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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Feb. 11, 1960
Student Answers Dubois' Cuban Talk
In a letter to the Daily Kansan, Ramon Mayor, Cuba junior, has answered Jules Dubois' accusations that Cuba is turning communistic.
Mayor claims that American press coverage of the Cuban situation is biased, false and vicious. Further, he claims that Mr. Dubois' accusation that Cuba is turning communist is a lie.
Mayor's letter reads:
"Mr. Dubois has charged Dr.Fidel Castro of "brainwashing" the Cuban people and conducting a 'hate North America' campaign.
"What reasons have moved Dubois to make such untrustworthy accusations? By no means, would I deny that Castro in various speeches has attacked, not the United States, but those people who, compelled by reasons that nobody knows, but yet could easily guess, are carrying out a campaign against the Cuban people and its revolution.
"Ever since Castro's forces overthrew Batista, the American press has engaged in ar horrendous outburst of news aiming to take away all the prestige of the decent work that this government has done for Cuba.
"Never before has the morale and the hopes of every single Cuban been so high as now, and the press and its agents, like Mr. Dubois, do not want to recognize this fact.
"Mr. Dubois argued with us that he as a newspaperman is 'reporting the facts' but the facts that he only sees are deceiving the United States people. These are the basis for Castro's speeches, and not brainwashing as Dubois claims.
"The government of the United States cherishes and takes pride in the independence and objectivity of the press and wire services of its country, and refutes in a sharp tone, considering it untrue, the accusation of 'having engaged in a deliberate campaign to give a mistaken impression of, and utterly discredit, the Cuban government.'
"Really, this is not the time to argue the so-called independence of certain North American press media. However, it is timely to point out the great moral responsibility assumed by the government of the United States by expressing its pride in those wire and press services which have propagated, and are still propagating, the most flagrant falsehoods and most humiliating insults against the revolutionary government and its foremost figures.
"Is it by chance a proof of objectivity . . . to brand as communist the first really Cuban government we have ever had, to promote economic strangling and circulate all sorts of rumors which are as false as they are villainous?
"Is that objectivity that misrepresents the facts and defames without regard for dignity, the safety and sovereignty of the Cuban people, the objectivity of which the United States Government is so proud?"
"And the hero of that objectivity is Mr. Dubois, or at least he is building that nickname around himself.
"They labeled us as Communists. This is the old song record which has been maliciously and constantly played by our internal and external enemies, in order to promote the conditions they consider propitious to create distortions and encourage a foreign intervention. This record is now played in the high fidelity phonograph of the American Press.
"The Cubans want and deserve a good and decent way of living. Now when a man 'who has guts enough to do it' (quoting Mr. Dubois) is trying to carry out a program aimed to the realization of this long-time dream of the Cuban population, a group of bad intentioned reporters are trying to give a dark picture of the brightest thing ever produced in Latin America in this Century, which is the program of the Revolutionary Government of Fidel Castro."
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Senator Schoeppel To Be Here Friday
U. S. Sen. Andrew Schoeppel will be the featured speaker at the Lincoln Day banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Plymouth Congregational Church.
Applications for editor and business manager of the K Book Date Book must be filed with Rex Fowler by Tuesday. Applications for student directory editor and business manager must be filed with Fowler by Feb. 25.
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Tickets may be purchased at the Hunsinger Motor Company or from Mrs. Ethel High. Those interested in attending the banquet are urged to purchase tickets now, as the number of tickets available is limited.
The applicant should state his qualifications, classification, and grade point average.
The dinner is sponsored by the Douglas County Central Republican Committee.
Rothwell Will Read Kipling Poems Today
The poetry of Rudyard Kipling will be read by Kenneth Rothwell, assistant professor of English, at the Poetry Hour at 4 p.m. today in the Music and Browsing room of the Kansas Union.
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Democrats Introduce New 'Brannan Plan'
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Sixteen House Democrats accepted President Eisenhower's farm front challenge yesterday by introducing a new "Brrannan Plan" bill that would pay farmers direct federal subsidies if prices dipped too low.
icies of Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson. He also said it would provide more effective help for farmers while cutting the cost of federal farm programs. They promised immediate hearings.
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COMMITTEES: AN AGONIZING REAPPRAISAL
To those of you who stay out of your student government because you believe the committee system is just an excuse for inaction, let me cite an example to prove that a committee, properly led and directed, can be a great force for good.
Last week the Student Council met at the Duluth College of Veterinary Medicine and Belles-Lettres to discuss purchasing a new doormat for the students union. It was, I assure you, a desperate problem because Sherwin K. Sigfafoos, janitor of the students union, threatened flatly to quit unless a new doormat was installed immediately. "I'm sick and tired of mopping that dirty old floor," said Mr. Sigfafoos, sobbing convulsively. (Mr. Sigfafoos, once a jolly outgoing sort, has been crying almost steadily since the recent death of his pet wart hog who had been his constant companion for 22 years. Actually, Mr. Sigfafoos is much better off without the wart hog, who tusked him viciously at least once a day, but a companionship of 22 years is, I suppose, not lightly relinquished. The college tried to give Mr. Sigfafoos a new wart hog—a frisky little fellow with floppy ears and a waggly tail—but Mr. Sigfafoos only turned his back and cried the harder.)
But I digress. The Student Council met, discussed the doormat for eight or ten hours, and then referred it to a committee. There were some who scoffed then and said nothing would ever be heard of the doormat again, but they reckoned without Invictus Millstone.
Invictus Millstone, chairman of the doormat committee, was a man of action—lithe and lean and keen and, naturally, a smoker of Marlboro Cigarettes. Why do I say "naturally"? Because, dear friends, active men and active women don't have time to fuss and fumble and experiment with cigarettes. They need to be sure their cigarettes will never fail them—the flavor will always be mild and mellow—that the filter will always filter—that the pack will always be soft or flip-top. In short, they need to be sure it's Marlboro—dependable, constant, tried and true Marlboro. Smoke one. You'll see.
Well sir, Invictus Millstone chaired his doormat committee with such vigor and dispatch that, when the Student Council met only one week later, he was able to rise and deliver the following recommendations:
2. That the college drop football, put a roof on the stadium, and turn it into a low-cost housing project for married students.
1. That the college build new schools of botany, hydraulic engineering, tropical medicine, Indo-Germanic languages; and millinery.
3. That the college raise faculty salaries by $5000 per year across the board.
5. That the question of a doormat for the students union be referred to a subcommittee.
So let us hear no more defeatist talk about the committee system. It can be made to work! © 1960 Max Shulman
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