LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 3. 1953 Republicans Still in Control In Spite of Recent Losses The Republicans have lost in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and New York, but this is no indication that the Democrats are on their way back into power. "Hello. Records office? Miss Slauson has just withdrawn from cooking 281." In Wisconsin, a Democrat won a Congress seat in a traditionally Republican district but farm discontent was credited with the defeat here. In New Jersey, a Democrat won the governorship which had been held by a Republican during the New Deal and Fair Deal years. Local issues, not national, fashioned the outcome. In New York City, a Democrat just continued holding the job of mayor, and Virginia, of course, went Democratic in spite of the fact that New Deal Democrats voted Republican in an attempt to punish Sen. Harry Byrd, who campaigned for President Eisenhower. Tradition has it that the party out of power tends to gain seats in Congress in the years when there are no presidential elections. The Republicans hold only a slim majority in the House of Representatives. In the Senate, they are in control but the Democrats hold the actual majority. The opposition party, still angry at the defeat of the previous year, usually turns out in big numbers to make its weight felt. This tends to build up its vote. Democrats used to complain that their vote did not come out in off-year elections, and that this often accounted for their congressional losses. In the years before the Democrats came into power, back in the 1920's, the Republicans had the same difficulty. The issues and personalities in off-year campaigns aren't big enough to interest millions of voters who come out in presidential election years. There was no clear pattern shown in the recent voting. In Virginia, the Democrat was labeled conservative and the Republican candidate drew New Deal support. In New Jersey, the Democratic candidate promised the people the same voting pattern as his Republican predecessor, and the old Democratic city bosses supported the Republican candidate. The true picture was confused by voters rushing back and forth over party lines. The statement of issues in many cases was also confused and involved. No clear cut statement can be made that the GOP losses indicate that the Democrats will win in '54. NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL Now that they're manufacturing cars with 205 horsepower motors, power steering, and what not, why doesn't some enterprising company equip their latest models with panic buttons? They're essential anymore. An Arizona high school powerhouse ended an undefeated season Thursday by whipping its archrival 14-0. The team gave up a grand total of 12 points in 10 contests. The boys in the barber shop are whispering that the coach will be booted out for allowing two rivals to cross its goal line. Short Ones One Man's Opinion What are you studying? said the freshman to the senior. Marriage and Family Relations was the reply. Is there a lab in that course? There are many "modern" people who hold the belief that the United States does not have censorship. Perhaps it doesn't, in the same form as the USSR, but many things are censored. Something new has been added. Now they're making 3-D westerns. They were bad enough in 2-D. If Hollywood wanted to do something really great, they should have proudly announced the death of the horse opera melodramas. Take for instance the movies. The Johnston office, a so-called competent office which has the power to cut scenes and dialogues from any and all movies, is a form of censorship, pure and simple. In the past several years, this office has allowed scenes in many movies to be left in the picture, while others have been cut. It is incongruous. Human failing is so great that no office if it takes on the job of censorship, can really perform that task. Is it wrong to let the American people see themselves as they really are? Is it wrong to cut from a moving picture the words and actions, the passions, so often seen by people in every walk of life? If this is so, the whole American way of life must be wrong. Should we allow persons with petty grievances to determine what we may and may not see? Volcanic steam harnessed in plants at Larderello, Italy, furnishes almost one-tenth of the nation's total electric power, says the National Geographic Society. Those who censor the movies seem to be narrow-minded and have narrow-minded prejudices. They seem to be afraid to face life as it really is. They want to keep America "under a bushel." Plays are regarded as works of art, as are paintings, particularly of nudes. But these works of art are not thought of as being vulgar or unfit to be witnessed. Yet moving pictures, also the work of artists and quite often works of genuine art, are cut up and changed, the plots ruined, much of the art removed, and then they are presented to the American public for consumption. Perhaps the most incongruous thing about movie censorship is that plays from which the movies are taken are not censored, but show America to Americans the way it really is. Unfortunately, movie censorship is not the only censorship existent in the U.S. Pressure groups—religious, labor, business and otherwise—are constantly hounding the American press, radio, and books with efforts to force the American people to read only what they are presented to read. Censorship is wrong, except when necessary to insure the safety of the U.S. Nathaniel Pope, delegate of Congress from Illinois Territory in 1818, succeeded in having the northern boundary line for Illinois changed from the southern tip of Lake Michigan to its present one of $42^{\circ}$ $30^{\prime}$, thus including the site for the present city of Chicago. Ed Howard Conflicts Raging Among 6 Schools Flaming Youth What's been happening at colleges and universities over the U.S.? A check of campus newspapers revealed inter-collegiate discord between the University of Oregon and Oregon State college, the University of Texas and Texas A&M, and the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M. A professor at the University of Georgia was suspected of being a Communist, a student was held up at the City College of New York, a girl at the Brigham Young university advocated beards and mustaches, and the KU-Kansas State basketball game was reported a sell-out in other developments. TEXAS A&M—Before the University of Texas-Texas A&M football game on Thanksgiving day, six A&M students were reported mobbed by Texas students in Austin. The mob was reported to have shaved gashes in the hair of the Aggies, painted them with the letters "TU," poured honey and jelly on their heads, forced them to do push-ups, walked them into a fish pond, painted one of their cars green, orange, white, and blue, and let the air out of the tires of another Aggie car. GEORGIA—A professor at the University of Georgia was named on a list of suspected Communist affiliates. The professor had resigned two weeks before the list was published, but denied ever being a Communist. In the University Signal, an editorial commented that "we should guard against rash accusations which could seriously harm an innocent man," adding that "before a man be classed as a Communist he should be given a jury trial to determine his innocence." BRIGHAM YOUNG—A society writer for the Brigham Young Universe deplored man's practice of shaving, and came out in favor of beards and mustaches. "Imagine how much more fun it would be to kiss a man with a tickly mustache than it is to kiss one with pig bristles," the writer said. "Picture it in your mind, girls—a red beard and blue Jantzen sweater, and white buck shoes—what more could a college girl ask in a man?" the writer questioned. Men spend "about 182 hours and 15 minutes a year shaving. Think how much less time they have to spend with members of the fair sex." CCNY-A student was held up at knife point on the campus of the City College of New York. The holdup man, who said he had killed one man and wouldn't hesitate to kill again, took the student's watch and 50 cents. OKLAHOMA A&M-A difference of opinion developed between the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M. Three athletic trophies were stolen from a Union exhibit at Oklahoma, and the Sooner newspaper blamed A&M students. The robbery was committed at midday, while a group of other students were only thirty yards away. The Daily O'Collegian at A&M retorted that Oklahoma students had been responsible for the disappearance of the bell clapper from Old Central on the A&M campus, and charged that OU had unjustly accused Aggie students of taking the trophies. OREGON—Before the Oregon State-University of Oregon football game, OU students were reported to have attempted to burn an "O" on the lawn of the Memorial Union at Oregon State. Policemen caught the students as they were pouring kerosene on the lawn, and the vandals fled before they could start a fire. Daily Hansan Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn., Inland Daily Press Association, and the University of Kansas represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City, NY 10503. 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