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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 9, 1968
Loyalty oafs
If the Kansas Legislature should approve a bill which would force state employees to sign a loyalty oath, it would be a regressive move colored with foolhardiness and chauvinism.
A bill introduced in both chambers of the legislature that would in one case require all state employees to sign an oath. Another bill, introduced in the House is aimed at university professors and instructors, as well as secondary school teachers.
Such proposals are nonsense. They reflect an apparent lack of understanding of the ruling of a U.S. District Court last fall. The court voided a Kansas loyalty oath which had been on the books since 1949; the oath required state employees to "swear or affirm" that they did not advocate the overthrow of the government or belong to any organization that did.
The new bill would require state employees to swear they support the U.S. and Kansas constitutions.
The revival of the cath question is absurd in light of the federal court ruling, and indicates disrespect for the court.
Worse, the bills indicate naivete if not stupidity. The argument is true, if old, that people who don't support the constitution are the very enes who will have the least moral qualms about signing such an oath. Those who would mind—are the people who wish to protect such Constitutional rights as free speech, assembly and belief.
It would be nice if the patriots who think everybody has to wave a flag or sign an oath or beat a breast before being considered loyal citizen would please go away, preferably far away from the legislative halls. There are serious matters the legislators should consider, instead of being cafish about the loyalty oath.
The Editors
Letter to the Editor:
Red China is not a threat
To the Editor:
Those in the United States who envision the Red Chinese creeping out of their country and taking over much of the earth have been misled by a mass of propaganda and untruths. The danger of a Chinese takeover of the earth, or even of Southeast Asia, is so slight our American phobia is without basis. As one ponders the facts this becomes more and more apparent.
One who studies a few maps of China will soon realize all of China's land borders are sparsely populated frontiers. The Chinese people are not pushing to get over the edge of their country. In fact, in most places, the imaginary line that makes the Chinese border is not clearly defined. In nearly all cases, what lies across the border is no better than what lies on the Chinese side.
The rice in Southeast Asia is too small a quantity to warrant Chinese takeover. True, Cambodia, South Vietnam and Laos produce 55 per cent of the world's exported rice. However, most of the rice in Asia is consumed immediately, not exported. The rice exported by these three countries
amounts to four million tons, a tiny amount compared to the 180 million China produces annually.
Then when one considers the fact that a great number of Chinese people do not eat rice, takeover of Southeast Asia for its rice seems even less likely.
More important is the fact that most of the people of Southeast Asia do not like the Chinese. Furthermore, most Chinese in Southeast Asian countries have as one of their life's chief goals a migration back to the homeland—Red China.
The Chinese are culturally an expansionist nation, but they are not colonists. They are not apt to take over other countries. The fact is, and here I believe lies the danger for the United States, the Chinese want political dominance in their area—Asia. This desire for political dominance may be compared to the United States with its Monroe Doctrine and its political dominance in America. Thus, just as the U.S. has resisted Russian footholds in Cuba, the Chinese will resist the U.S. intervention in Vietnam with words and policy. Should they resist our intervention with
weapons, we Americans will have to face a war far worse than the present conflict. Perhaps this possibility could have been prevented had the United States never become entangled in Vietnam.
I don't know a solution to the present conflict, but I do feel the war is wrong and I feel justified in this opinion, solution or no. The main point is that many Americans have been misled by propaganda into believing that the Chinese want to take over the earth, a takeover that is supposedly being prevented by U.S. efforts in Vietnam. This is certainly the greatest misunderstanding of our time.
George Longenecker Reading, Maine, junior
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The Hill With It by john hill
From the state legislature we now have:
House Bill No.1962
An act requiring grade tests in certain public schools to be based on approved textbook information and materials.
Section 1. All questions asked on academic tests to determine a student's grade in a public school system, which maintains any of grades one (1) to twelve (12), must be based on material and explicit information included in the student's textbook, and such textbook must be approved by law. The provisions of this act shall not exclude the use of themes and research assignments for grade credit.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book.
Miss Finsterwald's First Grade Class Morning Section, SSN# 1984 State Hour Exam
Official Text For Exam: "Dick and Jane Primer" Multiple Choice:
(1) In chapter 1, the chief characters, Dick and Jane, are introduced, as well as other major characters whose interaction will mold together the essential elements of the myriad of subplots.
Who is Spot?
(a) Daddy
(b) the neighborhood pusher
(c) a peanut butter and jelly stain
(d) all of the above
(e) a rabid dog
(2) In the phrase, "See Jane run," what literary technique is well exemplified therein?
(a) Olde Englishe
(b) illiteration
(d) Jane being chased by the neighborhood pusher
(c) Jane being chased by a rabid dog
(e) some of the above
(3) In the passage where Dick and Jane's family goes on a picnic, indicate your metaphysical interpretation of the intrinsic surrealism behind the symbolism surrounding the enigmatic jar of mayonnaise. Is it a symbol for:
(a) the mustard
(c) Mankind's ever-reaching quest to forever extend himself upwards in a vain effort for the stars while inwardly seething in a whirlpool of unresolved inner conflicts and basic frustrations.
(b) turbulent desire between Dick and Jane
(d) the mustard
(e) I'm only in the first grade
(4) Teacher, may I go to the bathroom?
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