Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday. Nov. 20.1952
Election Gave Ike 5 Direct Mandates
by Dick Bibler
Dwight D. Eisenhower, president-elect of the United States, has received a direct mandate from the American people based primarily on five issues.
He is charged with (1) settling the war in Korea, (2) stopping the spiral of inflation, (3) cleaning up the federal government, (4) decreasing taxes, and (5) overcoming the threat of Russian Communism.
Without peace, the general will be unable to put many of his plans into effect, so his first action after taking office will be to try to end the Korean "police action."
He is faced with several alternatives at the present time. He can order American troops out of the area and quit, which is practically unthinkable, since it would cost us Korea, and the good will of all the free world.
He can back down on the prisoner repatriation issue, and thereby achieve a truce. Or he can order an offensive in Korea, aimed at driving the Chinese Reds back to the Yalu river.
He can adopt the MacArthur formula, which proposes open warfare against Red China, utilizing aid raids on industry and attack by Chinese Nationalist troops.
Lastly, he can adopt the present administration's attitude, and allow the present stalemate to continue, hoping that the action will constitute too much of a drain on Chinese resources and force them to quit.
Eisenhowers' second job will be to stop the spiral of inflation which President Truman has so cautiously fostered. The Democrats regarded any trend toward deflation as catastrophe, and acted accordingly. The Republicans will not be so easily alarmed.
The Republican administration intends to allow business and labor to out their own price-pay problems with a minimum of government interference, and will be much more sympathetic to business than the Democrats have been.
The task of cleaning up the federal government will be the first task of the new attorney general. Eisenhower also is pledged to eliminate much of the waste and duplication in government offices and can be expected to reduce the number of federal office holders, and to throw out a lot of red tape.
Economy in government spending was one of the biggest planks in the Republican platform. Gen. Eisenhower claims that the taxes on the public can be reduced by eliminating the waste in government offices. Any savings resulting from action taken against waste will be absorbed by lowered taxes.
The crackdown on federal spending will be heaviest on the armed forces, which spend the greatest amount.
Tax cuts will not come too early in the new administration. The government has contracts out for defense projects extending into 1954.
For several years, Republicans have insisted that the administrations' policy of "containment" lost ground to the Communists, with no hope of eventual gain.
President-elect Eisenhower is pledged to a more positive policy, aimed at overcoming the threat of Communism. Just what line of action he will take is not apparent.
—Dean Evans.
Chicago's Col. McCormick has a plan which will give Washington, D.C., back to Maryland. Undoubtedly his next move will be to give Maryland to Gen. MacArthur.
POGO
Rv PHIL NEWMAN
A sign with the above axiom should be hung from the ceiling of the Daily Kansan newsroom as a memorial to the days of campus journalism when editorial opinion was not controlled by an unwieldy committee which now must approve all editorial page material.
The Purpose of the editorial is to lead oinion—not to follow it."
The recent action of the Kansan board stirs the imagination to wonder just what will happen if the committee agrees on a policy contrary to the opinion of the bigger part of the paper's readers. Will this cause the formation of a larger committee? One also could ask will this—and it's not impossible—eventually lead to a paper without an editorial pane?
Many readers' opinion was that the Daily Kansan has not been mirroring the opinion of the majority of the student readers. This, they said, was a condition which had to be altered immediately.
The Daily Kansan-sponsored preferential presidential poll on Oct. 28 showed that the students favored Gen. Eisenhower by a 2 to 1 margin over Gov. Adlai Stevenson. Evidently the remaining one-third of the students are entitled to no expression of their opinion.
Another point to be considered is the idea of consistency of editorial stand. It's just possible that the majority opinion might become the minority. The question is, would the paper be required to change its editorial stand on the question?
The role of the newspaper in a democratic society such as ours is one which stands alone. The news is classed and listed according to importance and no comment made upon it. On the editorial page the editor of the paper is traditionally placed in the pages to express conclusions based on the facts in the news. However, the reader may accept these conclusions or simply ignore them completely, as he wishes.
At any rate these conclusions are not forced upon the reader. This might not be true, however, in such cases as where there are no competing newspapers as is true in some nearby communities. Even in such cases, though, the reader can simply by-pass the editorial page.
Perhaps a more all-satisfying idea for controlling Kansan editorials would be an all-University poll to decide the paper's stand as each issue arises. Maybe it would be wise to choose a separate editor to write on each issue also.
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GOP Policy Will Not Bring Radical Changes
(Editor's Note: In recent issues, the Kansan has carried student-written articles on expected developments in the incoming Republican administration. Here is the first of several articles dealing with President-elect Eisenhower's administration's probable attitude toward business and labor.)
After 20 years of wandering in the wilderness, the GOP found a leader
The people have spoken. They have demanded a change. And President Eisenhower with his eager-to-succeed new bloods will carry out that mandate. who could bring them into the
Letters
Housing Writer Backs UDK Facts
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan I am one of the "misinformed" students referred to by Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, in his statement concerning housing Monday, Nov. 10.
Dr. Woodruff made some pointed remarks in this statement.
1. He said there has been misinformation circulated concerning housing on the campus. I think I know more about the situation of dorms than Dr. Woodruff does for the simple reason that I live in a dorm and Dr. Woodruff does not. None of the facts concerning the inadequate dorms printed in the Kansas have been untrue or exaggerated.
2 Dr. Woodruff accused the Kansan of circulating this "misinformation" in order to get copy. This is a serious accusation. It makes one wonder if Dr. Woodruff believes in freedom of press. It is the Kansan's duty to present opinions on its editorial page to its readers and the Kansan has done this despite pressure from various powers that be. It is absurd to say the Kansan's motive was to get more cooy.
3. Dr. Woodruff is concerned because students in Kansas high schools might find out about KU's dormitory situation and be influenced "the wrong way." Indeed! In this, statement Dr. Woodruff hints that the University is trying to hide the truth of student housing from potential KU students. He is saying that the University wishes to hush up a matter which concerns all taxpayers of the state of Kansas.
I feel sure that many students at the university agree with me on these points.
Shirley Lyon college senior
1. Housing is inadequate;
2. The Ketan Mumian student opinion has merely been exercising its duty as a democratic newspaper operating in a democratic society.
Nevertheless, Eisenhower and his party are now the "ins" and while the pollsters carry on with a post mortem, other commentators are interpreting the significance of the election and what it will mean for all of us.
who could bring them into the promised land. It was a landslide surprise for the professional pollsters and a crushing blow to intellectuals who had scorned Ike's folly appeal.
The big change after Jan. 20 will be one more of tone than content. There will be no revolutions, for the new administration will be a moderate one.
Eisenhower is a middle-of-the-roader by temperament and conviction. The makeup of the new Congress too, will be against big swings in either direction.
Business for the first time in 20 years will have a voice at the policy making level. Eisenhower will be a friendly president.
But there will be a shift in the attitude and direction of the government's machine. For too long the concept of government as the Great Father, the power that could do everything for everybody, has guided. The change will be a basic one; the choice will be made against "creeping socialism" in an attempt to restore a larger measure of competitive capitalism. The government's role will become more that of an umpire and balance wheel, less that of active player and motive power
The part that profits play in a system of private enterprise will be understood. Success will not be frowned upon. The market place will relieve government of its powers to fix prices and regulate wage and interest rates. Competition will be encouraged and, for better or worse, there will be less government interference in the normal operation of business.
Thus, one of the most significant results of the Republican victory will be a change in the business climate.
Dot Taylor
A man in Ballymena, Ireland, keeps a colony of 70,000 bees in his bedroom. There should be a real funny wisecrack in that but we can't think of it.