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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1957
Prairie Politics
The central plains will soon be turned into another contest of dirt throwing, promise making, and digging up of old skeletons, when the off-year congressional elections and another Kansas gubernatorial contest come into view in 1958.
Gov. George S. Docking seems to be enjoying a political lull. He is under a minimum of fire from political enemies and has not even announced whether he will seek re-election next year. However, the Republicans, still smarting from their 115,000 vote defeat in 1956, are whetting their blades for another battle.
The election is still a year away, with traditional Kansas Day announcements and April 1 campaign-starts several months distant. Republicans, still, have been giving some consideration to at least eight candidates for governor.
Meanwhile, the Kansas Democrats are confidently expecting to field stronger candidates than they have been able to in many years. The Democrats will be striving to increase their legislative strength and trying to maintain the positions they have now.
Despite the "harmony meetings" in the Congressional Districts which were designed to weld together the party splits brought on by the Hall-Shaw fights, Republicans concede that they did little in re-organizing the party.
One barrier to the Republicans will be the fact they took but a few of the Docking recommendations in developing state laws. Since they did their own legislation without gubernatorial blessing, a campaign against the governor's program would net them nothing.
Attorney General John Anderson seems the most likely candidate the Republican have at this early date. Mr. Anderson was appointed during Fred Hall's reign when Harold Fatzer was named to the Supreme Court. Mr. Anderson won his position in 1956, and is believed the strongest possible candidate as yet.
The difficulty that Mr. Anderson faces in receiving the nomination is with the Warren Shaw backers, who voiced opinions against Mr. Anderson after the Hall-Shaw bitterness in 1956. However, newspaper reports tend to show that these differences may be forgotten if there is a good chance of the attorney general winning the governorship.
Only recently Clyde Reed Jr., publisher of the Parsons Sum, announced that he was considering entering the race. His name first came to the front from a meeting of the Third District Republican leaders. Out of that meeting also came three other names. Mentioned were Rolla Clymer, El Dorado publisher; James S. Taylor, Coffeyville businessman, and John Wall, Sedan attorney and county chairman.
Some observers believe a newspaper publisher would do the Republicans the most good. In this vein Dolph Simons, publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World, has been mentioned.
Another possibility mentioned earlier this year was Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. However, Dr. Murphy has denied any political inclinations.
For a while it was thought Alf M. Landon, former governor and 1936 presidential candidate, might come out of retirement to run in 1958. He has declined emphatically.
The Democrats, apparently mostly united behind Gov. Docking, already have an announced primary candidate against the governor. George Hart of Wichita, a losing candidate for the Senate in the 1956 election, has announced that he will oppose Gov. Docking.
Even after considering all the names, the Republicans always seem to fall back on Mr. Anderson. Newspapers report that party leaders already have begun to talk of replacing the energetic attorney general.
Bob Hartley
Sputnik Education
In the first month of the year of Sputtik, 1957, there is again a great furor about billions for education. The federal government promises plans for many factory-like schools with correct lighting and green blackboards.
Yet the training of a mind and the ability of instructors of that mind are more important now than blond wood floors and swivel-chairs at the desks.
There is talk of rapid progress toward mass education. Today in the lower grades 90 per cent of the youth aged 6-12 are enrolled in school and 80 per cent of those aged 13-17. We have come close to mass education in the lower grades, a situation which is necessary if we are to have an educated public.
Our real concern lies with the methods of higher education. Before the "space age" opened, the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School observed, "We must find ways of meeting the pressure of numbers without jeopardizing the quality of present educational opportunities."
Some, however, think higher education for all, in large federal-supported education centers where the gifted and the mediocre work together as they will in society, is the solution.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, head of Texas A. & M., declared that the United States must follow Russia's footsteps to gain superiority by educating its youth en masse. He said that "higher education in this country can revolutionize its approach to meet the demands of the time."
Has Russia finally gotten our goat so that we admit we must now roll out students helter-skelter? Techniques of the assembly line are adequate for industrial progress but not for scholastic progress.
Selective admission requirements have always been distasteful to Americans. The only alternative acceptable to those who pay for the education is careful grouping, beginning in the lower grades and becoming more rigid in the higher levels, so that gifted students may be sifted out and not hampered by the boring speed of the slowest student.
We must encourage people to enter the education field.
