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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. May 25. 1955
Letters-
What Better Way to End a Year?
To the Editor:
Somehow, I missed the Ron Grandon editorial about Western Kansas, but I have read a number of replies to it. According to the reports, Grandon isn't the wise acre his editorial writing grades make him out to be.
It's common talk among editors that the WAW school is not the success wished for in 1949. Maybe it is irresponsible mouthings by self named geniuses which is giving the school the reputation it presently has.
The "common" student doesn't get the attention he should receive in the Kansan columns. When he grips, he is ignored, or insulted, in turn.
Editorials appearing in the Kansan might grade "A" but when you segregate a part of the state as Grandon did, I—and a lot of others—think genius should get a kick in the pants.
What does Grandon know about the part of the state of which he so knowingly writes? What contact has he had with the people in business—on farms and in the stores? And I suppose a few people out this way even attended KU though people are prone to deny it when something like a "peasant" tag is placed on them by a fuzzy chinned know-it-alt—
Keep going, you're really selling our school to the state.
Orin L. Strobel Publisher The Protection Post Protection, Kan.
(Ed. Note: Dear Mr. Strobel—When it comes to throwing insults, you are undoubtedly among the most proficient, most eloquent, most grandon and his editorial—even though you haven't read it—is unimportant at the moment; after all, a lot of people have been told that 'hand reform' methods for Western Kansah too good either. We do take issue with the third paragraph of your note of denunciation. As for insulting the persons who write it, it's not mon, that depends on how easy your feelings are hurt. As for ignoring the 'common' student, you are welcome to look through our complete files of letters. We print them and correspondence to this paper, be the correspondence for the purpose of gripping or whatever. We prove it by printing this book, but in fact we don't school '... not the stresses wished for
"there needs to be a clarification of what the "WAW school" should do, administrative-wise. If you content that because you've been insulted the school is to blame, it might be worthwhile to point out to you, sir, that the faculty
does not write the stories which appear in this paper. If you contend that the faculty should write—or O.K., all stories, then we must wander on which side of the page we want to stand. We have a certain freedom here that can't be scoffed at, Mr. Strobel. If you did not find that freedom while you were here, we're sorry. As for "ir-juice," we don't know how you only quote: "Judge not that ye be judged . . ."—John Herrington)
To the Editor:
It seems to have become quite popular of late to run down America's fastest miler. I might add that (according to Monday's Kansan) he is now the world's fastest half-miler.
When he is asked why he hasn't been able to run the 4-minute mile, he replies that he's never had the perfect track plus the perfect weather—plus the perfect psychological moment (in other words, in the mood).
For this, he is strongly pounced upon as being an alibier, a dud, a stuffed shirt, and even a prima donna.
What should he have said? What else could he have said?—That he needs more practice?—or that he just isn't capable of running a 4-minute mile?—or should he imi-
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itate our great President by saying "No Comment"?
I, for one, would like to congratulate this great runner on bringing so much honor to KU. And I'd like to wish him success and favorable conditions so he can run the 4-minute mile and let his critics find a new whipping boy for their humorous comments.
Jimmy Bedford "a naive freshman"
To the Editor:
As members of a discussion class, Speech 66, we have recently been concerned with ways of improving our annual, the Jayhawker.
Consider, for example:
1. Placing the sales manager on a commission basis.
commission basis.
2. Holding a raffle and offering prizes to holders of certain numbered issues.
3. Publishing the annual in one issue.
4. Better coverage of intramurals, graduate, students, and independents.
5. Cutting the price from $6.50.
6. Contacting alumni as potential subscribers.
7. Exercising more care in selecting pictures.
8. Soliciting more out-of town advertising.
9. Placing someone in a position of permanent faculty advisor to eliminate mistakes which are now repeated year after year.
10. Having a theme of some kind
11. Another alternative would be a plan whereby the student would automatically include the price of the Jayhawker in the second semester's enrollment fee's unless the student signifies by a certain deadline date that he does not want one
12. A third alternative has been suggested by a few students already and that is to abandon the whole thing.
We are not sure that all of these suggestions are possible or even practical, but unless something along these lines is at least tried for a while, we seems we will again be plagued by the "white elephant" type of Jaywalker.
Hubert H. Bell, College senior,
Houston, T. Sturdevant, College
junior
Jack N. Brown, College junior,
Alfred M. Bukate, College junior
Paul E. Leoni, College senior,
Louis A. Buck III, College
Robert F. Laughlin, College
senior.
By JON
In a manner of speaking, this is it.
About this time every year, everyone starts wailing a worthless band of blubbering about "How nice it been.." and "See you next year. ." and "Have fun over the summer. ." and "Good luck on your finals. ." and blah, blah, blah.
Columnists do it, too... they call it their "Swan Song" or "One Last Word," or "The Finishing Touch," or any other senseless system of starting a stupid soliloquy on something or other.
