University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Jan. 17, 1956.
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Pierre Poujiade Another Hitler?
"Heil Pouiade . . . "
in this sounds like something first heard in the 1930's then you are with us.
Pierre Poujade, shopkeeper, controller of 51 seats in the French Assembly, is a man to watch—or watch out for. Political experts have yet to decide whether he is a messiah or a disciple of the devil. Fanatical? Yes. Crackpot? Maybe.
For all the shirt peeling, wild gestures and hoarse voice, this shopkeeper may be what fate has ordered for the rapidly degenerating French Republic—the religious zeal (if you can call it that), the emotional upsurge needed to lift the Tri-color from the political gutter.
Behind the shouts against taxation and the gallows-inscribed party cards may lie the mind of a shrewd man—a Frenchman, proud of his heritage, who can no longer stand by and watch his country lose control of itself and prestige among the powers of the world.
A firm leadership is needed in France instead of the weak compromising coalition governments that have driven France to the brink of political ruin. Maybe Mr. Poujade could supply that leadership. And so he takes the way that no diplomatic French politician would ever consider taking—an appeal to the emotions. Nothing brings sinners
—voters in this case—down the aisle faster than a hell-fire and damnation pulpit-pounding preacher. And so Mr. Poujade pounds and threatens.
When he has gained his purpose—gained France—he may temper his policies and prove an able and at long last a stable leader. But now he must tear off his tie and threaten his deputies with hanging if they quit him.
If Mr. Poujade gains control of the French Assembly—and it may not be in the too distant future—it is hard to imagine that he would start a regime such as Hitler's or more related. Napoleon. A march to the gates of Moscow seems rather ridiculous at this time, but he could become a firm but benevolent dictator such as Mustafa Kemal, who saved Turkey from ignominy after World War I.
We don't know what the little bookseller has in mind, either for France or himself, but he has captured the imagination of no small part of France, and in time he may in his own raw way capture the whole.
Then too, he may be just another crackpot who will wander or be forced back to his bookshop.
But right now France waits. The world waits. Pierre Poujade is pounding the pulpit.
Dee Richards
All World Honors Ben Franklin Today
Tuesday is the 250th birthday anniversary of Benjamin Franklin. More than 50 nations will take an official part in the celebration of the event.
The people of Hiroshima, Japan, will plant trees in honor of Franklin. The U. S. Information Service abroad will distribute the story of his life to the people of Europe. In the United States the Post Office will distribute a Franklin commemorative stamp.
The Jan. 9 issue of Life magazine reports, in an 18-page story on Franklin, that an effort is being made to collect and publish every existing letter written by or to Franklin and all his other writings. It is estimated that more than 30,000 of these documents still survive.
Benjamin Franklin went to work in his father's candle shop when he was 10 and by 1729 he owned his own newspaper. His most famous publication is "Poor Richard's Almanac."
Franklin was responsible for many things which are taken for granted today. In 1752 he made his experiment with a kite and electricity. He designed the first lighting rods and erected them on several Philadelphia buildings.
He also helped found the University of Pennsylvania and was in the legislature of Pennsylvania and postmaster general for the colonies. He accomplished all of this before he was 50 years old.
Franklin was one of five men whom the Congress appointed to write a declaration of independence.
Franklin was a representative to France from 1776 to 1785. He was so popular in that country that men paid for seats in windows to watch him ride by.
On a snuffbox cover of the period. Franklin is pictured with Rousseau and Voltaïe. His likeness is also on medallions, miniatures, pillboxes, glass doorknobs, dinner trays, and plaques of that period.
Franklin was born 250 years ago. He traveled in carriages and sent his messages by letter. He never saw a jet plane or crossed the ocean on a sleek ocean liner. But even today we can read his words and perhaps realize that the world is not really so different in our time.
Darline Montgomery
Students Buy Stock In World Relations
Students in a Kansas City, Mo. high school are buying shares of stock in understanding. The shares cost 50 cents each. Each stockholder receives a certificate labeled "Foreign Student Exchange." If the students buy $650 worth of stock by Feb.1, a foreign student will be able to attend the high school next year.
