University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1952 --- Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler (Editor's Note: This is the sixth of a series of articles written to acquaint students with the topics and personalities involved in key states and their impact on who will be in 52). Political Machine Falters When Tom Mechling, 31-year-old journalist, turned politician and won the Nevada U. S. Senate primary Sept. 2, he disproved what most Americans believe is a natural law—that the individual citizen doesn't have a chance against a political machine. Journalist Proves Point By Winning Primary Mr. Mechling, until seven months ago a Washington reporter, believed people vote for certain candidates because they are given no other choice. He and his wife saved $7,600 in two years to finance his theory. Since his Army days in 1945, Mr. Mechling voted in the Nevada elections by absentee ballot. He decided to take his savings and run against former State Attorney Alan Bible, chosen candidate of Sen. Pat McCarran, Democratic boss of Nevada. Political experts told him he hadn't a chance against Mr. Bible, Sen. McCarran's heir presumptive, much less the McCarran machine. Mechling and his wife toured the state in a house trailer for seven months, seven days a week, 18 hours a day talking to an estimated 60,000 persons. He came out for FEPC, federal powers, and the administration's foreign policy. He said Mr. Bible was a machine man, and that Sen. McCarran was getting too conservative for a Democrat—a fact on which many Democrats agree. Sen. McCarran's Senate record beginning in 1933 shows that he has seldom voted with the Roosevelt or Truman administration. The 76-year-old senator, a leader in the silver bloc, has attempted for years to get silver designated as the monetary metal of the U.S. and the world. He is the co-author of the McCarran - Walter Emigration act which has been widely condemned for discriminatory restrictions. Campaign speeches by Mr. Bible and Sen. McCarran amounted to no more than calling Mr. Mechling "a brash young unstart." Sen. McCarran broke a 19-year precedent to campaign for his man. This did little good, for Mr. Mechling won with 15,915 votes to Mr. Bible's 15,251. Nevada Republicans believe their candidate, incumbent George Malone, will have an easy victory over Mr. Mechling. Some expect Sen. McCarran to throw his influence behind Sen. Malone since the two agree on most issues. Mr. Bible has said he would support Mr. Mechling. The neo-politician, who literally forced his way into politics, proved his point that professional politicians don't always give the American public the candidates they wish. Interpretative Article Socialists Endanger West European Unity If present plans and hopes for the unity of Europe fail, a great deal of responsibility will lie with a breed of politicians which we in the United States find hard to understand. Their views coincide in many ways with the views of Communist Russia with one very important difference. They take no vows of allegiance to the Kremlin. In general, they favor closer relations with Soviet Russia, including an Short Ones Time magazine's picture of Sen. Nixon crying on Sen. Knowland's shoulder makes some people think he will have to grow up before he is ready for a big boy's job. ★ ★ ★ It was appropriate that Nixon's television speech originated in Hollywood. The Kansas City Star reports Eisenhower cigarettes are outselling Stevenson cigarettes. This proves that either most smokers are Republicans or that most Democrats would like to see Eisenhower burn. Passing the campus football rally Friday on the way to a treacherous physiology exam, the guy next to me asked me if I was going to flunk the exam just in time to get a resounding "Hell yes!" from several hundred students. - * * We can take all the political hoopla being tossed out by the respective parties but we draw the line when it comes to smoking "I Like Ike" or "Stevenson for President" cigarettes. They're carrying this bribery thing too far. Now the VFW wants Eisenhower to give back his Russian medals. - * * KU has either got a good-looking crop of freshman girls or there was a lot of face-lifting done over the summer. early four-power conference for a unified Germany. But, within their own boundaries, they are all communities' bitterest loses. They advocate the welfare state and government ownership of basic industries. But they also cling to the same sort of extreme nationalism which led to two world wars between 1914 and 1939 and which could again break Europe down into a series of armed camps, each behind its own steel barricade. Their strength should not be under-estimated. In Britain this week, left-wing socialist leader Aneurin Bevan won a stunning victory over former Prime Minister Clement Attlee. His candidates won seats in the Labor party's executive committee over Herbert Morrison, another veteran socialist. The Bevanites seek to reduce Britain's rearmament program and want a foreign policy more independent of the United States. Both Mr. Morrison and Mr. Dalton were members of the conservative labor wing. If not actually in power, socialists parties at least hold the balance in Britain, France, West Germany, Belgium, Austria and Italy. In Britain, France and West Germany it also may be said that whatever their motives, their program is such as to wreck either any hope for a unified Western Europe or any possible defense against Russian aggression—UP. Not Hard to Collect Memphis, Tenn.