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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Loss To University
The death of Henry J. Allen on January 17 came as a severe blow to the University.
Mr. Allen was a man of many and diverse talents. He was a former United States senator, a Republican leader in Kansas for a quarter of a century, a former governor of Kansas, as well as a newspaper publisher and editor.
Closer to the University, Mr. Allen served as president and guiding spirit of the William Allen White Foundation from its inception in 1944.
Mr. Allen was 81 when he died.
He will be sorely missed.
Long Range Psychiatry
After many months and two trials, Alger Hiss has finally been convicted. As is the case with a controversial trial there are many who still insist the man is innocent, and there are many who say Hiss got just what was coming to him.
However the trial's outcome might set with the nation, there seems to be one good, sane result of the jury's verdict.
In the last trial psychologists claimed to be able to psychoanalyze a person from as far away as 3000 miles. Now, if this got out of hand it could be a dangerous thing.
Dr. Carl Binger, Hiss's star witness in the final throes of the trial, in a much shorter but impersonal analysis had labeled Whittaker Chambers a "psychopathic personality."
Dr. Binger, who while on the stand admitted that he had had no formal training in a mental institution and had studied psychiatry for only three years, said that Chambers was a victim of instability, insensitivity, untidiness, and bizarre behavior. These, he thought, constituted a psychopathic personality.
Later, however, while being questioned by U.S. attorney Thomas Murphy, Binger said that "psychopathic personality" was a wastepaperbasket for a lot of symptoms.
It is fortunate that Murphy was able to make the good doctor back down on some of his statements. Murphy's failure to do this, and the jury's acceptance of this long-range, impersonal psychiatry might have resulted in a rash of such goings on at all manner of trials.
What chance would John Q. Public have if another Carl Binger said he was crazy?
'Small Things'
Editor's Note: It is with murmured apologies and feelings of fear that "Small Things" will be continued, in much the manner of James W. Scott, it is to be hoped.
The "Battle of the Bands" in the Union promises fireworks, and we hope no musician who reads Dick Tracy will show up with a machine gun in his trombone.
True magazine claims the flying saucers are real, but Rodney Nipnap, Student Union junior, says they're all Vaughan Monroe records.
"A Fall Victim Goes Home" says a headline, and there's a lot of winter victims at K.U. who would like to go home, too.
Harvard men must become adept at sliding down ropes, and rightly so if they expect to get anywhere in this world.
Congressman Cornh, asked to comment on world affairs, said that he didn't know what to think. But he said that the pink house in the 1200 block on Massachusetts might bear watching. Ah, Congressman.
The "Mighty Mo" in its resting place in the mud, might well blossom out as a first rate show boat. Harry could probably be persuaded to play the piano.
The song, "The Big Movie Show in the Sky", would probably be just a B picture to most of us, the freshman cynic says.
Minority Report
Minority Report
My latest neurosis:
Too many doses
Of Grandma Moses.
—Ho
—No
Campus beauties still claim they are fond of the long wool stockings. The senior cynic says that's the biggest yarn he's heard.
Howard Cushman The New Yorker
It Is Warm In Georgia,
Sometimes Even In Winter
Moultrie, Ga., — (U.P.) — For two farmers, it got too hot here, even in the winter.
Bill Gallatin, driving a wagonload of hay down the highway, mopped his brow and asked his companion, Harold Eads, if he had ever been as hot in Georgia in winter.
"Never," said Eads, sweating. Another farmer flagged them down to tell them their hay was afire.
May Open Deposit Boxes
Boston- (U.P.) Under Massachusetts law, the contents of abandoned safety deposit boxes may be opened for non-payment of rent. However, their contents must be inventoried and kept in a safe unless claimed by a legal owner.
Curtain a Flop?
Dear Editor-
Because the law provides no final disposition, the banks say they will keep the mounting pile of packages until "the end of the world" unless the law is changed.
Dear Editor:
After seeing the picture of the new $32,000 curtain at Hoch auditorium, I went to the Kansas City Philharmonic concert expecting to see a fine piece of workmanship. It is indeed a beautiful curtain. I could find only one fault. It absorbs all the sound.
I am not certain if the brass players were playing toy instruments or not. The sound I heard in the audience would indicate they were.
The answer is not difficult. A shell, such as the one in Music Hall, Kansas City, could be built for the stage at far less expense than that of the curtain. As a matter of fact, buildings and grounds could build it.
The result-students would get to hear programs as well as see them.
(Name withheld by request)
Editor's Note: It might be a good idea, but buildings and grounds still has plenty of trees to move.
The Romans used to applaud by snapping their fingers.
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