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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1954
Humphrey Expected To Win in Minnesota
If the Minnesota primary election is any measuring stick, the Gopher State will send Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey to the United States Senate for another six-year term.
The 43-year-old Democrat, running on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket in the Sept.14 primary,outdrew all his party brethren in winning the Democratic nomination for the Nov.2 general election.
Polling an astounding 319,194 votes, Sen. Humphrey, who has just completed his first term in the Senate, outpolled his Republican opponent by 81,504 votes.
This solid endorsement of Sen. Humphrey is only part of the trend toward the DFL party in Minnesota. The party, which was united a decade ago, overwhelmed the Republican slate with a total vote of 351,389 to the GOP's 290,617.
Even the Republican hopefuls are now admitting that they are fighting an uphill battle to get their candidate, former State Treasurer Val Bjornson, into Sen. Humphrey's seat. For the incumbent senators is one of the most popular men in the state.
Meanwhile, state Democrats are bubbling with confidence over the Senate race. They are almost as confident over the House of Representatives race, where they now have four men, the Republicans five. They are confident they can win the "power" seat, leaving them one seat ahead of their adversaries.
In Sen. Humphrey, the Democrats have a powerful orator, a widely known and popular figure and a man quick to make friends. He is a typical New Deal-Fair Deal party member who is banging away at President Dwight D. Eisenhower's record and program. He never lets up on the all-important farm issue, passing around copies of headlines and stories from the 1952 campaign saying that Eisenhower pledged the farmers 100 per cent of parity.
He calls this "the greatest single political betrayal in the nation's history."
Except on farm price supports, Mr. Bjornson is a straight Eisenhower backer.
"When you vote for Val," he says, "you're voting for Ike."
A 48-year-old former news and radio man, Mr. Bjornson tells his audiences to send Republicans to Washington to help President Eisenhower finish the job—not "Democrat enemies who would hamstring, hog tie, and handicap this administration at mid-term."
To which Humphrey cries back, "Send people to help Ike? Send Democrats to help you."
Probably the greatest single blast delivered in the campaign thus far was delivered by neither candidate, but rather by Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who recently told a Minneapolis news conference that Sen. Humphrey's amendment to outlaw the Communist Party was "an obvious political gesture." Sen. Humphrey offered the amendment in the closing days of the 83rd Congress.
"Fortunately we were able to clean it up so that it did not harm the pattern of the administration's legislation," the vice president said.
And while there isn't a great deal of mud-slinging occupying the Minnesota political scene these days, it isn't because the Senate race isn't being followed closely. It's rather because of the overwhelming majority Sen. Humphrey seems to have.
Ken Bronson
Bop talk is the most. But confusing to say the least. For instance, two cats say "Dig ya'." instead of "Scratch ya'."
Last Saturday a dull thud-thud sound of 65-0 made its way from Memorial stadium and spread out over the campus. A radio announcer tried desperately to think of something nice to say about the team that was being literally trumped beneath the Sooners' much-too-powerful feet. A disappointed KU clan wandered back up the Hill. Everyone had expected a major loss—but 65-0!
Anyway, the loss put a definite pat on the fact that KU has a losing 1954 football team.
And losing is something new to KU. A recent background history of winning football teams, and Olympic basketball team, and an Easton-perfected track squad makes this year's football season an even more inglorious one.
One Man's Opinion
No one honestly can blame anyone for the unhappy situation. Coach Mather has tried. (So did Mr. Sikes). The team has tried. KU fans have tried. But the team simply is not strong enough.
No one is to blame.
Backing a losing team is something new to KU, too. Starting last year the downward trend came rather as a surprise to most fans. Obviously, we had to learn something about supporting a losing team.
We're still learning. Being good losers isn't so easy for us. We've been winners too long. We soon discovered that outstuing a coach solved nothing. Bringing a fresh, new one didn't help. We didn't know how to accept the role of a loser. But we're learning.
Now that there is no longer any need for pretenses, the time has come for our supporting a losing team with everything we've got—supporting it with the hope that young Coach Mather can develop a losing team into a winning one.
That, too, takes time.
—Gene Shank
Jail Inspection
SOUTH PARIS, Me.-(UP)—Oxford County Sheriff James Las-sister, angered when former inmates spread reports that the old county jail was "dirty and insanitary", announced: "I'm opening the jail and its kitchen for public inspection during daytime hours and will be glad to show people around. I intend to squelch these rumors once and for all."
In Clover
CHAMBERLAIN, S. D.-(UP) If four-leaf clovers are lucky, Mrs. L. Alcy Gerard of Chamberlain should be the luckiest woman in the world. She has collected more than 20,000 of them during the past four years. She has found as many as 700 in five days. Her favorite hunting ground is the Chamberlain power plant lawn.
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
And now the library again. The center of any college campus, the axis upon which the world of knowledge revolves, is and properly ought to be the library.
Even the student who most abhors those incessant reference assignments will grudingly admit that he has learned from the additional readings—if he was lucky enough to track down the desired book, that is.
Students Are Lacking Knowledge of Library
Books which are put on reserve are so placed because a number of students must use them. Yet we find selfish individuals "sneaking" these books out and not returning them for days. The library may not know this is being done, but ask any student if he hasn't observed the practice.
All too often we read complaints on this page or hear students criticizing library service. Admittedly it can be difficult to track down a book, and one may receive, after a 30-minute search, the discouraged impression that he is indeed on a wild goose chase.
First, we might learn enough about the library itself to know the functions of the various desks and at which of them we should ask for certain books. Secondly, we could respect the rights of others in obeying the library regulations.
But is the blame for this delay necessarily attributable to the library staff? We would debate this point. The alternative is that possibly we students are not using our library properly, and we think this unhappy thought may well be justifiable.
Of course, we can continue making a scapegoat of the library staff every time we can't get the book we want right away. Or, if we'd only approach the problem in a more sensible manner, we could easily solve it.
A witness to the poor way in which we use our library is the student who recently received a book list from which she was to choose a novel for required reading. Her professor clearly explained that all the books could be obtained at the circulation desk in Watson library.
The only trouble was that this student, a junior who had been enrolled at the University for two years, was at the reserve desk. No wonder she couldn't locate her book, but it does seem rather a wonder that she didn't know the circulation desk from the reserve room.
Another title was requested and again came the same reply. After a third suggestion proved fruitless and 15 minutes had slipped past, the student irately announced for the benefit of a dozen persons trying to study at nearby tables, "Well! he said I could find these at the circulation desk."
Selecting a volume at random, the student approached the librarian and, clutching her book list, pointed to the desired title with a brief "Can you find this, please?" After a search the librarian replied that the book was not on the shelves.
Again an empty-handed librarian returned, this time baffled himself. The volume, it seems, was in a graduate's cubicle and could be borrowed for two weeks. Unfortunately, however, someone else had "borrowed" the book first, and it had never been returned. Nor was there even a card indicating who had taken it.
Upon being directed to the proper desk, she repeated her request and was annoyed to find that she had to look up and write out a call number for the book. Indignantly she performed this chore and returned with the call slip.
In disgust the student dropped the quest and during the next weekend she checked the book out from a nearby city library, "That's the answer to my library problems," she later remarked.
—Amy DeYong