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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1928
The Daily Kansan Wishes 'Bill' White A Happy Birthday
Editor's Note:
Seventy years ago today, William Allen White
tenured the position he never yet admitted to be a "vale of trueness."
The years passed by and he grew to be a man. Kansas and the world feel they have been made richer by that birth and growth for, though an idealist, he has mixed idealism with a lot of com- misery. He is a man and lived that love in concrete acts rather than the more mouthing it in flowery -hrases.
As a general practice of the profession, the Kansean has in its files for instant publication, the obituary which is read in lieu of which is Mr. White's. And now, quite in the spirit of his own kind humor—and possibly establishing a journalistic precedent—we think he may be interested to hear about his obituary, which we publish with the sincerest hope that the years will be many and the addition before ever again we shall have occasion to use it.
William Allen White, or just plain "Bill" White, as the home folks all knew him, possessed one pre-eminent passion—Kansas. He lived and died close to the hearts of the plain folk of his home town, where he achieved worldwide fame as a country editor and author.
And that was the way "Bill" wanted it. Years ago when he was first acclaimed a leading figure in American literary and political circles, he was bombarded with overtures from metropolitan editors and publishers who wanted his services. He declined them all.
White was born in Emporia, Feb. 10, 1868. His father was Dr. Allen White, pioneer physician-druggist and real estate dealer, a descendant of a Puritan family which settled in Massachusetts in 1639. His mother was a school teacher. White owed much to his mother. His earliest memory was of her reading to him. He wrote a masterful tribute to her when she died in 1824 at the age of 95.
When the family moved to El Dorado, Kan,
when White was a baby, she helped to start
the first city library. White's father, at the time
mayor of El Dorado, died when the boy was 14,
but the mother kept boarders and sent her son
to high school and to the University of Kansas.
White did his first newspaper work at 10, earning $1.50 weekly in the printing office of the Butler County Democrat at El Dorado. He learned later that his father paid the $1.50 at first. The youth had other newspaper jobs, mostly typesetting, during vacations and when Senator T. B. Murdock offered White the "stupendous" salary of $18 a week, he left the University six weeks before graduation to edit the El Dorado Republican. "I didn't wait to graduate," White said. "I made a straight line for El Dorado and took over the paper, doing the sort of work I have always enjoyed most."
At 24 White became an editorial writer on the Kansas City Star. He did not enjoy big city writing as much as small town editing. A year later, in 1893, he married Miss Sally Lindsay.
In 1895 White borrowed $3,000 and bought the Emporia Gazette, which he made nationally famous through the brilliant and homely philosophy of its editorial column. One of his early editorials, "What's the Matter with Kansas" attracted nation-wide attention and from then on his fame as a writer spread.
White announced his purchase of the Gazette in an editorial later reprinted in journalism textbooks as an ideal creed for a community newspaper editor.
A kindly and slightly stout figure, White ironed out an old local feud among Emporians and soon became the town confessor. His big red house, built by a wealthy man from Garden of the Gods sandstone, was open to the lowly as well as to Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Hoover.
Metropolitan newspapers sought futility to lure White from Emporia and Kansas. His first book, a collection of short stories titled "The Real Issue," was published in 1896. He next wrote "The Court of Boyville" "Strategems and Spoils," and "In Our Town." In 1906, his novel, "A Certain Rich Man," appeared with a sale of 250 000 copies.
Some of his later books are: "In the Heart of a Fool," "God's Puppets," "The Old Order Changeth," "What It's All About," "Woodrow Wilson—The Man; His Times and His Task," and "Forty Years on Mainstreet," which was published in 1987.
During the World War he went to France as an observer for the American Red Cross and remained to cover the peace conference for American newspapers and also to attend the Russian
conference at Prinkipo. He described his experiences in a book entitled "Martial Adventures of Henry and Me." The Henry was Henry J. Allen, a bosom companion who later became governor of Kansas and United States senator.
Though usually in the Republican ranks, White sometimes broke with his party. In 1912, he resigned as Republican national committee-man to support Theodore Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party.
