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University Daily Kansan Thursday. April 2.1959
It's Up to Candidates
Campus elections are less than two weeks away. And we are still scanning the skies for signs of the individual candidates and their campaigns.
We urge students to vote, but can we justly expect them to make the wisest use of this right unless the candidates give the voters something on which to base their decision?
We have all heard the advice, "Get to know your candidates." This year we propose, "Candidates, get to know your voters. Then they will know you in return."
Students are uncommonly busy citizens of the University community. They cannot seek out each candidate to determine who will be the best qualified representative on the All Student Council or in a class office. But the candidate should feel the obligation to make himself known to the students through his living district or school. If elected, he will then be in closer contact with those students he represents and be more able and effective in acting in their interest.
So far in election preparations we have seen the list of candidates and the announcement of one
party's platform. Candidates cannot ride into office on the coattails and glory of their campus political party.
This is not the time to deal in political parties. To vote a straight ticket in a campus election is even more absurd than in a national election. No one party can boast all the qualified candidates. It is only the uninformed voter who votes a straight ticket.
Therefore, The Daily Kansan proposes to take no sides in the election. It will support clean, fair campaigning, and it will take a stand on sound basic issues regardless of party.
But we would like to see vigorous campaigning throughout the remaining pre-election days.
An informed student body will elect a responsible Council and class officers. These responsible representatives and officers will produce an efficient, effective student government for the 1959-60 school year.
But it remains the responsibility of each candidate to get to know his voters so these voters can go to the polls informed.
—Pat Swanson
No Excuse for Unemployment
Labor Department figures for March show 4,700,000 workers are jobless. This is approximately 7 per cent of the total U.S.labor force.
Economists consider 3 per cent unemployment normal and unemployment over 6 per cent as a signal of national distress.
The high unemployment exists despite the fact that the business economy is moving into high gear since the 1957-58 recession. Two main reasons advanced for the paradox are automation and the trimming of unnecessary jobs during the depression.
These are reasons, but not justification, for unemployment. There can be no justification, for the federal government has been committed to the control of unemployment since 1946.
Automation should not be permitted to cause unemployment, but rather to increase production. Automation is the means which can free workers from routine and divert them to more creative production.
New production raises the national standard of living.
There is no secret as to the government measures necessary to control unemployment and to divert workers to new production:
1. Make money available to business at low interest rates to encourage new expansion and new jobs.
2. Build new public works—highways, schools, and libraries.
3. Increase social payments-social security, welfare, etc.
4. Experiment in new fields of production in
which the profit motive does not tempt private investment. This would include projects to harness atomic or the sun's energy for peaceful purposes.
Though the measures necessary to increase the nation's standard of living are not secret, their use is argued against chiefly on two grounds:
1. Such measures call for high government expenditures and result in a high national debt.
Neither is a valid argument.
The national debt is relative to the nation's taxable resources. If there is no national production or wealth to be taxed—as during a depression or period of unemployment—the debt is high. Tight-fisted money policies can raise the national debt, for such policies can cause depressions to deepen and, consequently, reduce taxable resources.
It is a lack of production and not a booming economy which causes inflation. The dollar is backed by the federal government's taxing power. It represents the nation's wealth. If the nation has no wealth or production, the dollar is cheap There is inflation.
Automation and technology are the means to increase production and to strengthen the dollar. Automation and technology can increase production so that the supply of dollars will not outrun the supply of goods.
There is no excuse for the loss of national wealth and the spiritual degeneration of labor which result from unemployment.
Larry Miles
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Student Government-
Vox Formed in 1957
(Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles on campus politics and student government. This article deals with Vox Populi political party.)
This is Vox Populi's second year on campus. It was formed in the fall of 1957. At that time the Allied Greek-Independent party was the only party.
Vox is governed by its general assembly which meets once every two weeks except just before the spring elections when it meets weekly. The general assembly is composed of one representative from each member organized house and one representative for each 100 unorganized independents in the party.
The number of unorganized independent representatives is determined by the number of party cards distributed to students in that living district. The party has three representatives in this area.
