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Friday, April 9, 1974
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Hoover: Anachronism
After a career spanning 47 years with the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover is facing growing opposition reflected at different levels of government, and abetted by an unsympathetic press.
House Democratic leader Hale Boggs charged this week that the FBI has tapped his and other Congressional phone lines, and called for Hoover's resignation.
Later in the week, two FBI file clerks complained that they had been fired for participating in peace group activities during their off-duty hours.
To the periodic requests that Hoover resign, the FBI replies that the hale and hearty 76-year-old director has no intention of resigning. They also deny that they have ever tapped any congressman's phone.
Other recent incidents involving Hoover have jeopardized his position, including his premature disclosure of the
It appears now, however, that Hoover believes the FBI is an extension of himself; that the organization is not ready for new blood at the top. Every criticism of the FBI seems to be taken personally by Hoover, and his domineering and whiscal rule of the law enforcement agency has led to discontent within the FBI.
alleged Berrigan brothers kidnap conspiracy, which has led the Justice Department to fear that its case may be compromised as a result.
Beginning in the days of the gangster era, Hoover has built the FBI into a professional, disciplined organization skilled in solving complex crimes.
The time has come for Hoover to realize that he is not indispensable and that the welfare of the FBI and the country demands his replacement.
Bob Womack
Tourism in Kansas
By ROBERT W. PATRICK Kansan Staff Writer
The weight station attendant managed to produce an eight-year-old dog-eared brochure after he rummaged through the desk for several minutes. The brochure was well done, but sadly outdated.
The next day, at the State Highway Patrol office, which was also marked "tourist information" I stopped, asked for some information about facilities at lakes in the state. The officer in charge of the station was polite, but all he had was the official state maps of Kansas.
Recently I stopped at a weight station operated by the state of Kansas. A sign said that tourist information was available. The man in charge of the weight station, when asked about tourist information, said that the only thing he knew about was the two museums at Leavenworth—because he lived there. The Agricultural Hall of Fame, which is supposed to be nationally famous, and located with a five minute drive of the weight station, was not known to him.
By contrast, when I visited the state of Texas recently, I found a tourist information booth at the state's border. It was an attractive, modern office staffed by well-informed people who seemed interested in helping tourists to enjoy themselves. The office was well-stocked with brochures advertising various attractions in the state. As a direct result of
visiting this office I spent several more days in Texas that I had planned to and spent more money that I had anticipated. But, it was money well spent. I enjoyed myself.
Why can't Kansas have offices as Texas does, on the major highway entrances? Kansas has a lot to offer the tourist. Space here would not permit even a partial list of the points of interest in northeast Kansas, let alone the points of interest in the entire state.
What is being done to promote tourism in Kansas? Apparently very little! The tourist can visit museums and historical spots or participate in water sports. He can hunt and fish, Or, he can simply see oil wells, salt mines, and so on—the list is almost endless.
If a tourist wants to get information about specific points of interest in the state, where can he go? One place he should not go is to places designated by state highway signs as "tourist information" locations.
Kansas is an attractive place with friendly people. People in other states frequently have the impression that Kansas is no more than mile after mile of barren flat land.
Let's make information booths available to these people and let them know that Kansas welcomes them and wants them to visit our state.
This Fuzzv War
Reprinted from the Hutchinson News:
Newspapermen and other chroniclers are urged to "tell it like it is."
Good idea, but tough when so many officials are telling it like it isn't.
Bureauacerateas always has been a source of wonder to those assigned to ciphering it. This jargon has reached its finest flower in Washington efforts to describe, explain and justify our Indochina war.
It may be designed to baffle the enemy, and probably does. But it also bewilders the American people.
The airlift of South Vietnamese by U.S. helicopters is an "incursion," which may suggest it's only temporary. Or it may not.
No American ground troops were involved in Laos, we were told, except in
U. S. bombings of North Vietnam are "protective reaction air strikes," which suggests they are defensive. They are "in line with long-standing U.S. policy" and that policy stems from an "understanding" with Hanoi.
We long ago were accustomed to the horrible phrase "body count," and in Laos we heard about the "truck kill," referring to North Vietnamese vehicles supposedly knocked out.
rescue or search missions which have become "protective encirclement."
Tell it like it is? O.K., but how is it?
Napalm has become "selective ordnance." Crop destruction is fuzzed up as "defoliation." Forced movement of civilians from their villages is kindly called "population resettlement."
The results were mixed, probably because the candidates of both parties drowned
Several candidates planned their 1970 campaigns out of Scammon's book "The Real Deal" down hard on law and order.
'It's not so difficult once you get the hang of it.'
Pocketbook Politics in Vogue
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The flyer of a news article on "packetbook politics." It means paying attention to the cost of the voter's grocery bag and the size of their bags.
Many also believe that 1988 marked the end of the period in U.S. history when pocketbook politics alone could win elections. This is true, but held that inflation was the economic issue that bothered voters, and what Richard Scammon called "the social issue—crime, drugs, youth crime" as one of prime importance.
