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University Daily Kansan Monday.May 21,195
Could This Be Your Story?
On the night of January 12, 1952, a model 1948 automobile was traveling 55 miles per hour on a California highway. Eight inches later it was stopped; the auto had smashed head-on into an orange tree after the driver fell asleep.
The owner, who wasn't driving, pulled his bleeding head from the hole it had made in the windshield and got out. The driver turned his head and spit out the teeth no longer useful.
The owner was stumbling around in near hysteria, sobbing, "Oh, my car, my beautiful new car. Oh, what am I going to do?"
The driver, half-conscious and listening, noticed the twisted steering wheel flush against the dash board. He also felt the burning pain in his chest.
"Tell me," the sobbing owner asked in the darkness, "is my car hurt bad?" The driver spit a mouthful of blood.
"Will it cost much to get it fixed?" the grief-stricken owner asked again. No one was there to answer, but the driver looked down and saw the ripped skin baring his knee-cap.
Automobiles used to be ranked with transportation—now, for perverted social values, they outrank blood, teeth and bare bone.
Ray Wingerson
The 'Giveaway Government' Issue
（Another in a series discussing the year's political campaign issues.)
Our foreign policy or civil liberties may not be major election campaign issues this year, but one issue is assured of such a role. This is the giveaway charge thrown at the Republicans by the Democrats.
Democrats started early in building up this giveaway charge—beginning before the Republi-cans even got into office. The present administration has been said to have allowed the greatest raid on the national wealth ever contemplated.
Democrats will say that the lobbyists that represent public-utility, oil, mining, and lumber interests that supported the Republican campaign have moved in on the nation's natural resources—and that the Republicans have made things easy for them.
What the Democrats do not bring out in these charges is the fact that all this has been going on under a Democratic-controlled Congress.
The Republicans do not apologize for their program, nor do they consider it a raid on federal resources. They see the present program as rewriting 20 years of history.
Sen. Wayne Morse, Republican turned Democrat from Oregon, attacks the administration in the public power field where he says the Rural Electrification Administration cooperatives have been weakened because the government has used public money to build dams and then has turned them over to private utilities. He said the people do not profit from such action.
Democrats say the biggest giveaway of the national wealth has been made to the private-utility companies. They cite the Dixon-Yates
episode as the most spectacular incident along this line. Of course, they played this up because some of President Eisenhower's friends were involved.
Recently, the President's veto of the natural gas bill partially weakened the Democrats' giveaway charge. The veto reassured some, but failed to impress others.
The tidelands oil issue is said to be another giveaway program of the government. The Holland Bill (July 30,1953) turned the off-shore oil lands over to the states. The Democrats feel that the states not having off-shore oil lands will now fail to receive any benefits from the oil. Previously, under government control, all the states received benefits.
Republicans feel that the fields could be better developed under private management—and they also believe such an arrangement makes more people prosperous.
In foreign spending the Democrats cannot make such a charge, since it is essentially the same program that was started under Harry Truman.
President Eisenhower realizes that "economic aid cannot be continued indefinitely." He believes such aid on a grant basis should be "terminated as soon as possible and that such aid should be made in the form of loans."
There is no doubt of the importance of this charge by the Democrats. However, with the present economic setup maintaining a standard of living higher than ever before—and with prosperity more widely spread—it is going to be hard for the Democrats to prove that the present so-called giveaway policy of the government is hurting the American people.
Lindbergh's Historic Flight Now Almost Forgotten
Twenty-nine years ago Sunday, May 20, a plane took off from Roosevelt field to make one of the most historic voyages ever made by a pilot of any era.
Today's pilots have the advantages of radar and other modern devices, but Charles A. Lindbergh didn't even have a cabin heater when he made the first trans-Atlantic flight in history.
"The Spirit of St. Louis," Col. Lindbergh's famous ship, carried the remarkable load of 451 gallons of gasoline when it took off at 7:40 a.m. This was the heaviest load a 220-horsepower plane had ever carried.
Weather Is Bad
The young pilot ran into weather trouble immediately after the take-off. He flew into a sleet storm and at first went down to only 10 feet above the ocean waves, then climbed to 10,000 feet in an effort to miss the storm.
Weather bothered Col. Lindbergh almost all the way across the Atlantic, yet so accurate was his navigation—usually hastily made during breaks in the clouds—that he was only three miles off course after a voyage of some 3,000 miles.
More than 100,000 persons were waiting at the Le Bourget field in Paris for Col. Lindbergh to arrive. Many of the spectators had been waiting for six or seven hours, but few actually believed he would be successful. They had waited quietly, cheering only when radio bulletins announced that the plane had been sighted off the coast of England.
Then came a long period in which no word was received. Doubt and disbelief grew, as the
pessimists began to believe that the journey was too much for one man.
"He'll be exhausted, and probably will fall asleep before he arrives," seemed to be the most common thought.
—Louis Stroup
However, Col. Lindbergh was not exhausted when he finally landed and stepped from his plane into the clutches of the enthusiastic crowd. It was one of the wildest receptions ever accorded to any hero of any type. Col. Lindbergh himself was quoted as saying that he considered the reception more dangerous than any part of the trip itself.
A Rousing Welcome
Even the police joined in rushing toward the plane. Before the ground crew could get the plane into a hangar, the souvenir-crazy spectators had ripped most of the fabric from it. Even the police joined the rush, seeing they could not overpower the mobs.
Col. Lindbergh managed to escape to an office room, but the crowd would not give up, as civilians broke down doors and smashed windows in an effort to get a glimpse of a man who could conquer the mighty Atlantic by himself.
The young pilot received frantic welcomes at Brussels and later at London, but they were nothing to the reception he received in the United States. The American people were in a frantic stage of hero-worship, and even a Colorado mountain was named Mount Lindbergh.
The U.S. Goes Wild
However, his fame and happiness were shattered with the kidnapping of his son in 1932. This nationally-famous scandal disrupted the Lindbergh family's entire life, and when a second son was born later in the year, the conqueror of the Atlantic again crossed the ocean, not in quest of fame, but in an attempt to get away from it.
—Dick Walt
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