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Friday, November 3, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Kansan Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
Paula Martin, Ablene sophomore, seems a bit nervous as she donates blood for the first time. The Bloodmobile, which has been on campus since Tuesday, will be
open from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., today in the Lewis Hall cafeteria. The goal of the drive is to collect 600 pints. The final number will not be known until after the close of the hospital visit. If no doctors in the drive, over 500 pints of blood had been collected by Wednesday.
Kansas Veep Choice Of Prohibition Party
Voters in several states will find the name of a Kansasan on the ballot for Vice President of the Senate.
By HARRY WILSON
Kansan Staff Writer
The Kansan is Marshall E. Uncapher of Hutchinson, vice presidential candidate of the Prohibition party. His name will not be on the ballot in all states, but it will be listed in Kansas and about 15 others, according to Uncapher.
The Prohibition party's presidential candidate is E. Harold Munn of Hillsdale, Mich., who has participated in two other presidential campaigns.
The party has candidates running in Kansas for U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, insurance commissioner, and the state senate. There are 13 Prohibition party candidates on the ballot in Kansas, which is more than are running in most states.
It's awfully hard to get on the ballot in some states. That's because of the formation of the party, partly.
He said that in Georgia a person needed a petition carrying about 67,000 signatures to be admitted.
Uncipher said that in Kansas, where the Prohibition party was traditionally stronger than it was in other states, party candidates were automatically placed on the ballot.
"We're getting more experience and we're able to do more things." Uncapher said. "We're beginning to get more people into the party."
The Prohibition party derives its name from its opinions on the use of alcohol. The Kansas party's 1972 platform opposes legalization and licensing of the production and sale of alcoholic drinks as a source of government revenue.
The party platform states that liquor revenue is a tremendously expensive loss item, and that if the liquor business were cut in Kansas, taxes would be reduced greatly.
The party has worked with the United Dry Forces and the Women's Christian Temperance Union in its battle against alcohol, Uncabern said.
"We believe our influence was the deciding factor in the liquor by the drink manufacturer," referring to the referendum in which Kansan voted to keep liquor by the drink illegal.
The 1972 Prohibition platform calls the law permitting consumption of liquor in private clubs "a miserable failure", and says the law has, in effect, been a liquor by the drink law and, therefore, is unconstitutional.
Other issues covered in the platform include:
- Reduction of state government expenses by the assignment of top priorities to other agencies.
- Re-appraisal of the welfare system and administration of it so 'the undeserving will be excluded and the deserving treated more equitably and justly.'
- Enforcement of gambling laws: "We believe gambling violates the quality of character we value, and we promote it and those who are taken in by it. The state, therefore, should protect its unsuspecting citizens, especially the young, who propose to profit at their expense."
—Repeal of liberalized abortion laws: "A government that outlawts capital punishment as cruel and unusual punishment is more likely to kill babies and innocent babies. Legalizing abortion endorses the taking of innocent lives in a most cruel and unnatural way. We oppose it."
—Opposition to constitutional changes "which would take from the people the power to elect their state officials and give them to the governor to appoint those officials."
The platform commends Atty. Gen. Vern Miller for his enforcement of drug and prison policies.
"We oppose the weakening of the law against the possession and use of any hard drugs and also marijuana," the platform says. "We propose that the possession, use the same alcohol be brought under the same ban as that on other hard and addictive drugs."
The national Prohibition party was formed in 1869. Abolition of liquor trade was its goal. It is the third oldest surviving political party in the United States.
In 1872, the party's first presidential candidate received 5,600 votes out of the 6.5 million cast. The party reached its peak in 1898, when it then candidate received 250,000 votes.
The party lost strength after 1888 during the rise of Populism.
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Editor's Note; This is the last article in a series examining the effects on Lawrence and Kansas City adoption agencies of a lower birth rate in the United States.
By MARGE LEVIT
Kansan Staff Writer
Fewer babies are being born, although many women in the potential mother-age group
At the same time, an increasingly large percentage of the babies who are born are coming in society's back door, the one marked "illegitimate." The Department of Statistics of the Kansas City, Mo. Health Department gives the following figures:
With birth control information and devices more readily available, and with legalized abortions more easily obtainable, more women are choosing not to have sex. For example, 64 percent of M.D., M. expects its birth control patients to increase 40 per cent this year over 1971.
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1,104 (9 per cent)
1,460 (13.7 per cent)
1,447 (19.8 per cent)
"With the current vogue for single parenthood, maternity homes are no longer needed as much for reasons of convenience than Anderson, director of the Florence Home."
More illegitimate births has not meant more use of homes for unwed mothers. The opposite has been true. The three such homes in the Kansas City area report a need for children, and are for the homes are: the Florence Home, Services for Girls (formerly the Florence Crittenton Home) and St. Anthony's Home, sponsored by Catholic chants.
