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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1953
Need Money Bad Better Have IDent
When it comes to cashing a check in Lawrence, the student without a University ID card clutched tightly in his pen hand might just as well make confetti of the check and look around for a true-blue friend—one who's good for a short-term loan. No ID card, no check cashed.
This is true of most down-town places of business—and, worst of all, it even applies to the University business office in Strong hall.
A student can walk into these places armed with any amount of identification. But if he's left that ID card in another coat or billfold he's like the man without a country.
The other day this writer attempted to get a small check cashed at both the business office and a local drugstore. No ID card along, but a driver's license, a professional honorary sorority card, a press card signed by the dean of journalism, a letter addressed to the writer, and a sorority pin with her name engraved on the back.
Those, plus numerous ink-inscribed books. Now we're not saying that all this would constitute positive identification—oh, no. Far be it from us to jump to hasty conclusions. Perhaps everyone should carry a photostatic copy of his birth certificate, too.
But it's a funny thing—during the summer, when this same student is on vacation from classes, and has no ID card to proclaim to the world that his number is 518893 at the University of Kansas, somehow he manages to get a check or two cashed on the strength of other identifications, and even occasionally on an honest look.
The very people to whom the students contribute the most are the ones who distrust them, simply because the student is from out-of-town. The business office staff and merchants feel they must have some sign of security or backing from the University before they'll let the sneaky student body go an inch.
It seems rather silly for them to be such sticklers for that little old ID card when you have everything else but the chancellor standing there to identify you.
The solution, of course, is simply to carry the card at all times, but there are slip-ups. Are there ever! Anybody loan us a nickel for a cup of coffee? —Eileen Foley
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bible
BOOKS: KU Progressed Steadily Under Chancellor Snow
Professor Clyde K. Hyder's "Snow of Kansas" (University of Kansas Press, 1953) is a book to be gratefully welcomed by everyone interested in Kansas history or in American universities. To Francis Huntington Snow ex-Chancellor Malot, in his foreword, ascribes "the physical, mental, and spiritual energy which, spent over an adult lifetime in the University of Kansas, built the traditions, established the moral and intellectual courage, traced the patterns, and set the directions of the vigorous institution which crowns Mt. Oread today."
"Have to give the ole boy credit for tryin' to pep up a mighty dull course.
Following Mr. Hyder's skillfully composed narrative, one realizes afresh what changes a single lifetime may span. F. H. Snow witnessed the epocalysis transition from the house divided against itself to the slowly reuniting nation, the development of Kansas into a great state, a considerable enlargement of opportunity for women, the hard-won victory of Dr. Dinah Pottsius, soon scientists, the disclosures of Pasteur, some profound alterations in college curricula, and the evolution of the University out of a mere preparatory school into a genuine university.
Wide research, access to a fortunately large store of personal and family-records, and what is more, sympathetic insight, have enabled Mr. Hyder to evoke the intellectual climates of varying periods.
Each had its own battles of opinions, whether on obeying the Fugitive Slave law, secret societies, temperance, the tariff (more than once), or Darwinism. On another level, there have been shifting fashions in recreation. Even in practical jokes.
To illustrate mores and stamina contrasting with our own, it may not be amiss to cite the staggering Class day program of 1862. recorded in Frank Snow's journal. The revels—lasting from two in the afternoon until after five the next morning, with a two-and-a-half-hour recess—consisted of a round of orations plus a sermon.
As the 55 classmates said farewell, "every man was weeping profusely." Then at 7:15 am, they attended prayers, after which they heard the Commencement appointments. At Commencement, to quote Mr. Hyder, "Frank's valedictory speech came after only thirty-five others, twenty-one in the morning and fourteen in the afternoon."
In one way or another a good number of the men and women who gave character to their times entered Snow's life. In boyhood he heard Bayard Taylor, Emerson, Thoreau, and other famous lecturers. Several notable abolitionists were guests in his home.
At Williams college he studied under eminent teachers. among them President Mark Hopkins. A
remarkable group it was, moreover, the trio including Snow that constituted the initial faculty of this University.
Many of his later colleagues and of the staff members he appointed were distinguished educators, scholars, and leaders of thought. One of his appointees, Professor W. C. Stevens, is still a resident of Lawrence. Snow's own scientific attainments naturally brought him friends among his peers.
As one closes the book, what traits of Francis H. Snow abide in memory? They are his kindness, the rigorous sense of duty that made him refuse military service in the Civil war, yet impelled him to interrupt his studies in the Theological Seminary that he might serve soldiers through the Christian Commission.
And the adaptability and power of growth which when circumstances forced him to turn from classics to natural science made him an entomologist of note and a leader in scientific projects, the honesty which enabled him to face the problems of modern Biblical criticism, and which led him after what must have been long reflection on the duties and advocate the Downtown theory, and the courage with which he contended for a University free from political shackles.
—Josephine M. Burnham,
Professor Emerita of English.
Farm Bureau System Tabbed 'Most Powerful'
The American Farm Bureau federation has become what many Washington observers now concede to be the most powerful private lobby in the country. It is a smooth, comparatively quiet-working organization in that it achieves recognition while avoiding the sensational headlines given in the metropolitan press to the activities of organized business and labor.
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on U.S. farm organizations.)
The membership of the organization lies chiefly in the Mississippi valley and represents farmers in the highest income group.
The organization grew out of the First World War and was founded in 1920. The county agent system started early in the century. The county agent was made the basis of a federally aided system of extension education and has worked closely with the Department of Agriculture and state agricultural colleges.
The Farm Bureaus in effect are built into the Extension service and serve as an informal liaison between the government 'and the farmers by helping the county agents to reach the farmers.
The Farm Bureau uses information, legislature, and other divisions to bring the needs of agriculture to the attention of legislators and to keep the farmer informed. Few organizations can claim more accomplishments than the American Farm Bureau federation. Prior to 1945 it claimed credit for 100 major legislative, administrative or other achievements, including expansion of farm credit facilities, conservation measures, the Agricultural Adjustment administration, commodity and other loans, improvement of
Policies of the federation are determined at an annual meeting of voting delegates selected by state federations from candidates chosen by county Farm Bureaus at county meetings. Each local unit is relatively independent, sustained by its own interests and activities.
On general objectives the Farm Bureau is placed between the Grange and the Farmers' Union, though in recent years it appears to be moving more to the right. An identity of interest between the federation, business groups, and large planters toward organized labor is becoming apparent and is weakening the farmer-labor alliance forged by the late President Roosevelt.
educational and rural health services, and favorable parity arrangements under price contract. The Farm Bureau has little interest in educational, moral, or cultural values.
Strong planks on foreign policy, pledging support to the United Nations and auxiliary organizations represent a far cry from the so-called "isolationism" of farmers.
The Farm Bureau endorsed the New Deal programs of ownership and management of electric power plants, especially the Tennessee Valley authority, the Rural Electricification administration, and Federal entry in the credit market and marketing assistance. Grave concern was expressed in 1945 about the government's land-acquisition policies.
The programs of the Reconstruction Finance corporation and housing authorities met with no great enthusiasm.
In common with other farm organizations, tural education, health, welfare, and credit proposals, as well as the two stand-bys- party
—Elizabeth Wohlgemutb
and protection of cooperatives—are perennially on the bureau's legislative agenda.
FREEZIN' REASON
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
You'll be living in a winter blunderland if you fail to condition your car for winter conditions. You must see danger to avoid it, so be sure that defrosters and windshield wipers are working. Don't forget the heater, tire chains and headlights, either. You can't blitz a blizzard, so check up now to check winter accidents.
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