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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 16, 1952
Fair Deal on Trial
by Dick Bibler
Little Man on Campus
"Well. I sell more of my texts when I give 'open-book' quizzes."
Defiance Hurled By Addled Ambler
A capitalistic car-owner stated great astonishment in a recent Daily Kansan editorial over the fact that none of his class had been successful in running over any student for the past six years. That's a low average, but his class has tried.
Mr. Capitalist hurled cutting epithets at the walking proletariat faction on the Hill, saying they were sleep-walking, inattentive, and even too lazy to run across the street.
A few "thoughts" further in his article he calls us "dancing dashers" for attempting to get across the speedline by fits and starts. He's sore because a proletariat brain can outsmart the Olds 98's and Fleetwood Cadillac lumbering over the campus.
We should cross at corners only, he says. Now here I am just out of my painting class at Strong hall and have to walk either to the circle at the Chi O house, where there is no policeman to direct traffic against me for 10 minutes, or trot up to Bailey Chem building.
After I'm across, I walk all the way back to Robinson gym for 50 minutes of badminton. I'm a rat not going to the corner, but I don't.
This diamond-wearing bourbon-drinking, car-racing four-hundred group thinks we, the proletariat walkers, should run across the street so it won't get to the yacht race late or miss any roses at the garden party . . . Where's my violin?
Next we are accused of expecting this Vanderbilt group to read our minds. They claim ability to do graduate work when they can't read second grade words like "STOP" and "SLOW."
Not content with picking on us who have to walk to class in the snow and work extra hours to get taxi money to the Tepee, he said our women are sleepwalkers.
I see some lovely, blue-eyed, five-foot, blonde proletariat female bound by college fashions into a breath-deflating sweater and a leg-binding skirt hobbling across the street.
Dressed so, it takes a woman several minutes to work her way across a collegiate boulevard while her richer girl friends jet by in Lincoln.
Would these capitalists have us dress our women in a yard of red burlap so they can sprint across the Hill race track?
There's a constructive idea here for proletariat men. Think of the girls we can meet rushing up thrusting a red towel in their faces saying, "Honey, don't cross the street without this."
Jerry Renner.
Truman Man Seeks Montana Senate Post
(Editor's Note: This is the 13th in a series dealing with state political campaigns and their effect on the presidential race.)
The senatorial contest in Montana pits Sen. Zales Ecton, Republican incumbent, against a veteran of 10 years in the House of Representatives. Democrat Mike J. Mansfield.
The two candidates seem to be on somewhat equal ground within the state. Each has regional support.
Rep. Mansfield will have to buck Sen. Ecton's popularity in the state's eastern farming regions of Montana. Sen. Ecton was once a farmer in this area himself, and, largely because of his political affiliation with Democratic and Republican nominations for a state senatorial post.
Rep. Mansfield's chances of winning the senatorial seat are good, however, because of his large following in the mining areas in the western parts of the state. He has been endorsed by President Truman
The senatorial race assumed an added importance when President Truman took up the torch for Rep. Mansfield.
On voting issues, however, people of Montana have two highly different records to consider. On some of the most vital pieces of legislation the two candidates disagreed sharply.
In nearly every respect, Sen. Ecton took a dim view of the proposals offered by Democrats. On many important pieces of legislation, however, he was not present to vote.
On the tidelands oil dispute, he voted to uphold a presidential veto affirming the federal ownership of offshore oil and minerals. Sen. Ecton took a somewhat conservative attitude on the same question when he voted against a bill to use federal revenue from these sources for aid to public schools.
Rep. Mansfield, however, voted on nearly every important issue, and took the liberal standpoint.
On issues such as aid to India, bills for cutting public housing appropriations, and the question of whether or not President Truman should use the Taft-Hartley law to stop the steel strike, Sen. Ecton did not cast a vote.
When a proposal to cut the amount of aid allowed under the Point Four program came to a vote, Sen. Ecton was absent. Rep. Mansfield, however, voted against a similar proposal in the House.
