Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday. Nov. 12, 1954
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EDITORIAL STAFF
ORIGINAL STAR
Editorial Editor    Letty Lemon
Editorial Assistants
Dot Taylor, Amy DeYong
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
CAMPUS
An over-all picture of this year's homecoming decorations seemed to reveal much less originality and effort on the part of the organized houses.
The campanile concert to be held this weekend should be one of the best attended musical events on the Hill. After all, you couldn't possibly miss it.
STATE
Look for little constructive legislation to be passed by the Kansas House and Senate. Many of the persons who backed George Templar aren't expected to co-operate very closely with Gov. Fred Hall.
NATIONAL
The Senate sessions debating a possible McCarthy censure will probably draw as much publicity and be just as ridiculous as the hearings held in the spring.
According to the current explanations of the election offered by GOP sympathizers we will soon be learning that the Democrats didn't even win.
It will be interesting to note the effect the setback of last week's elections will have on the political career of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He lost in the race for attorney general of New York State.
INTERNATIONAL
The Russians are off on a new anti-American campaign. Two fresh incidents may lead to more East-West tension. It is likely the same situation will remain for some time.
SPORTS
Kansas City baseball fans are very optimistic about having a major league team. Let's hope that the enthusiasm continues while the team is being rebuilt into an American league contender.
There is much speculation about who will be the next manager of the Athletics. The manager last season, Eddie Joost and former manager of the Boston Red Sox, Lou Boudreau, are candidates most frequently mentioned. However, dark horses can be named in such situations. An example is the Phillies' naming Mayo Smith to replace Terry Moore.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"Flossy said she got so much out of your course, professor, I want to enroll."
To the editor:
... Letters ...
Well, the KuKu's have done it again.
First the ill-fated Post Card brigade with its resulting criticism.
And now the painting of "Unele Jimmy Green" (with permission from the chancellor's office). This painting seems to have irritated the young lawyers.
A lawyer-student friend of mine asked me why the KuKus didn't paint some tombstones too. Perhaps the analogy is far-fetched. But James Green's statue is a memorial and not something for idle minds in a pep club to decorate when they get the urge.
Some will say that they don't consider the statue a memorial. Then we will grant that painting "Jimmy Green" is traditional. That being so the sport is lost when permission is obtained. The idea is to paint "Jimmy Green" and outwit the campus sheriffs. Anyone, even a KuKu, can paint "Jimmy Green" with permission.
This permission idea may go too far. Next the KuKus may ask (and probably receive) permission to paint the campanile.
If the KuKus really want to increase "school spirit" I am sure a little mental effort in determining some actually more purposeful activity would bear fruit. Furthermore, the KuKus might even find thinking fun. Why not try it, KuKus?
-George Reynolds
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One Woman's Opinion
Teachers who say we are flippant about grades are many times the ones who give only two tests a semester—and in their hands rest our grade point total. They don't consider anything but the test grade—not the recitations during class, because there is no chance for recitations because they're too busy lecturing.
They don't consider variables such as a bad stomach ache, a sick mother, or a case of pink eye that can raise havoc with us on test day. They just give the test and record the results.
Yet when we don't make an "A" or a "B", we are told, if they know our names well enough to talk to us, that we don't study enough, and that we aren't interested in the subject.
Not many teachers do this, and the number who do is declining—but we think something should be done in the two-test-per-semester system.
We think a system of personal conference should be worked out. This cold, clinical test grading is unfair—and if the teacher who lectures only, without leaving time for recitation, really wants to know how much his students know, he must find out this way.
The teacher could schedule two conferences a semester, ask questions and answer questions. He could know what the student thinks about the subject, and really get an idea of what he is accomplishing.
—Mary Bess Stephens
Middle Roaders Lead Democratic Congress
Sam Rayburn
When the eighty-fourth Congress convenes in January, the new speaker of the House will be Sam Rayburn.
His leadership will greatly influence the smooth or rocky operation of the half Democratic half Republican government.
Rep. Rayburn, a Democratic "middle of the roader" with 10 years' experience in the House, entered the lower chamber in 1913. He has been speaker longer than any other man.
The speaker is chosen by a caucus of the majority party members, and then is elected by the House. He usually may expect to be re-elected at each succeeding Congress as long as he is a member and his party remains in control.
The speaker signs all acts, addresses, joint resolutions, writs, warrants, and subpoenas ordered by the House. He decides questions of order, subject to appeal by any member, puts questions to a vote, and appoints select and conference committees that are authorized. The speaker has the same right to speak and vote that other members have.
The only way any member can be heard by the House is to be formally "recognized" by the speaker. This means he can control the course of debate and can practically determine the fate of any measure he chooses to support or not to support.
The "man from Bonham" spent much of his time during the New Deal days attempting to reconcile a government that leaned to the left and a Congress that leaned to the right.
He probably will advocate revision of Republican tax legislation and possibly will move to increase the military budget.
Sam Rayburn and President Eisenhower do not always agree on policy, but Rep. Rayburn has indicated a liking for the President and understands his problem. Along with other Democrats, he has pledged "to maintain a united country rather than to have constant bickering among different groups."
If this unity is attained in the 84th Congress, the confidence that many people have in Sam Ryburn will have been justified.
—Ted Blankenship
Lyndon Johnson
Probably one of the chief compromisers and one of the key Democratic senators since the Republicans took control of the White House and Congress in 1952 is 46-year-old Lyndon B. Johnson, new Senate majority leader.
Sen. Johnson, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, has had the important task of uniting the extreme right and left wings of the party. In the past, he has united the Democrats by giving each side a fair break on the committee assignments. He even managed to let Sen. Richard Russell go over Sen. Hubert Humphrey's farm bill before it was presented.
Sen. Johnson filled a terrific gap in the party after it was defeated in 1952. He is no political boss, no disciplinarian, no statesman, but a simple political operator. His plan has been to see that the Republicans had enough rope to hang themselves and at the same time to make sure that none of the Democrats got their feet tongled up in the slack.
He is noted for his careful reasoning of political situations. He has put some of the young senators on committees where they will do the most good. Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri is a typical example, for the former Air Force secretary was placed on the important Armed Services committee against the advice of some of the older leaders.
Sen. Johnson's move toward the minority leadership began in 1951 when he became Democratic whip. After the GOP victory it was expected that Sen. Russell would be the new minority leader, but he stepped out of the picture and saw to it that Sen. Johnson got the job.
Mr. Johnson first made major headlines when he organized and ran the Senate preparedness subcommittee in the early part of the Korean war. He was credited with saving the U.S. taxpayers $500 million.
Sen. Johnson's political life started in 1937 when he was elected representative from the Texas district after the death of Rep. James P. Buchanan. He remained in the House until 1949, when he was elected to the Senate, with the exception of a short hitch in the Navy. —Dana Leibengood