CYDs Hear Humphrey
By John Sharp
About 75 members of the Collegiate Young Democrats Club were among the shouting, shoving crowd that attended Senator Hubert Humphrey's speech at Topeka yesterday.
The crowd, estimated at 2,000 people by police, jammed the front half of Exposition Hall at Mid-America Fairgrounds in Topeka to hear Humphrey.
The KU CYD group, led by their president, Mike Rogers, carried several homemade Humphrey signs. However, on one of these, his name was spelled Humpfrey.
Not all the KU students who attended the speech favored Humphrey. Fred Hartman, Lawrence senior, and Ruth Rhoades,
Hubert Humphrey
Lawrence freshman, stood by the entrance of the building carrying Goldwater signs.
HARTMAN SAID, "I don't think Senator Goldwater gets the publicity the other candidates do. This is one way of getting his name before the people.
William C. Simms, Humphrey National Chairman, said, "The reception was terrific. The people were so enthusiastic, they almost killed us getting in."
Thirty to forty young Goldwater supporters were at the rally. Almost all of them were students at Topeka high schools.
Bob Stanley, Highland Park High School senior and leader of the group, said, "We just came here to listen to the issues. Two or three older people have approached us, and told us to get out of here."
The Minnesota senator called for election to state offices of the Democratic candidates and urged voters to "keep the full team on the job."
"You wouldn't want a quarterback of the opposition running the game," he said referring to a Republican state administration and a Democratic national administration.
"We Want Barry" chants started more than once during the rally. Young Democrats drowned them out eventually. It took more time because some Democrats yelled "We Want Humphrey," and some yelled "We Want Johnson." They finally decided on Humphrey chants.
Humphrey asked his enthusiastic young Democratic friends to let the opposition cheer. "It's their last chance," he said.
Outside Republicans passed out literature criticizing Americans for Democratic Action, the liberal political organization of which Humphrey is a member.
Mrs. Myrta Budke, Douglas County Democratic Vice-Chairman, said 100 to 150 residents of Lawrence in addition to the KU group attended the speech. Most of them met Humphrey's plane at the airport.
Thirty to thirty-five Kansas State University students attended the rally. Their leader told them their job was to get their signs between the Goldwater signs and the television cameras.
After his speech, Humphrey flew to Hutchinson, and then on to Denver, Colorado, where he is scheduled to appear today.
Mike Rogers, KU CYD president, said, "This has been a great day for Kansas Democrats.
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 31
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Oct. 30, 1964
KU Professors, Polls Foresee LBJ Landslide
By Suzy Tichacek
Who will win the election—Johnson or Goldwater?
"It's obvious," Clifford Ketzel, assistant professor of political science said, "the man who gets the most ballots."
And who will this man be? According to the opinion of the political science professors the next President will be Lyndon Johnson
Richard Stauber, assistant professor of political science, said, "The
All the professors interviewed felt there was no doubt but that President Johnson would be the next President. "As a non-specialist in the field of American elections," Roy Laird, associate professor of political science, said, "I am persuaded by the polls that Goldwater will get less than 40 per cent of the popular vote. My guess is that he will not receive more than five of the states' electoral votes and that President Johnson will carry Kansas by a decent margin."
polls say it will be as bad as in '36 (Alf Landon was defeated by Franklin Roosevelt). I'm a great believer in the polls, therefore, I believe it will be a landslide for Johnson."
Agreeing with his colleagues, James Titus, associate professor of Political Science said, "In discussing electoral votes, it's possible that Johnson will get over 400 electoral votes—he only needs 270 to win."
Robert Tomasek, associate professor of political science, said, "It will be * landslide vote for Johnson* —I would estimate a 68-32 ratio. This would be a worse landslide than Landon's."
"Many people will just stay home and not vote," he said. "It hasn't been an interesting campaign and many Republicans if they don't like Goldwater would stay home rather than vote for Johnson."
ation on how people will vote besides the polls which everyone has access to."
Claiming he had no device to improve over the polls, J. Eldson Fields said, "Political scientists don't have any pipelines to inside informa-
The only Republican in the political science department, Earl Nehring, assistant professor, agreed with the Democrats. "I thing the Democrats will of course win the Presidency but I don't expect the percentage of popular vote to be as great as Roosevelt's in 1936. I think it might be more comparable to the Eisenhower percentages."
Ketzel said, "If the polls are correct it will be President Johnson. The overwhelming preference for Johnson in the current polls seems, even with a possibility of considerable error to be such that other than a Johnson victory is difficult to believe."
Wiles Threesome Enjoys Campaign
"I don't know." James Drury, professor of political science, said. "From all the signs it appears it will be a significant Johnson victory."
Shaking hands and smiling, a campaigning threesome came to KU last night to give support to Harry Wiles, Democratic candidate for governor.
The backing given to Wiles might have been expected, however, because the trio consisted of Mrs. Harry Wiles and her two daughters, Jane and Mary Lou.
THEY WERE GUESTS of the Democratic Women's Club at a coffee at the Kansas Union.
Mrs. Wiles has been campaigning with her husband for nearly eight months.
"We had a real strenuous primary," Mrs. Wiles said. "It's been a long campaign, but I think it is a terrific experience."
A cool front is approaching Kansas and may bring scattered and light shower activity tomorrow morning, according to the Weather Bureau. Temperatures will drop about 10 degrees but the skies should be clear by afternoon.
Skies should be clear for the KU-K-STATE game.
