Friday, March 25, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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It Looks This Way...
By Carol Heller
One of our readers has chided us for our column on the white socks issue.
She says that we missed the point, because the issue is not WHITE socks but white SOCKS. In other words, she does not like socks.
WE ASSUME SHE IS IMPLYING that college women should wear nylon hose to school instead of socks. And we agree with her. We wear pants to classes.
if for no other reason than to distinguish our mature self from the girlish, frolicking freshmen.
However, we understand that our reader is a European student, so we think perhaps she may be prejudiced against the socks.
We went to Europe once. Our white socks and low-heeled shoes were met with laughter from the women all the way from London through Germany and Rome to Paris. Evidently European women do not like socks, or low-heeled shoes.
But we emerged from the experience undaunted because we noticed that while most
European women had a disdainful attitude toward socks and flats, a great percentage of them did not wear nylons with their highheeled shoes. We think this is as bad as wearing socks. (We also noticed that European women tend not to shave their legs. We think this bad, too.)
Frolicking freshmen
Nylons are not much fun to wear about the campus in a 20-inch snow, nor are they comfortable on a hot Kansas day in August. And unless you condescend to wear non-run nylons, it becomes an expensive business to keep a supply of nylons on hand.
THERE ARE TIMES when nylons will not do. They are not suitable to wear with jeans, Bermuda shorts or slacks. They can't take the place of socks when it comes to horseback riding, tennis or softball.
But we still maintain that when a woman wants to look like a lady with that slim-trim look, she will wear nylon hose.
If nylons don't make a man look twice, nothing will.
... Books in Review . . .
By Kenneth C. King Junction City, Sophomore
THE UNDEFEATED, by George Paloczi-Horvath, Atlantic-Little,
Brown books. $4.50.
In Oct-Nov. 1956, the Hungarian cattle became lions and rose up against the bureaucratic despots who had exploited them for a decade. When the revolt was crushed by tanks of the Soviet imperialists, many people fled their homeland to Austria. Among these was the author, a Hungarian journalist, with his wife and infant son.
This book is the story of his life up to that point. It reveals simply but movingly how, as a youth on his uncle's estate in Orkeny, he developed his "humanity pain" a feeling for the peasants. After getting an education in America and other western countries, and working for the British S.O.E. in Istanbul during WW II he returned in 1947 to his country, with an obsession that through communism he could help relieve his humanity pain. When he was arrested in connection with the rigged Rajk trial in 1949, he saw that the reforms were merely tactical movements.
He describes four years in the terrible MVD-SP jails, the trials and finally his release in 1954 to the greater prison outside where he found that prison graduates were the sanest of the lot, the rest of the people were victims of controlled schizophrenia.
The story involves many people, with good sketches of Imre Nagy, Regent Horthy, Comrade Rakosi, Janos Kadar, Paul Maleter and others.
I discussed the book with my friend, Istvan, from Miskolcz, because I am wary of the information written by a disillusioned communist. But he said "Unfortunately what he has written is true." The book answers questions in my mind but when I turn to it as a source I find it hard to pin down concrete facts. However, as I say it satisfies some of my questions, like; Can communism work under an "enlightened despot?" Why do intellectuals like Brecht and Koestler turn to communism? Interestingly enough to me the author's view on psychology agree closely with those of Dr. Viktor Frankl author of "From Death Camp to Existentialism," which I reviewed previously.
Worth Repeating
"My interest in the University is based on my firm belief that the best hope of humanity in the future rests upon the universities. They, more than any other agency, accomplish the purposes of elevating the ethical standards of young people as well as giving them knowledge, skills and judgment, and in a few instances wisdom. This I say after having devoted sixty years of teaching and investigation on the campuses of four great universities" . Dr. E. V. McCollum
Typists Earn Money, Aid Husbands
Some people like to type term papers and theses.
For students who find they have no time to do their own long-paper typing or merely dislike diting it, services are offered by some experienced typists to relieve them of the duty.
Mrs. Charles Johannsen, 1829 Barker, who has four children, three of whom are school age, does typing in her spare time. Though she is busy with her home and family, she likes to type and finds time to do it, she said.
Papers Educational
Mrs. Charles Patti, 1633 W. 20th mother of two children, said, "I used to do secretarial work and wanted to keep in practice. I enjoy typing and also find it very educational reading all the term papers and theses."
Another experienced typist, Mrs. David Vequist, 1935 Barker, finds that doing typing for students gives her the opportunity to meet different people.
"I did secretarial work before
No Baby Sitters Needed
was married and also did my husband's work when he was in school," she said.
No Baby Sitters Needed Mrs. Vequist commented that doing this type of work in the home, besides being interesting, was less expensive than another type of job which would require her to obtain a baby sitter for her children.
Mrs. Robert McEldowney, 634 Greeyer Terr., said her reason for doing typing was to earn some extra money. Mrs. McEldowney has three children, two in school.
Mrs. Duane Schwada, 1413 W. 22,
said that with one child she finds
that she has spare time for typing.
She said that she had a secretarial
job before she married and likes to
keep practiced up in it.
Types for Civil Service
Mrs. Richard Barlow, 408 W. 13th, mother of three children, said she had about 10 years typing experience in the Civil Service. She did typing before she was married, and again when her husband was in the armed
services and when he was in school.
services and when he was in school.
Mrs. Howard Mehlinger, 2138 Kentucky, was the only one interviewed who said she was helping send her husband through school at the present time.
The Mehlingers have two children.
Daily Capital Wins Honors in Contest
TOPEKA — (UPI) The Topeka Daily Capital yesterday was announced as the winner of the best front page, best editorial page, and best sports section in the Stauffer Publications newspaper and radio contests.
Competition was among the company's 12 newspapers and four radio stations and was judged by the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Topeka station WIBW won first place in the radio community service section of the contest for its United Funds telethon.
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