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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1949
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
Who Knows—They May Come Up With A Successor To Bebop
Forget the atomic bomb! Kansans, you face a more momentous problem. In the halls of our state legislature the statesmen are divided into pro-"Home on the Range" and anti-"Home on the Range" forces.
Then late last year some persons began to wonder about the words they were singing. It occurred to them that Kansas was not even mentioned in the song, but that buffalo and antelope, which are not around anymore, were.
There's a state in the West that is surely the best
So a state contest was held. As you probably know, the popularized winning version starts like this:
Two years ago, Sen. Irwin E. Nickell of Smith Center urged his fellow lawmakers to adopt "Home on the Range" as the official Kansas state song. He especially wanted this song because it was composed by two Smith Center citizens in 1873. He managed to convince the legislators of the wisdom of this choice. And Loyal Kansans everywhere began singing the lyrics with new pride.
surely the best
In the whole of our grand U.S.A.
It's a state that can give so that
others may live
And grow fairer with each passing day."
But that proved the blast that felled the walls of Jericho. Lovers of music rebelled. The lawmakers jumped at the chance to take sides in this crisis. Here was an issue
every constituent could understand. "Let's change the lyrics," some persons suggested.
"We don't want any hand-med-down," others cried. We shouldn't sing our lungs out when nobody will know we are singing about Kansas."
But Mr. Grover Dunn of Arkansas City, past president of the Kansas Federation of Music clubs, vowed that the state's music lovers would defend the original words to the last syllable.
So the argument stood—until the second week of the legislature's current session. An able songsmith then came up with new lyrics: "Oh give me a home where the
"Oh, give me a home where the Javawkers live.
Kansas wheat is the best and it tops all the rest
In the world's bread basket they say.
And the people are kindly and gay."
That is where the issue stands today but it undoubtedly will come o ahead in the present legislative session.
Not meaning to seem disreputful of the legislators' abilities as music critics, a recommendation seems in order that the state spend some of the prospective liquor revenue to hire a competent composer to write a state song—one which would be original and of which the citizens could be proud.
Leonard Snyder
Each In His Own Small Way . . .
Hodding Carter, aggressive southern editor, inspired many a young newspaperman at the first convocation Monday of the William Allen White School of Journalism.
But the heart of what he had to say can well serve any student studying for any profession. His idea for the solution of our problems is one which too many of us are apt to forget as we leave our home communities and "become educated." We feel that since few of us are likely to ever exert much influence in world affairs that there is nothing we as individuals can do to make this a better world.
Friendship Letters
This man who is spending his life fighting for the rights of man tried to drive home that being a local force is important.
Neither you nor I, nor anyone we know, will re-shape the world. But we can work in our own towns for our own people. It is not national leaders we need so much as men of good will in their own communities. For it is the sum total of such men which will make the kind of country we want or do not want.
he recounted the wise counsel given him by an old friend:
The student division of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship recently announced a correspondence project for American students who wish to exchange letters with students studying in the universities of the Soviet Union.
No matter what the purpose, such correspondence with Russian students should be an interesting experience for students at the University. It might even play a small part in creating better understanding between the two countries.
The Council is sponsored by several hundred prominent Americans including Sen. Arthur Capper, Albert Einstein, Maxwell Anderson, and Dr. Serge Koussevitsky. The project is based on the belief that the tense international situation has led to much misinformation being spread concerning life in the Soviet Union and the United states.
All such mail should be addressed to the Student Division of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship,114 East 32nd street,
New York 16, N. Y. The Council will forward the initial letter in order to make the contact, and after that the students may correspond without the assistance of an intermediary.
Students who wish to correspond with an engineer, medical student, music student, etc., may do this by so stating on their envelopes. The letters may be written in English since most Russians students are required to study English.
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Chalk Talk
Nine cars struck the same tree Saturday night while descending the hill in front of the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Most of the cars were damaged to the point where the men are wondering if it is worth it. It would seem the men didn't realize what thin ice they were on.
Several students helped the drivers back the cars away from the tree. After the ninth car, the students gave up with a feeling of hopelessness over the fate of drivers foolish enough to date a Kappa in ice weather.
It seems members of Corbin hall are bemoaning the fact that the proposed location for the new men's dormitory is so far away from Old North Hill.
Editor-In-Chief ... Anne Murphy
Managing Editor ... Bill F. Mayer
Business Manager ... Don Welch
Advertising Mgr. ... Charles O'Connor
Nat1 Adv. Mgr. ... Bob Bolitho
Circulation Mgr. ... Dean Knuth
Think how the tree must have felt!
But girls, consider what the walk from Corbin to West Campus road will do for the figure.
An official of the University recently decreed that women in organized houses could no longer yell and shout in response to serenades.
This ruling likely will cause little change since the official failed to recognize the effectiveness of stomping feet on a tin roof.
So neighbors, the next time you hear a senenade and it sounds like the roof is falling in, think nothing of it—it probably is.
Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
VFW Commander Opposes Indiscriminate Pension Allotments As In Rankin Bill
Washington, Feb. 23—(U.P.)—Pensions for aged and incapacitated war veterans are a traditional policy of the United States, originating in the Plymouth colony when it was decreed that any member who defended the colony against the indians should, in the event he became so incapacitated as to be unable to care for himself, be housed, clothed and fed. This policy has been maintained $ ^{ \textcircled{9} }$
By LYALL T. BEGGS
The Veterans of Foreign Wars has proposed a modest pension program incorporated in a bill (H.R. 2512). This proposal would NOT grant pensions indiscriminately without regard to health and income and would cost slightly more than a half billion dollars in 1950.
(Although both provide old age pensions for veterans, the Rankin bill and the V.F.W. plan differ considerably. V.F.W. hopes the Rankin bill can be amended. The Rankin bill provide pensions for veterans aged 65, regardless of need. H.R. 2512, on the other hand, includes a test of
This policy has been maintained through all our wars in the form of a service pension until after World War I.
Today there are thousands of aged and incapacitated veterans of World War I unable to find and hold gainful employment. Many of them have service disabilities but because of lack of adequate medical records are unable to qualify for compensation.
The congress, with the approval of the people, has recognized a special obligation to those who wore the uniform in defense of our nation. It is generally agreed there is an inequality of sacrifice—physical, mental and economic—between those who serve in the armed forces and civilians in time of war. Consequently, the defenders of our nation have been generally recognized as a distinctive class entitled to special recognition by a grateful people.
Ask for it either way . . . both trade-marks mean the same thing.
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need. It also provides pensions for veterans of any age who become at least 50 per cent disabled for reasons not due to military service. V.F.W. says its plan, more expensive to start with, would not cost as much as the Rankin plan later, because of the needs test. The Rankin bill is estimated to cost $62,411,000 the first year and more than 7 billion dollars a year by 1990, but 50 to 60 per cent of this might be offset by cancellation of payments under existing law.—Editor.)
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