Page 2 University Daily Kansan Monday, April 21, 1953
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Editorials
Hey Prof! Take It Easy on Us!
(Editor's Note: This message is being directed to the members of the faculty. It is doubtful that it will have much effect on them unless they too were participants in a strenuous but happy spring vacation. However, recognizing the journalistic obligations for the defense of a persecuted majority, the Daily Kansan will rise to its duty).
Hey, prof! Take it easy on us! It's kinda easy to get out of the habit of studying. The spring vacation has been hard on us. We gotta have some time to get caught up.
You know, prof, the funniest thing happened during the holiday. I took all my books home to study so that I'd be up on my lessons when I came back. Now I admit that I've done it before and never got around to studying but this time it was going to be different. But you know, I never did get around to using those books.
Of course I didn't use them during the first week-end I was home. I knew that I had all the next week to do it. Monday I had to straighten up all the things I had brought home. Mom said I had to hang up in the closet everything I had
brought home since I was staying all week.
Then Tuesday I figured that I had better wash Dad's car if I expected to get to use it on my date that night. Then it looked so shiny that I had to clean up the garage. There would have been too much contrast if I hadn't.
On Wednesday I went downtown to get some new clothes and to see some of the boys I had gone to school with. My gosh, there are a lot of them who are married now.
I've forgotten what I did on Thursday but on Friday I trimmed the rose bushes and pulled the weeds in the garden. It looked like a simple job but it kept me busy all day.
Then on Saturday with as many of the fellows and girls of the old gang as are still around I went on a picnic. Couldn't have missed that you know. First real nice day we've had all spring.
Then what to do you know but it was Sunday and time to come back to school. So you see I am kinda behind now and will need a bit of time to catch up. How about taking it easy on us, eh prof?
—Joe Tavlor.
Interpretive Articles
New York to Hold Preference Vote Tomorrow
New York state will hold its political primary on Tuesday, April 22. At the present time practically nothing has been said about this primary.
Taft has made no mention of the New York primary and has given no indication he is even remotely interested in that contest. Estes Kefauver has made no mention of campaigning in New York for the Democratic party.
At first glance this situation would seem surprising for such a large and presumably important state as New York. New York, with the largest population of any state in the Union, should be important politically. At the present time the New York political set-up has 96 delegates for the Republican party and the Democrats are not far behind with 94 delegates. All of these delegates are un-pledged. They are bound to no politician.
Of course, one of the main reasons why New York will not be highly contested, at least on the Republican side, is New York's governor, Thomas E. Dewey. Governor Dewey, long-time New York politician, makes pretty tough competition for any outsider to tackle. According to available information Dewey will have no trouble whatsoever in controlling a majority of the 96 Republican delegates.
The Democratic situation is somewhat unclear in New York. President Truman was to have been the chief Democratic candidate in the primary. But
Truman has decided not to run for re-election. It now appears the only real contender in New York for the Democratic vote will be Estes Kefauver. Many hope President Truman will give Senator Kefauver the nod. Only time will tell whether he will.
New York has more conflicting elements than any other state in the Union. Politicians in New York must win the vote of the large Jewish, Irish, Negro and Catholic elements if they are to be successful. Each of these groups have different and often clashing interests. Thomas E. Dewey has for the most part won the support of these rival groups.
While, the New York primary may not be as important as the primaries of some other states, it may turn out to be very important to General Eisenhower. It is believed that Governor Dewey will deliver the New York Republican delegation to him. —Maurice Prather.
The New Yorker has this to say about "The Browning Version:"
"The difficulties of a professor of Greek who finds, after twenty years of trying, that he can't convey his own feeling for the classics to his students." Sounds like a documentary filmed at KU.
Republican 'Ripple' Waves In Dixie Democrat Stronghold
Yadkinville, N.C.—(U.P.)—As fas as state politics go, the staunchly-Republican newspaper The Yadkinville Ripple has been just what its name implies.
That fact, however, has failed to dampen the ardor of the dauntless weekly, published for 60 years in this GOP mountain stronghold in the heart of the Democratic South.
His editor, Ed Rutledge, has guided the Old Guard politics of the Ripple since 1909. He followed a lawyer and a minister, a rural mail carrier and the wife of a Baptist minister as head of the paper.
The minister's wife, Mrs. Mattie Johnson Hall, started the weekly in 1892 in nearby East Bend. Local historians are foggy on the exact reasons for Mrs. Hall's deviation from her normal pursuits of helping
News from Other Campuses
Restores Endowment Funds . . .
Burlington, Vt—The University of Vermont has decided to use $1,450,000 of the estimated two million dollars willed to the University by the late Hetty Green Wilks to restore permanent endowment funds depleted prior to 1941.
College Marriages . . .
Columbus, Ohio—College marriages turn out much better than high school marriages because those who go to college tend to be better adjusted socially, according to Prof. Merton D. Oyler, director of the Marriage Counseling clinic at Ohio State university.
Broader Education . . .
Williamstown, Mass.-The freshman class at Williams college attained a scholastic average of 3.301 for the fall semester. This was the highest class average in the past four years. A total of 54 men qualified for the honor roll.
Fayetteville, Ark.-Trying to present a broader system of education, the University of Arkansas has instituted several changes during the past two years in its college of arts and sciences. Among the changes were granting full credit for freshmen courses taken during the senior year and putting no restrictions on where the 40 hours of junior and senior credits are taken.
with church suppers and the ladies' aid society to become a publisher.
They are sure of one thing. She started an unquenchable fire burning for the politics of the Republican party.
During the paper's life, the first has continued to burn brightly—with one two-edition exception. The mall-carrier editor, H. B. Nelson, once took a two-weeks' vacation and left the weekly under the direction of a local Democrat. Both editions surprised local readers by blowing a mighty blast of Democratic music.
All other editions in the morethan-half-a-century of The Ripple's existence have been true to its self-chosen designation, the organ of the Republican party in Yadkin county."
The weekly's present editor-publisher, with more than 40 years at its desk, has the fourth longest record for state newsmen in number of service with one paper. Now the veteran Rutledge is allowing his son Bill to take over the position.
As for the Ripple's GOP politics, Rutledge admits they don't make much splash around such present-day Democratic strong points as the state capital, Raleigh, or in Washington. He said 1952 is an election year, however, and The Ripple may yet become a full-grown wave.
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COLLEGE DAZE-1952
POGO and his friends