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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 6, 1952 Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
Editorials
KU Voters Choose Losing Man Twice
When it comes to predicting election winners, University students ought to hang their heads in shame.
In polls taken by the Daily Kansan before the 1944 and 1948 national elections, KU students showed a preference for Thomas E. Dewey and the Republican party both times, while the nation elected Democratic candidates in each event.
A third chance to pick the election winner will be given students this year in the Daily Kansan political preferential poll, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 28.
Results of this year's poll are anybody's guess so far, but if the students run true to form they will elect as winner of its poll the man who actually will lose in the national election.
University vote results echoes the preferences of the state of Kansas in the past two elections, but unfortunately Kansas preferred the losing candidate both times.
In 1944 a Daily Kansan poll revealed that 61 per cent of the students favored Gov. Dewey, compared with the 33.8 per cent who cast votes for the fourth term re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. About four per cent of the voters favored Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate.
Four years later a Kansan poll showed that 63 per cent of the student body backed Gov. Dewey in his second attempt for the nation's top executive spot.
President Truman polled about the same percentage of student votes as his Democratic predecessor, garnering 33 per cent. The remainder of the vote, 4 per cent, was divided between Henry Wallace. Progressive party candidate, and J. Strom Thurmond, candidate of the States Rights party.
Thus, in two elections, student voters struck out miserably.
Voters of the nation overwhelmingly returned FDR to the presidency about a week later, and University voters had struck out in their first time at bat.
What is decidedly worse than the poor prediction is that such a small percentage of students took part in the election. In each case, not more than 1,000 cast their ballots.
The prevalent attitude probably is that the polls "don't mean anything." In terms of electing the next president, the poll doesn't mean anything.
But in another sense, the poll is important. It is laboratory work in good citizenship. Professors can dish out all sorts of theory on how a student must eventually fulfill his civic obligations but they never can develop a student's habit in being a good citizen. This the student must do himself.
Another important aspect to the question is that the results of this poll are carried by newspapers throughout the state and in bordering areas. The preference of students at the University of Kansas might very well influence other voters who look to well-informed collegians for leadership they must eventually assume.
The first point then, is to be informed. Next, exert your right to vote and execute that leadership. —Bob Stewart.
One of the hardest things in the world to sell must be the prearranged funeral plan.
Badger State Likes Joe
(Editor's Note: This is the fifth of a series written to acquaint students with personality involved in key states and their impact on the big picture in 1852.)
McCarthy Appears Sure Of Victory in Wisconsin
The man facing Sen. Joe McCarthy in the November election for the Wisconsin Senate seat is in trouble because of what political analysts call the "Joe McCarthy vs. Joe Stalin" race.
They refer to the Sept. 9 primary election won by a McCarthy landslide.
Despite the host of anti-McCarthy voters and promoters elsewhere, the overwhelming victory of the senator in the primary may be an indication that fear of communists in high places has become real to the people and that communist-hunting delivers votes.
Sen. McCarthy had what appeared to be adequate opposition. His opponent, Leonard F. Schmitt, was especially vigorous in his campaign—complete with a series of "talkhons" sometimes lasting 26 hours at a stretch and containing frequent quotations from the "McCarthy Record," a booklet prepared by the Wisconsin Citizens committee, a non-partisan group.
But the important fact is that when the smoke had cleared, "everybody" had voted for McCarthy, including a great many Democrats who had voluntarily crossed party lines, a situation made possible by Wisconsin primary laws.
Adding nothing to the McCarthy cause were most of the Badger state's newspapers, who continued to attack him as usual—not to mention a great many national publications.
Sen. McCarthy's unprecedented majority included every county except two as nearly a million voters in all 53 states, a record number for Wisconsin.
For the record, Sen. McCarthy's opponent in the November race—Thomas E. Fairchild—has a liberal background in Wisconsin politics, Sen. McCarthy, of course, has a much different record, opposing the "troops to Europe" measure and the bill proposing tidelines oil revenue for public schools, while voting for cuts in both the Point Four program and prices and wages.
