Editorial
October ...
October is almost a forgotten month.
There are songs that praise other months, but whoever heard of "October Song"? And did any poet write an "Ode to October"?
We think October needs recognition.
It is the month when leaves begin to turn glorious red, yellow and bronze tones. It is the month when Fall begins to show itself, enthusiasm for summer activities wane and people look forward to cool autumn days.
But have we become so materialistic in our hustle-bustle world of books, and classes that we fail to see the beauties surrounding us on the campus?
Majestic oaks and maples, reigning around Potter Lake in raiments of royal color that no dye nor artificial coloring agent could ever hope to duplicate, present a spectacular show of beauty for those who care to look.
Smaller, but no less regal in demeanor, plants and shrubs dominate other areas on the Hill, and as playful October winds tease girl's skirts and whip these gay leaves from their thrones, students shuffle through piles of gold, bronze and copper without realizing the treasure at their feet.
Red brick or drab gray walls are beginning to show through the thinning ivy leaves on buildings around the University. A sign of October and her selfishness—she gives beauty, but takes it away, too, making us aware of the coming winter.
October is a month for romance, for parties and songs. It is a month for a full moon and hay-rack rides or long drives in the country. October is a month for gaiety, for forgetting cares and worries.
But beware October!
She can suddenly fill the night with ghosts, witches and goblins, horrible beyond belief, frightening innocent passersby or begging and pleading for the shiny red apple bobbing in a tub of water.
October tries to please everyone, transcending most laws of nature, which really don't care if their climate pleases or not.
October is the month when smoke from indoor fireplaces can be seen spiraling upwards and its pungent odors greet those persons outside, proving October and her advantages are here.
October is also a month of surprises. One day is cool and crisp, the night almost cold. The next day is warm and lazy, a return to spring. This is October showing her independence and indecision.
She is also an ominous month, not by her actions, but by her suggestion of what follows her. She is the last to bring capricious days, days to be outside to enjoy the beauties of fall before the cold reality of winter makes its entrance upon the stage.
As October recites her final lines and takes her final bows, lines of age begin to show, she leaves with the assistance of winter, making her entrance upon the stage.
As October departs, she promises the song of the North wind, wailing around buildings, creeping into corners.
She also promises the trees will be stripped of their leaves, with only a stark silhouette remaining against the white swirling snow of winter.
The Editors
Anderson at Royal Champion on Block
KANSAS CITY, MO. — (UPI) — Kansas Gov. John Anderson today told a meeting of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce that the United States must keep a free enterprise type of business if it wants to survive.
The Governor, in Kansas City for "Kansas Day" at the American Royal, added that a relationship must continue between business and government that will sustain the free enterprise system.
"IN ADDITION, we must retain under state and local control these areas of government which are not by necessity interstate in nature," the governor said.
Anderson added, "When the people lose their part in government, they lose interest in it. And when it is removed to a central government surely they lose much of the right to exercise control of their government.
"Surely we can have a liberal government in the sense of meeting the needs and demands of the people, and have a conservative government in the sense of retaining the fundamental principles established by our founding fathers—that the government should be by the people and for the people." Anderson closed.
MANY KANSAS STATE officials are attending today's performance at the Royal at which the grand champion of the American Royal Livestock Show will go on the auction block. The prize Black Angus steer will be sold in the climax of a family enterprise shared by twin sisters Judy and Joyce Vining of Osage, Iowa.
When Maybe II, was picked by the
judges yesterday as the best in a field of five champions in individual classes, 17-year-old Judy called it a "wonderful surprise." Her sister stood beside her as they acknowledged victory.
K. U. is expanding relations with the University of Costa Rica through a complete exchange of publications. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said today.
KU Broadens Exchange Program
The agreement is the first of several new plans in K.U.'s exchange program with the University of Costa Rica.
Chancellor Wescoe and Rogelio Sotela, vice rector of the University of Costa Rica, formally agreed to "initiate gestures" leading to aid for Costa Rican students wishing to study here. In the two-year-old program K.U. students have studied in Costa Rica, but Costa Rican students have been unable to attend K.U. because of expenses.
The Chancellor hopes arrangements will be made in time for Costa Rican students to arrive next semester, or by the start of the 1962-63 year. Fifteen K.U. students have been chosen to begin study in Costa Rica this February.
K. U. is considering fellowships for training Costa Rican specialists in medicine. The possibilities of an exchange program in agronomy between Kansas State University and the University of Costa Rica are being viewed.
