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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 3, 1953
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
Friday, April 3, 1953
CAMPUS
Look for an upsurge in the number of Greek FACTS representatives on the All Student Council. A greater number of Greeks than ever before filed as candidates for the council in Wednesday primary.
It is hoped that Wilbur Goodseal, a University graduate in January, can be contacted and to act as master of ceremonies for the oratorical contest. It is customary for the winner of the past year to act in this capacity.
STATE
The citizens of Kansas have been paying double for corrupt, or supposedly corrupt, public officials. More than $10,000 was spent investigating the $110,000 Norton hospital sale and another $50,000 appropriation was requested for other investigations.
NATION
Expect an Eisenhower crackdown soon on unfriendly elements within his own party. Opposition of leading Republicans to the Bohlen ambassadorship and the shelving of the anti-enslavement resolution have been clear indications that the Eisenhower honeymoon with Congress is over. Ike is still wearing the pants in the household—though he often seems to forget it.
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Farm prices evidently are on the rise, however slight it may be. A one-third of 1 per cent increase has been listed for the month ending March 15, ending a steady decrease of six months.
WORLD
Ceylon supposedly has answered why it continues to sell rubber to Communist China, although black-balled from the UN by Russia; higher-than-world prices from China for rubber plus a lower-than-world price from China on the rice Ceylon buys.
MOVIES
SPORTS
Don't look for 3-dimensional pictures in Lawrence for quite awhile. This shortage of equipment for such a process has caused 20th Century-Fox to limit showings to cities with more than 100,000 population.
It looks as if all Oklahoma needs for another national football powerhouse is a good quarterback, and reports coming from Sooner-land indicate that they've got one. He's former halfback Buddy Leake, only returning member of Oklahoma's 1952 backfield.
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The Chicago White Sox should push the Yankees for the American League pennant with their infield of Vern Stephens, Chico Carrasquel, Nelson Fox, and Ferris Fain. It's the best in the league.
Finance Plots Shaky Course Awaiting Korean Solution
The market has flexed its financial muscles recently with each new announcement of a possible solution to the Korean war. The economic prospect of the nation is shaky. No economist dares to predict the future of the nation's business without anticipating the actions of the Russia-China chain.
Many economists predicted that the end of World War II would bring a collapse similar to the debacle of 1929. Even when expectations were not borne out and inflation supplanted unemployment, the worry and dread persisted.
There was a minor recession in 1949, but the economic situation so pessimistically predicted did not arrive. No one had foreseen the diplomatic behavior of the Chain nor how that program would require our enlarged armament.
In June, 1950, the Korean war necessitated national preparedness on a renewed scale and consequent orders for arms and equipment set business at a new pace. At the same time, industry guarded the output of enough civilian goods to give a semblance of balance to our economy. Consumer demand was still at high pitch.
Then the story will be told. Optimists see no glut of civilian goods, content that there are enough people who want home appliances, automobiles, and other consumer goods to keep a healthy market.
When and if the Korean war ends, what will be the status of consumer demand? Will it be strong enough to compensate for the letdown in armament production? There will probably be a period of recession until industry reconverts to a civilian economy.
But this is only half the story. Industrial reconversion will get a green light only if the administration is certain there will be a stable
Perhaps Malenkov will change the pattern of Russian diplomacy. Maybe the much hoped for defection of China and other satellites will take place. Maybe the possibility of peace will become something more than wishful thinking.
and lasting peace.
The nation's economic future hinges on these and many other contingencies. It is not nice to say it, but more and more our production wheels are being controlled by the Kremlin.
No one can predict with certainty the effect of the new Soviet regime upon the world or when we'll be able to feel those effects. The least that can be hoped for is a prosperous future while waiting for reaction from behind the Iron Curtain.
-Shirley Piatt
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"Fifteen required texts for this course an' he has to fire an open-book quiz."
'Policy or Patronage' Query Should Decide Job Question
In considering the civil service situation in Washington, President Eisenhower need only ask himself if the jobs he's asked to "free" are policy or patronage.
