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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Oct. 7, 1957
In The Eyes Of The World
The people of America have a tendency to look at a problem only as it affects them as individuals. The integration problem is a good example of this tendency.
The people of the South that are opposed to integration, are opposed to it because they feel that their individual rights are such that they shouldn't be caused to mix with the Negro whom they consider inferior.
The people of the North that want integration want it because they wouldn't want their rights as an individual to be suppressed as they feel the individual rights of the Negro are being suppressed.
There are some people that can see beyond the end of their noses and realize that to have or not to have integration, as they see it, is for the good of the society as a whole.
America, the land of opportunity and equality, the country whose example of democracy should be followed, is well on its way to losing the reputation it had enjoyed. What country or individual can respect a nation, and the people of that nation who deny an individual his rights because of the color of his skin?
But too few people can look far enough to see that the friction between segregationists and integrationists is giving the United States a bad name. And the longer this friction continues the worse the United States will look in the eyes of the world.
If you don't think that the race issue is making an impression, a bad impression, on the people of other countries, glance at the October 7 issue of
Newsweek. This magazine reports that all across Europe last week, radio announcers needed only two words to begin their news bulletins: Little Rock.
All over the world the people of every country are getting the impression, and with very good cause, that America isn't the land of freedom and equality that it is stacked up to be. If this trend continues America will just become another country without any distinguishing features, no longer looked up to and respected.
But the worst result that the publicity of our racial friction is receiving is the use as fuel for the propaganda machines of the Communist countries. The heavy-handed masters of the Communist masses have never had such a good opportunity to prove to the millions that they have enslaved, that America and its democratic ideals are in reality a myth.
This fine propaganda material, put to use with the finesse that comes with practice, can easily tear down all the resistance that we have been trying to build up against Communism.
The American public must wake up to the fact that violent opposition to integration can lead us in only one direction, down. Either we integrate peacefully and sensibly, or not at all. Since all citizens who are proud of the country they live in, want it to enjoy a good reputation, peaceable integration is the only answer. Without it, other countries can still look down on us for pretending to have something that we are in reality without.
—Del Haley
Are you a good listener? The average person is only a "half listener." Even when he tries, he retains only about 50 per cent of what he hears right after he hears it.
Are You A Good Listener?
The way you listen has a great deal of control over the way people talk to you. Becoming a good listener makes you a better and more interesting speaker yourself.
Kansas City has the worlds largest grain elevator and is the U. S. leader in producing hog serum.
Alfred Hitchcock, the well known director, is 57 years old. He was born in England.
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. Letters To The Editor
Editor:
Cub And The Quill
To the average campus student, your article entitled Bill Present, Quill Absent (The Daily Kansan, Oct. 3) must have evoked many a chuckle. I too would have grinned at the blunders of your cub reporter and of Quill Club itself, had the facts been presented correctly and the blame for the incident been given to the proper individuals.
Contrary to the assumptions of your misinformed cub reporter, who incidentally must grieve terribly for the honor and prestige which he failed to find heaped upon himself, there had never been
. . .
a meeting scheduled for Wednesday night at 7 p.m., Oct. 2, 1957; not in the Oread Room or anywhere else in the vicinity of Lawrence.
Like every other organized organization, Quill Club schedules all its meetings at the beginning of every semester for the entire semester.
This year the Quill Club is meeting once every other week. Unfortunately, it met two weeks ago (Sept. 25) and will hold a meeting, open to the public, this following Wednesday, Oct. 9, in the Student Union.
If your cub reporter will merely consult the bulletin board in the
Student Union to ascertain the exact time and room assigned. I am relatively certain that, with the aid of his Cub Scout compass, he will be able to cover his story and spend a very enjoyable evening with his fellow students and the members of the Quill Club.
Bob Cross, Norfolk, Va; Paula Sutton, Overland Park; Melisande Magers, Kansas City, Kans., all juniors
(Editor's note: The cub reporter has been sharply knuckle-rapped and taught the importance of accuracy. But why was the vice president of the Quill Club at the place of the meeting?)
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"NUTHIN TO DO ON A LOUSY DAY LIKE THIS—WHADDA YA SAY WE GO TO CLASS?"
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Short Ones
Here's a note to the person or persons who took the money from the fraternity houses Friday night: Why didn't you try a KU student loan first?
If the plans for raising college entrance requirements are carried through, more than a few of us now enrolled can take a deep breath and thank our lucky stars we made it in under the line!
Gov. Faubus says he has given "until it has hurt." There is a man we would like to see become a philanthropist.
Someone thought they heard a prowler in the business office last night. Actually it was just those bad cheeks bouncing around.
Professors complain about low pay and students about high tuition—looks like somebody's getting it in the middle.
The Asian flu is nothing but a common flu with a passport.
The University is not actually located on a hill. It just seems that way because the surrounding land is so low.
The law students can't be accused of loafing on their front porch. They are just getting their facts and figures straight.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Bob Lyle Managing Editor
Marilyn Mermis, Jim Bantam, Richard Brown, Ray Wingerson, Assistant Managing Editors; Bob Hartley, City Editor; Patricia Swanson, Lee Lord, Assistant City Editors; Leroy Zimmerman, Telegraph Editor; Nancy Harmon, Assistant Teacher; Robert F. Calm Applegate, Sports Editors; Mary Beth Noyes, Society Editor; Martha Crosier, Assistant Society Editor.
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