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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The Editors Report -
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 195
NATIONAL MALADY:
Bossism
By Arlo Bailey
Do we want continued control of our states and cities by political bosses and the underworld? If we do, let's stay in the horse-drawn buggy and keep our eyes closed.
The system of checks and balances so faithfully used since our founding fathers set them up is the most fertile breeding ground for bosses. Checks and balances assume that concentration of power is dangerous and must always be avoided. Effective leadership by legal means is thereby forfeited.
A boss can step in, pick up the loose ends, and become the man who can get things done. All of us prefer doing business with a man who will always be around to deal with. We don't want to run hither and yon, getting fouled up in red tape. When city and state governments provide for responsible leadership, the need for bossism and too much red tape will be ended.
This is the way it is done nationally: the president of the United States is given broad authority by the constitution. He is recognized as the political leader of the nation because he is able to appoint his assistants and so not be forever compromising with their suggestions.
The governor of most states is handicapped by having to attempt to get along with a horde of popularly elected officials such as the treasurer, secretary of state, assessor, and so forth. Why not let the governor appoint these men? If we are going to have responsible government, these officials should be administrative assistants of the governor's plan.
It seems to work. We have never had a national political boss.
SLEEPY CATS, DOGS
Once Over Lightly
Gangway! Get your automobiles off the streets. Send your children to the movies. Shut your windows. Lock your pets in the basement. The tree sprayers are coming.
by Robert Leonard
to, at least, temperate.
Lean men holding long hoses perch on the sides of the trucks, peer in all directions, stalk anything that moves—and some things that don't. These men will knock at your door and ask you if you wish to have your trees freed of pests. You, thinking that this is the best thing that has happened all day, say "go ahead."
Each year, about this time, the city of Lawrence wages war on the invincible insects that feed on trees. Battered tank trucks roam the streets filled with a milky-white liquid that is supposed to, at least, temporarily stymie the culprits.
Ahead they go. A motor starts. The liquid starts from the nozzles. But where is the stream directed? At the bugs? At the trees? In the shrubs? No!
Sleepy cats are soon spotted. Unwary dogs receive one coat, once over lightly. Automobiles change color in a matter of minutes.
When you see the truck park in front of your house, don't get excited. Just start moving. Gather anything of value and put it away. Move your car down the street a couple of blocks, but don't forget to go after it—the men will be moving on. Just holler "gangway" and everything will turn out all right. . . .
1950 STYLE
by Charles Reiner
Pump Priming
Maybe it wouldn't hurt for President Truman and Congress to glance through Ben's almanac before putting into effect the recommendations on aid to small business.
The president's recommendations include government insurance of bank loans to private business, national investment companies to enforce observance of sound financial practices (for which the government is noted?), easier direct loans to private business through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and government insurance to protect United States business investments abroad.
The plan is to make private credit, on easy terms for the borrower and with small risk for the lender, do the pump-priming job of the '50s that federal spending did in the '30s. The New Deal goal was to end a depression. The Fair Deal goal is to perpetuate a boom.
The effective difference between the New Deal program and the Fair Deal plan is that this new system places the pump handle more firmly in the hands of the tax-payers.
This shifting of the risk from private lenders to the government has already gone a long way. The outstanding federal loans, loan guarantees, and loan insurance amounted to about $12 billion in 1939.
Now, the total stands at more than $35 billion—nearly three times the volume ten years ago. In the future, the government's stake in the field of credit to business and individual is likely to keep growing—if Congress goes along with the Fair Deal ideas.
Government, when it comes to financing, is just another name for tax-payers. Whether the government lends money directly or guarantees the loans that private banks make, the risk shifts to the tax-poyers. Evidently, high prices mean prosperity.
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Editing H students in charge of running the copy desk for today's Kansan are Emily C. Stewart and Richard Tatum, journalism juniors.
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Dr. Jackson O. Powell, assistant professor of education at the University of Kansas, will become dean of the college of education and professor of education at Wichita university effective September 1. His appointment has been approved by the regents of the Wichita school.
Dr. Powell, who is 30 years old, came to K.U. a year and a half ago after receiving his doctorate degree at Syracuse university. He is a specialist in educational evaluation. He has taught such courses and had administrative charge of the psychometric division, service programs and entrance examinations for the K.U. Guidance bureau.
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