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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Oct. 27, 1960
Teddy Roosevelt's Navy
Teddy Roosevelt was born 102 years ago today. But today is not known as Roosevelt's Birthday, instead it is celebrated throughout the country as Navy Day — a tribute Roosevelt would have cherished highly.
The image of Teddy Roosevelt today is still complex. He was the great "trust-buster." the heroic leader of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, the impulsive reform leader of New York, the president who carried the big stick.
BUT FEW PEOPLE identify Roosevelt with the United States Navy. Despite all of Teddy's other great accomplishments, and they were many, his contribution toward a stronger and more powerful Navy may have been his greatest. For it was under the spirit and guidance of President Roosevelt that the United States emerged one of the world's three great naval forces, along with Germany and Great Britain.
This power was dramatically exhibited to the world in 1907 when Teddy sent the Great White Squadron of United States battleships on a cruise which was to encircle the globe. The President knew the prestige which accompanied a powerful naval striking force, and he wanted to impress the peoples of the world with the might of the United States.
THERE WAS ONE HITCH — Congress would not appropriate the needed funds for the world cruise. So the fiery leader, characteristically as through life, solved the problem by taking it into his own hands. He took what funds were available and sent the fleet on its way. What could the frustrated Congress do? The United States Navy's fleet was sitting in a foreign port on the other side of the world — it had to be brought home.
Roosevelt's interest in the Navy dated back to four years before he became president. In 1896 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Navy.
For Roosevelt it was a labor of love to promote the efficiency of the American Navy, and to his energy, eminent talents for administration and fervent patriotism, the brilliant success of our fleets in the war with Spain must be attributed to a large measure.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT died 41 years ago. It was three years later in 1922 that his birthday, October 27, was set aside as Navy Day. Its purpose is to educate the people in Navy policy. Addresses are given by public men setting forth the requirements of sea service, the defense value of the Navy and its importance to international affairs.
But the means are drastically different. Aircraft carriers had not come into existence in 1922 and the strength of a Navy was measured in numbers of dreadnoughts. Today dreadnoughts have been moth-balled and carriers have become an advanced weapon of destruction. A new concept of naval strategy has evolved. This is one of massive retaliation based on the new and increasing fleet in Polaris submarines and super aircraft carriers. These weapons systems have no equal in the world. Recently another breakthrough was recorded by the Navy — the atomic carrier Enterprise was launched.
Today the Navy's mission is the same as it was when Navy Day was inaugurated — to preserve the sea lanes for uses in the interests of the United States and to safeguard the interests and territory of the United States.
The United States Navy is the strongest naval force ever built. It is unquestioned master of the seas. Without a doubt, the 800,000 men of the United States Navy and Marine Corps are living up to the tradition of greatness that men such as Teddy Roosevelt helped establish.
— John Peterson
Key Senate Race
Case Favored in New Jersey
By Lynn Cheatum
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Both candidates for the New Jersey seat in the U.S. Senate are liberal intellectuals. Some important factors make the race unusually interesting this year.
The Democratic challenger is Thorn Lord, the lawyer and politician who was largely responsible for rebuilding the state Democratic party after the collapse of Jersey City's Boss Hague.
Lord Boosts Meyner
1953 Lord supported and boosted Robert Meyner in the latter's successful rise to the governorship. Though he has long been active in politics, Lord has never run for office.
He intensely dislikes to be the center of attention and consequently has become known around the Trenton statehouse as "The Spook." He seems completely at ease in small groups but not so in crowds.
Sen. Chifford P. Case is the Republican incumbent. He won the seat first in 1954 after five terms in the House of Representatives. He smoothed over the dissatisfaction in the conservative element of the state Republican party in last April's primary.
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SENATOR CASE
Many conservatives in his own party dislike Case but they have stopped fighting him. Much as they dislike Case, they consider Lord an unthinkable alternative, and do not want to jump out of the frying pan into the fire.
Lord claims he has backing from Sen. John F. Kennedy in the race. It is interesting to observe that while Sen. Kennedy endorses Lord, the 1958 Senate voting record shows that Sen. Kennedy voted the way Case voted on eight of nine major issues. These issues include foreign
Kennedy Backing Lord
aid, social security, unemployment pay, reciprocal trade and management reform.
Case's record has attracted support of many independents and liberal Democrats. The AFL and the CIO, which never merged in New Jersey, have different loyalties. While the CIO endorses Lord, many AFL unions are backing Case.
