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BOOKS
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
THE PUBLIC PAPERS OF CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN edited by Henry M. Christman, Simon and Schuster. $4.50.
History already seems to have accorded an important place to Earl Warren. For many years he was the progressive governor of California, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike, carrying out liberal policies that brought him national attention. He lent stature to the losing Republican ticket in 1948, when he was second man to Thomas E. Dewey.
In 1953 he went to the Supreme Court as the first court appointee of President Eisenhower. The following May he wrote the opinion of the unanimous court in Oliver Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka. That was the now-historic segregation decision which set aside Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896.
Warren has been under attack from much of the right wing ever since the 1954 decision. Right now the right is chortling over the swing of the Warren court away from the left, particularly in decisions concerning civil liberties and subversion. This collection of his papers will do little to make the far right happy, for here Warren is revealed even more as a man of deep liberal thinking, in the tradition of Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman.
The editor of these papers has divided them into four segments: Warren's speeches as governor of California, his addresses as chief justice, his decisions on the high bench, and his appraisal of the future of the law as revealed in a 1955 article in Fortune.
His speeches as governor contain the same warm humanity and high intellectual content that one finds in the speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson. In a 1951 address before the National Education Assn. he says that "A nation that abandons its social objectives is on the road to decadence."
In a speech before the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in 1948 he speaks against intolerance. Addressing the American Public Health Assn. in 1951 he scouts the fear of socialized medicine, saying that social progress "has been the hallmark and the glory of the American nation from the beginning." In a 1952 Lincoln Day address, Warren digs at those who use the name of Lincoln as a "trademark of the party." His internationalism is evident in speeches of welcome at the 1945 opening conference of the United Nations and at the 1951 Japanese Peace Treaty conference.
In St. Louis, in 1955, the chief justice is revealed as one who has nothing but contempt for those who fear the Bill of Rights, who prate patriotism and investigate left-wingers. In the same year he is shown as a progressive not ashamed to speak for the great LaFollette of Wisconsin.
Most of the Warren court decisions have been a surprise to those who hoped that a good safe Republican would counteract the dangerous tendencies of Roosevelt-Truman appointees (Warren has been far more liberal than either Roosevelt's Frankfurter or Truman's Tom Clark). In 1954 Warren spoke in Pete Hernandez v. State of Texas for a person of Mexican descent who had been denied equal protection under the law. In Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Steve Nelson he struck down state sedition acts (which appear to have been restored in recent court decisions, with Warren, Black and Douglas dissenting).
This book should prove a valuable source for students of Warren. And the inspiring messages give hope in a time when the Supreme Court, which has been so distinguished under Earl Warren, is under so much irresponsible attack.
THE NARROW CORNER, by W. Somerset Maugham. Bantam, 35 cents.
THEATRE, by W. Somerset Maugham. Bantam, 35 cents
These are two of the popular story teller's less distinguished novels, though each has its own fascination. "The Narrow Corner" is a story of the islands of Southeast Asia; the cover advertises it as being about "a golden English girl who charmed men to their destruction." That both over-simplifies, and falsifies, the novel. On its more interesting levels it is the story of how the Orient acts upon four decidedly different men—a doctor, a ship's captain, a Danish trader, and a spoiled scion of Australian anistrocity. "Theatre" is a thin story of an English actress, Julia Lambert, and her affairs d'amour. Except for the fact that Maugham has style considerably beyond that of most of today's hacks, it is really little better than a soap opera, though its subject matter—illicit love—is something that many of the radio-TV dramas, as well as the films, are afraid to handle. A book like "Theatre," incidentally, always leads one to wonder: What ever has kept Hollywood from making a movie of this? Twenty years ago, obviously Bankhead or Davis; today, well, June Allyson would probably be trying for the part.
-CMP
SYMBOLISM, ITS MEANING AND EFFECT, by Alfred North Whitehead. Putnam Capricorn Books, 95 per cents.
