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Medicare Is Topic Debate Match
The administration of a medical care program for the aged was the subject of an English-type debate here last night between KU and Ohio State University.
KU took the affirmative of: "Resolved: That the federal government should establish through social security, a program of medical care for the aged."
OHIO STATE state the debate, 40-29, by a hand vote of the audience.
KU's first speaker, John Johnston, Independence, Mo., junior, said, "The federal government is giving money to everyone else, so why not give it to the aged."
Johnston said 10 million of the 16 million aged persons in the United States today do not have private health insurance. He said only one of five persons in this category has a paying job.
The Civil Rights Council last night discussed what members could do to support the passage of civil rights legislation. Action to eliminate discrimination in local taverns was also considered.
CRC Discusses Bills, Taverns
Don Warner, Topeka senior and chairman of CRC, asked members to write their representatives in the Kansas Legislature explaining why they would like to see the legislation passed.
WARNER DISCUSSED some of the appeals that might be made for passage of the Public Accommodations and the Fair Housing bills that are present before the Kansas Legislature.
"Legislators are not interested in appeals to morality," Warner said. "If either of the bills is passed it will be for economic or practical reasons.
"One of the most important appeals that we can make is in connection with our foreign students," Warner said. "Many of them have been refused service in local taverns. They may take a poor image of the United States back to their home countries.
IN CONNECTION with a meeting of Lawrence tavern owners, Warner reported to council members what James E. Titus, president of the Lawrence Human Rights Commission, had told him of the meeting. No representative of the CRC was present at the meeting at which Ralph King, county attorney, talked with owners of 7 of the 11 taverns involved.
King expressed his desire to the owners that integration take place without a law suit, but added that if a complaint should be filed he would begin work on it that could easily result in a suit.
"It IT IS NOW up us to pick up the ball again on the taverns," Warner said. "The Lawrence Commission has done all it can."
He said that the CRC should now encourage Negroes to seek service in local taverns in as courteous a manner as possible and without bringing pressure on the owner.
"THEY ARE earning half as much as the average wage earner, and are sick twice as much," Johnston said.
Ed McGone of Ohio State said the negative side was for the medicare concept, but not through social security.
McGone said the affirmative, despite presenting a good case, "forgot to mention our present welfare system to handle these cases.
"THIS RESOLUTION would provide welfare for the wealthy who can provide for themselves, and also for the healthy aged who would never need aid," McGone said.
"It would also put a burden on the common laborers who would be required to pay the same amount as the wealthy."
"TO QUALIFY for aid under this plan, one must prove he is destitute," Salter said. "This often is so humiliating that people will refrain from applying."
Dean Salter, Garden City senior, attacked the Kerr-Mills plan that was advocated by Ohio State. He said the bill, if adopted by Kansas, would offer welfare to only one per cent of the population, while about 15 per cent need aid.
Sarah Benson of Ohio State said a number of the 10 million aged will never need medical assistance. She attacked Salter's case for humiliation for the Kerr-Mills bill.
"Both Ed and I have scholarships, and we didn't mind filling out extensive applications which asked about our financial situations," she said.
IN A THREE-minute summary of his team's position on the question, McGone made these three points:
- Social Security is not a fair means of giving aid because it provides aid for those who don't need it.
- No one has ever been denied medical aid when they needed it under our present system.
- The existing welfare system does an adequate job of providing aid for hardship cases.
Salter summarized the KU argument: "We admit the resolution does not cover everything, but it does provide for some needed assistance to the aged."
TOPEKA — (UPI) — A bill recommending mandatory jail sentences for drunken driving was through the committee stage to day.
The House Roads and Highways Committee yesterday unanimously favored for passage the bill that would put persons convicted of driving while intoxicated in jail for a minimum of five days.
Bill Would Jail Drunken Driver
Also, the House State Affairs Committee yesterday heard testimony from proponents of a bill to establish a Kansas Youth Authority.
Samson 'Polled,' Not Shorn
NEW YORK — (UPI) — “Flowers” mean impurity. “Polled” refers not only to what Dr. Gallup and others have done, but also to what beefil mighty Samson, namely a haircut.
And "charger," believe it or not, was what the head of John the Baptist was carried on when it was brought in to Herodias' daughter.
NO, THIS IS not a new language,
but an archaic one.
Such obsolete words as these are strewn through the King James version of the Bible, and in an effort to clarify matters for the reader, the American Bible Society today published a new English Reference Bible.
The volume, in preparation by Biblical scholars since 1946, was developed to provide an inexpensive study edition of the Bible.
HUNDREDS OF ministers, theologians, editors, writers and laymen, in 28 denominations, were polled to determine what would be needed in a reference Bible.
The new edition offers alternative translations based on older and more accurate Hebrew and Greek manuscripts than were available to the translators of the King James version more than 350 years ago, plus a list of words which, while accurate when used, have changed meaning in the intervening centuries.
OTHER FEATURES include improved spelling, type set in paragraphs instead of traditional verse division, section headings to suggest contents of paragraphs, indentation for poetry, footnote references at the bottom of each page and a highly legible type face.
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