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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 22, 1958
Paging Diogenes
Right now, there is a furor over graft and racketeering in unions—particularly in the Teamsters, headed by Jimmy Hoffa.
There are still repercussions from the Adams-Goldfine case, rumblings which will show up in this fall's elections.
A few years ago, the big outcry was against bribe-taking in the Truman administration.
This does not mean that unions are crooked, nor that Republicans are crooked, nor that Democrats are crooked. It means that there are, and have been, dishonest persons connected with all these groups.
But can the public, in conscience, feel outraged at public dishonesty? This is the nation of income tax cheaters, expense account padders, and ticket fixers.
This country has, to a great extent, developed into a nation of petty grifters. In all levels of society there are persons whose motto is "It's OK if you don't get caught."
Students who cheat and get away with it go uncriticized. The night club party in New York goes on the expense account as "entertainment for client." Charitable contributions amount to much more on Form 1040 than they ever did in the coffers of charity.
And all this graft and thievery is known and accepted, even by people who are themselves honest. Radio and television comedians make jokes about it, admiring associates remark on the cleverness of their swindling friends, and the whole world winks at this form of Yankee ingenuity.
How, then, can we say office holders must be cut off the gravy train? Must they suddenly be required to be more scrupulous than the constituents?
The morals of government reflect the morals of the nation. We show up rather badly.
—Al Jones
The Black Jacket Set
What is a teen-age gang? It is a way of organizing to meet a world too large. It is relief from insecurity. It is a replacement for a family, and a society to itself.
A gang broke up a dance in Kansas City the other night. They used vandalism, curses, and weapons—broken bottles, a jack handle, ball bats, a rubber hose.
The kids brandishing these weapons are neither Nazi brownshirts nor Communist goons. They are American kids who will be drafted, start careers, marry and have families. They will grow out of the violent stage—maybe.
What did these hoods get for their foray? Some
got a dainty slap from their schools. They were suspended for three days—more reward than discipline.
The boys who routed the attack will not identify the hoods, fearing reprisals. No blame can be attached to them for that. Unless they were given police escorts, they would probably be clobbered by the gang.
This was not the Capone gang and not the Mafia. Just a gang of punk kids, laughing at the police and reveling in their exploits.
Maybe in 20 years they will start a real gang. That will be a good time to get out of Kansas City. —A. J.
Bigotry Brands College Students
Gov. Orval Faubus has claimed that immorality, juvenile delinquency and strife will be the order of the day if his Little Rock schools are forced to integrate.
Where does he get his information? Maybe he read the news dispatch from the New Orleans branch of Louisiana State University. White students there apparently are readying a formal petition asking that Negro students withdraw from the institution.
The story tells of mounting hostility climaxed by a firecracker being set off near a group of Negro undergraduates recently.
Although we cannot agree with Faubus' claim that all extensive integration causes immorality
It has taken another university to destroy any respect usually granted college students. The action of the LSU agitators must be condemned and classified under the heading of juvenile delinquency propounded by Faubus. Certainly it is the result of radical emotions.
and strife, he is certainly backed up by the actions of these Southern university students.
Here at KU we do not call ourselves integrated. We are simply free, as we should be. Other universities and colleges in the nation have also practiced the same principle without any serious difficulties. The integration question will never be settled until Americans can shed bigotry and resume the necessary respect for the laws of our national government. —John Husar
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"UP HERE NOW MISS BREWSTER — IT SEEMED MORE PRACTICAL TO SEAT THE CLASS ALPHAETICALLY."
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