Case is not campaigning for the party vote as Lord is. He does not mention Vice President Richard M. Nixon in his campaign. But this does not mean that he disapproves of the Eisenhower Administration, for he is the only senator who voted consistently in favor of President Eisenhower's foreign policy in 1958.
Most Democrats admit that a Kennedy landslide is the only thing that might save the senatorial election for Lord. There are several factors in the race which might contribute to this end. The state is expected to be pro-Kennedy, partly because of the large Catholic vote and rising unemployment. The internal problems of the Republican party will probably add to Lord's chances of winning.
When it comes to showdown votes, Case usually votes with Senate Democrats, despite his Republican affiliations.
Lord's Chances Slim
Once in a very great while, a picture is made which leaves the viewer virtually sick with terror. This film by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, is one of these.
PSYCHO: GRANADA: BLACK AND WHITE
At the Movies
The plot cannot be disclosed without spoiling the film's impact, but it can be said that it deals with a personality so horribly twisted that when the dark secrets it contains are revealed in full.
the viewer actually experiences physical shock.
Anthony Perkins is magnificent as Norman Bates, the tormented madman. His sensitivity and ability to delineate the strange and complex personality of Bates coupled with Hitchecock's great talents in carrying a plot, makes "Psycho" the tense and horrifying movie it is.
Flaudits also are in order for a musical score that was completely expressive of the action and tone of the show.
"SO I GAVE HIM BACK HIS OLE FRATERNITY FIN."
By Calder M. Pickett
Acting Dean, School of Journalism
AMERICAN HERITAGE. October 1960. $3.95.
Two of the articles in the new issue of American Heritage have qualities so prosai that one wonders about standards of editorial selection. Surely the story of the disputed election of 1876 and that of the raid by Quantrill on Lawrence in 1863 have become quite ordinary.
Aside from these (and these are good articles, still worth reading), there is much material of interest in the volume. The publicity bureau of American Heritage, aware of the timeliness of anything concerning Russia, feels that six accounts of Americans, quoted in the Large Soviet Encyclopedia and Small Soviet Encyclopedia, are of greatest interest. Probably so. This reader prefers an article called "The Great White City," a beautifully written and illustrated description of the Chicago Fair of 1893.
TO START WITH THE RUSSIAN ARTICLES, WHAT WE have here is a rewriting of American history by 1984-like historians in the Soviet Union. To them, Washington was a bourgeois planter who put down the Shays Rebellion and opposed the French Revolution. Mark Twain was a social critic whose "Tom Sawyer" contrasts "bourgeois society which is based on deceit and hypocrisy with the characteristically free and pure world of the boy."
Jefferson, who spoke kind words about revolution, is partially acceptable to the experts of doublethink in Moscow. The Rockefellers are capitalistic ogres. Theodore Roosevelt is a representative of the rich and Franklin D. Roosevelt a reactionary who speeded up America's drive for war, but became "an outstanding American statesman" in another encyclopedia treatment (presumably after Hitler invaded Russia).
THE OTHER ARTICLE THAT HAS GREAT PHOTOGRAPHIC and cultural appeal describes the magnificent show put on by Chicago in 1893, an architectural looking-back into the past, except for the Louis Sullivan Transportation Building. The fair was the Columbian Exposition, a show that transformed 650 acres on the lakefront into a gleaming city.
Other articles;
"The Bloodiest Man in American History," the story of Quantrill, including a never-published account of the raid on Lawrence, written by a young farm girl.
"With Dana Before the Mast," the story of Richard Henry Dana's writing of "Two Years Before the Mast," and a frank statement that it is unlikely that Dana had ship reforms in mind.
"Pharaoh Had It Easy," by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, the story of four years in the 1870s in which grasshoppers invaded the Great Plains.
"Lincoln Takes Charge," by Allan Nevins, a chapter from the historian's forthcoming volume of "The War for the Union."
"In Defense of the Bald Eagle," a picture editorial pleading for the retention of the big bird as our national symbol.
"The Law to Make Free Enterprise Free," by Thurman Arnold, the famous trust-buster describing that unique and curious law — the Sherman Act.
"The Election That Got Away," a well-illustrated but by now ordinary story of the Hayes-Tilden controversy of 1876.
"ALL THE KING'S HORSES . . AND ALL THE KING'S Men." about a little skirmish that took place before Lexington- Concord at Salem, Mass.
"A Man to Match the Mountains," an article about this little known explorer-geographer of the Pacific Northwest, David Thompson.
"Gems from the Gay Dog's Companion," a charming picture story about the fabulous Police Gazette of the Gay Nineties.