one of the others gaining too much power and forcing on the people an unwanted, unrepresentative, unfair system of government.
A distinctive characteristic of your administration has been the placing of powers in the hands of individuals and small groups responsible to yourself. Such a concentration of power is not an equitable system of government for ordinary. This concentration of power is so characteristic of your administration that my own fear is that the government will become centralized and bureaucratic if you remain in the presidency for a fourth term.-F.C.A.
"Doc" Wheeler of the psychology department gets more exercise walking and wrestling with the furniture during one of his lectures, than do the men enrolled in Commando.
An Editor's Idle Thoughts
The wind makes for gregariousness on the Hill. Men congregate to watch the skirts fly, and it takes at least six persons gathered 'round to light one cigarette. Best way to do the latter is to light one and ignite all the others from it.
The high cost of certain articles (not to mention shortages and Kansas prohibition) brings to mind a paraphrase of the cockroach sage in Don Marquis' "Archy and Mehitabel." Said he: "Eat, drink, and be maudlin, for tomorrow we may be dry."
Speaking of the wind, out in western Kansas the fellows course because it blows dirt in their eyes at the same time.
At the-moment, what this country needs is a good five-cent pair of scissors for cutting red tape.
A man who tries to dodge the draft by marrying and having a family certainly jumps from the frying pan into the fire.
Hills are mountains in the East; ponds are lakes in Kansas; and sailors constitute the armed services in Lawrence.
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Be it enacted by the Associated Students of the University of Kansas
BILL NO. II
A BILL COORDINATES LEGISLA-
TIVE PROCEDURE
See. 1. That all bills derived from Article 4 and Article 5, sections 1 and 4 of the Constitution of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas shall have a number, a title, and an enacting clause.
Sec. 4. That the enacting clause shall be as follows: "Be it enacted by the Associated Students of the University of Kansas:"
Sec. 3. That the title of every bill shall be concise and shall contain the substance of the matter with which the bill is concerned.
Sec. 2. That all bills presented to the secretary of the All-Student Council as hereinafter provided, shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with the number one (1).
Sec. 5. That every bill shall be divided into sections which shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with the number 1 (1). If subdivisions of a section are necessary, they shall be designated by the letters of the alphabet, in order, beginning with the letter (a).
Sec. 6. That all bills shall be pserved to the secretary of the All-Student Council in a regular meeting of that body, at which time the Secretary shall assign a number to each and read in full.
Sec. 7. That at each meeting of the All-Student Council, all bills introduced during the preceding meeting as prescribed in Section 6 above shall be read by title by the Secretary, after which the Secretary shall read each bill in full, pausing after each section of such bill to allow discussion of the section and a vote on the question of the adoption of the section as written, or upon its amendment and adoption as amended, after which reading the bill shall be read in full as amended, and the question put on its adoption as a whole, and that such questions shall be determined by a majority of the members present.
Sec. 8. That after the passage of any bill, it shall be signed by the President and attested by the Secretary, who shall enter a record of its final passage on the minute book.
Sec. 9. That the Secretary shall cause to be typewritten a full and complete copy of each bill, and shall affix such copy to a loose-leaf journal of bills.
Sec. 10. That the Secretary shall deliver a typewritten copy of each bill passed as provided in Section 8 or in Section 18 of this Bill to the University Daily Kansan, and shall cause such bill to appear in the University Daily Kansan not later than three days after the passage of such bill. If no issue of the University Daily Kansan is published within three days after passage of such bill the Secretary shall cause such bill to appear in the next issue of the University Daily Kansan following the date of its passage.
Sec. 11. That if no petition for referendum, as prescribed in Section 12 below, shall have been received by the Secretary of the All-Student Council, the bill shall, at
the next regular meeting of the All-Student Council after its passage, be declared a law and in full force and effect.
Sec. 12. That the Secretary of the Council, upon receipt of a petition signed by $25\%$ or more of the members of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas, which requests that such bill, or any bill whether or not already in full force and effect, or any sections or subsections of such bill, vote of all the members of the associated Students of the University of Kansas, shall announce such fact to the All-Student Council.