The general assembly must give final approval to all party matters. All general assembly meetings are open to anyone interested.
Any organized house that wishes to join the party must be passed by the general assembly and the executive council. Unorganized independents may receive party cards by contacting members of the assembly or council.
The party's executive council is elected from among the general assembly's members. This council is composed of 10 members, half of which must be Greeks and half independents. Offices on the council are president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, a women's and men's political representative and four members at large.
Party presidential elections are held two weeks after the spring ASC elections. The rest of the officers are not elected until fall when they know who will be returning and be active in the party. A temporary executive council is selected by the president after his election to serve until the fall.
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The executive council also meets every two weeks except close to elections when it meets every week. It draws up party policy and platform and presents them to the general assembly. It also interviews prospective All Student Council candidates who wish to run on the Vox slate.
In selecting the party slate Vox uses the convention method. Each member house puts up two persons who it thinks would make good candidates. The persons are interviewed by the executive council which then selects the candidates. Not more than one candidate is chosen per house.
The candidates are selected on the basis of primary interest, previous experience in student government, and their active interest in campus affairs.
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It is now supporting a proposed amendment to the ASC constitution which will be voted on by the student body during the general elections. This amendment will lower the required number of votes which must be cast in a school district in order for that school to have a voting representative on the ASC.
During this year Vox has supported the investigations of the ASC housing and labor committees, the Blue Cross-Blue Shield student health program and the new I.B.M. elections bill.
Vox backed the "write your legislator" campaign which supported the University's proposed budget.
(1) **motif** (mo teef)*—A: spontaneous movement. B: theme. C: reason for action. D: witticism.
(2) siesta (se es'ta)—A: farm. B: carnival. C: East Indian market. D: nap.
By Wilfred Funk
The following words, from five languages, are so commonly used in English that they are included in most of our abridged dictionaries. Check the word or phrase you believe is nearest in meaning to the key word.
(4) dishabille (dis a beel)' — A:
shame. B: nudity. C: negligee.
D: distress.
Increase Your Word Power
(3) alfresco—A: in the open air.
B: over-ornamentation. C:
formal. D: ill-mannered.
(5) fauna (faw'na)—A: servile flattery. B: animal life. C: vegetation. D: leg bone.
(7) **inamorata** (in am or rah' tah)
—A: anger. B: jealousy. C:
opera singer. D: sweetheart.
( 8 ) cortege (kor tezh')-A: car-
riage. B: procession. C: nose-
gay. D: close-fitting under-
garment.
(6) wanderlust—A: longing to travel. B: love. C: bitterness. D: passion.
Answers are on page 12.
(10) welschmerz (velt' shmerts)
—A: happiness. B: physical pain.
C: sentimental pessimism.
D: wisdom.
(9) cabana (ka bah'nya)—A: inn.
B: scarf. C: game. D: bath-
house.
(12) pro rata (pro ra'ta) -A: immediately. B: temporarily. C: in proportion D: ahead of time.
(11) fiesta (fyes'tah)—A: anger.
B: festival. C: wildness. D: joy.
(13) soiree (swah ra'）-A: evening party, B: afternoon tea. C: morning party. D: any gay gathering.
(14) **per se** (per se')—A: with your permission. B: by itself. C: because. D: brief.
(15) **menage** (me nahzh') — A:
household. B: zoo. C: theatral
company. D: circus.
(16) via (vii'a) A: aside. B: up.
C: by way of. D: roundabout.
(17) par excellence (par ek' se lahn)s—A: beyond comparison. B: unworthy. C: famous. D: successful.
(18) poltergeist (pol' ter gist) -A:
c scheder. B: pickpocket. C:
fictitious name. D: noisy
ghost.
(19) flora (flo'ra)—A: brilliant color. B: plant life. C: ostentatious display. D: a layer of tiles.
(29) decor (da kor')—A: dignified reserve. B: severity. C: decoration. D: good manners.
(From "It Pays to Increase Your Word Power," Reader's Digest, April 1959)