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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 28, 1957
One Man's Opinion—
'I Am A Native Kansan'
I am a native Kansan.
In other's eyes this means that I am a conservative Republican, I don't like change, I am behind in my thinking, and I talk with a drawl.
This is believed today because it was once true. I am doing all I can to make people think that it is just as true today as it once was.
I am doing this in many ways. I am keeping industry out of my home town. My home town is clean and neat and that's the way I want it to stay. There are a lot of white-collar workers in my town. I like this - this is part of a clean town.
I have not seen a population rise in my community for years. I do not understand this. My town is becoming a town for old people. The younger people grow up and go somewhere that is "booming." Don't they know what they are
missing or how much we have-gone through to keep it this way for them?
Last year in my community population dropped about 100 persons. Many of the businesses have closed and many others are hanging on waiting for better days. I wonder if they will ever come.
The area that I live in has the highest unemployment per capita in the nation. Pay is low, too, but one can expect this in an area where there are so many unemployed.
But nothing has changed. I still vote the same way, I still think the same way. Money isn't the world now is it? I have a good clean place to live and to raise my children until they get old enough to go to another state.
I'll have a clean town even if I'm the only one left to live in it.
...Letters...
Jerry Thomas
Lawrence Applauded Editor:
Your recent editorial page carried an article entitled "Is This Americanism?" and specific mention is made of the past experiences in the United States of the student from Kenya. I am the only student on this campus from Kenya, and this reference must therefore be to me. Under these circumstances I find it compelling to put on record a few observations on the general subject discussed in your article. The thesis of your article is that it is honourable to act positively in the furtherance of democratic practices. On this stand you have my unqualified support.
I have not had the opportunity to live in any other community for which I have such a high respect as that I now hold towards the Lawrence community. The Lawrence community has impressed me to a very high degree.
But this notwithstanding, the fact
Indeed, there are few societies in the world today which lend themselves to democratic practices with the admirable flexibility that I have been able to observe in Lawrence so far. For this reason I find myself unable to subscribe to the view that Lawrence is a segregated town. What is true of Lawrence, but less so of Lawrence than of many other parts of the world, is the fact that there are a few people, happily a very small minority indeed, who have not had the opportunity to know better.
still remains, that in a democratic society, even the views of such a minority, however distorted they may be, do nevertheless deserve and merit the attention and respect of all. No democratic society can afford to overlook the views of a minority group. But where the views of a minority group can be shown to be distorted and undemocratic, a democratic society can afford to provide for such a minority group an environment within which it is possible to cherish democratic practices spontaneously.
Where a people's traditions are involved, it is wishful thinking to look for drastic modifications overnight. The so-called segregation issue is traditional. This being the case, all we can hope for in the short-run is a genuine willingness to effect the changes that would bring about the desired end. This much the Lawrence community has done, and done it with amazing speed and admirable sincerity.
Downtown the Lawrence League for the Promotion of Democracy is playing a direct and positive role, while the Society of Friends has fulfilled to expectations. The momentum and direction of these developments cannot leave one other than impressed. My role throughout this drama, having declined that of aprompter, has been that of an observer. And now that the curtain has fallen on the first act, I find it a pleasure to join in the applause.
Shadrach N. Okova, Uganda Graduate student
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
25 Years Ago
NORMAN OKLA. — (UP) —The Jazz Hounds, traditional pep organization at the University of Oklahoma, were reinstated today by action of the board of regents. The fraternity was disbanded in 1929 because of violating the university "nonpaddling rule." Reinstatement was on condition that members refrain from rough initiation in the order.
Wed., March 30, 1932
COLUMBIA, MO. — (UP) Rivalry of law and engineering students at the University of Missouri that led to a battle in which four persons were injured dangerously, was characterized as "childish thoughtlessness" and adolescent enthusiasm" in the Missouri Student, official university campus publication.
DENVER — (UP) — The United States Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled against slot machines in Kansas, when it reversed and remanded the case of Roland Boynton, attorney general of Kansas, against the Twin City Confectionary Company.
"FORGET ABOUT WHAT I WANT YOU TO TEACH—CAN YOU DRIVE A BUS? TEACH SUNDAY SCHOOL? MAKE MINOR REPAIRS-?"
Amos Alonzo Stagg, outstanding figure in intercolligate athletics and physical education, and long director of athletics and head football coach at the University of Chicago, has accepted an invitation to serve as referee of the tenth annual Kansas Relays.
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