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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 3,1947
Necessary Element In the Atomic Formula
—From the St. Louis Star- Times
Kansan Comments
Bombs Away
David Lilienthal, according to Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, is an "unprincipled crusader for what he perhaps thinks is in the public interest." It is good to know that there is someone in the political picture who even thinks of the public interest—it sometimes seems that votegetting is the major function of American government.
Even if Mr. Lilienthal were an unprincipled crusader, isn't that better than being an unprincipled self-promoter? Just how a man can be an unprincipled crusader and still be "too soft" in dealing with public affairs, Mr. Taft has not shown.
The investigation has cut across party lines and has even upset the harmony of Republican leadership. Forty senators, including 13 Republicans and 27 Democrats, have declared an inclination to confirm Mr. Lillienthal's appointment as chairman of the Atomic Energy commission. Twenty-two Republicans and six Democrats are against confirmation. Eighteen Republicans and nine Democrats have not indicated how they will vote.
Opposing confirmation are Senators Taft, Moore, Bridges, Wherry, Kem, Brooks, Brewster, Bushfield, White, Flanders, Ecton, Robertson (Wyo.), McKellar, Stewart, O'Daniel, and Overton.
Those supporting Mr. Lilienthal are Senators Aiken, Lodge, Tobey, Morse, Hatch, Myers, McMahon, Sparkman, Ellender, Hill, Kilgore, Magnuson, Barkley, Pepper, Thomas (Utah), Lucas, Green, Murray, Wagner, Taylor, Tydings, and Chavez.
Evidence of Mr. Lilienthal's communistic connections became so vague that the committee imposed a rule of relevancy for further testimony. Such arguments as that of Mrs. Parris, that her son had been
denied a job with TVA in 1939 because he was not a communist, hardly seem logically brought up now for the first time.
While the investigation drags into its fifth week, atomic scientists are getting "disillusioned and disgusted," according to a letter to Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of the Atomic Energy committee. Dr. Karl Compton wrote that rejection of Mr. Lilienthal would be "a very serious blow to our future progress in the atomic energy field, especially in the direction of its practical application to industrial and military objectives."
Casting suspicious glances at Russia for continuing her atomic research is hardly a sensible way to arrange international security. It s.eems much better to have done with juvenile bickering and put the explosive question in the hands of the man who has proved himself a competent administrator.
At a union open house at the University of Utah, students will get acquainted with their student government and be served free beer. Maybe something like this would encourage participation in K. U. elections.
New indictments are being brought in Chicago against persons charged with trafficking in counterfeit ration stamps. What an unrefined way to get sugar!
The president of an American clothing designers' association is advocating red suits for men. Can it be that big business is going communist?
The founding fathers who built this university on the hill for health should see the way some persons drive on 14th street when it's icy.
Little Things
The tragedy in the Purdue grandstand last week occupied most of the front page of the Exponent. Stories described the wooden structure collapsing with 5,000 spectators; two students killed and 200 injured; quiet heroism.
A tiny item in black type near the bottom of the page said "All articles lost last night in the fieldhouse may be picked up today in room 110."
It is this that makes man's life bearable—the idea that small things always will matter. Fear, sorrow, and pain of battered flesh at the moment must eventually be less important than a set of chemistry notes, a favorite compact, or mittens someone's grandmother knitted.
Because man is such a minute creature, the magnitude of life would be appalling if he could comprehend it. That is why it is right that he should think in terms of his own circle of friends, his vocation, and what he is going to eat for dinner. Honesty, fairness, and generosity on a small scale are necessary foundations for any far-reaching good.
Students at a university often forget the little things. They are acutely aware of all the world's woes, of the billions of scientific facts which exist, of the hopeless diversity of needs, actions, and morals of mankind.
No individual can hope to cover such broad territory thoroughly. He is likely to be much happier by realizing that in the first place, and translating his ideals into concrete, possible things.
Everyday living should not be all dedicated to some gigantic future accomplishment, or one may find the completed purpose too vast to enjoy. If the thing you set out to do is your right task, each small part will bring its own satisfaction.
Don't save all your living for tomorrow; take time now for the little things.
