Daily hansan
57th Year, No. 52
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday. Dec. 4. 1959
Voice Shatters Morning Quiet
Bv Rav Miller
An eerie voice shattered the early morning stillness of peaceful West Hills this morning with unexpected repercussions for several nocturnal runaways
"John Law" and sleepy residents of a normally sedate area near the campus took a dim view of the activities of five Sigma Nu pledges on a "walk-out" at 3:15 this morning.
By means of a loud speaker and
Two Espressos To Be Opened
Two "caffe espresso" shops will be ready for conversationalists this weekend, with the hope that customers will talk about something other than the weather, children, pets, neighbors, and girl and boy friends.
Abdu'l Butch Sunday
Abdul'l Butech's Cafe Espresso is snuggled in a Persian-decorated basement at 7 E. 7th St., across from the Lawrence Post Office. It will open at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The second cafe, The Thankless Child, is perched in the second story of an ancient garage near the intersection of 8th and Vermont Streets. A green light bulb is suspended above the street entrance to the stairway.
A voice from a crack in the door said no one is allowed to take a peak at the interior until they open sometime Monday evening.
Popular in New York
Espresso shops are popular in New York and San Francisco. Other cities seem to be copying their patterns. Conversation in casual atmosphere is the general rule.
Prices for cafe espresso vary from 50-70 cents. Pastries, caffe, and sandwiches also are served.
amplifier, five pledges of the Sigma Nu house, 945 Emery Rd., echoed their defiance of their senior contemporaries.
A nearby neighbor told a reporter she was awakened by a voice which grew in volume saying, "We hope you are enjoying your sleep, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha."
Evidently she couldn't find it within herself to see the humor of the situation. A phone call brought the city police.
Two of the run-a-ways soon had no place to "walk out" ofsteel bars interfered.
William H. Kurtis, Independence sophomore, and Fred Haynes, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, were booked at city jail on a charge of disturbing the peace.
Police said Kurtis operated the loud speaker and transmitter while Haynes drove the get-a-way car. Three other pledges with the sound busters were released by police.
Haynes and Kurtis reposed in the city jail until 8:30 this morning. They were released on $100 bonds. Trial has been set for 8 a.m., Dec. 10.
An unhappy, but peaceful, ending to an unwelcome "bed-time" story.
Kansas City Has Power Failure
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)—A widespread power failure here today silenced radio and television stations, disrupted telephone service and stopped clocks at 12:59 p.m. CST.
Officials of the Kansas City Power and Light Company started immediate checks to determine the extent of the failure.
Lights went out and everything operated by electricity went dead simultaneously in the downtown area of the city.
Proficiency Results May Be Out By Xmas
The names of those who passed the English Proficiency Examination may be announced during the week before Christmas vacation.
David Dykstra, professor of English and chairman of the examinations grading committee, said yesterday he hopes the papers will be graded within two weeks.
"All of the 700 papers have been read twice. Those tests which have received failing grades once will have to be read once or twice more so it is hard to tell exactly when all grading will be completed," he said.
Old Man Winter Blusters Along
A troublemaker crest through the state last night causing people to lower their heads and hasten their pace. Another cold front hit Kansas with a temperature drop of 20 to 25 degrees.
Those who had a full schedule yesterday can remember the pleasant, almost spring-like day. We were experiencing a 65 degree temperature which is 25 degrees above normal for this time of the year.
But, the coats and scarves that were shed yesterday are once again making their appearance on campus. The cold front set the temperature back to 45 degrees.
The day will continue to be partly cloudy and cold. The expected high is 48 degrees and the low is to be 20 degrees.
Jayhawker on Sale
The Jayhawker is now on sale at the information booth, Strong Hall Rotunda and the Jayhawker Office in the Kansas Union.
The sales stands will be closed Saturday but open again Monday.
Need for Latin Insight Cited
By Ralph (Gabby) Wilson
Latin America is a dark continen and the United States must understand the people before it can help the countries.
J. Mavone Stycos, associate professor of sociology at Cornell University, said that the family is essential to the understanding of Latin American society. Latin America has one of the most stable family systems but the least stable governmental system. He spoke yesterday in Fraser Theater.
He said:
"It is extremely difficult to get Latin Americans to do anything for the community. Their attitude is to let the government do it. The Government is a kind of a God."