But, suffice it to say, this is it.
. . .
Frankly, I get a big boot out of batting this banter. I hope you've enjoyed it. Let's face it, no world issues were settled (or even discussed for that matter) here. There was no motivation for this rot other than that of wanting to give you something light which I hope you enjoyed.
I was going to make this last column the usual line of nonsense and hope for the best.
But it didn't'happen that way. Read on and see what I mean.
Just to stick to the format, lets call this the
say "naturally" because this is the age of Bermuda shorts, rhythm and blues, pink dinner jackets, and the modern day version of college
Jimmy Green Department: When one thinks of "Uncle Jimmy" Green, one just naturally thinks of a statue. .and a bucket of paint.
Oh Well
life which takes in painted sidewalks, painted buildings, and painted statues.
But there was—and perhaps still is in the minds of some—an apparently great man in James Woods Green. I say "apparently" because I'm of this generation of Bermuda shorts, R&B, et al., and I like my contemporaries, do not know of this man except through light research.
I wonder if a flying paint brush is so important after all.
. . .
I used to wonder why some persons became so incensed "when Uncle Jimmy took on a new coat of paint.
It wasn't too long after that that a James Woods Green Memorial association was founded and plans were made to erect a memorial to Uclei Jimmy. The memorial was to be a statue.
Now I know.
Daniel Chester French was to build the statue.
That's right . the same Daniel Chester French whose famous statues of Lincoln and Washington and the Minute Man and Emerson and John Harvard grace the national museums and museums of colleges across the country; the same Daniel Chester French who created the famous "Death and the Sculptor" . the man who has been described as one of the greatest sculptors in the world
. . .
Uncle Jimmy died Nov. 4, 1919.
Uncle, University of Nassau, 41018
It must have been a great love for an aparently great man that caused
them to choose Mr. French to do the work.
The memorial statue didn't just happen . . . there was much planning. As a matter of fact, it was even suggested that the statue be of Uncle Jimmy alone and not Uncle Jimmy and the student.
Mr. French saw it this way:
"Perhaps a statue of Uncle Jimmy by himself would be understood in the right way for a generation, but in years to come, students who never knew him would not understand the significance and character of his greatness. With the student in the statue, it crystallizes his close relationship and his love of the student body."
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Now I know why some are so hurt when Uncle Jimmy goes under the paint brush.
I wonder what Mr. French would say if he could see Uncle Jimmy the morning after one of the artistic touches had been applied . . .
But I still wonder . . .
Possibly something like . . .
"They still don't understand."
And so, I'll climb into my Bermuda shorts, pick up my stack of R & B records, wish my hillbilly-type friend a fond farewell by saying something like, "See you next year . . ." hang my pink dinner jacket fondly in my jazzed-up 1912 Essex and head for the hills.
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Without my paint brush . . .
And still wondering . . .
Oh well . . .
It's Your World, Seniors And It Must Be Change
Approximately 800 well-fed and contented seniors will leave Kansas University soon. Most of the 800 have jobs.
This generation of seniors is content with its place in the sun.
And why not?
Of course, there'll be a couple of years with Uncle Sam, and there will be a short period of "living on a shoestring." But there are jobs, and back of these jobs is the longest run of general prosperity ever seen in the United States.
They've worked hard the last four years. An eight-hour day will be easy by comparison. So now to settle into the routine of things as they are. No one—least of all the American college senior—wants to change anything.
They have seen the formation of a meager form of world government.
These seniors have seen too much change during the 20-odd years of their lives. Born during the deepest depression in U.S. history, they have seen the rise of prosperity through World War II.
They have heard of governments crumbling, and they have watched the spread of communism.
Finally, they have been around while science presented first the atomic, and now the氢ogen bomb.
It is a mature generation, a generation of cynicism. It wants no more change.
And yet, the world is changing. The future promises more violent changes than ever before in history.
There is no time to stop and look back. Cynicism and defeatism are the most dangerous of 20th-century attitudes.
The world will change with or without this generation. Asia has been in revolt since the end of World War I. The Japanese have made the supreme effort so far.
Asians, Africans, some Europeans, and South Americans—most of the people of the world—are ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed. They have been so for a long time. But now they are beginning to see that their poverty is not inevitable, that the wonders of 20th-century technology could alleviate some of their absolute misery.
But it's hard to start from nothing. The impoverished are impatient.
The American college senior and his generation must initiate change. This generation cannot stagnate. It must help the world change peacefully, or watch it change the other way.
Ron Grandon
Even sociology instructors slip now and then. Sunday it was cause the umpire yelled "out" when a faculty member slid into during the Faculty Fossil-Pearson softball game. Nino LoBello lost his head, forgot the rules of good relations, and started hollering that the Fossil should be safe. Sociologists have a name for this.