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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 23, 1956
Let's Be Informed In Politics
Thursday night the Young Democrats and Young Republicans will debate the election issues over what party is actually giving peace, progress and prosperity to the American people.
With the election only two weeks away we should do everything possible to gather information on what both parties have to offer. It has been an alarming tendency of both parties to avoid the important issues and to show their candidates as kindly people who are for everyone and everything.
Instead of making an intelligent appraisal of the issues the parties have emphasized the individuals that are running for president, Congress and governor.
There should be no political issue and that includes foreign policy that should not be open to debate. However, since foreign policy is a very
vital issue to our survival all candidates that are running for office should be careful in their statements.
When a foreign government makes a proposal during an election it is extremely difficult for the president to determine if the country is making a justifiable plea or if they are taking advantage of our differences in political views in foreign affairs.
Our government must be on guard at all times to not miss any opportunity where we can promote peace. If there is any chance that the proposal can be authentic we should listen carefully and patiently to the proposal.
In our type of government we have many differences in our views. We surely have the right to express them. However, we should use extreme caution not to endanger the future of our country.
Just Browsing ..
Well we'll be danger if this week isn't already about two-fifths of the way over, and here it seems like we're just getting started back to school again.
It must have been the unprecedent number of near-miraculous happenings over the weekend which has made time whiz along so rapidly—or else it's those four hour exams which are coming up Friday. And only three more days away—oh sick, oh flunk.
But no kidding, what a tremendous weekend, complete with all kinds of achievements.
In the first place, that football score was a tremendous moral victory, which probably resulted largely from the miraculous inspirational value of the "original" senior class cheer.
In fact, everyone seemed to have a tremendous time at the ball game, including Oklahoma fans, KU fans, Sarge, and the senior class.
Probably the only disgruntled observers at the big game were the staunch Republican boosters who were distributing sunshades advertising their smiling candidate for president. The clouds, which actually produced a little rain, made sunshades completely unnecessary. But the Republicans need not feel alone in their dismay, as we observed one spectator who came to the game equipped with a Frank Buck-type sun helmet.
Come to think of it, that might not have been such a bad idea, as a sun helmet would be a little more waterproof than a paper sunshade.
And while we're passing out pats on the back for originality, we mustn't forget the men of the building and grounds department.
Here we had been figuring that once it rained they would all be out of work, and they come up with some new innovation nearly every day.
—David Webb
For the last few days they've been setting bowling pins out in the
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middle of the streets and daring drivers to knock them down.
Matter of fact, we overheard one guy claiming he had done even better than a perfect game, because in one trip down the campus, he had knocked down 10 pins and three pedestrians.
And the B&G boys also have embarked on another project, which involves considerable earth-moving on that slanted area of the campus southwest of the library.
It hasn't been officially announced yet, but inside sources definitely report that the area will be made into a toboggan run. It will be used for intramural competition, and you can't hardly find no harder way to win a trophy than in sled-sliding.
—Dick Walt
Court To Hear Integration Plea
WASHINGTON—(UP)—The Supreme Court Monday cleared the way for a full-dress hearing by a Federal District Court on a plea by Negro parents for immediate racial integration of public schools in Dallas.
The high tribunal rejected an effort by Dallas school authorities to head off an early court showdown on the issue.
Its brief order left standing a ruling issued by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last May 25.
This requires the Federal District Court in Dallas to proceed with hearings on a suit by Negro parents asking for immediate admission of Negro children to the city's public schools on a nonsegregated basis.
Federal District Judge William A. Atwell of Dallas previously had dismissed the Negro parents' suit on grounds it was filed prematurely. He said Dallas schools should have time to "see what they can work out."
The Supreme Court has given local federal district courts the job of supervising compliance with the high court's 1854 decision holding school segregation to be unconstitutional.
The court issued a series of orders but no written opinions at today's brief session. It then recessed for two weeks so the justices can write opinions on a score of cases recently argued before them.
But the higher circuit court held there was "no basis" in law for his refusal to hear evidence on the parents' suit at this time.
Fifty years ago copper ores containing three per cent metal were not considered worth working; today with improved extraction techniques, ores as low as $ \frac{1}{2} $ per cent are regularly used.
The folding hand fan was invented in Japan about 670 A.D., introduced into China in the 10th century, and transported to Europe in the 16th century.
Alabama was the first state in the nation to operate a state-wide educational television network. Programs from three stations reach 98 per cent of the people.
Letters Don't Save Seats
Editor:
As we all know, the All Student Council, in its attempt to alleviate the problem of organized seat saving in the Stadium, has legalized the practice, moving the areas to be reserved twenty yards north of where they illegally had been.
This is a step in the right direction. Twenty yards in the right direction. It remains to step off the rest of the yardage—clear off the campus.
Let us consider the present arrangement. The ASC has guaranteed first come, first-served in the choicest seats, giving the students what is rightfully theirs, while robbing them of first come, first served elsewhere, which ought also to be theirs. Where is the fairness in requiring a student to arrive at the stadium at 11:45 in order to sit on the 41-yard line, while permitting a student arriving at 1:15 to sit on the 39?
The present action was brought on at this time by the myriad complaints of the students and the shower of criticism from parents and alumni who attended the Colorado game. (The Director of Athletics was particularly swamped by phone calls and letters from off campus.) If the new seating arrangement had not been set before the Oklahoma game, one of the campus men's organizations would have had several hundred independent men, recruited chief from dorms and scholarship halls, at the stadium at 11:45 to unreserve the "reserved" sections. I submit this sort of settlement would have been far more equitable than the ASC action, and would again have demonstrated that when the majority acts, it can usually get what it wants.
Therefore I ask the Student Council, and ask you, the reader, to ask them to rescind their legislation, and permit us again to have first come, first served. I doubt that any worry need be spent on their part concerning infractions of our rights.
It should be easy to do away with the new rule; after all, it was passed at a single Council meeting, and the constitution requires two meetings before such an amendment becomes binding.
E. David Cater San Antonio, Texas graduate student
(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 nation that boasts the highest average longevity is The Netherlands, say the National Geographic Society. Average life expectancy for a Dutch woman is now 72.9 years; for a man, 70.6
The Adirondack Mountains in New York occupy an area of 5,000 square miles in the north-northeastern part of the state.
The century plant blooms once in its lifetime rather than once in a hundred years.
Pastor To Serve Lutheran Students
The Rev. Mr. William J. Britton was installed Sunday as pastor of the Inmanuel Lutheran Church and Student Center, 17th and Vermont Sts.
The Rev. Mr. Britton will serve Lutheran students on the KU campus and those at Haskell Institute. He is from McPherson where he served
students at McPherson College and Bethany College at Lindsborg. He has been a chaplain in the U.S.A. Air Force and an assistant parish pastor at Immanuel Luther Church in New York City.
He is a graduate of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, HI., and attended the University of Michigan.
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