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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thought for the Day
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1951
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
—Kahil Gibran.
The Editorial Page Ready For Democracy?
By CHARLES PRICE
Americans are fighting and dying in Korea, supposedly to keep a foreign country "free." But in Georgia it is altogether a different story. Down there they are fighting to keep everyone ignorant.
In the Friday, Feb. 16 edition of a Kansas City newspaper appear two articles and an advertisement that deal with democracy.
The first article under the headline, "Racial Club in Funds," tells of the state of Georgia's budget being sent to Governor Talmadge. The budget calls for the severing of all state funds to any Georgia school admitting Negroes. The governor asked for the "segregation provision in an admitted effort to evade any federal court order to admit a Negro to a white institution." The budget is so fashioned that officials could stop funds to any Georgia school failing to uphold "white supremacy." The budget also provides that in case the segregation clause is held unconstitutional that the entire $12\frac{1}{4}$-million-dollar appropriation would be frozen and that all Georgia state colleges and universities would go begging as far as money is concerned.
The advertisement mentioned is for "Storm Warning," a movie that exposes methods of the night-riding, sheet-hiding Ku Klux Klan. The Klan was incorporated in Georgia.
But the irony of this situation comes in the third article, "Not For the Chinese." It is a report on the autobiography of Herbert Hoover, former United States president. Mr. Hoover says the CHINESE are not ready for democracy.
Except February, Which-
By LEE SHEPPEARD
The childhood memory crutch about the number of days in each month ends, ".. except for February, which has 28." As everyone knows, however, a 29-day February pops up every four years.
But did you know that February once had 30 days?
It happened in 1712, when Sweden was changing over to the Gregorian calendar. King Charles XII disagreed with his astronomers and "to regain the Julian balance" he decreed that February of that year should have 30 days.
Johan Runius, a poet of the time, wrote a satirical poem about the event. To him, the whole business was just as silly as the Emperor Augustus' decree to take another day off February and add it to his own month, August, just because Julius had done the same thing for July. Which is how February got to be so short in the first place.
It is customarily assumed that in leap year, with a 29-day February, little girls will chase little boys instead of vice versa. Wonder who chased who in Sweden in 1712?
Little Man On Campus
"He knows th' season is over—but he's afraid ole Prof. Snarf will forget he's an athlete."
No doubt the fine concert by the K.C. Philharmonic was adequately covered by competent music critics of the Kansan staff. Nevertheless, I thought you might be interested in the amateur's reaction; remarks off the cuff by the man in the seat. Hence, rather than deprive your readers of the good fortune to know what the average listener really thought about the performance, I am addressing this criticism (by a home-made critic) through the "letters" department knowing you could not dare publish it under any other guise as being fit to print.
Case Of The Torqued Fugue
Dear Editor:
We arrived a few minutes after the playing had begun and out of respect for Mr. Schubert, and the listeners, waited for the end of the first movement before lowering our squeaky seats and sliding down in them to a level that we thought would make us appear not very late.
The second symphony certainly was a delightful combination of moods and musical color. Contrary to most modern compositions, I could sit and listen to it without having a destructive emotion built up within me. There were a few spots, though, where it seemed the composer gave the players opportunity to blow a few sour ones or insert a cadenza of their own at will. I have often wondered if in some of the most very modern stuff if the scores are marked for the player to do what the mood dictates. It should be most interesting for the conductor! But for Mr. Thomson's work my wife and I were agreed that it was very listenable.
The orchestra is to be congratulated on their selection of a person to fill the part of our hero Til in their rendition of his merry pranks, which in this country would doubtless have been called the Merry Misdemeanors of J. James and would have drawn a suspended sentence instead of a suspended Till!
We were unanimous in our verdict that the conductor was superb in the role and admirably suited to the post. We were not unanimous, however, in the correct pronunciation of his first name. My wife said it was Hans, and I said it was Hans (being the long and the short of it). At all odds though, one could be sure that if he named a son Hans he would have two hans on his hans!
More than ever before, I felt that the perfect climax to the playing of Til's Merry Pranks would be for a rope to descend slowly from above, fitted with a large loop at the end, and slipping over the conductor carry him aloft with arms and legs beating the air. This would be as the orchestra sounded off with the final oblique phrases torquing a fugue.
We thoughtfully enjoyed the second part and encore, but I must reserve comment on them as I have
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Yesteryears
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(From the UDK of Sept. 25.1913)
Light breakfasts or cold wet cups need no longer inconvenience students on the Hill. Carl A. Neibling, a student of the School of Law, opened a lunch counter yesterday in the basement of Fraser hall where a cold good cold lunch can be obtained at a small cost. The counter is in room No. nine and will be open from 7:30 in the morning until about 6 o'clock in the evening. Sandwiches, cakes, pies, cookies, and crullers are served now. Hot coffee will be added soon.
Mr. Neibling has arranged to accommodate women in room No. 2 in the basement where the lunches neatly wrapped, will be served from a wheeled tray. Lunches can be obtained from five cents upward.
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