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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 31. 1960
No KU Watchbird
One of our popular "togetherness" magazines features a section which gives advice to kiddies and adults alike on observing the everyday amenities. "There is a watchbird watching you," says the article. The feathered sage then indicates his approval or disapproval of various social practices.
EVERY DAY STUDENTS wade through cigarette butts, candy wrappers, empty milk cartons and other debris as they walk through the corridors of classroom and office buildings. Most, if not all, of the mess is their own doing; so they can walk on without being too concerned.
The readers of this magazine may have a watchbird watching them, but students at KU don't. Perhaps we could use one, if student neglect of campus property and buildings is any indication.
We have seen students toss trash on the floors of campus buildings when a container was a step or two away. The regard students have for their school is easily measured by comparing the contents of the trash cans with the litter on the floors. The former are often empty, but a clean floor is rare enough to be noticeable.
Students seem to think that they needn't
bother with observing the conventional rules of tidiness; after all, what do we have janitors for?
We have janitors to keep our buildings clean, this is true. But their presence does not excuse students from observing the same rules they would if they were in their own homes. How many doting parents excuse ashes on the rug or rubble piled up in corners?
And the great majority of these stop work on Friday afternoon and do not return until Monday. Meanwhile, the trash piles up over the weekend as students continue to use buildings for Saturday classes and extra-curricular activities. Monday's dawn finds the campus looking like some vast, ivy-covered dumping ground.
ALSO, WE DO NOT have enough janitors to handle normal activities, much less the extra work they must do to clean up after litterbugs. We are allowed 71 janitors. We have 48.
The students just don't seem to care, and the administration cannot be expected to police the corridors. What we need is to be reminded that these are public places we are using. If the individual couldn't care less about filth, he might at least consider the feelings of other students who prefer cleanliness.
— Bill Blundell
Democrats Lead in New Mexico
But Gubernatorial Race Close
By John MacDonald
It looks as if the Democrats are going all the way in New Mexico.
on the way in New Mexico. Reports from three of the state's leading newspapers and other large daily newspapers indicate that despite an open rift within the heretofore efficient state Democratic Party machine, the Kennedy backers are on their way to an impressive victory Nov. 8.
Polls taken in the state indicate that Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy is leading Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in the race for the state's three electoral votes.
On the state scene, the battle for governor between incumbent Gov. John Burroughs and former Republican Governor Edwin L. Mechem has the state's political experts as well as the party leaders perplexed.
Gov. Burroughs appears to have a slight lead over Mechem despite the fact that the state's senior senator, Dennis Chavez, has severely criticized the governor for his "non-support" of Kennedy.
Anderson Avoids Feud This intra-party feud has taken the spotlight away from the other state races. Also involved in the political squabble are races for a
United States senator, two congressmen, and other state officials and members of the state legislature.
Democrat Clinton Presba Anderson, 64, seeking his third term as U.S. senator, to have avoided the hot party feud. His conservative opponent, William Frank Colwes (pronounced Callwes), 47, is a civic leader and retired Pontiac dealer from Santa Fe. Colwes is scarcely known outside Santa Fe and is given little chance of upsetting the seasoned Anderson.
So far Colwes has shown little drive or political fighting ability. He seems to be depending almost entirely upon the state Republican party machine to carry his cause to the public. His campaign strategy has been to capitalize on the tremendous public interest in the gubernatorial race, appearing with the leading candidates for state offices at the party campaign rallies.
Colwes' main line of attack, since the start of the senate campaign race, has been to accuse Anderson of using his position and money to reap personal gain and of neglecting his duty to the people of New Mexico.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Other state Republican political hopefuls, too, are striking out at the Democratic candidates, charging that the Anderson-Burroughs-Johnson (Sen. Lyndon B.) faction showed inadequate leadership and authority in Los Angeles when the party platform was adopted and in the late-summer session of Congress.
