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Tuesday, September 7, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Tax Ruling Important to Kansas
The recent ruling of the California Supreme Court that it is unconstitutional to finance public education with property taxes could be of tremendous importance as means of solving the inequities of our dated taxing procedures.
And the creation of a citizen's tax review board in Kansas to study this situation and other tax problems is certainly a good idea.
At a time when support of education generally throughout the United States is dropping, and when students in higher education are assuming more and more of the costs of operating the institutions they attend we should stay informed of the progress of the California case in the Supreme Court.
Most unfortunately the costs of education are on the rise at a time when colleges and universities were trying to open up their facilities.
in several state institutions in the nation, the students are assuming more than the normal 25 percent of the cost of operations. Several institutions are deeply in debt because of efforts to cut expenses by deferring maintenance. Others are losing good teachers and administrators as a result of low salaries.
Education is in critical condition. If the states cannot meet the costs through additional levees on the property owners, perhaps the new ruling will lead to a more equitable system that will provide additional sources of revenue.
We hope that in finding new sources of taxation, our state leaders don't simply reinstate a low level of public assistance
The tendency of some to discredit high education because of campus disturbances and radical political thought that exists on Kansas campuses is gaining too much attention where the citizenry has always faithfully supported schools.
It must be remembered that education benefits everyone. Whether or not one has a child in school, he has to go to the doctor, buy his medicine, talk with his lawyer consult his accountant, read his newspaper, plant his crops, drive his car, go to his church, so on and so forth. And the fact remains that every individual an indispensable role in all of these everyday activities.
Despite the recent irresponsible actions of the Legislature, Kansas has an admirable history of support for education. We have faith that the people of Kansas have not forgotten that they played an important role in creating great colleges and universities in this state.
And we are confident that pressure will be brought to bear on the Legislature and that the citizen's tax review commission will seek new ways to continue supporting education so that education can continue to benefit Kansas.
—Mike Moffet
Welfare Tragedy: Part II
Editor's Note: This is second of two editorials on welfare.
Often, whether demonstrably overt or not, welfare regulations and laws are discriminatory and prejudicial.
A striking example of the discrimination and strained logic of welfare rules can be seen in action now being considered in this chapter.
The Missouri proposal would halt Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) payments if the father is living at home and unemployed. This could, in many instances, force a father to leave his home, to assure care for his family.
This proposal is particularly cruel in times such as these, when unemployment is soaring past the 6 per cent mark nationally, and greater in some urban areas. Many men would gladly accept work if there were jobs to be had. It is always the least skillful, hence most expendable, that are hardest hit by periods of high unemployment. Completing the circle, the least skilled generally come from low income families, who need welfare the most.
Intensive and deburnizing laws such as the Missouri proposal, and the illegible reverse in Lawrence, where to be buried, were used.
oumit her husband if he has deserted her, or failed to make her alimony payments-leave the majority of welfare and other benefits.
It is tragic that in recent times, welfare is considered by most a negative issue, something that is distasteful and unfair to the honest taxpayer, rather a dignified, humane way of providing for those who have serious needs.
Congress took a step towards codifying and standardizing the morals of state welfare laws by passing a reform bill this summer, that was later forestalled for a year by the President's new economic policies.
The main provision of the reform provides for a minimum family income under the Family Assistance Program (FAP). Welfare reformists have long fought for some type of FAP plan. Congress' plan leaves much to be desired, in residency requirements, for instance, but it is better than no reform at all.
Unfortunately, until the hobolbins of prejudice and human selfishness vanish, the welfare situation will remain bleak and humiliating for many Americans whose only crime is honest need.
Tom Slaughter
Kansan Staff Photo by EDDIE WONG
They would not find me changed from him they knew Only more sure of all I thought was true.
—Into my Own,
Robert Frost
Victim of Verbal Pollution
Kilpatrick Wary of Reds
WASHINGTON—Nearly two months ago, on July 15, Mr. Nixon dropped the first of his summer bombashells. He had received, and he had accepted, the order of a state visit to Communist China.
A number of old-fashioned anti-Commist spokesmen asked a rude question at the time. Speaking generally at the time, Mr. President wanted in for us? Now, in September, we are still asking
Apprehension grows. In this interim period, we have heard from Secretary of State Rogers on the matter of a Chinese attack. They think one thing—it is a soft and squishy one thing. On the quite different matter of relations between the United States and China, there has been nothing at all. The White House has clammed up absolutely.
James J. Kilpatrick is one of several dedicated volunteers who will appear on this page to comment with him on the situation. Mr. Kilpatrick is former editor of the Richmond News Leader and has considerable expertise in presenting the consequences of Washington happenings.
We are left with that foam-bubble word from July 19. Normally, we call it the visit, to "normalize" relations. But in the context of Communist China, the word is an insult. We want lumps in it. Any effort to normalize must imply the preexistent norm. What norm does it assume?
More than 20 years have passed since the United States last maintained "normal" relations with Iran, and the pattern of that warfare
illiance is helpful to us now. We could no more return to those lays than we could return to the times of Sun Yat-sen.
Doubless the President, in speaking of "normalization" of the nationalism of the normal diplomatic relations maintained with other nations around the world. In such relations, Doubless must commercial intercourse; they extend courtesies to each other's friends; they assist their busassers; they undertake civilly to resolve their differences; and they hope mutually to profit from those discussions.
dictatorship has no idea of opening doors—truly opening doors—to American tourists or journalists. Peking's concept of the first successful from the unrelenting flow of insult in recent months. Secretary Rogers, in this dramatically view, is a "lying tiger."
This is in what "normally" means, the prospect of commercial intercourse with Red China are somewhere between nil and zero.
Beyond all this is the elementary question of quid pro quo, the question of what's in it for us it is tingly clear what's in it for you. We should withdraw at once from Vietnam, cease military and economic aid throughout Indochina, keep its fleet out of the China Sea and the Formosa Bay, recognize and support of Taiwan The United States should also get its troops out of South
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
Korea, use its influence to contain Japan, effectively sever relations with the Philippines, and of course cooperate in expelling Nationalist delegates from North Korea. In minor concessions, Peking might concedeled ultimately to send an ambassador our way.
Mr. Nixon's handy yellow tablet, by contrast, lists very little. He would like *Peking*'s help with Hanoa in negotiating the border with Vietnam. Beyond that, one hears little from administration spokesmen but the vague hope that Red China, grateful for the support of national nations, would apply its tremendous resources to peace.
nothing in the bloody record of the Red Chinese hints at any such sweetness and light. Mr. Nixon will not be dealing here with normal antagonism, but with petty betrayals. He will be dealing with a ruthless Oriental regime, and in the Orient, where face is everything, he will be seen as a supplicant seeking favors. We must have an understanding sense of unsease. Mr. Nixon cannot very well travel to Peking bearing gifts; and he cannot come home empaired. so far, he has acted with a nice gracefulness and resilis. Let us pray now for wisdom and wisdom.
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(C) 1971 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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