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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 2, 1953
"You got a package today, Joe. It's there on the desk."
Comanche, Weary of Fighting, Needs Rest
One afternoon, about 77 years ago, a small detachment of Army troops reached a slope in the Little Big Horn country of Montana.
Suddenly they were attacked and the entire force, with one exception, was killed. That exception, Comanche, KU's favorite horse, was badly wounded but alive.
And now some misinformed Montana Kiwians appear on the scene charging Comanche is being mistreated and should be moved to Montana.
Such nonsense!
Just to make sure things were still all right we dashed over to the Museum of Natural History to see if he was still in one piece.
There stood Comanche, life-like as usual and with all the composure of a five-star general. Contrary to the Montana charges, Comanche's fluffy locks look as if he has always enjoyed the privilege of a toprate barber shop.
The fellows from Montana also made the statement that Comanche would have been just another dead horse if he had not made the trip to Montana.
That might be, but who could say what unlimited opportunities might have come before Comanche if he had but made some excuse to miss Custer's show at the Little Big Horn.
Also when everyone else would have sat around and let Comanche be shipped to the nearest glue factory, Prof. Dyche, to speak plainly, stuffed him.
Montana wasn't even admitted to the Union until 1889, 13 years after the battle. At that time Montana was fit for little but coyotes and snow birds.
Comanche probably wouldn't like the climate anyway, and where could he be admired by more pretty coeds than right here on top of Mt. Oread? —Ken Coy
Nightcaps will be prohibited at the nightshirt parade tonight, by Sec. 82, Chap. 242, Kansas Statutes, which says: "Is shall be unlawful for any person to drink or consume alcoholic liquor . . . upon property owned by the state . . .."
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It'll be a close race to see whether Montana Kiwians or the moths get Comanche first.
Prominent Republicans will stage a big welcome-home birthday party for Ike at Abilene this week, but Mamie still takes the cake.
--story becomes a compelling force one must see through to the end. But when one is finished, there is doubt as to what the author was trying to show.
Paul I. Wellman's new biographical novel, The Female, (Double-day) is a sort of Kinsley report—blushing technicolor—on the behavior in and out of bed of one of history's most remarkable women.
BOOKS: Amber Out-Ambered By Wellman's Female
"The Female" is Theodora, who rose from the gutters of 6th-century Constantinople to become the empress of "eastern Rome." Anything Amber could do, Wellman's Theodora did, but better—and she managed also to win control of an empire and make it run.
Theodora was not merely the wife of the Emperor Justinian—she was by official decree his full partner on the throne that dominated most of present-day Turkey, Greece, Egypt and the "Bible lands" of the Middle East. Wellman says she was the dominant partner in political and military matters, a theory neither fully confirmed nor flatly contradicted by history.
Despite—or perhaps because of—her early peccadilloes, she seems to have been unwaveringly faithful to Justinian after she became his mistress and later his wife.
Wellman makes Theodora's story an allegory of all womankind, set against the bloody but splendid background of Constantinople in the days before its power went seriously into decline. . .
U.S. Stars in 'Fight the Red' In Indochina
The United States is paying for nearly two-thirds of the cost of the war. United States troops are not yet involved, but in the event the Chinese communists invade Indochina the United States should send troops to defend this vital area in Asia.
Since the signing of the Korean truce, the last remaining war in the world is getting hotter. The fighting in Indochina is involving more troops and arms than before.
We are deeply involved in Indochina's war, so why pull out if the Chinese communists should invade. American troops and ships already have unloaded more than a billion dollars worth of aid into Indochina.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the Chinese communists against invasion in a recent speech before the United Nations. He said, "A Chinese communist invasion would bring grave consequences which might not be confined to Indochina."
Supplies are also being stepped up by the communists and it is possible that the Chinese communists may join the fight. The rebels are now getting 3,000 tons of military supplies a month from communist China. A year ago, the rate was 500 tons.
An invasion of Indo-China by Chinese troops could quickly overwhelm the French and native forces. The United States must hold this important area even if U.S. troops must be used.
Indo-China is important because of its geographical location. Indo-China is the gateway to Southwest Asia and once the communists took it over they could take the rest of Southwest Asia. Indochina is the West's last stronghold in this area.
