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FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1957
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Comment
Music Week And the University
At this time it would be appropriate for the students and faculty of the University and the 4000-odd high school musicians here for the Mid-Western Band Festival to get together and start congratulating each other.
Congratulations are due the musicians because they managed to arrive at the time of the year when the Campus is at its best. With its spring dress of lime hedges and flower bods, and the green stretching away to the Kaw and Wakaran, the Hill is as beautiful a place as you'd want for your thoughts to start turning lightly.
Congratulations are due the University because this provides an excellent opportunity to interest prospective students in the school, and because the concerts and parades by the high school musicians are an integral and valuable part of National Music Week which is being observed here this week end.
The contestants deserve all the courtesies we can extend them. If you see one of them struggling up the Hill with a tuba, why not give him a lift? If one of them asks for directions, take time to draw a map if necessary. Show them our best brand of hospitality and it will pay dividends.
Local Control Of Kansas Beer
When the recent legislature passed the bill legalizing 3.2 per cent beer in Kansas and allowed local officials the privilege of determining the amount of the license fee to charge retailers it made possible a large degree of local control that ought to work out to the satisfaction of everyone.
In many parts of the state the rural communities are opposing the sale of beer, a fact which is leading township boards to refuse the issuance of licenses to retailers having places of business within the borders of their respective townships. However, the urban centers are leaming toward the favorable side of the beer question and license-fee money is rolling into the coffers of the city government.
Township boards believe the cities are better equipped with officers to take care of the drunks who cause disturbances, and rural citizens, backed in many communities by the strong congregations of rural churches, do not wish to see beer sold in a place which is not easily accessible to law-enforcement officials, preferring to have boozers go through their antics in town rather than in the country.
No doubt this attitude of township boards and citizens of rural communities will cause a decline in the number of roadhouses in the secluded rural spots and cause the proprietors of such establishments to seek new retreats or to go out of business entirely.
And How's Your Blood Pressure?
A specialist recently recommended that those of us in the United States who are suffering with high blood pressure should go to the interior of China, where the lethargy of the race would instill itself in our very temperaments, reducing the high tension under which most of us work, and thus bringing down the blood pressure.
This suggestion would be all right for one —or perhaps two of us—but get more than one or two of us in the interior of China, and the interior of China would become a little bit of the United States, with hustling, going, doing, having, worrying — and high blood pressure. And besides, if we all went to the interior of China, what would become of the country we love? We'd all go mad with contentment. We'd die of good health, and languish away in normal blood pressure.
We bring a bit of the South into our lives with our violet ray lamps. We import the Arctic with our air conditioning—just enough for comfort. Why can't we bring a bit of the beautiful quiescence of the interior of China into our lives—just enough for comfort?
And Still
The Premier Blushes
Some time has passed and still Premier Leon Blum of France blushes.
Thirty years ago the now greying statesman wrote a book which France has just recently discovered, and the excitement has been great
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
to behold. The book is "Du Mariage," and it suddenly became a popular success, running through 20 rush editions in France, and selling like mad in England. Its readers continue whooping.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
b. Addition to the stacks of the library.
At the time Blum wrote the book he was a gay blade doing witty dramatic criticisms for Paris literary weeklies, fighting an occasional duel, and reciting poetry. Along with other things he wrote "Du Marriage" which advocates the sowing of wild oats and flirtations with attractive women.
To the站, happily married Blum of today it is confusing to have all of Paris chuckling over the exposé of his younger life, but the interesting thing is that it is chuckling and not hissing. If such a book had been dropped into the life of a leading British or American politician, it could have ruined a career. But in France the revival of a work that embarrassss its author provokes only smiles among its readers. Even his political enemies realize that it is vain to attempt exploiting it as a weapon against him.
All of which provokes the comment that it is fortunate for the Premier that France is France.
Campus Opinion
Poetry. Ton
Editor, Daily Kansar
I am a student at K.U, and a non-resident of this country, my non-resident status it seems I must pay a 100 per month fee. My attendance here. I should like to give voice to the opinions of several other non-residents, as well as my
In good faith we took advantage of your proffered offer of cheaper tuition, cheaper than was possible in own schools. As a result of this jacking of costs, nurses must be paid more, and others must give up school. It unjust it不刽t骚
Supposing you bought a hamburger for a nickel and ate it, then decided to buy another. In the meantime he wanted to get more hamburgers and told them humburger cost them more. What would you say if the waiter charged you 10 cents?
