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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Oct. 2, 1957
How Honest Are They?
How many times have you heard a mother say, "My son become a politician? It would bring shame to our whole family."
What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word "politics?" Corruption? Graft? Dirt? Sex? Swindle? Money?
Webster, a sometimes vague and questionable authority, says politics is "... pertaining to policy, or civil government... referring to the widest application to the judicial, legislative and executive branches (of the government)." Pure Gobbledy-gook.
A common 1957 definition of politics might be: "Corrupt, violent and monopolistic control of local, state and national government." A politician might be: "A man of governmental position who uses the taxpayer's money for himself and his criminal associates."
Where did the current picture of politics as a two-headed monster come from?
Many people date dirty politics from the 1920's. Not that it didn't exist before then; it's just common to place the fault during the period that saw bathtub gin and Calvin Coolidge come and go. The precinct "boss," dating from before the turn of the century, was another unpopular man who helped make politics and violence synonymous.
It was the "boss" who made sure everyone voted as he said. If they balked, they were likely to find themselves bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound or set in cement at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Like it or not, politics and politicians are what make things go 'round. Politics is a belief in a way of government or a belief in the way government should be run.
Our two political parties, the Republicans and Democrats, believe in a form or a way of running government, and this is called politics. Some believe in a liberal form of government, others in a conservative way of government; hence, their choice of politics.
The bad politician is the exception rather than the rule today. Public opinion and beliefs have much to do with making a good or bad politician. To many, Sen. Joseph McCarthy was a crackpot, to others a god. Some people worshipped Franklin D. Roosevelt, others despised him. But as for saying whether either was a good or bad politician, it will depend on the nation's opinion and beliefs.
It is truly too bad that people must form an opinion of politics from what happened 20 or 30 years ago or earlier. It is too bad they must judge politics from the record of a few people.
Bob Hartley
An Exhortation To Women
Womankind has always demonstrated a great deal of ingenuity in decorating and rearranging her thatch. To some this would be called the fine art of the coiflure, or in common parlance, the hair-do.
In the past there has been a formidable parade of hair styles ranging from the Maria hair style, which received its impetus from Ingrid Bergman's role in "For Whom the Bell Tolls," to the still popular pony tail. This constant change and experimentation in hair styling is good and eliminates the necessity of men changing women. But the tragic fact is that womankind has lost its former imagination. Not since the short-lived pooodle-cut has the fair sex showed the desire or ability to experiment.
What we need is for some woman to hit upon an alternative to falling out of bed in the morning and lazily subduing her mop with a rubber band and then stumbling across the campus to class. The unbrushed and untethered mane deserves no comment at all.
The reasons for the decline in formerly popular hair styles are subject to conjecture, but probably fall along simple lines. The Italian hair style was prompted by copying the earthy, buxom Italian beauties who appeared a few years ago. When the
girls realized it took more than a haircut to resemble the Italians this style met a fad's Waterloo. Most girls' heads are tooumpy to complement a Jeanmaire cut, so it too was cast aside by the capricious female. Braids require a manual dexterity lacking in the contemporary female. Spit-curls are unsanitary. A chignon is beyond comprehension.
The heartening fact is that obsolescence can be combatted. But the responsibility of the overhauling rests upon the shoulders of the coeds themselves. If something isn't done soon, they might go the way of the passenger pigeon. With one difference: the pigeon disappeared because it was overhunted.
Women must change appearance like automobiles. If they don't become obsolete. Their crome rusts and their fenders rattle.
All that is needed is some creative thought on the part of the women themselves. Even the Italians are probably tiring of looking like Italians. Maybe they would seize upon something like a "Kansas Tornado" or a "Prairie Fire." A change in hair styling is needed. Now is the time to act. Put leaves in it, put an apple on it, burn it, shave it, paint it, starch it, or cover it.
John Eaton
Jerk Of The Week
Perhaps it would be ungentlemanly to label a woman, especially a mother, as Jerk Of The Week. Nevertheless, we have a gal in mind who certainly deserves censure under some such title.
She's the student's wife who let her baby get sunburned at Saturday's football game. With nothing covering his small bald head, the little
guy was burned red as a beet by the torch quail eyed. At age six months, a fellow doesn't like to have his afternoon nap interrupted by his mother and everyone around her jumping up to yell about a football game that was lost anyway. When it was all over, our young friend looked like he cared as much about football as a wet diaper.
. . . Letters . . .
Editor:
Why is it The Daily Kansan doesn't publish a set of game statistics along with the news of each KU game? A lot more can be told from such statistics than can be gleaned from several paragraphs of glorified commentary.
—Larry Boston
And if you'll permit me a comment on Saturday's game with Oregon State. Coach Mather said: "It wasn't our lack of tackling so much as it was their blocking, speed and skill in carrying the ball." I disagree with this statement! It was our woeful lack of tackling that made Oregon State look so good. Actually I don't think that they are that much better a ball club than ours.
