Wednesday, November 1, 1972
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Prof Hits Campaigns on the Button
By MYLASTARR
Kansan Staff Writer
Campaign fervor moves in four-year cycles for some persons, but for David Welborn, associate professor of political and cultural campaigns are a year-round interest.
Welborn collects political campaign paraphernalia as a hobby.
"Collecting is a tangible link with the
politics of the past," he said. "The items themselves and the signage suggestive of their own power."
Campaign collector's items, which currently fill a fifth-floor showcase in Blake are a small sampling of Welborn's collection. The 800 campaign buttons from past elections
ONE BUTTON from former Kansas Governor Alf Landon's bid for the
Another button advising the electorate to "Vote Communal" is from the Charlene Mummeh.
Dorm Ideas Traded At Big Eight Meeting
presidency in 1838 is framed by gold felt sunflower petals.
University housing was a major topic of concern for business officials Tuesday during the second day of the annual conference of Big Eight admissions, registrar and business officials, Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor of business affairs, said.
The exchange of procedural ideas began Monday and continued through noon Tuesday.
Since residence hall occupancy has an impact on the finances of a university, it is important that they be filled to capacity. Nichter said.
A discussion of budgeting, a chief concern of business officials, centered on the development of a uniform exchange of information, Nitcher said.
The National Center for Managing Information Systems, at Boulder, Colo., has developed ways to unify data exchanged by users so it can be more readily compared, he said.
Ideas for enhancing the attractiveness of the residence halls included additional carpeting, libraries and longer food service hours.
According to Welborn, the rarest button in his collection is a mirror-backed celluloid of Teddy Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson, the Bullmoose party candidates in 1912.
All Big Eight schools have tried some of
the tools of the National Center, Nitcher said, but most had reservations as to whether the systems would solve problems in budgeting.
Women's inter-collegiate sports was recognized as a future competitor for a college of the funds, another said. Conference membership had it to be worked into general funding.
Admissions and registrar officials continued their exchange of ideas on university procedure by comparing individual university procedures.
Agnes K. Barnhill, assistant registrar at the University of Kansas, said the Big Eight officials found that at all the Big Eight schools, once a class closed during enrollment, university officials did not have the authority to reopen it. This authority rests with the department chairman and the dean of the particular school, she said.
Colorado University, Kansas State University, Oklahoma University and Nebraska University offer extra school classes at the Burbull Hills. These terms are offered either fall and spring semesters or between the spring semester and the summer session.
Welborn's collection also includes such campaign jewelry as a rhinestone-studded earring which spells "Ike" in support of Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.
One of the more unusual pieces of jewelry in his collection is a lapel button shaped like a star.
WHILE ADLAI Stevenson was waiting to make a campaign speech, he crossed his legs and exposed the sole of his shoe, which had a hole in it. Welborn explained.
A picture of this was run in the newspapers, and a shoe with a hole in it became one of Stevenson's campaign symbols in the 1952 election, he said,
Old paper items are difficult to find. Weibson said, but his company is a trusted source of information. Kirkley-Garret Hobart campaign of 1896, and a campaign worker manual from the election office.
MEDALLIONS worn around the neck were popular before campaign buttons
Two medallions picturing John C. Freemont, the Free Soil party candidate in the election of 1856, are the oldest items in his collection. Welborn said.
Bandanas decorated with candidates' pictures were sported during the campaign of Teddy Roosevelt and the campaign of James A. Garfield.
The highest price Welborn has paid for an item is $20, but he said that the cost of campaign items has risen greatly since he first started collecting in 1959.
The rarest and most expensive items are from the Democratic campaigns of the 1920s.
"The Democratic Party was weak in the
2008 and there wasn't much money to
produce campaign items." he said.
"A button from the James M. Cox-
Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign of 1920
might cost $1500," he said. "But these items
price only if someone is willing to
price only if someone is willing to
ELBORN CAUTIONED greenhorn
professionals who charge unfair
money for political ads.
"Someone who develops an interest in this kind of collecting before he knows the value of such materials," said Ms. Bohmer.
"It was the old campaign button I had an individual said," and "I bought it as an individual item."
Welborn has been collecting campaign keepsakes for 13 years. His first acquisition was a Tedy Roosevelt button which he bought in a "junk shop" in Indiana, he said.
One dealer Welborn talked to was asking $40 for a box of buttons that was worth only 2% in another case a dealer was asking about 60 per cent more* than an item was worth.
WHEN WELBORN became a collector, he expanded his collection with contributions from friends and students who knew of his interest.
"I lost interest two or three years later," he said. "As more people got interested in campaign items, they got more expensive and harder to find."
Welborn began collecting again about five years ago, he said, and now spends some of his spare time "rummaging around the countryside" in antique shops where he might find campaign items. But he admits his hobby is a casual one.
"I don't go on weekend searches for items like some collectors, do," he said.
Welborn said that campaign methods have made collecting more difficult in remote areas.
"The emphasis is now on techniques that reach the masses," he said. "Producing elaborate buttons, jewelry, matchbooks and emery boards is expensive. A smart camperanger would rather put his money in radio and television time than in emery boards."
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Continued Editorial from Page 4 to others, as a part of a final resettlement. Large irrigation projects in Jordan, Syria and Iraq could produce more than enough farm land for all the refugees. Syria used to be one of the richest Roman provinces and its population today is only a fraction of what it used to be in the Roman era.
The whole Orontes valley, today partly desert, was intensely cultivated and irrigated by Roman engineering skills. The funds spent on arms in the Middle East and a fraction of the oil income of some of the Arab states, will go a long way towards peaceful resettlement of the refugees on newly irrigated farm land with international help.
There is no hope for the refugees with the present AI-Fatah leadership. A new leadership is necessary for the Palestinians, to open a new leaf and to concentrate on future justice instead of on past injustice. War with Israel did not solve the refugees' problems; maybe a peaceful solution by agreement will do the job.
One last remark regarding the KU
International Club. During the present academic year this club has been taken over by the "revolutionaries" of the Arab club and the Iranian club. The present officers of the KU-I Club are presenting their personal political views in public as if they represent the official views of all the membership of KU-I Club. Thus International students from Europe, South America and Israel and other students with opposite political views, cannot find their place in such hostile atmosphere. It is that the strong steps should be taken by the Student Senate to affirm the position of the KU-I Club, like the University of London, who should represent all its International members of all different political views. It should not take any parochial political stands and should not sponsor any political shows, exhibitions and propaganda. The Arab club and the Iranian club could do it in their own name, instead of using the name of the whole International Student Community, who are members in the KU-I Club for social reasons.
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