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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 29, 1954
Sen. Douglas May Face Pinko'SmearCampaign
"Illinois and the nation are fortunate in the assurance that the coming Illinois senatorial election will see a candidate with the stature of Democrat Paul Douglas offering himself to the suffrages of his fellow citizens."
So saith the Jan. 6 Christian Century—a magazine that does not make a habit of stepping out on a political limb.
Unopposed in the Illinois Democratic primary, the junior senator will be opposed by Joseph T. Meek, a conservative Republican. Fortune magazine has predicted that Sen. Douglas would face a "pinko" smear campaign in the general election.
What sort of a man is the Senator? One that is hard to classify. He is a writer, economist, professor, liberal, and an ex-Marine. He has proved himself an independent thinker, having more than once locked horns with Democratic policy and former President Harry Truman.
In the latter capacity he attained national recognition. In 1951 Mr. Truman nominated three men for the federal judgeship in Illinois. Sen. Douglas stated frankly that he didn't believe that two of the men were capable of holding the office.
But he had attained recognition in other quarters long before that date. Fresh from a professorship of economics at Chicago university, he made his political debut as a Chicago councilman. After attracting attention for his selfless economy measures on that city's council, he ran for the Senate in 1948.
A talking point for Mr. Douglas was his war record. He enlisted as a private in the marines—and when discharged, he had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, had been wounded twice, had fought in the Pelelieu and Okinawa campaigns, and had been decorated for "heroic achievement in action."
A prolific writer, he often reviews books for the New Republic magazine, and articles explaining his economic stand have appeared in New Republic, Nation's Business, and others.
With Rep. Richard Bolling (D.-Mo.) he this month filed—again in the pages of New Republic magazine—detailed report and criticism of the President's economic report of Jan. 19. The Senator proposed an increase in personal income tax exemptions of from $600 to $800 and "drastic reductions in excise tax rates."
But though a liberal and greatly in favor of welfare measures, Sen. Douglas has not always gone along with the Democratic party. On what the Congressional Quarterly terms seven "key votes" of the 83rd congress, he voted with the majority of the Republican Senators four times, and with the bulk of the Democrats only once.
Here are the issues.
1. A proposed amendment would have added $400 million to the appropriation for the Air Force. The original request from the Air Force had been trimmed by President Eisenhower from $50 billion to $34.5 billion. Sen Douglas voted against the additional $400 million. It was defeated.
2. The Administration asked for $140 million for soil conservation, then the figure was upped by $185 million by a committee on appropriations. This was acceptable to the Senate, but Sen. Douglas voted against a second increase—to $225 million. The measure was defeated.
3. Sen. Douglas voted with an overwhelming majority (74-13) to confirm the appointment of Charles E. Bohlen as ambassador to Russia.
4. The bill for foreign aid called for a $9 billion appropriation, which a proposed amendment would have slashed by $500 million. Sen. Douglas voted no, and the amendment was defeated.
5. On the heels of the hectic tidelands oil dispute, the Senate confirmed the coastal states' title to the submerged lands just off their shorelines. This reversed the measure passed during the Tru-man administration, which gave the rights to such lands to the Navy. Sen. Douglas voted no on this measure.
6. He also voted against giving the government mineral rights on all submerged lands on the continental shelf just outside the waters titled to the states, but this bill passed.
7. When President Eisenhower asked for a six month's extension of the excess profits tax in the Senate, the amendment to raise the amount of profit a businessman could make before being subject to a tax from $25,000 to $100,000 was defeated. Sen. Douglas voted for it.
One Man's Opinion
As the story indicates, however, financial assistance is but one of several purposes served by the program. Inter-cultural exchange and understanding are or should be valuable by-products of the close association of American students with those from abroad in a residence situation.
Elsewhere in these pages is an account of the Foreign Student Hospitality program, a program of volunteer work by KU students from abroad.
Our position of leadership and responsibility in the international community seems to be neither comfortably occupied on America's part nor gratefully aqueased to by other nations. The American temperament seems ill-adapted to the morally shadowy world of power politics, to the pushing and cailing of other nations, to the responsibility of carrying a shaky world face on national back. To other nations, America seems youthful and irresponsible, brash and neglectful of national sensibilities, both naively idealistic and Machiavellian.
Letty Lemon
Kansans can take justifiable pride in this university's pioneering effort in such a well-conceived and beneficial system. The program could be pronounced a success merely in terms of the aid given students who have needed a boost from some source in order to continue their education. Yet, it seems to this writer that programs of voluntary, private assistance to foreign nations may be profitably viewed in the light of America's place and total impact in the world of today.
In all justice, it must be admitted that the fears and resentments of other nations have some reasonable basis. The U.S. does play power politics, and the means we choose do seem at times to helie the ends we profess. Even our acts of collective generosity, such as the Marshall plan and the Point 4 program, lose some of their luster because our motivations are not entirely disinterested.
Even so, most Americans feel that foreign attitudes toward the U.S. are to some extent unjust and irrational. The reason, this writer believes, is that most Americans as persons believe that they possess none of the characteristics so often attributed to the United States as a nation. Most of us feel, and perhaps rightfully so, that our only motivations are directed toward the peace of the world and a more rewarding life for all peoples.
The problem seems clear-cut The world sees us one way because of our collective actions. We see ourselves another way and resent the world's view because our individual ideas and ideals seem to us largely disinterested. The world, basically, needs reassurance about America's motivations. The American people need a means of expressing their essential idealism—a means not provided by any governmental program.
