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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Oct. 6. 1955
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
A Kansan Boasts: It's A Lovely Day
Kansas, the Dust Bowl. Kansas, the drought center of the nation. Kansas, the land of screaming, killing tornadoes. Kansas, the land of floods.
Say Kansas back East or in the Far West and comments such as these are what you will hear.
However, for those of us who know and love Kansas, for those of us who have fought her when she was at her worst and embraced her when she was at her best, these misconceptions mean nothing.
Where in the United States is there an area pretier than a field of Kansas wheat about 7:30 on a warm June night? What could be more beautiful than a Kansas blackjack grove in the crisp autumn air? Is there anything which looks cleaner or purer than a stubbled Kansas corn field under a new-fallen snow?
Stand up on Mt. Oread when a strong south wind is blowing and let it kick that old Kansas top soil in your face. Cuss it, spit at it, scream at it, but you still can't whip it.
And if nature is in a particularly nasty moor she brings on the waste and destruction in the form of a lingering, soil-parching drought that cracks the earth and sears the crops in the fields.
That's what makes this state great—the weather. It has character. Just when man begins to think he has the world by the tail in this end of the country a twister comes roaring down out of the sky and destroys all his efforts in one big blast.
When it rains in Kansas it doesn't "ooze" as it does on the coast. All hell breaks loose. Lightning flashes and thunder crackles and the wind blows like something possessed by the devil himself.
Or perhaps the Kaw, the Verdigris, or the Neosho goes on a rampage and cuts across fertile fields and boils through towns and cities, spreading a slimy covering of silt in its wake.
But when it is all added up isn't it worth it to live in a state that can display a little cussness now and then and still put on some of nature's most beautiful exhibitions whenever she feels like it? It gives you a feeling of satisfaction to read about people in California moaning and groaning about temperatures of 101 and 102. After all, that's a balmy summer day in Kansas.
—John McMillion
There is a day for North Carolina to celebrate the passage of the Halifax Resolution. .but there is no World Series Day.
Da Woild Serious Desoives A Holiday
This is the season of the year when radio speakers crackle and TV screens hervingbone to the sights and sounds coming from Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field. . but there is no proclamation of a holiday.
Students cut classes, and office pools run rampant. , still no holiday.
Judges squirm on their benches. Juries fidget in their boxes, and civil service workers paste stamps on upside down. .but no legal holiday is declared.
There is a Mother's Day, a Father's Day, (. . .
Lay it on the roof, Duke!) and a Children's Day.
There is a Georgia Day, a Maryland Day, (. . .
Atta boy, Campy!) a Colorado Day, and an Alaska
Day, . . but no World Series Day.
There is a Battle of New Orleans Day (. . .
Bear down Don') and a Battle of Bennington
Day. There is a Pioneer Day, a Defenders Day,
( . . Slide, Jackie, slide') a Liberty Day, and
Fraternal Day, . but no World Series Day.
There are 65 holidays celebrated in the United States and its territories, but no one has seen fit to lend a day to an event that draws as nearly as much interest as Christmas.
There are some who don't care who the next President is, but would like to see Casey Stengel lose one. And the wives who throughout the season always referred to "that game" staunchly and firmly, despite all of the husband's protestations, remain in favor of the Yanks.
It is a day devoutly awaited since the season began in the spring, and throughout the summer millions wait to find out the unanswered question . "The Yankees and Who?"
Football has its New Year. Please, why not a World Series Day? (OUT! Why ya blind. .!.)
TH GIUDS WHO WRITE UP THESE CATALOGS FORGET WE DON'T HAVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION YET.
Heart Walkie Talkie Sends Warnings Of Troubles
WASHINGTON—(U.P)—Navy research men are testing a new kind of walkie talkie that broadcasts messages straight from the laboring heart.
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Since the loss of my research records became more than a personal concern, I would like to announce that they were returned to me yesterday. The absence of my study made my last two weeks sad and unhappy, but I learned during this period how people can be kind, and how affection can save men from despair.
I would like to thank the Daily Kansasan, for it was through publicity in its columns that the lost paper was known to be mine and could be returned to me. I also like to express here my hearty thanks to the deans, professors, fellow students and friends who concerned themselves with my trouble. I feel they have the right to know that I now have the paper
Once again, thanks to all and thanks to the occasion which made me know more about these people.
Mohamed I. Kazem Graduate student
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It is possible that it could have forewarned President Eisenhower of the heart attack he suffered Sept. 24, after he played 27 holes of golf.
