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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 16, 1964
The Future and Barry
Most of the regular staff of the University Daily Kansan being gone for the summer, it's perhaps safe to write an editorial about the Senator from Arizona (does any old-timer remember whether Richard Dix ever made a movie with a title like that?) and the way things look for him right now.
The way things look (as of Thursday afternoon, June 11, which is several days before this editorial will reach your eyes) is pretty good. That you know. Good, that is, for nomination. If we are to believe the pollsters (and after Oregon and California such belief may not be too wise), Barry Goldwater can't beat Lyndon B. Johnson.
WE CAN DO NO speculating beyond that done by informed types like James Reston (whose pals call him "Scotty") and William S. White, who seem to be telling us that Goldwater got in there and fought harder than the rest of the GOP troops, and that he's pretty sure to sweep the nomination with little trouble. The news today told us that former President Eisenhower is quite put out regarding the double-domers who keep saying he's been trying to manipulate the coming Republican convention. Well, it did look that way, and some folks are saying that if Eisenhower had done more manipulating, or if Lodge or Scranton or one of those chaps had got in there and fought, the Senator from Arizona (was it a John Wayne movie, maybe?) wouldn't be about to pick up the nomination on the first ballot.
A recent graduate wrote us that if Goldwater becomes president he (the student, not Goldwater) will move to Australia. In 1952 a Democratic gal threatened to move to Nicaragua if Eisenhower were elected (she is now a substantially wealthy matron in Kansas City, and has not left the country for anything, let alone politics).
Others of us felt that the eight years of Eisenhower were eight empty years; still others thought life under Truman was scarcely worth living, and an angry young man of 43 on this campus thinks that life under Johnson—presuming he wins—would be like life on Lower Slobbovia, minus the frozen kickapoo joy juice.
WE HAVE AN IDEA all of us will survive either Johnson or Goldwater. The presidency has a way of shaping boys up, something like playing football or going to summer camp or military academy. Right now the Republican politicians are trying to get Goldwater to say things that sound different from the things he has said in "Conscience of a Conservative" and "Why Not Victory?" This, presumably, so they can get a good platform.
But platforms are meaningless, and the quality of a man's mind and character are more important than his utterances, which, after all, might have been figured out by an image-making advertising agency. Can we trust a man, does he have the capacity for growth and for greatness, does he have a good mind and a real sense of history? These seem more important than the opinion he might voice today to appease his critics, and his friends.
Meanwhile, we can contemplate other matters, like whether the A's will win more games with Lopat gone and whether Tracy will be able to bring Junior home from the moon. We note that a syndicate is setting up a national contest to find a girl who looks most like the Moon Maid. All you blondes with horns should get in touch right away with the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News. You might wind up on the late show one of these nights.
Congo Soldiers, Whites Benefit from 'Magic'
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo — (UPI)—The witch doctor has been enlisted on both sides in the Congo jungle war in Kivu province, with unexpected benefits for whites in the area.
Congolese soldiers, who have U.S.-built planes and armored cars to help them against the rebels, nevertheless wind magic herbs around the barrels of their rifles and machineguns.
DeGeorge Wins FordhamHonor
Richard DeGeorge, associate professor of philosophy, has received an alumni award of Fordham College.
DeGeorge, who will become a full professor at KU July 1, was a member of the Fordham College class of 1854. He was among 10 alumni recognized this week as outstanding members of their classes.
DeGeorge, a student of Soviet ethics, joined the faculty in 1959, the same year in which he earned the Ph.D. from Yale. He received the M.A. from Yale and the Ph.B. from Louvain University, Behram, where he held a Fulbright fellowship.
In 1962-63 he was a Ford Foundation foreign area training fellow in the Institute of East European Studies at Fribourg, Switzerland. He also is one of 11 KU faculty and staff members given research awards under a Ford Foundation grant.
Fellowship Awarded Architecture Teacher
He is the editor of "Classical and Contemporary Metaphysics A Source Book" (1962) and is the author of numerous articles and reviews.
