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University Daily Kansan Friday, April 8, 1960
Fate of the Relays
The fate of a KU institution lies in YOUR hands. You, as a student of the University, can help the Kansas Relays out of the red and make the world-renowned track meet a success on the financial sheet, as well as on the record sheet.
KU has become recognized as a national track power. Last year the Jayhawkers won the NCAA title to add to their collection of track honors. Now, the big event of the track season at KU is standing on thin, shaky legs.
THE ALL STUDENT COUNCIL has agreed with Coach Bill Easton that students and faculty should be charged 50 cents admission.
Students from other schools will be charged 75 cents. General admission for anyone else will be $1.50. The ASC also urges students to attend and promote the event.
The future of the Kansas Relays depends on sufficient finances. Charging admission is probably the best method of insuring that the necessary money is obtained. Outstanding track and field stars of national and international prominence add class to any college relays. But it costs money to transport athletes from one school to another as well as pay their expenses while on campus.
In addition, the famed athlete must be convinced the school has the best physical facilities available, such as a firm, fast track.
He doesn't want to be defeated by some unknown because he slipped on muddy cinders.
KU is in need of a new track. The one now in use lacks the spring necessary to be considered "fast." Last spring, when the rains and the relays arrived simultaneously, the track was a muddy mess because the water would not drain.
Coach Easton needs money to build a new track.
THE STUDENTS can do more than simply attend the Relays and pay their 50 cents admission. The weekend of the Kansas Relays includes the traditional activity in Memorial Stadium, the Engineering Exposition and the crowning of a queen at the Relays dance. This is an opportune time to bring the folks and friends from the home town to KU.
The death of the Relays would mean the loss of a great tradition. The responsibility lies on the shoulders of the student body. By promoting the Relays, the students can play a major role in keeping this tradition at KU.
— Carolyn Frailey
Humphrey Has 'Most Liberal' Tag Among Demo Candidates
By Carolyn Frailey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 48-year-old United States Senator from Minnesota, is a hard and fast worker, a fluent speaker, and a strict liberal. He is also a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
HUMPHREY HAS exhibited the straightest liberal voting record in his 13 years in the Senate of any of the leading contenders for president, and has been designated by many national political reporters as the "personification of Midwest liberalism."
Hubert H. Humphrey
His pet legislation has included civil rights, disarmament, the Middle East, and foreign economic aid in particular, and social security, housing, agriculture, conservation, education, taxation, public health, and labor-management relations in general. On all of these he has taken a strictly liberal view.
IN A RECENT ANALYSIS of the voting records of Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Stuart Symington, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon by the AFL-CIO. Humphrey received the highest score for consistent liberal voting — 213 out of 214 times.
Humphrey started his crusade on civil rights in 1945 during his election campaign for mayor of Minneapolis, Minn. He introduced the first bill in the Senate to carry out the Civil Rights Commission's recommendation of presidentially appointed registrars in areas where Negroes are denied the right to
vote, and he feels that Congress should implement the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions of 1954.
He is co-sponsor of a bill with Sen. Paul Douglas (D-II) which proposes to implement the desegregation decisions through administrative action and grant authority to the attorney general to bring suits on behalf of individuals whose civil rights have been denied. He also is a strong supporter of fair employment legislation.
ANOTHER MAJOR INTEREST of Humphrey is the distribution of surplus food in foreign countries. This has been a consistent theme of Humphrey throughout his political career. His most recent "Food for Peace" plan was introduced
last year. In 1951, he sponsored a bill for an emergency grain shipment to India, and in 1953, he was a major supporter of a bill calling For Commodity Credit Corp. stocks for famine relief in Pakistan.
As chairman of the subcommittee on disarmament of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has doggedly pursued the goal of genuine security through arms control, rather than the stockpiling of lethal weapons.
IN EDUCATION. Humphrey is looking for a federal college scholarship program based on both merit and need. He also supports a federal student loan insurance program to assist our colleges and universities, and he voted to remove the loyalty oath requirement in the federal student aid program.
