UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SIX
MAY 29,1947
Kansan Comments
It Is For Us, The Living
Three wars have passed since the straight, clear-eyed, gray-uniformed young man died to save freedom. To those who come with flowers now, he is just a name on a headstone. He gave up the life he loved, for freedom from slavery and freedom from disunion.
Southern lands lay devastated, and in spirit the Negro remained in chains; but the Southerners put flowers on the graves. Then the last Union soldier was discharged May 30, 1868, and Decoration Day became a national holiday; Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and North and South Carolina ceased observing it.
The blue-coat who fell not far from him was fighting for economic freedom for Dixie.
But union flourished again in the face of a common enemy. The first time it was Spain, and more young men died for the freedom of an oppressed people. (It just happened that business boomed for some newspapers, and that the territory in question was strategically located for world relations.)
Twenty years later thousands of new graves were dedicated to freedom from war.
Two years after the second Armageddon, military leaders are announcing that our nation's "strategic bombing" force, better trained than when it went over Japan, "is ready to go into action tomorrow if necessary." The high-sounding purpose of World War II, "freedom from want," has not been very nourishing to Europeans or Asiatics. Kin of the American Negroes who died to save democracy, find themselves deprived of life, liberty, and property, with scarcely a semblance of due process of law.
Hundreds of thousands of men have given all they had for a better world, and it hasn't been enough. Putting flowers on their graves won't make up the difference, either. Unless we can be objectively aware and sincerely interested in human welfare, Memorial Day is only a farce.
Let us here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
Alamada Bollier
A Flower Now
They probably don't bother to mention it, but a good many K. U. students would pay tribute to these things:
English department projects in extracurricular culture. Even amateur literary fans find Shakespeare top entertainment, when good presentations are preceded with clues to their aesthetic significance. The poetry readings and visiting authors have brightened the campus activities calendar.
Dinner meetings at the Union
building. In spite of uncertainty in ordering, last-minute notices, and heavy schedules, the staff continues to serve delicious, attractive food at far less cost than for similar meals elsewhere.
The United Women's Council. Such a unifying influence can improve this campus considerably. The forthcoming handbook describing activities, government and student aids, and how to make the most of these opportunities, is something the new student long has needed.
For these and the other unseen efforts which make the University beautiful, friendly, and progressive, thanks should be expressed. The thanks are more encouraging now than after the persons concerned have left the campus.
—Alamada Bollier
Musicians Receive Awards For Work
Announcement of cash awards by Fi Kappa Lambda, national honorary music society, to outstanding music students will be made at the student recital at 3 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium. Prof. Joseph Wilkins, president of the society, will make the awards.
Vocal solos will be presented by Beane Tack, who will sing "Rolling in Foaming Billows" from "The Creation" (Haydn); Kathryn Walter, "O Can Ye Sew Cushions" arranged by Colin Taylor, and "Nymphs and Shepherds" (Purecell); Gladys Hammond, "Les Filles de Cadiz" (Delibes); and a duet by Nancy Messenger and Jess Rose, "La ci darme la mao" from "Don Giovanni" (Mozart).
Piano soloists and their numbers include; Barbara Glover, "Argon Concerto in D Minor" (Vivaldi-Bach-Burmeister); Charles Smith, "E Flat Rhapsody" (Brahms), Jay Grimm, "Prelude, G Main" (Rachmaninoff); and Margaret Hankins, "Suite, in Holdersgale Time" (Grieg).
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