When a man becomes president he needs around him an executive family willing to follow his lead.
When a government is largely made up of civil service workers (93 per cent now, we are told), the problem is how far down into the rank and file the executive family must go in order to implement a new leader's program.
Thus an order lifting the freeze on these policy-making jobs is in accordance with a president's inherent right to have around him men and women who believe in his program and have the authority to implement it. But what of jobs that are not policy-making jobs?
As president, Eisenhower needs to have his people in his cabinet, as his assistants, and in other policy-making positions. These men and women, in turn, need to have their people in the positions that carry the power to help make policy decisions.
The Republicans admit they are out for patronage to hand out to the party faithful. They are angered at finding that an accumulation of 20 years of this power has left the Democrats still in control of the government through the civil service system.
The civil service was set up in order to establish government work as a career instead of a chance to win a soft job. Under civil service, the rank and file workers are assured that their positions are given because of qualification rather than favor.—Mona Milliken
What effect on the civil service system would the mass revoking of the civil service tests have? Wouldn't it destroy the purpose of the entire system?
Republicans admit they gave up taking the examinations because a Democrat always turned up as one of the top three and got the appointment. By their own actions, they revoked their chance at some of these jobs.
Now, they'll just have to pack the examinations with Republican candidates and turn the process over to favoring the Republican among the top three. It won't take 20 years to begin having opportunities to hand out a few political favors.
Legal power doesn't carry with it the inherent right to upset a situation merely because it "ain't what it used to be." It does carry the responsibility to see that the power isn't abused. If it has been, Eisenhower is justified in revoking that power.
UNIVERSITY DAILY Hansan
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Letters
Student Court Blasted For Libel Decision
Editor of the Daily Kansan
When a student apparently bases his judgment of the University vs. FACTS trial on the Kansan report I cannot blame him too much for his conclusions (letter, April 1, Daily Kansan, by Nathan Harris). But when a member of the Daily Kansas staff, after hearing the trial from beginning to end, comes up with similar conclusions (editorial, March 29, Daily Kansan, by Tom Stewart) I feel compelled to reply.
The main issue of the trial centered around the statement printed by FACTS to the effect that Pachacamac was "corrupt." The attorneys for FACTS presented evidence to prove the truth of such a statement. Here are a few I happened to note:
2. A member of the Pachamac Inner Circle confessed as one witness that he voted some 200 times in one election.
1. $2,800 of student council funds was unaccounted for by the Pachamac treasurer in 1950-51. A certified public accountant who examined the books said the discrepancy could not be attributed to "mere negligence."
3. A member of Pachacamac stole the election boxes in a recent campus election.
4. A former member of Pachamac testified that his pledge class was instructed to block polls.
5. A Pachamac election committee chairman failed to order enough ballots—they ran out at 10 am, of that election day.
6. The present treasurer of Pachamac admitted that the party spent over $300 per year, whereas an ASC bill limits the expenditure to $150 per year.
The student court ruled this was not enough to justify FACTS calling Pachamac to "corrout!"
I am amazed that Tom Stewart (who I understand knows his way around in political circles) should write an editorial lauding the student court in a manner more nearly consistent with the naivete of a freshman coed.
I can hardly believe that anyone attending the trial was deceived by the proceedings. After all, the court decided the case in 12 minutes flat without even taking the evidence into its chamber. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that the court could be compared to a family of herbivorous, leaping, marsupial mammals commonly found in Australia.
George Hotz college sophomore
Abbot Band Defended For Danceable Music
Let's have more Abbot and Hall with music, and less Collegians and Varsity Crew with discordant, undanceable rack. Now I realize that this letter is as prejudiced toward personal taste as was the other, but I do feel it right to defend Abbot's bunch and declare that while it was not the best I've ever heard, I've heard a lot worse on this campus.
In reply to "Name Withheld by Request," it hardly seems 'fair to allow such remarks concerning Carl Abbot's band go unanswered. In an age when college bands generally believe they are hired to make noise rather than provide dance music, it was a welcome change to find an orchestra that played music as it was originally intended.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
college sophomore