SEPTEMBER 27,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Greeks 'Stay In Homes Like Mice' As Both Sides Raid Village For Food
(Editor's note: The United Press assigned Robert Vermillion, a veteran staff correspondent, to ascertain at first hand what's going on in troubled Greece. Vermillion here tells what he found when he reached the village of Platikambos in Thessaly.)
By ROBERT VERMILLION
Platikambos, Greece. (UP)—In the rich Pinyos river valley around Platikambos the fields lie fallow in the hot autumn sun today awaiting the fall planting, already long delayed.
The men of the village of Platikambos loiter close to their gray clay houses or putter in their nearby vegetable gardens. Many of the buildings of Platikambos are burned and the $ ^{ \textcircled{4}} $
walls of others are scarred with bullets.
In the Paradise Confectionery and Cafe, a crumbling clay-walled room which is the center of Platikambos' social life, I talked to the villagers. Here is where the men come for their thick Turkish coffee and their oyzo and where children buy their sweets—when there are sweets to buy and the youngsters have money to buy them.
Sitting at a small iron table near a window my interpreter and I waited as the room slowly filled with men who sat and stood in a semicircle around us.
My interpreter told the tattered crowd that I was an American newspaperman who wanted to know what had happened in the village of Platikambos.
The men nodded agreement.
I said I'd heard the village had been attacked by bandits a number of times.
An old man of 75 with a grizzly beard, wearing a tattered sweater and leaning on a shepherd's crook, spoke. Yes, he said. Platikambos had been attacked at least 10 times in the last two months and most recently on Sept. 17 when a leftist band came to the town and demanded mules and sheep.
"They didn't shoot," the old man said. "They never do unless there an opposing force here, as there was on Aug. 29 when they attacked the building where the army men and gendarmes made their headquarters and burned it down."
The garrison of 17 army men and 17 gendarmes left Platikambo after that attack and have never come back, he explained.
if they never shoot," I asked,
"why do you give them food?"
"That's understood," the old man said, shaking his head. "We must give them food. They'd kill us if we didn't."
The old man then lifted his head from his hands and said:
"We fear all sides. We must stay in our homes like mice. Our fields need us but we dare not go to them.
"Armed men shoot all the time. They come to our fields and beat us and steal our sheep. Our situation is terrible. We find ourselves caught in a storm and do not know who is responsible."
Lighting a pipe, one man mumbled:
"We must starve to death or be beaten to death. What's to be done?"
At this point a tall, middle-aged man entered the cafe, and the men formed a path for him to our table. He introduced himself as Achilles Zacharioulos, whom the government had appointed the village president. He agreed that the villagers had cause to fear both sides.
I asked him what was the politics of the village.
"Right and left," he said. "Mostly left."
Why, I asked, if that was so, did all but 15 of the 570 men who voted in the referendum favor the monarch.
"I can't explain that," Zachariolous said but the crowd stirred and a man shouted: "I can. We were terrorized."
"Do you all agree?" I asked.
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Sunflower Intramural Athletes Will Meet
There will be a meeting of all University men living at Sunflower who are interested in intramural sports at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the recreation hall at Sunflower, Irven "Curly" Hayden, program director, announced today.
The meeting will be held for the purpose of organizing teams for intramural competition.
There was a chorus of "yes" but some of the men were silent and poker-faced.
"On Aug. 30, the day before the election," one man said, "the rightists drove through town. They shouted: 'Vote for the monarchy or on Monday everyone will be slaughtered.'"
One old man who had puffed his pipe slowly and said nothing until then spoke quietly.
I asked why they did not defend themselves against the bandits.
"Shall we shoot our sons?"
It was a question for which none of the villagers of Platikambos had an answer.
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Pharmacy Adds Professor To Staff
Appointment of Dr. Ralph W. Clark to a full professorship in the School of Pharmacy has been announced.
For the past year Dr. Clark has been manager of the prescription department of Macy's in New York City and director of pharmacy for all stores in the Macy chain.
Dr. Clark received a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin in 1922, worked five years in retail and hospital pharmacy, returned to Wisconsin as an instructor, where he received his master's degree in 1929 and doctorate in pharmacy in 1933. In 1937 he moved to the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Clark is 45, married and has two children. He has purchased a home at 621 Mississippi and will move to Lawrence early in November.
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Traditions Are Important Part Of K.U. Life
Student rallies are held before nearly all big games. The teams like to feel that the student body backing them to the limit. The bigger and noisier the rally, the harder the teams fight to bring home victory.
Torchlight parades by the Jay James and Ku Kus exemplify enthusiasm and school spirit before other games.
Homecoming and Parents' Day are two big events of the football season.
The Night Shirt Parade, the night before the first important home football game, is a school tradition. The trail leads from the Campus down the main street of Lawrence to South Park where a bonfire rally is held.
Notable annual event for University women is the W.S.G.E.A.-Y.W.C.A. (now A.S.C. - Y.W.C.A.) Lantern Parade beginning at the Union Building and weaving to the Chancellor's home for a senade.
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