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Tuesday, November 19, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
NEW ITEM: 'THE PRESIDENT SAID TODAYS ECONOMY DOES NOT FIT THE CLASSIC DEFINITION OF A RECESSION'
Kansas steeps in the status quo
Voters all over the United States went to the polls to show their elected officials what they thought of inflation, amnesty in own overwhelming way, the voters showed dissatisfaction.
Democrats nationwide won many victories. More than 40 extra House seats were won, as an effort to save the loss of Senate seats wasn't great, but there were many close races, the number of Republicans in the House is now the second lowest since the 1930s.
But in Kansas, Republicans were returned to power. A Republican was elected governor for the first time in 2018, and he Republican senator, was kept in office despite early predictions that he would lose to Democratic challenger Bill Roy. Dole said his election was not just for the nation's Republicans.
Why did it happen?
But that consensus in Kansas was to keep the status quo—and that is a Republican government. The other Congressional leaders threatened, Dole had seemed a likely sacrifice on the altar of Watergate. The little-known Bennett seemed to have no
Election results in Kansas are a curious thing when national trends are considered. Democrats did get the attorney general's spot, Joan Finney was elected the first woman state treasurer, the first Democrat in 1908 and the first woman to keep the 2nd district Congressional spot for the Democrats.
Meanwhile, in Lawrence, Kan., Stokely-Van
Caen, it has recently been canned Ethiopian
beans.
Starving Ethiopia exports beans
In the past four years more than 250,000 Ethiopians have starved to death.
Who knows? Maybe Ethiopians don't like beans. It does seem strange, though, that the Ethiopian government would let food be exported when people are starving to death.
On the other hand, even though the United
States the world's greatest exporter to God,
some Navajo Indians do food.
Ethiopia's agricultural system is characterized by large land-holdings and masses of landless peasants. Some landholder probably got a higher price on the international market for his beans than he could get at home. So he sold, and it made a lot of sense from his point of view.
welfare recipients don't get enough to eat.
Maybe it's not so strange.
Such sense and nonsense has a few people who know what to eat, food, what they're going to make for dinner tonight.
China and India made headlines last week by heaping abuse on the industrialist in Russia, the prime minister's advisers.
The World Food Conference in Rome has focused the world's attention on the prospect of mass starvation. It has become one more theater for the world to be developed nations and the developing nations.
China and India have good reason to worry about famine. In India one million people starved to death in 1866; 1.5 million in 1898; five million from 1876 to 1878; another million in 1899-1900 and finally three to four million died in 1898. The number of 1843 people from 1876 to 1879, between nine and 13 million people starved to death and in 1929 two million died in southeast China.
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India achieved independence and China
achieved revolution at about the same time; yet
the two countries have still been facing a
difficult path.
China has been remarkably successful in raising agricultural productivity through irrigation.
Mere focus on population growth overlocks the fact that new people are not just new mouths to catch the eye.
India has chosen limited land reform and dependence on new seeds and fertilizer. The new technology has benefited mainly the larger agricultural production has been unable to meet India's needs.
The real issue is one of per capita production. The real issue is that we have developed countries has continued to rise, while developing countries
Yet common sense shows that mere population density is no problem. Developed nations like the United States don't have a dense population, but some developed nations like the Netherlands and France do not. Even developing countries don't have as dense a population as Japan or the Netherlands.
In the face of the food problem the developed unions, particularly the dairy cream that produces milk is a population.
production in the developing countries has stagnated.
While the developed nations have employed farm machinery to cultivate larger areas of land with fewer workers and new plant varieties, fertilizer and insecticides to increase output per developed nations have fostered the production of plantation and cash crops in the Third World.
The colonies found that the prices for their products rose at a much lower rate than the rate for the manufactured goods they bought from the West. The pattern continues today as the rate for agricultural raw materials—cash crops. The pattern is classic imperialism.
It's ironic that there in Lawrence, on the edge of the greatest wheat producing area in the world, that we have so little to say about the world food situation.
The food problem, like the energy problem and the declining economy, will be around for some time. It's worth checking out the problems to see how it can be solved or made solutions (because it might do some good).
Meanwhile, Stokleys is canning more of those beans.
chance against the widely popular Vern Miller.
Why, then, this complacent acceptance of a Republican government in Kansas? The answer seems to lie in history. It is a curious thing indeed that the Kansas William Allen White
Jim Kendell Contributing Writer
The politics of "Bleeding Kansas" have been unpredictable at times, with wild contrasts. But the entrenchment of the Republican party has been firm.
Some would say the effect of these forces now is gone. It has formed Kansas' unpredictability, but now all is placid. Gone are the Indian buffalo and the buffalo bouts. Remaining are the blue laws, the one-party press and one-party state.
once deplored for being too radical, is now, at least to outside observers, too conservative.
