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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Oct. 21, 1958
Let's All Hang Heads
Many people claim the KU football team received a raw deal from the game officials Saturday. We agree.
As a form of protest, many of us booed the officials after the announcement of Oklahoma's final, disputed touchdown. This, we felt, was right; a necessary reaction against the offending officials.
We were wrong.
We stood and booed and crowded the sidelines, appeasing our injured feelings like a bunch of crying kids with sticky candy smeared on their faces. We ranted and raved and moaned, thinking we were protecting our pride when we frankly were destroying it.
Our team stood on the field waving to us, shushing us, but we ignored it for it was our moment to howl. The players knew they had lost the game and were trying to take the defeat honorably. We wouldn't allow them even that.
So we hooted and booed and the team kept motioning us to shut up and act like adults, but we didn't. The players went flown like men, and we lost like babies.
It seems that we lost two contests Saturday; one to Oklahoma and one to ourselves.
For the latter, we should be ashamed.
—John Husar
(In the ten issues remaining between now and election day. The Daily Kansan will present a series of articles assessing the major campaigns in key states throughout the country.
Campaigning in Connecticut
This article, first in the series, covers the political situation in Connecticut.-Ed.)
Astonishing is the only word to describe the campaign situation in Connecticut.
A Democratic governor is running with the blessings and financial support of many of the state's "good" Republicans. A former Democratic congressman is expected to unseat an Eisenhower Republican in the Senate. And a former Democratic senator is making a vigorous campaign to become the House representative for a district which has never gone Democratic in an off-year election.
All this in a state which went Republican in the Eisenhower election of 1956.
The Democratic governor is 47-year-old Abraham Ribicoff. He has won the support not only of his own party, but also of many Republicans who have an impression that he will go to great lengths to better the state—even at the risk of his own political career. He gives this impression primarily because of two things: an antispeed campaign, and an expense-cutting program.
The anti-speed campaign means that every traffic speeder loses his license for 30 days upon his first conviction. The Republicans, led by their gubernatorial nominee Fred Zeller, have criticized the program.
Ribicoff's economy drive also has won him many Republican friends. At the beginning of this year, he announced a plan to save the state $14 million in operating expenses.
Two years ago, he ordered cuts of $5 million and saved $7 million.
Zeller's supporters have accused the governor of "waste and extravagance" during the last three and one-half years. They charged that while he was cutting state operating expenses he actually was expanding the number of publicity agents hired for his own office.
The governor retorted that the Republican controlled state assembly in 1955 and 1957 had approved budgets that exceeded his suggestions by $42 million.
Zeller, who made many friends himself during his 14-year tenure as state comptroller, raised an issue concerning the tolls on four bridges near Hartford. He asserts he will eliminate or lower the tolls if elected.
Ribicoff charges that the 1955 Republican legislature had insisted on revenue bonds to build the bridges, thus "forcing" the tolls.
Observers give Zeller little or no chance to win. Zeller collided with the liberal Eisenhower Republican wing when he defeated John Alsop, an early Eisenhower booster, for the nomination. He gained the nomination, but not the leadership of the entire party.
In the Senate contest. GOP Sen. William A. Purtell, victor in the Eisenhower landslide in 1952, is expected to lose to former Democratic congressman Thomas J. Dodd. There are no notable issues in this race. Dodd is expected to be carried in on a party sweep led by Ribicoff.
Purtell followed a wavering course in his voting during the 85th Congress. He voted against a proposal to extend unemployment pay to more persons for a longer time. He voted against cutting income and excise taxes.
At the same time, he voted for extending $900 million in aid to education, voted for limiting the beneficial gas and oil depletion allowances to the smaller companies, and voted against giving bonus payments to states regulating bill board advertising on the Interstate Highway System.
—Jim Cable
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"YAGOT A PACKAGE FROM YER MA MARKED PERISHABLE—TWAS."
A couple was married in a New York cave the other day. No report on where they'll hibernate for their honeymoon.
Short Ones
Apparently some bacteria have adapted so they can live in jet fuel, and the Reds will probably make a germ warfare charge out of it.
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. . . Books in Review
By Dave Hanna
THE LONG DREAM, Richard Wright. Doubleday and Co. $3.95.
A re-creation of the life of a marginal group for the KU student, who has had no experience in that world, is difficult. In our plush existence, we cannot imagine people who would act this way: "... she punished him by not letting him pull the date off the calendar for three or four days... And once, in a panic of frustration, he ruined an almost virginal calendar by ripping off sixteen weeks in a row; as though he could no longer wait for the endless weeks to pass." (From The Man With the Golden Arm, by Nelson Algren.)
It is hard for us to conceive of people who hate life so much that they want to destroy time which makes their life unbearable, time which is represented in a calendar.
There is a group of recent writers who have concerned themselves with these people. Among these are Erskine Caldwell, Nelson Algren, and James T. Farrell. A special category of this marginal group is the Negro, who is trapped by the caste system.
The Long Dream, Richard Wright's new book, is concerned with the acute problem of the Negro caste. Fishbelly Tucker, the hero of The Long Dream, is caught in the Negro caste from which he cannot escape. To the emotional conflicts of growing up is added the burden of racial prejudice. Fishbelly lives in a dream, says Wright, a colored dream, a dream which cannot come true. If Fishbelly accepts the goals and values of the dominant caste, he cannot attain them, even though he has ability, because he is a Negro.
It is this theme which Wright articulated in his first novel, "Native Son," which was published in 1940. Fishbelly resembles the hero of "Native Son." Bigger Thomas, and they follow much the same pattern of development. Fishbelly and Bigger both have a few pages devoted to their early youth (before prejudice); and as racial prejudice hits them fully, the narrative takes on its full character, and the story begins. Both characters for some time have a group of close friends, and both find understanding, which comes in the personage of an attorney, almost too late in life.
There are many other similarities in the two books; too many in fact. Because of this, Wright has failed to create a new work of fiction, but has only rehashed an old formula that worked once. He has failed to mature as an author, and I am sure that there is more than one theme to be developed concerning the problems of the Negro in a small southern community.
Wright, also a Negro, does have the courage to write about the racial problem, a thing which many Southern writers have neglected or ignored. Wright is, of course, familiar with the Negro problems and feels them very intensely—so intensely he moved to Paris in 1946 to escape racial prejudice. But The Long Dream has failed to present new insights and therefore fails as a work of the imagination.
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