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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 30.1956.
To Seniors
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Those Job Opportunities
An article published in The Atlantic Monthly emphasizing the important place of men with a liberal arts education in modern industry has been brought to the attention of The Daily Kansan by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
David A. Shepard, director of Standard Oil of New Jersey, was author of the article entitled, "Management in Search of Men."
Mr. Shepard stated that far more non-technical people have been drawn into industrial organizations than many executives realize.
"We have to have the technical men," he said, but "large enterprises are social organisms which must have a sense of perspective as well as technology."
Many studies, articles, and industrial leaders
have been emphasizing that it is the well-rounded type of man who is scarce today, according to Mr. Shepard.
He quoted Irving S. Olds, retired board chairman of the U.S. Steel Corporation, who explains it this way, "The most difficult problems American enterprise faces today are neither scientific nor technical, but lie chiefly in the realm of what is embraced in a liberal arts education."
Mr. Shepard believes business organizations today are "developing a keen interest in the fields of the social sciences, economics, psychology, and the other humanities."
This movement, in his opinion, will help to create more career opportunities for many liberal arts specialists.
Jean Lohmann
Almost Tomorrow
Students-Don't Give Up Now
It's getting to be that time of the year again—the time when assignments and tests pile up with increasing frequency, and when the nice warm weather makes it so easy to relax and forget about everything except having a good time.
But you can't give up now. After struggling through the blizzards, windstorms, freezing temperatures and the vast variety of other weather conditions with which Mount Oread is blessed, this spring weather can't be that much worse.
It's so warm in the evenings, and studying seems almost impossible. So does doing work on research papers, in spite of the nearness of the deadline on matters of this sort.
But it is, you say? Well, we're inclined to agree, but we're also afraid to. For you can't let it get you down. Taking one day, or one week, off won't do that much good. In fact, it won't help a bit. It will probably ruin your whole semester.
For it's habit-forming, this neglecting school. Pretty soon you have a hard time remembering that you are a student, and when it reaches that point, brother, you've had it.
So don't give in now. Stick with the books, and you can do your partying after finals. Remember, you're up here for an education, because that's the most important thing. Those future employers don't look at your party record, they look at your grades.
All this may sound ridiculous to you now, but we know you'll be thankful for this wonderful advice in your later life.
In fact, we'll even do more than give you advice. We'll go out to Lone Star and keep watch, so that none of you struggling students—and especially graduating seniors—will forsake the books for a more pleasant life.
See you final week.
Did The Farm Bill Veto Hurt Ike?
Now that the immediate furor over President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill has diminished to a dull roar, numerous attempts are being made to determine just how the veto has affected the chances of the President and the Republican party in the farm states most affected by the farm policy of the administration.
The first survey showed the President in danger in only one state—Minnesota. Widespread grumbling was reported in numerous other areas, but little danger of Democratic victory was observed.
Newsweek magazine has conducted one of the most intensive surveys on the subject, polling newspaper editors in the 14 farm states most vitally affected. The sampling comes only three weeks after the magazine had conducted an earlier survey on the farmers' opinions of the administration's farm policy.
him votes, while two Californian editors said Ike's strength was increased by the veto. Two editors had no comment.
After the veto, Newsweek again interviewed the same 30 editors. Twenty-two of them reported that the President was no worse off than before the veto. Four said the veto would cost
Kansas editors agreed that the veto had not seriously damaged the President's appeal to the voters. The Kansas editors agreed that most of the sentiment in this state was directed against Secretary of Agriculture Benson rather than the President.
Single editors in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska thought that President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill would cost him a substantial portion of the farm vote.
But the majority sentiment seemed to be that despite a slight increase in the amount of grumbling by the farmers, the President's personal popularity will probably overwhelm this criticism.
However, most observers believe that the veto has given the Democrats their chance in the farm states. Whether the Democrats can seize this opportunity is another matter—one which won't be settled until election day.
—Dick Walt
..Short Ones..
Overpopulation is causing ill effects in many countries, but one of the most extreme cases is in Australia, where rabbits are overrunning the country. However, the government is combatting the problem by employing persons to kill off the rabbits. They're called rabbiteers.
We're hoping for a better football season this fall, but already our hopes have been dashed by Mother's being pleased day in and day out, just as he was between games for the past two seasons.
The recent Hollywood announcement that Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe will co-star in a forthcoming movie is what some people will call going from the sublime to the ridiculous and others "from soup to nuts."
There ought to be a law about having big league baseball games close at hand while school's going on.
Sometimes we suspect the background of that certain journalism faculty member noted for his cheerfulness. He told a Daily Kansan copyreader that a good short headline synonym for rare book expert is "bookie."
