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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 25, 1950
H-Bomb Ban Becomes Vital Issue
The story is that the H-bomb ban, proposed by Adlai Stevenson, was just a shot in the dark for a campaign issue. If that is true, the incident helps to prove the adage "nothing ventured, nothing gained," because Adlai Stevenson's shot in the dark hit the bullseye. Politically, the issue caught on beautifully, giving the Democrats something new to talk about and giving them an area in which they looked as though they could gain some healthy support.
President Eisenhower recently commented upon the lack of merit of the proposal and with that said he would say no more. However, since then he has said more and, unless the Communists attack the United States before the elections, it looks as though he'll be saying a good deal more.
Looking at the proposal at a glance, anyone believing in negotiation as a step in the right direction toward East-West disarmament would have to agree with it's validity.
Of the three powers, U.S.S.R., Britain and the United States, only the United States has refused to discuss an H-bomb ban alone. Britain and Russia are ready to talk. The Republican administration, meanwhile, has demanded a package of talks which would include an inspection of weapons piles, nuclear tests, and ground forces.
Mr. Stevenson seems to have come up with a logical proposition for getting the disarmament ball rolling. As he admits, it might not work out, but at least we will be able to say we tried, and as a minister once said, the angels in heaven can do no more.
Republicans have criticized the Democratic proposal on all possible grounds, saying first that the Communist word is not worth the breath it takes to give it and second that stopping tests would give the Communists an edge in nuclear development.
A third point and one which seems to be at the heart of the matter is that of the United States being able to detect any H-bomb tests by Russia. Mr. Stevenson has said that H-bomb explosions can readily be determined but the Republicans have retorted that the Russians can test the bigger weapons in separate tests too small to be detected.
If this is so. Mr. Stevenson's proposal needs re-appraisal but if it isn't, and H-bomb tests cannot be hidden, the Republicans are going to have a fine time trying to match the Democrats for a campaign issue that is touching Americans and the outside world so closely.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UP) Thurgood Marshall, general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Wednesday night called on church members to speak up and stand behind the principles which are taught in the churches.
Speaking at an inter-racial leadership conference of the Methodist Church in Kansas City, Mr. Marshall said that many people who believed in desegregation have been swayed by opponents of integration into believing that the Supreme Court is not the law of the land.
Urges Support to Fight Segregation
—Ray Wingerson
Just Browsing...
Everybody is trying to get into the act.
First comes the famed KU band or the "marching morons," as a friend of ours calls the bandmen. This band comes up with all sorts of unusual marching stunts and novel songs which astound the public.
Then, not to be outdone, along comes the Student Union Carnival, and various organizations attempt to outdo each other in the field of original originality.
And now, bigger and better than all of them, the homecoming committee steps into the spotlight.
Well, not really the entire homecoming committee, but at least that particular group which deals with the beautiful and scenic decorations which adorn our lovely campus during the homecoming weekend.
As an attempt to demonstrate its own originality, and as a further challenge to other original thinkers around the campus, the house decorations committee has decreed that all homecoming decorations must contain the title of a song.
This is indeed a challenge to the ingenuity of the average student.
Since the homecoming game is with Nebrsaka this year, the perfect homecoming theme obviously should contain some reference to Nebraska, the Cornhuskers, or even the Cobs.
Despite the obvious fact that there have been millions of songs written since the invention of the electric guitar, finding one which fits in with the homecoming theme is just a wee bit difficult.
So go ahead. Just name me a song which includes any of those phrases in its title, unless it's the Nebraska fight song, and this would hardly be appropriate.
Discarding the idea of references to Nebraska, we next turn to the item of including Kansas, Jayhawks, Hawks, victory, or other folderol. Here again we run into a complete void, except for KU fight songs, and these seem to lack originality.
Exhausting these possibilities, the only thing left to do is to run down to the juke box and start looking. Here again, our research met with little success, principally because of the nasty old ruling which won't permit any of the song title to be changed.
King House, the first home equipped with glass windows in Central Alabama, is still standing. It is part of Alabama College at Montevallo. The house was built in 1823.
The stone likenesses of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln step Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota, can be seen for 60 miles.
But to all you decorations chairmen in all the houses, here's a suggestion, just in case they start letting you change the titles.
Nothing could compare with a giant, animated statue of our Elvis, complete with guitar, belting out the new revised version of "You Ain't Nothin' But A Corn Cob."
—Dick Walt
27 States Allow Time Off To Vote
CHICAGO—(UP)—Workers in 27 states legally can take time off from their jobs to vote in the general election Nov. 6, Commerce Clearing House said today.
States that require pay for specified periods of voting time are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
But in only 15 of these states is the employer required to pay workers for the time they take off on election day, the reporting authority on tax and business law said.
Since wood came into common use in the making of paper—around 1880—the per capita consumption of pulpwood in the U.S. has increased 7-fold, to nearly 800 pounds annually.
In 1955, retailers and packers spent a total of $100,000,000 in meat advertising.
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Fraternities Defended
Editor:
The letter written by Arthur M. Harkins, Ottawa freshman, is indeed interesting. I'm not amazed at Mr. Harkins' deep interest in fraternities, and I must say I'm sorry he hasn't had the occasion to get a better insight to one. To a non-veteran (and therefore inexperienced on the battlefields of rest and rehabilitation) the opinion that fraternities are not "all perfect" is quite sound. I've yet to find any organization that is "all perfect."
I do indeed admire and respect Mr. Harkins' undoubtedly candid statement that fraternities are comparable (excuse, please) "quite comparable," to an assembly line turning out a set type of product, and that in order to survive, he must "keep with the herd."
Well, being one of those creatures classified as gregarious, I have found a fraternity the ideal in collegiate living. I do feel that Mr. Harkins figuratively has his nose pressed against the pane in his outlook at individualism in the fraternity. My observations of individualism and the fraternity have shown that the brotherhood developed individuality and exploited it to its fullest, yet guiding it in those paths adopted by our wide society. To me this would seem the ultimate, for society respects any individual but looks askance at a hermit.
Maybe hermit veterans will die out, maybe not. Since I won't be able to come back to the old Alma Mater to work on my master's with G. I. money, I won't be able to tell. Many of us will not worry through the night about it.
Norman F. Suedekum Hutchinson senior
(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.)
The longest length of straight railroad in the United States is on the Seaboard Air Line in eastern North. Carolina-78.86 curveless miles.
By Christmas of 1957 the yearround population of Antarctica will total many hundreds of men, citizens of a dozen nations taking part in the greatest scientific assault ever made on the secrets of the white continent. If United States plans for the International Geophysical Year carry through, 15 of the number will be Americans living and working atop the geographic South Pole itself, the National Geographic Society says.
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