In addition to support from the labor unions, Humphrey also can claim a fair chunk of votes from the Americans for Democratic Action and liberal farm organizations and co-operatives, all of which he has supported consistently in legislation. Although he has been ranked behind Kennedy in all pre-election polls, this support might prove to have the strength to win him the convention nomination next summer.
Dailu Hansan
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You don't have to be highly educated or world-traveled or wealthy to become important. The most important individual in history lived only 33 years, never traveled more than 100 miles from home, moved in an area smaller than Connecticut, but still transformed civilization. —Oren Arnold, Presbyterian Life
The liar's punishment is not that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. —Gorge Bernard Shaw
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The clever woman desiring to ensure a man realizes that the best way to get him is to throw away all the traditional feminine weapons and subterfuges, and frankly and openly, yet charmingly, tell him that she likes him. The man thus handled, all folklore to the contrary, is won—and absolutely. —George Jean Nathan in the Smart Set
By Calder M. Pickett
Associate Professor of Journalism
Associate Professor of Journalism AMERICAN HERITAGE April 1960 $3.95
The American Heritage's opinion of its best article in each issue, frequently differs from mine. A publicity sheet sent out with the April issue stresses the second installment of the "America and Russia" series, describing Russia in California, the construction of Ft. Ross in San Francisco, the departure of the Russians in 1842.
This is an interesting slice of history, but the "America faces Russia" theme may be leading us to believe that anything on this subject must be important per se. And there are a number of other articles this month (which is not one of the best months for Heritage) that are easily as interesting, if not more so.
This month's issue contains an article that recalls the excellent diary of the daughter of Secretary Seward, excerpts of which were carried by American Heritage some time ago. The article is a beautiful 16-page section describing the "Grand Tour" taken more than 100 years ago by Fanny Knight, a 16-year-old belle from Natchez. There are photographs of the Pacific, on which the Knight family sailed; statues at London's fabulous Crystal Palace exhibition; the Chamber of Deputies in Paris; Pope Pius IX on his throne; Mt. Vesuvius in eruption; Venice and Pompeii; the towers of the Kremlin; a Cleopatra-type barge on the Nile; and an invitation to the Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans.
ONE OF THEM is by Richard B. Morris of Columbia University, who begins with what some historians might call a "journalistic trick" ("journalistic jargon," some of them like to say) and captures our attention by citing something of contemporary interest. Morris writes of "The Revolution's Caine Mutiny," and grabs us slobs who like popuar level stuff by striking an immediate comparison with the Herman Wouk novel. Moreover, he pursues this comparative approach by showing that the "hero" of his story, Pierre Landais, was the Captain Queeg of the Revolution — a martinet, a paranoiac, a petty tyrant who argued about water and food supplies, and a commander who eventually lost his reputation in a court-martial.
SOMETHING OF MORE RECENT INTEREST is an excellent article on early developments in the motion picture, describing the work of Edison, Edwin S. Porter of "The Great Train Robbery," and, inevitably D. W. Griffith. The writer clearly understands both the social and technological implications of the pioneering movies.
For those Americans who have wondered if the past winter heralds a new Ice Age, the magazine carries a semi-technical article called "Footprints of the Great Ice," with maps and sketches and photographs showing what the glaciers left in Alaska and Yosemite National Park, and the extent to which the great glacier covered America.
"The Coal Kings Come to Judgment," a sociological treatise about the anthracite strike of 1902 and the beginning of the end of "economic feudalism" in America.
"ONE-SHOT WAR WITH ENGLAND," an article by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash) about how a pig in an American potato patch on San Juan island, between British Columbia and Washington territory, almost caused a war.
"THE FEARLESS FROGMAN," the story of a skin-diver of the 1870s who tried to swim the English channel in his rubber paraphernalia
Other articles:
"Children of the Young Republic," story and paintings, all primitive.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler