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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 12, 1956
Our Policy
Only Reason Justifies Crusading
Today a new staff takes over the editorial page of the Daily Kansan. Even though the elections are over, many vital issues remain in the domestic and foreign areas.
However, the Kansan editorial staff is mainly concerned with the local events and how they concern students. One of the important issues is the safe driving campaign.
Last year the Kansan had an extensive campaign on the prevention of automobile accidents. Unfortunately the net result was two deaths during the vacation period.
This result may lead people to say that the editorial campaigns are of no benefit. They point to the fact that the majority of the newspapers in the country supported the Republicans in 1948 and President Harry S. Truman was able to win despite this fact.
However, the real reason that a newspaper campaigns is to lead opinion and not to follow the majority of its readers. Where a just cause exists and can be substantiated by facts it is the duty of a newspaper to carry on its campaign. The newspaper must do this even though it doesn't have the majority of community opinion.
In setting an editorial policy the editors should be extremely careful that the page doesn't become an alarmist page where they stab at a government or a school administration without good cause.
If the issues don't exist which need changing they should not manufacture complaints where reason fails. The confidence of the newspaper's readers is jolted when the newspaper campaigns on frivolous issues.
The editorial staff will attempt to point out the important issues in the coming weeks. Our goal will not be a plan merely to push for extra readers. If we attack an issue we shall carefully gather the facts and analyze the results. If praise should be given we shall do this with equal vigor.
The Kansan is extremely interested in continuing the letters to the editor as a forum for the opinion of many readers. We can't stress too strongly the importance of writing letters to the Kansan. It is a fine practice to establish now and should be done by students while the ideas are fresh in their minds.
We would appreciate if the letters are kept down to 250 words. Be sure to sign your name although we will withhold it if desired. The shorter the better because it is best to express your thoughts briefly and clearly.
We look for your letters.
Beaverbrook's Biography Shows Man Of Many Talents
"Beaverbrook: A study in Power and Frustration," by Tom Driberg (Weidenfeld, and Nicholson, 314 pp.).
British author and former leftist member of Parliament Tom Driberg has carefully drawn the fabulous figure of Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitkin) in an interesting and enlightening biography recently off the press in London. "Max" Aitkn is the financial genius, newspaper impresario, tyrannical and capriciously generous employer, maker and destroyer of prime ministers, political misfit, perennial poacher and dynamic producer of aircraft, who is better known to the world by the Beaverbrook title.
The real fabric of Mr. Driberg's book is a sort of English tweed—a weaving of substantial facts through which there is woven a sparkling thread of anecdote, poetry and philisophy.
In quotations and colorful descriptive passages Mr. Driberg has successfully captured the clipped Celtic speech in which Lord Beaverbrook expresses himself.
Gathering such intimate facts, philosophies and anecdotes concerning such a personality as Mr. Aitkin took many years to prepare. For around such a man as Lord Beaverbrook there are always legends and myths which must be considered in the writing of a biography.
Like Disraeli's "Mr. Kremlin" Beaverbrook has been 'distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea—and that was wrong.'
Frequently the author uses the opinions of others concerning Lord Beaverbrook. He is generous in his use of quotations by such persons as columnist C.F.G. Masterman who wrote of Beaverbrook: "He has done everything that he wanted to do, and he cannot see anything else worth doing."
Ultimate frustration, as he himself admits with ostentatious candour, is his lot; and it must be the more galling to him because he is more than ever conscious of his strength of will and of his great practical abilities, because he must realize that it is his own character and temperament.
"All that need be said here, in summing up." Mr. Driberg writes, "is that, for good or for evil, Lord Beaverbrook is a unique and potent figure in the British public life of the 20th century—potent, yet always just missing that supreme power whose attainment has obsessed him."
So to Lord Beaverbrook, serenity seems as unattainable now as it was in his childhood at New Castle,
David Webb
New Brunswick, or throughout any of his life. Mr. Driberg says "None may dare to anticipate the final Reckoning; of all the utterances attributed to Max, first Baron Beaverbrook, the most characteristic is perhaps his defiant dictum: 'I ALWAYS dispute the umpire's decision.'"
Jim Tice
His Faith In Benson Isn't Exactly High
BLUFF, Ill., — (UP) — The publisher of the weekly Bluff Times said in a front page editorial he wasn't too depressed by the outcome of Tuesday's election.
Publisher F. H. Venier then asked his readers to turn to pages two, three, six and seven for his prediction on what agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson would "do for the farmer."
The four pages were blank.
The first ship to fly the Stars and Stripes was the sloop, Ranger, on which John Paul Jones sailed from Portsmouth on Nov. 17, 1777. The flag was made by the women of Portsmouth.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Jane Pecinovsky Managing Editor
Feciecia Ann Fenberg, Joan George.
Daryl Hall, Jerry Thomas, Assistant
Managing Editors; John Battin, City
Editor; Nancy Harmon, Hiresi Ohlson,
Bike Morsch, Telegraph Editor; James Banman,
LeRoy Zimmerman, Assistant
Telegraph Editors; Dick Walt, Sports
Editor; Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Sports Editor; Margaret Armstrong,
Sports Editor; Jim Seldom, Assistant
Society Editor; Jim Seldom, Picture
Editor.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
David Webb Editorial Editor
Jerry Dawson, Kent Thomas, Associate
Editors.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Leo Flanagan Business Manager
Todd Crittenden, Advertising Manager,
John with Nestlé Attorneys
Manager Harry Turner, Classified
Advertising Manager; Mary Lou Cole,
Circulation Manager.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
"FRANKLY, I HADN'T PLANNED ON TWAT KIND OF AN EVENING."
Shaw's Will To Be Contested
LONDON — (UP) — A London newspaper says the validity of the will of playwright George Bernard Shaw soon will be contested in court.
The Evening Standard said the defendants 'will include Mr. Shaw's chauffeur-gardener, Frederick Day, and his wife—who were left a joint
annuity—the British Museum, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and others.
Giant sequoias, earth's largest living things, sprout from seeds so small that one ounce, in theory, could produce 6,700 trees. Full grown, the largest trees probably weigh 2,000 tons, the displacement of a small steamship.
After taxes, Mr. Shaw left more than $500,000. He directed that the residue of his estate should be used to finance an inquiry to see if a 40-letter alphabet would save time, money and labor.
The Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire lasted almost 1,500 years. It finally fell in 1453, when the Ottoman Turks, under Mohammed II, stormed and captured the capital city, Constantinople, after a siege of more than a year.
BELL SYSTEM JOB OPPORTUNITIES
for Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Science graduates
The Bell Telephone System offers challenging careers in providing an essential public service-plus interesting work in special military projects vital to national defense.
You will find good salaries and excellent opportunities for advancement in this progressive industry that has doubled in size in the past ten years.
Seniors and graduate students in engineering, mathematics, physical science who are completing work on their
degrees in 1957 are invited to register for interviews by representatives of:
- Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
- Western Electric
- Bell Laboratories.
- Bell Laboratories.
- Sandia Corporation
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Bell system representatives will be on the campus Monday, November 12, and Tuesday, November 13. Arrangements for an interview can be made through the engineering office.
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