Editorial Sorry to Differ With You, Sir! With due humility and respect to our journalistic elders and their Republican sort of wisdom, the editorial writers of the Daily Kansan should like to take issue with an editorial statement appearing in yesterday's Lawrence Daily Journal-World. It implied that the Chicago-born editor-in-chief of the Daily Kansan was a tool of Jake Arvey and that the student paper did not accurately reflect student opinion as registered in Tuesday's campus presidential poll which gave Eisenhower a 2-1 majority. president palmyra will be at one time it wasn't a sin or a crime to come from Chicago even though Jake Arvey lived there. But with the hysteria created by the election, guilt by association has devolved into guilt by implication. It so happens the Daily Kansan editor, for the most part, has lived in Kansas since 1944. That the editorial policy of the Daily Kansan is not in tune with campus political sentiment happily reflects the situation in Chicago where a Democratic-inclined community is burdened with four daily newspapers supporting a Republican candidate for President. The bane of contemporary American journalism is the one-newspaper town and its monopoly of opinion which clogs the people's intellectual machinery. If newspaper editorials serves as electoral votes, there would have been no Roosevelt, no Truman, and Eisenhower would be elected by a 3-1 majority. Fortunately, the din caused by these loud and prosperous journals also is not always in tune with the public's political sentiment. Is the Journal-World apoplectic at our collegiate whisper? Safe Issues Mark Political Platforms A foreigner, knowing nothing about this country's politics, might look at the platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties with amazement, and wonder why an election is going to be held. "After all," he might say, "both parties seem to be promising the same thing." He would be right. Except for methods of reaching their ends, both parties show great similarities in their platforms. The wording of the two platforms is different. The Democrats say that we already have almost everything that they are promising us, while the Republicans say that they are going to give us everything the Democrats have been promising for years. According to these platforms the people of the United States should be in for a minor Utopia. The aged will have more money; the veterans will have more benefits; we won't have to worry about high health bills; the mail users will have more deliveries; the United Nations will be stronger, and tax cuts will make living cheaper. Neither party has forgotten the powerful farm vote; soil conservation will be boomed; farmers will receive full parity prices; flood controls will be greater, and there will be more rural power. Our hypothetical foreigner might ask just what does all this mean. In plain language, it means that both parties are throwing their full support behind "safe" issues. "We love the people and we'll help them all." No one can fight this kind of party propaganda. Our foreign friend will have to look closer at the major issues to see where the split is. As an example, both say that they are going to have a strong foreign policy in matters relating to Russia. There are two ways to do it—the Republicans will try it by strength and fear, and the Democrats by negotiation. Both parties are going to help the nions in their own way. The Democra- tons want to repeal the Taft-Hartle- ley act, while the Republicans want to amend it. Civil rights, a touchy subject in election year, seems to be headed for federal control. The Democrats, pulling no punches, came out for FEFC. The GOP has hedged around by saying that the power should be in the hands of the states, IF they can handle it. Both parties are made up of many factions, each seeking its own end. These platforms must suit both employers and workers, isolationists and internationalists, northerners and southerners, farmers and factory workers. Each one of these factions must be able to look at their party's platform and be reassured that they have not been left out in the cold. A light filters through to our friend. "Politics," he says "of course, these promises mean nothing." There you have us stumped, friend. How many of them will be carried out and how many will fall into the political backwash is something only time will tell. —Don Moser. We here at the University feel we have a parking problem but the University of Oklahoma has another kind. This one doesn't pertain to cars, however. OU students who have used the round concrete bench in the University park for a favorite place to relax will find a new innovation. Some enterprising personal dug up in the middle or near it right in the middle of the bench. The poor campus Romeo will now find his time limited to one hour and 10 minutes. Little Man on Campus Page 2 University Daily Kansan Fridav. Oct. 31, 1952 by Dick Bibler "If you can't answer a student's question, after this, just try to look intelligen gent and ask him to look it up for himself and make a report on it." Ike, Adlai Disagree On Taft-Hartley Revision Gov. Stevenson and Gen. Eisenhower have taken definite stands on labor issues. In a Labor day speech in Detroit Gov. Stevenson went on record for scrapping the Taft-Hartley law rather than merely modifying it because of its ugly symbolism. He does not, however, think the Taft-Hartley law is a "slave labor" law. The government, in such cases, must intervene to stop the strike and settle disputes. The new law should report the issues to the public, create better mediation between the parties, keep disqualification from White House, if possible. It should have seizure provisions geared to