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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Feb. 28, 1956.
If Ike Should Say Yes-
February 29 will be an important day in American history. That is the day that President Eisenhower has set to make public his decision on whether to run for another term or to retire to his Gettysburg farm. Millions of American voters are awaiting his decision and wondering what effect his decision will have on the country.
If he should decide to try for another term in the White House, the country probably will note little change in its present way of life, with the exception of a jubilant Republican party and a possible surge on Wall Street.
But what if he decides not to run? Who will be the GOP's candidate and what effect will his decision have on the economic status of the country?
Chief Justice Earl Warren seems to be the GOP's first choice for the presidential race if the President decides not to run. In a recent Gallup poll, among Republicans, Warren was the overwhelming choice for the nomination should President Eisenhower decide not to run. But the Republican party can't overlook the fact that Warren insists that he does not want the office.
Vice President Richard Nixon is a distant second in the poll. However, Nixon who probably will be the President's running-mate should he decide to serve again, is strongly opposed by many members of the Republican Party. Running third and fourth as possible presidential candidates in the GOP, according to the poll, are Thomas E. Dewey, twice unsuccessful in bids for the country's highest office, and Harold Stassen, also an active candidate in past campaigns.
It is absurd to think that the President's decision would have any long-lasting effect on the country's economic status. But still we can't overlook the fact that his decision will have some effect on business. A shock, yes, especially since all medical reports point toward a full recovery for the President.
A decline, yes, but not a permanent one. Should he decide to run, business probably will note a sharp surge on Wall Street and business spending plans, already climbing toward a peak level, probably would rise still higher.
Most Republicans are confident that President Eisenhower will run. One GOP senator has been buying up low selling stock, confident of an upsurge based on an announcement that the President will run. Another senator, also a Republican, and just as confident, bet $50 that Ike wouldn't run.
Daryl Hall
Advertising Is Here To Stay
Advertising has a definite place in our economy. Since our economy is based on competition, advertising is one of the most effective tools which can be used to further that competition. It goes without saying that advertising has already helped thousands of young businesses find their rightful place in the overall structure of our economic system. It has lowered the costs of products and services to the ultimate consumer.
Since advertising does have such an important place in our economy, it has a big obligation to society—an obligation to tell as good a sales story about its products in as intelligent a manner as possible. Advertising must be truthful and sincere if it is to be favorably received by the consumers it seeks to benefit.
The advertising business,young though it may be in comparison with other businesses,is to be congratulated on the rapidity with which it has
risen to thwart those influences or practices which, if allowed to go unchecked, would seriously damage the reputation of advertising among intelligent people everywhere.
In the last analysis, advertising is definitely here to stay, and because of it, we may expect to see even more benefits in the way of a better standard of living for the public, and lower manufacturing and selling costs which will be reflected in even lower prices paid by the consumer.
—Walt Baskett
Phog was upset about the booing and hissing and general display of unmannerly conduct in a recent game when the local team was trailing by 20 points. We are wondering how he feels about that kind of conduct when the team was winning by the same margin. We know how one Nebraska visitor felt.
Chancellor Answers Questions On Growth
Bv SAM L. JONES
(Daily Kansan Editorial Editor)
(Editor's Note: This is the second of two articles dealing with the future growth of the University. In it, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy answers questions concerning plans for the future.)
In the light of the enrollment projections made by your University Planning Council in January 1954, just what are you doing in the way of future planning for the University?
"Planning for the future of the University continues apace, albeit not quite as intensively as during the activities of the University Planning Council, which got together the basic information and recommended a basic format. The planning function now resides mainly in my office and involves the immediate members of my staff."
Have you established an overall "planning council" for the University?"
"I have not established an overall planning council since the dissolution of the one established shortly after my arrival in Lawrence. After this particular Planning Council came to its basic conclusions, I received them and proposed methods to handle the matter through the usual mechanism of the University, involving the deans, the University Senate and other administrative offices."