Many believe the perfection of pocketbook politics is what has given the Democratic Party control of Congress in all but four states and possession of the White House in all but 10 years of that period.
each other out proclaiming their hate of crime. Still, there were enough tests in campaigns where a candidate was able to put himself out as the hardened lawman opposed to a fuzzy cast, or to have cast doubt on the sure fire properties of the law and order issue.
Inflation also is hard to assess as a ballot box republic. Americans have voted in a spending label on Democrats for years, and lately blamed their loose fiscal fiasco for causing inflation. Public opinion polls show that the budget inflation, especially when there is general prosperity, but it still is hard to point at an offender簿 member of the electorate because prices went up.
There is also the possibility that law and order, along with clean air and water, aren't real election issues because no one has to fight against them it is hard to put up against their political scapegoat for their existence.
But when unemployment goes up, the tone of politics changes.
The Democratic congressional leadership seems to have decided that job creation - public service employment, accelerated public
MOSCOW (UPI)—Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, on a five-year
And President Nixon, no slouch at reading trends, has begun to emphasize economic recovery in the wake of the expense of old devil inflation. Nixon, in fact, appears to have sought to steal the march on the nation's largest oil producer and manpower programs that have, on paper at least, more jobs than they produced.
"He told me . . . No one is honest, that everyone has his price and it's just a matter of finding what the price is."
The Democrates also are going for higher wages—a $2 hourly federal floor on earnings—at the same time as Nixon is trying to stop what the regards as runaway prices in the construction industry.
Quirks and Quotes
This may be the issue where the parties will really bump heads, the Republicans renewing their pledge against the Democrats and the Democrats replying that Nixon wants to lower prices by penalizing low paid workers or cracking down on profits.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Jack Byeley telling a senate investigations subcommittee about his former employer William J. Crum, who is accused of taking money from backpacks from military personnel.
LONDON (UPI) —A court put David Jeckins, 21, on probation for a year Monday because of a visit to his mother-in-law's home in a refrigerator, television set, see-see table, dressing table, coffee table and other furniture.
TORREMOLINOIS, Spain (UPI)—A member of the board of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, commenting on actor George C. Scott's rejection of an Oscar for his portrayal of the title role in the film "Patton!"
"It proves one thing we've always known—a man can be a horse's neck and a great actor at the same time."
LONDON  (UPI) — Airman Roger Terry was disqualified for driving for a year Monday by a judge who said alcohol to 100 millilitres of blood— just one milgram over the legal limit, the court fined him only $24.
Maybe pocketbook politics isn't dead after all.
"Never in the history of agriculture and production of consumer goods has so much been spent as will be done now."
plan to raise Russia's standard of living:
SHEFFIELD, England (UPI)—A court gave herbert Herbert a Monday after he was found guilty of making annoying telephone calls in the middle of the night to a factory manager. Ives had earlier complained he could not sleep because of noise from the
LOS ANGELES (UP)—Leslie HAIS, houtened, conquered of the Tatar kingdom. When asked if she wanted to cry over the death of Rosemary La-
"Cry? For her death? If I cry,
it is for death itself. She is not the
only person that is dead."
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Rep.
Hale Boggus, D.L., calling for
the resignation of FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover;
The greatest thing we have in this nation is the bill of rights. We are a great country because we are a free country. The way Mr. Hoover is running the country is no longer, "a free country."
TEL AVIV (UPI)—Defense Minister Moshe Dayan on Israel's position on withdrawn Israeli missiles captured during the six-day war;
"If we shall not have any escape, we shall not return to the Juuoux 1967 lines even if it brings war."
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Those Were the Days
"The twentieth century marks the rising tide of feminism. Mere man has been relegated to the rear. Whether in the future he will climb back to his old establishment yet remains to be seen. But if he ever does come back' he can never be the same. He has had to become like a whipped curcumbe can never hold his head erect." —Kansas editorial comment.
60 Years Ago Todav—1916
The Kansas debate team, arguing that intercollegiate athletics should be retained, defeated the University of Missouri team. Governor Arthur Capper presided over the debate. It was his first visit to the University since his election.
50 Years Ago Today—1921
"A professor in the University of Wisconsin says college students don't know much. It is
very probable that the professor was at one time a college student himself, so he should have been instructed.
The Kansan reported that Fraser, which was built in 1927, was the oldest of 20 white houses in the city.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
10 Years Age Today-1961 The Civil Rights Council criticized Chancellor W. Clark Wesoe's statement on housing discrimination.
The Chancellor's statement:
The Challengeer's statement:
"In non-University housing listed with the University, . . . the University will not condemn it, and it is not violated and cannot interfere in the rights of the private citizen to choose the persons to whom he wishes to rent his property."
THE KU ROTC rifle team beat Penn State 1403-1235.