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University Daily Kansan Friday. Nov. 11. 1955.
Efforts Of University, Alumni Net $55,000
by Dick Bibler
The greater University Fund announced in its second annual report that $55,000 has been collected during the past charter year through gifts and donations. This is a $14,000 increase in one year.
The University is taking the initiative when the endowment association personally writes former students not only in the state but throughout the nation. Some universities fail to reach many who would be willing contributors by reaching only the rich alumni. This is not the case here.
The best way to raise money is to write to everyone who has formerly attended the University. The cost of reaching these people is well worth the expense and effort.
All gifts to the University Fund are used for the purpose of scholarships, student housing, loans, or some other useful purpose. No deductions are made for administrative overhead or for any other reason.
The most difficult problem for education today is how to obtain necessary funds to support our schools other than by regular taxation.
The effort of the alumni to give to the University shows observers that Jayhawkers are personally interested in helping their school.
David Webb
'Poor' Are Richer Under Capitalism
For ages the desire of the greatest altruists has been to improve the lot of those regarded as the "submerged masses." Not communism alone but also socialism, liberalism, philanthropy and enlightened capitalism have all aimed at achieving a broader distribution of goods, equality of opportunity and advancement for the underprivileged.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
How many students does KU have, anyway. A UDK headline of November 9 says, "8,057 Enrolled In University." The story says there are 8,502. The story then goes on the say that there are 7,384 students at Lawrence and 691 at the medical center. This total is 8,075.
A study completed for the United States Commerce Department by Dr. Herman P. Miller on the basis of Census Bureau data reemphasizes the "leveling up" trend which has been taking place in America during the last several decades.
For statistical purposes Dr. Miller has divided the working population by number into segments of one-fifth each for the period from 1939 to 1951. He finds that the earnings of the lowest-paid and presumably least skilled one-fifth constituted about 3 per cent of the total national wage and salary income at each end of the 12-year period. But—he found that a great portion of these workers now are part-time employees or baby sitters rather than full-time domestics. And—that the average less-skilled worker had tripled his rate of earnings between the two dates.
It looks as if the ASC is in the same old rut. At this week's meeting, eight people were absent and a good portion of the meeting was given over to discussing the parking problem. The council has been low in attendance and discussing the parking problem ever since we can remember.
The basketball ticket information pamphlet has pictures of Phog Allen and the Field House on the cover with arrows pointing from the identification lines to the appropriate one. It must be thought that the readers can't tell the difference between Phog and the Field House.
Going up the economic scale, the researcher found that the next three-fifths of the working force, all the three middle brackets, had improved their share of the national wage and salary income during the 12 years. Professional, sales and clerical pay had more than doubled.
This study does not, either, take account of investment income. But so far as the survey goes, it tends to show that under enterprise capitalism the "rich" have not been "getting richer and the poor getting poorer" but rather that the "poor" have been getting richer and the "rich" getting rich less rapidly.
—Christian Science Monitor
... Letters
Editor:
It is with the greatest pleasure that we note the consternation evidenced in the UDK regarding the general apathy which heralded, this year, the arrival of Guy Fawkes Day. It is truly a rare pleasure to see the UDK take such a firm editorial stand on a matter of this magnitude.
On Nov. 5, our organization sponsored a display at the KU-K-State football game (sic). Said display, consisting largely of an 18-foot banner emblazoned with the legend "Guy Fawks Day," occasioned remarkably little reaction on the part of the assembled multitude.
Shunned and disillusioned, we slunk homeward convinced that our efforts had gone for naught when—mirabilis dictu—we found that our fallen banner had again been raised on high by no less an institution than the UDK editorial page.
Our heartiest thanks. Your noble journalistic effort has revived our lagging spirits.
Look for us on Whitsuntide.
The Guy Fawkes Day Committee
The Guy Fawkes Day Committee
Editor:
Aunt Great Lakes carried us all to see "The Land of the Dragon" at the Studio Theatre in Green. Only we walked because she hasn't bought her a car yet. I didn't want to go to a kids' show, but she insisted, luckily.
Cousin Erie, who's ten, said he didn't understand. Cousin Huron, who's in psychodrama and critical, said that Aunt Great Lakes
"Everybody's got a little bit of child in him," she said.
Right or wrong?
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
shouldn't make remarks like that. Said it was confusing and bad for Cousin Erie's psyche—arrest his development and might even make him transvestite.
Uncle Mt. unbuttoned his vest.
Said he's developing a little puach and the vest gets tight after supper
But everybody liked the show, even Cousin Huron. He said everything was just right, just enough; story, set, costumes, acting. Only Cousin Erie worried whether the property man would be able to stay awake till the end of the play. He did.
