Page 2 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1956.
For 1956:
Colder War, Prosperity Seen
As each year rolls by, the world pauses to look back, to evaluate, and to reminisce. But the pause is only a fleeting glance and the world again looks to the future.
What is in store for 160 million Americans in 1956? Of course we can only guess.
It now appears that the celebrated "spirit of Geneva" is an elusive ghost. Party Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, speaking before the Supreme Soviet, denounced President Eisenhower's Christmas message to the satellite countries. The President had pledged U. S. support for the eventual freedom for the peoples of eastern Europe. Khrushchev termed this "crude interference" in Russia's internal affairs.
The apparent return to full scale cold war probably will cause an increase in defense spending and will delay any cuts in taxes on a large scale.
If no relapse occurs in the President's heart ailment, he will be re-nominated and re-elected in 1956. But the Democrats will retain control of Congress.
Business competition should increase in 1956, causing a decrease in profits for business, but the consumer will profit. Increased competition will bring prices down and will encourage business men and manufacturers to expand their production to cover other products.
Higher wages in 1956 may be expected to increase retail sales. Liberal credit policies on the purchase of houses, cars, televisions, washing machines and other appliances should help bolster the general prosperity in 1956 as they did in 1955.
There probably will be more leisure time during 1956. This should boost the entertainment industry, including sports and travel. The movie industry plans to exhibit its wares, less fearful of television. The wide screen is here to stay, and more sound and brighter colors have been added. Some producers have even increased the size of their film from 35 to 55 mm.
There will be increased interest in the expansion of schools in 1956. More tax money will be channeled into the construction of new classrooms and school buildings. We hope some of the money goes to the teachers.
Movies on television should be much better in 1956 with the sale of old RKO films to the television industry.
College and university enrollments will continue to increase in 1956. The baby crop will remain high with more parents having as many as four and five children.
Atomic power will receive more and more attention. Atomic power plants now are in operation here, in England, and in Russia. An atomic power plant drives the Nautilus, first atomic submarine, and the Seawolf already has been launched.
In the world of science and invention, many things are in the drawing board stage and could be completed at almost any time. It is likely that the new year will see the completion of many of these marvelous new inventions and discoveries.
It is possible that other diseases will be conquered in 1956 as was polio in 1955. It's even possible that scientists will solve the riddle of life itself.
At any rate, it's a great time to be alive.
At any rate, it's a great time to be anye.
-Ted Blankenship
Reds Beat Us At Handout Game
Here we are, fat, sleek, and pompous Americans. Oh, we are loyal enough, but "I am an American" is beginning to sound overbearing—like the sound of several centuries ago, "I am a Roman" (bow down). Our economy is at its highest peak. Our meals come three a day—meat with most. Our pleasure is cigars, champagne and Cinema-Scope.
Our tourists and military forces romp around the globe prodding and poking, and exclaiming, "How queer."
And around the corner of one of those queer little streets is a sign, "Go home, Yank!"
What?—Well, after all we've done for you . . .
"Imperialist!"
Who, us?! Yes, us—the largest dog with the biggest bone, which we will gladly share as long as there is a string which to yank it back when favors are not forthcoming. To many nations this smells like imperialism, a word with a much more dreaded meaning to them than communism.
Egypt, after a half century of the British system told us to keep our bone, string and all.
Meanwhile, another big dog, who wags his tail every time we growl, hands out bones without strings, and someday when he has enough little dogs gnawing on his bones he will say, "Let's go tear that fat hound apart."
We were flabbergasted!
Fat hound—that is us. What can they do but follow. What can we do?
True, many a nation's economy is there because we put it there and are keeping it there, but accepting a handout shoves aside pride and if we direct what is to be done with that money pride is cut a little deeper.
Pride to these people is a dear thing. They have been in the business of being nations a long time. They have languages and cultures centuries old. A national pride has developed which is going to dislike any condescending patronage such as ours.
Russia apparently has learned the Good Samaritan routine better than we. It offers purses, services with no visible strings and strong appeals to national pride relying on moral obligation of those nations to rally to the red banner when time comes to overthrow the capitalist.
We, a business-minded nation, begrudge an investment where the assets are not tangible in the immediately foreseeable future.
Within the begging nation there is pride. If we chose to be the leader of the free world we can't ignore that pride. Our gifts must be given with the faith that the nation receiving has the ability to use it wisely whether we think it does or not.
