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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 29, 1960
Time to Vote Is Here
The Summer Session Kansan below presents brief sketches on the men running for governor of the state and the U.S. Senate seat at stake in Kansas. It is the hope that as many as possible will vote not only in November but in next Tuesday's primaries.
For Governor
TOPEKA—(UPI)—The Kansas governor's race features a Democratic governor seeking an unprecedented third term and three prominent Republicans looking for a chance to unseat him. Here are the candidates.
DEMOCRAT
GOV. GEORGE DOCKING, the sixth Democratic governor in Kansas history, hung up a record in 1958 when he became the first of his party to win a second term. He announced on his 56th birthday last Feb. 23 he would seek a third.
The Lawrence banker made his first bid for elective office in 1954, winning the Democratic nomination for Governor. But he was defeated by Lt. Gov. Fred Hall in the general election. In 1956 he triumphed over Warren W. Shaw in the general, after turning back former Gov. and Secretary of War Harry W. Woodring in the primary. He was unopposed in the 1958 primary and defeated Clyde M. Reed Jr. that November.
Docking, born in Clay Center, received an A.B. in economics from the University of Kansas in 1925. He worked as a bond salesman before going into banking in Topeka. He soon joined his father in the First National Bank at Lawrence and became its president in 1942. He now is chairman of the board of the Union State Bank of Arkansas City.
Docking and his wife, Virginia, have two sons, Robert, president of the Union State Bank in Arkansas City, and George, a Kansas City, Kan., lawyer.
REPUBLICAN
WILLIAM H. BILL ADDINGTON of Wichita, the first to announce for the governorship, is a former paratrooper who has been trooping the state in pledge to hand out 250,000 campaign cards.
Addington, 36. was elected state representative from Morton County in 1958 after serving as Highway Commissioner from 1955 to 1957.
A 1948 political science graduate of the University of Kansas after attending Wentworth Military Academy, he owns a four-million bushel grain elevator in Elkhart and a 100,000-acre ranch in Wyoming.
His wife, Donna, is a former National Committeewoman of the Kansas Young Republican Federation and now is co-director of region 7 of the Young Republican National Federation.
The Addingtons have one son, Mark, 19.
JOHN ANDERSON JR., currently state Attorney General, has 14 years of public service under his belt at the age of 43.
A native of Olathe, he was graduated from the University of Kansas Law School in 1944.
Anderson was a law clerk for two years for Walter A. Huxman, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, before being elected county attorney of Johnson County in 1946. He was re-elected in 1948 and 1950, and became state senator from Johnson County in 1952. He served in the Senate until appointed Attorney General in March, 1956. Anderson subsequently was elected to the office in 1956 and re-elected in 1958.
He married Arlene Auchard of Lawrence in 1943 and they now have three children.
McDILL HUCK BOYD, whose name is mentioned here last only because it oddly comes last in the alphabet, is a newspaperman making his first bid for elective office.
Boyd, 53, is publisher of the Phillips County Review at Phillipsburg. He is former president of the Kanssds Press Association, the State Highway Association, and former chairman of the State Board of Regents.
Boyd has long been active in community and party affairs. He served in national GOP headquarters in 1936 and in state headquarters in 1938, 1940, 1946, 1948 and 1952.
The current campaign, however, marks his first venture as a candidate.
His wife also has been active as a community and party worker and currently is treasurer of the sixth district Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs.
For Senator
TOPEKA—(UPI)—Primary battles face both parties in the race for U.S. Senator from Kansas. But a spirited campaign by two well-known Democrats overshadows for interest the Republican race between the incumbent and a newcomer. Here are the candidates.
—REPUBLICAN—
ANDREW F. SCHOEPPEL, the incumbent, is a two-time governor of Kansas seeking a third term in the Senate.
Schoeppel, 66, was born on a Barton County farm and graduated from Ransom High School. He attended the University of Kansas for two years before enlisting in the Naval air service in World War I. Following the armistice, he entered the University of Nebraska, receiving a law degree in 1922.
Schoeppel's political career began in Ness County, where he served as county attorney mayor, councilman, city attorney and member of the school board.
He was chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission from 1939 to 1942, when he won the governorship. He was returned to the office in 1944 by a record majority, carrying all 105 counties.
Schoeppel was first elected to the Senate in 1948 and re-elected six years later. He was named to the interstate and foreign commerce committee and the select committee on small business.
HENRY P. CLEAVER of Lawrence, is making his initial campaign for public office.
A farmer and landowner, he has been active in the affairs of the Quaker church and the state Republican party.
Cleaver is a graduate of Baker University, Baldwin, with a major in history. He attended Washburn Law School in Topeka for one year and has one year of radio and television training at the University of Kansas.
He served in the army during World War II and in the occupation of Germany.
Cleaver lists his qualifications as experience in finance, farm problems, industrial problems, labor and management problems and international affairs.
—DEMOCRAT—
JOSEPH W. HENKLE SR., currently is serving his second term as lieutenant governor, the only elective office he has held. He is the first Democrat to win two terms in the office.
Henkle, who will be 56 Aug. 26, is a native of Ponca City, Okla. He came to Kansas in 1915, working for a meat packing firm in McPherson before going into the lumber business at Dodge City in 1929.
