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University Daily Kansan Friday. April 22,1955
Graham, Sunday Similar But Only in Basic Goal
Billy Graham, internationally known evangelist, is sometimes compared with an earlier evangelist with the same first name, Billy Sunday.
More than just the first names seem to link these men together, although Sunday, who died in 1935, was an evangelist long before Graham had even considered entering the profession.
Both men were interested in sports before they studied for the ministry. Graham's sports interest was limited to high school, but Sunday was a baseball player in the National league for seven years.
Each was born in November. Billy Sunday had four children, three boys and a girl, and Billy Graham has four children, three girls and a boy.
Billy Graham has basically the same purpose that Billy Sunday had—to bring Christ to as many persons as possible. The similarity of the two fades from here on although the situation is still parallel in some ways.
Evangelism has not been a constant force in the history of the United States. It did play a major role in pioneer days when the churches were few and far apart. The circuit riders with their tent-meetings kept religion exciting.
Other times in the past when tension has been high, evangelism has reappeared. This seems to be the environment in which Billy Graham has emerged.
The public is frightened to hear about the next super bomb, the threat of war, and an uncertain future. People grab at an opportunity to believe in something more promising and more pleasant. Billy Graham has given them that chance.
On the other hand, Billy Sunday was most noted in the 1920s. Some of these years also were marked by stress and strain, but the Rev. Sunday did a lot himself to keep emotions aroused.
An ardent prohibitionist, he is credited with much of the responsibility for closing saloons in the United States during that period.
The two evangelists differ in the methods used to accomplish their purpose. Sunday was a "hellfire" preacher who wanted salvation as an immediate decision. In hysteria he jumped on tables to express himself.
Graham uses a lot of action, but he does not get carried away to the extent that Sunday did. More often he talks in a quiet, persuasive voice. Some persons have described his manner as "holy simplicity."
The Rev. Graham has made fast friends with some of the most important persons in the United States and Europe in spite of the fact that the upper crust Christians sometimes regard evangelism as hypocritical and in bad taste.
In the other direction, Billy Graham has converted such persons as "Big Jim" Vaus, a wiretapper by trade, who was once employed by Mickey Cohen.
Billy Sunday believed that Americans like to be told they were sinners. He appealed to their instinct for sensations. The American Mercury said in 1927 that Billy was a great benefactor diverting one of "our elemental forces to a harmless psychic shindy."
Billy Graham takes a more positive attitude in his preaching and tries to reassure his listener rather than excite them.
One of the main differences in the work of the two evangelists is the result. Although it may be too early to determine the results of Billy Graham's evangelism, it looks as though it will be much more permanent than that of the Rev. Sunday.
The fact that converts often were only temporary was one of the main complaints about Sunday's work.
Billy Graham's evangelistic campaigns are so well prepared and followed up that the converts are apt to stay that way. Through cooperation with local churches, Graham has worked out a plan to help the converts keep their faith.
In many ways the two Billies are similar, but they have emerged in different situations although their goals were parallel. Whether it be due to the person or the situation, Billy Graham's evangelism seems to be having more effect on the public than that of Billy Sunday.
-Lee Ann Urban
Queens, Queens Everywhere; How'd They Get Their 'Jobs?'
It happens most of the time.
There just aren't many conventions, sports events, or dances without queens anymore.
Queens are essential for many reasons, none of which have ever been set forth clearly except for the honest "we need atmosphere." So, the University with all its royalty is no different from the rest of society—and its manner of selecting the honored persons is probably no more confused than in other parts.
Still—some judgment should exist
Still—some judgment should exist. Recently, the Jayhawker staff decided it was time to select its queen—one of the more highly regarded honors of the year's array. The staff carefully selected judges from the members of the faculty and the Lawrence community so that the voting might be as impartial as possible.
The members of the staff, composed of students who knew the candidates then sat down to sort out quickly the photographs and limit the contest to 10 finalists for the judges .