Republican-Democrat Wrangle Warms House of Representatives
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington—(UP)—The capital's biggest blizzard in years was raging. Four full inches of white had fallen. Bureaucrats were penning hurried orders letting the clerks off early so they could fight their way home through the storm.
Nobody, he said, has greater affection for his Democratic colleagues than himself. Only they've got poor memories. He read a dozen laws under the New Deal which he said were adopted under the no-amendment gag.
Only trouble with 'em, he said, is that they rushed through a gag rule, making it impossible for any lawmakers to seek an amendment to the budget resolution. In all his years on the committee, he said, the Democrats never did try that. Haw-haw-haw, went the Republicans. Rep. Clarence Brown, Ohio, a member of the committee under Sabath and a member now, jumped up.
And there in the House of Representatives, oblivious to the wintry horrors without, were the Republicans making love to the Democrats. And, of course, vice-versa. Made you think of springtime, fresh violets and a big white moon.
The second act of this drama of hearts and kisses found the elderly Adolph Sabath, Democrat, Chicago, the ex-head of the Rules committee, telling about what fine gentlemen he considered the Republican members.
Rep. Sam Rayburn, Texas, the former speaker, paid a tribute first to the Republicans. Look at 'em, he said, sitting there so smug, think-nig they were smart for steamrollering the six billion dollar budget slash through the house. His next words were these:
"I just want to say to my colleagues who have not yet served under a Republican majority: this is not all. You will get more of this generous treatment as we go along. Why, I wouldn't be surprised . . . "
"No wonder these gentlemen want to stand up," muttered Rayburn, apparently forgetting that he was grousing into the microphone. "They want to protect themselves."
Bang, bang, bangety-bang, went the gavel of Republican speaker Joe Martin, Massachusetts. Rayburn's bald head flushed scarlet. He said his time was not, either, up. What did Martin mean, trying to silence him?
Martin said he wasn't trying to put the quietus on the gentleman from Texas; he merely was banging for a little order in the place. And would the gents in the rear of the chamber kindly sit down?
Northwestern Expands World Peace Group
Adalai Stevenson, U. S. delegate to the United Nations general assembly, was to have charge of the flag-raising ceremony. Besides the American flag was the banner designed for possible adoption by the U. N. by Time magazine artist Artzybasheff. The flag shows a rainbow symbolizing colors from the flags of every nation, on a white ground, ground.
The World Republic organization at Northwestern university dedicated its new headquarters in Evanston Ill., Saturday.
The movement, formerly called Students for Federal World Government, began 10 months ago and includes membership outside the student body. The three-story building is planned eventually to contain presses, a broadcasting studio, research library, offices, cafeteria, and dormitory for 30 full-time staff members.
"Including the NRA," he thundered. "Remember that one, Mr. Sainbath? That was the sick chicken law."
"Six million dollars is not enough of a cut for you members of the minority," Brown continued, ignoring Clark. "You ought to be grateful. Why, we might have made it seven and a half billion."
Sabath sat in his chair, meaning protests. He tried to interrupt, but Brown wouldn't let him. Rep. J. Bayard Clark, North Carolina, another Democrat, with a louder voice than Sabath's, yelped a further request for Brown to yield.
"Mr. Speaker," screamed Clark.
And so on. The harmony between the two parties was demonstrated the rest of the afternoon. Only I didn't stay. I was afraid of being snowbound with the affectionate congressmen and I didn't want to be socked by mistake.
"Nope," said Brown, looking his way for the first time. "I will not yield to you. I do not believe the gentleman can contribute anything at this point."
Where Is SSO?
The Sunflower Students organization is dead. It has 525 members in name only. Although SSO was formed originally by men living at Sunflower Village and dormitories alone, today its members living in Oread and McCook halls claim to have the identical problems as its members at Sunflower Village.
This is illogical reasoning. The two groups don't even live within 12 miles of each other.
The SSO stirs up so much interest among its "members" that at a recent SSO election in Oread hall, a candidate representing 40 men was unopposed. The campaign manager of this unopposed candidate, in order to get the men to vote, had to see all of them personally in their own rooms and have them cast their votes there.
So much interest was stirred up by the SSO that its members would not vote voluntarily. So why give the organization any representation at all on the All-Sudent council?
College Freshman
(Name withheld by request)
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