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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 9, 1956
Students Of Spain Show Potential Power
Spain's university students, in a recent public opinion poll and more recent demonstrations, have taken their proper place in Spanish society. They have opened intellectual fire on Franco's doublethink policies. Because of their concerted actions, one secretary general of the Falange and one education minister have bit the dust.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
So also have two freedoms been withdrawn the right to choose a place of residence and the protection against unlawful arrest. All this because a bunch of college kids got together and hollered "boo,"real loud.
The point is that colleges have such potential power to move and change things—at least to keep policies and the "well, we used to do it this way"s from settling to the stature of a compost heap, where dead vegetation is allowed to ferment.
Potential power, though, isn't worth a whistle in a windstorm. Something must get it into gear—start it rolling—and the lack of that something is what hampers many colleges outside Spain today. They have the potential just as Madrid University has had it all along. But does it take being beaten against a wall to make the potential come to life?
No one doubts that American universities
would do the same under similar circumstances, but American universities aren't in similar circumstances. What happens to the potential in the meantime? It lies dormant—waiting—and for what?
If any cause does arise the student of today must first analyze his chances. First, he asks, "How many people will go along with this?" and then he uses his logic learned in school: "to get any place in this world you've got to know somebody, and if I alienate my friends (who might be instrumental in getting me a position later) I'll simply not get along."
Once every student mentally goes through these questions it isn't difficult to see why the potential remains lying where it does. It's after the price of the cause mounts the price of social ostracism, after freedom begins to mean more than a full belly and a newer car, after conditions similar to Spain's arise, that the potential of universities flexes its arm for action.
It seems a shame that students should be denied all this possible excitement and stimulation on a lesser and more preventive scale than that in Spain (she's beyond the preventative stage) just because of the current premium on the assenting opinion.
Rav Wingerson
'Tarzan' Movies Gain New Honors
From Russia comes word that this is the best movie series the capitalist America has ever produced. From India comes the word that they don't have theaters large enough for all those who want to see it.
What do they want to see? Why, Tarzan, of course.
For over 37 years, Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Robin Hood of the Jungle" has captivated audiences all over the world. And they haven't all been child audiences either.
The popularity of Tarzan appears to lie in the fact that language is no barrier, since the apeman doesn't do much talking in his escapades. Popularity also apparently stems from the fact that there is a basic romance in chest-pounding, muscular monkey man who swings through the jungle chattering with his almost-human friends.
Since the first showing in 1918, Tarzan has assumed the face of 11 chest-pounders. The first was Elmo Lincoln.
A New York fireman, Gene Polar, was the
second ape-man in 1920. Apparently Polar wasn't too popular, for later on the same year long-haired P. Dempsey Tabler assumed the role. James H. Pierce and Frank Merrill carried on the tradition of the ape-man, wearing their variations of the leopard skin.
That really bare-chested version of the chest-pounder came when Olympic swimming star Johnny Weissmuller took over the role in 1932. Another Olympic swimmer, Buster Crabbe, took over temporarily in 1933, as did shot-putter Herman Brix in 1935, and decathlon champ Glenn Morris in 1938.
After the great Weismuller series, Lana Turner's husband, Lex Barker, became the tenth ape-man. But apparently Turner was too much for Barker, for the movie producers have come up with a new Tarzan.
The newest addition is Gordon "Pete" Scott, who is neither an Olympic champion nor an actor -he's a weightlifter with muscles to boot.According to Scott there were over 300 competitors for the job.
Scars Of War Still Show In Greece
Sometimes it is not only ruins and numerous graves a war leaves behind. There are some unbelievable calamities that strike humanity. How else can you characterize the kidnapping of 28,000 Greek children during the war against communism, in the years of 1946 through 1949? How can you consider communism a harmless ideology, since it appears as such a crime in reality?
Even today, eight years after that war, about 26,000 children are kept in communist camps, in countries behind the Iron Curtain. They are trained and taught communist aspects so that one day they can be sent back, to fight against their own parents, their homeland.
There might have been more than 28,000 kidnapped children if Queen Frederica's fund had not established the Children's Towns to protect the children of the countryside, and, more than that, if there had not been such little heroines as Euthyia Calyva, to sacrifice their lives to save the children.
She was a girl, 16 years old, who lived with her two younger brothers in Calesmeno, a little village in the mountainous district in the central part of Greece. Her parents were killed by communists early in 1945.
It was a night in the last week of February in 1949. The rumor that communists would attack the village at night, made her decide to take the children far away. She knew what they would do.
