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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 29, 1952 Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
Sparkman-Nixon Voting Compared
It is extremely difficult, almost impossible, to appraise the past record of the two presidential candidates.
It is true they have, for the most part, been outspoken on their views of the grave issues of our day. But because the one, the Republican general, is a newcomer to the political scene, and because the other, the Democratic governor, has had no legislative experience, we cannot compare actual voting records to determine how the two stand, or stood, on various important legislation this past year.
Not so with the vice-presidential aspirants, who are both members of the Senate.
There are nine important issues on which Senator Nixon and Senator Sparkman disagreed during the 82nd Congress. These nine indicate to some extent the points of divergence between the two, and if logic is brought to bear, between their running-mates.
The issues under consideration are complex, involving amendments and ramifications. In general, here is the way the contending candidates voted:
Sparkman Nixon
For...Against—construction of more public housing.
For... Against—administration's plan to reorganize internal revenue bureau on a civil service basis.
revenue bureau on a civil service basis.
For...Against—a bill to train more doctors and nurses for armed services abroad.
For...Against—federal income from offshore oil revenue to aid the nation's schools.
For...Against—the removal of discriminatory clauses from the restrictive McCarran Immigration Act.
Against For...—a Congressional request that President Truman use powers of injunction in the steel strike.
Against. For... — a bill prohibiting the OPS from establishing effective meat price control.
Against. For...U.S. sending grain to India with the provision that India supply us with strategic materials.
Against.For...—cut in Point 4 program.
—Chuck Zuegner.
(Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of student-written articles on election campaigns in key states. The series is being carried by the Daily Kansas in an effort to acquaint students with issues and individuals in both state elections and the presidential race, and to show relation of these races to the question of who will win in $2.)
Texas Jumble Imperils Two Party System
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, by his refusal to play politics, may have lost the support of the organized politicians in Texas, but by demonstrating his unswerving conviction on important political questions, may have won over a good many of the nation's independent voters.
Texas, because of its all-important 24 electoral votes, holds a position as a key state in the election of the next president. However, Stevenson has ignored this point in order to remain firm in his stand on the tidelands oil controversy.
When he made his position clear on the tidelands question, Stevenson was refused the support of the Texas Democrats, who then endorsed Eisenhower.
Texans in general, and Gov. Allan Shivers in particular, feel that control of the oil-bearing coastal shelf should fall to the state. Governor Stevenson disagrees. He believes that these resources should be under the sole control of the federal government.
The Democratic organization was divided into three camps when the time came to back a candidate. The loyalist Democrats, who wanted to back Stevenson and Sparkman, were opposed by those who wanted Eisenhower and Nixon to head the Democratic ticket, and by those who wanted Stevenson on the ballot but who wanted to back Ike.
The compromise group, the quasi-Democrats who wanted to back like but who didn't want to bolt to the seat of the nation's sonn's name from the ballot, won.
Thus, independent voters who do not feel themselves strongly concerned with the tidelands question, or who favor federal control, or who just like Stevenson, will have a
fair chance to register their opinions in November.
Of course, with Eisenhower being backed by both parties in the state, he becomes the first Republican to stand a good chance to carry Texas since Hoover carried it in 1928. Ike's popularity in Texas always has been great, anyway.
Another face of the Democratic agreement to back Eisenhower in Texas is shown in the Republican agreement to back State Attorney General Price Daniel, a Democrat, for state senator. It's only a pity some of this two-party harmony can't be reflected on the presidential campaign as a whole.
A group of the anti-Stevenson Democrats in Texas has made an attempt to form a third, or "Texas Democratic" party, with Ike and Nixon backed by the same presidential electors as the Republican ticket. This move was quickly quelled by the action of pro-Stevenson Democrats, who got a temporary court injunction restraining the act.
—Don Nielsen
A 99-year-old Kansan has given up driving his automobile after 37 years without a mishap. He's the type of man that needed.
The soft coal strike was averted when Harry Moses, chief negotiator for the coal producers, and John L. Lewis reached an agreement. Moses moved another mountain.
