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Washington — (U.P.) — President senhower was home today from Georgia golfing vacation, con-tented with an opposition Congressger for political warfare on the domestic front.
The opening skirmishes of the 56 presidential campaign will take place in the first session of the Senate, which convenes education, al, a, am
Mr. Eisenhower will unfold before public legislative leaders and embers of his cabinet his 84th congress political program in a white House meeting scheduled for p.m. today. He will discuss with him his annual message on the date of the Union which he per- pally will deliver Jan. 6 before last session.
when messages in bang-bang ter are scheduled after Thursday's:
Jan. 10: Foreign trade.
Jan. 11: Pay raises for civil serv-
ents including postal employees and
ked postal rates to cover the
letter
Jan. 13: Military pay raises and new armed services reserve program.
Jan. 20: The report of the President's council of economic advisers Jan. 24: Recommendation that the federal government set up a fund about $25 million to underwrite tension of private health insurance
Jan. 27: Multi-billion dollar high-
ly program.
A substantial area of harmony is been staked out for bi-partisan collaboration in enacting some of the White House program. Rep. Sam Seyburn (D-Tex.), who will be sealer in the new Congress, said it is ready to go along with Mr.
lower in postponing schedule
inctions in corporation taxes
and excise taxes on such things
online and cigarettes.
Democrats may challenge him, however, with a plan to increase individual income tax exemptions. The President can expect strong republican and Democratic support for his foreign policy.
Most Democrats are expected to support and many Republicans to oppose the President's comparatively low-tariff, reciprocal trade program. On public housing, health insurance, an increase of the minimum wage from 75 to 90 cents a hour, the President can expect substantial Democratic support.
Battle lines are forming on farm legislation with the House inigned to return to the high and flexible supports which Congress ranked last year. The Senate might go along but, in any event, Mr.isenhower probably would veto legalism.
Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.)
and the Senate Armed Serv-
ies committee would give the
resident's military manpower pro-
am a long, cold look. Sen. Rus-
ell will be committee chairman in
the 84th Congress. Mr. Eisenhower
ans to reduce military manpower
403,000 men in the next 18
months
Public power and internal security are the issues on which the emocrats are most determined to ve Mr. Eisenhower trouble in new Congress, seeking issues high could pay off in 1956.
Official Bulletin
Ph.D. Reading examination in Ger-
man 9 a.m., March 20. Read exam.
separated part must be turned
to 304 Fraser by 12 noon. Thursday,
hour is approved by Graduate
school are eligible.
TODAY
Mathematical colloquium, 4 p.m., room
mathematical collocum. Château
commutative theorems. Theorems.
D. Dames child study group, 8 p.m.
U. Davis child study group, 8 p.m.
Drive Drive
3 p.m., union
TOMORROW
N executive meeting 4 p.m., Union
The Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Music room
union. Robert Frost's Dramatic Poems
leaders: Arnette McCormick, Walter
Reserve. Edward Groff.
'reserve'
7:30, p.m. Pine room. Union
'on the Constitution amendment.'
-Kansan photo by Pete Ford
1955 BLESSING—Sampling the first Kansas rain of 1955 on their way to class are Mary Ann Enna and Cynthia James, college freshmen.
Panama's Leader Killed; Ex-President Arrested
Mr. Remon's body, clad in a white suit and black tie and draped with the presidential sash of office, will be taken to Panama cathedral today to lie in state. He was a former governor had about 5:30 p.m., after the late president's brother Alejandro arrives from Los Angeles.
Panama City—(U.P.)—Panama's military police arrested ex-president Arnulfo Arias and a score of his supporters today in a search for the tommy-gunners who assassinated President Jose A. Remon here last night.
Two persons besides the president were killed by the bullets that raked the presidential bar at the Juan Franco racetrack. Three persons were wounded.
Neither the identity of the killers nor the motive for the crime had been determined positively today, but some observers considered it significant that yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the revolution that first swept Mr. Arias to prominence.
There appeared to be no question of the ex-president being personally involved in the shooting—police located him at his country estate, 300 miles from the scene of the crime—but some officers of the National guard thought his supporters might be responsible.
J. Peralta, one of Mr. Remon's bodyguards, was the first to fall. A moment later, the 46-year-old president collapsed with several bullets in his back. He died two hours later in the hospital.
Mr. Remon and a group of friends were celebrating the victory of his horse, Valley Star, in one of yesterday's races when the tommyguns opened fire from three sides at 7:30 p.m.
The National guard moved into Panama City in force after the shooting. Emergency regulations were imposed at once, and there was a call for proclamation of martial law.
Jose R. Guizado, first vice president and foreign minister, took over as president early today.
The third man killed, swimming champion Danilo Souza, was not a member of the presidential party. It was not immediately clear how he came to be in the line of fire.
Monday, January 3, 1955 University Daily Kansan
Police said today that "about 20"
known supporters of Mr. Arias had been arrested in the city. Except for the ex-president himself, the only prisoner identified by name was one Thelma King, variously described as a left-winger or as one of Arias' rightist adherents.
Mr. Arias has played a leading part in most of Panama's more violent political changes since he led the revolution of Jan. 2, 1931. He has been ousted from the presidency twice—most recently, in 1951, by troops led by Mr. Remon, who was then commander of the National guard.
