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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1952
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"Two days overdue means fifteen dollars—did you ever stop to think that some other student might like to read this June 1908 issue?"
More Votes for Ike
Strong GOP in Jersey Should Help General
Editor's Note: This is the eleventh in a series of articles on campaigns in key States and its effect on the national political picture in 1952).
ates and Jersey, with Republicans occupying the gubernatorial and
natorial seats, appears ready to cast its electoral votes. Dwight D. Eisenhower's direction in the coming election.
However, many observers doubt whether the general will be as strong in the state as such a Republican vote might indicate.
Strongly in Gen. Eisenhower's corner is Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll. In fact, during the primary races last spring, bitter feeling arose between the governor and Sen. Robert Taft over the former's preference for Gen. Eisenhower.
The Republican senatorial incumbent, Sen. H. Alexander Smith, should do his share in carrying the state into the Republican columns. However, re-election of Sen. Smith won't necessarily mean the addition of a strongly pro-Eisenhower senator to congress.
Directing the campaign for Sen. Smith is Albert V. Hermann, formerly executive director of the Republican national committee and a leader in the re-election campaign of Gov. Driscoll in 1950. Mr. Hermann is a Taft supporter and did not see eye to eye with Gov. Driscoll in the matter of a Republican presidential candidate.
Adding to the uncertainty of a positive Republican victory are the record and prestige of the Democratic senatorial candidate, Archibald S. Alexander. He is, although young (45), well identified in upper governmental circles. Most recently he served as under secretary of the Army.
Candidate Alexander has found that he can't hit at the foreign policy voting record of Sen. Smith. The
senator, although voting a party line 72 per cent of the time on controversial issues, had a reasonably liberal record on most foreign questions.
Sen. Smith voted against an attempt to "hamstring" a presidential action in sending U.S. troops to Europe, against cutting aid to Europe, against cutting the Point Four program, against cutting price and wage controls, and against overriding the President's veto of the McCarran act. Also he voted in favor of more public housing.
Sen. Smith was first appointed to the Senate in 1944 to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. W. Warren Barbour. In 1946 he was elected by a 58.5 per cent vote to return to the Senate.
Candidate Alexander has charged that Republicans are trying to deceive voters on civil rights. He has struck at "miserable Republican voting records" in congress blocking civil rights.
He advocates continued support of the UN; continuance, but on a "decreasing basis," of economic aid to foreign nations, and support of a "balanced national force" and large additional potential.
While the two senatorial contestats battle, only one high state Republican can watch comfortably. That is Gov. Driscoll, whose four-year term expires in 1953.
Bob Stewart
Democrats' 'Security Hit by KU's Young GOP
(Editor's Note: This guest editorial was submitted by a member of the Young Republicans' club and is being run in keeping with the Daily Kansan's policy of presenting both sides of controversial issues.)
We're on the last lap of the 1952 presidential race, just a few weeks from the day you and I will step into the voting booth as Mr Ordinary Citizen to speak quietly and finally—removed from the video, radio, newspapers, and whistle stops. People will think clearly, multiplying their wills by untold new millions to register the disgust, nausea, and horror we feel at what been done to us.
Many voters' thoughts will ramble back to the homely old idea of "a good day's work for a good day's pay," before so many of us sold our self-respect for the Democrats' cure-all—the government check.
Security is one of Mr. Stevenson's themes, with incomes four to six times what they were 20 years ago but with a few incidental taxes thrown in, nothing of real inconvenience, according to the Democrats. Some grouchy old New York Wall Streeters babble about an inflated dollar but these are prattlings of advanced senility. As to the 240 billion dollar national debt, since such a figure is incomprehensible, it logically follows there isn't any danger. Bankruptcy? Not according to the Democrats.
Other millions will wonder at personnel in government: J. Howard McGrath, Owen Lattimore, General Vaughan, Newbold Morris, Alger Hiss, and others. There were mink coats, deep freezes, shoe-shine boys who sold influence, tax scandals, and atom secrets sold to Russia. Yet, "only a minute fraction of government employees are guilty of misconduct," according to President Truman.
Then there's Illinois, a model state, with such glittering examples as Cicero and its contribution to racial harmony, and Chicago, Cook county. Sen. Kefauver left a few red faces after his crime hearings but Jake Arvey was just kidding.
And such tributes to Mr. Stevenson's administration as the Moretti case and the horsemeat scandals. How could anyone seriously question Mr. Stevenson's qualifications to clean up the "mess in Washington?"