See where the presidents of various KU organizations met at breakfast the other day. Shucks, we didn't think any red-blooded KU sophisticate was ever in shape to eat breakfast on Saturday morning.
Here's a proposition for the honor system boys—would the system include turning yourself in for parking violations? Think of the money that could be saved on the salary of the campus cops.
The Daily Kansan quips that "Coeds Aren't Colds, Nor Colds Coeds," but we've known a few who were both.
Looks like voting in a national election will be a snap if you can figure out the voting procedure for the KU general elections.
"WATCH YOUR TALK—THAT'S ONE PSYC MAJOR WHO STOPS TO ANALYZE ANYTHING YOU SAY."
... Letters
Editor:
Another example of The Daily Kansan' conservatism is the fact that you had nothing to say, editorially, about the gift of a four-foot Jayhawk by the senior class. A wide-awake editor would have noticed the preposterous impracticality of such a gift as well as its aesthetic ugliness. But then, we must be careful not to criticize things that are sacred to Kansas.
Eugene Cranfield
It seemed strange that The Daily Kansan would be surprised at the recent criticism made of the paper by a Kansas editor. Actually everything the man said is true. His main point was that The Daily Kansan is, for a college newspaper, overly conservative, overly cautious in its editorial policy. No one who reads The Daily Kansan every day can argue with this point. A good example of your conservatism is your hesitancy about printing "controversial" letters on the editorial page. In fact, you gave yourself away on this point once by commenting in "Short Ones," in effect, that the English department must spend most of its time writing letters to The Daily Kansan. A good newspaper does not become exasperated when it receives droves of well-written, lively, controversial letters; instead it prints them and delights in the fact that its readers are thinking hard about current issues.
(Note:-Since Mr. Cranfield neglected to leave a return address on the above letter, we must take space in these columns to answer some of his numerous complaints.
About The Daily Kansan's "hiesitency" about printing letters to the editor—if you'd care to drop in we'll show you, for example, an entire editorial page filled with nothing but letters to the editor dealing with that most infamous villain of all villains, Sam L. Jones. Also, if Mr. Crandfield, whoever he might be, can give us any more specific examples of letters which are not run because of their controversial tendencies, we'd be happy to hear about them.
The Daily Kansan has never been "exasperated" because it received droves of well-written, lively, controversial letters; however, unfortunate as it may seem, such masterpieces of literature are not found in abundance.
To our knowledge, two letters have been withheld from publication while we have held this office. The first was from Mr. Cranfield. It was not run because he did not give a return address, and his name was not listed in either the student directory or the city phone book. We do not make a practice of running letters from sources which we cannot verify. The designation, "KU alumnus" used by Mr. Cranfield hardly
erases its anonymous tendencies. The letter published today was run only because we could find no other way to answer it.
The other letter which was not run was from a candidate for an office in the recent election. It was withheld because it could have been mistaken for campaign propaganda for one of the campus political parties. The Daily Kansan is forbidden by its constitution to take sides in any political affair.
As for the second charge of conservation, which comes in regard to The Daily Kansan's failure to support Mr. Cranfield's views on the senior class gift, Mr. Cranfield comments on the "preposterous impracticability" of such a gift, and bemoans its "aesthetic ugliness." However, in spite of Mr. Cranfield's obvious expert views on the subject, perhaps not everyone saw the gift in such a bad light. Perhaps we didn't. Certainly if it is horrible as Mr. Cranfield says, someone would have voted against it.
Dick Walt
Editorial editor.)
The Alabama Extension Service says that a piece of charcoal in the refrigerator will help absorb the odor of onions, fish or other strongly flavored foods.
North America had 61 fires last year in which the loss exceeded $1,000,000.
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trusted by the university 16, 1912.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
John McMillon ... Managing Editor
Barbara Bell, Bob Lyle, Kent Thomas,
David Webb, Assistant Managing Editors;
Jane Pecinovsky, City Editor;
Maria Meng, Gerald Dawson,
Assistant Customer, Hudelson,
Telegraph Editor; Robbie Hairy
Larry Stroup, Assistant Telegraph
Editors; Felicia Fenberg, Society Editor;
Bety Jean Stanford, Assistant Society
Editor; Robert Bruce, Sports Editor;
David Kelly Louis Stroup, Assistant
Sports Editors; Larry Hell, Picture Editor.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Richard Hunter. MASS DEPARTMENT Manager James Wiles. Advertising Manager; David B. Cleveland, National Adversarial Attorney Mary Jane Wickersham, Classified Agent Jill Boyd,ford Meyer, Circulation Manager; Walter Baskett jj. Promotion Manager.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Dick Walt Editorial Editor
Ann Kelly, Ray Wingerson, Associate
Editors.