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University Daily Kansan Friday. Oct. 24, 1958
The U.N.-13 Years Old
Thirteen years ago today, when the United Nations was officially founded, the world had great hope that this new organization meant the start of an era of peace and tranquility.
This hope was shattered with the advent of the cold war and the growing cleavage between the Soviet Union and the West.
But in spite of the cold war, the U. N. can look back on a record of solid accomplishments.
The U. N. played a major role in withdrawing Soviet troops from Iran in 1946, helped bring an end to Communist war in Greece, prevented forced unification of North and South Korea under Communist auspices. The world organization helped bring a truce between India and Pakistan in Kashmir and prevented a major war in the Suez crisis.
Admittedly the U. N, has shortcomings to be recognized and corrected. It has undergone extensive modification since the signing of the charter, and bears only a limited resemblance to the international mechanism built in 1945.
When the charter was drawn up the Security Council was designed as the most important part of the organization, the General Assembly subordinate to it. But in the past few years the General Assembly's role has changed. It is now the instrument through which the world realizes and accepts its interdependence.
The U.N. needs more power, which it will not have so long as it maintains its present decision-making process. Action is often lost between a veto in the Security Council and a small-nation majority in the General Assembly.
The U.N. should be recognized for what is it—an aid to a more peaceful world, complementary to traditional democracy, not a substitute for it. It is not a political Univac where you feed problems in one side, take answers out the other.
Suppose nations had attempted to live without a common meeting place during the last 13 years. Suppose there were no world machinery for peaceful settlement of difference. Suppose no international forum were available to air disputes and seek agreements. The world might not have survived.
Stresses of the divided world have been so intense, clashes of ideology so sharp, destructive power of nuclear weapons so complete that without the unifying force of the U.N., mankind might have destroyed itself. —P. S.
Why Not Boo It?
Well, someone again went and broke the arm on the orange monster standing across the street from the Union.
How many times has the monster been damaged to date? One? Two? Three? We don't really know; sort of lost count a while back.
Actually, we are rather surprised that students disapprove of the money-eating machine. Since the administration kindly cut the price from a half buck last spring to two bits this
fall, no one expected any outbreak of student warfare.
We frankly are disheartened at the means used to break the wooden arm. There was no imagination, no ingenuity. The vandals should have used modern means. Bombs! They should have blown the whole thing up! Why be simple?
Naturally, we are not serious about using bombs on the orange monster. We add this because if we don't, some idiot will take us literally and detonate our campus. —John Husar
The Long . . .
Editor:
Being an active participant in what Mr. Husar referred to as "protecting our pride" by "appeasing our injured feelings like a bunch of crying kids," I not only present this insinuation, but offer praise to those fellow Jayhawkers who "stood and booed and crowded the sidelines."
... Letters ...
The incident in question was to my eyes and ears the largest spontaneous united effort of KU students on behalf of our team and school that I have witnessed in four years on the Hill! It represented the first semblance of "school spirit" at a contest which
we were obviously in the process of losing, but in which we were being wrongly penalized due to obvious errors on the part of the officials (which has been confirmed by the game films).
Let's not "Hang Heads" and be ashamed, just for standing up for our rights! I do not advocate poor sportsmanship, but rather do believe in backing our teams to the utmost! Since we cannot help them physically, we must do so vocally.
Here's hoping the "new-born KU spirit" doesn't suffer a quick death at the hands of Mr. Husar's editorial.
Myron B. Margolis Kansas City, Mo., senior
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
I JUST BOOSTED THEIR MORALE... I TOLD THEM
SOMEONE IS GOING TO PASS.
... and the Short of It
Editor:
Pon Keeler
The day I cannot criticize an injustice is the day I no longer want to be associated with organized society.
Great Bend junior
Editor:
A Little Irate
Perhaps I'm incorrect, but I had thought that the University of Kansas was a public institution (i.e., state function) and as such its financial records were open to inspection.
