UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 14,1947
PAGE EIGHT
Doris Fleeson Gives Opinion Of Politicians
"Wallace is a sincere, honorable
man who wants to do the right
thing for democracy . . . Senator
Cupper couldn't be a sweeter, nicer
man . . . Dewey is a very calculating,
smart, and cold politician. . . "
WILLIAM
"Henry Wallace is a man with large and adventurerous ideas," she said. "He is engaged in what he passionately believes is an issue of fear or peace, but he is extremely eager to believe that if we fail the fault lies entirely within ourselves." She said that Wallace hasn't learned to look for the motives of other persons, that he is "a little afraid to attribute to others, motivs that he would seron himself."
These quick sketches were made at Press club Tuesday by Miss Doris Fleeson, syndicated columnist with more than 13 years experience at reporting Washington politics.
Government bigwigs, national and international problems, and the whole picture of Washington politics were discussed in Miss Flossie's commentary, but he was hooded for no personal favorites nor did she have any political party, declaring that she "didn't hate anybody." Wallace Is Adventurous
When asked for Washington opinion of Kansas in politics, she declared that the state has become reactionary.
"Kansas apparently doesn't want to know about anything bad, preferring the illusion that 'this is the best of all possible worlds'. In order to persuade itself that people shouldn't drink, Kansas pretends to prohibit. When people get to the point where they kid themselves, they are in a bad condition... those trials in Wichita and Kansas City were a disgrace!"
Washington believes that Dewey is in the race for Republican presidential nomination, with Taft a close second, she said.
"Stassen is a very smart, adroit man, and he is working hard at the job. Although he doesn't have the color and warmth that catches people's imaginations, I'm not going to count him out."
"The current attitude of the house was pictured as "No spending, no taxes, and wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get back McKinley?" Of President Truman, she said, "People realize that here is a sincere man who is honestly trying. I think that all of the Democrats are behind him."
rines Fleeson described the new congress as reactionary, but lauded the demonstration of bipartisan cooperation that established civilian control of atomic energy.
Miss Fleeson, whose home is in Reading, was graduated from the University in 1923 with a major in journalism.
Professors Visit Schools
Prof. Russell Wiley, director of the University band and orchestra, and Prof. E. Thayer Gaston and Prof. Gerald Carney, faculty members in the music education department, are visiting Kansas City high schools today to discuss the summer music camp to be held at the University.
Kansan Snoops Scoop's Scoop
(University Daily Kansan photo by James Mason)
News Of The World
A SCOOP HOE they calls it. But it looks like a steam shovel. Anyway, it has dug quite a hole north of the Union. Here it is in action just ready to take another bite out of the dear old clay of the Hill.
Little Gain In Double Murder
By ALLEN DALE SMITH
Some Are Wasting Time, Others Interested In Ditch
In the interests of science the University Daily Kansan has just completed a four-day survey of people who stop to watch power shovels. A reporter was stationed north of the Union on a 24-hour vigil to question those who stopped to gaze at the scoop-hoe ("steam shovel" to the layman) that has been working there.
Kingman. —(UP)—Two youthful hitch-hikers who killed a father and son who had befriended them obtained only $19.50 by the double murder, their signed confessions revealed today. Of that amount only $4.50 was "guilt."
George Perdue, operator of the scoop, didn't know the psychology
Strikers Start Back To Work
Tonkea—(UP)—A back-to-work movement developed today among Southwestern Bell Telephone company striking employees here, although no operators went back to their jobs.
their jobs.
Strikers returned to their jobs in three different department today. Plant men—maintenance and installer employees—non supervisory business office help and some accounting department employees came back.
Royal Engagement Planned
Twenty employees in the accounting department also were back, but 120 still remained away from their jobs. Wayne McCoy, manager in Topeka for the company, reported that nine Kansas towns now had all their plant men back. They were Sabetha, Chamute, Scott City, Humboldt, Paola, Yates Center, Marion, Howard and Kingman.
Forty maintenance men and installers were back. Three construction men returned. Six of 49 clerical workers returned and 22 of 33 busi-ness office workers were back on the job.
The company emphasized that only emergency service was available on long distance toll calls. Operators continued to picket the front of the building, but the returning workers were entering by the rear.
State Highway Patrolman Marvin Lewis reported that Cecil Tate, 22, Jacksonville, Tex., and George F. said they shot and killed Wilbur W. Cumtow, 21, of Battle Creek, Mich. McCellan, 60, grain elevator operator at the little village of Calista nine miles from here, and his son Arnold McCellan, 35, with guns borrowed from the victims "for a hunting trip."
