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UNDAY, MARCH 15, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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St. Pat Slayed 'Em Shamrocks Tuesday
By VIRGINIA TIEMAN
So Tuesday will be St. Patrick's day with the same old shamiek, same old green, and the same old snake! This whole thing was at 1500 years ago when St. Patrick was born in 387, so the roman Catholic authorities say. Some persons declare he was born in Ireland, some say France, but just to be different let's take it Scotland.
At a very early age this patron saint the Emerald Isle was sold into slavy, but after several years his aggressiveness led him to escape to island. He completed a brilliant idy (anyway a study) of religion and finally received a commission on the Pope to work in Ireland d that's where the snakes stepped (correction: crawled in).
ot 'Em All But One
One traditional story tells us that Patrick banished all the snakes it one from the island. The exact manner in which the snake charmer did this is just a little vague. Whether played on pipes like the Pied Der of Hamelin and led the snakes to a mountain or whether he drove em into the sea with a horse whip, he leave to your own choice.
Now this one remaining creature as a stubborn born so when he reused to leave the country "the politeay" St. Patrick had to act as a uncer. All the tricks of the trade are used but to no avail. Finally e objector to the invasion of the unless reptiles decided to try an ash version of "Come into my par—" He made a little box and ined the serpent to enter, but the
lowly animal said, "—no!" (Stubborn,
wasn't he?)
Even though the snake thought the box was too small, he finally slid in
quietly and that is when St. Patrick slammed the lid shut and threw the box into the sea. (Unfair tactics, if you ask me.) So that is how the day of wearing of the green got off to a good start. And of all the things it hasn't resulted in—
On the anniversary of the saint's death, March 17, banquets and celebrations have been held. In 1920 after the constitutional amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors went into effect, Judge Joseph Rogers of the Common Pleas spoke at a dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Philadelphia.
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"For 149 years," he said, "it has been the custom of this society to pay a reverent tribute to his memory. On
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this occasion, sad to relate, we are forbidden by a strange legislative enactment from toasting his memory in a beverage instituted by the Creator of heaven and sanctioned by His Divine Son. Craving the good saint's
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forgiveness, I ask you to rise and drink in uncharitable ice water, to the immortal memory of St. Patrick." (To think his followers must stoop to ice water!)
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