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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thought for the Day
Baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true and blarney is flattery so thin we like it. —Fulton Sheen.
The Editorial Page-
A Cheer For Doug
By JOHN HILL
Stand up and cheer! "Dugout Doug" has scored again!
The United States, long accustomed to the military and diplomatic (?) achievements of our shy, retiring general must dig up another Congressional Medal of Honor or something to show our respect for this gallant gent.
No, he hasn't won another war and he hasn't promised to have the boys "home by Washington's birthday." But he has gone down in history by proving that even a general knows etiquette. Yes, it has finally been announced that Gen Douglas MacArthur was proper in kissing Mme. Chiang Kia-shek's gloved hand.
We're still worried, between cheers of course, about the rest of this matter. While Doug was in the act of washing the lady's glove he had his picture taken. And it showed him wearing his hat (complete with all 10 pounds of brass). But to further complicate matters, he was also carrying his pipe in his other hand. Terrible!
"Dugout Doug" did right. The world can rest and go back to minor problems like World War II $ _{1/2} $ , for the Duc de Levis Mirepoix, France's foremost authority on manners, said "No rule forbids kissing of a gloved hand."
Since August, when the General pleased the Republicans by visiting Formosa, the social world has been trying to decide if he was proper in kissing a lady's hand while she wore her gauntlet. (Webster defines gauntlet as "a glove to defend the hand from wounds." We hope Congress doesn't decide to ban Webster's dictionary because it affronts the Great American Hero).
This great disturbance, added to the already grave world situation, nearly wrecked the social world with its weighty importance. But now the answer has come from Paris, which, in its usual pedantic way, consulted the experts on the matter.
Our worry is why didn't the expert in France decide these important issues, too. Did it tax his strength or was it because he knew it wasn't proper but wouldn't say anything for fear of getting France's Marshall Plan aid cut off? We wish he would tell us.
But even so, our side has scored again. To hell with the war stand and cheer! We won a victory, didn't we?
Air Force personnel think the thief who broke into the Military Science building and stole some pistols can be none other than "Hot-Rod Happy."
We understand that the students over in the law barn are getting darn sick of the engineers. Could that be why they call it Green hall?
John Ise is sending out Christmas cards for next year already, and all we can say is "That's pretty bully isn't it?"
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"You remember, Thyroid Greenbacks—Poor grades, non-athletic, sickly no talent, UNLIMITED checking account—Men, it's th' purpose and duty of our fraternity to pledge this boy."
Museum's Bach-Tone Organ Ain't What Bach Heard
Dear Editor:
"The organ (in the museum of art) was built to reproduce the tonal effects as Bach and Handel visualized them," a Kansan reviewer says, presumably reproducing a statement by John Maxon.
I'll forget the nonsense of "visualizing" tone, but I can't let the misstatement of fact go unchallenged. Neither Bach nor Handel played organs like the one in the museum regularly.
Bach's instruments were much larger than the new museum organ. His organ in Coethen, for instance, had three manuals and 53 sounding stops. The museum organ has two manuals and seven sounding stops. The Coethen organ had a solid foundation of diapasons with an admixture of reeds. The museum organ, strictly speaking, has neither. Admittedly Bach's organ was rich in upper work; it was not, however, upper work without foundation.
Bach's instruments were not as ascetically pure as some enthusiasts of the baroque organ would lead us to believe. One stoplist reveals the tripartite sum of chimes, tremolo, and unda maris!
As a matter of fact, effective performance of Bach's larger works on the museum organ is impossible. Carl Weinrich's eminently good judgment in omitting them from his program is adequate testimony.
With Handel the case is somewhat different. Organs in the England of Handel's day were small one-manual affairs without pedals. Obviously the museum hasn't copied his organ either. Since Handel wrote no music originally for the organ anyway, there's no reason that it should have. But why the claim to have done so?
Yesteryears Little Gals
"Kansas girls are smaller in stature than eastern girls," says Miss Sylvia Adams, instructor in Physical education. This is Miss Adams' first year at K.U. and her first experience with Western women.
From the UDK of Oct. 8, 1913).
"Why, some of those eastern women were huge, compared with western women," she declared today. "Of course, I can't give statistics, as we did not measure the girls as you do here."
"The college girls with which I will have to deal are different from those I taught in the east." They were for the most part girls who worked during the day."
Miss Adams favors raising the requirements for freshman swimming classes. She believes that a freshman girl should be able to swim not only the breadth of the pool, as the requirement has been heretofor, but that she should be able to swim the length of the pool as well before being passed into sophomore swimming.
Miss Adams was for two years director of the Y.W.C.A. gymnasium at Hamilton, Ontario. She also taught in the Wilkes-Barre Institute, a private school for girls in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
How About That GREASE JOB?
When was the last time your car was greased? Those vital points should be well lubricated at all times. Drive in and let us
service your car.
BRIDGE STANDARD SERVICE
I'm not saying that the organ isn't an interesting instrument. It is. The University should be grateful to Arthur Weaver for his contribution and to Charlie McManis for his fine workmanship. But the organ isn't of the same period as Bach. In design it antedates the great cantor by a good number of years.
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Let's forget all this hooey about Bach and Handel and just call the new organ a baroque one. That term is so meaningless that it's perfectly safe.
The state civil service examinations for clerk-stenographer I and clerk will be II, and clerk I and II will be III in lawrence Saturday, March 18.
Civil Service Jobs Open For Clerks
Positions are open at the University for clerk-stenographers and clerk-typists.
Application forms are available in the chancellor's office. They must be completed and returned to the Kansas department of civil service, 801 Harrison street, Topeka by Wednesday, Feb. 28.
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