circumstances, Gov. Stevens said. Gov. Stevenson put forth five principles for a new labor law. It would have to accept labor unions, like employer corporations, as representatives of the members; it must remember to standards of fair conduct and equal protection in exercise of their stewardship. Unfair bargaining practices by corporations and unions would be outlawed. This would include jurisdictional strikes and boycotts that attempt to force one employer to deal with a union. Point four of the law would reject the labor injunction, for Gov. Stevenson believes employees should not be ordered back to work. Lastly, new methods must be found for national emergency disputes. "The right to bargain collectively does not include the right to stop the national economy," Gov. Stevenson said. In a press conference, Gov. Stevenson said other devices should be used besides the injunction to keep labor disputes from the White House. These would include cease-and-desist orders or criminal pro- cedeeds for unfair-labor practice cases. Addressing the AFL convention, Gen. Eisenhower said he doesn't want arbitrary power over labor or industry. Freedom gives men the right to strike, but things can be done to settle disputes without strikes. He said the Federal Mediation and Conciliation services has failed. The government must stimulate collective bargaining in national emergencies. Gen. Eisenhower went on record as favoring amending but not repealing the Taft-Hartley law. He said he would ask everyone's advice in amending the law. He told the AFL he stood for encouragement of collective bargaining and the right to strike, but thought advance notice should be given before a strike is called. Both sides should be required to live up to their contract and union members should get union financial reports, like said. He reminded the group again that he would amend the part of the T-H law that was capable of destroying the union's power. The general thought employers should take the loyalty oath. Jerry Renner After last week's game it looks like Oklahoma students will have a vacation every Monday. One Man's Opinion By ROGER YARRINGTON BY ROUGH The Republican party is conducting a campaign centered around a "systematic program of innuendo and accusations," Gov. Adalie Stevenson charged in a recent speech. Gov. Stevenson added that the program was being led by the Republican party's candidate for vice president. He was referring to Sen. Nixon's recent insinuations in calling attention to the deposition made by Gov. Stevenson as a character witness in the Alger Hiss trial. During this trial, the governor was asked to write a sworn testimony regarding the defendant's reputation. In his deposition the governor said he had been told Hiss's reputation for integrity, loyalty, and veracity was "good." He did not testify on the innocence or guilt of Alger Hiss. Sen. Nixon, a lawyer himself found fault with the absentee testimony and has used it to hint at Gov. Stevenson's loyalty. "It will be a sorry day for American justice when a man, particularly one in public life, is too timid state what he knows about a defendant in a criminal trial for fear the defendant might be later convicted." Gov. Stevenson replied. It is significant that the pro Eisenhower New York Times has defended the governor's action as has a group of 22 lawyers, many of whom are like men. Another move in the "systematic program" was taken Monday night when Sen. McCarthy made his "expose" of the governor's alleged Communist affiliations. The senator was not satisfied with trying to brand only the candidate as a Communist but also swung at his advisers, including James A. Wechler and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Denouncing Nixon and McCarthy campaign tactics the governor has said, "I believe with all my heart that those who would beguile the voters by lies or half-truths, or corrupt them by fear and falschool, are committing spiritual treason against our institutions for they are surely doing the work of their enemies." It is evident that the "crusade" for integrity in government which Gen. Eisenhower set out to lead is drawing farther and farther from its goal. It is difficult to see how a man or party can conduct a responsible government when it cannot even conduct a responsible campaign. Goldfish swallowing has returned to the campus of Penn State. In a drive to raise money for a little Rhode Island boy convalescing from polio, a Penn State student swallowed a wiggling goldfish. The stunt collected an additional $20 for the fund. Better than 180 campus papers across the country run Richard N, Bibler's. University graduate, cartoon series "Little Man on the Campus". Seems that the Universities are really taking to the trials of Professor Snarf and Worthal. NEWS STAFF Daily Hansan News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 321 International Editorial Assistant, Infand Daily Press Assn., Associated Collegiate Press Assn., Service, 420 Madison Avenue. N. Y., City EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Chuck Zueger Editorial Assistants Bob Stewart, Jerry Hodgson Jacqueline Jones Managing Editor... Charles Burch Asst. Mgr Editor... Loretta Barlow, Linda Barlow, Dianne Diamond CINEMAS & SHORES City Editor Phil Newman Society Editor Mary Cooper Sports Editor Bob Longstaff Ast. Sports Editors Don Nisslon Keys Thomas Telegraph Editor Max Thompson Picture Editor Don Moser Artist Mark Hersh BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ... Frank Liese Advertising Mgr. ... David Arthurs Sales Mgr. ... Michael Jenkins Circulation Mgr. ... Virginia Maiden Classified Ad. Mgr. ... Patricia Vance Promotion Mgr. ... Ebert D. 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