The military base was about ten miles away. She could be there before the dawn. She walked all night, despite the bitter cold, through the snow on uncleared paths, in the darkness of a starless night, carrying one of the children on her back,
The communists used to come down to the villages at nights, like hungry wolves, not only to destroy churches and schools, or to steal property, but to kidnap the children.
and every now and then the other in her arms. Her purpose gave her courage and strength.
She arrived at the military camp. Her hands were scratched, her clothes in rags. She reached the first guard, with a weak voice calling to him. "The children . . . communists are coming . . . the children . . ." and fell down. The little girl was dead.
But 26,000 haven't come back. The protests of the nation, the cries of mothers and sisters, the pain of fathers, the actions of the International Red Cross and protests of several women's organizations from all over the world, have brought no results. Only Yugoslavia, after the alliance with Greece, returned about 2,000 children.
Her brothers were saved, and sent to a Children's Town. Queen Frederica has visited them. They are educated and trained in the art of carpentry, as are many other children in these towns. Thousands of children stay there safe and in good health.
Her name is known all over Greece now. Eutyhia Calyva (Eutyhia means happiness) is the youngest heroine of the war against communism.
People hope that the young kidnapped children beneath the Iron Curtain will not forget that they were born Greeks, that they will refuse to fight against their fatherland if the communist violence uses them, in case they should decide to attack Greece again.
But who can be sure of that?
—Margarita Pipinopoulou
Drummer Jimmy Rogers set a new world's drumming record recently by tapping away for 80 hours, 35 minutes, and 14 seconds. Wonder why whatever department is in charge of such records doesn't select some sort of "blow-your-own-horn-the-longest" champion.
... Letters
Editor:
Now that Watkins Hospital has air conditioning, a special library and a padded room for violent patients, an extra-official planning commission is seriously considering a Hibernation Room, unique in medical history.
Other people I know (whose opinions may be disregarded because of their wise-guyish antagonism) think that some day a committee should investigate the various branches of the University Administration, submitting specific persons to cross-examination and or torture on the question of our chronic lack of green stuff.
For wayward bears?
Wispy, however, advises moderation. Just think of the day when Business Office employees—when asked about the arrival of paychecks—will no longer have to seek soothing replies. They'll be able to look at every teacher in the eye and say coolly, "Oh, go to the hospital and hibernate."
Certainly not; it's for university people, especially for those who on certain days of the month—usually between the first and the fifth (or sixth, or seventh, or eighth) are not accustomed to eating, nor to spending money, nor to exerting themselves unduly in any other manner. It's the rage: While waiting for your university paycheck, drop in and hibernate.
The idea already has the endorsement of important personages and organizations. Dr. Sickmund Deepsole (Psychology) thinks it will do wonders for faculty morale. Groups like the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Assistant Instructors see in our proposed Hibernation Room one of the most significant social experiments of our time. As a long-time sufferer of that pernicious disease, delirium pecunius, my old acquaintance Mr. Wispy says: "There is no better substitute (gaspl) for money (sight) than a real (tremble, tremble!) Hibernation Room!"
Peter Earle,
Lawrence graduate student
Editor:
I hope the University of Alabama officials soon see their way towards admitting Negro students to their school.
It is important to human self-respect not to delay on these matters, though I would not advise too much hurry either. I think leaders in the South who pause to evaluate the real issues of integration can see that only principle can guide it, not their irrational fears. That is the only practicable means.
I am glad the Supreme Court allows time, but I should regret a falling down on duty. The probems are more easily solved by honor than fear which is dish-honorable.
These white people and Negro
This is best of all. The issue is not basically time, but principle—We've all had a sad time for 100 years and every forward step is encouraging on the law that we now have for integration.
people in the South who are unfortunately misled by ignorance and prejudice need the leadship, not the regression on principle, of community leaders.
Lovera Marie Hass,
Lawrence
To the students of the University:
It has only been in the last three years that the Campus Chest has found a firm footing here at KU. In each of these years all students have increased their realization of the needs of our benefiting groups. Consequently, everyone has dug a little deeper in his pocket in order that the Drive would not lag in its momentum.
Each student can feel proud to have aided others whose needs are so much greater than ours. Thanks again, let's make next year's drive even more successful.
Thanks are in order to a great many people who have helped to make this year's campaign successful; particularly to the members of the steering committee, to those who gave their time as solicitors, and all the students who helped this fine cause.
Bill Sayler.
Kansas City, Kan., junior Campus chest drive chairman
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