William Maxwell Lucas Jr. assistant professor of architecture, is a fellowship participant in a 9-week National Science Foundation summer institute on structural and foundation engineering at Oklahoma State University.
Among the 40 university teachers participating are seven from foreign lands whose travel expenses were covered by private foundations. The institute will end Aug.7.
The rebels, whose leaders are versed in Marx and Lenin, go into battle armed with three grades of magic, the highest making them "white men," and thus invulnerable.
IT IS THIS MAGIC that has helped the whites in the province, some authorities here believe. The rebels believe that while practicing the highest grade of magic, the spell will be broken if they touch a real white man. This may be the reason that no whites have been molested in Kiuu province, although rebels elsewhere have killed and beaten whites.
The rebels, led by former Education Minister Pierre Mulele, a follower of the Chinese Communists, have an elaborate initiation system set up for their magic.
IN THE SECOND grade, they are anointed with "mayi mulele," or water of mulele, which they believe makes them invulnerable. If something goes wrong and the rebel is killed anyway, the water gives him the power to rise from the dead within three days, the Congolese believe.
In the first grade, they become "adepts"—little more than apprentice practitioners of magic.
The highest grade is "Basungu," or white man, for centuries a superior being in Africa.
Five seniors and three juniors are listed on the spring semester scholastic honor roll of the William Allen White School of Journalism.
Journalism School Lists Honor Roll
The rebels fight with bows and arrows, although recently they have acquired some modern weapons.
The seniors are Stephan C. Hagen of Great Bend; John Dennis Herlocker of Winfield; John W. Johnston of Independence, Mo.; Michael D Miller of Independence, Mo., and Joanne Marie Shade of Lawrence.
The juniors are Bobbetta Bartelt of Hartley, Iowa; Karen J. Layland of Paola, and John S. Suhler of Cross River, N.Y.
All Student Council social committee scholarships have been awarded to three KU upperclass students for the fall semester of 1964.
ASC Awards Go to Three
The recipients are Danielle Goering, Moundridge junior; Ronald Middendorf, Humboldt senior, and Mike Vineyard, Wymore, Neb. junior. All are honor roll students.
Miss Goering, president of Miller Hall, has been an officer of Cwens, sophomore women's honorary group, and she has held several other offices in her residence hall. She holds a scholarship hall award and several other scholarships.
Middendorf, an education major with emphasis on social studies, has been president and secretary of Foster Hall, and he has been active in People-to-People, Student Union Activities, the KU-Y, Student National Education Association, Statewide Activities, and the All Student Council.
Vineyard, a National Merit Scholarship finalist and KU outstanding first year chemistry student, has been a member of the KU Relays committee, the Rock Chalk business staff, and he will attend the Summer Language Institute in Germany this summer. He has been active in the KU Luther League, and he has held several scholarships. He is majoring in chemistry and economics.
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"The Lights Are Going Out, All Over The Country"
Democrats Set Down Views
WICHITA—(UPI)—Five of Kansas' six Democratic gubernatorial candidates outlined their positions on state issues at a political forum presented by the Wichita Eagle and Beacon.
J. Donald Coffin said he favored the repeal of the state income tax to give individuals an economic shot in the arm. He also called for better housing programs, repeal of mortgage legislation, strengthening of anti-trust laws and extension of the wage and hour laws.
Jules Doty said the state's basic problem was high real estate taxes and called for the use of non-real estate tax sources, including taxes on natural gas, to ease the property tax burden.
Harry Wiles called for an overhaul in the state's tax structure and termed school financing a "hodge-podge" with the burden on citizens paying property taxes. Wiles said Kansas was behind other states in industrial development, a factor which has caused unemployment and the loss of 50 per cent of the state's college graduates to employment opportunities elsewhere.
George Hart called for a state
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Joseph Henkle Sr. said he would work for the abolition of the State Legislature's annual budget session and would require a 5 per cent reduction in operating costs in every government department, including the governor's office.
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