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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 1. 1958
Political Pranks
The political flasco in Leavenworth reflects little credit on anyone involved.
If Governor Docking lost his temper, as reported, it was a political error.
But the main blame for the incident must lie with the Republican KU students who instigated the affair. Their action in picketing a Democratic party rally was juvenile and deliberately intended to provoke the opposition.
Provoke it did. The governor was confronted by a loud bunch of juveniles who gave him Republican campaign material and said, "Why don't you vote for the next governor of Kansas?" That is not political maneuvering. It is childish taunting, rudeness, and immense gall.
Spontaneous harassing tactics of this sort have been used before in Kansas elections, and will probably continue to crop up now and again when enthusiasm overcomes common sense. That is no excuse for the group of semi-educated juveniles who disgraced themselves Monday.
The incident may hurt Governor Doeking more than it does the Republican cause, since he is a public figure and the students remain anonymous.
In all, the affair illustrates little except the wrong way to go about a political campaign.
It also makes a fine argument against giving the vote to 18-year-olds. Al Jones
Cops Overlook Enforcement
Yesterday a column on this page was set aside to explain the traffic and parking regulations for campus drivers. It listed all of the ways an individual could appeal or get his fine commuted should he be presented with a summons.
This is fine. The column was full of good things to know, particularly if the reader is or is about to be in trouble with our traffic and parking laws.
Now there is only one thing lacking in our police setup. There is no adequate or effective method of enforcement.
It is necessary to have uniformed campus cops around blowing whistles and saving pedestrians' lives and preventing collisions on street corners. But that only scrapes the surface of law enforcement.
drivers who consistently run stop signs behind many University halls? Why don't they arrest speeders who are about to run over preoccupied Jayhawkers, instead of merely "slowing the jockeys down?"
Why are the police not available to axe the
It is ridiculous for a policeman to stand on the main drag and direct traffic for the protection of the public, when students and faculty fear for their lives on the back drives.
This might sound like an unimportant issue. However, we believe a cry should be raised now, before someone is downed in the back alleys by a careless and wild motorist. If the enforcement agencies get in gear and start enforcing, we won't have to later say "I told you so."
—John Husar
The French New Deal
The new French constitution is approved. In an overwhelming five to one vote, the voters of France and the French territories accepted the new system which will give the nation a strong central government.
The only vote against the constitution came from French Guinea, on the Gold Coast of Africa. The French have started the process of giving Guinea her independence.
The French have held a mistrust of the strong man system of government ever since Bonaparte. Where this mistrust has led France may be seen in the total instability of the post-war French governments.
The results for France have been tragic. With no continuity of command, France has staggered from crisis to crisis like a drunken sailor. She is one of the last colonial nations in an era of rising nationalism, and her erratic course has only compounded her difficulties in Asia and
Africa.
Perhaps the new system, in taking the balance of power away from splinter groups and extremists, will allow France to follow a consistent path in the maze of mid-century Europe. It may even allow France to restore some of her long-mourned prestige as the most civilized nation in the world.
Or it could lead to a dictatorship, once the government passes from de Gaulle's hands. That is the fear of the opponents of the new constitution.
For the moment, the important thing is that France has disencumbered herself of the unworkable system that has hamstrung her since 1945.
The next few years will tell whether the new system can restore France a position of power in the Western world.
-Al Jones
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"IT'S A SPECIAL BUILT DOOR—IT MAKES IT HARDER FOR THEM TO RAID THAT ICE BOX."
Short Ones
Brigitte Bardot is "eager" to act opposite Juan Fangio, world champion Grand Prix driver. There's one man who travels in even faster circles than B. B.
School is officially open now. The Chi O fountain has had its first bubble bath.
They're sending politicians to Alaska to campaign this year. When they hear how badly we've been doing down here, they may want out of the Union before they're in it.
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EVIDENTIAL DEPARTMENT
Al Jones  Editorial Editor
I was very favorably impressed by your editorial of Sept. 26, "The Land of the Free," and also with the other articles dealing with racial intolerance which your paper carried in the same issue. However, before we, of the University, cloak ourselves in this "holier-than-thou" hypocrisy, shouldn't we ask ourselves a few critical questions?
Editor:
If Chancellor Murphy and especially the ever righteous Greek organizations that function on brotherhood hill really believe in the dignity and equality of all men, why are these organizations not integrated? Have any steps been made to rewrite the charters of these philanthropic organizations so that they may practice what they preach?
Mr. A. J., whom we presume to be Al Jones, (seems strange that most editorials are brazenly signed except this one) states "Few of our restaurant owners really know whether they would lose business because they lack guts enough to try it. These same timorous merchants are probably making loud noises about the Little Rock trouble, and see no relation between that cancer and Lawrence's own malignancy." If Mr. Jones and the University feel free to chastise a man for being afraid to put his livlihood in jeopardy, can we not, then, be twice as critical of these sanctimonious snobbish little cliques that breed and nurture intolerance. Will these organizations have "the guts to try it," as Mr. Jones puts it, to brave the possible terrible fate of being kicked out of the national affiliation of bigots.
We of the University should perhaps be more conscious of our own opinions and injustices before we start to criticize others.
B. Dean Alexander Lawrence senior
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