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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 17. 1953
Bit o' Blarney -
Fable, Fact Comprise St. Patrick Tradition
By EILEEN FOLEY
Sure an' 'tis a great day for the Irish!
Today the auld sod looks greener than chlorophyll toothpaste and almost as green as the Washington Huskies will look when we finish our shenanigans tonight. Even old Prof. Snarf couldn't make us unhappy on St. Patrick's day!
Today 100,000 wearers of the green will parade down New York's Fifth avenue, and they won't need any spiritus fermenti to make them happy. All any Irishman needs is a lucky shamrock and a sharp eye, to get a glimpse of a leprechaun.
Irish folklore has it that the pygmy sprite possesses the secret of wealth, and must give up the secret to anyone who gazes at him for any length of time. Once the gaze wavers, however, all is lost. The leprechaun can go his way with his secret intact.
For those who are so unfortunate as to have no Irish ancestry, and to whom St. Patrick's day means little more than a draught of green beer, here's a little tale about Ireland's patron saint.
St. Patrick was born in 385 A.D.—no one is sure exactly where—was captured by Irish raiders when he was 16, and sold to be used as a shepherd.
After making his way back home, he became a priest and returned to Ireland in 432 as a bishop, to tell the pagans the jig (trish jig) was up—he was converting them to Christianity. Tradition claims he banished snakes and toads from Eire, and performed astounding miracles there, using the shamrock as an illustration to explain a phase of his religion. The story goes that at his death the glory was so great there was no night for 12 days.
Although the fame of Ireland's patron saint has been growing for 15 centuries, there is only one town in the U.S. called St. Patrick. It is in Clark county, Mo. Founded in 1840 by a band of Irish immigrants, the population now is about 50. Each March the postmaster stamps a green shamrock cachet and the town's postmark on 20,000 envelopes and postcards sent in by philatelists everywhere.
As ye be smokin' yer pipe today,
or recitin' yer lessons, may St. Pat
smile down upon ye, and may he
give ye a bit o' blarney an' the
luck o' the Irish.
- Shure an! I feel sorry for anyone who isn't Irish today!
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Episcopal Communion: 7 a.m. Danforth.
FACTS: 12-non—deadline for filing to
vacancies on ASC in special election to
the Wed. Office in Union open
8-10 today.
Kappa Beta. 5:30 p.m. meeting, Myers hall. St. Patrick's day party.
History club: 7 p.m. Pine room, Union
Panel discussion of "The Economic Ini-
tialism Debate"
Women's Rifle club: 7 p.m. Rifle range MS bldg. Done dressed to shoot.
tamdendra Nath Chakravorty, speak.
principal, Calcutta school of art. 7300
An exhibition of his paintings displayed at
Museum today and Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY
Jay Janes: 5 p.m., Pine room, Union.
Society of American Military Engineers: business meeting, 7:30 p.m. MES
*episcopal Communion: 7 a.m. Danforth
Russian color film: English subtitles,
1950
rang br. long 11 a.m. 15 Fraser 4 p.m.
Frazer theater, 7:30 p.m., Lindley audible
Christian fellowship: 32 Strong, 7:30 p.m.
p.m. Sunday. David Somerville, and
Jim Greenwood.
Young Republican club: 7:30 p.m.
Bush administration concerning the Eisenhower agenda.
Christian Fellowship Missionary meeting:
12-noon, Danforth chapel.
Returning Soldier 'Clutches'
FACTS Libel Trial Reset for March 25
San Francisco—(U.P.) Army authorities took a dim view of Lt. Thomas G. Foster's eagerness to see his wife and son in war. He was a military transport from Korea.
11. roster vaulted over the side of the ship and embraced his family but officials made him get back on shipboard and file down the gang-plank "in proper military fashion."
The Student Court trial of FACTS party, charged with violation of an All-Student Council statute on defamatory political literature, will not be held to tomorrow night as planned. Chief Justice Kent Shearer, second year law student, said today.
Shearer said the trial could hardly be run simultaneously with the NCAA basketball finals. The new trial date is to be a week later, Wednesday, March 25.
Washington (U.P.)—The Army told Congress flatly today there is no shortage of ammunition in Korea now.
No Ammunition Shortage-Army
Supplies of weapons, food and clothing also are adequate, Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens said in a formal report to the House.
"At the present time, have the armed forces in Korea an adequate supply of ammunition and weapons, adequate food and clothing?"
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, former Eighth Army commander, testified recently his forces had been short of ammunition throughout his 22 months in Korea. Today's statement was the latest in a series of confusing and apparently contradictory pronouncements on the issue.
"Yes." Mr. Stevens replied.
It came as a one-word answer to a question put to the Army formally by the House in behalf of an inquiring member:
The reassuring word on Korean stocks came as Chairman Homer Ferguson (R.-Mich.) said his Senate military appropriations subcommittee will look into reports that serious ammunition shortages face Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's NATO troops
Informed sources said in Paris yesterday that shortages of some ammunition types are so acute in Europe that some units could offer only "token" resistance in the event of attack.
in Europe.
Mr. Stevens' report on ammunition supplies in Korea was part of
Dr. Charles Kittle, instructor in surgery at the Medical center, has been selected as a Markle scholar. He is the first faculty member of the Medical center to receive this honor, which carries a $30,000 honorarium over five years.
Medical Instructor Gets $30,000 Award
the Army's answer to a series of questions by Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R.-Mich.). Mr. Hoffman had inquired principally about something else—ill-fated "Operation Smack" which took place near Korea's T-Bone hill in January.
Twenty-one Markle Scholars were selected in the United States this year. Candidates for the honor must be nominated by an approved medical school, be on the full-time teaching staff, have completed fellowship training in the medical sciences, and have a major interest in teaching and research rather than in private medical practice.
The Army previously has answered Mr. Hoffman's complaints about this unsuccessful assault at an open hearing before the House Armed Services committee. However, because the questions were put in the form of a privileged inquiry, it also was required to make a formal, written report.
This was filed today with the Armed Services committee, for transmittal later to the House itself.
It said, among other things, that the Army is having more and more trouble taking prisoners in Korea. The Reds are too attached to the security of their dugouts and trenches, for one thing. For another, it has been too cold for them to move about much in the open.
So one of the main purposes of "Operation Smack" was to take prisoners, the report said. In this mission, the attack failed.
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