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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 28, 1957
Fireside Chats
President Eisenhower's message that he intends to hold a series of talks to the nation to reaffirm his faith in America and rebuild confidence in the American public, bears strong resemblance to a similar announcement by President Roosevelt in 1933.
While Eisenhower has said he wants to explain and justify our position in regard to scientific achievement and the strength of our domestic economy, it seems his main goal is to quiet the fear that has begun to pop up in the country.
This fear, which stems from a stock market drop and Russia's launching of the first satellite, may have eased a bit with an upward turn of the market and the announcement of the U. S. rocket fired 4,000 miles into the stratosphere.
Nevertheless, the American people have been scared. We are used to security here.
Just about 20 years ago, President Roosevelt in his "Fireside Chats" summed up a nation-wide
situation much like the one we now face with his statement, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
"In this situation there is no reason and no occasion for any American to allow his fears to be aroused or his energy and enterprise to be paralyzed by doubt or uncertainty."
We recovered from the fumbling and fear of that period to strengthen our confidence to the point where it became a little egotistic.
For the first time since the depression the American public has emerged from behind the comforts of the world's best living standard to look around and decide that other people in other lands can also do great works.
Although the United States has been "scoped" on the satellite, a great deal of good resulted. The rousing of an apathetic American public may well be more valuable in this time of world crisis than a little moon floating around in space.
—Dick Brown
Arise, Free Spirits!
Recently there has been some discussion on the campus, both in conversation and in the columns of The Daily Kansan, concerning so-called University regulation of women's apparel.
Many girls protest that they can't choose their apparel to suit their mood or the weather because of constricting University regulations that state what should be worn where. This is sheer hoopla.
The only factor restraining local college fashions is the girls themselves. There are no University regulations. Neither the dean of women nor the Associated Women Students have rules of dress. In the past they have had such rules; they don't now.
Some will say their sorority imposes certain regulations on their dressing habits. This may be true, but even that is a self-imposed regulation and could be easily altered.
We would like to see a change in campus dress. Women should be allowed to dress as they see fit when attending class.
Most women would choose their dresses to suit their moods. This seems reasonable. There are
some who disagree with this. They feel that women should always appear on the campus complete with skirt, sweater, white socks, and loafers.
Sweater-and-skirtism is basically grounded upon a whooping puritan fallacy that states one who would wear anything else is unladylike. This is a hasty generalization and should be banned from the supposed intellectual atmosphere of a university.
Some advocate that skirts are important to classroom decorum. This is foolish. This is to say that decorum is dependent upon fashions of dress. The decorum and intellectual level of the class are dependent upon the professor—not our manner of dress.
Our manner of dress is changing and it is foolish to fight it. Men are dressing more informally. Those who advocate no change base their reasoning only upon convention, not always a strong ground for argument.
So, free spirits, spread your wings and dress to suit yourself. Stop belly-aching that you can't dress warmly or comfortably.
—John Eaton
Letters To The Editor
Editor:
We have read and discussed the article about France which appeared in The Daily Kansan of Oct. 15. We think that facts have been related in a biased way, which could be detrimental to a sound understanding of the French political problems.
The author of the article, Dick Brown, finds it surprising that Premier Bourges-Maunoury was overthrown on his North African policy by a coalition including Communists, Conservatives, and the far right wing groups. The Algerian problem is so touchy and controversial that it has brought about deep divisions in public opinion, sometimes reflected by heterogeneous coalition in the French National Assembly.
By the way, examples of heterogeneous coalitions can be found
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
in the Congress of the United States of America. Haven't we seen, during the discussion concerning the civil rights of Negroes in the Southern states, left wing Democrats voting with Republicans?
Dick Brown has written that the French do not realize that their country has fallen to the status of a "third rate power." Is governmental stability the only criterion which can be used in order to judge a nation? It is questionable. By the way, we would like to know what the author calls a first rate power? Some people might think that it is a nation possessing intercontinental ballistic missiles and artificial moons.
"IT WAS MY TURN TO SIT BEHIND BIFO — YOU SLEPT BEHIND HIM IN HISTORY."
It was mentioned in the article that France might turn to Communism by choice. We believe that very few Frenchmen crave a Communist government. Those who vote for the Communist party only want to protest against their low standard of living.
Dick Brown has written: "France must shed its fear of a strong man ruling the country." But his article warns us against an eventual dictatorship. Is it so easy to find a strong statesman and to avoid a dictator?
As far as we know, France has to face three interrelated problems. First we have a political problem. It can be solved by revising the present French constitution which was elaborated in the worst conditions just after World War II and is the main source of our governmental instability. We have an economic problem but it is due to continuous expansion. Finally we have a "colonial" program, which cannot be dealt with in this brief letter. We think, unlike Dick Brown, that more and more Frenchmen, especially the younger part of the population, are becoming aware of the necessity of solving these problems in the near future.
Colette Boyer, Pierre Bonnaud, Michel Schlegel, Andre Waldman, French graduate students.
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