---
---
1234567890
2 University Daily Kansan Monday, Dec. 10, 1956
Should Students Be Responsible?
Despite objections from Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism and Public Information, members of the Kansan Board, governing body of the Daily Kansan, Tuesday passed an amendment to the constitution of the board which removed the political neutrality clause.
"Restraints of responsibility imposed upon an editor in the typical community and imposed by the editor in the typical community do not exist on a University campus. For one thing, the typical editor and publisher looks forward to continued residence in the community. He is under self-imposed pressure to make his opinions considered opinions.
"There are long-range considerations, inevitably spanning more than one student generation, that must rule in this matter. No amount of good intentions on your part in the Fall of 1956 will assure good intentions or objectivity on the part of an editor with an axe to grind in perhaps 1958 or 1960."
In addressing the board Tuesday Dean Marvin gave the following as one of his reasons in opposing the striking out of the neutrality clause:
Dean Marvin, in explaining the move, said in the letter:
In a letter written to the chairman of the board and made public to board members at Tuesday's meeting, Dean Marvin said that removal of the neutrality clause would not be permitted.
"The Kansan editor invariably is a senior, a person who will be gone from the campus within
a few months and who therefore will not reap the punishment for unconsidered and extreme expressions."
However, in the Oct. 11, 1952 issue of Editor & Publisher, a journalistic trade magazine, Dean Marvin was quoted as follows in responding to an Editor and Publisher question on "How much freedom for the student press?" —
Dean Marvin responded for Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who was one of 30 college and university presidents queried by Editor and Publisher. The consensus, according to Editor and Publisher, was that a majority of college presidents ask only of the student newspaper that it operate responsibly.
"Unless some basic question of community welfare is involved, I don't see any more harm in a college editor making a fool of himself in print than any other.
Either the dean is contradicting himself, or he feels that the taking of sides by students in political issues necessarily involves "some basic question of community welfare." It is admitted that side taking could involve the community, but we maintain and have maintained all along that collee students can be trusted with complete responsibility if such responsibility is imposed upon them or by them. Students would be "held in rein by their feeling of responsibility."
"The answer as I see it is to pass on the responsibility to the students through teaching and example to the point where the students are held in rein by their feeling of responsibility."
Duke Of Windsor Quits Throne To Marry
"I, Edward VIII of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, king and emperor of India, do hereby declare my irrevocable determination to renounce the throne for myself..." Thus, a man who had served an empire as Prince of Wales for 25 years and ruled as king for 327 days, divorced himself from all responsibilities and duties for "the woman I love."
-Kent Thomas
Historical Retrospect
In the presence of his three brothers at Fort Belverdere, David. Duke of Windsor, signed the abdication paper 20 years ago today—Dec. 10, 1936.
He was the first English monarch to quit the throne to marry before being crowned and the seventh king to begin and end his reign as a bachelor.
Abdication For Mrs. Simpson The woman responsible for the Duke of Windsor's abdication was twice-divoreed Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore, Md.
She was the woman for whom he renounced his throne because "I have found it impossible to carry out the heavy burden...without her help and support."
University of Kansas student newspaper
national tour of the weekbish
lwrkway 1908, daily army 1912,
tribune 1908, daily news 1912.
Daily Hansan
Telephone VIking 3-2700
Extension 251, news room
Extension 378, business office
Member Inland Daily Press Association.
Association press represented by National Advertising Service.
Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. News service: United Press. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year. Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University halloween week and second-class matter Sept. 17, 1910 at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of March 3, 1879.
Jane Pecinovsky ... Managing Editor
Felecia Ann Fenberg, Joan George,
Daryl Hall, Jerry Thomas, Assistant
Managing Editors; John Battin, City
Education; Robert A. O'Neill, onoazk1, Assistant City Editors; Dale Morsch, Telegraph Editor; James Bman, LeRoy Zimmerman, Assistant
Telegraph Editors; Dick Walt, Sports
Editor; Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Sports Editor; Margaret Armstrong,
Society Editor; Jim Sledd, assistant Society Editor; Jim Sledd, Picture Editor.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
David Webb ... Editorial Editor
Jerry Dawson, Kent Thomas, Associate
Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Lee Flanagan Business Manager
Todd Crittendon, Advertising Manager;
John Switser, National Advertising
Manager; Harry Turner, Classified
Advertising Manager; Mary Lue Cole,
Circulation Manager.
Following the death of his father Jan. 29, 1936, David ascended to the throne. He met and fell in love with Wallis, who was then married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson.
Although English newspapers did not mention the approaching crisis until a few days before the abdication, the American press was early to capitalize and speculate on the growing situation.
The man who was then prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, questioned the Duke of Windsor in October of 1936 because he was worried about the continuance of criticism of the monarch in United States newspapers.
