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University Daily Kansan
This is a swan song.
Swan Song Echoed By Fading Editors
Considering the outcome of the election and the clamor caused by our unfortunate siege of irresponsibility, the tenure of the fading editorial staff was an unsuccessful one.
However, we were instrumental in showing the need for better independent student housing. We hope our stepchild will not be hanged high in bickering Council committees and abandoned to a tortuous, gurgling death.
A new method of conducting the Daily Kansan's editorial policy is to be devised. This is well and good. May it never happen again that University authorities should be embarrassed because of the faint whimpering of student journalists. This was never our intention.
Our objective was to breathe a breath of fresh air into an intellectually stagnant student body and to express a point of view that has long needed expression.
Where there is no controversy, there is apathy. Not controversy for the sake of controversy, but dissidence dedicated to intellectual stimulation and careful deliberation.
We are not tools of a political machine, as we have been called by some, and we are not "pinkos," a ready-made label assigned by others. We did not mean to take advantage of our position, if such we did. We were honest in our convictions and presented them as well as our poor talents would allow.
Minority opinion is never a popular one. But it is necessary. It's necessary in the swamps of the South, in the tombs of New York City, in the farm towns of Vermont, in the parlors of Kansas City, in the highlands of Kentucky, and in the wheatfields of Kansas.
This is the pilot light of democracy. To extinguish it is to snuff out our social and political heritage. It is a sobering thought.
We were sincere.
—Chuck Zuegner.
Ives' New York Win No Surprise
The victory of Republican incumbent Sen. Irving M. Ives of New York was a surprise to practically no one. There were few who felt that the Democratic candidate, John Cashmore, unknown borough president of Brooklyn, would even place alongside Sen. Ives.
The strength of Sen. Ives centers in his wide following among the very groups that the Democrats normally could count on. Union leaders consider him far more moderate toward labor than most Republicans and far more knowledgeable as well. Sponsorship of the state FEPC-law made him popular in Harlem.
Sen. Ivens became a senator with the Republican class of 1946, defeating the Democratic incumbent Herbert H. Lehman, a renowned votegetter. He became the first Republican senator from the Empire state in 20 years.
When the Taft-Hartley bill was proposed, Sen. Ives suggested a great many changes. Not all of his suggestions were used, but a great many of the points were straightened out. It was due to this that he became the so-called "editor" of the Taft-Hartley act. He viewed this act as the first step toward a just balance of power between labor, management, and the public interest.
He applied for membership on the Senate committee on labor and public welfare at the start of his Senate career.
In 1947 a new bipartisan fight against discrimination in employment—patterned after New York's anti-discrimination law—was introduced into the Senate by Sen. Ives. His bill defined opportunity for employment as a "civil right" guaranteed by the Constitution.
Sen. Ives' activity in the field of labor legislation in the Senate was a carry-over from his remarkable record in the New York State legislature. His education began on labor-management problems in 1938 when the Legislature set up a joint commission on industrial and labor conditions. He was chosen chairman of the tri-party—Republican, Democratic, and American Labor—committee.
Sen. Ives also found time to push through a state law prohibiting discrimination in employment at about the time Congress was killing off the Fair Employment Practices commission.
The New York senator firmly believes that there is a middle ground
where labor and management can meet for their mutual benefit and the betterment of society as a whole. Management thinks he is too far to the left, while labor believes he is too far to the right.
Chenago county elected Sen. Ivies to the New York State Assembly in 1930. In 1935 he was named Republican minority leader, and in 1936 he became speaker of the Assembly, only to be demoted by a revolt of his fellow Republicans in 1937. Kept in the post of majority leader through the friendship of the speaker who succeeded him, Sen. Ivies started his comeback which led to Washington.
As majority leader he was best known for his efforts to improve industrial and labor relations and to remove racial and religious discriminations in employment practices. He made his reputation in this field as a consistent exponent of the middle road. He did not then, nor does he now, show any sympathy with extremism of either left or right.
The New York senator has become an outstanding member of the liberal Republican bloc which calls its realistic and progressive. It is generally recognized and quite possible that Sen. Ives may emerge as the liberal leader of the Republican party.