"What we're seeing now is the multiproblem girl from a lower socioeconomic background. Formerly, we served mostly middle-class or well-to-do girls whose parents wanted confidentiality. Now the girls with money get abortions."
Will the trend to fewer babies continue in the United States? Population experts say they can't predict. They cite certain societal forces at work in this country, and give their answers in the form of questions. It all adds up to more cliff-hangers.
Dr. Grace Ketterman, director of the
Crittleton Home, also emphasize the troubled character of the girls who come to
"WE HAVE A LOT more girls whose problem is not only pregnancy. Often pregnancy is just one result of a general attitude of rebelliousness that also manifests itself in drug abuse, shoplifting and truancy."
Both the Florence Home and Crittleton, reflecting a nationwide trend, have widened their reach in the nursing counseling and help for girls who are not pregnant, but are considered to be emotionally disturbed. About two-thirds of the women now at Crittleton are in the latter category.
Only St. Anthony's Home concentrates
wholly on the "unmarried parent," ac-
cute and intelligent.
"We feel that the traditional image of shelter must alter to encompass actual needs, such as prenatal care, counseling and treatment equipment to condrain education," she said.
Two significant and disturbing trends were commented upon by all the maternity home directors. The first of these was the children born at the hospital is now bearing children out of wedlock.
"Our average age used to be 19, now it's 17," said Dr. Ketterman.
Anderson estimated the average age at
atl, although we've had girls as young as 13
here.
THE SECOND TREND noted was the increase in the number of girls who are keeping their babies. A higher divorce rate has made the single parent family more common in society today. Unmarried mothers transfer this acceptance into an
Among the reasons cited for pregnancy among young girls was that younger girls are less apt to have access to programs of sex education, birth control information or contraception. But many girls equated the use of contraception with an admission of promiscuity.
approval of their own single parent status. Trigg said the majority of the girls who were keeping their babies were of high school age and baby return to the girl's parental home.
Meanwhile, adoption agencies have long lists of prospective parents waiting to adopt. Charlotte Dwyer, head of the Jackson County adoption service of the Department of Welfare, said her agency had placed 65 babies last year and 45 this year.
James Dechant,头 of the adoption service of Catholic Family and Community Services, said, "Right now we're not even accepting applications, we have such a long waiting list. We have about half as many babies available as we used to have."
Dr. Ketterman said that prior to 1989, only three per cent of the girls kept their babies. In the 12-month period that ended this October, 28 per cent kept their babies.
Dechant's agency placed 75 babies in the past year. He said 20 per cent of them were in categories such as bi-racial, minority or disabled or older (over three years of age).
BECAUSE OF THE BABY shortage, children whose backgrounds make them less adaptable in ordinary times are finally getting a break, according to Donovan Rutledge, executive director of the Kansas Children's Service League in Topeka.
"We're now able to concentrate our efforts where they're really needed, finding homes for black children or children of mixed races," Ruledge说。 "Three years ago, less than 10 per cent of the babies we knew were black. This year 25 per cent of them were."
Families that want white infants are still charged on a sliding scale, based on the family's income and other factors. The average charge is about $490, he said, and there is a waiting list of over one hundred people.
The law is not discriminatory, Martin said because if a woman took action she could do so. Martin said the distinction was between those who did change their names and those who did not.
John Martin, attorney for the defense from the state attorney general's office, said that it has been widely assumed in this country, and in some states it was a legal fact, that a woman abandoned her maiden name at marriage.
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Barbara interrupted Martin's presentation to ask if the provisions of the law could be applied to men as well as women. It was not applied to women, but that it was not applied to all women.
Davis argued that it was the constitutional right of all people to vote as set forth in the Constitution.
of classification was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution.
Davies likened sex discrimination to race discrimination and said that they should be addressed.
--intent of the law, he said, the effect was to discriminate unjustly against women.
Martin said that the intent of the law was to prevent fraudulent voting and that this constituted a compelling interest on the part of the state that justified the law.
Judge Barbara again interrupted Martin to ask what was the difference between people who change their names and those who changed their address. He asked why the same procedures should not be applicable to both changes.
He said that the only method of identifying voters was by name and adress. He said that the state legislature had provided methods for persons who changed their address after the registration deadline to inform the election officials. But the legislature had established no similar program for change of name.
Martin said that the legislature had not established similar procedures in the interest of preventing fraudulent voting. He pointed out that his bill was terribly impressed with this argument.
In his final ruling, Barbara said that there was no compelling justification for the law and that it was discriminatory and unconstitutional.
From an all-time high in 1968 of 262 babies placed for adoption, the agency's placement roster decreased to 164 in 1971, and probably go down to 140 this year, he said.
Kansas statistics reflect the national trend of fewer births and a higher number of illegitimate ones. The Division of Vital Resources reports the following fauces:
1,428 (2.8 per cent)
1,986 (5.1 per cent)
2,927 (8.1 per cent)
Births
1960 50,782
1965 39,178
1971 36,006
Illegitimate
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