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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 19, 1957
Letters Red China Issue
Editor:
The editorial in The Daily Kansan recently, "Doesn't Red China Exist?", contains several amazing statements.
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First, acceptance of the People's Republic of China would give Red China the prestige she needs to take over all of southeast Asia - Thailand, Burma, etc. She wants diplomatic recognition because it would signify to the world that we no longer recognized the Republic of China as the Chinese government-in-exile.
The "useless procrastination" in recognizing the U.S.S.R. was due to our government's fear that the Soviet Union would profit by our recognition, which has been true, and probably would not have occurred if there had been an accredited Russian government-inexile.
It is interesting to note that the conspiracy within the State Department was responsible for our withholding funds at a time when Chiang's government desperately needed them.
It is not so "utterly ridiculous" to suppose that the Nationalists and their sympathizers could return to the mainland, with the help given them by the Chinese people and the United States government.
The "two Chinas" idea of recognizing both governments in the U.N. is an idea of Dean Acheson and has been given all the consideration it deserves. I would like to know just how anyone would know how well established a Communist nation is.
Reports from many missionaries say the people are unhappy. The negotiations in Geneva are made as an epilogue to the Korean War. The negotiations were started with the intent of releasing several American airmen. The program of thought control and forced labor camps takes care of the "backward" Chinese. As for the statement that nearly every other nation recognizes Red China, why has the U.N. voted, time after time, to refuse to recognize Red China?
Apparently the control of a government may be disputed. The government is composed of the laws and the state - not the physical land or force. After such a display of inhumanity as was seen in Hungary, the editorial is in bad judgment anywhere in the free world.
Bill Pendergrass
Kansas City, Kan. sophomore
Campus Chest
Editor:
I would like to urge an enlightened interest by the students in this year's Campus Chest drive. The list of organizations which will share in the use of our funds includes some of the most vital to be considered by college students.
The World University Service participates throughout the world to further the educational opportunities in organizations with the student primarily in mind. Students in other countries need help, and WUS can give that help as witnessed in aid to Hungarian students, if we support it.
We, as students, are every day taking on new adult roles; roles which entail increased obligation and responsibility. I really feel that there is no better way to show our awareness of the world around us, the social responsibility which is ours, than through active participation with time and money in the Campus Chest Drive.
The Campus Chest was set up to limit solicitations throughout the year by various charity drives. It was also set up to allow KU students, as a group, to show how thoughtful and considerate they were. A poor response for Campus Chest would be an indication of how inappreciative we are of our opportunity, and of how narrow we are in our interests. Let's find out about the organizations represented by this year's Campus Chest, if they are found worthy let us give like college students who are thankful and appreciative of their opportunities and advantages.
Jim Schultz, Salina junior
Where Were You?
What's That? We Won?
DIS-gusting!
After a hard-fought battle which won them the Western Regional basketball crown plus a green light to the NCAA finals this weekend, the basketball team arrived in Lawrence at 4 p.m. Sunday and was greeted by no more than 50 fans, half of them Lawrence High School students.
This shameful show of school spirit is disgusting. Basketball is no minor attraction in the United States, and we would guess that more people are interested in the outcome of the current national contest than the Suez crisis. Perhaps this interest is not justified, but that is not the point.
And if a basketball team has done well enough to advance to the NCAA finals, one would expect that none should be more jubilant than those at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, for it is THEIR team which has done this. Well, there were 50 jubilant people Sunday.
What's the excuse for the lack of welcoming spirit? Staff members of the University Daily Kansan called several dormitories and organized houses telling them that the team was arriving at the time it did. The KU telephone operator also called several houses informing them of the same thing.
But nobody showed.
Wilt and the boys are going to win the finals Saturday night in Kansas City. Of this we're sure. The relative ease with which they accomplish this will depend on how much the student body at large wants them to.
Let us look back to 1952 when another KU basketball team, with Cumulus Clyde Lovellette the "center" of attraction, won the NCAA crown.
Sunday a KU bus brought home the Western Regional basketball champions who were no doubt expecting some kind of demonstration by the students. The demonstration lasted a good 15 minutes—the time it took for the players to unload their gear and go home.
The student body and Lawrence generally went wild. Even the pavement on Massachusetts Street was set on fire. The cheering, cavorting and jubilation lasted until 5 o'clock in the morning.
Now is the time to make up for this past lack of spirit. We feel there should be a mass rally just before the team heads for Kansas City this weekend.
A Citizen
—Jerry Dawson
And by all means another demonstration when they have won the NCAA crown!
