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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1939
Kansan Comment
How About Roosevelt?
How powerful is unwritten law? What force does precedence have over a notoriously iconoclastic president? What winds will sway the fickle public in regard to a possible and probable third term for Mr. Roosevelt?
Pro:
How sacred is the sacred cow of the number one political tradition, the third term question? Again that bugaboo of American politics has appeared. The question is magnified in proportion at the present time by the European war, for it leaves the President's foreign policy open to the criticism of political expediency.
As to the sanctity of the two-term precedent, an examination of its history shows that it is measurable only in terms of the opposition party's fear. Both parties have raised the precedent-breaking hue and cry when it has suited their purposes.
The precedent might never have been set and subsequently capitalized upon if personal and accidental considerations had not kept Washington from offering his own candidacy for a third time. Historians are agreed that he could have been elected, and he was not, himself, opposed to a third term. In the Constitutional Convention, Washington had opposed limiting the presidential tenure of office on the grounds that such a constitutional provision might and could deprive the country of its greatest leader in an emergency.
Aside from the Roosevelt situation and those factors peculiar to it, the third term question is one often debated but never settled. Its long history began in the days of the Constitutional Convention. Marked differences of opinion on the question left it open for later generations to argue. No limitation on presidential terms was placed in the Constitution.
Woodrow Wilson's party platform in 1912 urged a constitutional amendment favoring a single presidential term, but Wilson dropped the party plank and expressed himself against objective to which it aimed. It was Wilson's contention that the number of terms taken by a president was not important as long as his policies and record were referred to the public every four years.
The loss of prestige with the Congress and elsewhere in the government suffered by an incumbent president who is not allowed by tradition to be a potential candidate for a third term is a further point offered by those who would break down precedent.
Certainly lack of a defined position on the third term question has given the President political capital on which to draw, but political capital which may shift to political explosive. Where precedent and tradition are concerned the American temper is unpredictable.
Con:
The first opposition to a president serving more than one or two terms was expressed by the framers of the constitution when they passed two different resolutions limiting the president to a single seven-year term in office. In the many compromises that preceded the acceptance of the constitution, however, these resolutions were reluctantly put aside.
Nine presidents have declined to be contenders for a third term. Following Washington, who set the third-term precedent, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe each voluntarily retired from office at the end of their second term, thereby firmly entrenching this precedent. Since then Jackson, Grant, McKinley and Coolidge have all faced the third-term problem, but none accepted the invitation. Theodore Roosevelt, the only president to try for a third term, was thoroughly defeated.
Presidents have not been alone in expressing their desires to limit the term of office. Twenty-seven resolutions have been submitted to congress to limit the presidents to two terms and seventy-three to limit then to one term.
Objections to a third term have been deeply rooted in the American Public and their feelings have been recorded in the Gallup polls of the Institute of Public Opinion. In 1936, Dr. Gallup found that 43 per cent of the people were in favor of a third term for Roosevelt; in April 1938, however, this percentage had dropped to 30 per cent. Of this 30 per cent, more than half of the people voting were of the poor or relief class. A poll of the nations Democrats also showed a slight dislike for the third term idea, for 54 per cent were against it.
Besides the third-term precedent, other barriers make the improbability of a Rooseveltian success in 1940 more certain. With the increased power given to the president in the past few years, the cry of "dictatorship" has been raised in many quarters. In early times, our forefathers sought to restrict the president because of their fear of monarchs, as today the fear of the rising dictators in Europe is making the public more cautious in granting the president more powers and more time in office.
Roosevelt has often been pictured as a dictator, and if proposed for another term, the cry of "presidential dictatorship" will undoubtedly rise up to defeat him.
Since Roosevelt's first year in office, private business has been almost solidly in rebellion against the president and government in general. Should Roosevelt again try to be the chief executive, this rebellion would be felt to such an extent that it might bring destruction to the Democratic party, for no party can long endure without the backing of the nation's business.
