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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Priceless Privilege
Taxes are too high . . . the government is full of Communists . . . politicians are the ones who get us into all these wars . . . Democrats in congress are corrupt from being in office too long . . . Republicans haven't been in office for so long they wouldn't know what to do if they were elected . . . Kansas politics are run by machine.
These complaints and dozens of others are voiced almost daily by eligible voters—persons who collectively possess the facilities for changing whatever they do not like about local, state or national administration. But saying is not doing and, if past records are any indication, the "people's government" will continue to represent less than half the people.
Perhaps the significance of our franchise right is not appreciated by everyone capable of exercising it. But surely any University student who has attended college long enough to reach the age of 21 is aware of the part which ordinary citizens may (if they wish) play in obtaining the type of government officials they desire.
Candidates for office, in winding up their campaigns, are finding a listless attitude among the electorate. In both parties, speeches are being given to small audiences, many of whom are not extremely interested in the platforms or issues being discussed.
Let's not be too busy Tuesday to visit a polling place and mark a ballot indicating our choice of candidates.
—Beat Oklahoma—
Candid Comments
The recent attempt to assassinate President Truman shows that the Republicans are not alone in wanting to end the Democratic administration. After reading the initial account of the Blair house gun battle, one loyal Truman supporter growled, "That's the only way the Republicans will get a man into the White House."
—Beat Oklahoma—
Students taking Econ 90 heard Dr. John Ise refer to a time when he was an assistant in a Harvard economics class. "That was a long time ago," he said, "way back in the 'Ise-age.'"
—Beat Oklahoma—
A silver water pitcher has been sitting next to World In Crisis speakers for seven weeks, but none of them has run dry yet.
—Beat Oklahoma—
When Joseph Balloun, business senior who received a badly sprained ankle in a car wreck the past week-end, was seen walking down the campus with a cane, two colleagues accused him of having transferred to the law school.
—Beat Oklahoma—
We didn't know Halloween pranks ever reached the college level until we saw a professor struggling to erase chalk marks on a blackboard which had been coated with furniture polish.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"I thought the national secretary wasn't coming until the first of the month."
GI's Need You
Dear Editor:
It seems that most of us are and have been overlooking a duty of utmost importance—that is, helping those persons to which we, the citizens of the United States, owe so much. I am thinking in particular of the patients in Winter Veterans' hospital at Topeka.
Mrs. Wolfson, local Red Cross official, is doing a wonderful job helping these patients to regain normal living. She believes these men are entertainment starved and need a remedy for the situation. Mrs. Wolfson accompanied us (a group of Lambda Chi's) to Topeka recently to put on a show. The group which consisted of pianist Jack Dainard and a quartet-Jack Moler, Frank Hoss, Don Powell, and myself-enttained in only three of the 54 wards where patients are unable to leave. We also performed in the recreation hall where a costume dance was being held.
Appreciative toward all KU. organizations that have donated time toward hospital entertainment, Mrs. Wolfson said, "It is such a wonderful feeling to know that you might have done some good in helping these individuals back to the life they deserve."
Charles Bether Business Junior—Beat Oklahoma—It Wasn't True
Medical Sophomore
Dear Editor:
The editorial which you reprinted from the Topeka Daily Capital contained a particularly nasty blast against K.U. students' commanderine reserved seats at the Nebraska game. I am one of those students who sat in that so-called "reserved" section.
From what I saw, the students were the well-behaved ones. It was the visitors who showed their stupidity. There were, as I recall, more arguments among visitors than between visitors and students. Two well-dressed ladies (and I use the term loosely) became so angry that a hair-pulling contest ensued, leaving one of the participants sobbing hysterically on her husband's shoulder with a screaming child tugging at her dress. One visitor refused to budge from her reserved spot and remained standing directly in front of another visitor throughout the first half until a noble student made a place for her.
Contrary to what the editorial stated, we arrived not early but about 1 p.m. We walked in, saw some unoccupied seats, and sat down. There was no rope to keep us from doing so. It seems the rope had been misplaced between sections D and E, thus giving one extra section (for which reserved seat tickets had been sold) to the students. We had no idea we were trespassing until some irate alums barged up to us and began demanding students' seats.
(Name Withheld by Request)
In contrast, one very pleasant lady managed, with our aid, to squeeze herself and her family into a very narrow spot. They were good sports and enjoyed the game thoroughly.