The method of selecting the Homecoming queen has been criticized so frequently that a process for her election has evolved which is a good example of fairness and impartiality. Although somewhat rigorous for the competitors, it is planned so that they are judged from the first by disinterested persons. The student who is chosen must have succeeded in several personal interviews.
This hardly seems to be the most judicious method, however, expedient. It leads one to wonder how many of the other campus contests are conducted in a similar manner.
Also a problem is the veteran queen, attendant, or candidate who seemingly returns for every contest. A check on the repetition would
help much towards a more fair selection and a wider range of honors, in addition to the establishment of standards in such elections.
Irene Coonfer
Queens are fine, and the glamour which they lend to occasions for which they are selected cannot be questioned. The way in which they are selected can be.
Attention the 'silent rock men, the 'Strong men' and the lawyers! A new group is asking to be taken into the fold—the 'Museum of Natural History Men.'
Such harassment is an essential part of the privileges of democracy
At the end of 1926 Tom Pendergast had been seven months in Leavenworth penitentiary and his name in Missouri was being used as a great coat of tar which covered Harry Truman.
Truman,' Un-Average Man; The Future Must Judge Him
Truman was not given many tasks as vice-president. FDR was not in Washington a month altogether during the 82 days Truman was vice-president. At the death of Roe Deane, the decision which had been piling up around his predecessor during the war were in Truman's hands.
Harry Truman will never be regarded as the "average" or "ordinary" American by our standards or by future generations. Nevertheless, the American direction through our times can be seen more clearly in the details of his case history than in the story of any other American.
He knew practically nothing about current problems and technical questions, yet the final decisions and the complex problems involved were, in essence, his alone. In the darkness which surrounded him, he was suddenly commander-in-chief of a nation at war and President of a nation facing the swiftly growing problems of securing peace.
Truman did not duck the turpillow that enveloped him in the presidency. In trying to be true to a trust which he had inherited and to his own eagerness to do as good a job as he could for America, he was constantly being badgered and harassed.
Truman had been a good senator but he seemed to be a tragically inadequate substitute for Franklin D. Roosevelt that April night.
Truman's senatorial career began in the fall of 1936. After a year and half of silence and inconspicuousness, he denate, he began to show his force.
He became the gentleman from Pendergast. It was generally accepted that Pendergast had sent him as his senator. Truman arrived from Missouri with a reputation prepared for the contest under the impetus of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch without such marks against him a new Democratic senator could have counted upon a cool welcome in New Deal Washington that year.
Ten years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt left Harry Truman an inheritance both of greatness and of trouble, as Lincoln left Johnson. The sharp word "impeachment" was used on the floor of the Senate about Truman, too. He did not appear to possess the great, almost paternal leadership of Roosevelt. Perhaps the people sensed more fellowship than leadership in him. He was not the average man, but he had come up the average man's way.
From the day of his senatorial election, his mood had appeared to be that of a man intent upon minimizing both himself and the office to which he had been elected. This mood followed him even into the Presidency, and that black mark will take many generations to erase.
It definitely was not Truman's hour.
which nobody understands better than Truman. He was ready to take his share and certainly received it. No President has ever had so much ill-fitting metaphor hung upon him.
Perhaps Truman's too evident modesty did represent a great uncertainty about his job. Many people will continue to think so in the future. Maybe the polls were right, when they counted his declining popularity. It is all too easy to fail to give full measure to a man by comparison with his predecessor. Perhaps future generations, with the advantage of hindsight, may gain a true perspective.
By any standards Harry Truman was the un-armed American the White
Gordon Hudelson
. . .
Farmers placed 425,000,000 bushels of 1954 wheat under price support through the end of January. 1955, representing 43.8 per cent of last year's production.
Cleveland maintains a series of gardens in Rockefeller Park, each honoring a different national culture. The project was begun in 1926. Sixteen of the Cultural Gardens are finished.
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