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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1949
The Editorial Page-
You Can Take So Much—
One of the most competent public servants America has ever had has resigned from his post as chairman of the Atomic Energy commission.
When David E. Lilienthal accepted the job a few years back, he knew that he would be placed in a position of vulnerability to his personal and political enemies. As head of the most super-secret organization the U.S. has ever set up, Lilienthal has been in the awkward position of being unable to answer some of the dirtiest smears ever concocted by the small-potato political mentality.
It is not so clear how Lilienthal has gained the enmity of Senator Bourke Hickenlooper. Republican from Iowa. It was Hickenlooper who brought the "incredible mismanagement" charges against the commission this year. What some observers believe was an attempt to gain publicity for his senatorial race next year seems to have backfired miserably. Hickenlooper's bold charges fizzled out in a cloud of embarassing confusion when he was obliged to produce facts.
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, Democrat from Tennessee has nursed a white-hot hatred for Lilienthal since the days when he headed the T.V.A. A man like McKellar usually owes his political existence to the weight he can throw around back in the old home state—that is, the number of jobs he can pass around and the number of heads he can make roll. When Lilienthal refused to allow the senator from Tennessee to parcel out jobs in the T.V.A., McKellar became an indefatigable foe of the project. In 1947, when the senate was considering Lilienthal's appointment as chief of the Atomic Energy commission, McKellar practically waged a one-man filibuster of venom and vituperation against Lilienthal's reputation, ability, and past.
Although Lilienthal stood up well through the smears and insults, it appears that at last he has had enough. The fact that party politics has come into our atomic energy program was probably the deciding factor in his resignation.
It's too bad. Men like McKellar and Hickenlooper are a dime a dozen in almost any cheap ward heeler's gathering. Men like David Lilienthal are a little harder to find.-J.W.S.
Christmas Seals
Tuberculosis has been called "the most important of the truly preventable diseases" in the U.S. today. It takes a death toll of nearly 1,000 Americans a week—five of them Kansans.
Half a million Americans-or one person in every 200 to 250 adults-have T.B. in an active stage.
Active progress in the control of tuberculosis was begun in 1904 when the National Tuberculosis association was founded. Since then, the death rate from the disease has been cut by 85 per cent.
This has largely been possible through the work of the association, which sponsors the sale of Christmas seals each year during the holiday season.
If we could wipe out T. B. tomorrow, we might save nearly 50,000 lives in 1850. Unfortunately, there is, as yet, no miracle drug to cure T.B., but we can help.
There is an urgent need for funds to show the need for adequate facilities for prevention and treatment of the disease. Christmas seals will provide this money.
The University's quota for the Christmas seal drive is 50,000 stamps. The deadline is December 21. Less than a dime per person from everyone on this campus will guarantee meeting our quota. We can't afford to fail.-Bill DeLay.
Small Things
Aren't you glad you waited? We read that the graduates this spring will receive sheepskin diplomas instead of the wartime paper numbers. Is sheepskin less susceptible to attic dust than paper?
We read that fashion has decreed that the girls will wear gaily colored burlap material next summer, and does anyone have the courage to try to stop this thing by referring to the wearers as burlap bags?
Russia, the country where everything was invented, has announced that the biggest chess tournament of all time will be held in Moscow. 300,000 contestants will participate, and we wonder if they'll all march through Red square Homecoming game fashion?
Undoubtedly nothing but good communist pawns will be used, but since Tito is reported to be a chess fan, we think the whole thing is planned just to hurt his feelings.
Letter from a '48 grad: . . . I'm still writing a number of feature stories for the paper each week, and you will be surprised to know that the press camera is practically my servant now. I handle it with complete abandon. In fact I almost bully it; flicking its F-stop (a highly technical term which we photographers find difficult to explain to the layman) similar to the way Burt Lancaster cuffs stool pigeons about. Already I have bought a raincoat and wear the collar turned up. Now I'm saving my money for a hat with an upturned brim and have begun calling the city editor "chief." How rakish can you get? . . . Yours, Jim J.
Honorary Music Sorority Gives Varied Music Program Sunday
A handful of interested persons watched the members of Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music sorority, sing and play their way through a program of varied forms of music Sunday afternoon in Strong auditorium.
By DALE S. ROMIG
The program, which was divided into three parts, opened with a soft, appealing, brass quartet playing "Miserere Mei Deus" (Bird) followed by two madrigal numbers, "Go Ye, My Canzonets" (Morley) and "Ha, Ha; This World Doth Pass" (Weelkes). The madrigals were both light and easy to listen to.
The most noteworthy offering of the first part was the piano performance by Billie George, fine arts senior, of a Prokofieff March Miss George's interpretation of the piece was well done, with much vitality.
In the second part, which consisted of opera and light-opera numbers, Betty Hayward's singing of the aria "Voi lo sapete" from* "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni was outstanding. Miss Hayward is a fine arts senior.
The always-popular "Fantasy Impromptu" was included in the final portion of the concert entitled classic versus modern. The Chopin
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