Do you have a private or state architectural group making plans for new buildings and new areas for University expansion?
"The office of the state architect is presently drawing plans for a new men's dormitory to house 400 students, a married student housing project, and a building to house the School of Business and department of economics. Plans for a basic remodeling of Blake, Hall to house the Extension divisions are under
way in the Department of Architecture here at the University. Serious thought is being given to the employment of a firm of landscape architects to study certain areas in the southwest part of the campus as regards additional student housing projects."
Do you have the individual deans of schools make recommendations regarding the needs of their paraprofessionals and the expanding student population?
The Director of Libraries is carrying through intensive discussions with his staff with an eye to a major expansion in our library facilities. In both cases initial appropriations for planning for these two structures will be requested from the 1957 Legislature."
"We attempt to have the faculties of the various schools of the University make recommendations as regards the needs of those schools to the various deans, who in turn forward these observations to this office with their comments. At the present time the faculty of the School of Engineering is working up proposals which will shortly be forwarded to me through the Dean of the School of Engineering in regard to the type and character of a structure to expand the physical plant of the School of Engineering.
"The question is difficult to answer briefly. Of course, we consider the future of the University to be bright indeed. Above everything else we must design our programs so that there can be no compromise in quality and excellence. We cannot permit quality of instruction to be drowned out by any quantitative tidal wave of students. We have basic responsibilities in education at all levels—undergraduate,
What do you consider the future to be for the University in the role of the state's largest educational institution?
Parallel In History
professional and graduate. We get no sense of satisfaction from the quantitative aspect of things alone. We get far greater satisfaction in feeling that the quality of our teaching and research is progressively better.
"Briely, I can envisage a University of Kansas in 1970 that is approximately twice its present size both in physical plant as well as in student body, with a proportionate increase in first-rate teachers and a substantial increase in the scholarly effort of both faculty and student body alike."
Has a move been made to correlate action between the University and the city of Lawrence for the development of adequate housing facilities?
"We have constant discussions with the city of Lawrence in our long range planning to the future. The developments, particularly in the southwest part of the campus, attest to this. We are urging wherever possible additional rental housing to be built in Lawrence, and in this have been supported by the city Chamber of Commerce. It is clear, however, that the city alone cannot provide the housing that will be necessary—hence our own determination to expand as rapidly as possible for both unmarried as well as married students."
"The inevitable expansion of the administrative offices of the University will take place in Strong Hall, as space becomes available, due to the movement into the new buildings for music and dramatic arts, the School of Business, etc. It is our hope to keep the administrative offices of the University always concentrated in the center of the campus here in Strong Hall."
Are there any plans for the expansion of the administrative branch of the University?
Defeated Candidates Helped Parties Which Lost Elections
Today the entire world is waiting for President Eisenhower to announce his final decision as to whether he intends to seek a second term in the White House.
Especially concerned are all staunch Republican supporters, who fear Mr. Eisenhower is the only GOP candidate who has the slightest chance of winning.
Most people also will recall that President Eisenhower was the first Republican candidate to win since 1928, breaking a 20-year Democratic monopoly on the office. Franklin D. Roosevelt's overwhelming victory in 1932 broke a similar Republican reign.
In the case of the break-through victories of both Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Roosevelt, a great deal of the credit for the victory apparently should go to the losing candidates in the campaigns of four years earlier—Alfred E. Smith, who was soundly beaten by Republican Herbert Hoover in 1928, and Thomas E. Dewey, who was surprisingly defeated by Harry S. Truman 20 years later.
In defeat, both of these losing candidates managed to convert critical portions. of the voting population to their party, helping to insure victories four years later.
The "Hanny Warrior"
In 1928, Al Smith, the "Happy Warrior," failed to make an impressive showing in the general election, although he campaigned vigorously. President Hoover received some 58 per cent of the popular vote, and piled up a whipping 444-87 majority in the electoral college.
