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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 29. 1956.
Court Ruling Puts Democrats On Spot
It appears that the Supreme Court manufactured a political monster, as far as the Democratic Party is concerned, when it ruled out segregation in the South. The Democrats are facing a critical problem—how to keep the northern desegregationsits and the southern segregationists from ripping the party apart.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
The segregation problem is not only a threat to the party's plans of defeating President Eisenhower, but it could cost control of both houses of Congress. President Eisenhower pushed a wedge into the possible split last week when he asked Congress to create a bipartisan civil rights commission. If the Republicans press for it, the northern Democrats will have to back them, thus causing more hard feeling in the South.
Southern whites are determined to resist the court's decision, and no southern Democratic leader, regardless of his personal views, can publicly accept the decision without committing political suicide. Likewise, the northern politicians can't resist the court's decision because of the strong anti-segregation attitude and the large volume of Negro voters in the Northern states.
The southern segregationists appear ready to organize another Dixiecrat movement if their views are not adopted by the party, and none of the Democratic leaders seem to know how to keep the conflict under control. The conflict reached a boiling point two weeks ago when 19 southern senators and 81 representatives joined in a declaration attacking the Supreme Court's decision.
The fact that the decision came under a Republican administration will mean little during the campaign. To the Republicans the problem of segregation, although a major one, is of minor importance as far as the Presidential race is concerned. The Republican party relies little on southern support in Presidential campaigns, but instead concentrates on the industrial areas of the nation. Not so with the Democrats. The Democrats need southern support to win at the polls, and with the South hostile towards the leading Democratic candidates, the party seems destined to fail this year if the rebellion isn't stopped.
A further hint of a Democratic split was observed in the recent Minnesota primary when Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) made a crack about the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party that backed Adlai Stevenson. The remark caused ill feeling between the two candidates and their followers.
Because of the possible split in the party, it is essential that a Presidential candidate be chosen who will satisfy both elements. Mr. Stevenson, although not liked, is more popular in the South than Kefauver or New York Gov. Averell Harriman. Mr. Kefauver and Mr. Harriman are not trusted by the southern voters on the "issue." Many party leaders, as a result of the New Hampshire and Minnesota primaries, doubt that Adlai Stevenson can get the nomination. The apparent unpopularity of the three leading candidates opens the door for a possible dark horse entry, and the most logical choice at this time is Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas.
An open split is not wanted by either element, but each element is determined in its views. The Democratic party, somehow, must nominate a candidate and adopt a platform that will satisfy both the Negro and anti-segregationists in the North and the white segregationists in the South if it is to succeed in defeating the Republicans in November.
Sen. Johnson is the one man the South seems ready to back. Although Sen. Johnson, like President Eisenhower, recently suffered a heart attack and is not a candidate for the nomination at the present time, northern leaders are beginning to put pressure on him to become a serious candidate, believing that he is the only man who can stop the split from becoming a reality.
—Daryl Hall
Praise For Physical Therapy Department
Watkins Memorial Hospital has one of the finest and the most complete physical therapy departments contained in any student health program.
Pat On The Back
The floor plan of the KU department was drawn with an eye toward efficiency. The rooms are attractively furnished and are paneled with blond wood. The department handles from 25 to 30 patients a day, and, understandably, this number is slightly higher during football season.
Most physical therapy departments are located in the basement, as is this one. The reason for this is that the weight of the Hubbard tank, used for underwater exercises, is too heavy for normal floor construction to support.
Other equipment includes a shoulder wheel, which exercises shoulder muscles. It is normally used about five to six times a day. There are also mats for exercise, which are important during early rehabilitation.
for polio patients. A fact that would be surprising to most students is that the hospital is completely equipped to take care of polio patients except for acute respiratory cases.
The department also contains a whirlpool to relax the muscles, and a quadriceps boot, a heavy weighted boot which, when fastened to the foot, strengthens the knee muscles as the patient lifts his foot up and down. There is also electrical equipment which records nerve impulses and muscle contractions.
Practice steps and a walking frame are used
There are lamps for heat treatments and a great deal of other more specialized equipment that is unusual in a student hospital. There is also a most competent staff of physical therapists who can cure almost any ache or pain.
