Page 2 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1854 Kansans See Beauty No One Else Can See They don't know Kansas. They couldn't know. Hollow towns, ghost towns, they say. Towns crumbling in Kansas dust, burning in Kansas heat—dying between wheat fields. But they don't know. No one knows what we have known. No one sees what we have seen. Visitors passing by tell of tiny towns with boarded walks and gravel streets. They tell of stone and houses long since broken and discarded by the quiet erosion of motionless years. But they don't know. How could they know? They have never built an empire out of calloused hands. They have never seen the plow that broke the soil, the timber cleared away by two arms and an axe. Homes built by greater men. Faces caked by dust bowl days, made soft again by rain-dream tears. They have never listened on a porch at night to quiet fields and empty streets. They thought they sensed a desperation when they drove through a quiet Kansas night, seeing only a lonely light from a farmhouse window, lifeless towns, and sleepy villages. But they couldn't have known. They have never waited for the rumble of the Santa Fe to break through the silence of a starry night and crickets' harping. Sounds they take for granted are real to us. We wait for them, listen for them, and they are a part of us. They have never known the happiness of lying in the cool caresses of summer pastures, of dreaming beneath a bucketful of stars. They never breathed a Kansas morning, slept a Kansas night. They don't know what we know. They couldn't. They think we want their bright lights and cluttered streets, their pulsating, throbbing motion. Their shadows pushed out over narrow streets. But we want more than they can show us, because we have seen greater things than they have seen. We have seen summer clouds clustered near a wide horizon, bursting the sun apart and spreading blood red rays across a streaming sky, enchanting our pinkish world before darkness. We have seen autumn days scattering leaves on half-frozen ground, the wind blowing its way through the hollow crevices of a earth splitting to meet the ices and snows of a season yet to come, a new, white world yet to begin. We have seen much more than they have seen—captured more of life than they have lived: They have never known the dreams that we have known, never loved the way that we have loved. never found the greatness we have found. They could not know. —Gene Shank ...Short Ones ... If nothing else winter will accomplish one thing—the disappearances of boney knees and Bermuda shorts. It's too early in the year to clutch. But what can you do when assignments grow higher and higher and nobody listens to your troubles? It looks as though profs would consider the fact that days are growing shorter. Assignments should follow the shorter trend. Now that Audrey Hepburn's married, there's no use living Guess I'll study. One student said he waited nearly 30 minutes to get a book on the reserve shelves the other day. This was wasted time, and any student has a right to gripe when this valuable commodity is lost to him. The big complaint around Watson library these days is slow service. But whose fault is this slow service? Robert Vosper, direntor of libraries, said when questioned that the library employs the same size staff as last year, so the problem is not one of being understaffed. The same persons who complained of this year's service gave little or no criticism of last year's record. Mr. Vosper said he frankly knew little about the speed of library service currently, but he mentioned several reasons why the service could be slow at this time of year. One Man's ...Opinion... The first of Mr. Vosper's items included the early-season ignorance of the library layout on the part of new students. The second was the construction work now underway in the reading room of the library. This construction has caused temporary relocation of books formerly shelved in the area. In its turn the remodeling has caused confusion to some former students, who of course go first to the desk to clear up this confusion. There are no statistics telling how many new students visit the library, nor are there any telling how many former students have been confused by the remodeling work now underway. But it seems plausible that these two items can weigh heavily on a member of the librarian staff. How to end the slow service problem—try to find the book yourself first; consult the desk as a second choice. —Ron Grandon. CAR TUNES KEEP A SAFE DISTANCE BEHIND THE CAR AHEAD NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL Daily Hansan University or Kansas Student Newspaper News KOUM, K 251 Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Kansas Press association, National Editorial association, Intand Daily Press association. Association, Represented by the National Advertising service, 420 Madison ave., N.Y. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence). Published at Lawrence, Kan. every afternoon during the University period. University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Editor Court Ernst Editorial Assistants. | Kenneth Shank BUSINESS STAFF LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler Business Manager Dave Riley Advertising Mgr. Audrey Hauer Sales Director Martha Chumbers Circulation Mgr. Dave Conley Classified Mgr. Ken Winston Marketing Mgr. Michael Jenkins NEWS STAFF Executive Editor ... Stan Hamilton | Lettie Lemon | Elizabeth Managing Editors ... Worthmouth | Dna Leibengood | Dol Taylor News Editor ... Amy DeYong Asst. News Editor ... Ron Grandon Asst. Socly Editor ... Jack McDonald Asst. Sports Editor ... Tom Lyons Society Editor ... Nancy Neville Asst. Society Editor ... LaVeray Yates "Her system is to study books—I study the professors." Fan Spirit Sparkles As Team Goes Forward It looks as if the new KU football spirit is going to stick around for awhile. If not, then the enthusiasm displayed at the UCLA game was misleading. When the KU fans can yell, their lungs raw, even after a miserable first quarter as was witnessed Saturday, then something definitely has happened. Bob Warren, one of the two Bruin cheerleaders at the game, remarked that "if we had been behind two touchdowns, you wouldn't have heard a word out of our kids." Cheerleader Betty Lou Watson, college junior, voiced the sentiments of all the KU cheerleaders when she said, "The spirit and enthusiasm shown at the UCLA game gave us as well as the team a big boost. It sure makes the job of leading cheers easier and more rewarding." At the close of the first quarter KU was behind 18-0. UCLA, a national powerhouse, had taken advantage of an awed Kansas squad to score three quick touchdowns. But even during that depressing first quarter, the fans found something to cheer about. Although UCLA had scored three touchdowns, all three Bruin conversions had failed, and the crowd really let the home team know it. After the first quarter, the Jayhawk squad realized that UCLA had its weaknesses. So the team decided to play the visitors on KU terms for the rest of the game—and with the help of the screaming fans, the team did just that. KU fought its way to the UCLA one-yard line once, and within scoring distance three times, only to be stopped cold by the Bruins' tight defense. But even these three touchdown disappointments failed to dampen the fans' support. You would have thought KU had whipped Oklahoma when Ralph Moody, KU fullback, scampered 82 yards to score on a kickoff return late in the second quarter. The crowd practically tore down the stadium. Incidentally, the superb KU blocking on this touchdown play would have made even Bud Wilkinson's eyes bulge. Another display of the newly acquired football enthusiasm came after a Bruin cheerleader had asked, via loudspeaker, if the KU student section would give a cheer for the UCLA team? The fans obliged, and delivered a Bruin war-whoop that the Uke cheerleader said, "could have been heard clear back home in Los Angeles." KU has been beaten soundly two weekends in a row. The question now is: can this football spirit survive many more defeats? You have to be pessimistic about this game of football, especially when the team for which you are rooting is rebuilding. And then again, there might be precious few defeats in the future for the steadily improving KU team. But come what may, this steady improvement cannot continue unless the team receives the support of the fans. Without crowd enthusiasm sparking team enthusiasm, and vice versa, the touchdowns are going to come a lot harder for Kansas and in greater numbers for the opposition. We have a team that is playing inspired ball, and a coach who is making KU football a real spectator's sport—and all the fans have to do is give both enough time to show their stuff. Keep the spirit up—the day is drawing nearer. —Tom Lyons Almost two weeks have dragged by so far—and still some of haven't cracked a book. Actually, though, there's nothing to worry about since we'll be saying the same thing come December.