Not being in the School of Business, I can't give you a technical name for this committing, but to me it's
Farewell K.U
The school year draws to a finish
Our course will be homebound bound
We will soon leave our beloved campus
And all the new friends we found.
Some of us are strangers in Kansas,
not even in our own body!
It seems we are victims of Regents,
Who have formed some devastating rules,
They have raised the taut double
"Without good reason or rhyme;
No more than 10 schools
and lose their hours and time.
It's a bell of a way to do business
And surely it hardly sees fair,
The course will be per school year
And then not held at all.
Boston Sailor
Official University Bulletin
Vol. 34 FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1827 No.149
CHIESS TOURNAMENT. The chess tournament, sponsored by the A.S.U. on closes on next Saturday, May 8. All scores must be posted on or before May 8. Gerald Banker, Director of Tournament.
JAY JANES: Please wear your uniform today, and remember the meeting in SD AaL at 4:30 this afternoon.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: There was a meeting of the International Relations Club for the day, considering reorganization plans in 104 Ad. at 2:39 this afternoon. All members are urged to present their ideas.
MATHEMATICS CLUB PICNIC. The Mathematics
Mathematics Club Picnic, May 11 Meet at
Eat At 4:30—Red Room 868
NEWMAN CLUB. The Newman Club will have its Communion breakfast on Sunday, May 9, after the First Mass. Please notify Miss Green as to whether you will or will not be present—Virginia Rodriguez.
WESTMINSTER OPEN HOUSE! There will be
open house for PRESTERSTATE students at Westminster
College. Call 212-467-8090 or visit westminstercollege.org
W.S.G.A. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: The next meet-
tation, Wednesday, evening, May 11, at 7
o'clock.-Dorit Stockwell
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF RANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Old Folks May Learn World Of Today at College for Maturates
Editorial Staff
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FEATURE EDITOR
'UBLISHER ___
By Dave Partidge, c.28
Grand-did is going collegiate . . . he and grandma are learning about congenial employment, social relations, rejuvenating diets, and how to make use of leisure time at the "College for Maturates" being conducted in Oklahoma City by Dr W. A. McKeever, a former University professor here.
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SUNDAY EDITOR
"The aged are our most neglected and forlorn class of citizens. They need instruction and guidance for their lives after 70 just as do children and youths." And so, to serve this forgotten age, Dr. McKeaver, himself over 70, is conducting a regular school open to all men and women over 70 years of age. One-third of the 1090 persons enrolled at present are over 80 and many are over 100.
Kansan Board Members
No salary is paid for Mr. McKeever's services as the instructor and manager of the school. He is financing the project himself. The "boys and girls" who attend classes daily pay no tuition fees—it is all free. The 10-point course of instruction covers problems of diet, exercise, spiritual philosophy, finding hobbies, and making new friends.
News Staff
This new form of social welfare is bringing forth comment in many publications here and abroad. Dr McKeever's aim is to have the school adopted as a standard service for the aged everywhere.
ALFRED HARMAN-JULIAN
FIREBORD JR.
BROWN JR.
BROWN JR.
WILLIAM K. DOWNS
WILLIAM K. DOWNS
MELVIN HARLIN
CARL SMITH
STEINWEIN JR.
STEINWEIN JR.
STEINWEIN JR.
THOMAS STATTON
J. HOWARD RUSSO
REBEACH RUSSO
REBEACH RUSSO
DANIEL HUFS
HUDSON JR.
BUSINESS MANAGER F. QUENTIN BROWN
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Active in Social Welfare Work
Professor of child welfare here from 1913 to 1920, Dr. McKeever has always been active in social welfare work and has gained much publicity as a professional reformer.
His campaign for better cities in Oklahoma aroused nation-wide interest. While here at the University he waged a state-wide lecture campaign against the use of cigarettes and against movies portraying crime scenes. McKeever tried to stamp out the practice of carnivals in Kansas because of their "disrupting influence on our youth".