Until recently, a truce existed between the liberal and conservative Democrats. With the passing of the new neutrality law, however, the brecho has been widened, with Roosevelt and Garner heading the opposing factions. The hatred between the two factions will lend itself to a party failure if Roosevelt is nominated for a third term. It may cease to be the Democratic party and become a Rooseveltian party, for there is little doubt that the conservatives will wollb his nomination.
Roosevelt's refusal to discuss the third term proposal, may well be taken as an indication that he will again break another long established precedent, and to do so will undoubtedly cause him to commit political suicide.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Thursday, Nov. 16, 1929 No. 45
Noticees due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and by mail to: chancellor@uva.edu.
A. S.M.E. There will be an A.S.M.E. meeting at o'clock this evening in room 296 Marvin hall. Ed Holan will give a description of the Grand Coulee project—J. Wray Fogwell, secretary.
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FRESHMAN Y.M.C.A. COMMISSION. The commission will receive $350 from the 25th anniversary of the men's honor of the Memory Center. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Edwin F. Price. A fine program has been arranged. All members are urged to attend.
FRESHMAN W.Y.C.A. COMMISSION: The freshman commission of W.Y.C.A. will meet this afternoon at 4:30 at Honley house. Betty Kribble will lead a discussion with all students; women are invited.-Helen Martin, publicity chairman.
MATHEMATICS STUDENTS. The Math Club will be inviting students to take on "Measurement: Fitting the Gaps in Nature." The meeting, as usual, will be preceded by refreshments in the lounge—Marlow Sholander
NEWCOMERS CLUB: The Newcomers' Club will host a meeting in front of the Pioneer cemetery. In case of rain or cold weather, the meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Aislinn, 1200 Ohio, at 3 o'clock - Gretchen Smith.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. Dr. E. W. Burton Memorial hospital prescribes Tuesday afternoon for disease related mental health problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Walkins Memorial hospital - Ralph 1
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: A special class with limited enrollment is now being formed to help students prepare for the next proficiency examination in English composition. The classes meet at 13pm Tuesday and Thursday. Two vacancies are left. For more information consult the undersigned..J.B. Birtue.
RHADAMANITI. Rhadamanthi will meet at 7:30 tonight in the west end of the Memorial Union ballroom. Charles Wright will discuss the poetry of Sidney Lanier. All are invited—Gordon Brigham, president.
SIGMA XI: The regular November meeting will be on the Kansas chapter of Sigma Xi will be held tonight at 7:30 in Blake hall. The program of the evening will be on October 26, and the lecture is titled *Kansasical Survey*. The following staff members of the Kansas Geological Survey will speak: Dry R. C. Moore, K. G. H. Lowe, E. B. McKay, M. A. Pillard, and Mr. N. Plummer—W. H. Schoewe, secretary.
WESTMINSTER STUDENT FORUM. The regular Sunday evening meeting will be at Westminster hall at 7:30 p.m. David Waterminder will be in charge of a discussion on the subject, "What Does My Religion Say to God?" Mr. McNutt* Jane Younle will lead the worship service; Nate Nelson will sing—Charles Yeomans, president.
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Anderson County-Colony, Treva Thompson; Garnett, M. Clinton Wood; Kincaid, John Weaver McCuslin.
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Fairview, Martina Ann Hall; Hiawatha
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Brown County, Eugene, Harold D. Geyer
Delta Chi, Party at Chapter house 12 p.m.
AUTHORIZED PARTIES
"Fine Arts Fling" in Robinson
Gymnasium. 12 pm.
Gamma Phi Beto, Party at Union Ballroom, 12 p.m.
Wesley Foundation, Reversia Party t Church. 11 p.m.
Kappa Eta Kappa, Dance at Chapter House, 12 pm
Summerfield Scholars, Party in Kansas Room of Union Building, 12 p.m.
Victory? Varsity in Ballroom of Union Building, 12 p.m.
Phi Chi Delta, Dance in Kansas Room of Union Building, 12 p.m.
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Sigma Nu, Party at Barn, 12 p.m.
Roger Williams Foundation (Baptist),
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