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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, Feb. 8, 1957
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Foreign Aid When Aid At Home Is Needed?—
Skid Row Rears Its Ugly Head
Why must we look outside our nation to find unfortunates who need American rehabilitation dollars, when our own Skid Rows are rearing their ghastly heads—regurgitating bits of human flotsam who need help badly?
The Grimes murders case has brought Chicago's Skid Row into the news. Most of us choose to forget that there are such jungles where men may go to hide, to get drunk, or lose themselves.
Most of us don't even realize that during the past few years women have joined Skid Row's men and that now teen-agers in increasing numbers have found that part of Hell called "Skid Row."
Chicago, unfortunately, is not the only city which has a Skid Row. Not far from here there exist conditions similar to those in any large city's Skid Row.
In the same issues of newspapers carrying the Grimes murders stories are appeals for aid to East Europe's refugees. Americans who have contributed their money, time and homes are to be commended for opening their hearts and pocketbooks and for striking Communism a mighty blow.
But can any nation afford to give to outsiders when certain of its citizens are living in the sewers of society and need help?
Or don't American citizens who are forced to exist in Skid Rows deserve aid and rehabilitation? What is the value of any man?
Construction of trafficways and super highways has done much to clean up Skid Rows—to all outward appearances. Those who were forced out by these and other improvements simply move to other sections of the city. A section is only what the persons who live in them make them.
What has been done about Skid Rows?— Project after project has been started and faded away;
Thousands of homeless men have been counted in the nation's Skid Rows.
Nobody_bothered to count the women.
There are more and younger youths on Skid Row today. They are uneducated, incapable of earning anything but a bare existence. They come to Skid Row because it's cheap.
Sociologists attribute the influx of women to the war. They blame the teen-agers on broken homes.
Can't something be done to solve their problems? The answer is yes, but it will take funds.
We've given immediate action to the needy abroad. Is it out of order to ask immediate action for those at home who need help?
We have excellent organizations such as "Save The Children," the Hungarian Emergency Relief Organization, and others to which Americans gladly give. Why not a "Save Skid Row" program?
We greet refugees from foreign countries with open arms, pocketbooks, hearts and homes. We give them what it takes to become good citizens.
Is it too much to ask to give the same opportunities to those who can be rehabilitated from Skid Row?
Jim Tice
Editor:
The recent letter from a group of graduate students interested in longer library hours, as well as a library branch of the Hawk's Nest, speaks well for KU students and is flattering to the library. I have always been favorably impressed by the relatively heavy use of books by students here and by the crowding of the reading rooms, particularly during evening hours and on weekends.
We too have been interested in the matter of library service hours, and we are aware that some students would prefer not to leave at 10 p.m.
It might be feasible, with some expensive remodeling, to keep the undergraduate library open later hours while closing the remainder of the main building, nonetheless the demands for later hours in other parts of the main library would be as inconsistent as the demands for study space in the under graduate library.
This suggests that the cost of longer library hours would be considerably larger than is anticipated by the group who raises this question in the Daily Kansan. A further and awkward cost factor is posed by the fact that the main library building, unlike some new library buildings elsewhere, is not designed for easy and inexpensive control.
There is also some interest in longer hours for the larger branch libraries on campus. I'm sure, for example, that law students occasionally prefer to work quite late at night.
Consequently, I must try to maintain an even standard of library service across the campus, one that is reasonably fair to all library users, without giving special privileges to any one group.
This letter is not to suggest that I would not be disinclined to consider longer hours, but it proposes that the cost factor is not a small one and that such an extension would require careful consideration for all campus libraries and in comparison with other urgent budget needs.
As we look hopefully toward a major addition to this building we might consider the possibility of asking the Memorial Union to provide some kind of canteen service in connection with an expanded smoking room. If we were to do this now, however, it would have to be at the expense of study space. I have indicated that we are unduly crowded already and that the student population is going to be much
Gray Or Plaid?
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
If white is good and black is bad, all of us are gray or plaid?
—Oden Nash
larger before we get an additional building. Consequently I'm disin elined to reduce study space at this time.
Ogden Nash
Robert Vosper director of libraries
The first European to enter the Indian pueblo of Zuni, in western New Mexico, was the Moorish slave Estevan, who came to New Mexico in 1539 with the Franciscan friar Marcos de Niza.
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The U. S. Military Academy at West Point was established March 16, 1802, and opened July 4, 1802.
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Some confusion resulted when our good friend Elrod stepped up to a campus pliceman who -was tapping on the windows of parked cars near GSP, Corbin and North College Wednesday night.
"What are you man?" our good friend Elrod asked.
"I am tapping on the windows of parked cars near GSP, Corbin and North College" was the reply.
doing, my good
"Because it is late, and the female occupants of said parked cars
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must be in the dorms before 11 o'clock which, as any fool knows, is closing time," was the reply.
"By my troth, sir, but you are a scoundrel! Have you no faith in the youths integrity, fidelity and, more, honor? Is it mere presumption on your part that these people have not as yet learned the purpose of the timepiece? Is it further presumption on your part that these people would purposely flaunt the law, given that they are in fact aware of the approaching hour of goodbyes, and are you further presumptious by assuming authority which is by no means yours?"
"But I was told to tap on car windows," the intrepid keeper of the peace replied, a tear bouncing from his left cheek onto the muddy sidewalk.
"Oh," said Elrod, and departed in haste.
The moral to the story will be announced at a later time.
We note that a course is offered for those who wish to learn to drive. This appears to be a contradiction of the wish to reduce the number of cars on the campus. We propose that a course be offered on "How to Walk." Perhaps then we would not be so muddy after having battled the quagmire behind Carruth-O'Leary known as "Zone A."
Wilt Chamberlain's scoring record has been broken. We trust he will adopt the battle cry, "Hold the Forte!"
Ad booki.
Jerry Dawson
Most of the dehydrated potatoes now being produced are in the form of dice, with their biggest use in canned stews and hashes.
NIGHT CLUB PARTY Featuring Music By RICHARD MALTBY
SATURDAY, FEB. 9
Student Union
8:00 p.m.