The Public is Never Wrong. by Adolph Zukor with Dale Kramer (Putnam): One night in the early 1900's, three men sat in a New York restaurant jotting notes on the back of a menu for a venture in movie-making which they hoped would replenish their depleted purses. Their names were Jesse L. Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille and Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn).
Chances are our troops will now be under the possibility of a larger war crisis.
—Elizabeth Wohlgemuth
"That dinner meeting was to have quite an effect on motion picture history, as any moviegoer knows," Adolph Zukor says simply when he recalls those pioneer days. "All there became associates of mine."
Zukor himself began working with movies in 1903, and his book is his tribute to the world-wide film public on his 50th anniversary in the business, which coincides with his 80th birthday.
Zukor's greatest single contribution to the industry was the feature picture. He financed the first full-length movie ever made anywhere—a French-filmed "Queen Elizabeth," starring Sarah Bernhardt—and his Famous Players corporation starred James K. Hackett in "The Prisoner of Zenda," the first American-made feature.
The Public Is Never Wrong is an amiably nostalgic review of a remarkable career that has nothing really unkind to say about anybody. It is salted with gentle reminiscences of most of the big names in filmdom's great half-century—especially the ones who worked with or for Zukor. . .
The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow (Viking); This might well be called the Rabelasian adventures of Augie March for it is broad in humor and field and Augie is an exuberant lover, a tragic clown, a searcher for he knows not what, a man with a very weak sense of consequence. It also might be one of the better novels of the decade, but it is a puzzling one. After the first difficult pages, the
Augie, a bawdy hero whether he is in Chicago where he was born, in Mexico where much of the story takes place, or on the continent where he dealt in surplus goods which might have come from anywhere but a legitimate source, remains a buffoon on the grand scale. . .
Pocket Books have launched a new series of art books in pocket-size format, at 50c each. The new Pocket Library of Great Art reproduces the works of great artists in full color with brief interpretive comments. The first 12 titles are Degas, El Greco, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, Dufy, Van Gogh, French Impressionists, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Matisse, Renoir, and Urtrillo. They are handsome little books well adapted for the general reader who wants to gain a quick inexpensive insight into the work of the great painters
Globe Presented To Engineering Library
The University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture library is the recipient of an illuminated globe, the gift of E. L. Rickel of Kansas City, Mo. Rickel, a grain dealer, is the father of Edward Rickel, who was graduated from the civil engineering department in 1947. This is his second gift to the School of Engineering, the first being a fund to buy books for the school. The globe, now in the Marvin hall library, is mounted on a walnut stand. It can be tilted to any angle and is equally useful when lighted and unlighted. The globe is about 12 inches in diameter and is attractively colored.
Necessity vs. Prejudice In U.S.-Spanish Pact
After many years of being shumed by the Western powers, Spain has finally been taken into the fold.
Last week the U.S. broke down and formed a 20-year defense pact with that nation.
The agreement is not an alliance committing either Spain or the United States to any particular course of action in event of war. It provides for permission from Spain for the U.S. to use Spanish ports and to develop air bases on Spanish soil. In turn this country will give Spain $85 million in cash for defense support assistance, and $141 million in military equipment.
Although the agreement is not designed to mean that one party will go to war if the other gets in trouble, that would probably be the effect if a conflict were to develop.
There will probably be considerable criticism from some quarters of this pact, because it makes us an ally with a dictator type government.
However, necessity is the mother of invention, and our country certainly wasn't hesitant about accepting the help of Russia, certainly no flower of budding democracy, in World War II.
The biggest objections against a pact with Spain have been raised by England and France, who are much more anti-Franco than the U.S. However, one of the big reasons the pact was finally negotiated was that this anti-Franco sentiment has diminished considreably since the end of the war.
The main reason for the formation of the pact at this time, however, is the mounting threat of Soviet communism to the nations of the Western world.
It all boiled down to choice between ideological prejudice and military necessity. Prejudice isn't a very good defense against anything.
—Don Tice
Walterte, Kan., Post Office,
under act of March 3, 1879.