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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Oct. 3. 1958
The Press Arrives
That strange group which calls itself the Fourth Estate will converge on KU tomorrow.
The William Allen White School of Journalism is holding its umpteenth Kansas Editors' Day, an annual convocation of scriveners from all parts of the state.
Editors' Day gives the editors a chance to work out mutual newspaper problems, review their ideas, and see the campus. The day also gives KU's journalism students a look at the works of
the machine with the cover off, and both students and editors learn a few things.
The Wrangle Session shares top billing with the football game as the big event of the day for the visitors. The editors, who are not noted for reticence, wax eloquent in defense of their ideas and enjoy themselves like cats on a back fence.
Gentlemen of the press, we're glad to have you. Hope you enjoy your day. Al Jones
A World Disease Control
Newspapers blare headlines about Red Chinese bombardments of Quemoy and people look at the Middle East with worried eyes. In the midst of this tension the fact gets buried that the nations of the world, both free and Communist, are working together in at least one area in an effort to make this a safer and healthy world.
They are doing this through the 88-nation World Health Organization, one of the largest specialized agencies of the United Nations.
In obscure parts of the world WHO has waged an all-out war on mankind's five biggest scourges — malaria, tuberculosis, yaws, trachoma and leprosy. It has also been attempting to control 40 other diseases.
When the health organization was formed, malaria struck 300 million persons a year, of whom 3 million died. Today the toll has been cut in half. WHO is hopeful that with five more years and 32 million dollars the disease may be wiped out altogether.
Vast vaccination campaigns are being carried out in WHO's fight against tuberculosis. By 1957 about 200 million people had been tuberculintested and more than 75 million had been vaccinated through joint efforts of the various governments, WHO, and the United Nations children fund (UNICEF).
A total of 80 million humans suffer from yaws, a contagious skin disease. WHO says that nine out of 10 of these cases can be cured with a single shot of penicillin. The shots cost only 25 cents each.
Fifteen per cent of the world's population suffers from blinding trachoma. Through WHO, Formosa already has cured more than one million cases among school children—at 40 cents each.
WHO is also studying the effect of atomic radiation on health. It is collecting information so it can advise governments and public health services on the measures to be taken so that the health of the people will not be endangered by the peaceful uses of atomic energy as it is by atomic warfare.
WHO is trying to make up the great shortage of health workers by sponsoring international training courses and seminars, arranging for groups of experts to give practical on-the-spot demonstrations, and granting hundreds of fellowships which enable doctors, nurses and others to study or undertake research abroad.
There is still much to be done, but WHO has made tremendous strides. With organizations like this using the knowledge of countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain, there is still hope in the world that all persons can have a better life. —Martha Crosier
Editor:
Anti - Segregation
...Letters...
The article on discrimination in Lawrence as quoted by E. R. Zook, secretary-manager of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, can be confusing. Although I am not a native-born Kansan I believe that Kansas chose to be free during the Civil War. "Confusion" existed during this period also, in the form of bloody battles and atrocities committed by a very few against those that were felt to be inferior.
Is Mr. Zook warning us of this
type of confusion? Is he predicting race riots such as those in Chicago not too many years ago? Will bombings be instigated such as in the southern states? I hope that the people of a university town have better judgment than to try such tactics as causing this type of confusion.
Lawrence merchants have every right to exclude persons from their places of business if these persons are insulting, intoxicated, or show other types of bad manners; but they should not be allowed to exclude people for any other reason. If they can exclude people because
of their race, why not then for the color of their hair or their religion. The prejudice is now against the Negro, next it may be against red-heads, Methodists, or even people over six feet tall.
Let us be free-thinking Americans and act as if we were. We tell the world of this great country of ours and what do we show them? Some of our citizens are full of hate that is outdated and belongs in the past. If the facts were closely examined it would be disclosed that most of the race trouble is instigated by a very few individuals and they should be stopped by free-thinking, free-believing, and freedom-loving Americans.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Robert Hines
Kansas City, Kan., senior
'WORTHAL-HOW MANY TIMES MUST I SAY 'NO' TO CONNENCE YOU?'
Short Ones
Even if all the quiz shows are fixed, we think the contestants should get something for being able to remember the answers until show time.
The kids in Arkansas petition for school opening regardless of integration. Unfortunately, the politicians have got past that stage—they're fighting about principles now.
Daily Hansan
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The Nelson Column It Looks This Way...
We're wondering which of the philosopher kings it was who spoke of the "valuable gift of education." We all stood in line last week to dole out our one hundred dollars plus in fees.
By Donna Nelson
KU slang is going to have to be modified somewhat. Expressions such as "hit the sack" are going to have to go now, what with the current fashions and all.
A vivacious sorority girl is still suffering from shock over a recent mishap. She opened her date book to Friday night and found an empty page.
We may not have an epidemic of the Asian flu going around vet, but it's for sure, we already have a bad case of the "Quemoy Quivers."
An old grad stated that there was absolutely nothing like a good football game. And after pausing to reflect, we realize that he is right. There hasn't been anything resembling a good football game around KU in quite some time now.
A recent transfer from the English department said she made the change because in the two years she'd been there, she never got no-thin' out of it.
If all the new fountains on the Hill would come equipped with their own personal soap suds dispensers, it would be a tremendous aid to all the pranksters who must be awfully tired of carrying their own boxes of soap around with them.
Observing the number of cars parked along Campanile Drive around the midnight hours, we can't help wondering which is longer—the line of cars around the drive or the lines being handed out inside.
"House-Mother Only" signs in the Greek parking lots are certainly causing a great deal of furor. The pledges who are still having trouble remembering names have been overheard saying such things as, "Good evening, Mother Only."
We have nothing against the idea of saving good seats for everyone who wears a white shirt to the game, but isn't it going to strike the alums as rather odd when they look across the field and see all the men who sell popcorn, peanuts and crackerjacks, sitting in the front rows?
While waiting on his date who was already twenty minutes late, the fraternity man thoughtfully remarked that men from Mars would probably have landed on earth long ago, but they're probably waiting on their dates too.
A disgruntled home ee major reports that the textile industries have nothing on the blind date material. For every "drip-dry" fabric they put out, KU can match them with a blind date that boasts the same qualities.
It's difficult to remember if Tom Jones, Emma, Madame Bovary, and Joseph Andrews are books to pick up for English classes or a list of people who are supposed to go see the Dean.
As the popular song declares, "Life is just a bowl of cherries!"—True! Full of pits.
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