Who minds a little war, particularly when it's only a police action with well-defined objectives and a quick armistice in sight? After all, we DID keep out of war nearly 10 years after the last one, really a feather in Mr. Acheson's cap. Or maybe you're not 1-A.
When we vote we'll realize what sort of prosperity we have, propped up on war contracts and national hysteria. We'll know our "security" is a pretty sad working definition with tomorrow's mailman bringing draft notices, or the morning paper telling of a new Korea, another Berlin airlift, more inflation.
After considering the strange manner in which the public has "never had it so good," and the meaning of four more years of Democratic party's security, we think it's about time "they get taken away."
—Glenn Opie
Letters
Editor of the Daily Kansan
The University Daily Kansan continues its one-sided political editorials and news so apparent this semester. This policy should be nipped in the bud.
To begin with, by some editorial mistake the Kansan was decent enough to print the results of a straw poll taken on the campus recently, which showed 2.5 students to every 1 interviewed favored the GOP nominee.
If this poll was not sufficient proof of the political majority on the campus, a brief recital of the students identified with the two national political parties organized on the Hill is in order. Last year's membership of the Young Republicans totaled 360, while the Young Democrats had a bare 50. It should also be quite evident that the state of Kansas is generally considered in the Republican column.
However, in spite of these basic proofs of party preference of the students enrolled in this university, who thru their enrollment fees are
required to subscribe to the University Daily Kansan, our student newspaper continues to be completely, without exception, pro-Democratic.
I don't believe the time-worn theory of editorial freedom can completely justify this situation. In the business world of journalism, for which our editors are assumed to become a part of, the editor who constantly, by his editorials and news reports, identifies his publication as such a pro-Democratic mouthpiece in a community where the Republicans outnumber the Democrats 2.5 to 1, would soon find his subscription falling off as the readers turned to other publications which, at least, give two sides of the political picture.
Such is not the case here. We are required to subscribe to a publication, regardless of it's position on basic political subjects, which is in itself a monopoly.
Surely there are some members of the Republican party, or at least, those who have the ability to make unbiased political observations, on the Kansan's staff, who are able
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Your editorial in the Oct. 14 issue of the Daily Kansan is one of the most unfortunate and misguided bits of trivia I've yet read in our University paper.
As you must know by now, much of what you said in that article is not true.
An editorial can be a powerful and often dangerous means of stirring up a group of people to reactions of one sort and another; but the editorial writer has a grave responsibility. He or she must be sure that all facts are true before placing them in front of the public.
Your statement that "not a single penny has been designated for University housing" shows that you were extremely lax in investigating the question thoroughly before putting it in the paper.
You not only suggested your complete lack of faith in the judgment and ability of our excellent chancellor to comprehend the needs of our University, but you risk a exciting negative reaction against the proposed building program.
The chancellor, being a man who knows what we need, has investigated every angle and aspect of the University's growth and requirements. He knows that a new fine arts building (which you risked killing even before it was conceived) is needed badly.
The proposed building will (or would) remove every vestige of the music department from Strong hall, thereby making the entire third floor of that building available to a rapidly expanding Painting and Design department.
Rooms on the first floor and in the basement of Strong hall would then be available to other departments; language, history, economics etc., which are now so crowded and poorly housed in the temporary structures behind Strong hall.
The new fine arts building also would house the speech and drama department and would include a fine new University theater to accommodate our expansion in that direction. Space would then be open in Fraser for other departments.
Ronald Barnes
University carillonneur
(Editor's Note: At the time the editorial in the Daily Kansan was written, no announcement of plans for housing had been made. As of this month still have been no plans for improved or additional housing for upperclass independent women, the newspaper edited the editorial, and the several letters written to the Daily Kansan by disgruntled students.)
to submit editorials and news articles that are suitable for publication, even to the journalism faculty, whose political bias is only outshown by that of the editorial staff.
Roy Bennett Jr.
2nd year law
Vice-chairman, KU GOP
Murphy, Col. Moore To ROTC Meeting
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Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Col. Lynn Moore, professor of air science, will be among the Air Force ROTC personnel and college administrators from Kansas and Oklahoma participating in an ROTC orientation conference in Alabama today.
More than 115 college presidents, vice-presidents, 60 deans and 118 ROTC professors are expected to participate in the conference which will be held at the Air University, Maxwell Air Force base, Montgomery. Ala.
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