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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 22, 1958
Nuclear Tests Should Stop
Students at various universities across the United States have protested concerning the nuclear tests.
At Stanford University about 3,000 students took part in a peace march April 17. Of these 335 signed a petition to President Eisenhower protesting the United States' proposed tests.
In May a similar peace walk was held at the University of Washington. Prof. Abraham Keller, peace section chairman of the American Friends Service Committee and one of the organizers of the walk, said. "Students should be especially interested in this effort because it is they who will live in the future. . ."
Student government leaders at the University of Chicago recently organized information sessions on atomic testing.
In a letter to the editor of the Chicago Maroon, the university's newspaper, a member of one of the campus political parties said, "I am alive today only by a miracle. We all are. The present U. S. government policy toward nuclear testing is a threat to the entire human race. Humanity has often, in the past, put up with grave dangers to avoid greater evils, but this is not such a time.
"As students, the intellectual leaders of tomorrow which may not come, we all have an important role to play. We also have a duty to play it.
Geneticist H. J. Muller, a Nobel prize winner, warns that the number of lives 'seriously curtailed or injured throughout the world in future
generations as a result of tests already held, is in all probability in the hundreds of millions.
"The Atomic Energy Commission attempts to reassure us by speaking of 'negligible' effects. Perhaps they are accurate statistically, but they should be reminded they are dealing not with statistics, but with human beings.
"In a world population of nearly three billion, a million people can form a statistically negligible quantity; but it is still a million people.
"The United States already has sufficient bombs to 'overkill' Russia several times. Would our national security be improved if we could 'overkill' them?
"We are told that further tests will enable us to develop a 'clean' bomb. So what? When in history have nations hesitated to use the ultimate in destructive weapons in terms of war? The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would find that a difficult question to answer."
The discussions about disarmament and the ceasing of testing seem far away—in some place like Geneva or Washington—but in this day of inter-continental ballistic missiles they are actually in our own backyard.
Just remember those "negligible statistics" could include you.
A poem in a recent Punch magazine warns:
To call the H-bomb clean.
Makes sound and sense divergent Unless it's meant to mean The Ultimate Detergent.
Chuckles In The News
WASHINGTON-The name of Bernard Goldfine popped up in the Senate debate yesterday on the reciprocal trade program.
—Martha Crosier
Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-SC), arguing against extension of what he called the "reciprocal trade give-away," claimed that the program clothes the President with the "legal right to out-give Gold-fine."
CHICAGO — Alderman Charles H. Weber's face is slightly red today.
OAKLAND. Calif.-It will be four days in the cooler for Manuel Fernandez, who was unable to pay a $20 fine levied on him yesterday for running through a red light on his bicycle.
After he had complained to police that private vehicles on Damen Avenue were hampering the work of street cleaners, officers began ticketing all illegally parked autos in the area. Among the cars tagged was Mr. Webber's big white Cadillac.
SAN FRANCISCO — Eleanor Moses, Miss Alaska in the Miss Universe contest to be held at Long Beach, says she doesn't go for the sack look.
The 20-year-old Athabaskan Indian from Fairbanks, who paused here long enough to buy a kimono, explained, "My people have been wearing sack dresses for generations. The kimono is prettier.
TOKYO—Ball boy Yoshito Hata-dome has a real selling point to advance his ambition to become a player with the Inatsuki Middle School baseball team in Fukuoka Prefecture.
Yoshito trained his two shepherd dogs to retrieve lost balls and now has accumulated 500. He says he will give all of them to the team the day he is taken on as a regular.
ANTELIAS, Lebanon—Kilroy is here.
Staff Sgt. Donald Kilroy of Philadelphia is among the U. S. Marines who landed last week.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"IF YA ASK ME - IT HAS ALWAYS HAD A 'FUNNY' TASTE."
Short Takes
HOLLYWOOD—During rehearsals for filming of "The Lineup." (CBS-TV), Georgette Duval followed the script and kissed her TV boyfriend. But when the director asked her to try it again, she said she couldn't, explaining: "I'm engaged to be married, and my fiance wouldn't understand."
NORTH TONAWANDA. N. Y.—
If it's music that makes the world go 'round, the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. rates a big assist. For there aren't many civilized spots where the company's jike boxes haven't shown up. Wurlitzer machines are now shipped to more than 50 countries around the globe.
HOLLYWOOD — Bill Williams, star of 25 westerns, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He never rode a horse until he appeared in his first Western.
BOSTON—Railmen in the Greater Boston area have presented the Boston Symphony Orchestra with a 175-pound brass bell which once adorned a New York Central locomotive. As part of the orchestra's brass section, the bell will be used in special arrangements of such songs as "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad."