—(U.P.)W h e n Jeanette Colbrunn decided to go in for autograph collecting she did it the easy way. That was a year ago and she already has several hundred of the world's top signatures. She just writes famous people and asks for their autographs. Very few refuse. One Man's Opinion By CHUCK ZUEGNER BY CHUCK The president of the United States will gain that office not by the popular vote of the people, but by a majority of electoral votes. One electoral vote is distributed to each state for each representative of that state in Congress. The plurality of popular votes within a state entitles the candidate to all of its electoral votes. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives and 96 senators, totaling 531 congressmen, and an equal number of electoral votes. A majority of 266 votes is necessary for election. In 1948 President-elect Harry Truman received 305 electoral votes, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey got 189 votes, and J. Strom Thurmond received 37. A redistribution of electoral votes, based on population changes, gives the western bloc of states an increase of eight electoral votes the expense of eastern and border states. If the election is close, this change might be important. The strategy of the respective parties is this: The Democrats hope to retain their 305 votes, plus the 37 southern votes of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina. No Dixiecrat candidate is running this year. The Republicans, on the other hand, plan to keep their 189 votes, and secure Washington. Idaho, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, California, and possibly Illinois. This would give them 316 electoral votes, 50 more than needed to win. Theoretically, on these states hinges the election. Of course, a lot of things could happen to upset this strategy. Texas is still a question mark, even though the Stevenson men don't seem too worried about it. New York might dislike Ike. California, with its own senator on the ticket, probably will turn Republican but it is still classified in the "if" column. The Democrats are somewhat scared about Illinois, where President Truman gained bare plurality in 1948, although Gov. Stevenson swamped his opponents in the gubernatorial contest by 300,000 votes. U.S.Faces Dilemma in UN American diplomacy faces one of its sharpest tests in recent years at the United Nations General Assembly session opening in New York October 14. United States diplomats are confronted with the problems of settling the Korean war and satisfying demands of rising colonial-nationalism throughout the world. They must stick to the traditional American position for self-determination without grievously offending any of our major allies. Korea, Africa, and world politico-economics will be the major issues of the assembly session, which is expected to continue at least until Christmas. Russia is expected to launch a diplomatic offensive immediately. If its Chinese Communist and North Korea allies reject the latest Panmunjom peace proposals, the Soviet attitude on the Korean war can be expected to be tough. The U.S. is committed by international obligation and public opinion to an honorable conclusion of the Korean war, continuing the fighting if armistice efforts fail. In the prosecution of the war, it is chiefly dependent upon its major allies who also are linked to it in agreements such as the North Atlantic treaty. One of the chief of these is France. The nationalist movement is focused in French Tunisia and Morocco and reflected in other countries such as Iran and Egypt. Traditionally, the U.S. favors self-determination of peoples but cannot afford to offend its allies many of whom, goaded by the Russians, consider colonialism a greater evil than Communism. Until the drain of rearmament and the Korean War slacks off, the U.S. cannot give further aid to many countries hitherto considered firmly entrenched in the American camp. Russia can be expected to utilize fully any opportunity to increase unrest among these countries and encourage their deflection from American leadership. Complicated by the fact that the presidential election comes in the middle of this maneuvering, this is the dilemma confronting Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the State Department as the assembly opens—U.P. It used to be a man would rather be right than be president. Now he'd rather be president. - * * Understand a new book is to be published soon entitled "Lawrence Confidential." All contributions accepted. 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