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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948
"They Say He's Very Prosperous"
The Great American Legend
The Editorial Page
America, although still a young nation, is growing fast and rapidly accumulating a history for herself. In the popular fancy, historical accuracy often becomes confused by a desire on the part of the public to become sentimental and nostalgic about the days that have just passed. The result is not always bad. From this tendency in our country "the great American legend" has been evolved. Its keynote is success. Its setting is vaguely the 19th century.
Nineteenth Century. Life
Life in a small town in 19th century America, according to the legend, was incredibly wholesome, gay, and satisfying. There were buggy rides and skating parties on moonlight nights. There was always a big house, masterful cooking, and a gentle mother to make a home for the boy in the legend. The bosom friend and rollicking forays into the surrounding woods were a part of a boy's life in that era. Thus the boy grew and became the man.
The man was hungry for an education. He obtained it by hard work and diligence. But his progress wasn't unduly grim. There were the devil-may-care days at the university, and drinking escapades that really couldn't be considered sinful, and the intellectual sessions with unforgettable comrades, all now equally successful as the figure in the legend. Life was rich. Life was good. Life spelled success and fulfillment.
Today every man who reads about the legend suffers pains of acute nostalgia, although he may have been born in the heart of the Bronx. He sees in the horse and buggy society of yesterday with its security and community solidarity an escape from the high-powered automobile civilization of the disintegrated society of the 20th century .
The Good Old Days
This era of America's growth is not termed a legend in a spirit of cynicism. It was, in a idealized way, the sort of environment that produced an amazing number of America's heroes. Whether the men created the legend or the legend created the men is irrelevant. That it is part of the American way of life; that it was a simple, wholesome life; and that its end product was a bountiful nation is what is really important. It is good that men continue to believe in it.
Emily Post has ruled in favor of doughnut dunking if the doughnut is "broken in half and neatly dipped into coffee or some other beverage." The National Dinking association hails her decision as a great social advance while the W. C. T. U. awaits further clarification of "some other beverage."
Dear Editor
Shaken Faith
Dear Editor,
I believe in democracy. But my faith in it receives a blow quite often. Last week the four hill cafes, in opposition to C. O. R. E., reaffirmed their policy of racial discrimination, and that didn't bolster my hopes for democracy one bit.
Only three weeks ago we students in one of the American government classes defined our basic concepts of democracy; the importance of the individual was high on our list. What about this importance of the individual? Our statement didn't say just white individuals. There were no qualifications attached. If my judgment is correct, refusing to serve a Negro in a cafe is a denial of his being as important as the white person who can be served in the same cafe at any time. Can that be called democracy? Not if any American government class was right.
So my belief in democracy got another jolt. There I sit in the University classroom helping to define democracy and then walk a few blocks away to see it denied.
John L. Eberhardt College sophomore
The contest for a Thomas Jefferson memorial in St. Louis has been won by a Finnish-born architect. His creation includes a 590-foot arch of stainless steel on the bank of the Mississippi river. Wags will probably be calling St. Louis the "Wicket City."
Diesel locomotives are fast replacing the steam engine on the railroads of our country. This creates a difficult problem for parents who will have to devise a descriptive sound to replace the popular "choo-choo."
The apartment units now being put into Sunnyside lack all important item—bassinets.
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