From its birth as a state, Kansas has been a strange force. The struggle between antislavery and proslavery forces here helped destroy the region's division between Northern and Southern Democrats. But most important, the struggle helped form a Northern party, the Republicans. When Kansas was with the Republican party firmly entrenched.
But contrasts have been rampant in Kansas ever since. In the 1800s it was a seat of the Populist revolt, with Sockleigh Jerry Simpson and Mary Ellen Hearn, who were more "hell"). It was here that William Jennings Bryan was idolized.
Other forces are important to remember in Kansas history. There have been reformers and sinners; educators and idifos; medical pioneers; mediocre; medical pioneers like the Meningingers, and quacks like Brinkley. And although Kansas is a farm state, the importance of inclusion must always be considered.
Some compare Kansas to its weather: tornadoes, blowing dust, grasshopper plagues, droughts, world record wheat crops, floods and blizzards. Or perhaps the various groups that molded her affect her character. The effect on the New England solutionists, hir-raising cattlemen, Russian wheat growers, various religious sects and even a few free-thinkers.
If Kansas politics haven't been overwhelmingly influential, they were at least colorful. There was Edmund G. Mulvane, a political career by voting against the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. There was John Brinkley, a doctor turned politician who rose to fame on political problems with goat lands.
The wildness of Kansas could also affect its present placidity. Perhaps the placidity comes
Crusades also are important to Kansas. From the days of Carry Nation to today we can see the influence of the Dry Creek region, cigarettes were once banned. But despite all this fervor, even with the blue laws, it is a credit to Kansas that groups such as Kiu Klux Klan weren't as powerful in states such as Indiana.
from a perversity, a desire to be different. Today to be different is to preserve the status quo.
Never can Kansas forget the effect of its wild days: its slavery fights; John Brown and the Jayhawker guerrilla;s Wyatt Earp, in reality a lowly Billy Hickok, whose claim to fame killed one of his own men. In Kansas there also were Doc Holiday and Bat and Jim Masterson.
Unified job service needed
Appleberry found that the Schools of Architecture, Fine Arts, Pharmacy and Social Sciences placed students in placement service. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences primarily served only premedical and premaid students. Only in the Schools of Engineering, Journalism and Law were a significant number
Perhaps the overriding reason for centralizing the placement activities of the university of Kansas and that them involve students in University who are not now receiving adequate help to secure employment either while they are still at school or decide to terminate their enrolment at the University. A centralized Office of University Placement could greatly reduce problems of these students.
of students being aided by a placement service.
A s a solution to this problem,
the A.s report recommendation to the
placement of Business at the
Scholarly Business, Education
and Childcare Units.
—The Appleberry Report
This statement is the major conclusion of a report on the University's program, or lack of a program, to help its current and former students find jobs.
The report was prepared last week by the American Council on Education Fellow who worked under Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Law, Fine Arts and Pharmacy and the College be centralized into an Office of University Placement. The office would provide job placement assistance to students now enrolled who are seeking part-time positions in senior students, graduate students and fourth students who desire to change jobs.
The report cites several advantages to such a modified central placement service. All students would be able to take advantage of such a service. More adequate physical services by employers would be provided, centralized office would build and retain more complete job files.
The major disadvantage to such a system would be reduced training of new employees and potential employers. Such interaction helps
faculty members maintain professional contacts that encourage employers to recruit on this campus.
According to the report, "Some of the deans and directors of placement in the industry are vehemently opposed a action which would be perceived on their part as either a move toward a more centralized mode of ad-description infringing on their discretionary scope of decision making."
Today Kansans keep their congressmen until they're violently bad. This is why there was such little opposition for representatives. And this is why Congress cleared himself of Watergate, was returned to the bosom of Kansars.
This opposition is the major obstacle to the adoption of a new curriculum that is unfortunate that some administrates have placed continued hegemony over their students ahead of their students' welfare.
—Richard Paxson Contributing Writer
The Appleberry Report is an intelligent, thorough assessment of the shortcomings of job placement services at universities and people are questioning the value of a college degree in obtaining a job, the University cannot afford to let petty politics get in with insisting some effective system of finding jobs for its students.
Kansas was, is and probably always will be Republican. A quick look at the postwarm voting record of Kansans and president shows the high percentage of Kansans voting Republican. Except for the Dockings, support for government has been strong. The election of Republican senators is traditional, and the two most recent elections reached 60.1 and then 71.4 per cent.
Kansas also is the home of Alf Landon, one of nine Republican governors who survived the Boosevelt landslide in 1932.
In presidential elections Kansas have been fiercely Democratic since 1952, the percentage Republicans was higher in Kansas than in most other states with the exception of Nebraska.