23-Year-Old Freshman Enters Political Race For Democrats
Undaunted by the fact that Kansas is a perennially Republican state, Lance Shogrin, College freshman, is running for representative of the 122nd district on the Democratic ticket.
—Beat OU—
—Kansan Photo By Ed Chapin
—Kansan Photo By Ed Chapin
LANCE SHOGRIN
Simple Arithmetic
Dear Editor:
Mr. Arthur C. Londborg's statement which appeared in the Lawrence Journal World of Oct. 31 concerning the misplaced rope at the Homecoming game casts a direct insult upon the integrity of the K.U. student body. I, for one, cannot allow it to pass unchallenged. Mr. Lonborg stated, "Whether or not the rope was misplaced by the University workmen or moved by University students, I cannot say."
I happened to be one of the first to inadvertently "plunk myself down in section E and I can assure Mr. Lonborg that the rope was securely in position between sections E and D at that time. I feel reasonably certain that no unscrupulous student took the effort to move the rope one section to the south previous to that time.
Mr. Lonborg goes on, in his statement in the Journal World, to assure the public, not the students, that no such thing will happen at the Oklahoma game. In regard to the 600 students who were forced into section E during the Homecoming game, just where are they to find seats at the next home game? Last year at the Homecoming game the seating situation was the same, with some 1,000 students standing or seated in the aisle. Obviously something is haywire with the seating arrangement.
Mr. Lonborg could do much to enlighten the hostile students concerning this problem by making an immediate and honest public statement on exactly how the student seats are allotted. This shouldn't be difficult. Simply add the enrollment of the school, activity tickets purchased for wives, tickets sold on the student side for employees and faculty, and the total should equal the seats allotted for the student section. Until such an accounting is made, the only logical conclusion for the student who year after year finds no seat at the Homecoming game is that the athletic department is cutting the student sections short.
Jack D. Walker Medical Sophomore —Beat Oklahoma—
Lawrence was founded by home seekers sent by the New England Emigrant Aid Society to populate the area with free-state sympathizers.
The 122nd district includes Meade county and Lance's home town of Fowler, which is the county seat Shogrin's opponent is the incumbent Clyde Marrs.
Lance joined the Young Democrats' club this year and became interested in politics. Bob Bock, a former K.U. student and at present a candidate for U.S. congressman, applied the spark that started Lance campaigning for office.
While at home this summer Lance was telling Bock about his desire to run for political office. Bock told him: "Well, why don't you run for state representative. You can beat Marrs."
Shogrin pondered the idea for weeks before he made up his mind, really, just 15 minutes before the game, he placed his name on the ticket.
Both Shogrin and his opponent were unopposed in the primary. The coming election promises to be a race between an old hand at politics and a young fellow with new ideas.
Shogin intends to practice his rur-
Fower after he is graduated. But resi-
dence of this course has given
his pre-law courses and campaign
speeches in his home district.
Shogrin also favors the repeal of the present farm gasoline tax exemption system. This system has been criticized in the past and has been proven unsatisfactory in many ways.
Shogrin is 23 years old, unmarried, and a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. He attended high school in Fowler and after school pulled a hitch in the navy.
The main issue of Shogrin's platform is the severance tax. The Democrats are strongly in favor of this direct tax on crude petroleum and gas production because of the added revenue it can bring the state. Most oil-producing states have such a tax, but Republicans have fought it in Kansas for several years.
We read Thursday's editorial with much interest, for it contained information that we had long suspected to be true. There are more activity tickets extant than there are seats reserved in the stadium for their owners.
Having had personal experience with the difficulty of finding a seat (any kind of a seat) in the student section when we arrived at the stadium after 1 p.m., we have learned to get there by noon and join in the race for seats.
Apparently the athletic department intends to put the rope between the student and reserved seat sections—back to its "rightful" place between sections E and F. The student section wasn't big enough during the last game—is there any reason to think it will be big enough during the next?
—Beat Oklahoma—
We are not concerned about students having reserved seats, but we do believe that the student section should, by every right, have as many seats in it as there are activity tickets in the possession of students, wives, and faculty. To sell a group of people tickets to an event (with the knowledge that there isn't room for all of them) may not be pure fraud, but it certainly is a big gwp
What does the athletic department intend to do about the overflow of students at the next game?
Dear Editor:
Now What?
Richard Lockhart Engineering Junior Jack Evans Graduate Student
—Beat Oklahoma—
The first white child born in Kansas was Napoleon Boone, grandson of the famous Daniel Boone.
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