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University Daily Kansan Monday. April 16, 1956.
News In Review
by Dick Bibler
Farm Bill Passes
Congress finally passed a farm bill last week, but it appears that the legislators might have been wasting all the time spent in preparing the measure. The bill, as finally passed, incorporated both the Democratic-supported 90 per cent of parity clause and the administration-advocated soil bank proposal.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has already indicated that the bill is unacceptable to him, so all eyes are now turned toward the President and whatever action he may take on the issue.
International affairs last week saw the tension in the Middle East increase even more, with numerous skirmishes occurring between Egyptians and Israelis. U.S. officials fear a crisis with a threat of a full-scale war there.
The political significance of the situation as it affects this country has become apparent. Adlai Stevenson has shifted to the Israeli side of the issue, which places him in agreement with the other two democratic presidential hopefuls—Estes Kefauver and Averill Harriman. Reason for the move—there's no Arabian faction in this country, while a stand against Israel could cost thousands of Jewish votes.
If the President signs the bill into law, almost all observers feel that Benson will lose his Cabinet seat, and many feel he will be replaced even if President Eisenhower vetoes the measure. The President called Benson to Augusta, Ga., where he is vacationing, to discuss the issue.
Gov. Fred Hall of Kansas and three other governors from midwest wheat states plan a visit to the President to urge approval of the farm bill, which has already been endorsed by Sen. Andrew Schoeppel. (R-Kan.).
The U. S. has supported the United Nations move to send UN head Dag Hammarskjold to the area to investigate the situation, and Congress has prepared to act if the President decides to intervene.
Meanwhile President Eisenhower steadfastly refused to take sides on the issue, in spite of the politics involved. The Illinois presidential primary saw both President Eisenhower and Mr. Stevenson coast to unopposed victories. Mr. Eisenhower polled 723,000 votes while Stevenson got 703,000 in the party-line primaries which failed to give much indication.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, announced his retirement, and President Eisenhower named Gen. Lauris Norstad to succeed Gen. Gruenther.
Across the Atlantic, the spotlight went to Grace Kelly, arriving in Monaco for her upcoming wedding to Prince Rainier III, while the wealthy father of the bride announced that he was presenting the palace of the country with a full-scale movie theater.
And Negro-pianist-singer Nat (King) Cole cancelled three southern appearances after being attacked by three white men during a performance at Birmingham, Ala. He was not seriously injured, but said he was cancelling the performances to "rest." He received a terrific ovation from the Birmingham audience after the attack was stopped by police.
Back in the United States, the Supreme Court held that Brooklyn College had no right to fire a professor because he pleaded the fifth amendment in refusing to answer the question. In compliance to the 5-4 court ruling, the college announced it was returning the professor to the staff.
However, track stole the spotlight, as Kansas Bill Nieder established a new intercolegiate record of 60-feet 3 inches in the shot put on the same day that Parry O'Brien of the Marine Corps was throwing the 16-pound ball 60 feet 8inches. The two, the only men in history to surpass 60 feet, will meet face-to-face in this weekend's Kansas Relays.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
The Marine Corps continued to investigate the actions of Sgt. Matthew McKeon, who has been accused of leading six Marines to their deaths in a night-time march through swampland near Charleston, S. C. Meanwhile, the President called for action to make military careers more attractive.
In sports, major league baseball teams made final preparations for Tuesday's opening of the major league season. and Kansas City greeted the Athletics with a massive parade.
*HOW CAN YOU BE SO ATTENTIVE TO LECTURES AND FLUNK ALL MY TESTS?*
In Reply—
Readers Slam Sam
What's Wrong Now?
Editor:
On reading Sam Jones' latest editorial effort, I was struck with an interesting thought. What delightful irony results if we substitute the writer's name in his editorial in some of the strategic locations where he used the words "All Student Council." The editorial then, in part would read something like this:
"Sam Jones is unnecessary . . .
" . . . but there is no relief in sight, unless . . .
unless Sam is disbanded, junked, thrown in the garbage can, burned, and completely forgotten.
"So what happens now to Sam?
How can you replace nothing with another zero?"
“... So why not disband Sam and let the chancellor run the students and the University. He does that now anyway. So what good is Sam Jones?”
Bob Skinner,
Mission junior
ASC Is Needed—
I hesitate to reply to your article because I feel it is best to ignore this obvious device of yours to instigate contreversy. I do feel my duty to submit a defense of the ASC. You attended one meeting and concluded that the ASC is unnecessary. I served one year as president of the ASC and one year as secretary; I maintain that it is not only necessary, but useful and important. Who is in the better position to judge?
