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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Avril 12, 1960
What to Say
By Eldon Miller
By Eldon Miller Reprinted From The Kansas State Collegian
BEFORE YOU KIDDIES start for home and the long vacation, Mother Miller would like to give you some advice.
Now, you're going to do a lot of talking while you're home, and it's important for the good of the school that you watch your tongues.
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO James Gunn, the administrative assistant for Kansas university relations, said KU students were fostering poor relations for that school.
"If students spoke honestly about the University, we would have better public relations," Gunn said. "Students go home and they're asked 'How's KU?' and they answer, 'Oh, it's OK,' or 'it's rough,' and that's all."
GUNN POINTED OUT that this type of student comment helps develop bad impressions of KU. "There is a need for public confidence in higher education. Our level of support depends on this." Gunn said.
Gunn said KU is the only institution in the state primarily interested in quality.
That's the trouble with our institution. The administrators don't dictate what we should say when we go home. Consequently, we have no quality here like they're trying to develop at Kansas university.
MIMEOGRAPHED SHEETS of what to say when answering parents' embarrassing questions should have been distributed by the administration. Since this hasn't been done, I'm going to give you answers to questions you might be asked.
And remember, you may disagree with these answers at times, but give them anyway. They're the "favorable" answers, you might say. They're the kind of answers that will let people know this school is interested in quality.
Question: "Why son, you're home already?"
Answer: "Kansas State university is a fine institution with fine students taught by a fine faculty in fine buildings."
Question: "Care for some more of ma's cherry pie, son?"
Answer: "Outstanding administrative supervision provides each student with an excellent balance of study and recreation."
Question: "Care to drive around and look the old town over?"
Answer: "With an eye to the future, Kansas State university is making plans for the time when 90 per cent of all high school graduates will attend college. All that is needed is a complete understanding of the problems and more money from the wonderful parents and other wonderful taxpayers."
Question: "Have you seen any of your old high school friends?"
high school interns.
Answer: "Not wishing to let the wheels of education get stuck in the taxpayer-government-school relationship, Kansas State is prepared to accept direct contributions . . . by cash, check or money order."
Question: "How are you doing in your college courses?"
Answer: "My name is John Henry Quirt. I am a sophomore in mechanical engineering at Kansas State university. That is all I'm required to answer according to University law."
Stevenson Still in Race
By Jane Boyd
The top-running Democratic presidential candidates seem to be Sen. Hubert Humphrey (Minn) and Sen. John Kennedy (Mass) with Sen. Stuart Symington (Mo) and Sen. Lyndon Johnson (Tex) quietly padding behind.
When discussing candidates, however, the Democrats have not dismissed Adlai Stevenson, former Illinois governor and two-time loser for the Democrats.
This 60-year-old world traveler's losses would seem to make him extinct among the political animals, but Stevenson's name is continually mentioned.
HIS DEFEATS were attributed to "snobbishness," which in Stevenson's case could be called the intellectual approach. His speeches showed his great knowledge of
government and his intelligence loomed over the people. He was labeled "snob," and the people voted instead for their war hero.
His campaigns were intellectual campaigns with all the trimmings—polished speeches and Ivy League finesse.
In the 1956 campaign, Stevenson did begin to come down from the balcony and meet more of the people. During the pre-convention campaigning of that year Stevenson began to use some of the tactics of his contemporaries. He began kissing children and patting them on the head. He even tried using imperfect diction.
STEVENSON was constantly criticized for his polished speeches. His supporters told him he spent too much time on his speeches, leaving too little time for him to meet the people. His perfect diction
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also was considered a political debit.
Adlai Stevenson
There is considerable doubt that this lawyer has changed his meticulous ways of speaking and speech-writing. But Stevenson is
remembered and discussed for good reason.
Stevenson is an intellectual, an asset to any government, and a world traveler who has studied foreign governments. He possibly realizes better than many officials now in the State Department the points of tension between the U. S. and many foreign governments.
