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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1950
Wagner-Javits Vie For Senate
New York, the state where racial and religious minorities become political majorities on evennumbered years is the scene of a coin-toss race for a United States Senate seat.
New York City, a powerful determiner in that key state has more than its share of minorities, too. The city has more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Rome, more Jews than Israel. More than 75 different national and religious groups make up the patchwork of the political tapestry in the Empire state.
Recent trends in that state indicate that the voters vote for the man and don't merely mock the hand-out slates of the party faithful. It has produced two great Americans of divergent political complexion, The late President Franklin D. Roosevelt and more recently Thomas E. Dewey, twice unsuccessful as a GOP national standard bearer.
Both men oddly enough felt the early influences of Tammany Hall in New York City, but in different ways.
The Democrats toss into the race Robert Wagner, Jr., mayor of the world's greatest city, a proven vote getter, while the Republicans offer Jacob Javits, a flery campaigner in his own right.
Mayor Wagner, a Catholic whose father later went on to become one of New York's greatest senators, introduced his son early to practical politics in New York's conference rooms.
Morris Javits, an immigrant Jewish janitor also knew the value of Tammany contacts. It was his
duty to rout out Democratic voters at $2 a head for the Tammany leaders. For his services he earned petty favors from the bosses.
Mayor Wagner, barely out of Yale Law School, filled a vacancy in the New York state legislature after entering the race at the behest of his father's cronies. After returning from World War II service "Young Bob" again answered the Tammany call and was elected president of Manhattan Borough in 1949. Since his election as New York mayor in 1953 he has done a herculean task in the "hardest job in the world."
Mr. Javits, after serving 4 terms as a United States congressman won the dubious right to meet Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., sion of the famous political family, for attorney general of the state. He not only was the only Republican to break the Democratic state tide in 1954, but he walloped Mr. Roosevelt by an impressive 170.000 vote margin.
When it came time to nominate a candidate for senator the Republicans had no choice but to support Mr. Javits. Although he is noted for his tendency to stray away from the Republican party line (as proven by his liberal record in Congress) he is highly respected by leaders of both parties as a man who is doing his job. That is representing the people who elected him.
The two candidates will be out beating the bushes for votes right up to election day and probably any impartial observer in the Empire State would tell you New Yorkers can't lose regardless of whether the Democrat or the Republican wins.
—Bob Lyle
'A Child Of The Century Will Appeal To College Crowd
"A Child of the Century," by Ben Hecht (Simon and Schuster, 633 pp. $5.)
Students who were interested in the conformity debate held recently will also be interested in reading a three-year-old autobiography by Ben Hecht, "A Child of the Century."
Ben Hecht was a peculiar kind of conformist. He conformed inwardly rather than outwardly. He conformed to himself rather than to others as does David Reisman's other-directed social type. Ben Hecht is more the autonomous-man type who guides himself from within but he does it without help from religion, social mores or philosophy.
Although readers will consider him an individualist, Ben Hecht should be looked upon more as an independent whose only guide is himself.
"A Child of the Century" is also of interest to college people because in it are discussed stimulating and humorous topics which will always have an appeal for the college crowd. Among these are adolescent sex, witless politics, lovable prostitutes, artless Hollywood, elaborate hoaxes, punning intellectuals and open-minded essays.
The universality in Mr. Hecht's book is amazing, His desires have been the reader's desires, and so too with his failures, loves, loneliness, and futile attempts in life. Like all men he wants to reform a whore and when he tries, like all men he fails. Like all men he wonders what goes on inside himself, and like all men, never learns.
While coursing through his life story, readers will meet familiar names like Sid Caesar, Marlon Brando. Fanny Brice, David Selzrick, Charlie Chaplin, Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore and numerous others whom he presents in sometimes too human a light.
His personality sketches of these and other friends are sometimes heart-warming, often pathetic, but they all portray human nature with its face washed clean of any misleading make-up.
The whole book is written with a sincere and humorous style that shows a vigor which epitomizes the author's life and which is equaled
Children don't seem to be going bad on account of comic books any more. This proves you don't have to be able to read to be delinquent.
only in an exam-cramming student.
only in an exam-cramming student. Mr. Hecht, now 62, says he enjoys driving himself, and it is perhaps this lust for honest-to-God hard work that will make his book a favorite with eager and daring youth.
—Ray A. Wingerson
Just Browsing
We were partaking of a cup of coffee the other evening in a vain attempt to wake up and get into a passable condition to study for an hour exam, when we happened to tune in on the conversation of some people in the next booth.
It happened that these were older, faculty-type people, but they were letting their hair down and talking about common things rather than class assignments.
And for ajustifiable reason, as a matter of fact. Today's student regards such music as old-fashioned, and prefers something more modern, such as the wiggling and warbling of Elvis Presley and Pat Boone, and other contemporaries.
The gist of their conversation was their general approval of such TV programs as those featuring the music of Lawrence Welk and the old-fashioned amateur hour with Ted Mack.
As a matter of fact, they were talking about music, and their likes and dislikes in that field.
The chances are that most KU students never have watched either of these programs, and probably never will do so.
When these above-mentioned cliders were in college, music as performed by Lawrence Welk, Guy Lombardo, etc., was all the rage, and it has remained popular with this same set of listeners, even though they have grown older.
Can't you see it, in 1976, when Elvis takes the TV stage, older but still in there kickin' just the same. Ah, the nostalgia such a sight will bring.
So, kiddies, the moral of this story is, "Don't throw away your Hound Dog' records, because they may someday become popular again."
And the same thing will probably happen to the college student of today.
And besides, they'll make swell wagon wheels when your little ones reach the wagon age.
-Dick Walt
.. Letters ..
Editor:
An incident occurred recently which we feel should be brought to the attention of the citizens of Lawrence and the students and faculty of the University. Dr. E. D. B. Charles, a physician in the British Colonial Medical Service, was expected to arrive in Lawrence on Monday, October 8, to confer with and address the faculty and students of the Entomology Department. Because of an unexpected change of schedule Dr. Charles arrived on Saturday, October 6. Not wishing to impose upon the members of the Entomology Department, he registered at the Eldridge Hotel planning to contact the Department on Monday. Dr. Charles then went out for dinner but was refused service at several restaurants because he is Negro. He was informed that there was only one restaurant in town where Negroes were served and was directed to that place. On Sunday morning he found this restaurant closed and had no food all day. On Monday he arrived at the University determined to leave immediately after paying his respects. He was persuaded by members of the department to remain and he completed his stay at the home of one of the faculty members.
This is not an isolated incident. Various Negroes and students from India who are studying at the University have received similar treatment in Lawrence. It might be pointed out that Dr. Charles stayed in Manhattan, Kansas for several days prior to his arrival in Lawrence and had no similar unpleasant experiences there.
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We believe that these and similar incidents not only injure the University and Lawrence, but also lower the prestige of the United States abroad. We feel that after this incident we should advise sponsoring agencies to remove Lawrence from the itinerary of visiting dignitaries in order to avoid future embarrassment. The resultant loss to the University would be great.
We believe that Lawrence as a University community should take the lead in suppressing discriminatory practices. The Daily Kansas might begin by refusing to advertise places of business which do not serve all races. Other organizations such as the Associated Students of the University and, civic and religious groups should lend their support.
A. Ralph Barr, Assistant Professor, and
Paul R. Ehrlich, graduate student (signing for all members of the faculty and students of the Entomology Department)
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Edward R. Murrow, radio and TV commentator, will interview Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. in a 45-minute film to be shown at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 3 Bailiev Hall.
Dr. Oppenheimer will describe the function of the institute, the work of its scientists and give his own views on nuclear warfare, and the future of scientific inquiry.
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