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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1956
Speak Out On Current Problems
It should be an interesting session 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when John Ise speaks before the Young Democrats in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
Prof. Ise has been one of the vivid speakers in pointing out the weaknesses of the present administration. What he has to say should be of value to both Republicans and Democrats.
It is refreshing to find an outstanding man who will speak his convictions on present day problems. In recent years there has been a tendency for people to be fearful of speaking out against causes that they do not approve.
For example, many students have been against the practice of saving seats at the football games for several years. They have remained quiet hoping that someone would do something to change the situation. It was not until the University Veterans Organization put their full force behind this cause was anything accomplished.
When a cause exists which is worth bringing
to the attention of the public, an individual should use every means to present his views. One such method in writing letters to the editor. He should write his conviction in a short clear letter.
Another method is to bring up his idea before his local governmental officials. If his problem is of national significance he should write his congressman. The weight of such letters has been proved by the swaying of many governmental leaders on important national issues.
The final step in bringing a cause to action is by running for political office. Today it is absolutely necessary to belong to a party before being elected. This creates a problem for many people who are against elements of both parties.
Instead of giving up the cause the individual should consider the prospect of joining a party. He should enter this party to improve it on issues and not to conform to all of its views. In this way he improves himself without giving up his convictions.
—David Webb
Book Review
Briton Asks For Return To Religion For Values
"Science and Modern Life," by Sir E. John Russell (The Philosopho- fiel Library, Inc. 101 pp $2.75)
scal Library, Inc. 101 pp, $27.5)
If there is one thing better than a book which gives good answers, it is a book which asks some good questions. "Science and Modern Life" poses some lulus.
The author briefly outlines the relationship of science and religion since the two first shook hands. Along about the middle of the 19th century they disagreed with each other and in one big huff left to walk their separate roads. The author suggests that it is time for the two to shake hands once more in order to preserve life.
Science and religion parted ways around a hundred years ago. Sir John notes, and since then science and technology have provided mankind with countless material satisfactions but the two have failed in the realm of principle. Man has the wherewithal in his hands to blow himself to smithereens but he hasn't the wherewithal in his head to refrain from doing so. Sir John says religion will provide the necessary ingredient for the continuation of the race.
"Will our young people rest content with scientific rationalism for the intelligentsia, a modest degree of standardized comfort for everyone, and then the end; or will they
Going back to the late 19th century when science and technology appeared to be the true road to a high and healthy standard of living for the whole world, few people saw the problem which science held for the future. The "great problem" which Sir John cites, is the failure of science and technology to provide a measure for a sense of values.
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prefer the larger view of life that religion offers?"
The young people of today have an enormous choice of how to occupy their increasing leisure. The educating systems in the United States and Britain, he says, have failed to give youth a basis for choice and youth is experiencing bewilderment, unrest and drifting.
Without a basis, youth resorts to imitating what it sees on television, in the movies and what it reads in unclassic books.
To see that youth can find something better to imitate. Sir John suggests a reversion from science to religion for the sense of values which he considers necessary to maintain a literally undivided earth
Ray Wingerson
.. Letters ..
Fraternities and sororities provide security for individual members. Members can identify themselves with this in-group. But an identifiable in-group requires the presence of an out-group which in some way differs from the in-group. This difference, whether it be real or imagined, is purported to be ingroup superiority. It could be intellectual, emotional, social, socioeconomic, racial, or cultural superiority. It could be a combination of these.
"In general, intolerance results from seeking security within a group." This intolerance is directed toward the out-group. But intolerance is a characteristic of immaturity which results from fear of competition.
Who is the out-group? It is composed of individual non-members, a majority of the veterans as a group, and non-Caucasian races, such as Negroes and Orientals. Few veterans and virtually none of the non-Caucasian races are members of these organizations.
Fraternities and sororites could serve a useful purpose by providing a place to live for people of all races, and for people of all economic classes. Before we approach Lawrence restaurant owners with the proposal that they open their doors to all races, it might be wise to open the doors of the fraternities and sororites to all races.
Incidentally, in a letter to the editor someone compared some veterans with "hermits." A "hermit" is one who lives in seclusion. A veteran in general has learned through experience to work with, live with, and respect people of other races and creeds. He has practiced free, social interaction.
Billy George Aldridge Kansas City, Kan.,senior
In 1900 life expectancy in this country was 47.3 years. In 1954, the last year for which accurate figures are available, average life expectancy had climbed to an all-time high of 69.6 years, an increase of 22.3 years in a half century.
Well, just like the inventions of the wheel and the airplane, we predicted it wouldn't last.
For the Ivy league look, just like Elvis Presley, seems to be getting more popular every day.
And, as usual, we were wrong.
It all started calmly enough, with pants with belt in the back. These belts served no particular purpose, but did serve to designate the bearer as a person who was dressed in style, and as a person who was definitely not a "square."
And after that came shirts with button-down collars, pleats in the back, and a niffy little button located smack dab in the rear of the collar.
This was the Ivy league look. Next, if we remember correctly, came silly little golf caps, also with belts in the back.
Now this is the button which has caused so many men to be late for dinners, dates, and other functions.
If a male desires to don a tie, he must unbutton this button. After he has the tie on, he must rebutton or run the risk of being a social outcast.
This is where the problem arises. To button said button requires the agility of a tumbler and the finger dexterity of a professional jigsaw puzzle authority. Of course, if the luckless male has a roommate, the problem is solved, but if he lives alone, things are really tough. The simplest method of buttoning the button is to remove the shirt, but this entails removing the tie as well, so we're right back where we started, which is not quite dressed.
After the Ivy league look had captured the hearts of the men, the girls took over. First it was blouses with Ivy-league collars, and then Bermuda shorts with belts in the back. Now they're even making dresses for girls which have Ivy league collars on the top. (Of the dress, not the girl.)
The fellow over at the next desk, who hates to conform to any accepted social standards, said he was thinking of joining a nudist colony, just to get away from the Ivy league look.
And now he finds out that to qualify for membership, he's got to go to a plastic surgeon to be adapted to button-down ears.
(The Daily Kansan welcomes letters to the editor on any topic or of any opinion provided that they are in good taste. They must be limited to 300 words and must be signed. The Daily Kansan prefers to use the name of the letter writer, but will use a pen name if the writer so desires. It reserves the right to use or reject letters for publication as it sees fit, and the right to edit and cut.)
Dick Walt
The first U. S. patent was granted in 1790 to Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia for a new potash manufacturing process and was signed by George Washington.
Gardening is one of the top hobbies in the United States with nearly $700 million being spent on it annually.
Kansas Has High Polio Death Rate
TOPEKA — (UP) — Kansas has experienced a high death rate in polio this year—13 compared to 4 for all of last year—in relation to the sharply reduced total number of polio cases reported.
Four new cases last week raised the polio rate to 177 so far this year.
compared to 260 at this time last year.
"Ten of these people. (deaths) were 25 years old and over, all non-vaccinated," she said. "A high rate is usually accompanied by a high number of polio cases, but this is not so this year."
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