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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 16, 1957
U.S. Inflation Trend Is Ally Of Communism
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Whatever the past week's political explosions in Moscow may mean, they cannot alter the fact that international Communism has a powerful ally working for it in America.
That ally is currency inflation which could continue to the point of destruction for the American social and economic fabric in an era of United States bankruptcy.
Inflation is an economic juvenile delinquent. Responsibility for it must be charged to the citizenry at large, just as in the case of the anti-social teen-agers who murder or rape.
Stalin Lost Bets
The late Josef Stalin thought and hoped he saw what was coming in the United States after World War II when he laid a course of fraud, chicanery and deceit toward the international Communist objective of world conquest. Stalin, however, lost two of the three big bets on which he placed Communism's blue chips after World War II.
Bet No. 2 was that the United Nations lacked the will to meet aggression with bullets, as in Korea.
det No. 1 was that the United States would suffer a shattering depression soon after the fighting ended.
Bet No. 3 remains undecided.
It was the biggest bet of all-that the United States would spend itself into bankruptcy.
Lenin stated the proposition that any capitalist democracy (or republic) must eventually destroy itself by over-spending. That remains prime Communist doctrine. If the doctrine proves to be correct, the loss of bets one and two will mean nothing other than delay in Communism's conquest.
If the doctrine is wrong, then it is only a question of time before the free world, led by the United States, triumphs over Communism in hot or cold war or a combination of both.
Pegged On Dollar It does not make of the United
States an ignoble materialistic society to concede that the American way of life is pegged securely to the integrity of the U. S. dollar and what it will buy at home and abroad. The purchasing power of the dollar is skidding downward, but not yet far enough to lose the respect and affection of men and women everywhere.
The reputation of a well established piece of money such as the U. S. dollar can take a lot of abuse. The end, however, is devastatingly sudden and complete when it does come. The Institute of Life Insurance calculated nearly 10 years ago that from 1900 to 1950, the U.S. dollar had lost nearly two-thirds of its value.
Largely responsible for this, said the institute, was government borrowing during World War I, throughout FDR's White House years and in all but two years of Harry S. Truman's presidency. In none of those many years did the elected representatives of a free people dare levy taxes sufficient to pay for the government spending they so freely authorized.
President Eisenhower is getting the Treasury out of the red, but not much. He is spending at a rate which could make Stalin's Bet No. 3 look fairly good, especially if Congress cuts taxes and fails to cut federal spending.
The first homesteader under the U.S. Homestead Act of 1863 was Daniel Freeman, a Union soldier who took a piece of land near Beatrice, Neb.
The first Rose Bowl football game was played in Pasadena, Calif. on Jan. 1, 1902, with the University of Michigan defeating Stanford 49 to 0.
4 Governing Systems Available
As a result of the development of municipal government in Kansas, cities have an opportunity to choose from four types of government, reports the Governmental Research Center of KU in a recent publication, "Forms of City Government in Kansas."
The mayor-council form, used by 508 cities, is the basic governmental form employed in Kansas. Other governmental types available to Kansas cities are the commission, commission-manager, and the mayor-council-manager plans. In most cases, cities may adopt a governmental system after receiving approval of a majority of their legally qualified electors at a special election.
The Mayor-Council Form
The mayor-council form, until 1907 the only system of city government authorized by the Kansas Legislature, is still the favorite of smaller Kansas cities. In these cities the mayor and councilmen are elected for two year terms. The mayor is primarily an administrative officer with power to appoint and remove non-elective city officials, with consent of the council.
The mayor also exercises a qualified veto over the acts of the council. The council is empowered to pass and amend ordinances necessary for the care, management, and control of the city, its property, and its finances. In some cities the mayor may be the principal moving force, with the council ratifying unreservedly all
his recommendations, while in other cities, the council may assume the dominant role in administration.
The Commission Form
The commission form of government, presently used by 29 cities in Kansas, provides for the election of a mayor and commissioners who perform legislative and administrative duties. The mayor presides at the weekly meetings of the board of commissioners but does not have the veto power.
Kansas made provision for the commission-manager plan of government in 1917 and authorized the mayor-council-manager plan in 1935. Although these two plans result in somewhat different systems of government, they have some basic elements in common.
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In all manager cities the governing body is the legislative and policy making authority and has the responsibility of selecting a manager to conduct the administration of the city. The city manager serves at the pleasure of the governing body, and has the power to appoint and dismiss other administrative employees.
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Commission-Manager Form Under the commission-manager
plan, presently used in 30 Kansas cities, the commission passes all ordinances, provides the necessary offices, and is responsible for the manager's efficient administration of the city.
The commission is a small body ranging from three to seven members elected from the city at large. Annually the commission chooses its own chairman who has the title of mayor.
Mayor-Council-Manager Form Five Kansas cities currently employ the mayor-council-manager plan. This plan provides for an elected mayor and council, usually selected by city wards. The council chooses a manager to supervise the enforcement and administration of laws and ordinances and empowered to appoint and remove all non-elective city employees.
A recent trend in Kansas municipal legislation has been the development of governmental forms to deal with various metropolitan problems resulting from the growth of large cities. The 1957 Legislature provided for the establishment of the Mo-Kan Metropolitan Development District which includes three Kansas counties, but the Missouri Legislature did not pass the plan.
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