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New Staff Begins
Responsible Freedom To Be Editorial Goal
Today is the first issue of the Kansan under a new staff of editors and business executives. At such times there is usually a certain amount of confusion until everyone has time to learn his new job. The Kansan office will probably be no exception but during our orientation, and after, the order is business as usual.
The editorials on this page will not be aimed at pleasing or displeasing anyone. They will be written by many writers and selected according to their interest to the campus community.
It is customary that a new staff state the policy which will govern the editorial page. This is a good custom and we wish to make such a statement.
We see our new job as both an opportunity and a trust. We want to learn and while doing so we must fulfill our responsibility to present a good page.
As recently stated on this page, we believe our readers, the University students and faculty, deserve a free press. The students here are training to live in a society of free newspapers. Such training is not enhanced by a campus paper offering watered-down editors' lists.
We will aim at a fair, responsible interpretation of the news. We will try to present the facts as best we can and draw conclusions. In some cases we may feel inclined to make a certain stand or endorsement. Such endorsements will be supported by the editorial page only. The news columns are for the objective treatment of the news.
The editorial writers of the Kansan have traditionally enjoyed a complete editorial freedom. At present there are those, both on and off the campus, who would have us lose this freedom.
Editorials involve opinion and that means there will be some disagreement. If there is none, then something is wrong, either with the writers or the readers. If we can stimulate interest and thought in current affairs, we will have done our job. We hope we can do it by offering correct facts and carefully thought-out conclusions.
Constructive criticisms will always be welcome. All signed letters to the editor will be printed if space permits.
—Roger Yarrington.
Symington Brings New Type Politics
Pro-James P. Kem newspaper articles, before the election, put out such a barrage of anti-Stuart Symington propaganda that the new Senator-elect appears to be a cigaret-smoking, whisky-drinking, women-chasing, Washington playboy and Wall street flunky.
Instead, Missourians will find Symington the prototype of a successful businessman turned politician. After serving successfully in five different jobs during the last seven years under President Truman, the Massachusetts-born, Maryland-educated, Missouri- adopted Senator will bring a new type of politics to Missouri and Washington.
The new Senator is conservative on most issues; but on labor he is completely New Deal. While heading the Emerson Electric company in St. Louis, he demanded and received a union shop.
He is yet to show his hand on such controversial matters as civil rights, federal aid to education or socialized medicine, but the senatorial campaign has brought out the sharp cleavage between his ideas and those of Sen. Kem.
Sen. Kem always has been a strong isolatist, so strong, that he opposed Gen. Eisenhower's views on international aid. On the other hand, Symington has long fought for a strong foreign policy backed by a large air force.
W. Stuart Symington (for purposes of grass-roots campaigning he had dropped the "W"), received his initial push into government from the late James V. Forrestal. The former secretary of defense asked him to go to St. Louis and see what he could do with the strike bound Emerson Electric company.
Shortly after his arrival on the scene the strikes ceased and the company and union were in full agreement. Before Symington left the company they were netting well over a million dollars.
When President Truman needed someone to handle the disposal of $100 billion in surplus property, he called in Symington. The President had heard about his work in St. Louis and liked the way he handled the unions.
One thing the President was afraid of was more scandal and told Symington so. The new surplus property
administrator immediately got in touch with J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, and told him to investigate the whole bureau. The first job he wanted Hoover to undertake was to investigate him.
Symington moved around quickly in Washington. Before coming to Missouri politics, he was the assistant secretary of the army for air, first secretary of the air force, Secretary Resources board and chairman of the Reconstruction Finance corporation.
Stuart Symington has always been on the move. He was born in Amherst, Mass., in 1901 the son of a well-to-do federal judge. He talked his way into the army during the war. War at the age of 16. Two years later he was discharged to a lieutenant and ready to attack Yale.
At the university he distinguished himself more for his extracurricular activities in sports, campus journalism, and fraternity life than he did in scholarship.
After college he worked briefly for an uncle, didn't like it and quit. In the decade beginning with the mid-twenties, he developed into a journeyman expert in the field of industrial reorganization. He moved in on shaky but promising small enterprises, applied his executive talents to reviving them, and they responded—or failed—moved on to some new business. His fortunes sagged or soared in corresponding ratio.
News Briefs
Paris—It was love, Georges Lefeve told the judge at his trial for helping his wife steal $57,000 from her employers.
"I if I had not done as she said, she would have run off with her lover—and I loved her," Lefevre said.
By UNITED PRESS
Lefevre and his wife, Olga, were sentenced to eight years each.
Spokane, Wash.-Hospital attendant treated 19-year-old Robert Bradley yesterday for the loss of a finger tip.
by Dick Bibler
Little Man on Campus
"I caught it in a slot machine," the youth explained.
London—Buckingham palace has doubled its staff of clock watchers.
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh received so many clocks as wedding gifts that two men instead of one now must spend all day winding the palace clocks.
San Francisco—Victory was bitter for two University of Southern California students who celebrated their team's weekend football victory over Stanford by trying to tip over a cable car.
James Bole, 18, Long Beach, Calif., and Ivan Rose. 22. Los Angeles, were placed on 30 days probation for disturbing the peace. But the judge also "sentenced" them to sing a Stanford song "right here in court."
The youths complied with an insincere chorus of Stanford's "Down on the Farm."
"No more pencils—no more books—no more teachers cross-eyed looks."
UN Boiling . . .
For good reasons, the United States would like to steer clear of the dispute boiling up in the United Nations over Tunisian and Moroccan independence.
U.S. Unable to Avoid Colonialism Dispute
For other reasons, just as pressing, she finds herself an unwilling participant. ___
From his many ventures, Mr. Syringen will bring Missouri a wealth of knowledge on every phase of foreign or domestic affairs. Most of all, he will bring them a definite policy in the Senate; a representation of modern thought on foreign and domestic policy, a representation long lacking in Missouri.
To get into it may mean the loss of much French good will, and even possibly endanger the success of the plan for European unity and a West European army in which France is the key nation.
France has served advance notice she will not recognize United Nations interference in what she reyards as strictly an internal French affair.
It is because of India, Indonesia
On the other hand, having backed France once, the United States feels she cannot do it again. The U.S. has notified France she cannot be accused again of bottling up debate on the natural desires of the Tunisians and Moroccan for complete freedom.
and many of our South American neighbors, and the votes they wield in the U.N., that the United States feels it no longer can go along with the French in resisting the North African debate.
But the French argument is eloquent and makes sense.
—Don Moser
Home rule will be given to the Tunisians and the Moroccans as quickly as they can manage it.
First, they deny that their African policies have been "colonial." There has been no attempt, they say, at racial domination or at economic exploitation.
Meanwhile, using Morocco as an example, they point to the gains made by the native populations with French aid.
In the Moroccan protectorate, the French have built a 25,000-mile highway and a 1,000-mile railway system.
The port of Casablanca ranks fourth among all French ports in volume of shipping handled. The French have built up Moroccan oil and are helping to increase production of tin, zinc and manganese.
The French say they have been pouring about $150 million annually into Morocco's economy, including construction of six dams finished and two building to aid Moroccan agriculture and increase its power output.
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Short Ones
With Harry packing his piano, Margaret packaging her music, and Bess collecting her bridge cards and Spanish lessons, the White House should be roomy enough by Jan. 20 for Ike to move in his golf clubs and fishing pole, and Mamie her paraphernalia to keep her bangs down.
Politicians who had pre-convention training in refusing nonexistant nominations for the presidency, are back in form refusing cabinet posts they have not been offered.