He carried wards in Milwaukee where labor is strong, and defeated his main (there were seven) opponents by about three to one margin in receiving 536,772 votes to his combined opposition's 429,111
Also prominent is the fact that Sen. McCarthy carried rural and metropolitan districts, without re- tending to racial or religious bound-aries.
Sen. McCarthy reportedly worried little in campaigning for the recent primary, standing fast on his three-
year record of "McCarthyism."
A seemingly typical attitude of the pro-MeCarthy voter was, "We know Joe's no angel, but he's the only one who's making a try at getting the Reds out of our government." This may demonstrate that the voters of usually liberal-minded Wisconsin still consider communist infiltration of Washington important when they step into the voting booth.
Meanwhile, Mr. Fairchild, the senator's opponent, is a former attorney-general and presents a striking personality contrast to the Red-hating senator. He is a quiet, mild-mannered one-time U.S. district attorney, who is not a good political speaker, partly because he hasn't the "ham" technique that some lawmakers have. Mr. Fairchild is a student of law and would be more in his element on the court bench.
He won the Democratic primary over Henry S. Reuss, a Milwaukee lawyer, by less than 3,000 votes. From here on out, Mr. Fairchild's work is cut out for him.
Insurmountable or not, a good many scars will have to be healed in jig time if the Wisconsin Democrats are to forge a dangerous, united campaign against Sen. McCarthy—plus the fact that people in Wisconsin seem to like McCarthy's "fight for America."
James E. Doyle, Wisconsin Democratic chairman, says Mr. Fairchild—"now that everything's cleaned up"-will have no worse than a 60-40 handicap, which he terms "not insurmountable."
From here it looks unusually unpromising for Mr. Fairchild.
Phil Newman
Governor to Speak To Medical Alumni
Gov. Edward F. Arn will be the speaker at the annual dinner meeting of School of Medicine alumni at Hotel President in Kansas, Ctvy, Mo.
Classes of 1912 and 1932 will be honored. The meeting will coincide with the Southwest Clinical conference.
News Briefs
By UNITED PRESS
Harrison. N. J.-Walk into St. John's Lutheran church anytime from 7 a.m., until 7 p.m., and you will find a real juke box with a fancy red top and a line of push buttons. The music is free.
All of the selections are hymns, psalms and short sermons. The joke box was put there for those who like hymns as a background for prayer, or who like to hear biblical readings.
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Pittsburgh, Pa.-Two city motor patrolmen today had a bone to pick.
While cruising in a squad car yesterday, they suddenly became victims of a blowout of the left rear tire. A close inspection showed the cause of the blowout was a well-chewed T-bone.
Edwards Adams said yesterday the woman tossed the purse to the floor and "stomped" on it.
New York—A customs inspector at Idlewild airport said he told a woman inbound from Germany that her purse must be stamped.
--ant, Post Office under act of March 3.1879.
Mr. Zokoski heard a horn toot near police headquarters and remarked: "Hey, that's my horn."
Detroit—Police held Curtis Jackson, 30, on suspicion of auto theft today because of Patrolman William Zokoski's keen hearing.
He ran to the car and found Jackson leaning over the dashboard. Zokoski said Jackson apparently was trying to cross the ignition wires to start the car without a key. Jackson said he was only resting there.
Short Ones
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The last name listed in the Detroit telephone directory is Zeke Zzzpt.
The women's Republican club of Cheboygan, Mich., has engaged a roving baby-sitter for Nov. 4 to enable its members to vote.
The citizens of Spies, N.C., consider themselves loyal America. So do the people of Allreds in adjacent Montgomery county.
University zoologists traveled a long way to bring back seven lemmings. They could have saved themselves a lot of time and trouble by visiting a couple of Lawrence's rooming houses.
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Wives of married students now can speak Swahili when they ask their husbands where they were the night before. Just say "Yuko wapi we usiku kesho?" Only the Daily Kansan brings you this service.
A New York cabbie has decided to go to jail rather than pay income tax on his tips, claiming the money is a gift. They've got him there too—the gift tax.
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