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University Daily Kansan Fidleay April 10, 1952
Greater Love Hath No Man
"There is no greater love than to give one's life for those one loves." John 15:3.
These words which Christ spoke during his lifetime were realized on Good Friday when he died on the Cross and thus fulfilled His purpose on earth—redeemption.
He had been doomed since Judas Iscariot betrayed Him for the legendary 30 pieces of silver. The next night following the Passover dinner Judas, with a single kiss, delivered Him to His enemies in the Garden of Olives. His Apostles fled.
The Sanhedrin, the Grand Council of Jews, condemned Christ because He said He was the Son of God. Pontius Pilate knew Christ was innocent, but to appease the angry crowd and to gain personal favor, he condemned Him.
Christ humbly abandoned Himself voluntarily to inhuman sufferings. He blessed His torturers when they thrust a Crown of Thorns on His head and handed Him a limp reed as a symbol of His kingdom. He forgave them when they spat in His face, and cried at Him: "If you are the
Son of God, then call on your angels to free you!"
As Christ hung on the Cross, the multitudes jeered, told Him to come down to prove He was God. But to have descended at that moment would have defeated His purpose: to come down'would have been human; to remain was Divine.
Then as He took His last breath and put His life into His Father's hands, the sun eclipsed; the earth trembled and opened up; the rocks broke looses and tumbled; the startled centurion exclaimed that Christ was indeed the Son of God; and the spectators moved away, striking their breasts in remorse.
To some Good Friday might seem a day of failure, but it is a failure only from a human standpoint. It is the failure of the few years of life that precede the triumph which will last for eternity. God's justice was now satisfied. In his great love for the human race, He gave His innocent Son so that men might re-enter Heaven.
What greater love is there?
—Felecia Anne Fenberg
Cyprus Turks Only 18%
One Man's Opinion—
The old British game of playing two ends against the middle is working again. This time the Britons have seized upon the situation in Cyprus where a Turkish population, 18 per cent of the island's total, has been used as a lever to prevent the island from effecting a long-anticipated union with Greece.
The Turkish minority in Cyprus has always lived in harmony with the Greek majority and links of friendship between Greece and Turkey have not been disrupted by the existence of a Turkish minority in Cyprus and a Greek minority in Turkey but, on the contrary, they have been strengthened.
It seems unthinkable in a world where majority rule is generally accepted that the political future of that island should be dictated by a minority representing one-fifth of the total population.
The Turks, in 1947, did not object to the transfer to Greece of another group of islands, the Dodecanese and Rhodes, all much closer to Turkey than is Cyprus. But that was in 1947 when the Turks were not yet in a position to put an effective spoke in the wheel because at that time Western opinion had not yet forgotten that Turkey had remained neutral in World War II while Greece had put up a gallant fight on the side of the Allies.
In 1907 Sir Winston Churchill found it only natural "that the Cypriot people should regard their incorporation with what might be called their mother country as an ideal to be devoutly and fervently cherished."
For the British there was no escaping the choice of making oneself unpopular with the Turks or with the Cypriots and their supporters in Athens. By backing the Turks, who are bound to be losers in the end, Britain has made sure, just as she did in Palestine, of incurring the enmity of both
parties, first of the Greeks and subsequently of the Turks who will feel let down when Britain at last bows to the unavoidable.
The British argue that they need the island as a base. As a matter of fact the strategic importance of Cyprus is dubious. There are no good harbors and no terrains suitable for large air bases of the type needed for the huge aircraft of today. During the 76 years of British occupation no serious attempt was made to fortify the island, not even during World Wars I and II.
It has been said that Greece cannot protect Cyprus from Communism.
"Who are the British when it comes to dealing with Communists as compared to the Greeks," said Cedric Foster, political analyst for the Mutual Broadcasting System. He added, "the British soldiers who stood with Gen. Scoby in Constitution Square in Athens in the December revolution ten years ago, will testify as to whether the Greeks can deal with Communists."
The Oxford Mail, in an editorial, states: "We know already that were Cyprus united politically with Greece there would be no threat to our strategic plans. We have been assured full military facilities."
Mr. John Parker, a member of Parliament said, "The Turkish minority is advanced as a reason for not giving the island to Greece. It is very undemocratic to argue the 17.8 per cent of the population should be able to veto what the 80 per cent of the population want to do."
