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KU Humor Magazine Emerges
University Daily Kansan
By Susan Flood
After several years absence from the campus, a campus humor magazine will make its appearance in May.
'The Bird' will be published by an independent corporation called 'The Bird Publishing Company.'
Stockholders in the company are Thomas Woods, Arkansas City junior; John Oakson, Leawood senior; Clark Ellis, Wichita senior; Phil Cooper, Prairie Village senior, and William Bradbury, Shawnee Mission junior.
"The first issue will of course spell out the Bird philosophy," Woods said. "In addition we will have 'The Bird' awards for outstanding endeavors or character, 'The Bird' advises on areas of utmost importance, and 'A Day With...'"
"WE HOPE TO have 'The Bird' ready to glorify student life by May 4," Woods said. "The price of 40 cents is minimal for the dividends to be derived from reading 'The Bird.'"
Woods said he would not reveal all the contents but did give a few hints as to material in 'The Bird.'
"Not to be outdone by the Jayhawker, we will have several 'Hillfloppers,' and to help the 'Bird' readers we will have a 'Student Aids Department' featuring sample tests."
WOODS ALSO SAID an advertisement in 'The Bird' would promote a kit to "help professors write their own textbooks."
Woods said they had received several letters expressing "grave concern" over 'The Bird' and that these would be "duly answered" in the first issue.
The ASC gave permission to The Bird Publishing Company to distribute the publication on campus and in University living districts.
The Bird Publishing Company will be responsible for all financial losses or gains, however.
Writers for the first issue of 'The Bird' are Tom Tatlock, Wichita senior; Don Eversmeyer, Wright City, Mo., senior, and John Middleton, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
Cartoons are by Thomas Eaton, a former KU student and cartoonist for the Kansan and Jayhawker who is presently in the army and stationed at San Antonio, Tex.
THE COVER, which features a caricature of a Jayhawker, was designed by William Gamm, Lawrence senior. Art work is by Larry Seidl, Lawrence senior, and photography by Russ LaVigne, Lawrence freshman.
"Some of us will be around next year and we plan to make 'The Bird' a quarterly publication," Woods said.
Friday, April 17, 1964
Reds Said Caught In 'Peace Paradox'
"Neither Marx nor Engles favored a rigid doctrinaire method in practical politics. They described their doctrine as an 'open' theory, adaptable in the course of experience," he said.
The compatability of communism, orthodox and revised, with the prospect of international peace and order was examined last night by Errol E. Harris, Professor of Philosophy, continuing his lectures on the philosophy of war and peace.
"Lenin maintained that Marxism should not be regarded as something
Barring the possibility of world revolution, orthodox Marxists say war is the inevitable prelude to international communism, Prof. Harris said.
BUT ORTHODOX Marxism is out of date, the professor said. Times have changed and with them communist thinking is also changing.
Lenin maintained that between states of opposing ideology the ultimate relation is inevitable conflict, he added.
completed and inviolable. Nevertheless . . . any change has somehow to be demonstrated as flowing from the underlying economic necessity of class conflict if it is not to be castigated as heresy."
ALTHOUGH SOVIET legal theorists did their best to evolve a notion of international law in accordance with Marxist theory, this has proved difficult, the professor continued, because Marx said law is an adjunct of the state and thus all law is devised in the interests of some class, enabling it to retain control of the means of production.
"BUT INTERNATIONAL law is not imposed by one class upon another, but ostensibly expresses a common interest among states," he said.
"We have seen that international law is not law in the proper sense and is largely an ideology, but its basis is not the economic relations between classes, as the Marxian doctrine ought to maintain. It is the power relations between sovereign states."