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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 20, 1953
Publick Occurrences BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTICK
Friday, February 20, 1953
CAMPUS
If the Legislature fails to come through with the $450,000 which would enable the University and Kansas State college to go through with their educational television program, there are indications that University officials plan a direct solicitation drive to raise the money in order to take advantage of the Ford foundation's $200,000 offer.
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We are wondering if the recent editorial attack on the University FM radio station KANU by a Lawrence editor will become a full-blown issue or a full-blown flop.
by Dick Bibler
Even students are beginning to wonder how much longer Lawrence residents are going to put up with the many inconsiderate aspects of rallies after Jayhawk athletic victories. An utter disregard for traffic signals and movement of commercial vehicles, not to mention the sleep of men who have a day's work ahead of them, is all leading to an inevitable clash.
STATE
Wes Roberts may be removed from his position as national GOP head. Pressure from indignant Kansas voters may bring this about; national party leaders will try to save face and votes. The statewide split is just another manifestation of the same two coalitions seen in the gubernatorial and presidential races-Carlson-Arn supporters versus Landon-Hall supporters.
The sensational Kansas victory over Kansas State Tuesday may do much to bring the split in the Wildcat athletic staff under control. Coach Jack Gardner lost a lot of wind from his sails in the defeat and it is now likely that the K-State athletic board will back athletic director Larry "Moon" Mullins and his objection to Gardner coaching the College all-stars against the Harlem Globetrotters.
It won't make Gardner and Mullins any better friends, but the loss should stop the "get rid of Mullins, put in Gardner" move.
Don't be surprised if appropriations for Tuttle Creek and several other proposed big dams in Kansan aren't included in the President's new budget. Whether reports of experts on the dam have influenced his decision or not, President Eisenhower will be trying to economize and slash the budget in every way possible. The $15 million provision for Tuttle Creek dam construction may have to go.
NATIONAL
Look for the American Legion to step up its hate-the-UN campaign to a new bitter pitch in the near future. The Legion has long been fighting the Voice of America and the teaching of UNESCO in schools. Its hysterical temperature is rising because of President Eisenhower's strong endorsement of the world organization.
Look for a blast from Harry Truman in regard to the ruling by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr, that the executive order of Jan. 16 did not make offshore oil a Naval petroleum reserve. Mr. Brownell interpreted the act of the former President as a way of transferring the authority over oil lands from the secretary of the interior to the secretary of the Navy. Others regard it as a hasty decision with no real legal authority.
INTERNATIONAL
It is very easy for L. J. McKesson, former radio engineer for the Voice of America, to say that the antennas are being built in the wrong places, since their location is secret. Anyway, wait for the next Cominform slogan: "Americans are broadcasting wrong news, from wrong antennas, and for the wrong people."
LITERATURE
Jean Dutourd's new novel, "A Dog's Head," is the story of Edmund Du Chaillu, who was born with a dog's head. The book may prove to be a best seller, particularly among the male population who can seek solace in the sorrowful life of one of their kind while in the dog house.
Floods in Europe lend increased interest to Life magazine's story, "The Miracles of the Seas," second in the series on "The World We Live In," by Lincoln Barnett.
Most popular brands of cigarets now have king-sized packages, we're waiting for the company to come out with a cigaret we can smoke for 30 days.
Women have really come into their own in the Eisenhower administration: This is partly due to a recognition of the unusually heavy women's vote that Ike received.
One Woman's OPINION
By MARY COOPER
For the first time since the resignation of Frances Perkins as secretary of labor in 1945, a woman will sit with the cabinet. This woman will be Oerta Culp Hobby, 47, leader of the Democrats for like movement that cracked the solid south. She has been appointed Federal Security administrator by President Eisenhower.
Mrs. Hobby will have a tremendous job in taking care of social security, education, and public health. But she has shown by previous achievements that she is extremely capable of handling such a job.
In 1942 she was head of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps—a big scale administrative job. She is now publisher of the Houston Post and a member of the board of directors of the Texas Medical Center. She has also been on the board of regents of Texas State Teacher's College, as well as parliamentarian of the Texas Legislature and Houston's assistant city attorney.
She has been active in many civic and humanitarian organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the Red Cross, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Which all goes to show she is duly qualified for the job.
Continuing the tradition set by Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, treasurer of the United States during the Truman administration, another woman has taken her place. Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest of Utah has been appointed by President Eisenhower to supervise the issue and redemption of paper currency.
She and her husband, William P. Hobby, president of the Houston Post and former governor of Texas, have raised two children—William, 20. and Jessica, 15.
Mrs. Priest, 47, is the wife of a Bountiful, Utah furniture dealer and they have three children.
She has definitely taken an active interest in politics, being a worker in the GOP ranks for 20 years. Mrs. Priest has been a member of the national committee since 1944. During the election campaign she was assistant national Republican chairman in charge of the women's division.
The third woman to obtain an important post in the Eisenhower administration is Clare Luce, who has been appointed ambassador to Italy.
One of her ambassadorial duties will be to maintain contact with the Vatican. And since she is a Catholic convert, influential Protestants feel that with Mrs. Luce in Rome there will be less pressure to send a special U.S. representative to the Vatican.
Mrs. Luce has been an ardent supporter of President Eisenhower, as has been her husband, Henry Luce, editor of the Time, Life and Fortune magazines.
In 1930 she began work as a $20-a-week caption writer for Vogue magazine and within three years was managing editor of Vanity Fair. In 1942 she entered politics and served two terms as Republican Congresswoman from Connecticut.
She is the author of two books, seven plays, and innumerable articles and speeches.
The only cabinet position in the U.S. federal administration that expires automatically every four years is that of Postmaster General.
Little Man on Campus
“Do this paper over—How do you expect me to give you an A grade on a paper that isn't neat?”
Tuttle Creek Plan Shown as Local Issue
The controversial Tuttle Creek dam issue is a battle against federal encroachment into affairs which could be handled at the local level.
Opponents of the Tuttle Creek plan have proved, they think, that several flood control and watershed dams on small tributaries of the major rivers would be more effective than one large dam. The floods of 1951 showed that one large dam could not possibly stop all the water coming from the tributaries, they say.
The Army Engineers, who are backing the project say a dam at the key Blue River spot, eight miles upstream from Manhattan, will prevent extension flood damage to the two Kansas Cities.
Whether the proposed dam actually would be effective from the standpoint of flood control in the Blue valley is not important. Far more important is whether or not it is wise policy to construct such a dam, destroying thousands of acres of good farm land and a number of small communities, when prevention of flood damage downstream is dubious.
The dam was authorized by Congress in 1938, but appropriation of funds to carry out the project was delayed by the war. Last summer, with only a handful of legislators present, a bill was passed in Congress for 85 million to begin construction of the dam.
Two studies of the dam, one by Gov. Edward Arn's commission and one by Mr. Truman's Missouri River Basin Survey commission, are scheduled to be completed soon and probably will form a basis for decisions on the issue by President Eisenhower and Congress.
President Eisenhower's budget, due this week, may be the determining factor in the dispute. Whether or not the President's economizing budget will contain the $15 million provision for continuation of the Tuttle Creek project, which ex-President Truman included in his proposed budget, remains to be seen.
Mary Betz
Then there's the one about the campus blockhead who followed a line into a convocation at Hoch auditorium thinking he was on the end of a coffee line. He should have known the long line is for coffee, the short one for convocation.
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A Public Relations Institute is meeting on the campus and students are warned to wear sun glasses to avoid the glare from the shiny white teeth that will be flashed at an instant's notice.