Rep. Mansfield took a stand on these questions according to Democratic party lines. He voted against a cut in public housing appropriations, and for a $190 million loan to India. In other questions of major importance, he sided with the administration and against Senn. Ecton.
Montana has not gone Republican for 24 years. If Sen. Ecton should win again, it would show a marked dissatisfaction with the liberal views of the administration as asserted by President Truman and Rep. Mansfield. A trend in this state could be representative of the major portion of the western United States.
If, however, the state of Montana again goes Democratic, it would have the same effect as a vote of confidence for the Truman administration. This would be so because the people would be endorsing Rep. Mansfield's record, which is in actuality a blanket approval of Fair Deal policies.
Letters
Don Nielson
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
The letter submitted by Don Steinberg and published in the October 15 issue of the Kansan was a masterpiece—a masterpiece of unimaginative and reactionary thinking.
His rather well-worn stand upon the so-called "issue" of "free enterprise" was not particularly amazing, in that it is the battle cry of a large percentage of the Republican party, finding itself unable to *fabricate a more reasonable issue.
In setting up James Byrnes and
His position as a "right-thinking patriot" on the states' rights issue, however, is almost incredible. Granted that the rights of the individual states in certain well-defined areas are assured by the United States Constitution, and that it is the duty of the elected representatives of the people to preserve these rights. Mr. Steinberg seems to have forgotten, or at least disregarded, another section of that same Constitution known as the "Bill of Rights," which grants to every individual equality before the law—even in the "solid South."
Herman Talmadge as examples of "outstanding national leaders" and fitting friends for the future President of the United States, Mr. Steinberg has chosen two of the most bigoted and undemocratic men in public office at the present time, who uphold the time-honored Bilbo tradition.
In the name of "states' rights," both of these men have consistently denied a minority group the civil rights that represent the basic ideals of the democratic system--more basic than either "free enterprise" or "states' rights."
Although I do not support Gen Eisenhower, I respect his opinions and the opinions of his supporters in many areas. The advocacy of the rights of the state over the rights of the individual, however, is difficult to swallow and approaches to an alarming extent the totalitarian theory which they so vociferously oppose.
I congratulate the Daily Kansan on its liberal policy of publishing opinions which are in direct opposition to those of its editors.
Mary Williamson
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Not wishing to appear a complete ingrate, I would like to thank the Daily Kansan for the notice of the publication of Upstream. And on the front page too.
However, after personally delivering the story and being called to check on it, I was a bit surprised at the item which appeared in Tuesday's paper.
Somehow the set of Pogo political cartoons in the new Upstream seems to have escaped attention. This seems strange, for, as the Daily Kansan should know, people are deeply interested in Pogo, and the cartoons were intended as one of the more important features of the issue. Or maybe the Daily Kansan doesn't like to share its campus monopoly on Pogo.
While I realize only too well the limitations of space, I feel that we should be fair in mentioning Mr. Lewis' article as well as Miss Landon's.
Editor of the Daily Kansan
Perhaps, in the last analysis, we should express our gratitude to the Daily Kansan. It is apparent that the only way the student can discover what Upstream contains is to read Upstream.
Not only did I find sins of omission, but also sins of emphasis. The import of Lachaise is not that he is an early 20th century sculptor, but that a representative collection of his work is on exhibit at the Museum of Art.
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(Editor's Note: The Daily Kansan is not a publicity outlet for any campus organization. Pogo wasn't mentioned because it appeared inconsequential. We apologize for not having cited Pogo as the most important feature of Upstream.)
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Medical Curriculum Discussed at Meeting
The School of Medicine's curriculum committee meeting in Kansas City Tuesday reached the conclusion that medical students should begin their study of clinical material in their freshman year.
Dr. Paul Roofe, chairman of the anatomy department, said the study was impossible at the KU campus because of lack of clinical material. "We are handicapped here at Kansas by having a divided school." Dr. Roofe said. "Any over-all program has to have all four years highly integrated."
Dr. Roofe also presented the results of a survey of several medical schools which he made this summer.
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