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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 12, 1966
Our campers speak their minds... A call for patriotism A way to end prejudice Liquor by the drink Arab-Jew strain bitter
(Editors Note: Journalism high school summer campers spent some time (1) researching, (2) thinking and (3) writing last week. Here are some of the editorials they came up with.)
On peaceful integration
Integration is a word which appears almost daily in the news. One day two steps forward are taken and the next day one back occurs. Few people are really forced to think about it unless it strikes close to home.
Integration has finally come to Southwest Miami High, with the phasing out of an all Negro school—George Washington Carver. It came in its own quiet way last fall when our teaching staff became integrated. There were no demonstrations, and not a word was said.
For most of us the first day of school will be as it always has been. For others it will be a day of trying to be accepted and to the remaining few a time to do the accepting. It will be a time to grow.
Next year when the first bell rings we no longer will be a typical southern school nor will we be a northern school. We will be the ideal American high with students working together in almost complete harmony, split only by student council ideas and the number of points that we are going to win by in the big game.
A letter to the adults
—Peggy Goalstone
Dear Average Adult,
After listening to years and years of your complaints about me, I have decided to answer you. I am not what the television commercials show. I am not a painted sweater girl" running my fingers through a boy's hair. I am not a monster who takes all of my parents' money.
I do not fit into the category of a juvenile delinquent. I do not speed down highways and run over little old ladies. Neither do I break into houses at night to steal, injure or murder. I do not take joy rides in stolen automobiles.
I DO NOT habitually drink alcoholic beverages or blow cigarette smoke in your face.
What am I? I am a good, law-abiding young person trying to learn about life in a fast-moving world.
I am a student who spends much time and money preparing myself through schooling to meet the challenges that will be thrown at me.
I am the worker, the sales person in a store, the attendant at a gasoline station, the typist in an office.
I am the person who will take over the reins guiding this world from you. Wish me luck.
Sincerely,
Average Teenager
(Barbara Earnest)
We, teenagers of today, are the new generation, the leaders of tomorrow. However, what will tomorrow be if our actions don't change?
Take for example the demonstrators against Viet Nam. The boys are fighting to preserve our liberty; liberty the forefathers fought for many years ago. Instead of protesting against Viet Nam, we should be out carrying signs praising our boys, to let them know that we appreciate what they are doing. They are giving their lives to protect us, they aren't doing it for "kicks."
As for patriotism, there isn't much left. When the flag salute is being said, or the national anthem is being sung, the atmosphere isn't what it should be. Many people are looking all around; some are even running around the place. Very few eyes are really on the flag and many of the ones that are aren't actually seeing it for what it is. The red and white stripes, 50 stars lying in the blue flag, the symbol of America, will we let it die?
It will be up to every one of us to make sure the symbol of America doesn't die; but even more important, it will be up to every one of us to make sure America doesn't die.
Nancy Teters
Auto safety a great need
Legislators have unanimously passed an auto safety bill. The new bill requires set standards for many items in or on the car, which until now have not been included in many autos.
Newsroom—UN 4-3646 — Business Office—UN 4-3198
The law carries provisions for punishment of the violators. A fine of $1,000 will be levied for each single violation, with a maximum of $400,000 for any series of violations along the auto assembly line.
Summer Session Kansan
The legislation, passed without opposition, is a wise one and a large step in the right direction. The loss of 50,000 human lives on our nation's highways can be cut considerably by safety feature to include features which features, which until now have gone unused by many companies.
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It is up to the auto manufacturer to include features which aid the well-being of his customers.
Automobiles of today are reaching far ahead into the future with designs and conveniences of tomorrow. With the help of today's safety devices many more will live to enjoy them.
George Wilkens
Early engagements
ALTAVISTA. Va. — (UPI) - More than 800,000 teen-age girls will become engaged in 1966 and the median age for engagements is under 17 years, according to a survey by The Lane Co., furniture manufacturer.
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The burning controversy of the great northern cities remains the issue of busing small children to schools out of their neighborhoods in order to end "de facto segregation" in the schools. September promises another round in this battle.
Although it is not altogether desirable to bus little children away from home,busing seems the fastest and most effective way to solve the de facto segregation problem in urban schools.
DE FACTO segregation exists in the schools because two conditions act simultaneously to produce it. First of all, de facto segregation exists in housing: the different races live in separate neighborhoods and rarely mingle. Secondly, the "neighborhood school principle" is religiously applied. The result is that children grow up and go to school only with others of their own race, never coming into meaningful contact with fellow human beings who happen to be of another "color."
Children are not born race-conscious. If children associate with other children of different races while all still possess a child's innocence and frankness, the youngsters will be able to accept all persons as individuals rather than as members of a certain race. If children of all races are treated as equal individuals in the school environment, the senseless prejudices of their home environments will not become rooted in their youthful minds.
THE STAUNCH defenders of the neighborhood school argue that school integration must occur "naturally," that is, when housing becomes integrated and children of different races attend the same neighborhood school. But how long will it take to integrate housing? Adults, of all races, already harbor firm beliefs and prejudices about other races. They will be slow to relinquish their convictions and to live side by side with other "colors." What could be more natural than attempting to make two prejudiced adults of different races live in the same house?