"Latin Americans will do anything for their families. They see that there are no orphans. Relatives take the orphans and rear them.
"There is an important emphasis on fertility in Latin America. A family with several children may give one or two to a relative unable to have children or to relatives with grown children.
"The people of the United States know more about the Africans than the South Americans. But then the South Americans do not understand themselves."
People Want More Goods
"Latin American has never been regarded as a problem area. The revolutions have always been regarded by the United States as a change of palace guards. But now that has changed. Revolutions represent the people. People were accustomed to being poor, but now they no longer are happy starving."
Prof. Stycos said that the United States has always thought the Latin Americans were friends, always would be, and so has made no effort to understand them. In the past the
Latin Americans were not sufficiently exotic to warrant study. But now disinterest of the United States is changing.
He said:
"Latin Americans begin to make economic developments and changes. We have tried to help them. But perhaps we are giving them what we value most, and as a result are taking away from them what they value most—the close family life."
Home Life Different Here
Prof. Stycos said the difference between home life in the United States and Latin America is that the Latin American will give the shirt off his back to a relative. But he would not lift a hand for charity. The opposite is true of the American.
He said this difference in family attitude is evident in the house.
"If the American home is a castle, then the Latin American home is a fortress. The American home says
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Monkey Shot Into Space
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—A seven-en-pound monkey named "Sam" was rocketed into space from Wallops Island, Va. today to test satellite escape equipment which may save the lives of future astronauts.
The launching was carried out at 10:15 a.m. Lawrence time.
It will be some time, however, before it is known whether all aspects of the test were successful.
"Sam" was in a capsule similar to the one in which human astronauts will be put into orbit at the climax of the Mercury program a year or so hence.
Starkie Tells of Mania for Gypsies
By Thomas Hough
"I was a child when I wanted to be stolen by Gypsies and, unfortunately, I wasn't. I've had a mania about them ever since."
Walter Starkie visiting professor of Romance languages, was explaining his interest in these world-wide wanderers at yesterday afternoon's Poetry Hour in the Kansas Union.
"People have always been afraid and suspicious of Gypsies. They speak a language you don't understand. People believe Gypsies pick pockets and steal children. This is why they lock up their hens and children when Gypsies are about," he said.
Audience Was Large
The Poetry Hour audience was so large Prof. Starkie moved from the Browsing Room to the Music Room. Tardy professors and students could find no chairs and had to sprawl on the floor around the speaker's podium.
Prof. Starkie is a Romany Rye, a person accepted as a distinguished gentleman by Gypsies even though he was not born a Gypsy.
"I'm very proud I'm a Romany Rye. Those people have a wonderful interpretation of life. I'm 65 years old and have a long formal education, but the Gypsies know so much I can never hope to learn everything they know."
He explained that people have always been interested in Gypsies because they symbolize the ultimate in freedom, wandering, and living close to nature.
"They are always going west toward the setting sun. They are jealous of their freedom and refuse to fit into any society because they have their own tribal laws."
Prof. Starkie read some of his own poems, complete with a Gypsy Picadilly accent, describing Gypsy dances, religious ceremonies, and observations.
"They have a strange moon worship. They are frightened by the moon. When the moon is full, a pregnant woman will stay inside the tent so its rays will not shine on her."
He explained that Gypsies personify freedom and that for them time is nonexistent.
"We know they are from India. They speak the Indian language. They say they are from Egypt, but Egypt never heard of them."
Prof. Starkie said that history began to notice Gypsies about 500 years ago.
He said the Gypsies made up a story about being Egyptians under a curse that would not be lifted until they had traveled for seven years. Then they could travel without restrictions.
Gypsies Are Under Curse
"The Pope invited them to visit the shrines in Europe, but at the end of seven years they were still wandering west."
Prof. Starkie explained that Hungary tried to settle the Gypsies on the land at one time but found this was impossible.
He said he once ran into a large band of Gypsies in Chile, South America, and talked with their leader. The leader said he traveled as far west as he could go and was waiting for death.
Prof. Starkie said the old man believed the end of the world was in a dark cave where a white dog would come and lick his limbs.
"Iimagine that. A white dog. When an old Gypsy is dying, he wants a white dog to come and lick his limbs," he said.
Walter Starkie "KU's authority on Gypsies"