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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 3. 1950
The Editorial Page-
English Viewpoint
Editor's Note: Mr. Butcher is a graduate student in mechanical engineering. He is a native of England, and is well-qualified to present one British view of the election results in that country.
Before commenting on the election, we should like to deplore the remarks of Prof. John Ise, especially those concerning Mr. Churchill and Russia. The election was fought solely on the results of Labour policy in Great Britain, and the voting was for or against the continuance of the policy. The "Red problem" has to be tackled by everyone and the Labour party is equally aware of it. The British elector has weighed the internal situation very carefully, and the amazing strength of the poll, over 90 per cent in some areas, shows the determination of every elector to demonstrate approval or rejection.
It is unfortunate that it is impossible to analyze the voting seat by seat, but only 80 constituencies remain unchanged after the alteration of the boundaries in 1948. However, a brief glance at the number of candidates returned in each county shows the conflicting ideas between North and South.
Very few city and county areas in the North have changed their proportion of representation, Durham county return all 18 Labour members as before, but the South has swung completely right. Surrey elected all 19 Conservative candidates, ousting three Labour members. Middlesex swung nine seats over to the Tories, and Labour lost seats in almost every English county south of Birmingham.
The general conclusion is that the middle-class "vermin" have turned on the Labour "mongrels." They have been taxed and controlled to a point where initiative is valueless, where their savings have dwindled, and their money has dropped sharply in buying power. The working class has been well provided for with security, which will continue no matter which party is in power, but they fail to see that things cannot improve further unless they themselves pay for them by harder work. Few will work harder than they already have.
In general, the Labour party continued to draw most of its support, unshaken and ever faithful, from the areas of the industrial concentration, just as its influence weakened in rural and residential areas, where its influence was never too great. Lancashire was the outstanding exception, however, and ousted nine Labour M.P.'s.
The middle-class have registered their vote, demanding a reduction of controls, voicing the need to let individual enterprise and initiative help resurrect the country instead of continuing to a point where we shall have to fill up a form in triplicate to get permission to die.
—Philip J. Butcher.
National Pastime
There must be something wrong with you just because you're alive. That's the terrible disease spreading throughout the country. It's fast becoming a national pastime.
People are beginning to develop guilt complexes whenever someone tells them they're normal. They think it's anti-social to be healthy and don't want to be accused of it publicly.
If you meet a fellow today and ask him, "How do you feel?" he will hand you his blood pressure chart and look for a place to lie down while he tells you about his aches and pains.
There are a lot of people who are not unlike the mythical character—a hypochondriac—who felt sure there was something wrong with his leg. His friends told him they could see nothing wrong with it. He dragged his leg to a doctor who said it was the healthiest leg he had ever seen.
Unconvinced, our hero, or simpleton, began pinching his leg to be sure the circulation was unimpaired. He pinched and he pinched until a bruise developed. "Ah-hah," he thought and began poking around the bruise with a safety pin. Three days later he was in the hospital.
He complained that everyone had told him nothing was the matter with his leg and that he was now deathly ill with blood poisoning.
People's mushrooming mental preoccupation and imagination put more of them in hospitals than any serious physical ailments of our time. We are living in what has come to be known as the benzedrine age.
If so many people didn't persist in helping their minds make their bodies sick, there would be plenty of medical aid for those who need it, without resorting to socialized medicine.
And if everybody relaxed once in a while, the psychiatrists wouldn't have to go see their own psychiatrists.
—Charles Reiner.
'Small Things'
Commenting on the fact that Oklahoma City is going to display their stuffed, wayward leopard, the freshman cynic sticks up for the human race. "That's what we should have done to Al Capone the first time he got away," he sputtered.
The veterinarian who examined the leopard and thought he would live, says he "was sick about his death," and someone reminded him that the leopard probably felt just about the same, and not to carry on so.
Dear Editor-
On And On!
I enjoyed reading the well writ-
ten article on anonymity by Mr.
J. Morris, journalism senior, but I
must say that I cannot entirely agree
with him.
Dear Editor:
It is on the surface very cowardly to sling mud at people and run away, but I feel that it is much smarter to do this than to be run through by a professional fencer. Few people would challenge Joe Louis to a fist fight. Only oops would try to match wits with a man as skilled in the art of writing cleverly like Mr. Morris.
How could I, a mere engineering student, hope to cope with the versatile pen which can write in 6th century English as well as in the modern idiom? All in the same article he does this amazing thing!
I would also be afraid of having my name dragged into the "garbage heap" with Tom Pendergast, Jim Sellards, Dale Romig, and Danny Orton. If there is any truth to the "dirty politics" angle, Mr. Sellards or some of his henchmen might decide to cut my throat or take me for a ride. Jimmy Petrillo once shot down three of Al Capone's hoods in cold blood!
Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing to have, and freedom of the press is even more sacred to my heart. But my career might be retarded if my name should get mixed up in controversy of such magnanimous proportions...
Call me a chicken if you will, Mr. Morris, but please don't make fun of my literary timidity. My sword is dull and my arm rusty from long disuse, but I shall defend my God-given right to express views in the Kansan until the last drop of ink is gone from your veins and I have been completely obliterated.
—Mr. Name Withheld By Request Editor's Note: The letters on the "garbage heap" fasco must cease. Too many of them are assuming the proportions of major essays and short novels. Other publications are available for someone with an itch to pen flowery phrases, page after page.
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Cadet's Radio Club Has No Officers Or By-Laws
The Midshipman Cadets' Radio club is unique at the University because it has no officers, no minutes, and no by-laws. A member must conform only with the safety regulations. Large signs on the equipment proclaim dangerously high voltage.
Lt. D. B. Millar, instructor of naval science, said that the club members get together when the spirit moves them to discuss their hobby.
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