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University Daily Kansan Friday. December 10, 1954
Daily hansan
University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 378
Member of the Inland Daily Press association. Associated Collegiate Press association. Represented by the National Advertising service, 420 Madison, ave., N.Y. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 year (add $1 a semester in Lawrence). Published by Lawrence Kan., every afternoon during the Uni- leral School Saturdays and Sundays University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter. Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of March 3, 1879.
EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITORIAL STYLE
Editorial Assistants Lemon Levy
Editorial Assistants Amy DeYong
Dot Taylor, Amy DeYong
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
CAMPUS
A campus prediction: The Miss Santa contest has a good chance of becoming a campus tradition. Why? No other campus beauty contest combines both an honor and $150 worth of prizes.
The three-year trial of deferred rushing ends this year. It will be interesting to see what the sororites decide, whether to continue or go back to pledging freshman women. We predict the former.
SPORTS
With this week's successful basketball score—we are sure to prove that we can excel in at least one sport this year.
Since the city commissioners have named the two-lane highway leading up to the new fieldhouse Naismith road, it looks like action will be forthcoming from the board of regents to name the fieldhouse after Phog Allen.
NATIONAL
Ike's long time overdue stand on the McCarthy issue came this week when he commended the Watkin's committee, which censured McCarthy, for their work. McCarthy immediately attacked the President for his stand. Maybe this will lead to Ike's really knocking down McCarthy like he should have done long ago. Or will he just "let things ride" for the sake of 1956?
Despite his "no immediate plans" it looks very much like Sen. McCarthy is planning a break with the Republican party. A new party could be in the presidential race in 1956.
INTERNATIONAL
The Chinese Reds continue to threaten assault and "liberation" of Nationalist China, but don't be surprised if this so-called "liberation" movement is delayed—for maybe two or three years.
Overheard in the Hawk's Nest: An aspiring young actor was told that he sang and acted like a combination of Jose Ferrer and Jan Pierce. Sang like Jose Ferrer and acted like Jan Pierce.
A 33-foot Santa Claus was lost by a California trucking company, and biology instructors expect us to find a practically invisible amoeba.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"Well—I guess th' reason I talk so much is because it doesn't require any thought."
... Letters
To the editor:
10. the editor
The article relating to Sunday's concert by the University Symphony appearing on page one of yesterday's Daily Kansan was, it seems to me, eminently unfair.
In the first place, in its unsigned state, it appeared to be a factual news report whereas it actually represented the opinion of one journalism student as to the quality of the performance. This raises the question of sound journalistic practice.
The circumstances surrounding Sunday's concert were most unusual. They had the elements of drama, pathos and uniqueness. Here was a group of student musicians with the courage to go ahead without their leader in an extremely difficult program; death, fortitude, and tension were all involved. An analogy might be that of the football team, bereft of its coaching staff, carrying on its scrap with Oklahoma on a Saturday afternoon. One can well imagine the encomiums that would be heaped upon the athletes for merely taking the field.
The magnitude of Sunday's challenge seemed to escape your reporter-critic entirely, and she failed to give the student musicians the benefit of any leniency in her determined probing.
Not that they needed to be given a break by anyone. The orchestra met the challenge magnificently and played a long and arduous program brilliantly. The performance could have been matched by few University orchestras in the country. One cannot, of course, judge a student orchestra on the same basis as a professional group like the Boston Symphony. But neither do we expect a Lawrence edition of the New York Times from the Daily Kansan staff.
Very sincerely.
DELL-Russell I think we can expect, however, to have expressions of personal opinions clearly labelled as such.
And when the millennium arrives perhaps the Daily Kansan will be able to assign as a reviewer of such events a student who has been interested enough in the great art of music to have taken at least one course in the field.
Very sincerely,
Dean Thomas Gordon.
School of Fine Arts
(The byline, by Gretel Guinan,
was inadvertently dropped.-Ed.)
To the editor:
Enclosed is my vote for naming the new fieldhouse for "Phog Allen. However, I think the whole campaign is rather a waste of time! What else would the board of regents name it?
I believe that they have intended to name it for Dr. Allen all along, but why should they tell us so now? Would it not detract from the dedication ceremony if we already knew the name of the building?
I believe that the board of regents has been in cahoots with the Lawrence city commission. The board might have said, "OK then, it's settled! You name the street for Naismith, and we name the building for Allen, and we have the honors all sewed up."
Let's see what the board of reagents says about this after the dedication.
John W. Switzer College senior
Every citizen knows that the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor holds a torch in her upraised right hand. But not many know what her left hand holds—the Declaration of Independence—or what lies at her feet—the broken chains of tyranny.
John Davies Was Fired Because He Was Right
John Paton Davies was fired from the foreign service department of the U.S. government over a month ago. His case is still important because it may mark a continuing trend.
First Dean Acheson, secretary of State under Harry Truman, was sharply criticized by political opponents, with direct implications of "treason." Dean Acheson was not a traitor and his actions as Secretary of State deserve the thanks of the free world.
Now it is career foreign service officer John Davies who must be held as the latest victim of unjustified attacks.
Be held as the later years Mr. Davies, working for the State department as Far East adviser, told the U.S. government that the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could not possibly hold out against the Communist forces without direct U.S. intervention.
The United States was unwilling to put troops on the Chinese mainland at this time, so the words of Mr. Davies boiled down to the advice that the Chinese Reds soon would be in power in that vast country.
Now Mr. Davies, after being completely cleared by nine different investigating boards on charges of disloyalty, has been released as a "security risk."
To quote an understatement, "Morale in the foreign service department is low."
Mr. Davies was fired because his advice to recognize the inevitability of the final Communist triumph was not taken.
It is difficult to pin down these words "security risk." They might mean anything from a homosexual to an alcoholic, but they recently have taken on the color of Communist leanings.
In other words, Mr. Davies seems to be a victim of the democratic process at work in foreign policy. It is assumed in the democratic process that the people will eventually be correct enough to run the processes of government.
It is a correct-enough assumption if the people are guided by correct advice, and not the advice of powerful political blocks with selfish interests.
Mr. Davies' conclusions proved to be correct; Chiang Kai-shek's government could not hold out, even with approximately $300 million in American handouts.
As the national and international affairs of the world become more complicated and crucial, the people of the United States will have to delegate more and more authority to specialists and experts in the various fields.
The advice of specialists must be at least publicized as much and carry as much "official sanction" as the advice of selfishly interested groups.
And to retain the needed specialists in the U.S. foreign service department, the United States must not victimize those experts whose advice does not conform to the advice of better-publicized political blocs. Ron Grandon
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