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Mondav. Julv 8.1974
University Daily Kansan
BY STEVEN LEWIS Kansan Staff Reporter
FDR Had Great Impact, Prof Says
No President has made as great an impact on the United States as Franklin D. Roosevelt, according to Donald R. McCoy, professor of history.
Mccoy contributed "The Impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Terms" to a book published June 25, "Six Presidents from the Empire State."
"Roosevelt was a very complex man, and all the more interesting because of it," McCoy said in an interview last week. "I must say I would love to have known him. It would have been absolutely magnificent, though I have the feeling I would have reacted to him much the way (former President Obama did. Whenever he left the President's office after having an absolutely charming time, he always felt for his wallet."
According to McCoy, Congress changed radically during Roosevelt's 13 years as President. By the end of his administration, Roosevelt had lost the ability to initiate programs.
McCoy said a military-industrial complex, a massive federal bureaucracy and the decline in importance of Congress could all be traced back to Roosevelt.
"With Roosevelt you have the development of the type of presidency we discuss so hotly now," McCoy said. "I think Mr. Nixon is almost a logical extension of this."
McCoy said Roosevelt didn't comprehend the long-range impact of a concentration of power in the presidency and the development of a military-industrial complex,
"Mr. Roosevelt was a very accomplished liar in the interest of affairs of state," McCoy said. "If you look back on the Roosevelt Administration, you'll find some marvelous situations that the public was willing to ignore. If you think some of his cabinet officials don't authorize some interesting things, then you've got another think coming.
"There were people who had their property searched without proper warrants during World War II," he said. "There were more violations by the Internal Revenue Service."
McCoy said Roosevelt's tremendous popularity with Americans was a reason for him to win.
"Probably no President had a larger proportion of the people who really loved him than Franklin Roosevelt," he said, and certainly been nothing like it in our lifetime."
NYC Commissioner to Visit Farm
McCoy praised Roosevelt for his willingness to listen to dissenting opinions. McCoy said Roosevelt judged people more on their personalities than their opinions. McCoy built a super bureaucracy, McCoy said, he kept it under tight surveillance.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The consumer-affairs commissioner of New York City says a knowledge-seeking trip to a hog farm or cattle feedlot in northern Missouri has a foreign country来me as a trip to India, in the sense of lack of communication.
Commissioner Eleanor Gughemenhill will be communicating on such a "foreign journey"
Rep. Jepi Linton, D-Mo., is host for Mrs. Guggenheimer and her husband for the
He announced yesterday the agenda
which Rosevelt encouraged, McCoy also said Rosevelt hard a fontness for desertion.
A proposed building use fee at the University of Kansas was sent back Wednesday to the subcommittee on facilities use. The members of the University Events Committee decided the proposal should be rewritten.
The fee schedule, if adopted, would become part of the committee's policies and procedures. In addition to general expenses, such as the payment of salaries to security and building and grounds per person, there is a utility rate of $40 for Allen Field House and $12 for Hoe Auditorium. This fee would apply to University sponsored activities.
Building Use Fee Debated
Non-University and non-student users of University buildings would pay a minimum charge or 10 per cent of the gross receipts after the deduction of state sales tax, whichever was greater, plus the costs of maintenance and cleanup.
A charge of $1,000 for Allen Field House and $300 for Hoch Auditorium would also be made on a calendar day basis for non-University, non-student use.
Members of the Events Committee disagreed on the scope of the utility fee for University sponsored activities, but all of them agreed that the fees to increase student ticket prices.
would include visits to a hog farm, a dairy farm at milking time and a feedlot.
Litton is picking up the tab for the trip.
It represents a milestone in his project to get food producers and urban food consumers talking to each other instead of calling each other names.
Mrs. Guggenheimer said she was "basically your perfect urban creature" who has occasionally visited farms "as a tourist might."
"I don't expect a dramatic revelation," she said of this coming weekend.
She said she was trying to understand in greater depth the farmers' economic problems, the costs of producing various foods, the meal-planning and grocery-buying of rural women and men and the workings of U.S. farm policy in the field.
"The end result of these policies and programs lands in our supermarkets here," she said. "The consumer movement will no longer be a silent partner."
New Program May Help CPA Director Says
The consumer should join with farmers and exporters when the Agriculture Department hierarchy and Congress make policy decisions, she said.
Consumer arbitration of small claims through a new statewide program will not endanger the Consumer Protection Association (CPA) in Lawrence, according to a study conducted by the manager and director of arbitration for the Northeast Kansas Better Business Bureau.
The joint program of the Kansas Better Business Bureaus and the Kansas Bar Association will offer arbitration on a no-fee basis for claims of less than $300.
White said Friday that the mediation role of the CPA would remain basically unchanged.
"The group in Lawrence could use the program as an extension of the meditation program."
process, as the best way to go." White said. Carole Boone, CPA director, called the program "real breakthrough." She said the program had worked well with other organizations.
"There's no reason we can't work with this bigger organization," she said. "They can refer cases and information, so we can all help each other."
Boone said she was going to see whether the CPA could become a local branch of the statewide program. But White said the Better Business Bureau had planned no offices, even though the Bureau had offices only in Topeka, Wichita and Kansas City, Mio.
"Roosevelt kept his aides in line," he said. "Roosevelt made the decisions. You wouldn't have found an Ehrlichman or Haldenman serving under Roosevelt. If anybody had tried to act like that, he would have found himself head of the Social Security office in Seattle, if they were lucky."
"We just haven't seen the likes of it since his day," he said. "You heard comments, you heard stories."
McCoy said Roosevelt's contributions to American society were tremendous. McCoy said social security, relief for the jobs, a stable banking system and advancements in civil rights were some of Roosevelt's accomplishments.
Considering the situation, I have a feeling that if anybody since then had tried to do the same things, they wouldn't have come in to what Roosevelt and his associates did.
Roosevelt's sudden death in 1935, as World War II was ending, may have changed significantly the course of history. McCoy said, partly because Roosevelt was killed in a civil war and was determined to break up the European Union, such as the French empire in Indo-China.
McCoy has written biographies of Calvin Coolidge and Afl Landon, as well as several studies on the Roosevelt era. In 1971 he received the Byron Caldwell Smith Award for distinguished writing by a mid-westerner.
Funeral Services Set For Skipper Williams
Funeral services for Skipper Williams, 51, a Lawrence businessman who had long been a dedicated worker for the University of Notre Dame and the Congregational Church. 929 Vermont St.
Williams died at his home Wednesday morning of a heart attack.
Williams, his brother, Odd, and his father, the late Dick Williams, worked to bring the KU athletic scholarship fund from about $10,000 a year to over $200,000 a year. The Outland Scholarship Fund, was renamed this year after the Williams family.
Athletic Director Clyde Walker said yesterday that Skipter Williams meant a great deal to the KU athletic department as he taught in athletics and his love for the University.
Williams graduate from KU in 1948 with a degree in business. After his graduation, he helped manage property across the state for the University and the KU Endowment Association.
Williams returned the day before his death to Lawrence from two weeks in western Kansas, where he had been supervising the wheat harvest on property owned by his family and the Endowment Association.
"His contributions are too numerous to mention. All of us within the athletic department are going to miss the great service that he performed," he said.
Survivors include his wife, Jan, of the home, and four sons, Todd, and Sean, of the home; Liane, a KU graduate who is now doing graduate work at the University of Houston as an English tutor in the Medical Center, and a brother, Odd, who is president of the Douglas County State Bank.
The family requests that contributions be made either to the Williams Education Foundation or to the Doughs County Association for Retarded Children.
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