Page 2 University Daily Kansap Thursday, Jan. 8, 1953 Legislators Join College Red Probe During the past week we have been commenting on the various self-appointed watchdogs who are taking it upon themselves to safeguard our educational system. It seems that as fast as we write about them, new ones crop up. The latest ones are House and Senate investigating committees. The incoming chairman of the House un-American Activities committee, Harold H. Velde (R.-III.) told the press that one of the committee's 12 investigators is already spending all of his time investigating colleges in the East. This country's nemesis of Communism, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who will head the Senate government operations committee, has said that his group will investigate Communism in colleges if the House falls down on the task. Rep. Velde doubted very much that his committee would fail, and casually mentioned that it was the job of McCarthy's group to concentrate on government investigations. So education becomes a bone over which the House and Senate investigating committees can fight. Both say something must be done, but it is going to be done their way. We frankly agree that one of the strongest weapons at the hands of Communism is infiltration into education. If Communism is there, it should be rooted out. But it should be cleaned out, not through witch hunts, but through hard, cold facts. The method the House group is going to use has been used before in all levels of government investigations. Some hidden figure in a committee hearing has made reference to a professor he thinks is a Communist and is teaching the party doctrine. Who the accusers are are and how valid their information is, is never made public. The committees jump head first into the investigation slinging mud and where it lands, it's never erased. If education does need a cleaning up, and we assume there is some fact behind all of the clamor, then why can't it be done intelligently? The logical answer would be to have a separate committee whose only function is the field of education. Large committees that send part of their workers into many fields do little more than blow up a fact-hiding dust storm. A committee that knew something of the workings of education and one that was responsible enough not to give themselves and their victims a blackeye would be a God send. As we do not have this ideal committee, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins university, and the University of Chicago had better stand by for a storm, as they are the top projects in the latest education witch hunt. Don Moser. Short Ones And we think some American names are long! The newborn Prince of Thailand will be called Prince Vajiralengkorn for short. His full names takes eight lines of type. - * * England now has a waiter's derby where waiters must run one mile while balancing a full glass of beer on a tray without spilling a single drop. We would just be glad to have the opportunity of no spilt orders while eating at Lawrence restaurants. In The Editor's Eye Bv ROGER YARRINGTON A very notable effort is being made by several members of the ASC towards a reorganization of that group. POGO At present the ground work is being done by a group of five people representing both Pach and FACTS. Lyle Anderson, Skip Hills, Kay Conrad, Nancy Landon and Dennis Henderson are the five. Ringleaders seem to be Kay Conrad and Nancy Landon. Main goals in the effort will be new district division for elections and streamlining of the council's committee system. Both are needed and the group seems to have some very workable ideas. The council's "Little Hoover commission" which meets today at 4 p.m. will be given first chance at initiating the changes. If they don't come through, the group will try it on their own. A Reorganization of ASC representation from a school basis to a district-residence basis was attempted last spring. The measure was incorporated with several others and was killed by a 690-541 vote. Less than one fourth of the students took time to vote on the matter. We hope the group will be able to put across their ideas. Whatever the result, the ground work and planning being done now would indicate that their plans will not meet the fate of disinterest which the last attempt did. Due to the Loyalty oath required of faculty and staff members at KU, we doubt if the newly initiated House investigation of "subversives" in American colleges will affect this campus. It almost seems a pity, however, that this University is not broad-minded enough to rate the attention to such a narrow-minded investigation. * * It Was Suggested at the Campus Affairs Committee session that recently discussed campus publications that Trend and Upstream be combined into one magazine. The two just finished becoming uncombined. We personally feel that the new setup is much more beneficial, not only to the organizations and writers producing the magazines but also to the campus audience. One of the top items on many students lists of "Things I Am Waiting Most Impatiently For" is the next issue of the new Trend. The "pine树 shilling" first New England coin, was designed by Joseph Jenks who in 1644 molded the first iron made in America. Member