The team we fielded last Saturday wasn't the same one that tied TCU. I say this for two reasons. One, we weren't prepared sufficiently for the single wing. The boys seemed confused most of the first quarter. Secondly, it was just one of those bad days all the way around. To see those Oregon backs run right
through the hands of our entire team, not once but many times, was a painful sight indeed. And we lost Bob Marshall which is a tragedy in itself. But eleven Marshalls couldn't have beaten Oregon State on a bad day like that.
I know that our boys are capable of better things than were shown last Saturday. And I hope that this is the one and only bad day of this season. I'm sure that despite this minor setback we can move right to the top from here, and not have any more disappointments like I think a lot of the students experienced last Saturday afternoon.
The Texas University Daily Texan on Gov. Faubus' part in the Little Rock incident: "May it breathe heavily down his collar."
Jake Hartmetz Wichita sophomore
The man said he wore the pants in the family, but his wife added that she told him which pair.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Bob Lyle ... Managing Editor
Marilyn Mermis, Jim Banman, Richard Brown, Ray Wingerson, Assistant Managing Editors; Bob Martley, City Editor; Patricia Swanson, Lee Lord, Assistant City Editors; Leroy Zimmerman, Telegraph Editor; Gina Harmon, Assistant Telegraph Editor; Garland Luthfi, Matcolm Applegate, Sports Editors; Mary Beth Noyes, Society Editor; Martha Crosser, Assistant Society Editor.
Larry Boston Editorial Editor John Eaton, Del Haley, Jim Siedd, As-
Translates Poem For Songs
OCEAN EDITIONS
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Harry Turner Business Manager
L. R. Lind, professor of Latin and Greek, will have a Greek poem he translated appear in a series of songs to be published by the New Music Edition in New York City. The poem, "The Vine to the Goat" by a Greek poet Euenus, will be in the series called "Four Songs, Onus 40."
Real estate and security holdings of the KU Endowment Assn. are valued at approximately $7,500,000.
A total of 1,298 school children were injured in 5,809 school bus accidents in 1956.
WHAT EVERY YOUNG COED SHOULD WEAR
Gather round, girls. Flip open a pack of Marlboros, light up, enjoy that fine flavor, that good filter, relax and listen while Old Dad tells you about the latest campus fashions.
The key word this year is casual. Be casual. Be slap-dash. Be rakish. Improvise. Invent your own ensembles—like ski pants with a peek-a-boo blouse, like pajama bottoms with an ermine stole, like a hockey sweater with a dirndl.
(Dirndl, incidentally, is one of the truly fascinating words in the English language. The word originated on June 27, 1846, when Dusty Sigafoos, the famous scout and Indian fighter, went into the Golden Nugget Saloon in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to see Lily Langtry. Miss Langtry did her dance in pink tights. Dusty had never seen anything like that in his life and he was much impressed. He thought about her all the way home. When he got
When he got home his wife Fieldsper was waiting
home his wife Feldspar was waiting to show him a new skirt she had made for herself. "How do you like my new skirt, Dusty?" asked Feldspar. He looked at the large, voluminous garment, then thought of the pink tights on Lily Langtry. "Your skirt is darn dull," said Dusty. "Darn dull" was later shortened to dirndl, which is how dirndl got their name.)
But I digress. We were smoking a Marlboro and talking about the latest campus styles. Casual, we agree, is the key word. But casual need not mean drab. Liven up your outfits with a touch of glamor. Even the lowly dungaree and man-shirt combination can be made exciting if you'll adorn it with a simple necklace of 120 matched diamonds. With Bermuda shorts, wear knee-cymbals. Be guided by the famous poet, Cosmo Sigafoos (whose cousin Dusty invented the dirndl), who wrote:
Sparkle, my beauty.
Shimmer and shine,
The night is young,
The night is young,
The air's like wine,
Clina to a leaf.
Hang on a vine.
Crawl on your belly.
It's time to dine.
(Mr. Sigafoos, it should be explained, was writing about a glowworm. Insects, as everyone knows, are among Mr. Sigafoos' favorite subjects for poetry. Who can ever forget his immortal Ode To a Boll Weevil? Or his Tumbling Along with the Tumbling Tumblebug? Or his Fly Gently, Sweet Aphid? Mr. Sigafoos has been inactive since the invention of DDT.)
But I digress. We were smoking a Marlboro and discussing fashion. Let us turn now to headwear. The motif in hats this year will be familiar American scenes. There will be models to fit every head—for example, the "Empire State Building" for tall, thin heads; the "Jefferson Memorial" for squatty heads; "Niagara Falls" for dry scalps. Feature of the collection is the "Statue of Liberty," complete with a torch that actually burns. This is very handy for lighting your Marlboros, which is terribly important because no matter how good Marlboros are, they're nowhere unless you light them.
© Max Shuiman. 1957
Whatever you wear, girls—and men too—you'll find the perfect accessory is Marlboro, whose makers take pleasure in bringing you this column throughout the school year.