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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Nov. 2. 1954
Today is Election Day
Today is E-day. That is, election day.
Despite what you may have heard or read it is an important off-year election we're holding today, for its outcome will determine just what the American people think of President Eisenhower—whether he's extremely popular still as he was when elected President, or whether the people are beginning to lose faith and confidence in him.
Most pollsters and predictors see a Democratic gain in the offing. This is not unusual, as the "out" party usually picks up seats in the off-year election. However, most of them think the gain will be enough for the Democrats to gain control of Congress, and if this happens it will be only the third time in this century that it has happened.
Of the 37 Senate seats at stake in today's election. 14 Democratic seats are considered safe—in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. West Virginia, Rhode Island, and two in North Carolina.
Five Republican seats are considered safe—two in New Hampshire and one each in Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
This means that the election actually hinges on what happens in the 18 "key" races. These races are in California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, and Wyoming.
And so tomorrow we will know how it all turned out—how the American voter feels about the present administration and how his feelings have changed since 1952, if they have.
Every vote is an important vote, so again we urge all students who are eligible voters to go to the polls today and cast their ballots. The Kansan staff will be spending a long night in the newsroom tonight in order that we may bring you as complete and up-to-the-minute information as possible on the election results.
—Court Ernst
Our Turnpike Fiasco
To the majority of Kansas citizens, the Kansas Turnpike will indeed be a magnificent improvement. But little do these people know about the internal facts behind the case.
These facts cannot be brought to light now. They may be in the near future, if and when an enterprising governor is elected to office and has the intestinal fortitude to do something about the whole mess.
If the facts in the case could be brought to light now, the election picture in Kansas would be abruptly changed, giving the Democrats a glimmer of hope which it doesn't seem they have now. But, sorry as it may be, the whole case doesn't seem close to exposure.
A glimpse at what is to come, however, can be obtained by simply observing the change that will be taking place in the near future. One has already been made, and some discussion has already been brought to light about this one point, which is alarmingly small compared with the whole picture.
For instance, the new manager of the turnipwil will receive a yearly salary of $25,000. That is merely a $15,500 raise from his previous job.
In this new job, the manager will have charge of 236 miles of highway. Before, he had charge of 9,370 miles. (It might be argued, too, that he didn't take care of it very well.)
And while the people of the state might think this is an improvement aimed for their benefit, they are sadly mistaken. It is merely another political extravaganza, this one worth millions of dollars.
-Ken Bronson
THAT'S THE DANGER I
MEAN! HE GOT A GOOD
HEAD START THE MOUNT OF
REACHED ALASKA AN'
Couldn't OF BEEN
EX-TRADIATED 'CAUSE' ITS
STILL A FORN COUNTRY
OR SOMETHIN'.
To the Editor:
. . . Letters . . .
The brigade is over,
What did it do?
Where's the pride
Of old KU?
All games lost,
Not a single win.
And yet we brag.
We'll bash 'em on
Like a gray-haired spinster
After a ring.
It you ain't got him yet,
Don't brag, by jing!
Daris Cheriaki
To the Editor:
Here's one for you, too:
Whiskey, whiskey,
Gin, gin,gin—
KU plays like Errol Flynn
(Dirty, dirty, dirty!)
Disrespectfully yours,
A KS "buddy cat."
To the students of KU:
I am sure that you all enjoyed sending the post cards, and we got a kick out of receiving them; but a thought for the day.
Why was the money (spent for the cards) thrown away on foolishness? Could it not have been given for a worthy purpose such as research on cancer, aid for polio victims, or donations to the Red Cross?
I think the students of today should think before they do things. It's so much more worthwhile that way
A sophomore at Kansas State
Pioneers on the Atlantic islands of Bermuda were delighted, to find enormous flocks of the plump, edible cahow, a member of the petrel family. These "silly wilde birds" as the hunters called them, "would fall downe, offering themselves to be caught faster than they could be killed." Large numbers were destroyed, and for a time the bird was believed to be extinct. The cahow, however, has become wiser. Survivors now avoid man.
BUMPER CROP
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OppenheimerCase Called a Mistake
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer might have gone quietly into history as the greatest American physicist of his time. His name undoubtedly will cut into history books as the prominent pioneer in atomic physics and the atom bomb. But there will be a shadow over his name, a dark foreboding of an age when security and science, when personal liberty and progress, were confused.
Wherever his name will appear in history, there will be an ugly parenthesis or an additional paragraph about the time he was called a security risk.
In June 1954, future historians will write, the Atomic Energy commission denied Dr. Oppenheimer access to government secrets. His loyalty was not criticized, but he was held as a security risk.
Dr. Oppenheimer does not deny that he has been associated with the Communist party. He does not deny that he lied before an investigating committee. He does not deny that his wife, Katherine Puening Oppenheimer, was at one time a Communist. He does not deny that Haakon Chevalier, a Communist-tainted friend, once spoke to him about the possibility of transmitting technical information to Soviet scientists.
But he does deny that he is a Communist or has ever been disloyal to his country.
Dr. Oppenheimer is no ordinary man. He never has been. He was born in New York City in 1904, into a prosperous, cultivated, and liberal Jewish family. His keen mind induced his father to send him to the Ethical Culture school. From there he went to Harvard, where he showed promise as a physicist and was graduated in 1925. His education continued at Cambridge, at Gottingen, where he took his doctorate in 1927, and at other schools, largely abroad. Returning to America in 1929, he accepted a double teaching assignment at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena and the University of California.
Perhaps that is all they will write. Perhaps there will be more much more. At any rate, his name will be linked with a cry for freedom to work as one pleases, to create as one pleases, and to further progress as a result.
So it was with little surprise that Dr. Oppenheimer was appointed director of the Los Alamos atomic project in 1943. No one ever has said that he was unqualified for the job. Quite to the contrary, a colleague called him the "nerve center" of the project. Most of the main decisions were made by Dr. Oppenheimer, and his fellow scientists assert that all of them proved to be correct.
The Atomic Energy commission, led by Chairman Lewis Strauss, voted him from atomic research this year. Eugene M. Zuckert and Joseph Campbell of the commission said, "Concern for the defense and security of the United States requires that Dr. Oppenheimer's clearance should not be reinstated." Thomas E. Murray, another commissioner, voted, "Dr. Oppenheimer is disloyal." Only one dissenter of the majority vote, Henry DeWolf Smyth, said, "Dr. Oppenheimer is completely loyal and is not a security risk." And so ended Dr. Oppenheimer's Atomic Energy Commission career.
In a broad sense, Dr. Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institute, expressed his disappointment in the AEC when he said, "The Oppenheimer case is one manifestation of a trend or pattern which is extremely disturbing. There is grave danger that in tempting to conceal secrets we find ourselves with nothing—or not enough—to conceal." termed a security risk.
Gene Shank