4 Monday, November 2, 1970 University Daily Kansan Kansan Staff Photo by Tom Slaughter Candy Man; Coming Home 1970 The fat candy man wheezed and puffed toward the sunshine poxes a adjust happy with candy, body could After some ritual courtesies, we bagan talking about Pepper Rodgers and his football team. He steaming on a on could of raspins, "Do you trust that Bernard Gibson this year?" Hell, he deserves, if you know." Ignorance is a valuable tool sometimes. I didn't know and didn't care—the candy mans' raspberry face demanded my attention. By his color he could have had a stroke and I wouldn't have been surprised. Reds and pinks, running Mad-Hatter over the expanse of his rotund face, spawned images of a carnival doll indentured to be a candy-cigarette man the balance of his life. The aecerbic rhetoric of Spiro Agnew on his never-ending national campaign trail has only been surpassed by the statements of Reynolds Shultz, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Kansas. In many ways, and on both the national and state levels, it has been a devisev campaign. Little light has been focused on the issues because personalities have become the central issue of discussions. Letters policy Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-space and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are sub-ordinated according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town; faculty and staff must provide their name, occupation, and must provide their name and address. "Do you think we'll have any more trouble like we had this spring?" I caithed him. The second would allow five proposed amendments to the state constitution to be considered in an election instead of the present three. their efforts. He had taken the hook and was diving for deep water. Now, to set the hook and reel him in. "C'mon, here in Lawrence?" "What?" "There's a vigilant committee to take care of the niggers if they act up again." we use that data and spring into clean-up campaigns make our community a better place to live. Comora Nash, Chairman Women's Division Beautification Committee "Well, if we do we'll be ready." "I thought it was illegal to be on the streets during the curfew." "Sure. During the curfew they was in the stores downtown with loaded guns. And some of em were placed there." "Well they was. And they had guns in the cars. They weren't afraid to use them." state, and extend their terms of office from two years to four The third would remove from the Constitution the sentence, "The open saloon shall be and is hereby forever prohibited." I had him now. There are memories of Agnew calling Sen. Charles Goodell of New York the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican party"—not to mention Agnew's "nattering nabobs" and "hopeless hypochondriacs of history." The first would limit state elective offices to governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of Nightmarish Campaign Nearly Over In Kansas, perhaps the most constructive debate was spawned by the three constitutional amendments to be approved or rejected by the voters tomorrow. Gratitude Expressed For Clean-up Projects A campaign that almost no one will miss will end tomorrow as voters across the country go to the polls "How long has this group been together?" "Were they after the students too?" "No, mainly just the niggers. One of Shultz's greater concerns during the campaign was whether Chancellor Chalmers actually did rise during one of the standing ovations in the course of President Nixon's speech at K-State. Settling the issue once and for all during a speech to a group of Shawnee County Republicans, the candidate said, "I was quoted as saying at the time that he ought to be fired. I didn't say I thought he ought to be fired. What I said was that if I had been sitting behind him I would have planted my foot . . . and boosted him up on his feet." "Oh, they started when all that trouble began at the high school." To stumble on someone like the candy man was a good exercise in self control. Reason would pass completely by him. Perhaps it was an elitist attitude—is there a non-elitist attitude? "You mean last spring?" We were darting in and out of credulity, but the candy man was going well and I didn't want to slow him down. The stream might be difficult to channel if I let it lose any of its intensity. "Leonard Harrisons. He'll get his, just you wait. So will the rest of 'em." Mercifully, this political campaign is over, and we can be spared the politics of Agnew and Shultz. We can only hope that this campaign is not an accurate reflection of the state of American politics today. "You know some of 'em lived just down the street from me." In the campaign on the national level, we have seen a president, who said at his inauguration that his ideal was to bring us together, encourage and acquiesce in his vice president's tactics of name-calling and purging. Harrison "Who?" "Who, the blacks?" —Bob Womack "Whose fault was it, really?" "They all had long hair. The boys' hair was just as long as the girls." "Oh god, no Hinpies." To the Editor: Here it was, the irrational mind at its best. The candy man judged people by such artificial affectations as their hair, yet he wouldn't extend the value judgment to me—at least to my face. "No. You're different from them." This is to express our appreciation to the groups who adopted clean-up projects in lieu of homecoming decorations. We are most grateful to them and to our committee for co-ordinating The candy man told me how he was having one of his best years. He was responsible for "most of the territory he had." The candy man's wife worked, too. She didn't make much, but it helped. Together they were able to piece a lot of candy together. "My hair is long." painfully modest—but enough to make the payment on their house on Tennessee Street. He was proud of the house, but he didn't like the students with different lifestyles living so close to his children. He told me that one of his children once helped some student living near his house clean an attic, and they gave the girl a copy of a paper they "were printing in the basement of the house." The candy man said the paper had naked women cavorting through the pages mocking, taunting him and his little house that would be paid for in a couple of years. "It's a damn communist plot," he rasped, trusting J. Edgar Hoover and the other FBI man that battles Eld Sullivan every Sunday night to tell him the real truth about commutes, drills, and loose teenage women. I don't think the candy man really believed that the reds were responsible for the kids' smoking dope next door and other kids' printing newspapers that rocked his complacency or rock festivals or cancelled ROTC parades, but it was a reassuring dodge. Escapism was a deflection for the candy man in 1870—all the candy men. Pushing candy eight hours a day to support a wife, car, kids, house was a tough row to hoe, and the blisters on his hands and mind were too painful to ignore, so now he talked in a bitter voice, resigned to carry his Tootsie Root cross just one year longer, then chuck the whole damn mess. The candy man was a racist, as are many in Lawrence and Nixonamerica. Racism and intolerance in America are not cancers to be cut out neatly with little blood loss because they kill cancer cells. The vigilance of viscera of the rabid dog America chasing its own tail It's time to vote, and the politicians chant like some dim apparition from the great Inquisition and FRIZ-ZELL RIPS DRUG USE, ASKS SUPPORT OF LAWS, and the polls come at seven. Tom Slaughter THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Published at the University of Kaneu during the academic year except holidays and examination periods. Mail subscription rates: 10 per semester. $10 for annual membership. Kaneu.edu/Kaneu #Kaneu. Goods, services and employment advertisement offers to students without coverage or national origin. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the university. 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