ONLY LAST year, in a speech in Boston, Stevenson issued a warning to the Russians. He said they were courting war if they failed to see that American public opinion was solidly behind the West Berliners. Certainly Stevenson has not allowed himself to slip behind the curtain of silence which normally surrounds presidential losers.
Stevenson's friends say his political techniques and his difficulties in meeting the people are due to an inner self-consciousness which is found in many men.
In the 1956 campaign, Stevenson was the pioneer in the call for suspension of hydrogen bomb tests. If he were nominated, he (probably) would attack again the "bossism" of the Republican Party.
Stevenson is one "old soldier" who seems to be neither dying nor fading away.
Nixon Again
By Jack Harrison
We have been examining the qualifications and deficiencies of the Republican candidate for President - Richard Milhous Nixon.
Yesterday we pointed out a few of what we consider to be unscrupulous actions by the Vice President. We have some more pertinent facts and opinions to pass on to you today. We are writing in answer to a letter in Thursday's Kansan, written by a young woman who believes Mr. Nixon is the best man for the Presidency.
The late Sen. Robert A. Taft in 1952 spoke of Nixon as "a little man in a big hurry." Taft believed that Nixon had a "mean and vindictive streak" when frustrated and summed up Nixon's personality as one tending to "radiate tension and conflict."
In a Lincoln Day speech in 1956, Nixon boasted of the Republican party advances in civil rights, and said:
"Speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, a great Republican Chief Justice, Earl Warren, has ordered an end to racial segregation in the nation's schools."
FOLLOWING this irresponsible action in dragging the Supreme Court into partisan politics, Nixon was admonished by national leaders and newspaper editors for "overstepping all bounds of propriety."
Columnist Walter Lippman said that "A man who will exploit for partisan purposes such a decision of the Supreme Court does not have within his conscience those scruples which the country has the right to expect in the President of the United States."
William V. Shannon wrote about Nixon in the March issue of "The Progressive." He came to the conclusion that Nixon is not qualified for the Presidency.
"Nixon's record as an executive is a blank page," Shannon wrote. "The speech-making, traveling, hand-shaking and paper-shuffling Nixon has done for more than seven years provide no clues as to what kind of chief executive he would be."
RICHARD ROVERE, noted political writer, has given the following analysis of Nixon's political behavior:
"What stands cut in any consideration of the whole record is the flexibility that suggests an almost total indifference to policy. Nixon appears to be a politician with an advertising man's approach to his work. Policies are products to be sold the public — this one today, that one tomorrow, depending on the discounts and the state of the market. He moves from intervention to anti-intervention with the same ease and lack of anguish with which a copywriter might transfer his loyalties from Camels to Chesterfields."
Nixon learned his political methods from Murray Chotiner, one of the founders of the Madison Avenue political school. One of Chotiner's principles has been:
"IT IS NOT a smear, if you please, if you point out the record of your opponent . . . Of course, it is always a smear, naturally, when it is directed to our own candidate."
The whole business of the Nixon Fund showed Nixon's lack of judgment, among other things. A group of California businessmen contributed to Nixon's political expenses in 1952, and it took an emotional appeal to the public to save the Vice Presidential nomination for the California Senator.
This episode raised the question of whether it is morally right for a U.S. Senator to accept gifts from private interests having a large financial stake in matters on which the Senator speaks and writes.
WE DON'T believe Nixon has the moral courage, leadership ability, sound judgment, strong convictions and integrity which our President must have. But we would like the voters to examine the records and qualifications of all the Presidential hopefuls, and examine them carefully.
An evaluation of the candidates is no simple matter. John D. Voelker, former Michigan justice, pointed out one of the problems when he said:
"If democracy depends upon choice, and choice upon accuracy of data, then I suspect our country may be in for a hell of a fix. For it seems that today the more we hear about our public figures the less we really know them."
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