University Daily Kansan
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Thursday, Sept. 25, 1952 Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
Editorials
TNE Gridiron Etching Almost Disgraces KU
Last Saturday an act of vandalism on this campus almost caused the University and its friends a great deal of embarrassment in the face of nation-wide publicity.
Each year, it seems, someone gets a bright idea for a prank that seems just a little better than any thought of the year before. The idea of burning the initials TNE in the grass on the football field the morning before the TCU game was to be televised nationally may have seemed like pure inspiration. Actually it was disgraceful.
Last week this page called for the student body to recognize its responsibility to a serious cause in a serious time. Acts of this type are in direct contrast to the attitudes which that article spoke of as necessary.
It will be a sad day if we ever lose our sense of humor or cannot be good sports and take a joke. But, there is nothing more repulsive than a practical joker who uses poor taste. In the same light there is nothing that detracts more from a University than a prankster who is intent on disgracing his school. —Roger Yarrington.
Interpretive Article
Reality of Push-Button War Results in a Loss of Glamor
The trouble with the phrase "push-button warfare" is that it has glamor.
It gives us a picture of silvery missiles of more than human intelligence fighting it out alone in the skies or winging toward some impersonal enemy, directed by push-button by a scientist-operator who maneuvers them much as he would the pawns in a chess game. Chean. too- no nilot loss
Last week the U.S. Navy lifted the curtain on push-button warfare—a sort of horse-and-buggy preview of the war of the future. An obsolete fighter plane, converted into a 2,000-pound bomb and equipped with electronic controls and a television eye instead of a pilot, took off from a carrier and winged its way unerringly to the destruction of a North Korean railway tunnel.
The controller of the guided missile, working from the comparative safety of another plane, then returned to the carrier.
Technically, therefore, the push button war is here.
"What a way to fight a war," sighed a crewman happily.
What the happy crewman overlooked was that our side isn't the only one to have missiles, and that Russia may even have better ones. Further, the experts know that the war of the future will be something modern, wide-open football. Both sides are bound to score heavily.
week, we hear about some of the new terrible weapons. Here are a few—listed together, but all publicized before.
The U.S. atomic-powered submarine. It may be ready by 1954. It will have a speed estimated as high as 50 or 60 knots and will be able to cruise and stay under water indefinitely. Such a weapon renders every ship at present on or below the surface, obsolete. We are also working on engines for:
Atomic-powered airplanes.
Atomic-powered surface vessels.
For their destructive powers they may well depend on another weapon which renders almost as nothing the atom bomb which destroyed Hiroshima. It is the:
From time to time, such as last
Hydrogen bomb. The Russians may have it already. We may be ready to test ours in the Pacific this fall. The hydrogen bomb's destructive power may be estimated by the fact that it takes an atom bomb to trigger it off.-United Press.
"I got several to clip to my final exam, papers—I don't want Prof Snarf to forget whose paper he's grading."
One Man's Opinion
By CHUCK ZUEGNER
a remarkable reversal of allegiance took place this week when The Reporter magazine, a reputable bi-weekly, announced in an editorial that it was switching its support from Dwight Eisenhower to Adlai Stevenson.
There are a number of other liberal and middle-of-the-road publications who prematurely jumped on the Eisenhower bandwagon and who are probably kicking themselves in their own back pages. It takes a great deal of editorial fortitude to change an opinion or admit a mistake, such as the case may be.
The switch was significant not only because such action is seldom taken by a publication as extensive as The Reporter, but also because of its unusual timing.
The Reporter has boosted Eisenhower since his return from Europe. Though questioning some of his actions and many of his connections, it has considered him the best man for the presidency.
Now, half way through the campaign, the periodical has reconsidered its stand and embraced the Democratic candidate. Developments leading up to the turnabout were traced in the editorial.
When ice floats on water, only one-ninth of its bulk is above the surface.
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Today he had a request for "botcha-me" from "Skids, Ludington, Mich." The request was found in a bottle in Lake Michigan.
Tokyo—Japanese bathhouse attendants complained today there are too many peeping toms around.
Two Rivers, Wis.-Kerm Stevens, program director for a local radio station, was only kidding when he told Michigan listeners they could float requests to him across Lake Michigan.
One attendant said some men come into the women's section on the pretense of looking for their daughters. "However, they are usually bachelors," he said.
It will be an election full of contrast. It will be held in a Japan whose emperor no longer is a divinity but a mortal subject to the common cold and occasional boos from Japanese Communists. Japanese women will be voting. Among the candidates will be men purged from public life by Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the occupation and only recently released from jail.
Another attendant said peeping toms are especially numerous "among the educated class."
New York—A stranger walked into a candy shop yesterday and told the shop owner's wife someone was trying to steal her ashcan from the sidewalk.
Mrs. Henry Albrecht investigated and found the ashcan undisturbed but when she returned to her desk she found $850 missing.
On Wednesday, the Japanese will hold their first national election since the occupation.
POGO
A free Japan determines its future course next week.
By UNITED PRESS
Upon the vote will depend whether Japan proceeds with amendment of her "no war" constitution, permitting the build-up of an army, navy and air force.
Berlin—An East German farmer shepherded his entire flock of 800 sheep pass Communist border police under cover of a fog, and requested asylum in the American sector, West Berlin police said today.
News Briefs
Rearmament and the extent to which Japan will implement her military alliance with the United States is the chief international issue of the election.
Right Wing Expected Victor In Next Japanese Election
But of greater interest to the
Pressure by Russia But . . .
Letters
Boner Was Inevitable
Daily Kansan Editor:
I would like to answer the question on Tuesday's editorial page, "Did TV Jitters Cause Boner at KU-TCU Tilt?" The answer is "no."
The so-called boner was inevitable. The band was instructed to play the Alma Mater when the timer reached a certain point in order to move the TV program into the second half on time.
The cadets drill was timed to a split second so they would be off the field in time. However, because of the time required for the team to move off the field at the half, the cadets could not start their drill on time.
Therefore, in my opinion, the entire snag was due to a miscalculation on the part of the TV timer. If Assistant Conductor Ray Zepp had not directed the Alma Mater when he did it is probable that the end of the game would not have been telecast.
Robert McLean
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Japanese is the struggle between political leaders who rose during the occupation and the old nationalists who have been freed of the purge and now are seeking to resume their old places of power.
Foremost among the latter is Ichiro Hatoyama, Liberal party leader purged in 1946 for ultra-nationalistic writings.
Another bidding for a return to power is peg-legged wartime Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu. He was released only a few months ago from Sugamo prison after serving a sentence for war crimes. He is the new president of the Progressive party.
Premier Shigeru Yoshida, chief signer of the peace treaty and military alliance with the United States, rose to power with Hatoyama's fall. The two now are fighting for control of the Liberal party.
Yoshida favors strengthening of the present National Police reserves, now numbering about 100,000 men, and the coast guard without changing the constitution until there is a definite mandate from the voters.
Another former purgee is Nobuske Kishi, a dark horse who heads a group called the Japan Reconstruction League.
Hatoyama would amend the constitution immediately and continue strengthening the NPOR and coast guard.
Kishi, as the name of his group implies, would proceed first with internal reconstruction of Janan.
Aside from differences among individual candidates, two other considerations will influence Japanese voters. One is that Japanese public opinion strongly opposes rearmament but gradually is swinging to the belief that Japan must have an armed force for its own protection. The second consideration is the strong pressure being brought on Japan by both Red China and Russia.
However, there is considered little likelihood that Japan will swing toward the left. The men with the magic names and the political know-how are all rightists.-United Press.