When the young children of different races mingle, then, and only then, will integrated housing come about freely and voluntarily in our urban centers. Then, and only then, can the ultimate goal of all integration be achieved; this ultimate goal, as we see it, is the creation of a generation—and a world—of individuals who are free from the blight of race-consciousness.
HOWEVER, BEFORE busing can be a feasible policy, some definite actions must be taken. The quality of every single public school in a city must be raised so that all are of the same high quality as the city's best schools. Compensational education programs, such as New York City's project Head Start, must be undertaken to give to deprived children of all races the "readiness" for school and formal education possessed by children from middle-class homes.
Annie Reid
Oldest of subways
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The London Underground, completed in 1863, is the oldest of all subways. Prime Minister Gladstone and 30,000 other Londoners traveled in the gaslit railway carriages in "the historic" opening of the so-called tubes, says National Geographic.
What is so terrible about liquor by the drink? This is a question facing Kansans of all walks of life today.
Does the state have the right to say a man cannot order a cocktail or martini or even a glass of wine in a restaurant or bar? Let's explore this editor's side of the question.
I'm quite sure that I speak for most Kansans when I say that liquor by the drink is a privilege that each man should be able to choose for himself. In our modern society it is considered in good taste to have a drink before, during or after a meal in a restaurant or other public eating establishment.
Legalized "over the counter" drinks would lighten the burden placed on our already overworked law enforcement agencies whose duty it is to enforce this state's so-called "dry laws."
WOULD MORE alcohol be consumed if it were served by the glass rather than by the bottle? I'm sure the quantity would stay about the same, and possibly even be lessened. If a man wants a drink, he's going to get it one way or another. Why not make it easier and cheaper by offering it for sale by the drink?
The state of Kansas exceeds several states in many fields. But in the area of alcohol we tend to be a little stuffy. Think it over, Kansans. Do we want liquor by the drink, or don't we? Talk with your friends and write to your state officials. Let's see if we can't get something started.
Chris Abercrombie
LBJ: dream of Almighty
Welfare, Medicare, foreign aid,
poverty programs, government
developments—What is our dear
and dutiful President Johnson
trying to do?
It appears to this writer that our President hopes to raise his status to the Almighty himself by trying to make everyone joyously happy.
Mr. Johnson is trying to spread siks and satins over our country. He seems not to realize that even silk and satin soon grows thin and eventually turns to shreds. Historians will tell us that all great nations have fallen when the rulers tried to fill their subjects' hearts with gold instead of spirit.
Why even work in this country of abundance where, for some, it is far more profitable just to sit back and let Big Brother lump in welfare funds, poverty funds, medicare funds, unemployment funds, and college funds. You name it and the federal government is likely to have several funds for it. Our leaders will soon discover that the more they give to the people, the more the people will want. Does not Philanthropist Lydon realize that Americans need, they need desperately, to gain an incentive, a driving force, not an overflowing breadbasket. After all, the bread of life comes from work, not from welfare. Rome fell when its mighty emperors dished out riches to all. Will our beloved America follow this same lifeless path of self-destruction?
As George Eliot said, "Not liberty, but duty, is the condition of our existence."
—Bill Meredith
In recent days a certain world matter has pushed itself grotesquely into newspaper, radio, and TV headlines. This matter is the shaky relationship between the Moslem nation of Saudi Arabia and the young Jewish nation of Israel.
This recently was brought again to the attention of the public when Saudi Arabia's king visited New York City. He was snubbed there because of some of his anti-Jewish remarks. Forty per-cent of New York's population is Jewish, and they would not stand for it. New York's mayor Lindsay cancelled dinner engagements, tours, and meetings with the king because of these few anti-Jew remarks.
THESE DEVELOPMENTS are not new developments. Saudi Arabia and Israel have been at odds with each other for a long time. There was a time when the Arabs would not allow Israel's vessels to pass through the Arab-controlled Suez Canal. The people of Israel did not like this one bit. The two nations got to arguing. One thing led to another, and finally the British government and the UN had to send in troops to the canal to douse the flames of unrest. I do not have to say that this affair put the world at a point of political unrest.
First the Suez Canal, and now the snubbing of the Arab king in New York. These matters must be solved. I believe that if we solve the difficulties between Saudi Arabia and Israel, it would put the entire world at ease. If we, as a country, solve the problem, it would win both countries over to us as strong allies. Our now shaky appearance in world affairs would be "cleaned" up a little. And if for no other reason, it would relax strained relations between the different religious groups. Moslem and Jew.
Martin Umholtz
Why police get tough
Should big-city cops "get tough"? Tough not only in instances where rioting prevails, but in order to prevent these bloody riots?
Rioting in America has become a way for "the group" to let off steam, whether it concerns a major issue such as civil rights, or protesting an important decision by the police—to get tough.
Brought to light in the June 27 issue of Newsweek Magazine, the situation shows that police in many parts of the country are despised simply because they wear their badge. They are hated because many people feel that police can only harm them, especially in the ghettos of Chicago, New York, and Watts.
POLICE MUST get tough in the larger cities if they are to maintain general decorum in the streets. After all, isn't it the duty of the police to keep the streets safe? Even if they must resort to "get tough" policies, including dogs, clubs, and scatter-guns? True, these devices of law enforcement do injure severely, and sometimes kill, but aren't they used on those taking part in a riot, or starting one? And as a rule, police do have common sense, and only use these when necessary, so the general and law-abiding public becomes more protected.
Aaron Mermelstein