SHE'D MAKE YA SWELL'BLIND DATE! ASK WORTHAL I FIXED HIM LIP WITH HER EARLIER THIS EVENING.
Anderson openly defied the Democratic party leader, at the convention when he voted against the platform because of what he called a "bad farm plank."
Incumbent Unconcerned
So far Anderson has paid little attention to charges hurled from the Republican camp. He gives the impression, by ignoring the GOP charges, that he is not worried.
His campaign slogan, "Succeed with Seniority," and the support of the state Democratic party machine, is effectively carrying the message of the senator's activity in Congress.
Anderson's career in Washington began in 1940 when he was elected to the House of Representatives. In 1945 he was appointed by President Truman to be secretary of Agriculture, a position he held until 1948 when he resigned to run for the U.S. Senate. He was elected in 1948 and again in 1954.
The 64-year-old senator is campaigning on his laurels. His activity in Congress is conceded by the Republicans.
In the second session of the 86th Congress Anderson;
- Supported the Administration on civil rights;
- Supported the President in defeating the increased minimum wage bill:
- Voted with the President on providing $140 million for the Mutual Security program;
- Supported President Eisenhower in opposing higher farm (wheat) price supports;
- Voted to override the presidential veto on area redevelopment to help depressed areas:
- Voted for postal and federal employee's salaries;
- Proposed an amendment to the Social Security law, providing medical benefits for all Social Security retirees 68 years old and over, to be financed by an increase in the Social Security payroll tax. (This is the law which Sen. Kennedy wants to implement.)
Anderson's biggest splash in the 86th Congress, as far as publicity goes, was his personal battle against Senate ratification of Lewis L. Strauss as U.S. secretary of Commerce. Much publicity was given to the battle. Many publications described the senator from New Mexico as "The man who defeated the President," as a result of his success in spearheading the Senate's denial of the appointment.
EATON DAILY KANSAN
"I told you, old chap - they really are restless tonight!
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From the Bookshelf
A Child and the Bomb
"On that sixth of August I wasn't going to school yet. At the time, I was playing in front of the public bath near home. Then Seichan said, 'Please go to the garden and pick some flowers.' So I was on my way to get them. All of a sudden there was a big flash and I was scared and tried to go back to the house. And all of a sudden a lot of needles got in my eyes. I couldn't tell where anything was. When I tried to go toward the house I bumped into the front door. When I opened my eyes everything was darkish. Then Grandma rushed out with Keika-chan on her back. I followed Grandma. We went toward our bomb shelter.
"My young big sister was already inside the shelter so the four of us huddled together. Then my older big sister came running in and we huddled together again. That older big sister was old enough so that she had already gone to work at a bakery; our mother had already died from illness.
"Father, who had been working with the Volunteer Labor Group, came back and was looking to find where we were. When she heard him, my big sister went out and took Father's hand and led him to the shelter. Father was burned all over above his hips. When Sister and the other people saw it they were all scared. A stranger spread some oil on his body for him.
"In my heart I thought, 'Thank you.'
"After that we went away to Fuchu in the hills. In a broken temple we put up a mosquito net and we lay down there. We stayed here for a long time. After a while other people began to go back to their homes so we went home too. When we got back we found that the glass was all broken, the chests were all toppled over, the family altar was tipped over, the shoji were torn, the roof tiles were broken and the plaster had fallen off the walls. We all helped to clear it away and laid Father there. After about sixty days, in the middle of the night, Father called to Grandma and said he wanted to eat a sweet potato. Grandma said, 'All right,' and cooked the sweet potato.
"Father, the potato is ready,' she said and looked at him, but he did not answer. I touched his body and it was cold, and he was already dead. Dear Father, dear Mother, good-bye."
(From the book "Children of the A-Bomb," published by Uchida Rokakuho Publishing House, Tokyo; a collection of compositions written by children who experienced the dropping of the Atom bomb on Japan. This selection was written by Tomoyuki Satoh.)
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