Sec. 13. That the All-Student Council, after receiving notice from the Secretary that $25\%$ or more of the members of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas desire that a certain bill, or certain sections thereof, be submitted to popular vote, as in Section 12 above, shall prescribe a time and manner for such voting by the members of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas, provided that such time of voting shall not be more than three weeks after receipt of such petition for referendum by the Secretary.
Sec. 14. That if a majority of the members of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas vote against any bill of the All-Student Council or any section or sub-section of such bill, such bill, or section or subsection shall no longer be considered a law in full force and effect, and no bill will incur provisions which were invalidated in such referendum vote shall be introduced in the All-Student Council during the same session in which the referendum vote took place.
Sec. 15. That all bills, or sections or subsections thereof which have been passed by the All-Student Council but which have not gone into full force and effect due to receipt by the Secretary of a referendum petition as prescribed in Section 12 above, and which are not voted on, may be voted on as described in Section 14 above, shall immediately upon the close of such voting be considered laws in full force and effect.
Sec. 16. That the Secretary, upon receipt of a petition signed by $25\%$ or more of the members of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas, which petition indicates that such members propose a bill and desire that it become law in full force and effect, shall present such proposed bill as a new bill in the next regular meeting of the All-Student Council, as prescribed in Section 6 of the Bill.
Sec. 17. That if such bill is not passed, without amendment, by the All-Student Council within fifteen days after its first reading by the Secretary, it shall be referred to a vote of the members of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas, at a time and in a manner provided for by the All-Student Council, provided, that the time of such vote shall be not later than thirty days after the first reading of the proposed bill by the Secretary, and provided further, that notice of such vote shall appear in
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Sec. 18. That, if a majority of the members of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas vote in favor of such a bill, it shall immediately, upon the close of the voting, be declared a law in full force and effect which the president of the University Daily Kansas and filed in the journal of bills ascribed in other sections of this Bill.
Sec. 19. That all general petitions memorializing the All-Student Council to take a certain action, or refrain from taking certain action, not included specifically above, shall be addressed to the All-Student Council and shall be delivered to the Secretary at least two days before the regular meeting at which it is desired that they be presented.
Sec. 20. That all petitions seeking to recall the President, Vice-President, Secretary or Treasurer of the All-Student Council shall be signed by not less than $25\%$ of all the qualified voters of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas, and that all petitions seeking to recall any member of the All-Student Council other than those specified shall be signed by not less than $25\%$ of all persons qualified to vote for said member at the time the petition is signed. Said petition shall be in substantially the following form:
"To the President and Members of the All-Student Council: We, the undersigned, qualified electors of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas, hereby respectfully petition that an election be held as provided in the Constitution and laws of the All-Student Council to fill the office of ___ on the All-Student Council now held by ___
Sec. 23. That a special meeting of the All-Student Council may be made by the Student or by the Secretary or by any 5 members of the Student Council.
Sec. 24. That a quorum of the All-Student Council which can transact business shall be a majority of the entire membership of the All-Student Council.
Student Council now held by ___ "
Sec. 21. That the rules contained in Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the All-Student Council in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the rules of order or by-laws of the All-Student Council.
Sec. 22 That the All-Student Council shall meet regularly every two weeks during the school year, the time and place to be specified by resolution by the All-Student Council.
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Q. Should I quit my old job as soon as I am sworn in?
A. No. Do not resign until you are ordered to training school.
Q. Must all WAVES and SPARS start as Apprentice Seamen?
A. Yes. But after successfully completing the indoctrination and training period, you are automatically promoted to a higher rating. From then on, your promotion depends on your ability and length of service.
Q. May I later change the type of work I am doing?
A. Yes. You may submit a request to your Commanding Officer to be forwarded for consideration.
Q. Do I pay my own way to training school?
A. No. Your transportation is paid by the Navy.