"Peculiar, None Of Them Have Come Back Yet"
Editorials Homecoming
These are the times that try men's souls. The congestion and the crowds are unbearable, the inconveniences are unbelievable, the strain on those who must be gracious to all is almost too much to contemplate.
Long hours and much money are spent on papier-mache pageants that wilt if there is rain, collapse if there is a high wind and at any rate are only memories after two days.
ALL THE OLD saws about the alma mater are dusted off and promoted to spark gaiety. Some lucky young miss will have her picture in a yearbook to remind her, 30 years from now, when everyone else has forgotten, that she was Homecoming queen.
As I see it, the only people who really gain anything from homecoming are the concession stand owners, the hawkers of confetti, and the program vendors. They can put their profits into A.T&T.
ALBEIT HOMECOMING is nothing more than a lot of artificial gaiety, it obviously has something to offer. Even if the moment is fleeting as a bit of eider down, men need their good times, and as long as we can gloss over the reality with a bit of romance, we might as well continue to enjoy it.
—Karen Lambert
Executive Muscle
Tuesday President Johnson signed the 2-billion-dollar public works bill into law at his Texas ranch. However, the President said he would ignore certain provisions of the bill which gives veto power to congressional committees on some projects included in the bill.
In a statement Johnson denounced the provision in the bill that states that no appropriation can be made for a water resources development project carrying an individual price tag of under 10 million dollars without the approval of the Senate and House Public Works committees.
JOHNSON SAID HE did not support and did not plan to implement that section of the measure. "To do so would make the President a partner in the abdication of a fundamental principle of our government—the separation of powers prescribed by the United States Constitution.
"The people of this country did not elect me to this office to preside over its erosion," Johnson went on. "And I intend to turn over this office with all of its responsibilities and powers intact to the next man who sits in this chair."
Johnson also said he would ask Congress to repeal the measure next January.
THIS IS ONLY the latest instance in a series of little dramas when the chief executive has rallied strongly to put down attempts by Congress to take over the executive powers by inappropriate sections in bills. Johnson is without a doubt a staunch defender of the Presidential powers.
But, while the check and balance system is held in such high esteem when the Congress begins to encroach on executive rights, I could only wish Mr. Johnson would be so diligent in protecting the overtaking of congressional powers by the executive branch of government.
The first session of the 89th Congress, just ended, is a perfect example of how the President literally moved in to control, in many aspects, the legislative procedure.
WE CONSTANTLY HEAR of Johnson's war on poverty and Johnson's Great Society. The Congress is congratulated on all sides for the tremendous amount of significant legislation they passed during the session. Unfortunately, the praise should not go to the Congress, but to Mr. Johnson.
No President has been above suggesting legislation that he wanted passed by the law-makers. Johnson, not at all hampered by stodgy ideas, jumped right in and suggested all sorts of legislation. But, he didn't limit himself to just suggestion. The history of the 89th is a history of Johnson suggesting, suggesting strongly, asking, bargaining and even threatening legislators to get the measures he wanted through the Congressional mill.
THE PRESIDENT HAS used influence built up through many years on Capitol Hill and often, "executive brute force." The individual legislators can hardly be blamed for giving in to the sometimes apparently overwhelming pressures.
So, while I am not even attempting to praise or criticize the work of the past Congressional session or this bill, I would like to see President Johnson look more carefully before he begins crying that executive toes are being stepped on. The usurping of others' powers can be a two-way proposition.
—Glen Phillips
'Pawnbroker' batters emotions
By Larry Ketchum
"The Pawnbroker" tears at the guts. Not that it is a motion picture with "gutsy" types of he-men and adventure but a work of art that rips the human emotions into shreds and evokes a compassion for humanity seldom brought out in these modern times.
Rod Stieger lives the part of a small Jewish proprietor of a pawnshop. He is small in stature but monumental in power. Burned into the gray-haired man's mind are brutal memories of horror beyond our generation's imagination.
THE LITTLE MAN behind the steel cage suffers for all humanity. Little bits of human frailty drift everywhere about him in the wasteland called Harlem. Within this teeming dump characters pursue their problems, large and small, bringing bits and pieces of metal, glass, and stone to the pawnbroker, hoping to redeem something from their wretched lives. The pawnbroker doesn't seem to care; his personal suffering is too great and he sees in the people who surround him images of terror from Nazi concentration camps.
STEIGER'S ACTING is excellently controlled and heaped with genuine emotion from within his soul. Every minute
of the film the actor never lets his concentration fail and the audience is unaware Steiger is acting at all.
Jaime Sanchez plays the pawnbroker's "apprentice." He is a boy who has fouled his life but seeks the pawnbroker's help in redeeming himself, although the little Jewish man fails him in the end.
Sanchez plays his part with a great amount of electric energy. He is a very good young actor who is sure to go far in his profession.
"The Pawnbroker" is a film full of power. If all the energy could be tamed from the script, the acting, the photography, and the music and put into the
WHEN MORE MOTION pictures of the same quality "Pawnbroker" possesses are made, the state of movies as an art form will be reached. And, when this day comes, films will have really come of age.
spirit of the world's people, it would move human compassion far out into a realm of human understanding never deemed possible.
The People Say...
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
DEAR EDITOR.
we were thinking
"... it is the inalienable right and unalterable duty of each man before God to obey the voice of conscience..." American Baptist Convention.
"... What the Christian citizen may not do is to obey men rather than God, or overlook the degree of compromise in our best acts, or gloss over the
In reference to Mr. Schleske's letter of October 27,1965:
—Jean Jacques Rousseau
Have you ever thought what sad shape this country would be in if not one "single American male eighteen years of age or older" would hear or obey "the voice of conscience?"
sinfulness of war. ..." Methodist Church.
Mrs. David Leonard
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Daily Kansan
Friday, October 29. 1985
On The Side...
Ah. children. Tis the coming season for amateur politicians to become everyone's friend. Reminds us of our favorite teeevee program of the past. You remember it. Jimmy Dodd came out with mouse ears and Annette, now a voluptuous perpetual teen-ager, danced around.
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Chancellor Wescoe is in town for a few days. This precedes his trip to the Aleutian Islands to further the education of sub-polar deprived Eskimo children.
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We've considered burning our draft card, but two years advising the Vietnamese sounds better than five years in Leavenworth. Besides, our doctor has discovered an old neck injury. It seems to get worse daily.
One derives so much benefit from a college education. Ulcers, baldness, high blood pressure, the chance to meet interesting people. And if you get sick enough, Uncle Sam takes you.
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Civil rights demonstrations are now passé. We'll bet college administrators are wondering what ever happened to the innocent panty raid. They outlawed it.
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Our roommate has come up with a new formula for instant bliss, one that will be okayed by the legislature. By using his college chemistry, he has come up with 3.2 martinis, Tom Collins, highballs and fizzes.
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Have you noticed how the lack of cigarette machines on campus has cut down on student smoking?
We wonder which Mickey Mouse faction will be claiming credit for the escape road between Ellsworth and Hashinger. The Ungodly Politicos or the Vikings Over Xanadu?
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There still is hope for the Jayhawkers to continue their fabulous winning streak and extend it to two games. K-State may get lost coming out of the cornfields and not make it down here.
—Harry Krause
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