In 1924, White again broke with his party to make his only race for office, an independent campaign for governor in protest against the Ku Klux Klan. Without organization or expenditure White conducted a campaign of ridicule. "They'd call it Klansas," he shouted and termed klansmen "shirt tail rangers." White was defeated but polled 150,000 votes and broke the grip of the klan on the state.
Among his prejudices White included prohibition, which was a reform peculiar to Kansas, cradle of temperance. He resigned his position as editor of Judge, humorous publication, which he had held for several years, when the owner decided to fight prohibition. "I am a confirmed prohibitionist," he said in explaining his resignation. "We agree about everything except light wines and beer. Now, these things are no more important to my happiness than stewed prunes and vinegar. So I obeyed the impulse and quit."
Placed upon the famous "black list" of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1928 by Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president-general, White retreated "Mrs. Brosseau is a lovely lady with many beautiful qualities of heart and mind but in her enthusiasm she has allowed several lengths of Ku Klux nightie to show under her red, white and blue."
In 1924, he was elected head of the League of Nations Association for Kansas. In 1925, he attended the Institute of Pacific Relations at Honolulu. In 1927, he was judge in a $25,000 Woodrow Wilson essay contest. In 1930, he was a member of a five-man commission sent by President Herbert Hoover to investigate unrest in Haiti. The following year he was a member of the President's unemployment committee.
For 16 years he has been a member of the board of directors on the Rockefeller Foundation. He was one of the founders of the Roosevelt Memorial association and also of the Woolrow Wilson foundation. He was member of the Author's League and of the National Institute of Arts and Letters; a director of the National Association for the Protection of Colored People and of the Walter Edge foundation; and with Elihu Root, former President Taft, and Charles Evans Hughes was founder and director of the National Short Ballot association.
The Whites' only son, William L. White, went to work on the Gazette after graduation from Harvard in 1924 at the age of 24. A daughter, Mary, died in 1921. Five years later the parents gave Emporia a 50-acre park as a memorial with the stipulation that the name of White never be used in its connection. It was named Peter Pan Park.
In 1922, White won the Pulitzer editorial prize on "To an Anxious Friend." This editorial was addressed to Govenor Allen, and was a monumental defense of "free speech."
In 1934, he was awarded the Theodore Rosevelt Memorial Association medal on which was inscribed on one side, "For Distinguished Service," and on the other side, "If I Must Choose Between Righteousness and Peace, I Choose Righteousness."
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 35 Thursday, February 10, 1928 No. 91
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will meet Friday evening, Feb. 11, at 8 o'clock in the Unitarian Church. Isumi Tashima will have charge of the program.-Louise Yeamans. Secretary.
FRESHMAN VACANCY ON RELAYS COMMITTMENT to the freshman students wishing to become candidates for Freshman Stock. Students should send in applications to the K-U athletic office on or before Feb. 12, 1958, in care of James Gillispie, Esq.
MATHEMATICS CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Mathematics Club. There will be 30 members in Administration building. P. U. G. Mitchell will speak on "Mathematics for the Millions." Refreshment rooms. Visitors are welcome.-Charles E. Rickert, President
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The Home Economies Club will have initiation services and a wafer supper at 4:15 this afternoon at the Home Management house. —Dorothy Hoak, Secretary.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: Because of the Bail-Ruse the meeting will be held at a $t$ clock Monday evening, Feb. 14, in the Pine room—Moe Ettenson, Secretary.
IMPROVEMENT OF READING: Students interacted in the improvement of reading program a few weeks earlier.
KFKU ANNOUNCER TRYOUS: Announce tryouts will be held at the studio at 4:30. All interested should leave their names and addresses at Mr. Ingham, Program Director, in advance. H-G. Ingham, Program Director
NEW ADDRESSES FOR DIRECTORY SUPPLIE-
MENT. Students who changed addresses between se-
mesters must report the new address to its istrar's office at once so that the corrections may appear in the directory supplement—G. Oster, F. Oyster.
PHI DELTA KAPPA: Phil Delta Kappa will meet with the College of Education Training School, Lee H. Lee students will discuss the program at Antioch College. The meeting will adjourn in time for the Lecture Course number in Hochschule.
STUDENT FORUM BOARD: There will be a meeting of the Student Forum Board in the Pine room at 3:30 this afternoon—Dean Moorhead, Chairman.
