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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 3, 1952
If You Vote For The General You Vote For This
FACTS, Pach Outline Party Policies
FACTS
It was our desire that you be able to select class officers on the basis of those you thought could do the best job. Since the opposition voted down this suggestion, you can accomplish the same end by considering each candidate's merits instead of judging by which party primary he or she happened to win.
But in selecting your ASC representative, you will want to consider not only each candidate's personal merit, but also which party he or she represents, since the ASC representative is elected to carry out a party's principles and program.
Well then, what does a vote for the FACTS ASC candidate mean?
1. It means that you approve of our party, which is trying through its open-to-everyone policy and through positive action, to represent the best interests of all KU students.
2. It means that you approve these guiding principles of FACTS;
Campus politics based upon issue lines, not residence lines.
Claiming the power offered the ASC by the chancellor through genuine representation of all campus groups and through high quality, meaningful legislation;
The right for you to express personally your ideas and cast your vote in an open, non-secret party meeting;
Selection of party candidates by letting anyone run in the primary.
3. It means that you approve the measures we have secured; Committee to study and correct working students' employment and wage problem; committee to study and correct a lack of opportunities among minority groups; committee to inspect rental housing.
A Do-Something party in the ASC
4. It means that you approve of the measures we intend to secure;
a. Committee to obtain more money from the legislature for student housing.
b. Student inspection and rating of all student housing.
c. Attainment of an exam-free study day during final week.
Pachacamac
Much has been said about the corruptness of the Pachacamac party, its deals and its point system. We do not deny that these things were once true. Several years ago the necessity for a change in policy became evident. In answer to this the party began to show new life and interest and elected, with the aid of N.O.W and F.O.R., all the class officers and enough student council representatives to have a majority of one in the council. This year the interest once again has increased as is shown by the Freshman primaries in which we out voted the opposition by 437 to 178.
To go a step further, Pachacamac now has a bill before the All Student Council to abolish the closed primary which caused some of the qualified students of the University much grief because they were not able to vote in the freshman primary. Does a student's judgement improve because he signs a petition to vote? We think not.
In line with this service we elected Bill Wilson as president of the All Student Council. He has already shown that although hampered by blanket voting of the opposition along party lines and by unfavorable publicity at times, his sole aim is to work toward the betterment of the student body as a whole and of the University rather than to support the wishes of a few.
Pachacamac has been a political party on this campus for more than 30 years. During this time it has watched the rise and fall of many less fortunate political parties. Such an outstanding record is made possible only by the representative system of government on which Pachacamac is based and on the service which it has given the students it represents.
We defy anyone to connect a point system with the present Freshman elections—there is none! In a recent advertisement we defined the Inner Circle of Pachacamac as those people who represented groups of twenty or more individuals and who met to discuss and carry out the wishes of those people. At this time we would like to ask, "What is the FACTS tribunal and who do they represent?"
d. Selection of class officers on a basis of merit, without party labels.
Byrnes, Talmadge No Credit to Ike
In a recent edition of the Daily Kansan a letter was printed that said Gen. Eisenhower should be judged by his friends and associates.
The writer of the letter picks, as two of Gen. Eisenhower's friends, Gov. James Byrnes of South Carolina and Gov. Herman Talmadge of Georgia. These are the men by whom we are supposed to judge Gen. Eisenhower.
There are many things, good and bad, that can be said about Jimmie Byrnes, and perhaps if one were a dyed-in-the-wool Georgian, one might find something good to say about howlin' Herman.
The letter writer's contention is that these are both great men, because they stand strongly on the idea of states' rights. The way the writer describes these stands should change every northern Eisenhower vote to one for Gov. Stevenson.
In Georgia, the federal authorities had the nerve to investigate lynching. Now if Georgia wants to have a good old-fashioned lynching, Gov. Talmadge will see that his people get their state's rights and are allowed to amuse themselves any way they wish.
Gov. Byrnes was horrified when he heard that there was going to be a non-segregation law passed in the public schools. The governor threatened to dismantle the whole school system rather than allow the law to contaminate his state.
We're sorry Mr. Letter Writer, our stomach is not strong enough to picture the general in the White House simply because he is supported by these two "fine men."
Both parties have offered reasons why the voters should back them at the polls. This is a new one! The above argument sounds like the hate-Eisenhower propaganda that came out before the convention.
—Don Moser.
News Briefs
Dunn, N.C.-Carbine Williams who invented the Army's M-1 carbine, nursed a bullet wound today, the result of an experiment with a new kind of pistol.
Williams, who invented the rifle which made him famous while he was in state penitentiary, was experimenting in his workshop at Godwin. N.C., when a bullet discharged and struck him in the leg. His condition was reported as good in a hospital here.
By UNITED PRESS
Pontiac, Mich. -Authorities were searching today for deer poachers who used a bow and arrow to shoot two tame deer on a private game reserve near here.
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W. C. Cornett, a wild life enthusiast who owns the game reserve, and Warren Kendall, a conservation officer, said they reconstructed the crime after finding blood and hair on a fence and a bloody arrow nearby. The illegal hunters apparently dragged the carcasses of the deer over the fence after shooting them within the preserve.
Comments
The University of North Carolina is celebrating its 159th anniversary this year. One of the traditions of this great university is the reenacting in pantomime each year of the laying of the cornerstone of Old East on Hope Chapel Hill, site of the University.
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Penn State's most famous cow, "Penstate Veeman Josie", a purebred Holstein that brought rekhnent to that college, died at State College, Pa., four months before she would have reached her 20th birthday. Death, as you might guess, was attributed to old age.
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One of the highlights of the Oklahoma A&M homecoming was the appearance of Allie Reynolds, who pitched the New York Yankees to the American league pennant and helped them in their World Series victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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