of the Kansas Press Assn, National Editorial Assn, Inland Daily Press Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City. Democratic Repair Job Up to Steve Mitchell University of Kansas Student newspaper News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 373 EDITORIAL STAFF One of the big question marks on the political horizon today is slim, serious-looking Stephen A. Mitchell, Democratic National committee chairman. Like the man without a country and the party without a president Mitchell is the campaign manager without a campaign. Editor-in-Chie Editorial Assistants Roper Yarrington Burch Burch NEWS STAFF But what does the future hold for Adiala and his "amateurs"? The elections and crackerbox pos mortems are all over, Truman, Acheson et al are bowing out gracefully while President-elect Ike gets ready to move his golf clubs into the While House, and Republican Chairman Arthur Summerfield makes plans to take over as postmaster general. Stewart, From all recent reports the Democrats' hand-picked party chairman will continue at his post and try to repair the party machine for a big comeback in '56. Managing Editor ... Diana Stonebraker Asst. Mgr. Editors ... Mary Cooper, Bob Some observers (Democratic) are maintaining that the Nov. 4 "disaster" was not a "tragedy," that the South is still solid, and that the party will go forward and upward under the leadership of Adaiu Stevenson, whose stature, they say, seems unimpaired by defeat. Telegraph Editor ----- Phil Newman Editor, News editor ----- Don Stern Newspaper editor ----- Vicki Verdoin In his conceding speech (after the election results were pointing conclusively to a Republican landslide), Mitchell acknowledged the people's decision for '52 but that concession hinted at an anything-but-"conceding" program for the next four years. It will be quite an adjustment for Mitchell's committee to enact a role, new in the political lifetime of most of its members, of being the regulatory machine for the party of "outs," while dedicated to the program of trying to become the "ins" again. Max Thompson City Editor ___ Dean Evans Society Editor ___ Jeanne Fitzgerald Sports Editor ___ Don Nielsen Asst. Sports Editor ___ Clarke Mays Chuck Morelack Phil Newman BUSINESS STAFF —according to the politicians. Almost everybody who was anybody agreed with the Chicago Sun Times and Daily News that the appointment was a "noble experiment." BUSINESS START Business Manager Clark Akers Advertising Mgr. Elkert Spivey National Mgr. Virginia Mackey Circulation Manager Patricia Vance Promotion Adv. Mgr. Tom Benderson Promotion Mgr. Don Landes Business Advisor Dale Novotny Mail Subscription rates: $3 a semester or two Monthly subscription rate: Lawrence, Published in Lawrence, Kan. every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University examinations are entered second class on September 19, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan. Post Office It was certainly a surprise to most people when Stevenson named his friend Stephen Arnold Mitchell, chairman of the Democratic National committee. Not only did Mitchell have no experience in the rough and tumble of national politics, but he was not a political figure at all. Mitchell knew nothing and nobody But headed by a man who was little known among the party's elite, Stevenson team had a "new look." Mitchell's committee was run as a in Lawrence, Kali. Post Our under act of March 3. 1879. service agency for the nominee, and the signals came from Springfield, not the White House. Mitchell's job last fall was doubly difficulty. Not only did he have to introduce Stevenson to the nation, but he had to sell himself to his own party. His handicap of inexperience in the national political field was thought to have been increased by the separate Stevenson headquarters at Springfield. Whatever the future may bring Chairman Mitchell has the unenviable task of uniting the divergent Democrats, paying a $500,000 campaign debt, organizing his committee, and gathering ammunition for the '54 and '56 elections. —Dot Taylor. Flashbacks JANUARY 8 5 Years Ago Next week University football fans will be able to see for themselves what happened at the Orange bowl football game in Miami when complete newsreels of the four major bowl games are shown here at local theaters. Two college women managed to sell a 300 page novel to a Kansas City publishing company on their first try. One of the women said neither of them had ever written even a short story in fiction before they wrote the book, a historical novel. 10 Years Ago The failure of the Moton orchestra to arrive was the cause of there being no Soph Hop Friday night. The Hop will probably be held some time in the near future in connection with a regular week end varsity dance. 25 Years Ago Trial of the leaders of the student riot, the Friday before Christmas vacation, began today in the court room in Green hall. Class parties have passed from the University life. In the future all class parties will be combined with varsity dances and the varsity for the particular week end abolished. THE BUS (Adv.) by Bibler "Sure, Reginald, the company will lek the saving on gas but '483 winds' up the hill would hardly make an 8 o'clock class.