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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949
Guest Editorial
You Have A Handicap
"You have an obligation to prepare yourself for leadership. Society will look to you for leadership in business, civic affairs and in politics. You should be ready and willing to assume these responsibilities."
How often have you, as a high school or college student, listened to this kind of mandate, given to you free by commencement speakers, teachers, deans and other advisors? Yet in the political field you will be likely to find yourself burdened with several handicaps in the competition for positions of leadership. Unless you are a law graduate you are apt to find that your college education has actually placed new obstacles in your way of political advancement.
Your political handicaps as a college graduate arise from several causes. In the first place you will probably find yourself in a new community, perhaps a large city. Political organizations tend to be partial to native sons, and you will be regarded as an outsider until your residence has been firmly established. Had you forsook the college education to become politically active in your home town, early advancement would have been relatively easy. The only alternative is to return to your home town after graduation, and too often that is economically not feasible.
Secondly, your profession or vocation will probably interfere with political activity. Your work is much more likely to demand night study and constant attention than is the work of your less well-educated neighbor. Political activity tends to interfere with professional advancement, unless you are a lawyer or a farmer, or perhaps an insurance salesman. Too often you will find it necessary to establish yourself economically before you begin to build politically, and by that time you may feel too old to begin at the bottom.
Your third major handicap arises out of the very independence that education has given you. Organization regulars in politics are not ordinarily attracted to the independent thinker, and they tend to hesitate about approaching the college graduate. When an unskilled worker or a new store clerk comes to a town that is well organized politically, he will find the precinct worker waiting at his door when the moving van arrives, and he will be invited at the earliest opportunity to come to party headquarters and meet the boys. But you, the college graduate, are apt not to meet the precinct worker; he will pass by your door, at least until he has learned something about your political color.
One more handicap, often too well known by people in politics, is that the young college graduate may be incapable of talking the language of the people whose votes weigh most heavily in filling ballot boxes. Intentionally or not, the college graduate learns to talk logically and philosophically, even if not always profoundly. He has been out of touch with the day-to-day problems of the wage earner, the small shop owner or the farmer. Even the student who is able to mix with all classes of people, and to talk with them instead of to them—even he is apt to suffer because of the widespread suspicion fostered by the behavior of other college graduates.
In brief, the political organization does not seek out the college graduate and urge him to become one of its leaders. Instead it is shy, often suspicious. Nevertheless, political leadership is urgently needed in almost every community, and even the party organization will welcome college men and women who can demonstrate true qualities of leadership.
Yes, you have an obligation to prepare yourself for leadership—for political leadership if you can. But here you need to be aggressive. You need to seek out the party organization, you need to build a following, and you need to become an intergal part of your new community at your earliest opportunity.
At the University you are in a period of transition, in temporary residence, and you perhaps feel that there is no need to be active politically. In the same way you feel that it is useless to participate actively in your home town, because that will not be your future home. Political activity is difficult when you are away from home. Yet that is the very time when you can practice for the day when you may wish to seek a place in the political activities of the new community that will someday be your home. —E. O. Stene, professor of political science
'Small Things'
When he wants a furlough, Lt. General Whitehead says he must ask the chief of staff, but what we want to know is whether or not he has to hand the chief a story about some sick relative.
"Intramural sports promotes friendship and sportsmanship." No doubt all those bloody, battered people wending their way into the hospital every night are just innocent bystanders.
Semester dragging already? Thanksgiving too far away? Just borrow some money on a 90-day note.
Some practical joker told a drawing and painting professor that Fraser's fire escape was to keep its bright orange coat permanently, and we understood that the man sat down and cried like a little child.
Grunt Needed, Not Skill
Detroit—(U, R) —W. E. Foley gave up trying to unlock the front door to his home after he broke three keys
Then he_took the door from its hinges and found the trouble. The door never had been locked—just stuck.
and used up a can of oil.
Future leaders of American industry must keep the advantage of Yankee "know-how" in order to preserve the American way of life.
Yank 'Know-How' Faces Challenge
That is what James S. Todd, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, told 80 students and faculty members Thursday in the Kansas room of the Union.
Mr. Todd is a consulting engineer from New Orleans. He warned that American natural resources may be depleted within the next two or three decades, and that technical knowledge necessary for tapping new sources of raw materials may shift to South America or other areas rich in such resources.
Graduates were cautioned to not be in too much of a hurry to get a job for the sake of security only.
"Seek a job in which your personal interest lies. A little drifting about before you settle down is not to be condemned," he said.
Mr. Todd presented a charter from the national organization in New York to John E. Robb, president.
Prof. Harry L. Daasch, chairman of the department of mechanical engineering, introduced members of the department faculty and Prof. Linn Helander, head of the mechanical engineering department at Kansas State college.
Health Officers Will Visit Campus
Ten members of the Kansas State Board of Health will be guests of the University Saturday. They will meet in the office of T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering, and then visit the department of sanitation engineering, the naval research laboratory, and the virus laboratory.
The group will be guests of Chancellor Deane W. Malott at a luncheon in the Union. After the luncheon they will attend the K.U.-George Washington university football game.
Clear Night Permits View Of Moon Eclipse
The weatherman cooperated with astronomers Thursday, providing a clear night for observing the total eclipse of the moon.
The eclipse was visible over all of South America and North America with the exception of Alaska. Northern lights also were seen during the eclipse, Dr. N. W. Storer, associate professor of physics, said today.
Don R. Monger, College junior, did special research on the lights and shadows of the moon during the eclipse. Monger used University observatory facilities for his research.
Thief Lectures Victim
Detroit—U.(P.) — Tommy Emmet told a robber he was alone in his wine shop. Then his wife walked in from another room and the thief gave Emmet a lecture on the evils of lying while he scooped $1,030 from the cash box.
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