Moral obligation is a part of pride and is a stronger string than any we can manufacture.
Education On Economics Needed
Dee Richards
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Communism, according to Marx and other prophets and philosophers of the total state, is a system of government whereby the workers own the tools of enterprise and industry, and share equally in all that is produced. In actuality, of course, the worker under communism becomes a tool, at the mercy of the men in power, and his share of production usually amounts to a bare subsistence.
In this country, on the other hand, and within another generation, workers will approach ownership of the tools of industry-if employe stock purchase plans are widely continued.
That striking observation was made by the head of a major oil company, in an article appearing in a magazine published by the New York Stock Exchange. His company has long had stock purchase plans, to which it makes large contributions.
He said, "We are firmly convinced that encouraging employees to save—and to share in our progress by becoming stockholders—has benefited
The Jefferson Record Denver, Colo.
That phrase economic education graphically points up the big thing. A recent survey showed that 77 per cent of the adult population could not correctly define a common stock. Here is an educational deficiency that really cries out for correction—for common stocks, along with other securities and obligations are one primary means whereby industry gets the money that builds plants, develops new and better products, creates jobs and purchasing power—whereby, in short, it maintains and improves the living and working standards of America. And the owners of stocks are partners in American enterprise.
both the company and the employees. We also believe that widespread adoption of such plans would help provide economic education for millions of corporate employees, to the benefit of all concerned."
"I LIKE THIS COURSE - IT'S SO PRACTICAL"
Science Still Doesn't Know All The Answers To Polio
What we don't know about polio today will some day fill a great many books.
We know enough to be able to say that polio will eventually be controlled but there remain wide areas where we lack knowledge. March of Dimes research projects are now working to fill in the gaps.
We do not know, for example, how long the effect of the Salk vaccine lasts. The reason we don't know is that there has not been enough time to find out. Children who received injections of experimental vaccine two and a half years ago still have substantial protection against paralytic polio. These and other children will have to be followed for many more years before we can know how long the vaccine's effect persists.
We don't know how to make the Salk vaccine without using monkeys. Virus for the vaccine is grown on cells of monkey kidney tissue. The monkeys that provide these cells must be imported from India or other countries in the Orient. This is an expensive procedure and if for any reason the import of these monkeys should stop, our vaccine production would stop also.
Several scientists working under grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis are now looking for a kind of cell that will multiply indefinitely in the laboratory and will provide a suitable tissue to cultivate virus for the vaccine.
We don't know whether the Salk vaccine can be improved. Vaccines for other diseases have been greatly improved over the years. Some scientists feel that a live virus vaccine may be the eventual answer to polio, or that such a vaccine might be used as a booster shot after an individual has received the Salk vaccine. In a number of March of Dimes—supported projects, scientists are working on these and related problems.
We don't yet have a drug that will prevent polio or that is effective in the treatment of the disease. We don't know if such drugs can be found. A search for them is spearheaded by projects at the University of Michigan, the George Washington University and the University of Utah. A preventive drug would be of value in an epidemic for it might be speedily given to all unvaccinated persons in the area.
Despite the long study that has been made of polio, we do not know of a simple diagnostic test which can be carried out in the average laboratory. Present methods take several days at the least and are undertaken only in virus research laboratories. With March of Dimes support, a number of scientists are searching for the kind of diagnostic test that is needed.
There are other vast unknown areas. Scientists are working toward better methods of caring for those who have already been stricken by polio. New procedures are making it possible to teach people to overcome their dependence on iron lungs and to return to more nearly normal lives, even those who have been severely paralyzed.
A great deal remains unknown about pathogenesis, which means what happens after the polio virus invades the human body. Much also remains unknown about the virus itself. What exactly is its chemistry? What is it made of? Why is it so damaging?
Enough is known about polio today to indicate that science can conquer it. Research is moving forward with March of Dimes support to bring that conquest closer.
The reporters who were at Key West, Fla. with the President thought for the most part that his Sunday press conference added evidence to the feeling in some quarters that he will not run again. One energetic newsman polled the news writers after the conference and came up with this result: 11 reporters, all seasoned Washington political hands, thought Mr. Eisenhower would not run again; three equally seasoned and trained men thought the President would seek re-election.
Newsmen Say Ike Won't Run
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