Weather
"This is the first time I've been out of school to campaign," Mary Lou Wiles said. "We flew to Wichita this morning to see President Johnson and back this afternoon to Topeka to see Senator Humphrey."
MARY LOU WILES, a red-header junior at Topeka West High School. played hookey from school today to hop across the state by plane with her mother and father.
Backing her favorite candidate has given the younger Miss Wiles a chance to meet many people.
"I go around and tell people about my father and why they should vote for him. I feel he's so qualified for the office. He wants to do so much for Kansas." Mary Lou Wiles said.
Miss Jane Wiles, a KU graduate student and assistant resident director at Carruth-O'Leary Hall, has a double reason for being excited about the campaign.
"This is the first time I have been able to vote, and my first vote will be for my father," Miss Wiles said.
WILES' OLDER daughter said she doesn't actually campaign here at school; but if someone notices a similarity in the name she tells them.
Ethan Allen and George Brown, both professors of political science agree that Johnson will win with a good chance of getting over 400 electoral votes.
Viewing the U.S. election from a foreigner's view, J. Piekalkiewicz, visiting assistant professor of political science said, "I'm sure Johnson will win by a good majority. I feel Goldwater will get about 50 electoral votes."
"The last election," he said, "was more interesting. The quality of candidates was much better. Kennedy and Nixon were better speakers and of much higher quality, more intelligent, and more attractive from the voters view."
Piekalkiewicz continued by saying the television debates made the previous election better. "The whole nation could see them in action, facing one another."
In comparing the American election to the English election, Piekalkiewicz said, "There is a limit on money spent in England. There is not the grandeur style that you see in America with the fantastic spending, the big business, advertising. Also in the British politics the issues were much more sharply divided. Now they are becoming more like the American way where the issues of the two parties are very similar."
The question also arises in this election whether Kansas will vote Republican or Democratic on the national ticket. Tradition would dictate Kansas to go Republican because since 1900 it has gone Democratic only 4 times.
Spooks of the World Unite (!) This Week --a combination of our memorial day and Thanksgiving.
Bv Terry Joslin
"Mommy, buy me a candy skeleton," pleads a Mexican muchacho on a street corner in Mexico City.
"El pan de los muertos" or dead man's bread is advertised in the windows of the bakeries. Men with large leaves of sweet bread with candy cross bones are bringing the bread home to families.
Vendors on the streets are selling grinning skulls with a string that can make the jaw move and the bright glass eyes blink.
THESE TWIN holidays come the day after Americans celebrate Halloween by taking their children door to door in search of goodies, drinking cider, carving pumpkins, and turning over outhouses in rural communities.
These are all part of the preparations for the Mexican celebrations of All Saints Day on Nov. 1 and "the day of the dead." Nov. 2.
The Mexican celebration is not like our Halloween. It is more like
The Mexican family usually starts its preparation a week in advance by preparing an altar in the home.
ON NOV. 2, "El dia de los muerdos," Mexican Indians dressed in their best clothes go to the cemeteries to clean off the graves and put flowers and decorations on them.
After they have finished these ceremonies, the Indians go home and eat the equivalent of a turkey dinner along with the "dead man's bread."
The family puts food on the table to show respect for all the saints and martyrs who have died, and for departed members of the family
The children of the house are often given a pumpkin-flavored beverage to drink.
During the holiday season, the play Don Juan Tenario is performed in the theaters and over the radio. It is the story of a malcontent who kidnaps a nun, commits countless murders and laughs at the dead.
When Don Juan comes home from his adventures, he finds his home has been turned into a graveyard. So Don Juan, the Spanish gentleman, invites all his victims' ghosts to a banquet.
Mexican children miss all the fun of going door to door yelling "trick or treat" and rubbing soap on windows. They must stay at home on the night of their "Halloween" and pray to the spirits of their dead ancestors.
Three days later and across the Atlantic Ocean another type of "Halloween" is celebrated in England, Guy Fawkes dav.
GUY FAWKES was an intrepid Englishman who, with a gang of conspirators, tried to start a revolution by blowing up parliament.
On Nov. 5, 1605, great quantities of gunpowder were discovered in the basement of parliament hence the name "gunpowder plot."
Guy Fawkes was captured by King James and tortured to reveal the names of the rest of the conspirators but he refused to cooperate.
At his execution, he behaved so gallantly that Englishmen have celebrated his conduct since that day
Bon fires are lit on Nov. 5 on practically every block all over England.
English children explode firecrackers and shoot off skyrockets in celebration of the English "Fourth of July" that fizzled.
Children make effigies of Guy Fawkes and put them in a wheelbarrow. They stop passers-by with
SCHOOL CHILDREN bring their fireworks to school and even throw them at the teachers.
To control the many injuries suffured by small children before and after Guy Fawkes day, laws have been passed so that children under 16 may not buy fireworks. Perhaps the ones over 16 know more accurately where to throw them.
shouts of, "Penny for the old Guy." The adolescents of Britain's"mod" and "rocker" age groups have "turnip parties."
Americans got some of their traditions of carving pumpkins from these turnip parties.
A LARGE TURNIP is carved into unusual faces and hollowed out. Inside the "Jack-a-lantern" a candle is placed.
These parties usually end with the couples disappearing into the autumn moonlight.
Guy Fawkes day ends with the effigies of the "old Guy" being thrown into the bon fires.
The day after Guy Fawkes day, rural England looks much like rural America after Halloween. Many haystacks have been burned and many "privies" turned over.
Strangely enough, England celebrates Halloween too, but they don't seem to get as excited about it as we do.