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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 4, 1957
It's Wrong, But—
Write Checks, Flee Fines
Keith L. Nitcher, University comptroller, is probably right when he says no one is trying to cheat KU when he writes a bad check for fee payment.
A rubber check can be written by the best of us. Somehow the zeros and other numbers get mixed up in the check register; the check-writer adds when he should subtract, and before long, the "insufficient funds" fan mail starts pouring in. If the errant financier makes up the deficit right away, the most he may suffer is a few dark looks from his banker.
About $1,600 worth of checks have bounced at the Business Office since fee payment began last Thursday. Out of the University's million-dollar "take" on fees, a delay in payment of only $1,600 isn't bad.
But here's the hitch: Whether honest or dishonest, the bad-check writer gets a short, free reprieve on his fee payment deadline. When payment time comes, all he needs to do is write a check, then wait a few days for it to bounce and resubmit it again. By that time he may have scraped up the necessary cash.
Meanwhile, another poor-but-honest student's ship doesn't come in until a few days past the fee deadline, so he delays his march to the Business Office window. For his hesitancy he is fined for late-payment at the rate of $2 the first day,$4 the second, etc.
The penalty for late fees is all right. Without it, students would be drifting into the business office all through the semester. But the bad-check boys' knuckles should be rapped along with those of other late payers.
Mr. Nitcher says the business office isn't going to charge for late payment due to bad checks. We think he is wrong.
Larry Boston
Deserve Own Back-Patting
Newspapers across the nation have been patting themselves on the back this week. The reason: this is National Newspaper Week, a period set aside for recognition of the fourth estate's achievements and responsibilities.
A lot can be said for the need and the pleasures of a free press. The trouble is that most of it has been said before. After-dinner listeners and after-dinner readers have been bored to tears with the old cliches about the greatness of a free press.
It hasn't always been so. The days of "yellow" journalism, fortunately for all of us, are gone for good.
But editors are on the right track today when they say they are doing a good job of reporting the news. The fearless reporting which went into the recent stories from Little Rock, Ark., are good examples of how far news agencies are willing to go for you, the reader.
It's also true that the newspaper you read over your breakfast coffee or during a long evening is one of the cheapest and most reliable sources of
information about what the world has done in the past 24 hours.
Newspapers have become so reliable, in fact, that people make them part of their daily living. If you don't believe this, ask the carrier boy who listens to customers' complaints when they don't get their paper.
Newer, faster media, such as radio and television, have come along to fill the time gap between when the news happens and when your paper is delivered. These new reporting methods have served to increase the usefulness of the newspaper as a news carrier, giving it a responsibility to analyze and clarify the news.
In a world of fast-breaking news stories, your daily newspaper provides a lot of reading for a nickel. In a world of countless restrictions on individual liberty, the freedom that newspaper represents is priceless.
The University Daily Kansan joins with the rest of the American press in pledging to continue its efforts to give you as much news as possible as quickly as possible.
Larry Boston
Segregation: A Reappraisal
Legal segregation of the races, in the public schools and elsewhere, is inevitably coming to an end, however slowly.
Desegregation under the law is not the same thing as integration. The one can be achieved by bayonets. The other cannot.
Bayonets can force the abrupt end of segregation only at a terrible cost. The penalties of using federal military power at local levels will be paid not only by the white southern community but by the whole nation, including Negro citizens in whose name the force is invoked.
We have come to our present pass in Little Rock because one or another of these things has been forgotten, or been disbelieved, by the people involved. If they continue to be forgotten, what lies ahead may be worse.
It is not just the Supreme Court decision that makes the end of segregation as a system of law foreseeable. Neither court decisions nor soldiers can alter the mores of a people. But in this instance the mores of the people are being altered by the pressures of time and new generations. The body politic is coming to view legal segregation as an anachronism. Although the trend may not be so noticeable in the South as elsewhere, it is felt there too. And in time it will carry the day.
Integration is another matter. Legal segregation ends the moment that being a Negro is not by itself a bar to a public place. It is many days' journey from this to being an integral part of the community in the broadest social sense. An integrated status is something people must win slowly and patiently for themselves.
From these two things, we think, it follows that the southern leaders who say "never" to the ending of segregation are taking an impossible stand; eventually they will be overwhelmed. Moreover, it is an unnecessary stand, for they are assuming that racial desegregation is the same thing as racial integration.
It also follows that extremists in the North who demand force mistake the remedy. Force is not needed to end a legal segregation of the races in time. Force is futile as a means of achieving anything beyond the merest legal requirement; indeed, it can defeat itself because the very act of using soldiers can drive a wedge between the white and Negro southerners who have to continue to live together.
But the penalties from bayonets are not alone for southerners, white or Negro. Although the right of the Federal Government to protect its laws against anarchy is beyond question, the whole country must suffer if that power is to be used on the pretext of a one day's riot. We are on treacherous ground if we make instant and unquestioned obedience by a community the alternative to feeling the full might and power of the U. S. Army.
Little Rock has clearly made necessary a new and realistic appraisal of the implications of the Supreme Court decision. That reappraisal should dissuade the South from any irresponsible notions of nullification and persuade the Federal Government to discard its dangerous flirtation with force.
—The Wall Street Journal
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