London—(UP)—Buckingham palace sources said today that the date for an announcement of the engagement of Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten would be set soon at a dinner party conference of the young couple and their families.
Washington—(UP) — The army's war-time adjutant general today identified letter showing that Andrew J. May asked special favors for a son of one of the defendants in the former congressman's war fraud trial.
Letters Show Favors
*behind the attraction the pedistar job, but he admitted that he always threw them in. He has been operating scoops and shovels for about 5 years.*
But Why?
Beginning on the survey we selected the question "Why do you waste your time watching this thing?" as our lead query.
Verne Stevenson, engineering sophomore, seemed to sum up the majority opinion in his answer. He said, "There is one of two reasons for my standing here. Either I'm consciously trying to learn something by watching here, or I'm unconsciously trying not to learn something by cutting my next class. I haven't quite figured it out yet."
Eugene Siler, College sophomore, was just curious. He admitted, "I just want to see what's happening. I wonder how he's going to get off there." (At this time Perdue had his scoop sitting on a 10-foot ledge and apparently was trying to dig dirt out from under himself. A good trick, if you can do it!) Nothing Better To Do.
Lawrence Tharp, College freshman, was most truthful of the intervieweues, when he bluntly stated, "I just don't have anything better to do. I drove a tank for Uncle S. and the noise of that motor make me nostalgic."
Nothing Better To Do
"I'm just interested in it because my father's a contractor. I worked all one summer on a job as time keeper. Of course we had a much bigger scoop than this one. The boom on ours could swing the bucket clear. . . . " Our reporter sneaked away as she went on muttering about cranes, cabs, tractors, etc.
Moving to the end of the line of college kibitizers, our reporter approached a small blond girl. There were very few females around. Nancy Jack, College junior, quickly explained her presence.
Classic comment of the survey came from Carolyn Keith, College sophomore, who answered, "Well, doesn't it do something to you?"
ISA Jake Box Mixer
At Potter's Lake Tonight
Chills up the spine, just like Frankie, no doubt!
All students may attend the ISA juké box mixer at Potter lake from 7:30 to 9 o'clock. Students will dance on the dance slab to recorded music.
In case of rain, the dance will be held in Robinson gymnasium.
Ask The 'Prof' Who Has A Flunkenstein
You Can't Win——
There's a mechanical monster over in 2A Frank Strong hall that daily casts its impartial eye on hundreds of examination papers. They call it "Flunkenstein."
Operated by the guidance bureau, this mass of potentiometers, knobs and vacuum tubes grades true-false and multiple choice exams. When you take one of these fill-in-with- a-graphite-pencil exams, you can be sure that Flunkenstein will grade your paper.
Dr. Turney Will
To Cl-
Conducts Electricity
It works on the idea that graphite conducts electricity. A grading key is set in the machine. Your paper goes into a slot and a dial tells the story. The farther right the needle swings, the higher grade you get.
This product of the machine age has even been designed to fit in with all kinds of evil grading formulas dreamed up by our benevolent professors.
Can't Even Guess
Can't Even Guess
For instance, if the teacher wants to penalize you for guessing, he can stick in a formula that subtracts a fraction (or all) of the wrong answers from the right answers. The prof doesn't even have to do this. Flankenstein does it for him.
Professors wondered recently if the machine age was failing them when a set of exams came back all marked with flunking grades. Always A Formula
It turned out that some professor had forgotten about the formula, and Flunkenstein had gone ahead on the usual assumption that guessers would be penalized.
Maybe by now you have figured out the old angle of filling in all the spaces and getting credit for the ones that are right. Don't try it. Flunkenstein would flunk you. You can't beat the machine.
CORE Will Meet Tonight
The campus chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality will meet in 210 Frank Strong at 7:30 p.m. today. Frank Stannard, chairman, said. Anyone interested is invited to attend the meeting, he said. C. O. R. E., which was organized on the campus in April, has sought to abolish discrimination against Negroes both on and the campus.
The student section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will meet in the Union ballroom at 7:30 p.m. today, Dr. S. A. Miller of the chemical engineering department said today.
Dr. A. H. Turney, director of the Guidance bureau, will speak on "Application of Vocational Guidance Tests."
Awards for several papers prepared by chemical engineering students will be presented at the meeting. Dr. Miller said.
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