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University Daily Kansan Monday. March 16, 1953
Cattle Price Fall May Doom GOP
The key to a Democratic victory in the 1954 elections has been cast, and Republican papers are advertising the fact with front page spreads about the effects of skidding farm and cattle prices on the American economy.
"The only ones who are being hurt are a lot of bankers, oil men, barbers and soda jerkers," is the cry of wealthy cattle barons, whose words of wisdom are seized upon by publishers and printed as news.
It is true that large interests do have reserves built up during war time that carry them through "recession" periods that inevitably follow prosperity. It is just as true that they are a very small portion of the voting public.
There aren't too many things a person can be certain about in this day and age, but you can be reasonably sure of your own reaction if you were labeled a "soda jerker" because you tried to become self-employed.
Never has so much material for Communist propaganda been so lavishly distributed as by newspapers hammering away at a theme that claims. "The large interests have enough reserve to weather the storm and the rest of them don't belong in the game anyway."
It is this manner of presentation that is going to mold a Democratic victory in 1954. Watch and see. —Don Sarten
Diplomacy Over Stalin Borders on Hypocrisy
Diplomacy is a strange thing. It borders on hypocrisy
Diplomacy surely is the only accountable reason for President Eisenhower and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden expressing their sympathy to the Russian people for the illness and subsequent death of Prime Minister Josef Stalin. They couldn't really have been saddened.
There were two men, though, who didn't shed any tears over the Russian dictator's death. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief U.S. delegate to the UN, refused to comment on it, saying he would leave official statement to the White House, and Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of West Germany, said he saw no reason for any change of attitude toward Russia because of the death. As he put it: "We must remember that after the death of Lenin, there came a Stalin."
Bob Nold
Short Ones
The president's press conferences should be called the EisenHour.
A Big Ten rumor has it that one of the member schools paid its athletes such a high salary that one of the professors enrolled in classes and will try out for the team.
Professors complain about low pay and students about high tuition—looks like somebody's getting it in the middle.
The Kansan said "Stalin 'Deteriorating.'" To those who believe he has been dead a long time, he just may be.
POGO
Foreign Students Tell Homeland Activities
In an attempt to familiarize KU students with the activities and problems of foreign countries, the editorial page will carry a new feature which will appear every Monday.
Each week one foreign student will write on some aspect of life in his homeland.
If there are any questions readers have pertaining to any specific country, the Kansan will attempt to have one of the foreign students write on that subject.
Walter Schlotfeldt of Germany has been instrumental in outlining this series. He believes that American students should know more about foreign countries in a time when an isolationist attitude is antimated.
We hope that through your effort, this series will be a success.
One Woman's OPINION
--of March 3, 1819.
Bv LORENA BARLOW
The Arab states of the Near East are more than a little unhappy with the West. The recognition given Israel by the Truman administration and the aid given by the United States to the Jews of Palestine are two of the reasons for this attitude.
Every piece of Arab propaganda is concentrated against the government and people of Israel.
Actually, the Arab people have never had a fair deal from their foreign overlords. They have been victims of Turkish rule. Patriotism was exploited by the British in World War I. The French were given the mandate over Syria and Lebanon after that war. Now it is the United States' turn to feel the Arab hatred.
One of the outstanding educators of the Arab states has said that his people have become doubtful about the professions of American democracy. They do not believe that Americans practice what they preach.
As for the British they considered the Near East a vital key to the world more than a century ago. They still hold this belief.
The Suez canal is the empire's most important link and the cause of considerable trouble between Britain and Egypt. It is considered to be one of three great factors of British defense. The other two are Gibraltar and Aden, the port controlling the waterway between the Arabian sea and the Persian gulf.
Because of her position in the Near East, Britain's balance of power has remained stable for a century. The two world wars were caused in part by the Kaiser's conquest in this area and Mussolini's later attempts in North Africa.
The fault lies not in the fact that the Arab people are "backward," but in that they live in countries which have been used for a ball to be tossed from one of the stronger nations to another. They also have been unable to organize and cooperate.
The Pan-Islam league, an organization of all Arab nations formed after the Arab world lost Israel, manifests the rift with the western world. Potentially the most powerful force in the Middle East, it recently has been woofed by Soviet Russia through her Jewish purges. Created as a third world force—between the West and Russia—it now may fall under the hammer and sickle.
An understanding between the warring states is essential and until such an understanding can be brought about the democratic world will not be safe.
Daily Hansan
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Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"Perhaps we should discontinue using student advisers for the new Freshman Orientation program."
English Schools Stress Playing Over Victory
Editor's Note: Geoffery Weston was graduated in law from the University of Cambridge. He is now a special graduate student at the University. His is the first of a series of articles that will appear in this column
The English are a vigorous but idle race. Too indolent to work, yet not sufficiently intellectual to enjoy doing nothing, they resolved their dilemma by inventing an activity which combined the maximum entertainment and bodily exertion with the minimum use of their mental faculties. The English invented SPORT.
every week.
But this was not enough. As fast as they invented new games, the perverse foreigner better their execution. Beaten at their own game of tennis by the Americans, even at their sacred cricket by the Australians, and at golf by everyone; the English were forced to invent a new technique of how to lose while yet remaining superior. They invented SPORTSMANSHIP.
The secret rites of this art are instilled at English schools and universities. "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," said the Duke of Wellington. "Nonsense!" you will cry. Yet his words, or the idea behind them, have been used, rightly or wrongly, as the justification for the predominant part played by sports in English education ever since.
It follows that in England there is less training, less coaching, and more players. There the particular game is organized by the students' student-elected club.
A much higher proportion of students play games in England. For however badly a man may play, there is always a team of players equally bad, with matches arranged against other teams of like quality. At Cambridge university, out of about 6,000 male students there are about 40 teams in each of the games of football, (soccer to you), rugby, cricket, and field hockey, which play twice a week during the season, and some 60 boat crews on the river, besides the numberless players of tennis, squash racaquets, and fives.
Nothing could be more different than sport in English and American universities. That the games themselves are dissimilar reflects the least of these differences, which arise from the different national characteristics and from the different functions that sport is designed to fulfill. In England the emphasis is upon the performer; in America it is upon the performance.
But usually there is no coach, or, if there is, he is more often an enthusiastic amateur invited to help train the team. The absence of highly paid professional coaches and high pressure training results in much less scientific rules and tactics and so in games less interrupted by rule violations, and never by substitutions. There are no reserves, and if a player be injured his side plays on with a man less.
So in university sports the English system produces far greater student participation with a far less thorough training technique than the American. All this may be summed up by saying that if the two countries did have a common field game (which they do not) we could produce fifty times more players, but you would defeat us, fifty-to-one. —Geoffery Weston
But this picture does not represent European sport as a whole, which differs from the English as much as the English does from the American. Nor does it portray the highly organized commercial sport in England, for which millions go weekly to watch professional soccer matches, while millions more bet on the results. Nor the "unspeakable" huntsman, red-coated and mounted, who still pursues the "uneatable" fox all over England, according to the ancient ritual of his forebearers, the landed gentlemen of a vanished age.