Page 2 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 21, 1952
Editorials
It's Been a Swell Year! And the Future's Good
It's been a swell year!
There aren't many things which could have been any better. We got a new chancellor who has won the friendship of everyone. The basketball team brought home the national championship and we velled and screamed ourselves hoarse when it happened.
Everything that could happen on any college campus happened in some form here. We had bonfires in the streets, drove cars up and down the walks, had raids on the women's dormitories, fought a bitter contest for campus political control, had the sorrow of suddeath visit us, and delved deeply into social problems.
It is pretty definite that KU will be operating on the same location and in about the same manner when it opens again next fall. Most of the same faculty and staff will be around to keep the wheels in motion. The biggest turnover will be among the students. A thousand or so will be gone and a somewhat larger number of new students will replace them.
But now is not the time to talk of these things alone. Now we should look to the future. What is there ahead for the school and for those of us who are leaving?
Our football team next year should be one of the best. Almost all of the squad from this year will return and there are several top caliber freshmen who will be eligible. In basketball we'll feel the loss of the starting five, but we will be able to count on several of this season's reserves.
The track team should be even stronger than it has been this year. The sophomores and junior who have been carrying the load will have a year of experience under their belts and should be able to produce even better.
Those of us who are not coming back see varied futures. Some are planning careers. Others are looking forward to marriage. And still others are faced with military service.
There is no doubt that for most the first two futures are the most inviting. However, if it is the latter one which is most pressing, then there is only one thing to do. Prepare for it now and plan to make the best of it. Then when that job is done, be ready to return to your own plans.
It's been a swell year! Let's hope the ones to come will be as good!
—Joe Taylor.
Comments . .
SPRING—FOOEY! . . .
(A student letter to the Daily Californian, University of California):
Now that it is spring and the decollete dress has once again come to the fore, I can see where the University of California women are not of the best.
worse: that half, or the half which does uncover.
Standing at any campus landmark, watching the parade go by, I am not at all thrilled with what I see. In the first place half of the girls don't seem to know it's spring. They are buttoned up like this was Alaska. I don't know which is
That's what happens when you have a big, intellectual university like this one. The girls are more interested in studying about life than in going out and seeing what it's all about.
PROOF POSITIVE . . .
"The students of Loyola prove conclusively that they aren't interested in student government, when exactly 180 stunch souls braved the elements to vote in the constitutional elections last week."
POGO and his friends
Interpretive Article
The Union of South Africa is in the midst of a congressional struggle to determine which of the two major parties will gain control for the years to come.
Africa's Malan Tries On Hitler's Shoes
The Nationalist party leader is Prime Minister Daniel F. Malan. Malan is a Boer minister whose doctrine is "Africa for the Afrikaners." This does not include any race or group that is not Boer, which is considered the superior race by Malan. He hates the British, and wants to keep the Negro population completely subdued.
The United party is lead by Jacobus G. N. Strauss. The United party favors in its background, basic motives, financing and its intellectual leadership anything British. They also fear the mass of Negroids, but not to the extent that the Nationalists do.
There are 1,500,000 Boers in South Africa who are Dutch, French, and German immigrants. They came to Africa 30 years after the Mayflower landed in America. Their claim to the territory is older than the black Bantus, who came later from the African interior.
There are 8,500,000 black Bantus in South Africa, 300,000 Indians (shopkeepers, plantation laborers), and 1,100,000 colored (mulattoes). These people form the majority of the Union.
The British number 1,000,000 and make up much of the urban population.
The problem started when Parliament passed one of Malan's acts disfranchising 55,000 of the
colored votes. Malan's party has a half-dozen majority of Parliament's 159 members which enables him to control. The 55,000 Colored have been able to vote in their various areas on 55 members of Parliament, all of whom had to be white.
The act Malan backed was to change the Colored vote to a completely separate roll so they could vote on only four of the Parliament members, who must also be white. The Colored have traditionally voted for the United party. They don't particularly like either group, but they like the Nationalists less.
When the act was passed, the Supreme court said a constitutional change required two-thirds majority vote. This right, the right of the ballot, and another, the right of language, are the only two entrenched rights in the South African constitution.
When the Supreme court overruled Parliament, Malan then introduced a bill that said the Supreme court has no right to overrule Parliament, two-thirds majority or not.
In doing this, Malan simply is trying to control Parliament and to reduce the United power.
In Parliament, Malan's new surge for more power was hotly contested. The debate moved the country where there were rumors of rebellion and civil war.
Malan is trying to cut the power of the United party and the British influence in South Africa, because of the Boers' hatred for the British ever since the Boer war. Nancy Anderson.
Book Review
Book is First on a President in Office
Just a few weeks before President Truman announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection, the book, "Mr. President," which contains excerpts from the words, diaries, and private papers of Mr. Truman, was released to the public.
For the first time in history a president had permitted an account of his life to be printed while he was still in office. Some politicians would consider such an act committing political suicide, and when President Truman agreed to let William Hillman, White House correspondent for the Mutual Broadcasting System, write a book about his life. Mr. Truman probably had decided not to run.
"Mr. President" is divided into five main topics, the President's diaries, the President's autobiography, the President as a letter-writer, the Presidency, and the President looks ahead. In addition to the printed text the book contains more than 200 photographs, 68 in full color.
In his diaries President Truman has jotted down short notes of each day's important happenings. His account of the day of Nov. 1, 1949, reveals the opinion of a common man who has to conform with the formalities of being president.
'Had dinner by myself tonight. A butler came in very formally and said, 'Mr. President, dinner is served.'
"I ring. Barnett takes away the plates. John comes in with a napkin and silver crumb tray—there are no crumbs, but John has to brush them off the table anyway. What a life."
The president gives the impression of a boy born on a farm in Missouri who after working up the political ladder suddenly found himself facing the enormous task of being President of the United States. He had no idea of the many duties he was to execute, but feels that in every decision he has done the best he could and has tried to work in the best interests of the American people.
President Truman believes that he has written more personal letters than any other president.
One letter in "Mr. President" drew a bitter blast from a long-time critic of Mr. Truman. His one-time secretary of state, James F. Byrnes, denied that a letter dated Jan. 5, 1946, was ever delivered to him. In it President Truman rebuked Byrnes for not letting him know what his policy was toward Russia. The President then continued with strict instructions on Russian foreign policy.
Another letter by Mr. Truman that brought forth criticism at the time it was written was the letter of Dec. 9, 1950, to a Washington music critic. In recalling the incident in "Mr. President" he says:
"Margie held a concert here in D.C. on Dec. 5. It was a good one. She was well accompanied by a young pianist named Allison, whose father is a Baptist preacher in Augusta, Ga.
"Young Allison played two pieces after the intermission, one of which was the great A flat Chopin Waltz, Opus 42. He did it as well as it could be done and I've heard Paderewski, Mow Rosenthal and Josef Lhevine play it. A frated critic on the Washington Post wrote lousy review. The only thing, General Marshall said he didn't criticize was the varnish on the piano. He put my "Baby" as low as he could and he made the young accompanist look like a dub.
"It upset me and I wrote him what I thought of him." —Max Thompson.
The basketball team is home now and can get some of the rest it needs so much. The same goes for the rest of the student body.
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