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University Daily Kansan Friday. November 3. 1961
P-T-P Goes Big Eight
Growing pains are already menacing a recently organized KU group. The KU People-to-People organization, now in its first year as a campus organization, is already pondering the problem of regional then national expansion.
IN A CONFERENCE LAST WEEKEND the executive committee of KU People-to-People introduced this idea for better foreign student relations to a group of leaders from other Big Eight schools. All were impressed and returned to their respective schools vowing to establish similar programs. But, as local People-to-People executives are finding out, it takes a lot more than enthusiastic approval to establish such a program on a regional basis.
Now that the seeds of expansion have been sown the KU committee is faced with the problem of making sure the climate is right for development of People-to-People at the other Big Eight schools. This will involve an enormous amount of work for the KU group.
IT WILL MEAN CONTINUAL COR-respondence, phone calls and many personal visits to make sure things are progressing well at the other seven campuses. To accomplish this it will be necessary to adapt the present structure of the group to handle this added responsibility.
But KU's role in the expansion of People-to-People will require much more than just physical and mental effort. There is a great deal of expense involved in selling a program such as this. KU will have to finance transportation and expenses of sending people out to assist in establishing the program at the other universities. Postage and printing bills will also be sizable.
THE ALL STUDENT COUNCIL'S $1.905 appropriation for People-to-People will certainly relieve much of the financial strain the committee was operating under. However, most of this money has been earmarked for People-to-People activity at KU and little will be left to promote regional expansion. But, the committee's financial situation is not impossible and no doubt some sort of solution will be worked out.
Although the effort required may seem gigantic and the problems never ending, those active in the People-to-People program can be assured that their enthusiasm and success speak well for them and the University. People-to-People may well identify KU as a leading force in a movement that has real value in the relations between nations and their student representatives in America.
—Ron Gallagher
Nikita's Folly
Khrushchev has joked about the 50 megaton bomb set off earlier this week. His hope that it would frighten the Western world has also been laughed off, but not by Mr.K.
The super-blast, a propaganda device to exhibit Russian power to the world, is not to be taken lightly. But it is doubted if Khrushchev expected the reaction his bomb received.
INSTEAD OF WESTERN POWERS FALLING to their knees in fright or reverence, severe censure of Russia's action was sent almost as soon as the blast was over.
Housewives, teachers and students across the world are not worried about Russia's bomb, but are concerned with the radiation fallout which will soon be over the U.S.
Man-in-the-street interviews have produced interesting results. Most people interviewed said they thought Russia had set the bomb off to frighten leaders in England, France and the United States, or as a warning to the U.N. if Red China were not admitted.
THE MAJORITY OF THOSE INTERviewed said they have faith in the defense of the
United States and are not particularly worried about war. Their main concern is the fallout and its effect on future generations.
Many of those interviewed across the nation were participating in picket lines protesting the Russian superbomb.
One woman was pushing a baby carriage and holding a "Ban the Bomb" poster. Her child, asleep in the carriage, was wearing a sign saying "I want to be a mommy someday. Stop nuclear testing."
IF KHRUSHCHEV EXPECTED PRESIDENT Kennedy to discontinue all nuclear testing, including the underground explosions that cause no fallout, his joke on testing may not be as funny as he thinks-Kennedy announced yesterday that the United States will resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere if such tests are necessary for U.S. security and the protection of the free world.
If the world takes a firm stand and refuses to be intimidated by the Russian power, Mr. K may have a joke he can't laugh off as easily as he expected.
Carrie Merryfield
Music Review
By Stuart Levine Assistant Professor of English
Wednesday's Faculty Recital was an invigorating mid-week recharging for a small battery of run-down music lovers in Swarthout Recital Hall.
VIOLIST KAREL BLAAS and pianist Richard Angeliett opened
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the program with the "Sonata in G" of Pietro Locatelli. Mr. Blaas plays a lot of viola. If the opening movements were a little stiff, it was probably because he was not yet thoroughly warmed up. I will never understand how a man can put in a full day teaching and meeting family and social obligations and then march on up
stage, right after dinner, to play a full-scale concert, but our music faculty seems able to do it. At any rate, Mr. Elaas was thoroughly in the mood by the last movement, and played with taste, good tone and gusto.
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Paul Hindemith's "Sonata" Opus 11 Number 4 came next. A surprisingly romantic work, this, and a good reminder that Hindemith has roots in the rich soil of nineteenth century German Music. Mr. Blaas showed his versatility here; he had a fine repetition of tone qualities available as they were needed. The piano part in this work is by no means just an accompaniment; it's very demanding. Mr. Angletti was up to it, and the result was an idiomatic and sympathetic performance.