The Observer said, "To use the Turkish minority as an excuse for frustrating the wishes of the majority is unjustified and Greece's record in dealing with Communists is much tougher than Britain's."
The Electoral College: Block To Real Representative Vote
Sometime during the session of the 85th Congress, as during almost every Congress over the past century, one or more bills proposing a change in the method we use to elect our President will be discussed. If things go as they have gone in the past, the bills either will die in committee or not obtain the two-thirds vote necessary for a Constitutional amendment.
—George Anthan
Congressmen and citizens agree that our Electoral College system is outdated and unsatisfactory, but there has been no universal agreement on a substitute.
In 1950 a bill to abolish the Electoral College but retain the electoral vote, dividing it in proportion to the popular vote received by the candidates, was passed in the Senate. It got no further. A similar bill was proposed in the 84th Congress, but it did not receive the necessary two-thirds approval.
There are many valid criticisms of the Electoral College method. Three men who did not receive a plurality of the popular vote have served terms in the White House—John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Benjamin Harrison.
Parties now concentrate very heavily on getting the votes of the large unsure states, and the great majority of candidates are limited to men who can swing
the votes of at least one of these states. This doubtless leaves some very capable men out of the running. There are men with great talents from the small states as well as from the large.
Under the present method, an elector has a right to vote independently of the people, thus enabling him to cast his vote against the wishes of the people. This has happened only twice, but there is no guarantee that it will not happen again.
If, in the voting no candidate receives a majority, the House of Representatives, with each state casting one vote, chooses the President from the candidates. This procedure has been attacked as definitely being an infraction of the principle of popular choice.
Then there is the fact that the electors are superfluous. A month after the election the electors gather and cast their vote on an issue that in the minds of the people was settled on election day.
Even with all these criticisms of the Electoral College, it seems that it is impossible for the members of Congress (or at least two-thirds of them) to arrive at a more modern system of choosing the man who will hold the most important office in the land, if not in the world.
Peggy Armstrong
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
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Californians and Floridians brag about their fine weather and oranges; New Yorkers brag of their cosmopolitan culture; Texans feel personally commissioned by their Chamber of Commerce. In fact, if anyone in the crowd is making apologies you can almost count on him being a Kansan.
Probably no one in North America has an inferiority complex that can compare with that of the average Kansan.
Self-castigation is almost a cult in Kansas. We tell visitors about our dust bowls, floods and tornadoes. We claim to be reactionary and conservative. We disparage our scenery. And we blush at our lack of "culture."
When you ask students what they think is wrong with Kansas, most of them will chuckle and answer, "Everything." Yet when pressed, very few can name any specific faults.
There is one thing very wrong with Kansas though. Her people have been bluffed into thinking that being a Kansan is rather embarrassing. They do not realize what a great state they live in.
One Thing Wrong
John Brown began mixing his religion with blood in Kansas as he fought slavery and slavers. Many of the first homesteaders came not just for land, but to keep the state free and some paid for their zeal with their lives.
Carrie Nation, the scourge of saillon keepers, hacked away at liquor and lewdness and set the stereotype that prohibitionists are still stuck with.
"Sockless Jerry" Simpson punched government corruption in the nose as a fiery Populist leader. Kansas politics has had its ups and downs, but it has seldom been quiet.
And out of Kansas has come such journalists as William Allen White editor of the Emporia Gazette, who laughed the Ku Klux Klan out of the state and came to personify the best in home town editors.
The terse, sardonic editorial paragraphs of Ed Howe, editor of the Atchison, Globe, were requoted in the nation's newspapers. The "Sage of Potato Hill" knew how to flash human nature
before his readers.
On the political front, Kansas introduced the "blue sky law" which served as a guide for legislation in other states. In a day when the buyer had to be constantly on his guard, it regulated and supervised investment companies.
Kansas and six other western states were the first to extend suffrage to women. It pioneered the direct primary. A Kansas senator introduced the Constitutional amendment in the United States Congress for direct election of senators.
And Kansas farmers who had to work until the work was done helped pass the nation's first 8-hour day legislation to benefit business and industrial workers.
Health, schools and religion play a big part in Kansas communities
When public sanitation was practically unkown, Kansas abolished the contagious public drinking cup. It was the first state to swat the fly and ban the roller towel.
The state is far above average in children with full time schooling. Colleges, universities and research institutes offer a wide range of research facilities. Adult education programs are active across the state.
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