Friday, October 26, 1956
From The Nation:
Colleae Editors Still
(Ed. Note:) The following
article was written by Laurence
Barrett for The Nation. It re
veals the results of a poll by the
National Collegiate Press, in
Which The Nebraskan took part.
Eisenhower has lost considerable
ground to Adlai Stevenson among
l;e country's college editors since
May, but a majority of them still
like Ike. Yet Stevenson's gains can
not be attributed to his campaign;
nine out of ten made their decision
t convention time.
These conclusions are drawn from
poll of college editors taken this
month and compared with one tak
en last spring by New York Uni
versity (Nation, May 12.) The sec
ond poll drew fifty-two replies
sixteen from the Northeast, nine
from the Midwest, ten from the
South, fifteen from the West and
five from border states. This dis
tribution follows closely that of the
first poll.
This month Eisenhower prevailed
by a margin of thirty-three to twenty-two.
When forty-four editors re
sponded last spring, the President
had a better than two-to-one edge.
In this month's poll, Richard Nix
on came in for a good deal of
abuse from Stevenson supporters
as did the President's capacity for
leadership. None of the pro-Eisenhower
answers mentioned Nixon.
The Eisenhower fans stressed pros
perity more than peace. Wrote an
editor from Illinois: "In general,
I approve of the 1952-56 Administra
tion and see no reason to shift into
neutral while we're travelling in
high."
The world situation was used
heavily as an argument by both
aides. Eisenhower supporters main
tained that their candidate's expe
rience and prestige abroad made
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him essential at this time. Many
Stevenson backers condemned Dul
les' administration of foreign af
fairs. The Suez crisis came up fre
quently. The candidates' honesty, intellect
and personality received more at
tention from the editors polled than
did specific issues. Most of the
answers ignored the President's
health and the merits or demerits
of Estes Kefauver. Only a hand
ful mentioned H-bomb tests and the
draft. There were, of course, ex
ceptions. One Ivy League editor,
whose paper supported Roosevelt,
Wallace and Stevenson in the last
six elections, went Republican this
time: "Over the last four years,
the Republicans have given expres
sion to the will of the people with
their program of moderate con
servatism. But at the same time,
they have fought against political
expediency when it seemed detri
mental to the best interests of the
country . . ."
On the Stevenson side (as op
posed to the anti-Nixon, anti-Dulles,
anti-Big Business line), one
Eastern women's college editor
wrapped it up this way: "Steven
son, the liberal intellectual, rep
resents the type of candidate . . .
absent from the White House for
too long. I should like to see a
real 'mind' in the Presidency."
There was a small but eloquent
minority which favored Stevenson
rather as if he were the lesser
of two evils. One Chicago man
wrote: "I can't stand Ike! He'd
make a good king . . ." Another
Mid Westerner commented, "I
don't support Stevenson as
much as I do the Democratic Party.
It seems to me that Stevenson
has lowered himself immeasurably
during the course of the present
campaign."
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Thirty seven editors reported
that they would split their ballots
as against fifteen who said they
would vote straight. Three had not
decided. Most of the split-ticket ad
vocates argued that party loyalty
at the polls would insure the vic
tory of poor candidates somewhere
along the line. The, central argu
ment for straight voting was fear
of a "do-nothing" government re
sulting from a White House-Congress
split.
The tone of the young journalists'
comments indicated that they con
sidered themselves keenly interest
ed and at least moderately well
informed on politics. But a major
ity could not attribute such virtues
to collegians as a group. By a
margin of thirty to twenty-three
they agreed that "college students
are generally apathetic to politics."
Two said they did not know.
But most editors indicated that
November 6 would bring a return
of apathy. One write: "Though
the urban, supposedly sophisticated
environment of New York City
should be enough to bring young
persons out of their intellectual
cocoons, obviously the effect is not
great enough to overcome their po
litical insensibilities. The fault is
certainly ' not with communica
tions . . . Either the educational
job is an inadequate one ... or
this generation of new and poten
tial voters is a selfish and self
satisfoed one." A Kentucky editor
noted that among native Kentuck-
ians, who can vote at eighteen,
there was an increased interest
compared to out-of-state students.
Georgia is the only other state al
lowing eighteen-year-olds to vote.
A reply from there said most stu
dents are not apathetic.
The replies indicated no geograph
ic pattern. Schools from the same
region and type of community
often yielded opposite answers.
The same was true about the var
ious kinds of institutions private,
public, denominational or secular.
The majority of the editors re
ported that their papers dealt with
national affairs to some extent,
or encouraged student interest in
politics in other ways, such as
'register-and-get - out - the-vote"
editorials, straw polls, the print
ing of absentee voter regulations
and the encouragement of parti
sans to debate their positions in
print. All of this, be it remembered
in the face of reader disinterest.
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THE NEBRASKAN
Editor labels Campaign Words
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Ike's, Adlai's
By SAM JENSEN
Campaigning in these United
States seems to have fallen to an
all time low. So many derisive
comments and inflammatory re
marks have been made that many
intelligent people have decided to
completely disregard campaign
statements of members of either
party.
The spoken word appears to be
merely an instrument of political
opportunism.
