Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 14, 1954 Ives Favored as Next Governor of New York LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler (Editor's Note) This is the fourth in a series of articles on this fall's key political races. The doors on the gubernatorial race in New York state were thrown open wide about a month ago for the first time in 12 years. The Republican governor of the state, Thomas E. Dewey, announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection. Sen. Ives, who twice has been elected to the Senate in state-wide campaigns and served in the state senate for several years before becoming a United States senator in 1946, was urged personally by Gov. Dewey to make the race and backed unanimously by the Republican State Executive committee. Sen. Ives, 58, was speaker and majority leader in the state assembly. There he was co-author and co-sponsor for the Ives-Quinn law, forbidding racial and religious discrimination in employment. He also worked on legislation relating to labor and industrial relations. Sen. Irving M. Ives and Averell Harriman are the Republican and Democratic contenders for governor. W. Averell Harriman, 62, has been a Democrat since 1928. He is a former diplomat and administrator and is a wealthy businessman. During the administrations of President Roosevelt and Truman he was secretary of commerce, special assistant to the President, ambassador to Russia and Great Britain, head of foreign aid, and U.S. representative to NATO. At the convention Mr. Harriman received the support of Sen. Herbert Lehman. Mayor Wagner of New York, New York City Democratic leaders and a large number of upstate county chairmen. He comes from a small town in upstate New York and sold insurance before starting his political career. Since then he has spent 25 years in public life. At the Sept. 23 state Republican convention in New York J. Raymond McGovern was nominated to run with Sen. Ives for lieutenant governor. The acting district attorney, Frank Del Vecchio, was chosen to run for controller. Rep. Jacob K. Javits was picked to run against Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt r. for attorney general. Rep. Roosevelt, although beaten as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, joined with Mr. Harriman in support of the ticket and agreed to run as attorney general. George B. DeLuca, an Italian-American, was chosen to run as lieutenant governor for the Democrats. Aaron Jacoby was slated to run for controller but later withdrew on the grounds that the Republicans intended to revive a "disproved" accusation against him to hide the real campaign issues. Both parties, in composing the slate, seemingly paid the traditional attention to New York's racial and religious groups. The Republicans are said to have picked Del Vecchio, a prominent Italian, to balance out their ticket. The Democrats, however, selected all four of their top candidates—governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and controller—from New York City. Sen. Ives has told reporters in interviews that the Democratic strategy is to pull such a gigantic vote in the city that it will swamp the traditionally Republican upstate vote. In 1952, New York City cast 3,400,000 votes. The total upstate vote was 3,700,000. Sen. Ives beat his Democratic opponent by 2,500 votes in New York City, but more than 500,000 other votes went for Liberal and American and Labor party candidates. This fall the Liberals are backing the Democratic party. What are the issues? Sen. Ives, in one of his speeches said, "Despite an increase of two-and-one-half times in state financial aid to localities, state tax rates are lower than those in 1940 under the last Democratic administration. "This same Democratic party nominated a candidate for governor who is also running on the Liberal party platform. That platform calls for a tax increase of more than $60 million, most of it in levies on personal income." He also stated, "Democrats have shed political tears for years over the condition of what they call farm-to-market roads. Yet, when the presently effective 10-year program to improve town highways was introduced in the legislature in 1950, every single Democrat in both houses voted against the program. Mr. Harriman opened his upstate gubernational campaign Sept. 25 by pledging to "check the flight of industry out of New York." He continued, "the Democratic party platform contains proposals to strengthen the business and manufacturing of our state. As secretary of commerce I dealt with similar problems on a national basis and assisted individual communities." At the same time, Mr. Harriman charged the state GOP with "failing to deal with unemployment, which he said was causing serious distress in the state." "Let us take the long-time pose as the friend of the working man. That friendship went by the boards when the Democratic party in the legislature voted unanimously against the Dewey administration's sickness-disability program." Mr. Harriman has never run for an elective office, so his vote-getting talents are yet to be demonstrated. Sen. Ives has never lost an election in his 25 years in the political arena. —Georgia Wallace Tony Scardino, Missouri, completed 23 passes for 365 yards against Oklahoma in 1951. Daily Hansan University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 76 Member of the National Press association, National cultural association, Island press association, Press Association, Legis- late Press Association. Represented by the National Advertising service, 420 Midland avenue, N.Y. Mail subscription @midlandavenue.com ($1 a semester) in Lawrence). Published at Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays. For registration and examination periods. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of BUSINESS STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Editor Court Ennsk Editorial Assistants Gen Shunk Kerren Kerren March 3, 1879. Business Manager ... Dave Riley Mgr. ... Matt Mgr. Nat. Adv. Mgr. ... Martha Chambers Circulation Mgr. ... Dave Conley Classified Mgr. ... Ken Winston Grossman ... Gerry Crawford NEWS STAFF Executive Editor Stan H. Hamilton Lefty Lemon El abeth Managing Editors Willie Dana Leibengood Lot Taylor News Editor Amy DeYong Asst. News Editor Ron Grandon Sports Editor Jack Lindberg Asst. Sports Editor Tom Lyons Society Editor Naomi Mason Asst. Society Editor Laverie Yates Telegraph Editor John Herrington News Advisor Calder M. Pickett Fire Escapes Mean Ropes at Locksley Of the five Locksley halls only one of them—Locksley No. 1—has a fire escape. The other four are "richly endowed" with ropes to sling through a window in case of fire. Ropes and fire escapes are synonymous terms at Locksley halls —at least four of them. Wound neatly beneath one of the beds in each of the four sleeping dorms is a knotted piece of rope, hopefully tied to a bedpost. The girls are instructed (if a fire should break loose) to throw the rope out the window and climb down. There are approximately seven women to each of the dorms—seven women who would have to mountaineer two floors down, sealing the sides of the building. And as one of them said, "We haven't had much practice sliding down a rope." In the first place, all five Locksley halls are old, wooden houses clustered together in tribe-like fashion, seemingly waiting for a spark to set them burning in the biggest bonfire the University has ever known. Perhaps for a family of seven, living in a two-story home, a rope would be sufficient fire precaution. But for a women's residence hall with seven sleeping in one crowded dorm, ropes sound more like a joke than a reality. It's a joke all right—but not a funny one. Each of the halls has one staircase only—and a narrow staircase at that. If flames should cover the staircase (which isn't too improbable), the women would be in for a night of hurried rope-climbing before the fire could climb the wooden frame structure and reach the dorm. But it seems that in an age of a new science building, new freshmen dorm, and new scholarship halls, a few steel rods supporting fire escapes could be constructed for the protection of University women. Gene Shank Locksley women have made the best of their crude fire precaution device. They have measured the ropes to make certain they touch the ground from the second-floor windows. They have hammered away nails and rough projections from the sides of the buildings. They have learned from which window telephone lines would entangle their downward climb. That's all they can do. ... Short Ones ... Liberace has picked the girl—if she'll wait for him for another 365 days. Does this mean that George will have to give up carrying the pretty pianist's "take" to the bank? In Washington, a collector of funds for the Democratic cause was stationed in front of a building in which a GOP rally was being held. She picked up $25 for her efforts. Puzzle question: Do the Republicans think the Democrats need the money or have they been hit for cash so often they give automatically? When the makers and masters of the newest thing in the water—that atomic submarine—found that the "steam tubing" in the Nautilus was nothing but a maze of welded pipe, we wonder if possibly they didn't have that "pipe dream" feeling. Marilyn Monroe missed her calling. She should have been a diplomat. She won't say anything, but she'll pose for pictures. The Democrats have added a new meaning to "Remember the Maine."