Perhaps this election was predictable after all. The only curious spots are the two top races—governor and senator. Roy was a peculiar monarch, but a powerful taking over a strong district. In 1970, he had defeated Chester Mize, much to the astonishment of the Republicans. His election was one of the few surprises in recent political history here. But it should be remembered that Roy was a Republican president and not a Democrat election as the first Democrat there in 63 years isn't quite so shocking.
And the governorship of Docking wasn't typically held by Miller's term as attorney general. Docking managed to hold down taxes, and Miller is super law enforcement officer.
Other issues affected this election, of course. Abortion hurt Bill Roy, and the vote of young people hurt Vern Miller. The youth vote, too, has historical precedent, for those who wrote the state constitution were almost all under 30.
Whatever caused the outcome of the election, the character of Kansas is important to recall. It also has been the Emporia Gazette in the first part of this century, said once that Kansas was "a kind of prophecy," and he cited the probabilistic application and the Bull Moose movement. It will be interesting to see whether that is still applicable and whether the rest of the state will soon return to normality.
If not, we can all recall an old country saying, and think of Kansas as being "as independent as a hog on ice."
-Kathy Pickett
'Allen Verbatim' tells nothing new
By JOHN CRICHTON
Book Reviewer
Allen Verbatim
Alen Verbatim
By Allen Ginsberg & Gordon
Ball
There were 13,455, p. 56
the figures of the '60s, some
revolutionary and cultural
things who turned not out be
so be thrilled.
It was difficult at times to distinguish between the paused and the sincerce. And if time were short, you could be counted today on one hand.
Ginsberg picked up William Blake's blake of "O Earth, O Earth return!" and carried it across the country to almost campus and campus that would have him, and to some that wouldn't.
Among those who can be counted, Allen Ginsberg was the most notable and perhaps the most sincere.
To some others, he was the author of "Howl," the poem that was considered as important to contemporary poetry as "The Waste Land" was to modern. Ginsberg was an
To many, the guru who wore the top hat of stars and tried to awaken America to a new consciousness.
important part of the beat generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, and a major force in the antwar movement.
recorded in a book edited by Gordon Ball, "Allen Verbatim," a collection of informal lectures and conversations by Ginsberg on poetry, politics and consciousness.
Many of the thoughts and events of Ginsberg's life are
The subjects Ginsberg discusses vary. A report is included that Ginsberg did while at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington in 1974 when Richard Helms, then director of the CIA,
In two conversations with Robert Duncan at Kent State University, Ginsberg talks about contemporary poetry and he gives much credit to as he always has, Jack Kearouc.
Other research Ginsberg did on the CIA and drug traffic also followed along with many discussions, of course, on poetry and poets.
"What Kerouac said was that
it was sort of like lying if you revised, in the sense that you make believe you didn't say that. He felt that most revision would be motivated by embarrassment."
It was Kerouac and William Carlos Willsman, Ginsberg said, who helped him the most in the beginning. But a breaking-open of consciousness came in 1948 when he wrote a poem to Neal Cassidy and his vision from Blake, which also came in 46," wasn't fully realized until a few years later, in hindsight.
But '48 was the important year for both Duncan and Ginsberg.
"48 - my 'Venise Poem,' Duncan said, and it was "the time for Charles Olson's 'Call me Imahal.'"
The emergence turned into a flash in "48," Ginsberg said, because that was the year he had his blake experiences. And in that same year Gary Snyder told that everything was alive.
In other discussions, Ginsberg talks about Gertrude Stein and the relation of her writing to Kerenu'c's; Charles Fitzgerald's; the extension of content; and the influence of William Carlos
Williams on Kenneth Koch,
Frank O'Hara, John Ashberry
and others.
There are extensive discussions on Ezra Pound and his "Cantos." Ball included a radio interview with Ginsberg in an announcer interrupted and said "Ezra Pound has died."
Ginsberg's immediate response was "Rest in peace, Ezra. Beautiful man—he died in a state of bodily thinness and grace mentally. I think he was like Prospero—wise and a great teacher—and a great man—a great silent man at the end."
Much of what Ginsberg says in these recordings is like the end of a great story. He reflects on the beat movement as an enlightened past that was dead before it was realized.
"Allen Verbatim" isn't a significant book about Ginsberg. Nor does it reveal much
In a poem, "What Would You Do If You Lost It?" that appears in the last section of the book, these lines are at the end: "None left standing! No tears weeping, no mouth for singing, no song for the hearer, no more words for any mind."
about Ginsberg that his close followers haven't known.
Reading it straight through, or in parts, is much like sitting and listening to Ginsberg speak
for an extended period. Alone, that is a unique and fascinating experience.
That is what this book is all about.
It
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