Few problems could be more urgent. The passage of time seems to bring a rising tide of resentment abroad. And even more important, the American reaction to that resentment may be a frayed national temper and a return to some form of injured withdrawal from the world.
Thus, the importance of private programs with solely humanitarian motivations comes more clearly into focus. If through projects such as the Foreign Student Hospitality program, strong links can be forged
It has taken me an unconscionable length of time to formulate my considered reply to the obviously Red-inspired slander upon the moral courage and political sagacity personified by Howard L. Lydick, 1st year law, who be a He a Green hall fact or a Marvin fiction, has my unqualified endorsement and versus As the law governs two us and Communist persecution is the strong right arm of the junior senator from Wisconsin. Please publish all stanzas of the poem, lest the delicate tone of the work be thereby disturbed. Thank you for your courtesy.
To the Editor:
...LETTERS..
FROM HELL TO ETERNITY
In this monody the author bewails the Ship of State, unfortunately founder'd in its passage on heavy international seas, 1954. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their height. ('After Milton's "Lycidas"') The Communists, dread Commun-
Are slinking all around,
Larking in the tops of trees
Lurking in the tops of trees, Skulking underground.
They're nameless, formless Fiendish. Fears
Like Devils and Demons of otd (Pray God that they will spare my throat
Until my tail be tucked.
Old man no longer probe their
beds.
Until my tale be told.)
In quest of a longed-for-lover.
They probe now for that Fearful-
Thing.—
The Communist Underever. People in trains no longer speak;
In school and club and church and pub
Who knows but that the others are All Fellow Travelers?
The Spirit-Fiends are rife,
From the D.A.R. to Hooligan's Bar To the Bureau of Wild Life.
College football's thrice-corrupted.
Fry up, and down, the nation.
The teams have switched from the Split-T
To an old Left-Wing formation.
And from the shameless Protestant
philosophy.
To an old Left-Wing formation.
Unholy Ruddy wrath spews.
According to the Holy Gospel
According to the Holy Gospel According to St. Matthews.
But like the Lord clearing the temples.
Our 'scrub-mop' gainst the Party Is swinging wild for our salivation. Swishing St. McCarthy!
Drawning the preachers, scalding the choirs,
He'll wash away all Scarlet taint
In, swimmering, purification.
Sheep-dipping the congregations! Three hoops for this belabored man!
Scrub-mop St. McCarthy!
Head Janitor of our blessed Lord;
Quick-rinse of the Crimson Party;
But 'gainst the flood of the Scarlet Flends.
No one mop can always prevail.
They've swamped all over the ship
Rudder and rig and sail.
They're here and there and every- where!
They're slinking all around,
Possessing the secrets of trees,
Glowing underground.
Like thrice-demented Terrors and Horrors
Thank God that they did spare my
throat.
Until my tale was . . .
between Americans and person of other nationalities, the problems encountered at the difficult levels of statecraft can be resolved with an ease and confidence hitherto absent. —R. H. Chesky
One Woman's Opinion
Lately, the POGO political party has been avowing that something needs to be done about the Student Health service—and has provided in its platform for a liaison committee between the ASC and Watkins hospital.
Since it is the duty and privilege of editorial writers to wander out on limbs—we'll take issue with grips about the hospital.
It would be much easier to take issue if we knew specific gipes.
However, it would be more difficult for people to gripe if they knew about our health service here, its aims, and facilities in comparison with others.
An interview with Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson shows that our health program includes many services—far above and beyond the bare minimum—about which the students know nothing.
For instance, we have phys 72 therapy facilities, diagnostic X-ray equipment, speech correction facilities, an audiometer to determine hearing difficulties, and ear specialists who arrive weekly to handle special cases, a consulting dietitian, a regular "diet table" serving people having ulcers, diabetes, allergies; a special room for mentally disturbed patients; a consulting full-time psychiatrist, and doctors on call 24 hours a day.
These are just a few medical facilities. Anyone who has stayed in the hospital has enjoyed programs for patient comfort. Radio apparatus is accessible to each bed—and, since piped through an earphone-like thing—does not disturb other patients. Meals are excellent.
Further, the University—because of its health service—is one of five colleges in the U.S. picked to give training in student medicine, a specialty field. The others are California, Michigan, Minnesota, and Cornell.
The health service pays $12
day to keep an in-patient. The student
nays $3 a day, to stay there.
in fact, our health service is recognized as one of the best in the country, and its director, Dr. Canuteson, is often called upon to lead committees at medical and student health conferences.
All this doesn't mean that our health service is above reproach. It does mean that in comparison with other services in the country—some run by nurses, some with only a part-time staff, some with infirmaries rather than hospital services of any kind—our health service is extremely adequate.
Perhaps specific grievances do exist. In view of these facts they would be necessarily less adequate, however.
What do the students expect from their health service? We're in no position to say. Why don't you?
—Letty Lemon
All of the innumerable Communists choking the KU campus should address their complaints, epithets, lawsuits, and time bombs to cutthroat versifier as follows:
St. Arnold Kottwitz
Morton
Southern Christian Saints and Gentlemen's Club
Rainbow Ridge, Heav'n to Betsy P.S. Please include return addresses on all bombs; will reply in kind as leisure allows. Thank you for your courtesy.
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Arnold Kottwitz college senior
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