SALEM, Mass--Parker Brothers, Inc., manufacturers of games, have a special interest in Alaska's becoming a state. Creation of the 49th state means obsolescence for thousands of games which are based on 48 states and 531 electoral-college votes.
HOLLYWOOD—"The Beast of Budapest" was filmed in Bronson Canyon, Hollywood, and at a studio.
BELGRADE—There are 22 movie houses in the capital of Yugoslavia. Almost all the films shown are American-made.
VIENNA—The silver baton of Franz von Liszst, who died in 1886, was recently auctioned off for $25 in a state pawnship.
Texas has about 6,500 oil producing firms.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
(Published Tuesdays and Fridays)
[Published Tuesday]
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Editor Martha Crosier
Business Manager Bill Irvine
Staff Bob Hartley,
Harry Ritter, Fred Miller, Robert Lynn
Manager James E. Dykes
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
(Answer on Page 7)
ACROSS
1 Rudely executed painting.
5 Go away!
10 General Clark.
14 In addition.
15 Residence.
16 Eagerness for action.
17 Garden.
18 Site of "Operation Deep-Freeze."
20 Ominous signs.
22 Coast Guard vessel.
23 Keep secret.
24 Man's name.
25 Satirical imitation.
28 Mauled.
28 Beguile.
31 Signor Prato.
34 Sportive trick.
35 Make fast.
36 British news agency.
39 Old — Theatre.
40 Candled —
42 Smithereens.
43 Break.
45 Debutantes.
47 Pole jumps.
49 Not abounding.
50 Region.
51 Where the wake is.
52 Giving.
57 Short and lively rural strains.
59 Liquid rock.
60 Sourdine.
61 Great artery.
62 Affected nice.
63 Mountain rock.
64 Perceiver.
65 Park on the Hudson.
DOWN
1 Not easily fathomed.
2 Actor Ray.
3 Employer.
4 Bottom of the sea.
5 Sterne's hero
  Tristam.
6 Short story.
7 Tracks.
8 Man's name.
9 Famous Flemish geographer.
10 High-spirited.
11 Came down.
12 Field day event.
13 Burr in wood.
14 Abrupt.
15 Duck.
24 Walking sticks.
25 School assignment.
26 Friend from Mejico.
27 Rounds of a ladder.
28 Posts for tying hawers.
29 Emulate.
30 Royal order.
31 Waterways between piers.
32 Conductor.
37 Made of ivory.
38 Not full.
41 Calmer.
44 Animal of Christmas song.
45 Poet and singer.
47 Poughkeepsie's college.
49 Philippine island.
50 Weapons.
51 Borsch.
52 Ballerina's dancing skirt.
53 Rank below a baron: Abbr.
54 Not foolhardy.
55 Keenly cager.
56 Not sound or efficient.
58 Card game.
Russians Build Railroads
BUDAPEST—(UPI)—Railroads may be piling up deficits and tearing up tracks in America but behind the Iron Curtain it's a far different story.
In the east, thousands of new miles of track are being constructed. The Communist countries are tying together their networks. In a word, the railroad business is booming.
This much emerged last June when 140 delegates from 25 European nations of east and west gathered here in the annual congress of the International Railway Organization (U.I.C.F.—Union Internationale de Chemin de Fer).
Railway construction and modernization have been continually getting near-top priority in the state planning of Communist countries.
It was learned during the U.I.C.F. session here that a new "organization for cooperation of railroads" has been coordinating rail operations in Russia and its allies for the past two years.
It is called the "O.S.S.H.F." and takes in all the Communist states—including Communist China, North Korea and North Vietnam.
An O.S.S.H.F. spokesman emphasized that besides the modernization of existing railroads, new lines have been built or are under construction in Eastern Europe and especially in Soviet Russia.
He declined to give exact figures but said that railroad lines being built in Russia presently are "thousands of kilometers" long.
As one example he mentioned that a 2,000-km line is being built in the Karakorum area and that other brand-new railroad lines are under construction in Kazakhstan and in eastern and western Siberia. He also said that a new branch line of the Trans-Siberian Railroad would improve the traffic communications with China after its completion.
The spokesman said, however, that the "most gigantic" railroad construction program of all "People's Democracies" is being carried out in China—although it would still be "decades" before China has sufficient railroad communications.
He also announced that "great efforts" are being made in all eastern European countries, especially in Russia, to replace steam engines with electric and diesel engines.
"The creation of new industrial and economic centers make it necessary to improve railroad communications but we have no strategic reasons in mind when planning new railroad lines," he claimed.