Mr. Guizado took the oath of office at 1 a.m. in the office of Col. Bolivar Vallarino, Mr. Remon's successor as commander of the National guard. A few Panama City radio stations returned to the air to broadcast the inauguration.
U. S. leaders here and in Washington expressed regret at the killing.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said he was "profoundly grieved" by the news, and the U.S. embassy here said it heard of Mr. Remon's death "with a deep sense of shock."
Dates for the annual Kansas Food Institute will be February 22-24 with management and supervision the program topics. The meeting is a project of the Kansas Restaurant association and three KU departments, home economics, University Extension and the Union food service.
Food Institute to Be Held
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Architect to Give Lectures
A housing and town planning consultant will give three lectures at the University tomorrow and Wednesday. Eugene Henry Klaber, a graduate in architecture of Columbia University, will present the lectures.
Mr. Klaber taught city planning and housing at Columbia university and has directed student work
at the University of Pennsylvania on a redevelopment of a portion of West Philadelphia.
Mr. Klaber was elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 1939 and is an active member in the American Institute of Planning. He is the author of "Housing Design," a book that has just been published.
On Campus with Max Shulman
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
THE OPERATOR
On every American campus there are four standard fixtures: No. 1—ivy; No. 2—a statue of the founder; No. 3—Philip Morris Cigarettes; No. 4—The Operator.
The ivy is to prevent strangers from mistaking the college for a warehouse. The statue of the founder provides shade for necking when the weather is fine. The Philip Morris Cigarettes are an aid to concentration when you are studious, an aid to sociability when you are sportive, and a source of smoke rings to impress new girls. And The Operator is the man you can't do without.
Well do I remember The Operator on my campus. He was a young man with a ready smile, a quick mind, fifteen complete changes of wardrobe, a six room apartment, a red convertible, and assorted stocks, bonds, securities, and second mortgages.
The Operator's origins were a source of lively speculation. Some said he was left over from the old Capone gang. Some said he was Judge Crater. Some said he sprang from the brow of Zeus.
But, in fact, he was just an ordinary student — to begin with. In his first year he studied hard, took copious lecture notes, got good grades, and made a big reputation as a friend in need. He'd lend you money; he'd let you copy his lecture notes; he'd write themes for you; he'd sit up all night to help you cram for an exam. All of this was done with infinite good nature on his part, and no obligation on yours . . . The first year, that is.
In the second year The Operator started to operate. He'd still let you copy his lecture notes — but it cost you a quarter. Sitting up to help you cram cost 50 cents an hour till midnight, 75 cents an hour afterwards. His prices for writing themes were based on a sliding scale — a dollar for a "C", two for a "B", three for an "A". A "D" cost you nothing, and if you flunked, you got a dollar credit on the next theme he wrote for you.
His services expanded steadily. He added a line of cribs for examinations. He booked bets on football games. He did a bit of bootlegging. He ran a date bureau. He rented cars, tuxedos, non-wilting boutonnières.
But all of these were really sidelines. His main line was lending money. At any hour of the day or night, for any amount from a dollar to a hundred, The Operator was always ready with a sympathetic ear and cash on the barrelhead. And he rarely charged more than 150 percent interest.
Nor did The Operator seek affection. He just went his well-heeled way, serene and carefree . . . No, not quite carefree. One thing troubled him: a fear that some day he might graduate. Graduation, leaving school, would mean the end of his empire. You can't run a business like that from the outside; you must be right in the midst of things, spotting opportunities, anticipating needs, keeping your finger on the public pulse.
So he took great pains to stay in school, but never to graduate. This he accomplished by constantly shifting majors. He would come within a semester of getting a B.A. in sociology and then transfer to law. When he had nearly enough law credits, he'd switch to business administration. Then from business administration to psychology, from psychology to French, from French to history, and so on, meanwhile getting cultured as all get-out, rich as Croesus, and never accumulating quite enough credits for a degree.
Finally, of course, it caught up with him. There came a semester when no matter what he took, he had to wind up with some kind of a degree. He looked frantically through the class schedule trying to find some major he hadn't tried yet. And he found one—physical education. So sleek and pudgy though he was from high living, The Operator entered the department of physical ed.
It was a mistake. Among the people he had to wrestle and box with were some great hulking fellows who, like everybody else on campus, owed him money.
campus, weed the grass and their tiny foreheads creased with glee as they regarded The Operator's trembling little body; their massive biceps swelled joyously; their flexors rippled with delight. Rumbling happily, they fell upon him and covered him with lumps, the smallest of which would have taken first prize in any lump contest you might name.
Confused and sick at heart, The Operator dragged his battered members home. He knew he had to get out of physical ed; his life was forfeit if he did not. So, unhappily, he transferred to some other course, and the following June, a beaten man in his cap and gown, received with lifeless hands a diploma and a bachelor of arts degree and shambled out into the great world.
I don't know what happened to The Operator after graduation. It's not a bad guess that he's serving time in some pokey somewhere. Or maybe he was lucky and went into the advertising business. If so, he is surely a big man on Madison Avenue today.
But, as I say, I don't know what happened to him. But this I do know; another Operator appeared on campus as soon as this one left, and he in turn was replaced by another, and the process goes on endlessly.
For as long as boy students like girl students better than going to class, as long as parents cling to the delusion that the allowance they had at college is sufficient for their children, as long as blood runs warm and cash runs short, there will be an Operator operating on every campus everywhere.
$ \textcircled{C} $Max Shulman, 1954
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