Two years later he joined Natural Gas Pipe Co. of America and remained 14 years with the company, becoming main operations engineer.
In 1944, Henkle joined the Navy but was discharged a year later with a service-connected disability. Returning to Kansas, he started the Henkle Lumber & Hardware Co. at Great Bend.
FRANK THEIS, current Democratic National Committeeman for Kansas, takes a long record of party service into the senatorial campaign.
Theis now is chairman of the 14 state Democratic midwest conference and has been chairman of the state party committee, a member of the national advisory committee on political organization, president of the state Democratic clubs and president of the Young Democratic Clubs of Kansas.
He resigned as state democratic chairman this year to run for the senate.
The 49-year-old Democrat has held offices as city attorney in his hometown of Arkansas City, chief council for the office of Price Stabilization in Kansas and as attorney for the State Tax Commission.
Theis was born in Yale, Kan., and graduated with honors from the University of Kansas in 1933. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1936.
Theis and his wife, Marjorie, have two children, Franklin, 18, and Roger, 11.
By Calder M. Pickett
Associate Professor of Journalism
MARTIN EDEN, by Jack London. Dell Laurel Books, 50 cents.
It is likely that one can learn more about the complex Jack London from this novel than from any other. It is generally considered to be autobiographical, and it is one of American literature's more telling descriptions of the pangs of a writer.
In this fascinating story appear the many threads that constitute the philosophy — if that is the word — of Jack London. In his time he was considered one of the important names in literary naturalism. Time has marred his reputation somewhat, but he is a vigorous and vibrant figure.
"MARTIN EDEN," like London himself, was an adventurer gold-seeker, cowboy, common sailor, hoodlum, oyster pirate, South Seas adventurer, Barbary Coast tough. Like London he came to know the great world of literature and ideas, and to revel in it.
And in that world he learned especially from Herbert Spencer, who was riding high in the early 20th century as the darling of the Social Darwinians; from Nietzsche; from the idealists, though he could not accept their philosophy. Eden — and London — was Darwinian, materialist, socialist and a bit of a Fascist. He believed firmly and absolutely that the fittest survive, but to him the fittest was not a money-lender.
London put Spencer and Nietzsche together and got this: "The world belongs to the strong — to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the non-compromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.'"
Shades of Hitler. Or there is this description:
"THE SPEAKER, A clever Jew, won Martin's admiration at the same time that he aroused his antagonism. The man's stooped and narrow shoulders and weazened chest proclaimed him the true child of the crowded ghetto, and strong on Martin was the age-long struggle of the feeble, wretched slaves against the lordly handful of men who had ruled over them and would rule over them to the end of time. To Martin this withered wisp of a creature was a symbol. He was the figure that stood forth representative of the whole miserable mass of weaklings and inefficients who perished according to biological law on the ragged confines of law. They were the unfit."
Martin Eden is like the dog Buck, of "The Call of the Wild" — the brute; the superman like Wolf Larsen of "The Sea Wolf." Yet he also is the tender, compassionate socialist, the lover of mankind, a figure as paradoxical as Jack London himself.
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY, by G. K. Chesterton, Capricorn books, $1.15.
By M. K. McKinney
Asst. Instructor of English
The subtitle of this book is "A Nightmare."
The author doesn't tell us whether the adventures herein related were a nightmare that happened to Gabriel Syme, a poet, but he does hint at it strongly in the last two paragraphs. The story tells of his adventures with a group of anarchists named after the days of the week. After insinuating himself into one of their meetings, he is elected Thursday. The rest of the story tells of his finding out who the others are.
I WOULD RECOMMEND this book to anyone who likes language and to anyone who likes a good mystery. This isn't just another detective story (and I don't mean this perjoratively); it has a good deal more in it than what one usually finds in the ordinary whodunit. When we find out just who the president of the anarchists is, we aren't sure about what he represents. But it is fun speculating.
I don't want to give any more hints about the plot. I found it interesting all the way through. I found myself being drawn to the very end — irresistibly and rapidly — then I reread the story more leisurely to see how Chesterton put together his plot and to examine his paradoxes and other manifestations of a brilliant style. At times I found myself paying more attention to his words than to what was going on. For example, we are told, "An artist is identical with an anarchist . . . You might transpose the words anywhere."
By Jon Muller
THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B, by John Chadwick, Modern Library Paperback, $0.95.
The decipherment of an unknown or unidentified written language can be an achievement of the utmost importance in the study of ancient peoples. Linear B is the name given to one of the scripts used by the ancient inhabitants of Crete, and the decipherment of this script gives us a key to discover the manner of living of the people of this early Western European civilization.
Many attempts had been made to discover the language used in Linear B and to decipher the writing, but all of these attempts proved fruitless prior to the decipherment by Michael Ventris in 1952.
CERTAIN OBVIOUS ideographic signs gave clues to the meanings of some words but the occurrence of these signs was not large enough to supply more than a hint. One of the first steps in the rigorous analysis was the identification of the script as syllabic. This rather elementary deduction was drawn from the number of signs (87); too few for ideograms and too many for an alphabet. Eventually, values were assigned to several signs. That the language was Greek was a shock to almost everybody, including Ventris, the decipherer.