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University Daily Kansas Monday, May 13, 1957
Public Opinion
Desegregational Holdup
A Lawrence restaurant owner recently stated in a letter to the Journal-World that he would continue the policy of segregation in his restaurant because that is what the public wants, and he is forced to cater to the public.
But it takes courage to go against public opinion and risk a loss of business for awhile. It seems that none of the restaurant owners in Lawrence have the neecssary courage to take a step which would be a great service to the nation and to the human race.
One very simple solution to the problem confronting the restaurant owners would be to get together and all adopt, at a given time, a policy of desegregation in their restaurants. But possibly they don't believe it is a problem, as they seem satisfied to sit back and do nothing.
Such an attitude is one of the major deterrents to solving the problem of segregation. If public opinion were always allowed to rule, some of the great innovations of our times would have never come into being. Public opinion was definitely against such inventions as the automobile and the airplane. But where would we be today without them?
Someone has to take the first step toward desegregation, and people who run public business places, and especially restaurants, should set an example by practicing desegregation.
If this over-all policy were adopted, the public would have to accept integration or travel
24 miles to eat out. It isn't hard to figure out that it wouldn't be long before the public accepted this step toward making America the democracy that it claims to be.
And is the public really in favor of segregation in the restaurants of Lawrence? A poll of KU students was taken on this question, and fewer than 15 per cent said they would stop patronizing restaurants which had a policy of desegregation.
It could very well be that a majority of the people in Lawrence feel the same way as the majority of students do. Few right-thinking people are so bigoted as to believe they are too good to eat in the same building as a person with a darker skin.
They must not hold too closely to the Christian ideals, or they would know that all men were created equal in the eyes of God, and that He expects all to be treated as such. They must not be good Americans, or they would realize that our treatment of the Negro could strengthen or weaken our ties with several nations whose friendship is important.
Such people must be uninformed, or they would have heard that the North is supposed to be leading the way in the desegregation movement.
The opportunity to lead the way in integration lies within the grasp of such people as the owners of restaurants. They should take advantage of this opportunity for the good of Lawrence, the United States and the human race.
—Del Haley
A Universal Problem
Recently Iowa State hired a new football coach for a reported $14,000 and at the University of Iowa the coach gets $17,500. The only state employees receiving more than the university coach are the presidents of the university and of Iowa State.
This prompts many educators to wonder: Are we getting a fair share of state salary increases?
If the salary increases are approved by the legislature, then we may eliminate the crisis of maintaining adequate teaching staff. ...
The answer to the educators' problem may come this month when the state Legislature takes up the budget and salaries for the state institutions.
Most of our staff members have proved their value... Giving these people salary increases is not a gamble. . .
Perhaps we sports fans have brought this on ourselves. It's never too late to stop and evaluate our spending. Emphasis should be given where it is justified. Salary increases for educators are long overdue.
Iowa State College Daily
This Coed Teaches Sign Language
WACO, Tex. — (ACP) — Taking a full credit load at Baylor University doesn't stop senior Nancy Crookshank from teaching a course too. When she was a freshman, another coed taught her the sign language alphabet, and from that beginning she has come to be interested in teaching others.
Now she conducts beginning and advanced classes, non-credit, in sign
language work to her fellow students.
Quoted in the Baylor Lariat, Miss Crookshank said the fact that there are 70,000 deaf persons in the Southern Baptist Convention is evidence enough that people should be trained for instruction to the deaf.
She and other Baylor students are already active in church work for the deaf, the Lariat reported.
25 Years Ago
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Friday.May 13.1932
HOPEWELL, N.J. — (UP) Prosecutor Irwin S. Marshall of Mercer County today declared he had evidence convincing him that the men who took the $50,000 ransome from Dr. John F. Condon were the men who kidnaped and later killed Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Marshall said the men had provided proof to Lindbergh and Condon that they were the actual kidnappers and were in possession of the baby.
MADISON, Wis.,—(UP) —President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin denied at a special convocation of students today that the University fostered atheism, communism, and immorality, and termed the charges "an insincere, unprincipled and dishonest campaign of deliberate slander."
Ad: Men—Your date would appreciate you more if those rundown heels of yours were built up and you had a shoe shine. Electric Shoe Shop.
Ad: Harrington's Nickle-Plate Circus is coming to Lawrence. You are going to be admitted to a real, honest-to-gosh 3-ring circus and wild animal show with death-defying aerial acts, wire walkers, clowns, trained wild animals, trained dogs, ponies, monkeys elephant acts, bands, calliope. All for one dime.
Movie ad: "Sky Birds" starring Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie, and Robert Coogan. Her heaven-kissed sweatheart plunges to earth for her alone.
Movie ad: Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery, the screen's greatest lovers in "Letty Lynton."
Yemen is one of the world's few remaining states governed as an absolute monarchy. The ruling family's rigid policy of isolation long gave it the name "Forbidden Kingdom."
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LANGUAGE MADE SIMPLE: No. 2
Exams loom closer and closer. The sands run out; the chips are down. This, you will agree, is no time for levity.
Accordingly, I have asked the makers of Philip Morris whether I might not dispense with jesting in today's column and instead devote it to a cram course in languages.
Their consent was cheerfully given, for they are fine, great-hearted men, the makers of Philip Morris, just as full of natural goodness as the cigarettes they turn out, just as friendly, just as jolly, just as regular, just as unfiltered, just as agreeable. "Why, bless you, child!" cried the makers. "Of course!!" Then they rumped my chestnut curls and somebody cried "Not it!" and before you could say flip-top box, a game of Squat Tag was on, and we played 'til the moon was over the yardarm, and then, pink and tousled, we all went inside and had flags of temperance punch and Philip Morris cigarettes and fell into our trundle beds and slept the clock around!
But I digress. Today let us turn our attention to the study of languages.
Do you realize how important languages are? I must confess that, until recently, I did not. "What good will Spanish ever do me?" I kept asking.
Well sir, I found out. Recently I took a trip to Latin America, and every day I thanked my lucky stars for having learned Spanish in college. While my fellow tourists stumbled and bumbled, I was perfectly at home.
Hasta la Vista, señorita
I recall our first stop in Mexico City. I stepped from the airplane, walked over to the nearest colorful native, and said, "Hasta la vista, senorita. (Good morning, sir.) Pero las lastimas y calimadades se agravaban mas y mas cada dia?" (Has thy footman finished sweeping out thy chamber?)
"No, sir," he replied in Spanish. "He is an idle rogue." "How is thy footman called?" I asked.
"He is called Diego," replied my friend, "and the little daughter of his fat sister is called Juanita. She has two small books, one gray cat, three black dogs, 24 red chickens, one fat pig, eight pewter mugs, and a partridge in a pear tree."
"Wilt thou have a Philip Morris cigarette?" I asked. "Gracious." he said thankfully.
"Gracious," he said thankfully.
We lit Philip Morrises and smoked contentedly the better part of the day.
"Perhaps by now my footman shall have finished sweeping my chamber," he said. "Wilt thou not come to my house?"
Arm in arm we walked to his house, but, alas, his footman had not yet swept out his chamber. So we each took a barrel stave and beat the impudent scamp until it was time for my airplane to take off.
"Gracious," I said.
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