Page 2 University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 11, 1954 Close Senate Race in Delaware Editor's note: This is a first in a series of articles written by the Editorial class pertaining to the senate races in key states. Delaware, a state which cast only 174,000 votes in the presidential campaign of 1952 and promises to cast even fewer votes this year, may hold the balance of power in the Senate. The only important issue of the campaign is the control of the Senate in the final two years of President Eisenhower's administration. The voters are being told that they probably will be electing the 49th senator, the one who will decide whether the Republicans or the Democrats will organize the Senate and have committee chairmen. The present Senate has 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats, and one Independent. Thirty-six senators will be elected in November. The candidates are a conservative Democrat, Sen. J. Allen Frear Jr., a 51-year-old farmer and banker, and an Eisenhower Republican, Rep. Herbert B. Warburton, a 38-year-old lawyer. The contest isn't a bitter one like those being waged by the Republicans and the Democrats in some states, for both candidates have similar voting records. Sen. Frear's record agreed with that of his Republican colleague. Sen. John J. Williams, 67 per cent of the time. The problem that Mr. Warburton is facing is to convince the Republicans who like Sen. Frear's voting record, which he says is more conservative than his own, that they should cast Republican ballots in order to enable that party to control the Senate and Both candidates are ignoring the school segregation problem which has broken out in Milford, Del., because both feel that the issue is too hot to handle. support the Eisenhower administration. To help bring the point across to voters of the importance of electing a Republican senator, Vice President Richard Nixon spoke in the state Sept. 30, and the President is being urged to make a personal appearance in Delaware. Republicans feel that if Eisenhower makes an appearance and strongly endorses Mr. Warburton, it would almost assure his election. Sen. Frear's problem is to try to heal the party wounds of a hard fought battle for the nomination. Mr. Warburton is popular in Delaware,—for in 1952 he drew 51.9 per cent of the state's votes, one-tenth of a per cent more than the President received. Sen. Williams led all Republican candidates by receiving 54.5 per cent of the votes, and Gov. J. Caleb Boggs was elected with 52.1 per cent. Sen. Frear hasn't been popular with the New Deal-Fair Deal branch of the Democratic party in the state especially with the labor element. His opponent for the nomination, former Sen. James M. Tunnell Jr., is the leader of the liberal Democrats. Mr. Tunnell lost Senate seat in 1946 to Sen. Williams. In the party convention Aug. 12, Sen. Frear received $125\frac{1}{4}$ votes to $84\frac{3}{4}$ for Mr. Tunnell. Since losing the nomination, Mr. Tunnell has come out strongly in support of Sen. Frear. The senator's campaign is being run by a liberal Democrat, former Gov. Elbert N. Carvell. Mr. Carvell asserts that the party is united and that there will be reasonable support from the liberal elements for Sen. Frear. Sen. Frear is being strongly backed by Adlai E. Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson will help the senator's campaign later this month when he will deliver several major speeches in the state. One of the factors which may affect the election is the use for the first time of voting machines and also the requirement of general registration. These two factors are expected to keep the number of votes down to not more than 100,000. The voting machines may keep the voters from crossing party lines to split their votes. This will eliminate some of the deals to mark ballots in favor of one candidate in return for support for another. Until this year Delaware printed several times as many official ballots as were needed and the voters could mark the ballots at home and bring them to the polls. Also political leaders marked large numbers of ballots and handed them to the voters on the way to the polls. While the Democrats at this time declare that Sen. Frear has a slight edge, the Republicans point out that the Democrats have won only one of the last 17 off-year elections. While this election won't be a spirited one, it appears that it will be a close one according to the political experts. —Dana Leibengood ... Short Ones ... "Gone with the Wind" is gone again. Just think, five more years before I see Scarlett O'Hara again. Living on cigarets, cokes, and candy bars, some of us have built up enough nervous energy to survive the first hour exams. Most inferiority complexes come as a result of knowing you're inferior and not being able to do anything about it. Heck fire, there just ain't no hope anyhow. Success is not so much the being on top as the knowing how far the top is from the bottom. The only real way to make grades is to enter the classroom with an open mind, an open book, and a closed mouth. Now that Parents' day is over, we can all settle back and be ourselves again. Mother's little angels can go back to normal again. And the rains came! This is a well worn expression but it was sure appropriate this morning. And Chicago thinks it's having a flood! POST HALL SYNDICATE LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler Love Letter Poem Book Reviewed 'A Night of Fun' Her verse seems to be a continuance of the Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash style that makes modern living out to be lots of fun, hilariously shallow, and sometimes sad. The little green book, "The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley' is poetry that rolls lightly off the page to fill an evening with fun Miss McGinley, married and to mother of two teen-age daughters, is a poet who doesn't take time out from life to get poetic, but rather writes about life as she goes along living it. Miss McGinley has lived enough to fill seven books, counting this latest one. Everything that's ever happened to everyone is in the book—and every type of person is there. "A Little Praise," first of the five parts in her book, includes the longing "Meditations During a Permanent Wave." It is written in envy of those "lades whose locks grow prettier when moister, who can call the world their oyster." In "A Gallery of Elders," one of the subdivisions of the book, are some shorts of those "old people" Miss McGinley has looked at, then set down in a remarkably visual way, such as "The Old Beauty." Counettes with doctors; hoards her breath For blundishments: fluffs out her For' blandishments; fluffs out her hair; And keeps her stubborn suitor. Moping upon the stair. Something entirely different is that part of the book titled "Saints Without Tears," where Miss McGinley takes a look at the assorted saints. Miss McGinley seems to love the saints, and looks at them in a most human light. One Man's Opinion The smell of burning leaves, the sight of a football sailing in the air, and the feeling that it might be "a little chiller than yesterday morning", all are signs that the season which has inspired a great many poems and many more poets has arrived. Yes, autumn is here. And in case you didn't know it, it came in last week. And now that it's here, we can settle down with nothing to look forward to but more blankets on bed and longer robes to the picture, there's the fact that spring is only about six months away. They say autumn is the season for fun—fairs. Hallowe'en, hay rides—but for me, autumn merely points out that winter is not very far off. And in Kansas, that's not good news. It means that the top has to stay up on the convertible, the radiator has to be filled with antifreeze, chains will have to be purchased to get up 14th street, and in general, more clothes will have to be worn. Fall and winter in Kansas are not pleasant—that is, unless you like to see colored leaves fall to the ground (which to me signifies they have to be raked and burned), the crisp cool mornings and evenings (which to me mean that I have to wear woolies and woolens), and the sun set early (which to me means I'm going to go to a show and not study). But don't get me wrong. There are a couple of good points to autumn. The birds fly south and the bugs take a leave of absence for a few months. (Snow hall and the Museum of History probably will sue me for this). Those two are the only good things I can see. What's ahead in this autumn season. 1954? Well, there probably will be weeks upon weeks that it'll be dry; there will be weeks on weeks that (leaves burn better that way) and it'll be cold (clothing stores like autumn, they sell more clothes). Besides that, we can look forward to lots of snow later on. The weather and not the activity makes autumn such a sordid season. In Kansas, it's usually the dry season (not that it isn't dry most of the time) and you never know whether it's going to snow the first of October or wait until the last of December (sometimes, there isn't any doubt—it just snows all the time). And while it may snow tomorrow, we might as well 'like it,' cause we got a long time to go before spring arrives. In fact, 172 days . . . Ken Bronson The postal savings system, with deposits of $2,341,000,000 is one of the world's largest savings banks. The post office department also is the nation's largest real estate operator and tenant. 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