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AFTER THE INTERMISSION,
clarinetist L. Don Schied joined
the others on stage to play the
Darius Milhaud Suite for Violin,
Clarinet and Piano. This is light-
weight and bubbly work; if you
didn't know about Milhaud's years
in South America, you could have
guessed. Or you might have missed
the boat altogether and thought
you were listening to something by
Villa-Lebos. For all its lightness,
the work is nicely put together.
I could find nothing wrong with the
performance. Darn nice concert.
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By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
PROLOGUE TO SUMTER, edited by Philip Van Doren Stern. Fawcett, 75 cents. HERNDON'S LIFE OF LINCOLN, edited by Paul M. Angle. Fawcett, 75 cents. OUR HOUSE DIVIDED, by John Bach McMaster. Fawcett, 75 cents. SOLDIER LIFE, edited by Philan Van Doren Stern. Fawcett, 75 cents. MEET GENERAL GRANT, by W. E. Woodward. Fawcett, 59 cents. GENERAL LEE, by Fitzhugh Lee. Fawcett, 75 cents. I RODE WITH STONEWALL, by Henry Kyd Douglas. Fawcett, 75 cents.
Here, in seven volumes, is a paperback survey of the Civil War. It is recommended, with reservations, to persons who have done little reading in this area of such interest in this centennial year. Much of it is familiar and can be found in other works.
Perhaps the most valuable of the volumes is that called "Prologue to Sumter," valuable because it contains critical primary documents. Stern begins with the John Brown raid on Harpers Ferry and carries the story up to, and a little past, the firing on Ft. Sumter. In these pages are such varied documents as the letter from a little girl advising Lincoln to grow a beard, a New York Herald diatribe against the Republican party, wild statements by Robert Barnwell Rhett, Garrison and Phillips. Beauregard at West Point, plans to get Lincoln to Washington through disloyal Baltimore, and many others.
"Herndon's Life of Lincoln" may be the most controversial of all Lincoln biographies. It is a collection of facts and mythology, and is largely responsible for the Anne Rutledge and Mary Todd images that persist today in the Lincoln legend. But such a biography has particular merit in its very biases, for Herndon was extraordinarily close to Lincoln, and he did considerable spadework on the biography, despite its glaring faults.
"Our House Divided" is better known to historians as "A History of the People of the United States During Lincoln's Administration." The special merit in this history is that John Bach McMaster pioneered in social history. By using numerous manuscripts, newspaper reports and heretofore unused documents, he did, in fact, tell a story of the people and not merely one of soldiers and statesmen. Not that the great are omitted, but that McMaster was writing like the social-minded historians of today, the Nevines and the Commagers and Hofstadters.
"Soldier Life" contains numerous camp-life vignettes and has been extracted by Stern from "Hardtack and Coffee," Union documents, and "Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia." It is engrossing, though this kind of thing has been incorporated into the books of Catton and Commager. Here the reader learns that Civil War soldiers were much like those of later wars. One fine touch is a soldier's eulogy to the Army mule, a parody of Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade."
In "Meet General Grant," the prime debunker of them all, W. E. Woodward, gives us a portrait of the victorious Union commander. We see not a giant among soldiers but a very ordinary man, of ordinary abilities, a soldier who hated the sight of blood but was called a butcher during the brutal battles of the Wilderness, an inept president, a lonely old man dying among his memories. Though Woodward's book was an expose of sorts, it tells little that cannot be learned about Grant from better books.
"General Lee" also has its deficiencies, though they are of a different kind. Perhaps relatives should not be allowed to write biographies; Fitzhugh Lee was Lee's nephew, and he is overloving. It is difficult, however, to find writings about Lee that do not make the Virginian almost Olympian in size. But the nephew does tell a thorough and vivid story of the tragic leader of the Confederate armies.
"I Rode with Stonewall," finally, is an engrossing account by a young man who hated slavery but loved his state and became an aide on the staff of General Thomas J. Jackson. He accompanies Jackson from Bull Run through Chancellorsville, where the general receives a mortal wound. Of particular interest is Douglas' description of the postwar trial of the persons in on the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
Stern, in his introduction to this volume, makes an eloquent statement about the war that sums up all these books and the feeling so many Americans have toward the war. Describing Douglas, he says:
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