When asked by a judge why he abducted two policemen, George Heroux, one of the most wanted criminals in the nation, said, "I didn't want to go back to Kansas." The feeling is obviously mutual.
I'm tryin' to prove a theory—that stupid, dumb blonde with the tight sweater got an 'A' from him in American Government last semester.
Comments
EXAM TIPS GIVEN . . .
Nine tips for persons taking job or military service examinations have been listed by Dr. William Coleman, director of the University of Tennessee Student Counseling center. Dr. Coleman recently outlined some hints for "getting ready" for an examination. He now suggests practical methods for answering the actual questions.
1. The test begins with the directions, not with the test items. Concentrate on these directions, particularly the examples given. Your final score depends in large measure on this important first step.
2. If an essay type of examination, look over entire test. Judge which questions have the most weight, and allot allowed time so you won't dwell too long on any one question.
3. If you don't know an answer, move on to a more familiar question. Mark unanswered questions lightly. As you "settle down" to the exam, you can backtrack and answer more of them than you at first thought.
4. Remember there are some all-important words in certain true-false questions. The words, "seldom" or "probably," for example, call for a different answer than would "always" or "never."
5 In multiple-choice questions,
instead eliminate the obviously wrong
answers.
7. Go back over the test. Let "guess" answers stand. First guess is better than second guess. If you see some reason for changing a nonguess answer, change it.
6. In a multiple-choice question, if the percentage deducted for a wrong answer is not very high, guess.
8. Because of likelihood of need for erasing, use pencil instead of pen. Use lead that shows up dark enough as the grader to read the writing easily.
9. "Stay with it" until you've given all the right answers you can possibly give. Then leave. Those who leave an examination first or last are not necessarily the people who make the best scores.
New stop signs have recently been placed at the corner of Michigan street and Sunnyside avenue." The signs have been placed at the corner for student safety." Joseph Skillman, campus police chief, said, "and I hope they will be carefully observed."
Headline says "Bradley Favors Sharing Secrets." Hope he means with the American people.
Stop Signs Added for Safety
A senior has remarked that the work on the Student Union resembles a second WPA.
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One Man's Opinion
By ROGER YARRINGTON
In 1837 the home of a young Chicago lawyer burned to the ground. Adlai Stevenson was deeply shocked and saddened by his loss.
But when a neighbor offered his regrets as Stevenson stood watching the dying fire, the future governor leaned over and picked up an ember to light a cigarette. "Oh well," he said, "as you can see, we are still using the house."
Humor in the face of serious problems seems to have remained with Adalai Stevenson through the years. To some the humor is not so appealing. On Sept. 23 during the whistle-stop campaign through Ohio, Dwight D. Eisenhower noted the governor's wit and called him "humorous" but not in an admiring voice.
Stevenson's speeches in the present campaign have caused many to compare him in style to Woodrow Wilson while others find his witty pokes reminiscent of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Actually the candidate's style is something all his own which the scholarly Wilson or the experienced Roosevelt did not inspire.
Sharp verbal parries have become a Stevenson trademark and offer a fine contrast to the sly-like-a-sledge hammer wit of President Truman. General Eisenhower is having trouble with the appeal of the Stevenson humor and seems to have lost the initiative of his campaign to his opponent's smile.
Columnist Hal Boyle noted recently the complaints of professional comedians that "people are not laughing. They are too tense," they said. Perhaps it is this tenseness that makes Stevenson's sense of humor appealing.
A person with a smile is always more reassuring than a stern pessimist. The era of both Roosevelt and Truman stands as a monument to the public's preference of a smiling candidate over more serious-faced opponents.
Perhaps the General would do well to limber up his funnybone. Everything else appears to be letting him down.
Campus coosite twosomes will be glad to know they're putting doors on the campanile.
With all the heated debate between the Democrats and the Republicans, FACTS and Pachacamac are hardly mentioned anymore.
It's going to take a heap of parking tickets to pay for those new blue uniforms the campus police are wearing.
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Pork-barreling is so bad this year that even the Student Union book-store is giving a patronage refund.
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