President Hoover also cracked the South for the first time in many years, carrying four states below the Mason-Dixon line.
However, a closer look at the breakdown of the records shows which factors were responsible for Mr. Smith's loss, and also illustrate his contribution to Mr. Roosevelt's victory four years later.
Mr. Smith lost the southern vote on the issues of prohibition and Catholicism. Catholic candidates have always been unpopular in the South, and Mr. Smith's hopes apparently suffered after his frank criticism of the 18th amendment.
Period Of Prosperity
A former governor of New York, Mr. Smith concentrated on the urban areas of the East. With the country in a period of prosperity, the working class had become increasingly aware of its stature in the affairs of the nation, and with this dual ramrod, the vote in urban areas increased 38 per cent in 1928, while the rest of the country was showing a 26 per cent increase.
This crystallization of the increased Democratic vote in the big cities and industrial areas was Mr. Smith's major contribution to FDR's overwhelming victory in 1932.
Editor:
...Letters..
We recognize that you too believe our brother, Wes Santee, was recently dealt an injustice.
Therefore, we are taking the liberty of presenting to you an exact copy of the letter which we lately mailed to the AAU.
Larry Welch,
St. John sophomore
Leon Matassarin,
Wichita freshman
(Below is the letter) Dear Sirs.
Since we have a tradition which involves sportsmanship, and more particularly, Wes Santee, we are the athletic fraternity of a minor sort.
We are active in intramurals here at Kansas University (amateur) and are well known for our Wes Santee—Acacia races.
Obviously then, we do not want to commit any act that would endanger our amateur standing.
Therefore, we wish to explain the 26 beers that our runners on our 1955 Wes Santee-Acacia race team received. The fraternity paid for the beers, not as a reward for professional services, but rather as merely a good gesture to the tired boys.
With the additional influence of the depression, Mr. Roosevelt increased the already-Democratic urban vote, and won back the solid South to score an overwhelming victory.
From 1932-1940, Mr. Roosevelt built the Democratic machine to its highest degree of perfection. By 1944, his popularity had begun to wane, as he amassed only 53 per cent of the total vote.
So, when Mr. Roosevelt died in 1945, most observers felt the Democratic reign was ended. They were correct, but it took longer than they had anticipated.
Expert's Were Dumbfounded
Experts Were Dumbfounded
These experts were dumbfounded when President Truman surprisingly won the Democratic nomination, and then proceeded to design Mr. Dewey, 303 electoral votes 187. Mr. Truman emerged with a plurality of more than 2 million votes, over the Republican candidate. Mr. Dewey.
Mr. Truman had pulled the Democratic groups back into the party fold, so that by the end of the year, Roper surveys showed there were about five Democrats to every three Republicans.
Mr. Dewey apparently lost in 1948 because he failed to hold together two groups which had supported the Republicans since 1940—the farmers and the isolationist groups of German, Irish and Italian descent. This immediately brings reminders of Mr. Smith's failure in 1928 on the prohibition and Catholicism issues.
Important Gains
And like Mr. Smith, Mr. Dewey who also was governor of New York, managed to record some important gains for his party—gains which made themselves felt strongly in the following election.
Mr. Dewey managed to reduce the normal Democratic majority in the big cities. In Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and San Francisco. In the Republican percentages past what they had been since 1928, failing only in Boston to make a significant gain.
As did Mr. Smith, Mr. Dewey recognized the changing times, and planned his campaign to fit the dominant issue of the day. Though both candidates were unsuccessful, they did much to set the stage for later wins by their parties—gain which helped these parties gain victories in the next elections.
Also, Mr. Dewey was able to consolidate the important out-of-the-big city vote in the crucial eastern states. Though failing in Ohio and Illinois, he swept the entire Northeast except Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
What Al Smith had been to the immigrant workers of his day, Thomas Dewey to the new white-collar suburban groups. He recognized the shift in the dominant political issue from the problem of economic security to the foreign policy dispute.
—Dick Walt
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