If you are suffering from anything from a Charlie horse to a more permanent disability you'll probably find a cure that's good for what ails you in the physical therapy department at Watkins.
Ann Kelly
Foreign Students Represent 50 Nations
Just think a little about him—not only as somebody who is sitting beside you in class or passes you on the campus, but what he is and what he is doing over here.
He is called an international student. This year there are 175 such students from over 50 countries of the world at the University. You may know his name but that isn't enough. He is not just a person or a student here. He is a representative of a foreign country and his life is based upon a different culture and social life.
Some come from nearby countries like Latin America or Mexico. Others come from the East Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Iran, Iraq, Israel are represented. Students from Egypt, French Morocco and a great number from all over Europe; Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, England, are students at KU.
First of all it is a club in which anyone may participate. It is an organization where students may become better acquainted and talk with one another. Students may dance and enjoy an evening together, or sometimes there is some other type of amusement or entertainment.
Each student comes over here not only for academic work but also because of a special desire to know you and your culture, to share your way of life.
Have you ever thought about how much you could gain from such a club?' Many of your friends have already joined, and many students together could create on this campus a society of Nations based on common interests, mutual understanding, and friendship that KU would be proud of.
You have seen in The Daily Kansan news of
a program or a meeting of the International Club. Do you think that the International Club is only for foreign students? It is not.
With the trend toward drive-ins nowadays, it probably won't be long before drive-in football recruiting offices will be upon us.
-Margarita Pipinopoulou
Won't it be great when we have a few nice days in a row and sit in front of Strong to find out if there's a successor to Joan Gavin?
*—OR THERE'S FORESTRY—I MAY DECIDE TO GO INTO THE LUMBER BUSINESS.*
A Look Back
Country Owes Great Debt To Five Early Statesmen
To five men the United States is primarily indebted for its creation, and for its survival during the first 50 years of its life.
It was not only for his role as commander-in-chief during the American Revolution that George Washington merited the title of "Father of His Country." He played an equally important part as its first President, for during his term of office he put into operation the complicated machinery of checks and balances established by the Constitution, and he persuaded the various opposing factions to work together in the interest of the state
The debt to Thomas Jefferson, apart from his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, is a less obvious one, but it may be said that he directed the social revolution which followed in the steps of the political one. His conception of liberalism is still a part of the American tradition, although at times it seems to be more of historical than of immediate interest.
James Madison was in a sense the creator of the Constitution, for it was his original plan, although modified in many ways, which was finally adopted, and Alexander Hamilton, rightly called the greatest secretary of the Treasury in American history, created the financial stability which was essential if the new State was to survive
Finally, it was John Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Court for 35 years from 1801 to 1835, who became "the expounder of the Constitution."
Plan For Union
At a time when government under the Articles of Confederation was so weak that it was virtually nonexistent, a group of brave men had begun to plan for a stronger, more centralized union under a Constitution. As for their success, there were those who thought them doomed and prophesied, as did Josiah Tucker, dean of Gloucester, that "As to the future grandeur of America, and its being a rising empire under one head, whether republican or monarchial, it is one of the idlest and most visionary notions that ever was conceived even by writers of romance.
"... They never can be united into one compact empire under any species of government whatever; a disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, they will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths or principalities."
There were others, however, among them, these five men, who saw the great potential in the
young country, and continually sought the ways and means until in 1787 they wrote the Constitution of the United States.
Marshall Is Powerful
It was John Marshall's great task as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution so as to make it an efficient instrument of government.
At first sight the construction of a written document must seem to be work of limited character only requires an application of the ordinary rules of grammar to the words used, but this is no more accurate than it would be to say that all an artist has to do is to apply paint to canvas.
To John Marshall we owe far more recognition than his marvelous interpretation of the Constitution during the many years he was Justice of the Supreme Court. We are also indebted to him for the very basis of the law behind the Constitution itself.
-Ann Kelly
The conquest in 1953 of the world's highest peak, Mt. Everest, broke the spell that had guarded other giants of the Himalayas. Italians in 1954 climbed K-2, second-highest mountain. Kanchenjunga (28,166 feet) and Makalu (27,790 feet) yielded in 1955.
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