Mourns His President's Death
Picture a big, strong man, busting with energy, who believes in doing things, now, and obsessed with a purpose—a dedication, rather, to do the greatest good for the greater many. Credit the man with honesty, sincerity, and just about every virtue in the book except patience—there you have a picture of late President Ramon Magsaysay.
Problems big and small called for the President's personal attention. Once he was criticized for doing all the work. Could he not delegate the minor tasks to the vice president—the task, for instance, of receiving the people at the palace? It did not work. The vice president was frank to admit t othe press that the people did not want him; they wanted Mr. Magsaysay.
He started as an unknown. True, he figured actively as a guerrilla during the Japanese regime, but then most every government official now in office had at one time or another worked with the underground. Then he was appointed defense secretary by the late President Quirino. This was when the country was ridden with Huks. He wiped out the Huk movement, restored peace to the country and catapulted himself and the country into the world limelight.
November 1953, he ran for the presidency. One of the election issues against him was his seeming immaturity for he was not as intelligent and accomplished as our past presidents who were either
lawyers or holders of master's and doctorate's degrees. He was mocked, ridiculed, dubbed "the mechanic."
"Magsaysay is my guy" was the gathering cry. In a desperate effort to discredit the man before the electorate, his opponents uncarried and published his failing grades as a commerce student at the University of the Philippines. This infamous tactic did not faze him nor the people. He conducted a record-breaking personalized barrio-to-barrio campaign. He won by a staggering margin.
The man was always on the go—plane, car or boat, almost always by plane. Time and again, he would sneak away from "pending state matters," board a plane for parts unknown—usually an outlying barrio, there to gab with the common tao. His unannounced excursions usually threw his cabinet, his family, the newspapers, his security personnel, and the combined Philippine and J. S. Air Forces into a frenzy.
Magsaysay was a legend. People kissed his hands, touched his clothes, stared at him in awe and wonder. The opposing party had pledged its support and cooperation to Magsaysay in the 1957 elections. Reelection was a sure thing—simply an easy, free, purposeful mass movement to the polls to vote him for another term.
dream of what is good for us; then we work for it. This way, we expect to find a man as good as Mr. Magsaysay. It will take time but he'll show up, big as life.
March 17, 1957, he stepped into a plane. The plane crashed. The President is dead. Somehow, we felt he was too good to last. We Filipinos are dreamers: first we
M. L. Santaromana
TOPEKA — (UP) — Launching a campaign for retrenchment by cutting salaries and other expenses, Gov. Woodring planned to call before him all boards and department heads serving under him and lay the matter directly before them.
25 Years Ago
March 18.1932
Edward G. Robinson in "THE HATCHET MAN" Ad TAXI 25c From an Editorial
M. B. Santomonta
PHilippines graduate student Kent Thomas ... Managing Editor
Known causes of the depression are as follows: Wall Street and Main Street; prohibition and heavy drinking; luxurious living and hoarding; education and illiteracy; over-production and crop failure; Democrats and Republicans; expensive clothes and patched pants; capital and labor; ...the politician and the farmer; high salaries and low wages; talkies and contract bridge; loans and payments; lawyers and patent medicines — But need we go on?
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Our good friend Elrod was rather puzzled when he learned that the campus police do not have statutory right to hand out parking tickets on the campus.
"But," said Elrod, "if this is so, am I not entitled to the $372 I paid in parking fines last semester?"
"Heavens, Elrod," we rejoined,
"also, by the great Horned Spoon,
how did you accrue $372 worth of traffic fines?"
"Heavens El-
"A mere slip-up on my part. My auto, circa 1932, developed a thrown rod while I was driving to a basketball game at
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the noble Allen athletic arena.
"To my dismay, I could get no farther than the fountain of Chi Omega, which is devoid of yellow paint denoting 'no parking,' where-upon I dismounted leaving my auto to chance. Chance happened along
in the form of one campus cop, who immediately billeted my auto, circa 1932. I was unable to return to recover my property until just last week.
"One hundred eighty-six days had expired, and lo there was my auto vested in 186 parking tickets."
It is our understanding that in years past the Collegiate Young Republicans have invited the governor to speak at their annual convention. The governor was not invited to speak at this year's convention. Political prejudice.
"A multiple offense," we surmised.
After making amends with the state for exceeding the speed limit, one of our partners in crime has resolved to listen to WHB for radar detectors positions. K-double-A 359.
Jerry Dawson
We have gone on record predicting a Kansas victory in the NCAA finals Saturday night. But if not, it will be the referees' fault.
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