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University Daily Kansav
Friday, Jan. 9, 1953
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"Just left—He spent an hour an 'a half gettin' ready for a big study session an 'am somebody stomped by an suggested a movie."
Adlai's Asian Tour Points to Newest Role
Although Adlai Stevenson steps out of active political life Jan. 10 when his term as governor of Illinois ends, most politicians, Republicans and Democrats, agree that his political career is not ended.
His proposed tour of Korea and the Far East which begins in March indicates that he does not consider himself entirely out of the political picture and that he intends to take active leadership of the Democratic party.
As titular head of the defeated party, Gov. Stevenson has the tremendous task of reorganizing the Democrats into a united body. The Democrats lack—for the first time in 20 years—the elected presidency to hold them together.
The reorganization of necessity will begin at the very foundation of the party. There must be no delays, as the Democrats see the situation, since any delay would give the Republicans that much more time to consolidate their power.
Many Democrats have been booming Gov. Stevenson for President in the 1956 elections. It is a task which the governor undoubtedly is weighing carefully.
Gov. Stevenson left his duties as governor of Illinois reluctantly to campaign for the presidency. His greatest regret is that he feels that he could have been re-elected as governor in his home state.
Few persons will accept the idea that Gov. Stevenson will pull out of a political role. After studying law at Harvard and Northwestern universities, the governor stepped out of his law practice several times to serve the government.
Active in foreign affairs, he played an important part in the formation of the United Nations. With his election as governor of Illinois, he has stayed in politics.
His tour of the Far East will put him in a position to voice his opinion on the policy set forth by President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Whatever the role of Gov. Stevenson in politics from now on, the Democrats expect him to be a power in the reorganization of the party and to lead the fight against the Republican administration—now and in 1956. —Bob Longstaff.
Harry is planning a library for his scrapbooks, and looking forward to a vacation—after which he will no doubt give John Gunther competition with an eye witness "Inside Washington" or maybe a rhymed fable about the pinks and minks.
Dies Returns to House With Probe 'Mandate'
Former Representative Martin Dies, Democrat, of Lukin, Texas, won a seat in Congress in the general election as congressman-at-large from Texas.
He served a previous stint in the House from 1931 to 1945 and was the creator and chairman of the original House un-American Activities committee.
Congressman Dies feels that this victory proves Texans agree with him. A more likely explanation was the pulling value of a well-known name, and the fact that there were only relatively unknown men running against him.
He got 49.93 per cent of 1,227,468 votes cast for the office;128,927 Texans who went to the polls didn't think the matter important enough to indicate their choice.
So far as is known, Mr. Dies made no campaign speeches and put up no placards. Nor did any of the other six candidates expect Herb Petry Jr., who made one radio speech referring to Mr. Dies as "a warmed-over Joe McCarthy."
If the voters were endorsing Mr. Dies' ideas, they must have learned of them through a process of political osmosis. Texans vaguely remembered that he had been against communism. Few persons outside some civic clubs, where he had spoken, had any idea as to what he had thought about other public issues since his retirement from Congress in 1945 because of poor health.
Mr. Dies did a good job of advance build-up by toying with the idea of running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Tom Connally. For months he frequently had been mentioned in the papers as a possible senatorial candidate.
When the census figures gave Texas a new congressional seat, the State Legislature elected to have a congressman-at-large rather than redistrict the present seats. This was due in great part to the successful lobbying of Martin Dies, who was very eager for this seat to be available for his comeback.
Mr. Dies expects to be placed back on the un-American activities committee. This decision will be made by the House committee on committees.
Sen. Joseph A. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) either will find aid and comfort or an element of competition if Mr. Dies is given a position on the committee. Mr. Dies' first statement after victory charged that the "whole story of Communism . . . has never been told."
He has spent most of his life in politics. In 1933 Mr. Dies was strongly for the New Deal, an advocate of monetary inflation and a critic of a conservative Supreme court.
In 1937 he fought against the reorganization of the Supreme court and was one of the first to attack the sit-down workers in the General Motors strike. Overnight he gained prestige and became one of the recognized anti-Roosevelt Democrats in the House.
During his years in the House, he kept trying to get Congress to instigate investigations of one sort or another. He appeared to be looking for a safe political horse on which to ride to headlines and glory.
The main controversy which has raged about Martin Dies and his committee and the memories which have lingered were not so much about the information which was gathered and given out, as about the method by which it was obtained.
Mary Cooper.
Short Ones
Truman's first post-White House book will soon be followed by his "Diary That Will Tell All." Everybody who's anybody keeps private papers and HST's should be rich and rare.
Harry will find his new life in Independence—not much less public—and his picturesque quotes will resound throughout the land. He will give Ike fatherly advice and encouragement and his high school commencement addresses probably will wander only slightly from the noble "I'd Rather Be Right . . ." theme.
In one of his farewell messages to reporters who specialize in exclusive interviews, the President made sly comparisons between the Democratic regime and the Christmas spirit. The American people "never had it so good" and they went and repudiated Santa Claus. We hope the old gent at the North Pole will still love us—but maybe it's just as well he's retiring from politics.
Queen Elizabeth was named the Woman of the Year. But seems like the most influence on recent Americana has been the new hair styles by Mamie or the latest extra-curricular activity of California's bank-robbing grandma.
By DOT TAYLOR
A compromise plan then was worked out whereby the nominations would be made in the districts but that the candidates of both parties would be voted on finally by all the students in a general election. This plan pays the Council unanimously and who sent to the students for a referendum vote.
The ASC defeated this plan by one vote, the opposing argument being that "minorities" within a district would have little chance to nominate and elect one of their candidates.
Two days before the election, Pach-NOW came out opposing the proposal that their Council members had endorsed, and requested all their members to vote against it. Most students didn't understand what they were voting on, many followed the party line, and the proposal was defeated.
There's been a lot of talk lately about the All Student Council. It's been called a politician's plaything—and a do-nothing student government.
A group of interested, students and ASC members from both parties have met recently to discuss the possibilities of different reorganization plans.
There are many eager to point out the "inneptness" of our elected representatives and the seeming futility of their wrangling meetings.
But nobody has come up with any constructive suggestions about what a Student Council is, or what ought to do. Fewer seem to care.
The platforms of both political parties have favored further consideration of "reorganization" plans but nothing has been done.
This was an attempt to eliminate "Greek-Independent" party lines. FACTS, the all-student party, wanted two parties in all the residence districts and these parties then would stand for "issues."
Last year a group of FACTS people who were concerned about the sorry state of student government proposed a plan for re-districting the voting groups. The districts would be determined by residence instead of by schools—so that Council members would really represent the voters.
But these people realize that if anything is to be done, the proposals must be discussed by the whole student body.
"Politics" should not connote something that is beneath us, because it also is the democratic way.
If we are to be citizens of our campus "community," we should take part in its activities, take interest in its government, and take issue on its problems.
What do you think our "All-Student" Council should be—and do?
Dot Tavlor
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