If you've got kids, take 'em. If you haven't got any yet, take yourself.
Archibald Dome
Editor:
The UDK published, as a matter of general interest, on Nov. 4, a small article stating that Rafael Dufy's painting "The Electric Fairy" is the largest in the world.
While spending this past summer in Atlanta, Ga., we visited the Cyclorama, a Civil War museum, which contains a painting depicting "The Battle of Atlanta." This painting is 400 feet long and approximately 50 feet high. While this may not be the largest painting in the world, it is considerably larger than Duffy's painting.
than Duly's painting
Don Smith
Don Smith
Denver sophomore
Low Holliday
Lou Hoell
Beaumont, Tex. sophomore
In the 55 years since 1900 there have been 143,000,000 motor vehicles produced in the United States.
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Instructor Defends View On GI's Letter
In his UDK letter of November 4, Sgt. Jerry Knudson seems to feel that in responding to his earlier communication I was under an obligation "to come to real grips with the issue at hand: the non-utilization of student talent for several years before the arrival of Dr. Lewin Goff." I was and am under no such obligation. Moreover, in characterizing Sgt. Knudson's first letter as a neat piece of journalistic double-talk and as poorly conceived, I did not intend "mild sarcastic ridicule." I meant to rebuke Sgt. Knudson for a very poor piece of writing that was in very bad taste.
Sgt. Knudson defends himseli against the charge of double-talk by asserting his right to praise a man's good points while criticizing the bad ones. But this is quite another matter from combining incompatibles. If Dr. Newfield had the virtues Sgt. Knudson ascribes to him, how come the theatre reached under him "a stagnated low"? Because of his casting policy? But that was nothing new at KU.
" . . . Mr. Herman seems to prosecute me for praising the good doctor and then labors the point of defense . . . " and so forth. Sgt. Knudson is mistaken. By simply citing his error of fact, I had no intention of defending Dr. Newfield's policies. I did not enter into that discussion. What Sgt. Knudson had written about Dr. Newfield was self-contradictory and accordingly absurd; moreover, the only fact he cited was irrelevant.
Sgt. Knudson treats as a single issue "the new policy and particularly this year's bill of fare"—they "will revitalize the University Theatre." "The new policy" relates to student actors; the "bill of fare" relates to the choice of plays. I invited Sgt. Knudson to show that "the schedule of plays this year is more 'vital' than in the past." He hasn't done so.
So was his reference to my own "moral sin" (would he prefer an immoral sin?) of omission failing to mention that I had a part in a play under discussion. Does he suppose that as I am a graduate student and an instructor, I must believe that graduate students or instructors should act in campus plays?
If the University Theatre was sickly and so badly in need of "revitalizing," I do not see how Sgt. Knudson could so heartily recommend its Eastern reputation to Dr. Goff. It is like saying in effect: "Go to it, coach! You're at the head of a fighting and a winning team? Only make sure you don't use the same players as did your predators."
In short, Sgt. Knudson's word of encouragement to Dr. Goff was, like much else in both of his letters on the University Theatre, impertinent in both senses of the word.
"I am glad to relate," wrote Sgt. Knudson in his first letter, "that KU's productions can hold their own in nearly every respect. I still rate the 1952 production of "Il Conquistadori," dramatized by KU's own Dr. Allen Crafton, among the top five theatre experiences I have been fortunate to observe . . . " Sgt. Knudson is nothing if not inconsistent. The cast of "Il Conquistadori" included the following faculty members: Professor Crafton, Professor Jeannette Cass, and Dan Palmquist, Tom Rea, Tom Shay, Herk Harvey, Gene Courtney—and the latter's faculty wife. There were also in the play two students who had small but not exactly "bit" parts. Was it perhaps those two students who made the production such a bang-up success?
Let me repeat: I have not in this or in my previous letter expressed a view on the question of student versus faculty participation in University Theatre productions. Nor am I under any obligation to do so. I have meant only to correct certain misapprehensions to which, if not Sgt. Knudson, at least a reader of his letters might be subject, and to correct a single error of fact. One of these misapprehensions is that the plays presented in Fraser Theater are or have been for many years past "sacred student territory." Not only are many of the directors and designers faculty members and employees of the University, but so have been many of the actors for the past quarter century. Sgt. Knudson's conviction that the faculty should keep out of the theatre may be a good one. Perhaps if he were to state his reasons for it, and state them cogently, I would join him. Sometimes I get the feeling that everybody would be happier if the faculty got out of the University altogether.
—George Herman