Daily hansan
Wednesday, October 18, 1961
59th Year, No. 24
History Club
"Morality Versus Force in American History" will be the topic discussed at 7:30 tonight by Clifford S. Griffin and Raymond G. O'Connor, assistant professors of history, at the History Club meeting in the Cottonwood Room of the Union.
Three to Receive Medical Awards
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
NEW YORK—(UPI)The American Heart Association announced today the selection of two doctors and an attorney to receive its 1961 Gold Heart Awards.
Selected to receive the 1961 awards were: Tinsley R. Harrison, professor of medicine, Medical College or Alabama, Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Louis N. Katz, director of the department of cardiovascular research at Reese Medical Hospital, Chicago, and Frank L. Mechem, a Seattle lawyer.
The awards are given annually for significant medical research pertaining to heart disease and to individuals who contribute to the advancement of the association's overall program.
The awards will be presented next Sunday at the association's annual meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla.
The outlook for the next five days is for temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below the normal 70 and little precipitation. It will be generally fair tonight and tomorrow.
Weather
Peace Plans Drag For KU-MU Game
By Karl Koch
The All Student Council's efforts to prevent violence at the KU-MU game Nov. 25 are meeting with little success because MU "is lackadaisical about the whole affair."
This is the opinion of the KU student body president, Max Eberhart. Great Bend senior.
VOWS OF SEVERAL KU students to get even after the KU-MU altercations of last year's football and basketball games prompted a resolution last year to look into the possibility of a meeting with MU leaders.
A committee of seven KU students was appointed this September to plan a dinner here or at Kansas City to discuss a halt to KU-MU warfare.
"WEVE OFFERED to pay their expenses except transportation to Lawrence or Kansas City." Eberhart said.
"They have a lot of conflicting affairs, but they act like it's our responsibility," he said.
The Missouri student body leaders, specifically Roger Bridges, MU student body president, seem to feel it is KU's responsibility this year to prevent violence since the game is to be played here, Eberhart said in an interview last night.
Eberhart has made several phone calls to Bridges to try to set up plans for a conference.
He added that people would blame KU for any violence this year because "it's our buildings, our stadium, and our grounds."
Any violence would give KU a bad name, Eberhart said.
"We want to prevent this," he added.
EBERHART SAID the ASC wasn't trying to stop the rivalry between KU and MU.
"The rivalry is healthy," he said. "It's a good thing."
GOING ON TO whether there was any possibility of the "KU Peace Corps" (as Eberhart called the seven member committee) setting up a meeting with MU, Eberhart said the committee hadn't given up hope.
"We're still trying. We may get together yet," he said.
Nikita Predicts Downfall of U.S.
MOSCOW —(UPI)— Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that American-style capitalism is on its way out and the world of 1980 will be dominated by Communism.
In a second appearance in two days before the 22nd Soviet Communist Congress; Khrushchev spoke for six hours sketching in the outlines of a party program for the establishment of a Communist society in the next 20 years.
He termed the Communist plan a blueprint "for the creation of a so-
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The Queen of All the Cows
By Martha Moser
Obviously it was a job for specialists, those who study women with the interest of perhaps the men.
And these specialists never studied harder than this morning when they judged the senior queen candidates. Eighteen senior women, myself included, were vying for the title of senior queen. Our judges were the 1,746 other members of our class.
PICTURE THE SCENE: Senior Coffee, Ballroom of the Kansas Union. Hundreds of students cluster in little groups, coffee cups in hand, talking, laughing, looking at the stage. On stage, we 18 women sit empty handed, smiling, looking at the little groups.
"Isn't being a queen candidate exciting!" someone exclaims.
Ah, observe our classmates observing. Someone asks how it feels to be a queen candidate. Indeed! How does one answer such a penetrating psychological question?
Our judges, pencils poised, subtly glance at the entrants in the judges circle . er, on the stage. You can define the thinking as they begin to score.
I MIGHT GUESS, though, it is not unlike the feeling a champion steer must have as he steps into the show ring.
"Height from shoulder to hock . . .
condition of coat, hide . . stance
. width of body . evenness of
back . straightness of sides. "
The judges tally their figures. The votes are ready to be counted, and finally, the winner is about to be announced. You wonder whom they picked for grand champion.
YOU CATCH a woman student looking at you, and you can tell that in one glance she has graded you as only U.S. Choice. She smiles at the candidate from her house—U.S. Prime.
It is not you, of course. No. You didn't think it would be, so you're not disappointed. You didn't have a chance. You had decided before you came that you didn't have a chance.
SO YOU'RE not disappointed. Not much. But isn't being a queen candidate exciting?
Guess who the guy in the middle voted for!