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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Nov. 18, 1952
by Dick Bibler
Ike Appointment of Lodge, Dodge Sets Off New Cabinet Speculation
The recent appointment of Henry Cabot Lodge and Joseph M. Dodge as President-elect Dwight Eisenhower's liaison men to Washington has heightened the speculation concerning the new presidential cabinet.
The top position of secretary of state is a toss up between John Foster Dulles and Gov. Dewey. Early speculation indicates Dulles, long time Republican adviser on foreign affairs, may get the post. However, some of Eisenhower's immediate advisers today caution against assuming too much as to Dulles.
Gov. Dan Thornton, who helped lead the fight in Chicago for Eisenhower's nomination, is sure to get a post in the new cabinet. It seems likely that he will be the new secretary of the interior.
Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York, Henry Lodge, Sen. Frank Carlson, and Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado lead the list of cabinet hopefuls.
Kansas is sure to be represented in the cabinet by either Sen. Carlson, ex-Sen. Harry Darby, or Fred Seston, now a Nebraskan, but a native of Manhattan. Both Seaton and Carlson went to Paris to persuade the General to run, and both have been with him throughout the campaign.
The position of secretary of the treasury is a problem. One line of thought is that a Wall street banker will not get the job, and that it will be given to a middle Western banker such as Joseph M. Dodge of Detroit; others believe that the job
Eisenhower's trip to Korea may give the tip off. Watch for the man who accompanies him to be named to the post.
will go to Winthrop Aldrich of the Chase National bank, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller and a power in GOP politics.
The job of attorney general will probably go to Gov. Dewey if he does not get the secretary of state post. Next in line to Dewey in this position is Gov. Earl Warren of California.
Henry Cabot Lodge who lost the senatorial race in Massachusetts seems a sure winner for the post of secretary of defense. He was the original Eisenhower campaign manager and has served on the Senate armed services committee.
Sen. James Duff of Pennsylvania, one of the earliest Eisenhower supporters, may be fit in as secretary of commerce.
Omitted from the above list are the names of two influential women, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, former head of the WACs, and Mrs. Ivy Priest, director of the women's division of the GOP national committee. Mrs. Priest has said that the General has promised her that at least one woman will be named to the cabinet.
Secretary of labor is still anyone's guess, although ex-Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota might be the man for the job.
The job of postmaster general has almost traditionally gone to the party's national committee chairman. This would put Arthur Summerfield in the position.
These names of course are pure speculation, but it will be interesting to watch the jockeying and refusing that will go on until the cabinet is definitely chosen. —Don Moser.
Pre-Inauguration Period Is Peril
The country is now in a dangerous period. The period, known as an interregnum, is the interval between the time the new president is elected and his inauguration.
This two-and-a-half-month period is almost by necessity a time when no public policy is made. Had a Democrat been elected to the office, the government would have run on rather smoothly, but with a new administration coming in, the incumbents are powerless to act without fear of their plans being completely wrecked.
There have been two suggestions made to remedy this situation, but neither have gotten further than the suggestion stage. One came during the financial crisis of the 1932 election. Some advocated that both President Hoover and vice president Curtis resign their posts immediately and allow the newly elected men to take office.
The second idea was to have an inauguration immediately after election instead of waiting a certain interval. Through the years we have come close to this. Previously, inauguration day was in March; now it has been moved to Jan. 20.
We could do well to take a lesson from France and England. As soon as the party in power in either country fails to get a vote of confidence, the opposition immediately takes over the rule. Potsdam, 1945 was an excellent example of this speedy change.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill was representing England at the conference. During his stay in Germany, his party lost a vote of confidence and he had to return to England and Clement Attlee took his place. Mr. Truman and his cabinet have taken an excellent step this year. In the face of world difficulties, he has asked President-elect Eisenhower to send representatives to Washington to sit in on budget and defense discussions.
Every effort is being made to make the shift in administrations as smooth as possible. There has been no election break in the continuity of the government for 20 years. During this time the diplomatic and military problems of the United States have become extremely complicated because of America's role of leadership among the free nations.
During the next two months when we are virtually without a government, let us hope that Russia does not take advantage of our weakness and stir up fresh trouble in another spot of the world.
—Don Moser.
One Man's Opinion
By DON MOSER
It is easy to read the stories or racial discrimination in the South and sit back and say it's not that bad in Kansas. The more degrading the story we read, the more complacent we become about the base as any printed in the South pops up in a local paper and we pretend not to see it.
The action of the Kansas Farm bureau Friday should make anyone not completely prejudice blinded wonder what kind of state he is living in. The bureau had just finished their business of the day when a resolution was proposed from the floor by an unidentified delegate. Officials, only half listening to the measure, passed if without any debate.
Members of the board were actually horrified that they had to go on record supporting an FECP bill. Just what this bill means is that regardless if a person is a Negro, someone is a Jew, Catholic, or Moslem, on a German Spaniard, or French, he would be able to find work in Kansas.
Later they found there was an FEPC sleeper clause in the bill and they were fighting mad. There was much angry discussion over the fact and members were bitter over the fact that it was sneaked in on them.
All of the uproar was over a measure which would give the right of equality of employment to everyone without regard to race, religion, or national origin.
Kansans need not be worried by the measure, though. Members of the bureau promise us that this terrible democratic and humanitarian bill will be voted down next year.
Little Man on Campus
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In the midst of hot, prolonged debate over University housing for girls, I a plutocratic freshman dorm resident, would like to expound the difficulties of "favored existence" in Corbin.
My grievance with housing obviously is not that the upper class dorms are not numerous or convenient; my greatest problem is that
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of roommates. Most girls have only one roommate; I have two. This triples, not doubles, the number of problems.
Instead of just a roommate who prevents sleep with nocturnal study, I am also favored with Erma. (I shall give my roommates fictitious names.) She doesn't believe in study for ANYONE. She has a "down slip," a $250 scholarship, and a warning. She tries to enforce her philosophy. Ann, the insomniae, spends her daylight hours discussing frat "men" with other equally ambitious girls.
Erma likes to sleep in an icy gale. When Ann arrives for the night, she shuts the windows and turns on the register. After starting the night as eskimos, we awake in the morning to enjoy a temperature of tropical proportions.
At night she paints value-and-intensity scales for "Cutting and Pasting" class. Retiring at two o- clock, she arises at dawn to wait tables, and adequately demonstrates her other talents by slamming doors and falling over waste baskets.
To repeat: "Most girls have only one roommate." Our room has attained three-girl rating purely by merit of four windows. We have reached a unique solution to some of the problems this invokes. Ann has one closet and we share the other. I have the single bed; they sleep in the bunk; Erma has the single desk and one lamp; we share the other desk and lamp. Ann and I each have two dresser drawers; Erma has three.
In answer to cries of "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NEXT YEAR?" I calmly reply, "We aren't concerned about next year." Mr. MENninger has given us a three-girl padded cell reservation for next year.
Ruth Simpson college freshman
P. S.: This is an accurate statement of facts and not an exaggerated picture, as it might at first appear to be to one unacquainted with the situation. In fact, some of the more gruesome details have been omitted.