In 1920, McKeever offered a prize of $500 to local Greek societies for the one that made the best show in general usefulness and worthiness. The fraternities, however, were suspicious of the plan. One prominent Greek told the Kansan, "Mr. McKeever is a well-known professional reformer, and a very energetic one. What has he up his sleeve? We're for the plan unless he is trying to
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obtain 'dope' for the 'up-liftin business.'
Collegiate Standard of Living McKeever's plan was to grade the societies on scholarship, athletics, management, coaching, sociability, democracy, religion, temperance and loyalty. He believed the fraternities could do much to raise the standard of collegiate living . . . but the Greeks feared he was trying to obtain material to use against them so McKeever failed to find any supporters for his contest.
The much discussed "school spirit" controversy of this fall also received the attention of Professor McKeever in 1919. He described it as "decidedly weak." He advocated mass pauses and all-university social affairs as a cure for the tottering spirit of K.U. De McKeever is best known as a lecturer and child welfare worker but he received much publicity in 1932 for his "love-making bulletin" for elderly people. Those bullets
Mother's Day Observed Nation Wide
Most of us believe that Mother's Day is of comparatively recent origin. Yet actually history tells us that in England during the Middle Ages the mothering was not recorded as "Mothering Sunday"—but unfortunately it did not last.
It was not until 1908 to a serious attempt was made to reprovide Mother's Day-by Miss Ann Javic, a Philadelphia Sunday School teacher. In 1914 she became an legislative sleeper to establish Mother's Day in a national institution.
Now we celebrate the second Sunday of May as Mother's Day. Our present custom calls for the giving of remembrance gifts—candy, stationery, cards—gifts planned in the sentiment of the day rather than for value.
That is why Rexall Drug Stores take the lead in Mother's Day gifts; they are planned especially for mothers. You can find that life long after the candy is eaten—special stationery packages, special Mother's Day cards—you'll find them all at the Rexall Drug Store.
H. W. Stowls 9th & Mass.
Dr. McClure
Addresses Training Group
gave "definite elementary instruction in the guidance and management of love life." the course, Helen Allen, e57, appointed chairman, with the full ing committee.
Dr. Guill McClure, of the University health service, will speak on "Physiological Developments in Adolescence" at the third of the series of Leadership Training Series this afternoon at 4:20 in the basement- lecture room of the Spencer Thayer museum.
In addition to the model cabinet meeting presented by members of the Lawrence Memorial High School Girl Reserve Club at the meeting Tuesday, a committee was appointed for the picnic which will conclude
the course. Helen Allen, c37, was appointed chairman, with the following committee members: Rebeh Bimroe, c37, and Martha Peterson, c37. The committee will work with three members of the high school cabinet. Forty high school Girl Reserves have been invited to the picnic which will be held at Stout's "timer" at 5:30 p.m., on May 15.
Adv.
The Chancellor returned to Lawrence this morning.
Lindley Addresses
Wichita Teachers' Association
Chancellor E. H. Lindley addressed a meeting of the Wichita City Teachers' Association last night.
The meeting, a banquet, was held in honor of L. W. Mayberry, who has been named Wichita Public Schools for 25 years.
The Chancellor is to leave.
Take Home -
K. U. Jayhawk Souvenirs
Playing Cards
Book Ends
Tie Chains
Rings
Compacts
Cigarette Cases
Bracelets
Paperweights
Watch Fobs
Calendars
Pencils
Pins
Ash Trays
Powder Boxes
Stationery
Pennants
Banners
Pillows
Blankets
Billfords
Key Retainers
Letter Openers
Stickers
Come in Browse
TWO BOOK STORES
Let the Summer Session Help You
Why not make the summer vacation a period of work and profit rather than one of idleness and loss? Make your plans:
1. TO REDUCE the period usually required to earn the Bachelor's or Master's degree, thus saving both time and money.
2. To MAKE UP deficiencies and irregularities in credits.
3. To TAKE the extra courses you have always wanted but which could not be fitted into your regular year's schedule.
4. TO BEGIN OR CONTINUE your professional training in Business, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law or Medicine.
Decide Now to Attend----
Arrange to take advantage of the Summer Session program. About 200 courses are available representing nearly every university department. Consult your department head or call at the Summer Session Office, 121 Fraser.
University of Kansas SUMMER SESSION
Enrollment Begins June 9th
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