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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 7, 1968
Anti-Soviet tumult erupt in Bratislava
PRAGUE (UPI) Thousands of students in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava ripped down Soviet flags and burned them in the streets last night on the eve of the 51st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
In Prague, hundreds of Czechoslovak troops and policemen sealed off a 15-block area around the National Theater to prevent anti-Soviet demonstrations during a performance of the Russian ballet. An atmosphere of unrest swept through the capital.
Anti-Soviet demonstrations erupted in both Prague and Bratislava last month during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic.
The anti-Soviet protests in Bratislava last night began when an estimated 4,000 students assembled outside the city's National Theater where the Russian anniversary was being marked with a performance of Gounod's opera "Romeo and Juliet."
Wood sculpture shown in Union
Wood sculpture by Marguerite Baumgartel, assistant professor of art education at the University of Kansas, are on display in the south lounge of the Kansas Union. The display will end Nov. 13.
Some of the sculpture was done in India last year while Mrs. Baumgartel was on a sabbatical leave and a Fulbright Travel Grant to study Indian sculpture.
The exhibit, sponsored by the Student Union Activities, will feature sculptures in wild cherry, catalpa, osage orange, Indian teak and cedar wood.
IRC will sponser tea for upperclass women at Dean Taylor's home
The Inter-Residence Council will sponsor a tea for upperclass women from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the home of Emily Taylor, dean of women.
The participating women will be officers from residence and scholarship halls. Approximately 300 women are expected to attend.
Roz Eckstrom, Prairie Village senior, said the tea will give Dean Taylor an opportunity to meet more of the women on campus.
Freshmen women attend teas of this sort each year. However, this is the first year that upperclass women have had the opportunity to meet with Dean Taylor on an informal basis.
Teen-age students, jeering and whistling, pulled the red hammer and sickle flags of the Soviet Union from poles on Hvesdslavove Square in front of the Bratislava Theater. They kicked the flags across the square and set them afire to the applause and cheers of other youthful demonstrators.
The young people in Bratislava, 190 miles southeast of Prague near the Aurstrian border, milled around in front of the theater. They pointed to a huge Soviet flag hanging from a window and shouted "Down with the flag."
Several uniformed theater ushers walked out onto the theater balcony and removed the Russian flag. The demonstrators applauded. Other youths ripped a huge Soviet flag from a window of a building across the street, and more cheers filled the night.
Bratislava police watched the flag burning and did nothing. There were no Soviet troops in sight.
In Prague, barricades were thrown up across all bridges, streets and sidewalks leading to the National Theater which was the scene of anti-Soviet demonstrations last month.
Guest of government
Professor tours Poland
By PATTY BEHAN Kansan Staff Writer
Each year the institute makes in-depth evaluations of its collective and state farms from different regions.
An inferior economic system and environmental conditions are key factors in the relatively poor output of the farm production of communist countries.
This observation was made by Roy D. Laird, KU professor of Slavic and Soviet area studies, after a trip last year to Poland.
"Bushels and bushels of statistics on all aspects of farming are measured by the Polish government," Laird said. The institute gave him copies of those reports and substantiated the reported facts through personal observation.
Financed by fellowships and research grants from Rockefeller, Fulbright and National Science Foundation, Laird has been studying the efficiency of collective and state farms in Poland and the Soviet Union for more than a decade.
He toured 15 to 20 collective and state farms for first-hand studies of operations and production as a guest of the Polish government and the Polish Agricultural Institute.
Yearly Evaluations
He said the environmental conditions in Poland and other communist countries prohibit the production of adequate foodstuffs.
In Poland it is cool and it rains a great deal, Laird explained. The land is flat, which causes a drainage problem.
Because of similar ills, he said the Soviet Union, Poland, and other communist countries have to import a significant amount of food to supply their needs.
Inefficient Management
The inefficiency of management however is the key factor in Laird's evaluation of the collective and state farms.
The collective farms are run by a single director who can't efficiently make all the necessary decisions, Laird said.
By taking away the power of decision from the workers, Laird said, much of their initiative is lost.
Laird points out, that the smaller private farms in Poland
are the most efficient in output per unit of land because the individual farmer is able to use his creative initiative.
Neither the state nor the collective farms are as mechanized as American farms, Laird said. Instead of modern machines, they still use horses and plows. Because of this they use more manpower than U.S. farmers do while getting less output per hour.
Laird, the founder of the Conference on Soviet Agricultural and Peasant Affairs, has written four books and several articles on collective farming in Eastern Europe.
Noon bomb blast hits Kansas City, but none injured
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—A homemade bomb of some sort shattered the noon hour at the downtown Auditorium Plaza yesterday with a shower of Minutement leaflets.
There were no injuries, but windows shook in the area. Police Dispatcher Sgt. Charles Johnston said "It apparently was light because we didn't get any calls on it."
A reporter said the papers blew out of a piece of pipe that looked "more like a large firecracker than anything else."
The right wing paramilitary Minuteman organization was headed by Robert Bolivar DePugh, a Norborne, Mo., businessman, who has gone underground since federal charges were placed against him.
The leaflets said things such as "How much longer will the American people stand idly by while their constitutional rights and freedoms are bartered away through secret treaties and United Nations commitments made without their knowledge or consent?"
"Minutemen" papers, including attacks on the United Nations and words such as "We will Never Surrender," showered the small park near downtown hotels.
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