The duke proposed to the prime minister that he be allowed a morganatic marriage, in which Wallis would not have been queen. However, because this would have required a change in the British constitution, a vote of confidence would had to have been taken in the House of Commons, and Parliament would had to have been dissolved, this could not be allowed.
Wanted Morganatic Marriage
The afternoon of Dec. 10 the speaker of the House of Commons announced the abdication to the House. The prime minister, who spoke to Parliament, said that he and the king had wrestled with the problem man to man, insisting they settle the whole issue themselves.
When David broadcast his farewell message at 10 o'clock that evening as a private citizen, more persons than ever before listened to him. Hushed, spellbound, his one-half billion listeners, his former subjects, gathered in streets, homes, theaters, and pubs to hear him.
David told Prime Minister Baldwin Nov. 16 of that year, that, regardless of the outcome, he was going to marry Wallis.
Prime Minister Baldwin said, "I reminded him of what I have often told his brothers and him in the past, and that is this: the crown in this country through centuries has been deprived of many of its prerogatives, but today—while that is true—it stands for far more than it ever has in its history."
Edward VIII's term as monarch ended at 1:52 p.m. Dec. 11 when a royal commission approved his abdication and the raising of the Duke of York, King George VI, to the throne.
Reign Ended Dec. 11
His address, which caused women to weep and men to square their jaws, began: "At long last I am able
He continued, "You know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne, but I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or empire. . . and I want you to know that the decision I have made has been mine and mine alone...
to say a few words of my own. I have never wanted to withhold anything, but until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to do so."
"It may be some time before I return to my native land, but I shall always follow the fortunes of the British race and empire with profound interest ... And now we all have a new king. I wish him and you, his people, happiness and prosperity with all my heart."
With King George VI and his mother besides him in Windsor Castle, David said good-bye to his people. He left the castle, where he had dined with his mother, brothers, and other kinsmen, shortly after his radio address for the boat which took him from England.
"God bless you all. God save the king!"
Today a "bring back the Windsors" movement is stirring in the British press. The question, both brief and complex, is: should the Windsors, who have been in voluntary exile since the abdication, be invited back to the Duke's native land to live?
David and Wallis were reunited in France May 4.1937-five months after she fled from England and the impending crisis.
It is the 20th anniversary of a decision which shocked both a kingdom and the world. The present-day decision will be made by Queen Elizabeth II, the slender monarch who was only 10 years old when her uncle gave up the throne.
What's This Mickey Mouse?
HOLLYWOOD — (UP) — When youngsters phone the Disneyland Amusement Park and ask for Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, they usually get this response from chief telephone operator Mrs. Pat Zimmerman:
Jane Pecinovsky
"I'm sorry, but Mickey (or Donald) is asleep right now and can't be disturbed."
With annual production exceeding 120 million bulbs annually, Michigan leads the nation in gladiolus bulb production.
KU opened in 1866 with one building,28 women students,29 men students and three professors.
Editor:
Well, here we go again—another letter criticizing the critic. But I am tired of reading Tom Sawyer's witty "pseudo-Time" reviews. I was impressed with the fine acting, the powerful set and the absorbing plot of "The House of Bernarda Alba." I do not feel that this was a drama based upon such a complicated and profound subject that only the few students with a thorough background of Spanish culture could appreciate.
Mr. Sawyer, once again, condemns a-play on its faulty interpretation, 'lack of characterization, etc. However, he neglected to tell his readers what caused 'the audience's bursts of laughter.' It was not the actresses' inability to pro-
jeet themselves in their parts, the laughter was provoked by small technicalities such as the door sticking when it should have opened, and vice versa, and the gun "popped" instead of firing.
This letter is twofold also. The first is to congratulate the cast and crew on a wonderful-job of Federico Garcia Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba". The second is to acknowledge Mr. Sawyer's growing reputation as KU's own George Jean Nathan (nasty New York critic). Terry Sullivan
Incidentally, the comic relief provided by Jane Quaid was intentional, that is the way Mr. Brooking directed it. In my humble opinion, all of the actresses did a fine job.
Harrisburg, Pa., sophomore
Why oh why does Santa go,
"Ho-Ho, Ho-Ho, Ho-Ho, Ho!"
Is it just because he's jolly?
I believe he's off his trolley.
... Gifts for everyone on earth
Breed hysteria—not mirth
If you had his job to do
Bet you'd shake like jelly too!
MORAL: End your gift problems before they start. Give Chesterfield in the carton that glows for real—to all the happy folk who smoke for real! Buy lots—to do lots for your Christmas list.
Smoke for real...
smoke Chesterfield!
$50 for every philosophical verse accepted for publication.
Chesterfield, P. O. Box 21,
New York 46, N. Y.
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Do You Have A Picture Like This? You Do! Enter it in THE DAILY KANSAN PHOTO CONTEST
Bring Your Photos, Any Kind, to the Daily Kansan Business Office, 111 Flint Hall Deadline: Noon, January 5