One Man's Opinion
—Mary Cooper
Every time the United States elects a new president it runs into the same problem. The American government comes to a virtual standstill for over a month while waiting for the new leader to be inaugurated.
by Dick Bibler
Rv ROGER YARRINGTON
The election results last week have thrown our State Department into an uproar that won't quiet until Gen. Eisenhower takes office. Personnel from Dean Acheson on down to the department's overseas employees are readying their resignations in preparation for the expected house cleaning in January.
Until inauguration day the U. S. will be practically unable to take any major foreign policy steps. The North Korean and Chinese Communists certainly will not make any moves on the armistice problem until they see what comes of Ike's proposed trip to Korea.
A crucial meeting of the 14-member nations of the North Atlantic treaty in Paris next month is to discuss defense progress, new problems, possible revisions and other related problems. Treaty allies will have little faith in the U. S. delegation which will be representing a party soon to leave power.
If we must remain with this system of inefficiency, it is going to be necessary to equip the party in power with a knowledge of the new party's intent so that a smooth transition can be affected.
The best solution would be, of course, a quicker transition with less immediate change than is expected in January. If an emergency should arise between now and then in Iran, Indo-China, Western Europe or Korea the U. S. would find itself in an awkward position. Such a position may be just what the Kremlin is looking for.
Dog Joins Owner in Praver
Memphis, Tenn.—(U.P.)—A cocker spaniel owned by Essie Marquard sits against a footstool with its head down between her paws when Miss Marquard says her prayers.
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Little Man on Campus
"Shot that Putt—throw that—get th' lead out, this ain't no six day bike race ya know."
Gleeful Ike Bettors Collect Their 'Meat'
When the election returns rolled in, some persons had to do a little hard thinking about their big talking.
An Alabama lady had to swallow the front page of a pro-Eisenhower newspaper, and at least one man was getting ready to sample some crow.
All across the country Stevenson backers paid off goofy election bets they had made in optimistic moments.
Carolyn Howard of Montgomery, Ala., wasn't pleased when the Montgomery Advertiser endorsed Eisenhower. She vowed she'd eat the page if the former florist general won the Presidential election.
The jubilant office receptionist baked the pies herself.
Martin Huff Jr., Democratical central committee secretary of Alameda county, Calif., stood still and manfully let Mrs. Anne Holiday smack six pies into his face.
Adlai Stevenson wasn't the only man who lost Tuesday. Those among his partisans who made election bets were still being tortured by gleeful Eisenhower rooters.
When the returns came in Miss Howard burned the front page, stirred the ashes into a cup of black bread and burned a few spoonfuls of the mixture.
"I couldn't stomach any more
she complained, like the last one,
she complemented.
Clyde Vandeburg, executive director of American Heritage foundation, was scheduled to eat crow at noon next Thursday in New York's Times square, if the total ocular vote does not reach 63 million.
The foundation headed a get-out-
the-vote drive and Vandeburg be the total would reach that figure. was due to pay off yesterday, but hedged until next week.
The count today stood at over 58 million.
"Don't forget that the counting is still going on and that the soldier votes still have to be tabulated in various states," he said.
In Chicago, Adolph Renucci made the mistake of betting with a tough competitor—his wife. She made him eat 10 pounds of spaghetti.
Joe Pruitt, chef at the Winthrop hotel in Tacoma, Wash., traded in his cook's uniform for a waitress's outfit--skirt, blouse and all-and served meals in the dining room. If Stevenson had won the election, the waitresses would have had to cook.
Daniel Stevenson, a Los Angeles auto salesman, backed the candidate of the same name and ended up carrying his boss. C. Earl Stoner, half a mile.
Jim Lapp, an Ohio State university student, pushed a potato 9 yards down a campus sidewalk. He took him one hour and 30 minutes.
An actor's face is his fortune, but James Gavin had to get his skimmed up to push an "I Like Ike" button one block along Main street in Houston, Tex. Gavin, who appears at the Houston Playhouse theatre, was the victim of actress Alta McKay.
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