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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1950
US Musicians Are Idiots Says Hungarian Newspaper
Washington—(U.P.)—The Communists say the National Symphony Orchestra is just a bunch of war mongers and musical idiots. The charge, something less than blood-curdling, was raised because the orchestra played an overture just as it was written by its Russian composer.
The music was Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture which commemorates Russia's victory over Napoleon. Tschaikowsky's score calls for the firing of cannon in the climactic passage—and that's just what the National Symphony did.
The Budapest Nepszava, the daily newspaper of the Hungarian trade union council, says such an event is the result of the merger of American militarism with musical idiocy. In this, the newspaper thinks it sees a trend "-American bourgeois art is drowning in a wave of idiocracy." One American pianist played the piano hanging from the ceiling, head diving down.
the newspaper, a copy of which has just reached Washington, says ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson ordered the cannon used in the July 6 concert to express the "true American spirit." This, the paper adds, was in preparation for the Korean war.
It adds as an afterthought that, "Of course, the piano also was upside down."
the newspaper ignored the fact that the overture was written by a Russian and sings the praises of Russian arms. Instead, the paper tells how a Washington concert hall was rented for the performance.
(Actually, the concert was given at Washington's Water Gate, an
First Inchon Vet Gives War Views
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—The first veteran of the Inchon invasion to return to the United States said today that the U.S. Marines who captured Seoul would smash over the 38th parallel and sweep "all the way to Moscow" if the government gave them the nod.
Marine Sgt. Robert T. Orman, 25 said the leathernecks in Korea believe the war should be carried to Soviet Russia.
He said North Korean soldiers were almost entirely equipped with Russian - made equipment, including Soviet T-34 tanks. But he said the latest U.S. weapons, particularly the super bazaook rocket launcher, "can really take care of them."
Orman was granted a 30-day leave to fly to the bedside of his sick mother.
"I didn't want to leave my outfit at the front," he said. "I know it sounds crazy or melodramatic, but I felt like I was running away."
Orman, who stormed the beaches of Talagi and Guadalcanal with the Marines in World War II, said he had only 17 days training before he was shipped to Pusan. He landed at Inchon less than two months after he was ordered to report for active duty July 24.
He said Gen. Douglas MacArthur came into the front lines under heavy sniper fire as the leather-necks drove on Seoul.
"You know how we felt about him before." Orman said, "Well, we took him to our hearts when we saw a man of that caliber right up under the guns."
YWCA To Hold Rummage Sale
A Y.W.C.A. rummage sale will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Morgan-Mack motor company, 726 Vermont street, the Y.W.C.A. cabinet decided Wednesday, Collection boxes for clothes have already been set out in women's organized houses.
The cabinet also discussed the joint Y.W.C.A.-Y.M.C.A. all-membership party, the joint dessert meeting with the advisory board, and the Cluster conference, all October events.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott and
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men,
led the Nightshirt parade in 1947.
They wore nightshirts and freshman
caps.
open-air amphitheater.)
"There were 16 guns mounted on the platform," says Nepszava. (There were only four guns—75 Millimeter Howitzers of 1897 vintage.)
The University chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers will tour the Butler Manufacturing company of Kansas City, Mo., Monday night.
ASTE Will Tour Butler Factory
The group will leave at 5:30 and return at 10:30 p.m. Any student in the School of Engineering is invited.
Students interested in making the tour should call Fowler Shops before 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Deadline for filing for terminal leave pay new has been extended to June 30, 1951.
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