Alfred North Whitehead, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, deals in this brief paperback with a subject that has engrossed social scientists and humanists—especially in literature—in recent years, that of symbolism. The book constitutes the Barbour-Page lectures delivered in 1927 at the University of Virginia. Whitehead sets the stage in his dedication, in which he speaks of Virginia itself, which symbolizes so much to many Americans, and also of the Washington Monument, a much more concrete symbol. Especially pertinent in his observation that symbolism is not an exact thing, that symbols have different meanings to different individuals and different peoples. He here compares Walt Whitman's "The wide unconscious scenery of my land" with Shakespeare's "...this little world. This precious stone set in the silver sea,..." Poetry, music, religion, these are among the topics touched on by Whitehead—CMP
Tuesday, July 21. 1959 Summer Session Kansan
A study of the infection of cultured cells by histo-chemical methods will be carried on by Dr. Cora M. Downs for three years under a new $25,500 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Cells Infection Study Planned
Cells will be infected with viruses and rickettsiae. Dr. Downs will use the fluorescent antibody technique, which she is so famous for perfecting, in the study. The fluorescent antibody technique is a histo-chemical method which shows how an agent damages a cell, by the use of various stains.
Used for quick identification of disease in diagnostic work, this technique will be used for basic study to find out how infection takes place and how it injures the cell. The objectives of the research are to show where in the cell the infection takes place, the nucleus or cytoplasm, how early the infection shows up in the cell, and how much infection is necessary in a cell before it shows up. There are various methods of obtaining this information.
Studying at Oxford University, England, during the 1959-60 academic year under a National Institutes of Health Research Fellowship, Dr. Downs reports that, "Some of my staff and students will carry on my work while I'm away. Both the Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation have approved this arrangement."
Her work at Oxford's Sir William Dunn School of Pathology will be a continuation of the same type of study she is doing here. Dr. Downs will return in September, 1960.
Gentleman zebus prefer blondes; but marry brunette zebus—except in the southern hemisphere.
Heart Research at KU Is Vacation for Girl, 17
Working in $\overline{a}$ University laboratory on vertebrate heart research is Martha Jean Wolfford's idea of a summer vacation.
Miss Wolford, of Charleston, W. Va., a 17-year-old graduate of Stonewall Jackson High School in Charleston, attended the first session of the KU Science and Mathematics Camp June 14-27.
Evidence of her high school ability came as a junior when she won first place in a regional science fair. That enabled her to compete in the national fair. As a senior she won grand prize in the state science fair, with a project on the effect of such drugs as adrenalin, acetylcholine and digitalis on living turtle hearts. Her prize was a scholarship to the University of West Virginia.
Because she became so interested in research, and demonstrated so much ability, she persuaded camp officials and her parents to let her remain on the campus at her own expense.
She is working under the direction of Dr. Irwin L. Baird, assistant professor of anatomy. In high school she was particularly interested in science, and she plans to enroll in pre-medical training at the University of West Virginia, in preparation for a career in research.
She says that the science camp 'has been a wonderful experience, and it makes me more eager than ever to get deeper into the science field.'
Miss Wolford has a small laboratory at home. She says her parents always have been co-operative and have helped her with her experiments, as well as providing all the equipment she needs. Her father, James E. Wolfford, is an electronics specialist and operator of the Electronics Specialty Co.
In high school she took all the science courses she could, such as physics, biology and mathematics. She studied Latin and Spanish, worked on the school paper, was president of the Junior Red Cross, treasurer of the Spanish Club and was elected to Quill and Scroll.
Grid Star to Enroll Here
Bob Emmett, all-city halfback from Chicago, will enroll at KU this fall. he has informed Jack Mitchell, football coach.
Emmett, a 6-footer, weighs about 190 pounds. Mitchell says Emmett was one of the outstanding 1958 high school football stars in Chicago and was named to several all-Illinois teams.
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