Scientist Sees Something Superbin Study of Salamanders
By Bob Beeler, c'40 What's a salamander?
W. S.G.A.: There will be a meeting at 7 o'clock this evening—Borst Stockwell, President.
Students who can remember when they played in the mud—if they really played in the mud conscientiously—are able to remember those harmless little yellow-gray-sploched mud-puppies or water dogs they used to find around ponds and creeks. Ouer creatures—they combine the soft coolness of a frog with the shape of a lizard. Later on the high school biology teacher said that they were sandalmakers.
Dr. E H. Taylor, professor of zoology, has been collecting and studying salamanders for years. Not just plain salamanders, but Mexican salamanders—and Mexican salamanders are unusual. With the exception of last summer Doctor Taylor has made a trip to Mexico every year since 1952. Now he is investigating one thousand specimens in his collection, and 40 species. Next summer he will again go after salamanders.
Taylor To Name Harvard Collection
He has found most of his specimens in mountainous regions where the elevation is from eight to fifteen thousand feet. In Mexico, which has a monopoly on producing unusual varieties of salamanders, there are four of these high regions. Doctor Taylor will try to gather some from all of them. He travels as far as he is able in an automobile and finishes by horse and on foot.
Harvard has recently sent Doctor Taylor its collection of Mexican salamanders. In the collection is the largest species known, slightly less than one foot long. It has never been named. Doctor Taylor will describe and name it, together with two other species that live in the smallest of the salamanders is about two inches from its nose to the end of its tail.
Unlike the drab little creatures which live in the Kaw valley, most of the Mexican species have brilliant colors usually orange or red, on their backs.
Some salamanders which live entirely on land have fully webbed feet, and other kinds living solely in the water have no webs at all between their toes.
Only Adult Axolotl Found
Most noted of Mexican salamanders is the axolotl. Scientists have long been interested in it because when left to itself it never grows up. When taken to a laboratory it develops like any normal salamander should, but in Mexico eggs are laid and the creatures die without ever having reached adult salamander. In its larval stage, which corresponds to the tadpole stage of the adult snail, they live like an adult fish with large fins. During his last summer in Mexico Doctor Taylor found the only adult Mexican axolotl ever discovered in its natural habitat.
Another species looks like a fat earthworm, with tiny legs. Still another has no legs at all, and a tail only half as long as the body is thick. Many are stratified according to varieties, and each seems to prefer its own individual altitude. Some may be plentiful at 8,000 to 10,000 feet, which are never found higher, while another kind may prefer to be found in a higher class, never coming below 10,000 feet.
Some of the animals live only in bromeliads, plants of a cabbage-like appearance, which in turn live in trees.
Occasionally Doctor Taylor has the Indians help him collect, but cannot depend on them and takes most of his trips by himself. "People travel faster when they are alone," he observes.
The finance committee of the YW, C.A. is starting a finance drive. The chairman, Ruth Olive Brown, c'40, has divided 30 women into three teams for the drive. There will be competition among the women as well as the teams, to see who brings in the most money. The drive will be conducted among students and townpeople.
Y. W.C.A. Committee Starts Drive
Mitchell To Speak in Nebraska
Mitchell To Speak in Nebraska
Prof. U. G. Mitchell has accepted an invitation to speak at the Nebraska section of the Mathematical Association of America which convenes at Hastings College, Hastings, Neb. May 2.
Haywire-greater in a girls' school. The girls lose nothing by not rubbing shoulders with men. They work when they work and play when they play," says Mrs. Vivienne B. Breckman, a student at Biola College for girls. She is a contends that private schools for girls prepare them better for mat-
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rimyton than do coed institutions,
We watched a jeweler polaugh across
diamond one time, and the more
he rubbed the shoulders the tall works and
no one to play with makes jill a dull girl, w'd say.
For the benefit of those poor individuals who are now in the process of seeing figures and Ns, Ys, Ks we offer the following algebra we offer this little prayer:
My algebra 'tis of thee,
Short cut to lunacy.
Of these we rave.
Another month or so
Oh. Will I know?
Will send me straight below
Oh, Algebra.
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