If the United States, through a revised educational system of selective grouping, can discover and concentrate on what intellect we have and direct federal aid toward higher instructor payment, we will not need to be self-conscious over our rivals.
Carolyn Davis
... Letters ... Ode (r) To John Ise
To him, Ike's speech, assurance wise,
was really only token.
With comment trite, our friend John Ise is once again outspoken.
Unreliable! suggests the sage. Our
like would seem a humbler.
"I didn't listen," was the word. (He knew what like would say?)
"I wouldn't believe unless I knew," declares our noted grumbler.
He couldn't believe it if he had,
"he's not honest" anyway.
And since he didn't listen, he surely did announce.
The value of like's speech has totaled not an ounce.
Now our good doctor through many years has gained a reputation.
For comments good and comments bad and verbal castigation.
And students know that when John's finger starts to point at fault.
Victor D. Goering Lawrence second-year law
first we read and then we RUSH to get that grain of salt!
to get that grain of salt
KU students have been called "apathetic" so many times recently it is a wonder that Watkins Hospital isn't flooded for requests, not for Asian flu shots, but for blood transfusions.
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From The Wires
LONDON — (UP) — Edward
Stevens wished Wednesday that his
shoes had been a size too small.
Police found the shoes at the scene of a crime and when Stevens was apprehended barefoot and the shoes fit, he was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for breaking and entering.
CLEVELAND —(UP) — Walter Thomas told police he was brewing medicine to cure a friend's five children of Asian Flu. He attempted to prove it with testimony by the friend that her children were cured the next day.
Cinderella is a crook!
But he was fined $200 and costs and put on probation for brewing the concoction.
Let's all get sick!
HOW TO STUDY
The makers of Marlboro Cigarettes have bought this space so I can bring a message of importance to American undergraduates each week. There is no more important message I can bring you than this: College can be beautiful. Don't louse it up with studying.
That was my mistake. At first, cowed by college, I studied so much that I turned into a dreary, blinking creature, subject to dry mouth and night sweats. This dismal condition prevailed until I learned the real meaning of college. And what is that? I'll tell you what: to prepare you to face the realities of the world. And what do you need to face the realities of the world? I'll tell you what: poise. And how do you get poise? I'll tell you how; not by sticking your nose in a book, you may be sure!
Relax! Live! Enjoy! . . . That's how you get poise. Of course you have to study, but be poised about it. Don't be like some drones who spend every single night buried in a book. They are not learning poise; what's more, they are playing hob with their posture.
The truly poised student knows better than to make the whole semester hideous with studying. He knows that the night before an exam is plenty of time to study.
Yes, I've heard people condemn cramming. But who are these people? They are the electric light and power interests, that's who! They want you to sit up late and study every night so you will use more electricity and enrich their bulging coffers.
Don't be taken in by their insidious propaganda! Cramming is clearly the only sensible way to study. But beware! Even cramming can be overdone. When you cram, be sure you are good and relaxed. Before you start, eat a hearty dinner. Then get a date and go out and eat another hearty dinner. Then go park some place and light up a Marlboro. Enjoy the peaceful pleasure it affords. Don't go home till you're properly relaxed.
Place several packs of Marlboros within easy reach. Good, mild tobacco helps you relax, and that's what Marlboro is—good, mild tobacco. But Marlboro is more than just good, mild tobacco; it is also cigarette paper to keep the good, mild tobacco from spilling all over the place. And a filter. And a flip-top box. And a red tape to lift the cigarettes easily . . . It is, in short, a lot to like.
Once at home, stay relaxed. Do not, however, fall asleep. This is too relaxed. To insure wakefulness, choose a chair that is not too comfortable. For example, take a chair with nails pointing up through the seat.
choose a chair that is not too comfortable...
Now you've got the uncomfortable chair and the Marlboros. Now you need light. Use the lit end of your Marlboro. Do not enrich the light and power interests.
Read your textbook in a slow, relaxed manner. Do not underline; it reduces the resale value of the book. Always keep your books in prime resale condition. You never know when you'll need getaway money.
As you read you will no doubt come across many things you don't understand. But don't panic. Relax. Play some Fats Domino. Remove a callus. Go out and catch some night crawlers.
Relax! Live! Enjoy! Remember—any number of people have bachelor's degrees,but precious few have poise!
It doesn't take any cramming to learn that the finest filter cigarette on the market today is Marlboro, whose makers take pleasure in bringing you this column regularly.