Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, Oct. 28, 1955 Alumnus Points Up A Humbling Thought In company with a notable paleontologist, I once stood atop one of those giant chalk pedestals in the badlands of Western Kansas. Around us was nothing but the blue vault of the sky and the tumbling prairie winds. The paleontologist talked and I listened, and presently there began to unfold the pageant of Kansas. BEN HIBBS, '24 Philadelphia. Pa. The prairies faded and in their stead was a vast inland sea, people with great sharks, monster turtles and a thousand other fantastic creatures of another age. The scientist talked. Time ran away. There was an upthrust of the land and the sea vanished. More eons elapsed. Grotesque humped bison then, and teepees on the plain. A column of clanking Spaniards passed, their swagger almost gone. Sagging prairie schoeners came and with them the rattle of musketry, and fighting, sweating, swearing men, lugging steel rails, pushing the desert back. And, at last, lonely farms under the brassy sky, toil, privation, solitude, death and life. The paleontologist was silent but fancy roved on. The wilderness of the prairies was gone. I saw a great checkerboard of modern farms, the steeples and banked buildings and tree-shaded streets of pleasant country towns. I saw honest, decent, neighborly people —people who are still old-fashioned enough to dream dreams and look up at the stars. I saw the Kansas of today. There was a time, shortly after I finished college, when I used to brag a little about "putting myself through school." But I have quit that now. Insead, I get to thinking of Kansas—this Kansas which has risen from the waters and the muck and the blood of the past. I think of the state in human terms. I think of some farmer who as a matter of habit and necessity rises at five o'clock every day to milk a dozen cows before he goes to the fields. I think of some old village store-keeper, just a little stoop-shouldered now, who has swept out his own y'ace of business every morning for the past quarter of a century. And honesty compels me to say to myself: "Why the heroes, fellow? You didn't buy your own education. All you did was to earn a living, while that farmer and that gray-haired old store-keeper and thousands of others like them were praying for your instruction." The thought is humbling, but clarifying. It helps an alumnus of a tax-supported school to remember that a state is not an abstraction. It helps him to remember that a great state university has patrons—hundreds of thousands of them. Patrons who willingly have built a splendid school from the sweat of their earnings. There are no finer folk than the people of Kansas. They work prodigiously, grumble a bit about taxes, go in for some whooping "ism" now and then, and continue to support and improve their schools. Hard times and prosperous times come and go, but not once has the youth of the state failed to get its chance. Deep within the hearts of them, Kansans set high store upon those values which count. The alumnus who contributes to KU's Greater University Fund or the Endowment Association, either by direct gift, by bequest or assignment of insurance, is lining up shoulder to shoulder with that farmer and that grand old storekeeper who were once his own benefactors. He is walking the road of idealism—a road that has been pretty steep and sweaty for those who have borne the load thus far. There's opportunity here, friend—an opportunity to help carry a sheaf of dreams on to reality. An opportunity to join in the mighty pageant of your native state. —Ben Hibbs, editor Saturday Evening Post Appointment Of Murphy A Clue Of High Quality The basic purpose of the bipartisan security commission now being set up is to devise means of getting a deeply controversial issue out of politics. A representative body of twelve members to review the entire question of security risks in the government was authorized by Congress at the last session. It is now reported that one of the twelve is to be Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy of the University which would suggest the high character of the commission. Chancellor Murphy will be one of the four named by President Eisenhower. Four others will be selected by Speaker Rayburn and former Speaker Martin of the House, while a third group of the same number will be chosen by Vice-President Nixon. For many years subversives and other security risks have been a source of bitter partisan agitation and the American people have been greatly disturbed and often divided over methods of handling the problem. It has brought charges and countercharges as one party belabored the other. To end all that and to find means of dealing effectively with security matters will be the task of the new commission. It will call for the ablest talent that can be enlisted and the indications are that such a requirement is going to be met. —Kansas City Star Saar Referendum Raises Warnings Of Nazi Return The Allied bid for the reunification of Germany is not likely to be helped by the result of the Saar referendum. Bv UNITED PRESS Germany's future is the key issue to be discussed at the Big 1 foreign ministers conference which opened today in Geo- There is no indication, of course, that Russia is going to change its policy. That policy is to keep Germany divided. Aside from that, France may be somewhat lukewarm in its support of the United States-British argument for unification. "Here We Go Again" Here We Go Again France hardly can be blamed if it thinks that the Saar vote and related developments , a sort of "here we go again" warning against the revival of a powerful, armed Germany. Saarlanders, their nationalistic spirit whipped up by a former Nazi, rejected the proposal that they accept "European" status by a vote of 67.1 per cent to 32.29 per cent. The former Nazi is Heinrich Schneider. France must have noted that when Baron Franz Von Lupen, master of intrigue, returned to the Saar to vote against the proposed European statute, he was serenaded. Papen Aided Hitler Baron Papen is the slippery diplomatist who knifed the pre-war German Weimar Republic to help Adolf Hitler get into power. There is also the fact that Sepp Dietrich, the former commander of Hitler's elite bodyguard—the "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler"—was released from a United States-governed prison last Saturday. He was one of Hitler's pioneer strong arm men. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1946 for the slaughter of American prisoners in the Battle of the Bulge, among other crimes. In France, they are still sentencing German war criminals. France endured occupation by German Nationalists in World War I and by the German Nazis in World War II. It can not be expected to draw nice distinctions between Nationalists and Nazis. Baron Papen's brief emergence from obscurity was interesting. He was entitled to vote in the Saar referendum as a former resident. Hitler sent him there in 1943 as a hatchet man, to help build up one 1935 plebisite vote which resulted in the Saar's return to Germany after it had been under League of Nations administration. It could be that Baron Papen would like to get back into politics, even though he is 77. He has sounded off a couple of times about his views. He would like to see Grymany a rearmed country, "neutral" as between East and West. If that happened, he or men like him would be able to betray either side. Daily Hansan University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251, Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association. Associated Collegegate Press association. 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