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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, October 6, 1954
Democrats and GOP Square Off for Battle
Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall has called it "the most comprehensive off-year campaign in history."
Top officials of the Eisenhower administration are turning out in force to help the GOP cause.
Democrats across the nation watched Maine. The Republicans barely held their own, sending GOP standard-bearers back to Congress with fewer than the usual majorities and watching the Democrats grab off the governor's chair.
And while Democrats were giving a new meaning to "Remember the Maine," Vice President Richard M. Nixon said the Maine vote should serve as a warning to Republicans to "run scared."
And so it is across the nation. Democrats and Republicans are squaring off for one of the toughest wide-front political battles in years.
What are the issues?
Vice President Nixon sees it this way for the GOP:
(1) Play up the way the administration has handled and is handling the domestic communism problem.
(2) Cash in on the personal integrity of President Eisenhower and the administration.
(3) Remind the voters that there is peace in Korea and that if came while the GOP was in power.
It's generally accepted now that McCarthyism as an issue in the November voting is dead. And it's also generally accepted that the GOP's "big gun"—the President—will do more than turn a few heads when he starts to campaign.
The issues, in a nutshell, are pretty much as Newsweek magazine described them: Each side is lining up on the opposite side of the peace-prosperity fence. The GOP can point and say, "We have it"; the Democrats can counter with, "It's too shaky."
Ike's personal formula seems to be a little off. His middle-of-the-road idea took a kick in the teeth in Maine and is being jostled in other states. In registration of voters, Democratic strength in these states is up not down.
The Democrats' 1952 presidential nominee may have struck the keynote to the Democratic campaign at a strategy conference and fund-raising campaign in Indianapolis. Adlai Stevenson stressed the charge that the Republican administration was addicted to a policy of giveaway—determined to take away from the many and give away to the few.
Mr. Nixon had some views too. He was saying the Democrats were bent on socialization of everything socializable.
When Congress adjourned there were 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, 1 Independent, and two vacant seats in the House of Representatives and 48 Republicans, 46 Democrats, and 1 Independent in the Senate.
With the elections one month and one day away, there is much talk as to how those figures will change.
In the meantime, we can just wait and watch.
—John Herrington
Even after the completion of a college course in higher mathematics we still haven't figured how to divide 32 hours of homework and classes into a 24-hour day.
We're very much in favor of all the pep KU students have been showing at the football games, but where oh where is that great big Jayhawk who pranced about last year?
We're so glad to have rush-cleaned that warm jacket when a cool day last week hinted of winter weather. After all, it looks so nice now hanging in our closet.
"One Man's Opinion" about the library as expressed in the Kansas on September 29 is a fairly generous opinion in view of the 30-minute wait for service. Since we are far from callous about problems of this kind, I'd appreciate an opportunity to discuss it publicly a bit further.
The undergraduate library does seem busy this fall, and we think that more students may be using it than was the case last spring, but we are not certain about this. It is worth remembering that this is the first new fall semester for the remodeled undergraduate library which opened only a year ago. Consequently we don't yet know whether we are working with a typical service situation. Before the establishment of the undergraduate library a year ago virtually all the books now on open shelves had to be requested over a counter.
Clearly then, the total amount of waiting in line for service must be greatly less now than in earlier years. Nowadays only a small percentage of assigned books are restricted behind the desk. We would prefer to put them all on open shelves where students could go directly to them. Unfortunately, however, a few people who are short on social conscience prevent this, because the books do tend to evaporate without notice.
There does appear to be some congestion at the undergraduate library desk, particularly at the hour break in the middle of the morning and again in the middle of the afternoon. At many other times in the day there are practically no service demands. It might help students then if within their own class schedules they would try to scatter their calls for desk service somewhat more than is now the case.
We are inclined to think, and at least certainly hope, that the 30-minute delay under question was an isolated and unfortunate experience and by no means representative of the average pattern of student service. It seems quite clear that we are not faced with long lines of students waiting for books as is common at traditional reserve desks in most university libraries.
The student who wrote the letter thoughtfully added that the desk attendant was busy all the time he waited. Since many of our desk attendants are students themselves, and some are still new at their jobs, I think they merit this public commendation.
It might help the student in question if he could let us know just what his special problem was. My door is always open to any student who has library problems.
... Letters .
To the Editor:
Robert Vosper
Director of libraries
While the owl cannot move its eyes in their sockets, it does have a great area of vision because it can rotate its head in a large arc of 273 degrees.
There are 75 species of North American violets found in this country.
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"One big advantage in having to take this course over is that I know when I'm supposed to laugh."
A Way To Be Informed: Read Your Newspaper
What's in a newspaper? We analyzed the evening edition of a well known daily in this area. What did we find besides the comic strips, the sports page, and the ads? Well, to begin with, there's the financial page. Ever stop, in your migration from Dick Tracy to Leo Durocher, to read the stock market reports? Besides the figures, there are articles on business trends, and on sales and mergers of corporations. If you read the financial page regularly, you'll find yourself listening to the pulse of the business world.
So you didn't do so well on the second question. What seems to be your trouble? Could it be you're not keeping up with the latest news? There's only one way to be well-informed, to really know what's going on in the world about you. That's to read your daily newspaper.
Who won the World Series? The New York Giants, of course. All right, you scored 100 per cent on that one. But now answer this: who are the candidates for the house of representatives from the first district? No peeking now!
Then there's the straight news. Headlines from such spots as Thailand, the Suez canal, London, and Denver. This is why you should read your daily newspaper. The price of eggs and coffee affects you. So does a Chinese Communist attack on Nationalist territory.
If you love a good argument, then you won't be able to pass up the editorial page. There you'll always find plenty to agree or disagree with. Read critically and thoughtfully, and eventually you'll understand the beliefs and policies of that particular paper. And who knows? . . . you might see the other side of an important issue.
Right now the papers are full of political news. Many of you will vote, perhaps for the first time, this November. How do you know for whom to vote if you don't know the candidates' records? And how can you know their records unless you follow their activities in the news? How can you know the issues of the campaign unless you read the news reports?
It all adds up to one conclusion: you must read the newspapers if you're to be a well-informed, thinking citizen. Let's stop being "headline skimmers," and start being "newspaper readers."
Judith Ferrell
... Short Ones ...
The bat boy who trailed Dusty Rhodes out of the stadium after the latter's winning home run in the first game of the World Series will be another Series winner in a few years if he keeps up that enthusiasm.
Now that the Lawrence centennial is a thing of the past, maybe we'll see what some of the "pioneers" look like minus their beards.
President Eisenhower has been cooking beef stew, but we doubt that all this country's political figures confine their stews to the culinary department.
The Mona Lisa question has long been, "Is she sad or cheerful?" Now we can wonder how she got the lump in her throat.
Students must present their own ID cards except when exchange provisions are made, but could we really be recognized from those photos anyway?