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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1956.
Gas Bill Veto Takes News Spotlight
The big news last week centered around President Eisenhower's physical examination and his veto of the natural gas bill.
The President vetoed the bill which would free natural gas from direct federal price regulation, but his endorsement "of the spirit" of the bill will keep it alive for another Congress. It is doubtful that Congress will be able to muster the two-thirds vote necessary to override the veto.
Earlier in the week passage of the bill had failed to quiet the investigation involving Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) and a $2,500 "campaign donation."
A special Senate committee sought to discover whether the money was intended to influence Case's vote on the natural gas bill.
Howard B. Keck, president of Superior Oil Co., swore he didn't know the money was offered to Sen. Case until the senator arose in the Senate Feb. 3 and said he was turning it down. Sen. Case voted against the bill.
Meanwhile, President Eisenhower's doctors gave him the green light to seek a second term in the White House. Dr. Paul Dudley White, Boston heart specialist, said "the President should be able to carry on an active life satisfactorily for another 5 to 10 years."
There was some speculation that the President would make his second-term decision during his week-to-10-day vacation at "Milestone," a Georgia plantation owned by Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey. The President has said his verdict probably will be based more on his own feelings than on the doctor's findings.
Democratic leaders meanwhile are bidding for ex-President Harry S. Truman's okay as to who will receive the Democratic nomination for the coming election. Mr. Truman is still the most influential member of the Democratic Party and his veto could knock any two of the three top contenders for the nomination. Adlai Stevenson, Sen. Estes Kefauver, and Gov. Averell Harriman out of the running.
On Capitol Hill, the State Department, by an
thorization of President Eisenhower, canceled its embargo on shipment of arms to the Middle East. The action permits 18 tanks to be sent to Saudi Arabia. The order will further allow $110,000 worth of military items to be shipped to Israel.
Elsewhere in the news, a Marine Corps transport plane crashed just 21 miles and 9 minutes from a landing at Alameda Naval Air Station, killing all 38 men aboard. The plane was on flight from El Toro and Camp Pendleton Marine bases in southern California.
District Attorney Ephraim Martin moved for an inquest into the death of Thomas L. Clark, 18, Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, who drowned as a result of fraternity hazing. His body was found in 40 feet of water in the Cambridge Reservoir.
In Europe the three-week cold wave death toll reached 627 as six inches of frozen snow fell overnight in Rome. Five persons froze to death in Italy, two in Germany, and two in Austria.
In a speech by First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Joseph Stalin's political and economic doctrines were denounced.
The Soviet Union also announced that any future war would be large scale and that it is ready and able to drop atom bombs on U.S. territory. Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov said the Soviet does not want war but is equipped to wreck any plans the West might have to confine any outbreak of hostilities to continental Europe.
The U.S. is not slowing down, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson hinted. Major progress is being made on the development of the 1,500-mile medium-range missile and even more fantastic weapons for the future, he said.
—Ann Kelly
Sen. Carlson (R-Kan.) announced he no longer will support the farm price support system as far as wheat is concerned. Under this system farmers could draw federal subsidies for under-planting crops now in surplus.
Advertising-A Positive Force
In our helper-skelter way of life, there are "weeks" for this and "weeks" for that. So it only seems natural for the people who originate the ideas behind these "weeks," the advertising men, to have a week of their own. This is that week, National Advertising Week.
The slogan for the week is "Advertising helps you to live better for less." At first thought, you probably think that this is just some more huckster nonsense. But the reverse is actually true, because this slogan is fact, and we'll prove it.
First, advertising increases the volume of a product, thus cutting the costs of production on each item. It also cuts selling cost, because it is much cheaper to advertise a product than to keep a large staff of salesman to go around selling the product.
Second, advertising is not competing for a fixed volume of business, but rather is attempting to keep up with our ever-expanding volume of business in gach field. Even in the cigaret business this is true. In 1920 there were 45 billion cigarets sold,
in 1948 there were 387 billion, an expansion of almost nine times as much in less than 30 years!
—Leo Flanagan
Fourth, if advertising were regulated, none of these improvements in product would be made. Also, our economy would not stand for such regulation, and would probably break down.
Finally, most advertising is not false and misleading as supposed by too many people. In a recent year, of 1,054,352 ads examined by the Federal Trade Commission, only 1,299 or less than one-eighth of 1 per cent even reached the legal review stage.
Third, competition in advertising of seemingly "trivial" differences of products also benefits you. How? It keeps the producers striving to make their products better, and gain the consumers favor.
Sen. Carlson Alters Political Stand
Yes, advertising is a positive force in our way of life. More people are able to buy more things to make life more enjoyable. This positive force of advertising is one of the reason's behind America's prosperity—and we're proud to be a part of it.
Yes-sir-re-bob! Election time is rolling around again.
Late last week Sen. Frank Carlson, who will face Kansas voters this fall, announced that he will desert the Eisenhower flexible price support farm program—at least as far as wheat is concerned—by favoring the rigid price support bill that passed the Senate Agriculture Committee by an 8-7 vote two weeks ago.
The Senate bill, which will probably be debated on the floor this week, has incurred the displeasure of both President Eisenhower and Secretary of Agriculture Benson.
Sen Carlson has in the past generally supported and actively worked for the Eisenhower-Benson farm program. Two years ago the Senator voted for flexible price supports.
Now he is apparently harkening to the rumblings from his state's portion of the nation's
They contend a return to 90 per cent parity supports will nullify the billion-dollar-a-year soil bank program which the administration requested and the committee also passed.
"bread basket," and conveniently reversing his position before Nov. 4 is upon us.
Kansas wheat farmers are generally dissatisfied with the administration's flexible supports as far as their commodity is concerned, and will mince few words in telling anyone so.
The farm price support issue is an extremely complicated one, shaping into perhaps the hottest issue of this election year.
Much has been said pro and con by directly interested factions.
Jerry Knudson
Much has been misunderstood and resented by the non-farming, tax-paying general public.
But regardless of the merits or faults of Sen Carlson's new stand—depending in which camp one finds himself—it's interesting, to say the least, to observe the questionable political integrity of the Senator from Kansas.
National Road Program State Or Federal Worry?
Ted Williams has signed to play another year of baseball for the Boston Red Sox. It must be tough earning $100,000 for four month's work.
Pending is the highway program with its pros and cons on who is to take the wheel of road construction—the states or the federal government. Using history as a guide, few would point a responsible finger at the states. Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore.) outlined the weaknesses of the 48 states in a Sept. 1953 article in Harpers. Following are his reasons for state ineffectiveness:
1. Constitutions are long and restrict, some exceeding the flexible federal constitution by 50,000 words.
2. The salaries of part-time legislators and other officials are too limited to permit them to devote enough of either their time or their interests to the state.
3. State elections are held the same year as national elections, causing legislators to run on national issue platforms rather than on local ones where their interests and powers lie.
4. Methods for effecting a change in constitutions are obsolete. A majority referendum vote is necessary and the process takes two years.
States lost out to the federal government because of internal handicaps like these and they don't seem to be correcting the deficiencies. To get them back on the responsible road, the highway program is a logical one to dump onto them for three reasons. First, the program for the federal government would be a huge one. It would be 1/48
as big for states, a size more suited to the states' capabilities. Second, the 48 states working together could bring the roads up to par much more quickly than the federal government alone. Third, a shove from the already overloaded federal government would push states out of their long-accepted conviction that they are unable, and consequently aren't asked, to do anything.
If states aren't sounded for improvements and if they aren't expected to improve, naturally they will continue to trod further down their barren road, handicaps and all.
—Ray Wingerson
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