The party affiliate seeks to clas
sify the statements of his party
heroes as truth and the commen.
of the other party as malicious
and unfounded slander.
The Republicans are running on
the promise of another four years
of successful administration and
the Democrats are running on the
promise of a more devoted con
cern for the interests of the people.
As the campaign goes into its
final weeks, it would seem profit
able to look beneath the charges
and counter charges and perhaps
examine the positions of the two
candidates shorn of accusations
of "egg-headedness" and "part
time presidency."
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson is undoubtedly the
strongest candidate which his party
could have nominated. Fears that
he wouldn't hit hard enough and
that he sould not be popular with
the masses have gone unfounded.
To date, he has made an appeal
to voters of three large groups.
He has committed himself to rigid
high supports for the farmers and
has sought the support of labor
by declaring himself in favor of
the guaranteed annual wage and
in opposition to the Taft-Hartley
Act. Stevenson favors social wel
fare legislation in the fields of
better housing, better schools,
more old age assistance and better
protection against hazards of ill
health.
Two of the most interesting pro
posals by Stevenson have been
the ending of the draft and the
halt of H-bomb testing. These is
sues have both been carefully quali
fied by the Democratic candidate,
but nevertheless, the general pub
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EISENHOWER
lie is assuming that the end of
these measures will come with the
advent of a Democratic regime in
Washington.
Stevenson has affirmed the Su
preme Court's decision on school
integration in the South and holds
approximately the same moderate
view as does President Eisenhow
er. Dwight Eisenhower
In the case of Mr. Eisenhower,
he has been in the position of de
fending his record in office and
has offered little or nothing in the
way of promises or group committ
ments. Most frequently he cites these
administration accomplishments:
The national budget has been
brought into balance.
The "atoms-for-peace" plan and
the "open-skies" inspection plan
have given the initiative in dis
armament to the United States.
American business has been set
free of bureaucratic controls.
Employment and earnings are
high.
The people have a trust in .he
soundness of the Federal govern
ment. Mr. Eisenhower has re-shaped
the Republican party into an or
ganization to which more of the
laboring groups can feel at home
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trust. He has acted quickly in con
demning irrational partisanship
and praising statesmanship on the
part of members of both parties.
A Difference
Actually, if a choice is made,
it is between two men who follow
the middle of the road.
Both men have expressed a dis
trust for extremist positions and a
clearly demonstrated faith in the
philosophy and method of modera
tion. For this position, Mr. Eisen
hower is distrusted by the reac
tionary wing of his party and Ste
venson was rebuked at the Chi
cago convention by Harry Truman.
Whichever man is chosen Nov.
6, his policy will be to concil
iate rather than to coerce, to ciari
fy rather than to confuse and to
un'fy rather than to corrupt.
Pandoria
Those who need an introduction
to Horace may disregard this col
umn. I'd like to talk about some
thing he said long ago which is
still apropos today. It was in his
first Ode; the one he wrote to his
patron Maecenas.
"Tastes differ," the poet said
. . .though nc in t'aose words. To
each man there opens a path which
seems to him to lead to the high
est achievement of his life. Some
men want to be a success in the
chariot races, some want nothing
Dick Shugrue
better than to till rich fields. Hor
ace reaches toward the stars (liter
ally!) and asks t'ne Muse to bend
down and lend him the harp of
musical phrases.
Today we hardly ask Muses to
lend us their lyres, but we do
patronize those whom we think
might favor us with a good recom
mendation for a prestige-filled posi
tion. Thus some newspapers sup
port candidates merely to gain fa
vor in their pet projects, wheth
er they be the building of a new
watershed, the introduction of a
power line or the opening of a
socialized medicine plan.
Tastes do differ. I find it hard
to condone the actions of little
men who must wave pharoah's
fan. They find it hard to see why
I am not "for" flexible price sup
ports. The difference in peoples'
tastes extends to petty things, un-
fortunately (as if some of the
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STEVENSON
above mentioned items aren't pet
y!J Sitting around the copy desk
of a local newspaper the other eve
ning someone said, "You know,
that Rag is just about the worst
paper I have ever laid my eyes
on!" You laugh: So did he. He
felt that on this student paper we
neglected the issues (or failed to
create them) and played up stor
ies not worth playing down. Ha
then wrote a headline which said,
"Aussie Crapp Breaks Four World
Records" (spread into two lines.)
Once again, tastes do differ. And
every time someone makes a state
ment like the one he made and
turns around only to make a "boo
boo" worse than anything we
might otherwise do, I get a rather
funny taste in my mouth. I will
grant that each man has a right
to say (or taste) anything he wants
to.
Those who would criticize with
out being constructive have theif
place in our society. They have
begged their own Muses to bless
them with whatever it takes to
be nasty little people. Instead of
praying (as Horace did) to a fine
goddess of the lyre, these people
are apt to say, "Plunk your mag
ic twanger, Froggie!" and the re-
suits will be just as cello -sound
ing as anything the gremlin could
think up.
Whenever I meet a person like
that, I just pull out my little vade
mecum and like Horace, tug at
my ear. The bore usually walks
I away.
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