If there is nothing to hide, why refuse to release public financial records to an authorized agency of the University student government?
Or is student government simply a lovely democratic gesture of good will on the part of the administration, to be withdrawn whenever they step on the sensitive toes of administrative bureaucracy?
C. E. Cornell
Clinic hours at Watkins Hospital are 8 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Lawrence senior
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Stumping the State
Kansans are 11 days away from a general election that challenges all state political annals in party indifference to issues.
When both parties wrote their platforms in August the leaders ignored three vital constitutional amendments that will be on the November ballot.
The three amendments now have occupied the center of the stage. If it were not for these proposals, lack of voter interest might produce the biggest stay-at-home vote in the history of the state.
Amendment I, if adopted, would require justices of the Kansas Supreme Court to run against their own records rather than against political opponents. The aim of the proposal is to make the court non-partisan.
Amendment II would permit the state to participate in flood control and water conservation projects. A constitutional ban now prohibits this activity.
Amendment III the Big One
Not since prohibition has an issue come to such a rolling public boil as Amendment III, which would permit only open shop contracts in Kansas.
Labor groups went solidly on record in opposition to Amendments I and III, deciding to stay out of the partisan campaign and concentrate on the proposed amendments.
Many Republicans believe this will be a lift to the party's campaign, since labor will not be firing its heavy ammunition at Republican candidates.
Tempo Picks Up
The tempo of the Kansas political campaign began rising a few weeks ago as big names in both national parties came to lend a hand in the fight for congressional seats and the governorship.
The visitors have included President Eisenhower, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Democratic Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Paul Douglas of Illinois, Republican Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, and Paul Butler, Democratic national chairman.
Six Incumbents Could Lose
In the congressional race Kansas has five Republicans and one Democrat in the House of Representatives. In 1956 each of the six got 55 per cent or less of the vote, and it is conceivable that all six could lose this time.
Both parties have their soft spots.
Parsons publisher Clyde M. Reed Jr. is seeking to reunite the Republican party, which split in the 1956 primary.
The biggest apparent Democratic weakness is the school issue. Docking made some sharp criticisms of schools and college professors last year and the Republicans are not letting him forget it.
Governor George M. Doeing has been hampered during his term by a Republican legislature which has often pulled the reins tight on him, as in overriding his veto of the sales tax increase. Thus the governor cannot point to any great legislative success during his term.
Kansans may get a preview of the election this week in the Hutchinson News and the Salina Journal polls of 58 western counties. In past elections these polls have been accurate within one per cent.
If Reed leads substantially in these districts, he stands a good chance of election. If Reeds runs behind in the straw balloting, Docking will have an even stronger prospect of re-election because political analysts expect him to carry Wichita and Kansas City with their large number of labor votes. —Pat Swanson
(Fourth in a series on this year's key political races.—Ed.)
A Child's-Eye View
By John Hargrove
Dad and I went to a real live football game Saturday. It wouldn't be so great, but it was the first football game I ever saw.
Football is great. Gobs and gobs of people were there, and everybody had a thermos jug or a picnic bag or paper sacks. Dad says they all keep coffee in the jugs.
It was real hot when we went, but everybody had their jugs of coffee anyway.
The best part was when this guy jumped out of an airplane and parachuted to the ground. Dad said he was trying to prove he was the littlest man on campus, whatever that is. I'm going to be the biggest man, cause that looks too dangerous to me.
All the yells and cheers were real nice, too. The best one, I think, was when EVERYBODY stood up and raised their arms up real high and hollered "Touchdown! Booo! Touchdown! Booo!" It was real loud and everybody yelled at once.
Dad said they oughta kill the ref and stick him on the goalpost. I don't know why, cause everybody acted like they liked the ref and they all cheered for him when he picked up the ball and trotted back up the field with it.
Anyway, by the time everybody stumbled out of the stands and out on the field, the refs were all gone and nobody stuck them on the goalpost. I guess nobody felt too bad, though, 'cause they all hurried to their cars to get some more coffee.
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