The school has two foreign students this year and is enthusiastic about the foreign exchange plan.
Conference tables are fine for formal meetings but everyone can't gather around a conference table. What better way is there to meet, exchange ideas, and really get to understand nations than to live with their representatives in dorms and sit with them in classrooms, and talk with them around a popcorn bowl and cokes?
Hill between American and foreign students. These friendships continue long after the foreign students go home and often result in a visit to South America, Europe, or Asia.
Many friendships are formed each year on the
Classes become more interesting when we can compare our history, our government, and our customs with those of other nations. One of the best ways to learn about a land and its customs is to know a person who lives there and observes those customs.
The high school students who are investing in the "Foreign Student Exchange" will gain benefits many times over their original investments.
Their action is also an answer to those who shout that youth today is all bad. The boys and girls in Kansas City are investing in a better world through understanding. It is one of the best investments they can make.
The United States Public Health Service, the Office of Vital Statistics, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company have pinpointed some very morbid facts.
Darline Montgomery
Facts Are Morbid
If you die this year, your chances of dying of heart disease are about 1 in 3.
Your chances of dying of suicide are 1 in 100. Dying of typhoid will be 1 in 10,000.
If you contract malaria, your chances of dying are about 9,999 to 1.
Of course, the facts are figured for the average man. If you're not the average man, then forget them. Who knows, you might live to the ripe old age of 69, and then again you might not.
Isn't life grand!
Sam L. Jones
The concurrent appearance of final week schedules and second semester enrollment schedules leaves some students in a terrible quandary—wondering which of the two dastardly blows of fate they should complain about.
..Short Ones..
We overheard one student say he was afraid to figure out a schedule for next semester because he wasn't sure which of this semester's courses he would have to take over.
Wonder how the administration expects any student to study for finals while still worrying about the results of the Western Civ test.
Now that Grace Kelly is engaged, there's just nothing to live for. Oh well, guess we'll study.
Production Of Polio Vaccine Depends On Monkey Supply
Without monkeys there would be no polio vaccine, and without monkeys much of the knowledge that went into the polio vaccine might never have been obtained.
The research that led to the vaccine really began in 1908 with the discovery by two Viennese scientists, Dr. Karl Landsteiner and Dr. Erwin Fopper, that polio could be given to monkeys. Thus there became available an experimental animal in which the disease could be studied. Monkeyes were used in the first work on a vaccine in 1910 and in hundreds of studies between that time and this.
It was not until the advent of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that a concerted effort was made to supply healthy monkeys to polio research laboratories. At Pritchardville, S.C., a monkey processing farm was established and maintained under March of Dimes grants.
The vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk under March of Dimes grants, is dependent on monkeys because virus for it is grown on cells from the kidneys of rhesus monkeys.
Rhesus monkeys are delicate animals when they are removed from their native habitat and they are expensive. These two factors long made it difficult for scientists to obtain enough animals suitable for polio research.
More than 48,000 of the animals went through this station, known as Okatie Farms, in 1954. It takes about three weeks for each monkey to be processed. Before the creation of this center hundreds of monkeys died before they could be used in the fight against polio.
Monkeys from Okatie Farms were essential to one of the most important research projects in the advance toward the development of the vaccine.
by the late 1940's scientists strongly suspected that there might be more than one type of polio virus. They were not sure that this was so, and they did not know how many types to expect. A March of Dimes research program, lasting several years and carried out in four laboratories, finally established that all known strains of polio virus could be placed in three broad types.
This meant that an effective vaccine would have to protect against each of these three types but that no other known types would have to be considered. The classification program cost $1,190,000.
At present, monkeys are still being used in many research projects and to provide the host cells on which the virus is grown. Viruses in general are very selective about where they grow. They will only multiply within living cells and they are extremely fussy about what kind of cell.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is now supporting a broad program of research to find a kind of normal human or animal cell which will multiply indefinitely in the laboratory and on which polio virus can be grown. Should such a cell be found, the present dependence of vaccine production on the import of monkeys from India may end.
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