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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 24, 1957
A Change?
Benson Could Cost Republicans
A recent article in the Congressional Quarterly expressed the idea that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and his farm program are becoming more and more unpopular daily.
This is something that we in the Midwest have been aware of for a long time, one might say since the time Mr. Benson was appointed to that position by President Eisenhower in 1953.
The 1956 election should be proof enough for the Republicans that if they intend to keep the farm vote, or perhaps one should say win back the farm vote, Benson and his farm program will have to be scrapped.
The 1956 election showed that four Midwest GOP Representatives lost their seats to Democrats and some of the blame must be placed on the failure of the Republican Congressmen to get the farm vote because of Mr. Benson and his farm program.
Rep. Wint Smith (R-Kan) is one example of how the Republicans are losing their popularity in the Midwest. In 1954 Rep. Smith won by 5,462 votes and last November that margin was cut to 2,293 votes. An important thing to remember is that this election took place in Kansas, which has always been one of the strongest Republican states in the Union.
One thing that seems a little peculiar is President Eisenhower's failure to listen to the criticism of Mr. Benson. It is obvious that plenty of
criticism reached him through Congressmen and from farm leaders all over the country.
However, there is no expectation that the President will withdraw his whole-hearted support of Mr. Benson and the measures he favors.
This is part of the reason that Midwest Republicans are living in fear of the 1958 election. They are afraid there will be more trouble than they experienced in the past election.
The election year of 1956 found many farmers splitting their tickets. They voted for President Eisenhower and for a Democratic Congress in hopes that it might be more sympathetic toward their economic problems. Also they felt a Democratic Congress might vote increased drought assistance, more generous price supports and the like.
If the drought is broken by the rains we have been having and the farmers raise half-way decent crops in the next two years, some of the pressure might be taken off the Republicans. However, there still will be such problems as acreage allotments and rigid price supports to be settled.
There is no positive proof anyone else could do better than Mr. Benson, but the Republicans have come to the place where they are almost forced to experiment if they want to stay in power.
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Brotherhood Is Lacking
There has been, even since we were all children, a lot of talk about the "universal brotherhood of man." We have been taught in Sunday School classes from the time we were old enough to understand talk that "red and yellow, black and white all are precious in His sight." Is there any validity to these teachings?
If so, why are 70 million people (the kind that Americanism teaches are created equal) enslaved in Europe and Asia?
If so, why do we have to have a civil rights" bill when the constitution guarantees every citizen equal rights?
If so, why is Communism, which denies the dignity and worth of the individual, gaining converts so much faster than Christianity, which teaches that the individual has worth?
If so, why are people who ask for equal rights for a fellow human being branded as Communists and heretics before the words have fallen from their lips?
Yes, the principle of the brotherhood of man is still as valid as the principle of Christ's love for a sinner who doesn't love him. Why then do conditions contrary to our belief exist?
The answer is simply that you and I have neglected the practice of what we believe. Surely, talk about brotherhood is good, but practice is even better. Brotherhood isn't a commodity that we can buy with foreign aid programs and civil rights bills. It is a spirit, accomplished through soul-searching prayer and perseverance.
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A University of Wisconsin applicant wrote on his scholarship request: "I will try to be a good egg and become an integral part of the Wisconsin omelette." The scholarship committee promptly discarded the application.
The education testing service of Princeton University flunked recently when it tried to test some 2.560 candidates for graduate business schools. The service sent out last year's directions with this year's test blanks.
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Paintings Make Trip Worthwhile
It's worth the trip up three flights of stairs to take a look at some of the art work in the drawing and painting section of Strong Hall.
This part of the School of Fine Arts could just about come under the category of "unknowns."
Students in music are in band or orchestra or they participate in an opera. Each senior has his recital. Anyone on the Hill has at least one and often several opportunities to see and hear music students perform. Not so in the painting department.
Each graduating senior in drawing and painting has his exhibit but it is held on the third floor of Strong. The work hangs in the hall. This is about the poorest place one could find to hold an exhibit.
When one has to climb three flights of stairs to get to a hall he doesn't use that hall for a through road. When an "outsider" does get lost and ends up in the painting department he pays little attention to the work. A Matisse, a Picasso, or a Degas would look pretty common if it were hung in that hall.
Who sees it? The students who have watched that senior and seen his work for the past four years and a few music students who are passing through.
Art students should have a place for their work that is as comparably professional as an auditorium is for a music student. A recital would look pretty silly in a hall in Strong.
Since that's where the work is, however, that's where one must go to see it. Very few students make the trip but it is a trip well worth taking.
Jerry Thomas
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