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UNIVERSITY. DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1950
Books Must Depict Reality Author Tells Museum Group
By GEORGE HESS
"Life, even for young people, must be depicted with reality. Too many books for young people are full of shallow action but no reality. I have never let my hero find a pot of gold in the last chapter because I reasoned 'How many of my young readers will ever get a chance to do the same?'."
Howard Pease, writer of children's books, criticized popular books in a talk in the Museum of Art Tuesday. He said young people's books had either good style or good action, but seldom both.
Most authors let the hero find a figurative pot of gold, and the readers have come to expect it. "In fact, it is amazing to me, when I analyze my stories, that they are as popular as they are," he said.
"The moment an author's first book is published he immediately gets brickbats as well as bouquets."
Mr. Pease said favorable reviews are necessary to build a book's popularity. Wining and dining critics is part of the price all but the top authors must pay to make a book popular. In New York the author on the way up must be able to consume formidable amounts of alcohol at the inevitable cocktail parties.
"The only reason a book is put on sale is because the publisher thinks he can make money on it. Then, too, personalities have a lot to do with it. I know of one author whose newest book was dropped from a top promotional spot simply because the publisher's wife did not like the author's wife." Mr. Pease said.
He also talk a joke on himself. He related how a high school boy a few years ago was introducing him at an assembly. The lad gave the usual, "and now I give you the distinguished author of that fine sea story, and then his face went blank. The boy leaned forward to catch a whisper from the orchestra pit. "Oh yes," he said, "the author of that fine sea story, 'Moby Dick'."
In 36 years of operation, the Treadwell mine near Douglas, Alaska, produced more than $65,000,000 in gold.
IVCF Officer To Give Talk
Jane Hollingsworth, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship women's traveling secretary, discussed the "Secret of Personal Happiness" at 12:30 p.m. today in Danforth chapel.
Her talk was one of a series of I.V.C.F. noon worship programs supplementing the evening lectures by Dr. James Forrester.
Area I.V.C.F. staff counsellors are the speakers at the devotions and at discussion periods at organized houses. They also hold personal interviews, said Herbert Ketterman, I.V.C.F. publicity chairman. They are Miss Hollingsworth, Eugene Thomas of the Rocky Mountain area, who will speak Friday; Alice Kitchen of the Kansas and Missouri area, Paul Little of the Illinois area, and Glenn Zumwalt of the Texas area.
YW Group Collects For Needy Family
Money is being collected by Y.W.C.A. representatives in organized houses to provide a Thanksgiving basket of food for a needy Lawrence family to be selected by the Lawrence Family Welfare board.
Anne Snyder, Y.W.C.A. community service chairman, said more than $14 has been collected from four houses. She said the rest of the money is to be turned in at commission meeting Thursday.
Foreign Students To Rehearse UN
University foreign students will rehearse Friday for the fourth annual model United Nations which they will present before Kansas high school students Saturday.
One student and one interpreter from each country will be dressed in native costumes at the mock general assembly.
The program will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday with registration on the first floor of Fraser hall. The mock assembly will be held at 9:30 in Fraser auditorium. The model U.N. is being sponsored by the University Extension and the International club.
Cadet Pallbearers For Gage Funeral
Six cadets of the University army R.O.T.C. unit were pall bearers at the funeral of Col. Jack R. Gage Monday. Colonel Gage, was professor of military science at the University prior to World War I.
The pallbearers were: Cadet Capt. Myron R. Feldman, Cadet First Lt. Floyd W. Hild, Cadet First Sgt. Lucian A. Ferguson, Cadet Capt. Edwin F. O'Brien, Cadet Sgt. Walter C. Buchholtz, and Cadet Maj. George T. Weiser.
Col. E. F. Kumpe, professor of military science; Lt. Col. Lynn R. Moore, professor of air science, and Capt. W. R. Terrell, professor of naval science, also attended the funeral.
Calais, Maine (locally pronounced to rhyme with Alice), and St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, are neighbors joined by bridges across the boundary-forming St. Croix River. They share a single fire department.
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Two members of the University debate squad will argue with two Wichita university debaters-before the International Relations club at 6:30 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
KU-WU Teams Will Debate
They will debate the question: "Resolved that the non-communist countries should form a new international organization." After the debate will be an open forum.
Representing the University will be: Steve Mills, and Kent Shearer, College seniors. E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, will be master of ceremonies.
A dinner will be held before the debate at 5:45 p.m.
Can Tell Earth Tremors
Earthquake specialists who interpret seismograph recordings of the earth's disturbance now can locate definitely an upheaval within a relatively few hours regardless of how far away the stricken region may be, the National Geographic Society notes.
Corn flakes were first produced under the name of "Elijah's Manna."
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