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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Oct. 20. 1960
Lodge to Hit Key States
By Lyle C. Wilson
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Henry Cabot Lodge is the surprise package of this Presidential campaign. Evidence accumulates that Lodge is as important to the Republican ticket as is Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
For example, when the chips are down in the concluding weeks of the campaign, Lodge will be given the job of making New York state safe for Republicanism. He is to be assigned five days of campaigning in New York.
REPUBLICAN STRATEGISTS say that the ticket carrying the five or six top industrial states will win the election. Those are the areas in which Lodge has been heavily exposed with more to come, especially in New York.
The Democratic Vice Presidential nominee's principal responsibility is the opposite of Lodge's. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex) was added to the Democratic ticket in a bid for the South. For Johnson, Democratic strategists want a minimum exposure in the North and a maximum exposure in the South and Southwest.
The left wing of the Democratic party with command posts in the great northern cities resented Johnson's nomination and said so. There was resentment in the South, too. But the resentments of northern left wingers and southern conservatives were on conflicting grounds.
SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVES resented Johnson's collaboration with a New Deal-Fair Deal presidential candidate and his endorsement of a far left-of-center platform. The clamor of northern protest against Johnson has subsided. His achievement has been more positive in the South.
Outside Virginia and Mississippi the top Democratic office holders are supporting the Kennedy-Johnson ticket although many of them reject in anger the Democratic platform. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va) and Gov. Ross D. Barnett of Mississippi are balking. Byrd is withholding endorsement of the Democratic presidential ticket. Earnett is in active opposition.
The consensus of pulse-feelers in the South is that Johnson, so far, has done a pretty good job of preventing a break-away in that area.
Conservatism Is YAF Aim
A conservative youth organization has announced its formation.
The new organization, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), announced its formation in New York. The group is dedicated to the political realization of conservative principles.
The YAF plans to establish local chapters on hundreds of college campuses throughout the U.S. The organization is non-partisan and will not endorse any political party.
However, YAF will endorse any candidate in either major political party whom they believe will be a true conservative.
Roy Laird Discusses Red's Power in Article
"The growth of Soviet power on the world scene, particularly since World War II, has been so great that there is a temptation to regard each milepost marking the progress of the battle as an advance of the Soviet cause."
This is the view taken by Roy D Laird, assistant professor of political science, in an article from the Bulletin of the Governmental Research Center.
"In the face of the growing Soviet challenge, there is reason to believe that with each change in the passing scenery the tenure of traditional Western Civilization, and its freedoms, grows less secure, while its spawn, Soviet Communism, becomes more mighty." he continued.
Painted, Shaved Student to Sue
An attorney for a Kansas State student said yesterday he will seek damages for his client who, he said, was painted and feathered by members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Donald Beaver, Strong City, Kan. was caught by members of the fraternity about one o'clock October 14 as he tried to paint a sign at the rear of the fraternity house.
According to John Fay, attorney for the student, Beaver's head and eyebrows were shaved and paint applied all over his body before feathers were added. Then, he said, the fraternity members took him outside their chapter house, kicked him and told him to run.
Mr. Fay was extremely critical of the university tribunal, which put the student on probation following its hearing Monday night. The attorney said the university tribunal hearing was an inquisition with Beaver being subjected to vicious questioning.
Sen. Kennedy Leads In New York Poll
NEW YORK — (UFI) — The New York Daily News reported today that the first returns of its secret straw poll indicated that New York State was closely divided between Sen. John Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
The News said that on the basis of 2.821 ballots tabulated, 51.1 per cent of the vote was for Kennedy and 48.0 for Nixon. The News added, however, that the ballots counted so far represented only 10 per cent of the 30,000 planned to be counted before election day, and the results so far were too fragmentary to be definitive.
Speech Contest Set For Next Thursday
The preliminary speeches for the Campus Problems Speaking contest will be held between 4 and 6:30 p.m. next Thursday in 118 and 102 Strong Hall.
This contest is open to all undergraduate students. The speech time limit is six minutes.
The finals for the contest will be held at 8 p.m. Nov. 2, in Strong Auditorium. The two top speakers will be given trophies. The contest is sponsored by the speech department.
STEVE CLARK
Wishes to Announce His Candidacy For
FRESHMAN PRESIDENT
He feels that public opinion is important even in totalitarian states.
PROFESSOR LAIRD wrote that such an opinion is to be expected in the face of the tensions that are a part of our modern world.
"As far as one cart tell, the Russian people had come to regard our President as a man of peace, one who would sit down with the Soviet Premier and work out the paths to be followed that would ease the tensions," he wrote.
"I Will Appreciate Your Support"
"THIS IS a dangerous business and we can only hope that in the coming months Khrushchev retains his balance and does not push too hard. Moreover, in our actions we must be especially careful to maintain our sobriety if the world is to survive another spring," he concluded.
"I do not believe that war is going to break out before the first of the year, but I do feel we are nearer than at any time since the death of Stalin in 1953."
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Badges, Rings, Novelties, Sweatshirts, Mugs, Paddles, Cups, Trophies, Medals
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AL LAUTER
Marine Selection Team at KU
Capt. C. L. McKay of the U.S. Marine Corps and a Marine Officer Selection team will be at the University of Kansas Monday through Wednesday to answer questions of potential candidates for commissions. The team will be in the Kansas Union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each of the three days.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance—Terence
Washburn Holds '60 Homecoming
Homecoming festivities to be held this weekend at Washburn University of Topeka will include two building dedications and a science convocation.
Other homecoming activities include the Annual Law Day and the Candlelight Parade, to be followed by a Washburn University-St. Benedict's College football game and a homecoming dance.
College Students
Now spend your weekends dancing to the top live bands in the area
BY POPULAR DEMAND: ALL YOUR FAVORITE BEVERAGES
- 80 x 60 NEW DANCING FLOOR
— ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG ADULTS
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Six miles south of Highway 10 on 50 Highway at the red and yellow blinker lights
FEATURE FLAVOR FOR OCTOBER PICK UP A HALF GALLON AT YOUR ICE CREAM DEALER TODAY.
Lawrence Sanitary
Milk & Ice Cream Co.
202 West 6th
Phone VI 3-5511