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Tuesday. Nov. 23, 1954
CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER—Wes Santee, 1953 NCAA cross country champion, congratulates the 1954 cross country champion Allen Frame. Frame, who is also the Big Seven champion won the event yesterday, time, 19:54.2. KU took fourth in team standings.
Weather Holds Promise For Exodus of Students
Most University students w giving vacation at home,away classes.
Although cold and slightly cloudy the weather isn't likely to cause students too much trouble this year getting home. You never can tell, though. Remember the trouble everyone had getting home at Thanksgiving vacation in 1952?
will leave today for a five-day Thanks-
Godey's Lady's Book in 1852 included the following dainties in its suggestions for Thanksgiving dinner: "Oysters Etiquette," Lafayette Ducks with Snow-alls, soaked in cider and winter weeks, stuffed with meats and baked maple syrup." "Indian Fudging Brimstick Sauce."
Students who had no Tuesday afternoon classes started the exodus this morning, but most of them will leave this afternoon.
Some students in being so thankful to get away from it all tend to forget just what the true spirit of Thanksgiving is and why the holiday was started.
Thanksgiving was celebrated first in the fall of 1621 by a group of Pilgrims who had survived the preceding winter's famine and had gathered their first harvest in the New World.
blessed.
But Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Magazine and America's first woman editor, instigated the movement which was result in establishment of the final Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Hale began her campaign, which was to last 17 years, in 1846. It was her feeling that America had too few national holidays and that Thanksgiving, like the Fourth of July, should be observed by Americans as an exponent of our republican institutions.
Yet amidst this exotic repast there existed two things, according to Mrs. Hale, which were basic to the celebration and which have remained to this day. In a descrip-
George Washington was the first president to issue a Thanksgiving day proclamation in 1789, in which he recommended the day as a good time to thank God for the union of the nation and "for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed."
In 1863 she realized her goal after an audience with President Lincoln in which she presented her ideas. President Lincoln was the first President since Washington to make a Thanksgiving proclamation
from the pressure of hour exams and
tion of her own Thanksgiving as a child she said, "The roasted turkey took precedence sending forth the rich odor of its savory stuffing," while "pumpkin pie was an indispenable part of a good and true Yankee Thanksgiving."
The Kansan will take a vacation too.
This is the final issue of the Kansas until after Thanksgiving vacation. The next edition will appear Monday, Nov. 29, immediately-following the holiday vacation.
Holiday for Kansan Taken Until Nov.29
--ironically, Mr. Malik like M. Vish-
nasky is reported suffer from heart diathe-
mia.
53rd Year, No. 50
Hospital Official Says McCarthy Had No Surgery
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and Bethesda Naval hospital apparently disagreed today over whether his elbow injury has been serious enough to require surgery.
Sen. McCarthy reported that doctors "operated on the elbow to take out pieces of glass" yesterday and might do some more work on it today. He indicated the process involves some pain and discomfort.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
A hospital spokesman said today, however, that "no surgical operative procedure" has been performed and none "is contemplated at this time." He said Sen McCarthy is "doing nicely" and that his condition is neither serious nor critical."
Sen. McCarthy made his report to a "pool" photographer who was admitted to Bethesda's room 574 yesterday afternoon as a representative of all news services. It was the first break in the news blackout on the senator's hospital stay.
It is possible the probing for glass reported by the senator does not fit the definition of "operative surgery" as used by the hospital so that the two reports only differ in terminology. But the hospital persistently requests any clarification or confirm or deny there was any probing for glass.
One photograph of Sen. McCarthy taken yesterday showed him in bed with his right arm swathed in bandages which extended from his wrist to his armpit.
Sen. McCarthy injured his elbow on a glass-top table while shaking hands with admirers and he was admitted to the hospital last Wednesday, causing the Senate to call an 11-day halt in its McCarthy censure debate. His first bedside report came amid these other developments:
1. NBC last night rejected Sen. McCarthy's request for 15 minutes of television time Thanksgiving day to answer the censure charges against him. It gave no reasons. Sen. McCarthy had no comment either on the nature of his request or his reaction to the rejection.
2. A McCarthy supporter said that in a bid for votes the latest censure compromise formula has been announced to animate any praise of Sen. McCarthy.
Many Events Slated After Vacation's End
A variety of activities will greet students after vacation, and the campus will move into one of its busiest times of the year.