Editor:
The issue discussed at the meeting you attended was one in which the jurisdiction between the chancellor's office and our group is divided. Therefore, we treated it in that light. Had you consulted an ASC constitution, you would have found that a division of labor exists between the administration and the ASC regarding functions necessary to an effectively managed university. The chancellor is aware of his part and we of ours. Some of our administrative authority covers the following areas. Traffic and safety, disciplinary action, athletic seating, publications, and social regulations. The ASC has a voice in the hiring and dismissal of athletic coaches. also. If the University had to hire administrators to publish the student directory, allocate funds to organizations, and to serve as coordinators of student organizational activities the expense would be quite large. The ASC provides the student with an opportunity to participate in the administration of
his university. These are only a few of the functions of the ASC. The chancellor considers this group important enough to provide approximately $6,000 annually for its administration.
The voting participation in elections is not satisfactory, but percentage-wise it compares favorably with that of the entire country in a presidential election.
I have followed your articles with interest. You have discussed the faculty, the Greeks and Independents, and other subjects with the same spirit. I would like to offer one suggestion. In your next attempt, why not treat a subject of which you have knowledge and understanding? This would be an innovation which might be refreshing. And the result would like to see an article entitled, "What's Wrong with The University Daily Kansan." This could fill volumes.
George Sheldon,
Salina junior
ASC president
New York City boasts 18 of the tallest 20 buildings in the U.S., including the tallest seven. The Empire State building is the tallest, with 102 stories and extending 1,250 feet.
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Book Review
'Quiet American'
"The Quiet American," by Graham Greene (Viking Press, New York, 1956, 249 pages).
Critics in both England and the United States have been busy extolling the new book from Graham Greene, "The Quiet American." The purpose of this review is not to suggest that the book should not be praised. But it does seem that praise needs to be tempered, for it could be said that "The Quiet American" was written by "The Angry Englishman."
Greene has a thesis in "The Quiet American," that the American liberal, do-gooder, man of good will, whatever one cares to call him, is doing incalculable harm in countries overseas by trying to graft the "American Way" onto those areas. There is much truth in what Greene charges. But he uses his quiet American, Harvard-educated Alden Pyle, in an effort to go after America itself.
The America he criticizes is the America of scrubbed-looking girls, ice cream sodas, television sets, supermarkets. And possibly the America that has the McCarran Act that has successfully kept Catholic author Greene out of this country because Greene joined the Communist party as a prank while in college many years ago.
The novel deals with Pyle and English journalist Thomas Fowler. As part of an American economic mission in Saigon, Indo-China, during the late tragic war in that country, Pyle bushes himself with trying to create a third force to defeat both French colonials and Indo-Chinese Communists. But his third force is merely reactionary elements and nothing but trouble comes from Pyle's efforts.
The police force of a midwestern city recently found itself in the embarrassing position of being out of parking tickets. A similar situation on this campus would undoubtedly be a top-ranking tragedy, probably second only to the breakdown of an IBM machine.
And, incidentally, Pyle is busy stealing Fowler's native mistress, the beautiful Phuong, away from the Briton.
It is clearly a major novel of 1956. But for this reader it is marred by Greene's generalizations, and his frequently untrue picture of America. All American liberals are not like Alden Pyle. Increasingly, in fact, it might be contended that many in this country seriously question whether we should judge all other countries—especially those of the East—by our special standards.
We see the girls down at the end of the street have turned on their glorified shower again, which always leads us to wonder how they get the nozzles on one side to spray so much more water than the other side. Oh well, it's smaller than the campanile, if not better looking.
—C. M. Pickett
A word of congratulation should go to the ASC which seems to be the only organization on the campus which doesn't need to choose a queen to make the front page.
Maybe the ASC could do something really useful for the campus—how about providing us with a set of universal tug-of-war rules?
"The Quiet American" abounds with exeite-ment. It is a well-written story of war, with impressive descriptions throughout. It packs much of the punch of Greene's "entertainments"—"This Gun for Hire," "Confidential Agent," etc. And, though the publishers deny it, it has much of the religious scope of Greene's major works, "The Heart of the Matter" and "The End of the Affair."
..Short Ones..
It looks like all the intellectual minds among the lawyers and engineers could solve their difficulties without all this hassle about pulling each other in Potter Lake.
Don't know who has the better life—a photographer or a judge at a queen contest.
The recent outbreak of picnics should lead to some sort of new comfortable fashion which will no doubt be designated as the poison-ivy league look.
The world looks darker every day as more and more it appears that Gracie's going through with it.