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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MARCH 30,1945
Kansan Comments Selfish Interests Are at Base Of Political Evils in Elections
Students do not want student government on this campus. They want politics—policies played with loaded dice! Oh, yes, we have a two-party system—one party for half the houses on the Hill and the other party for the other half. Quite as logical as if everyone in New York had to vote the Republican ticket and everyone in California the Democratic.
Now we are faced with an immediate decision. Three plans have been presented for a new system of selecting representatives to All-Student council. We must choose or reject.
Is it the system which is at fault or are we faced with a more basic problem?
A house built of shoddy material will be a weak structure no matter what style of architecture is used. A student government built of selfish interests rather than reflective thought an dtrue concern will fail no matter what the method of election.
Is it heresy to suggest that differences of opinion might be cultivated within an organized house? Party leaders seem to think so. It is an inviolate tradition that every member of a group be poured through the same mold to register the same vote at the ballot box. Truly, democracy is at work!
If this is the way the students feel, if houses are placed above collective good, then best we sit in our precious houses and rot. Let the administration have complete control of student government. But pray God there will come a day when a new generation of students will arise who are not afraid to think! May there come men and women who will face the issue squarely and cultivate the true politics of individual rather than group choice.
Until that day comes we fail and student government is a cheap imitation. Will it be today or tomorrow or will we never see it? The decision is ours.-R.E.
Miss Snow's Book Views Early Kansas
Pictures on My Wall: A Limetime ♮
Pictures on My Wall: A Limetime in Kansas, a book of memoirs, by Florence L. Snow, was published the 15th of this month by the University of Kansas Press. This new book was reviewed recently by John E. Hankins, professor of English, over KFKU. Mr. Hankins edited Miss Snow's book, and it is through him that this review of her book is made possible.
Pictures on My Wall is divided into eight chapters, written in the form of personal letters to friends and relatives of Miss Snow. By concentrating on what will interest the addressee in each case, she succeeds in interesting the general reader. She has combined material of historical and social interest with the intimate charm of the personal letter.
The order of Miss Snow's chapters is roughly chronological; there is no attempt of a day-by-day or year-by-year record. Instead, she centers each chapter around a theme of general interest and thus gives us the high points in her life. In general, the chapters may be grouped as follows: chapters I and II concern her childhood years in Baldwin and Neosho Falls; the next two chapters concern her college life and the year immediately following; chapters V, VI, and VII concern her early maturity when she lived in Neosho Falls; and chapter VIII concerns the last 25 years, during which she has lived in Lawrence.
First Chapter Addressed to Brother
A. Chapter Addressed to Brother
The first chapter, addressed to Miss Snow's older brother, recalls the period of her earliest childhood, the youthful adventures and enjoyments common to children in small Kansas communities. There is the background of the "border troubles" during and after the Civil war, and contact with the Indians through her father, who was an Indian agent. The second chapter, perhaps the most entertaining in the entire book, concerns the half-forgotten visit of President Rutherford B. Hayes to Kansas in 1879. She tells how he came to visit Neohos Falls, then a town of 1,000 people.
Neesoh Falls, though not a county seat, had an excellent site for fair grounds and was chosen the location of the annual district fair. Miss
Snow's father was treasurer of the organization. In 1879, when it became known that President Hayes was planning a tour of the country, someone suggested that it would be nice to have the president of the United States as an added attraction at the Woodson County District fair He was invited, he accepted, and he came bringing with him Mrs. Hayes and General Sherman. The climax of the chapter comes when Miss Snow, then a hero-worshipping little girl, was kissed by General Sherman.
Neosho Falls Typical of Kansas
In chapter VII we see Neosoh Falls as a typical Kansas community. As a money-raising venture, the ladies of a local church decided to make a state quilt. The state of Kansas is obligingly shaped like a bed quilt except where the Missouri river slices off one corner. Raising money for the local Methodist church gives a good picture of small town religious activities.
The religious interest is also evident in Miss Snow's third chapter, the account of her college days at Baker university. She was caught up in this atmosphere of high idealism, and it has affected her later thinking. She was a classmate of Bishop W. A. Quayle. Her description of him as a youth has considerable historic importance.
The fourth chapter is an account of Miss Snow's trip to Washington, D.C., to visit her mother's brother, James Harlan, who had been first president of the University of Iowa, a member of Lincoln's cabinet, and
Tells of Trip to Washington
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Hero for Hemingway: Some ardent admirer of Gordon Reynolds suggested recently that Gordie write his autobiography and entitle it, "For Whom the Belles Drool."
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Irational debt: Charlie Smith. Sig Alph, was quite chagrined last week when Jim Sheppard repaid 20 cents he owed him by putting 20 pennies in a jar of glue. Charlie claims he's going to take it to the student court.
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Fire bug; Liz Esterle, DG initiate, was hitting the entomology books hard Wednesday night, when some of her playmates, unappreciative of her efforts, poured lighter fluid under her chair and lit it. Needless to say, Liz almost had heart failure, and quite definitely had an oversized hot foot.
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It was nice while it lasted: While Mary Morrill, Kappa, was at the Nu Sig house for dinner during the Red Cross drive, she sat next to Dean Schwartz, who obligingly offered her his Nu Sig pin. Mary, as equally obligingly, took it. Dean kept expecting her to give the pin back but he finally had to ask forgetful Mary for it. Said Dean, "I really enjoyed being pinned to you, but could I have it back now?"
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A few nights later, Mary passed the Nu Sig house, and, spying Dean's
car in front, pinned in the note:
"Why aren't the seat covers shrouded in black since we aren't pinned any more?"
finally a Federal judge. On the way she stopped to visit her cousin, Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln, daughter-in-law of the Civil war president, and learned some interesting facts about Lincoln's family.
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Mordy carries on: Jim Mordy, sports editor of the Daily Kansan who recently reported to the navy at Great Lakes, Ill., is telling this one on himself. Jim was instructed to wash the ladder as one of his first duties on arriving at boot camp. He gathered soap, water, and a brush, climbed out on the fire-escape, and began washing the ladder. A while later, the C.O. walked by and shouted "What in the h--- are you doing up there?" Mordy replied, "I was told to scrub the ladder, sir." The officer recommended that Jim buy a Blue Jackets manual, where he would find "ladder," navy definition, means stairs.
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Ring Ching Swing: Pledges at the Arrow lodge presented a new version of the well-known Pi Phi song, Ring Ching Ching, at Monday night entertainment this week. They banged on their glasses vehemently, as chapter members do in ordinary rendition of the song, turned to Mrs. Alt who always holds her breath during the glass-banging, and remarked, "Just call us crystal- cracking mammas."
Literary historians will find the fifth and eighth chapters quite valuable. She gives material which cannot be found anywhere else, much of it could be discovered only by tedious investigation. How many people know, for instance, that W. H. Carruth's poem, "Each in His Own Tongue," with its famous lines, "Some call it evolution and others call it God," sprang from an exchange of remarks between the author and Chancellor Snow as they looked out over the Wakarusa valley?
Friendship With Eugene Hamilton Chapter VI is the most personal and perhaps the most sincerely written of them all. It recounts Miss Snow's long friendship with the English poet, Eugene Lee Hamilton.
Early in life Lee Hamilton had given up a promising diplomatic career when stricken with paralysis that confined him for many years to a wheel bed. There he composed and dictated three volumes of sonnets. Attracted by his poems and by a newspaper account of his life, she wrote to him in sympathy. When he regained his health, the English poet visited America and spent a fortnight at Neosho Falls with Miss Snow's family.
In physical appearance of binding, paper, and type the volume is super-
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