In addition to the announcement of term papers and book reports due, nearly every organization will be planning Christmas season events.
Starting the activities will be a faculty recital Monday featuring Jan Chiapusco, professor of piano. It will be held in Strong auditorium
The English proficiency examination will be a major item for juniors and seniors in the College, Journalism, Fine Arts, Education, and Nursing. It will be given Saturday, Dec. 4. Students must register for the test Nov. 29, 30, or Dec. 1. Another examination, the Selective Service qualification test, will be given Dec. 9.
The oldest speaking event of the campus, the Campus Problems Speech contest, will get underway with tryouts Tuesday, Nov. 30. The contest finals are set for Thursday, Dec. 2 in Strong auditorium.
Fred Warner Neal, the first of this year's American University Field Staff speakers, will arrive Wednesday, Dec. 1. He will visit the campus until Friday, Dec. 10.
The queen finalists for the Military Ball, to be held Dec. 11, will be entertained by the selection committee at a coke party Thursday, Dec. 2.
In the line of sports, a table tennis tournament is scheduled for Dec. 6 and 7. Entries for the event should be registered by Dec. 4.
Finally, Christmas parties, sponsored by nearly every group on the Hill, will begin crowding the calendar. The Independent Students association and Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, are urging students to bring back toys for the Christmas toy drive. They will be collected at the ISA Christmas party Wednesday, Dec. 8.
Weather
The weather today will be generally fair, windy and mild turning cooler in the northwest this afternoon. It will be generally fair in the west and partly cloudy in the east portion tonight and tomorrow.
—Kansan photo by Larry Tretbar
TURKEY TIME—Clara Johnson and Reta Kay Lehmann, college freshmen sample the turkey before the Thanksgiving banquet at Corbin hall.
Malik Succeeds Vishinsky As Red Aide at UN
London—(U.P)—The Soviet Union today ordered diplomat Jakob Malik to fly to New York tonight and assume leadership of the Soviet delegation at the United Nations.
A spokesman for the Soviet embassy said he did not know whether Mr. Malik was replacing Andrei Vishinsky, who died yesterday, temporarily or permanently.
Mr. Malik now is serving the Kremlin as its ambassador to the Court of St. James.
British Overseas Airways corporation disclosed that Mr. Malik, travelling with only one aide, had booked passage aboard BOAC Monarch flight
Thus within hours of Mr. Vishinsky's death, the Kremlin shuffled an experienced hand into the vacancy.
Malik was permanent Soviet delegate to the United Nations before he was dispatched to London after the death of Stalin. He was moved out of the United Nations to make way for Mr. Vishinsky, who had been demoted from Foreign minister in the shakeup that followed the ascension to power of the new Soviet regime.
Malik's broad, expressionless face and athletic build are familiar to millions of American television viewers who watched him perform as Soviet top man at the United Nations.
Mr. Malik, 48, in contrast with the lively Mr. Vishinsky, is the strong, silent type.
Where Mr. Vishinsky would thunder and fume, Mr. Malik, poker faced and with little outer show of emotion, would stick doggedly to the Kremlin directed course.
Since his appointment as ambassador to the Court of St. James the husky Russian has developed an affable side. During the past year he has presided, smiling, at an unusual number of Soviet social functions.
Mr. Malik leaves Britain in a fairly warm wave of editorial approbation in the British press for the conciliatory speech he made yesterday at Birmingham.
Exuding unusual cordiality, Mr. Malik attended a British-Soviet friendship exhibition at the midlands city. Then, speaking at a lord mayor's lunch, he lauded British influence, called for closer British-Soviet cultural ties and dwelt at length on the Russian need for greater trade with Britain.
Volumes Tell Female Story
"Women! I'll never understand them." This is no excuse any more at 3,000 volumes of books on the intellectual, social, and economic history of women arrived on the campus this week from Chicago.
Robert Vosper, director of libraries, said that because of the shortage of space in Watson the books would be kept in the Malott hall library although they have no connection with the subjects taught there.
The Gerritsen collection, as the books are called, was started in Holland by Mrs. C. U. Garritsen to better establish the status of women in the world. The books were brought to the United States in 1904 and have been widely exhibited in connection with sociology, human relations, and psychology studies.
Comics to Be Sociology Topic
Robert W. Witt, instructor in sociology, will be the semester's fourth speaker on Sociology on the Air. His talk on comic books will be heard at 3 p.m. Sunday over KLWN.