The man who developed the instrument, Navy Capt, Norman Lee Barr, makes no claims for his "radio-electrocardiograph." But he does say test results to date "have been encouraging."
The idea of the heart walkie talkie is to determine whether a person with heart trouble may safely go on working or exercising.
Conceivably it could supply clues as to what kinds of activity the President may safely engage in after his convalescence, and give an objective answer to the question, "Should he run again?"
The ordinary electrocardiograph long has been used as a diagnostic tool by heart specialists.
The main fault of the electrocardiograph as a diagnostic aid is that "the patient must always be at rest." So Capt. Barr rigged up a means of getting radio reports from the heart while the patient walks, runs, or works at his job.
The conventional electrocardiogram is possible because heart muscles create a small electric current.
A recording instrument transcribes the report from this "wire-tap on the heart" which shows up skipped beats or other irregularities.
What Capt. Barr and his aides did was to add direct radio reporting to these wiretap transcripts, His one-way walkie talkie system consists of electrodes, amplifier, a tiny radio transmitter (like those used by comic strip detectives), and flashlight batteries—all worn by the patient—and a miniature FM receiving set.
A heart thus put before the microphone can send radio messages clearly over a quarter of a mile through buildings and past electrical equipment without interference.
Experts say the walkie talkie eliminates a serious bug in the stationary electrocardiograph — a fault caused by the patient's emotional machinery. The patient may get jumpy just lying still.
This jumpiness may show up as a misleading jog in the recorded event.
But off the table and moving around, the patient gets used to the electrodes and other equipment to the point where he is hardly conscious of them, the result being that the record is not influenced by his emotional reaction to the test.
WhyDoStudents Flock To College?
Mr. Kenneth C. Royall, former Secretary of War, delivered the keynote address at the New York State Conference for Education. He said this:
"I am sure that today thousands are streaming into college not actually for educational purposes but for social or athletic or other purposes which bear little if any relation to real education."
Anyone with eyes to see or ears to hear knows that Mr. Royall spoke the truth. Yet his statement brought a storm of dissent from educators present at the conference. He was accused of thinking in the "ox-cart age" among other things. Other criffs said the problem was the development of leaders and thinkers, the assumption apparently being that leaders and thinkers would be developed by sending to college young men and women who have no interest in learning.
It escapes us how a leader is likely to be developed from a young man who goes to college, has a high old time for 4 years and manages to pass by the skin of his teeth sufficient cinch courses to give him a diploma.
It also escapes us how leadership is developed from the more conscientious young people who, without any real curiosity or flair for learning, manage to absorb quantities of unrelated information the validity of which they have no capacity for judging. Reading and study without perception can be as deadly as ignorance.
The result of this latter phenomenon is that the courses of a great many colleges—by no means all—have been adjusted to those minds least capable of being educated. Not only are these students doing themselves no good but they are holding back those who have the capacity to learn and to profit by a more demanding college curriculum.
It seems to us that you do not have to call a conference to meet the problem which Mr. Royall raises. If the colleges would raise their entrance requirements and if they would demand that those who enter either apply themselves or leave, they would do more for education than all the conferences that have or are to be called.
It is an unfortunate fact that a great many young people who could profit by colleges do not go to college because of financial reasons. Steps to correct this situation such as that recently taken by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations are to the good.
A college degree and educations are not synonymous. Possibly they never will be but a good deal could be done to bring them into closer harmony.
It is just as unfortunate a fact that a great many young people go to college for no better reason than the fact that their parents can afford it or at least feel called upon to make the sacrifice in the name of education.
—The Wall Street Journal
Fred H. Meyer, principal of the Methods Engineering Council, Pittsburg, suggested to a meeting of school board members last week that teachers should not test their own students. What an insidious plot! How then could we blame our minus grade points on instructors who "didn't like me . . ."?
The newspapers said the army planned a massive drive to "enhance the prestige of the service" by ending the ancient practice of taking concubines.
SEOUL, Korea—(U.P.)—The government has warned Republic of Korea Army generals to get rid of their mistresses or lose their stars, Korean newspapers reported today.
Sen. Frank Carlson (R.-Kan.), speaking to the KU Young Republicans Thursday night, stated emphatically that the Republican party could win in '56 even if Ike couldn't run again. But Sen. Carlson was avoiding the big question—who would run in Ike's place? He doesn't seem to know the answer to that one, either.
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Oregon State University offers a voluntary group accident insurance plan to all students. The policies cover injuries received from auto accidents, intramural sports, etc. This might not be a bad idea at KU, especially if someone doesn't do something about those steps by Watkins hall.