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University Daily Kansan
Friday. April 3, 1959
Used Up Vacation
It's taken a few days to get back into the swing of things—like studying and going to classes. Five-day vacations, complete with midnight TV programs, can be pretty tiring—even to the student "conditioned" from all-night cramming for hour examinations.
Yet, something happened while we were home —something they call Easter. It came last Sunday. That's why the vacation was called "Easter vacation."
We looked forward to those five days as just another vacation—the last for the semester. Now, we're sorry they're gone because there won't be anymore.
It makes me wonder. Why did University officials give us five days. Easter services lasted little more than an hour. There are no classes on Sunday, anyway. Did they really feel we
needed, or would take five whole days to rejoice in the Resurrection of Christ?
Maybe we did go to church for an hour Sunday morning. Maybe we even had a new Easter outfit or at least enjoyed the woman's hat in front of us. Maybe we liked the choir music or were amused at the little boy who tripped over the Easter lily while he tried to light the candles.
Or maybe we just stayed home in bed or watched another TV program. Maybe we enjoyed watching our younger brothers and sisters hunt for Easter eggs.
Whatever we did on Easter Sunday and during the other four days, we used them up. Yes, they gave us five days to remember Christ. It could have been a meaningful and lasting experience in our lives. But, I wonder. What difference did it really make? —Carol Allen
Foreign Aid- Positive Peace Step
The United States' foreign aid program to underdeveloped countries, while attempting to bridge this gap, does not seem to be as effective as it could be.
The gap between developed and underdeveloped countries keeps widening.
Prime Minister Nehru of India recently said: "A little foreign aid will only keep us where we are. To be really effective, foreign loans from all sources must be sufficient to get our economy off the ground. Now that we have built a sound base, we must make our economy dynamic and self-generating so that further expansion can come from our own resources."
While the United States has allocated $1.4 billion for what is termed "economic assistance," over half of this goes for defense support.
It seems the United States is forgetting the important benefits that the free world could derive from increased aid to countries near the Communist-controlled countries—specifically, those in Asia.
If the United States would concentrate its financial appropriations, as Nebru suggests, to raise the standard of living of Asiatic nations, we would find these underdeveloped nations becoming allies instead of avowed neutrals.
If the "commune experiment" in Red China proves rigidly-regimented Communism can make China an economic power, India and other overpopulated countries may be tempted to turn completely to Communism.
The free world with the United States in the lead could demonstrate that it can induce reasonably rapid development in nations within the non-communist orbit.
This type of program might be started without any additional burden on the American taxpayer. But it would require a reshuffling of the foreign aid monies already allotted to provide a more favorable economic balance in our program.
I there is also the possibility of increasing our budget. Although Pres. Eisenhower is determined to balance the budget, it would be a comforting feeling to know we have some allies in Asia.
If our President still persists on balancing the budget, the responsibility would fall squarely into the American taxpayers' pockets. Would they pay the price of an increased foreign aid program? It is possible. They responded to the Marshall program.
In a world where war is never far away, a positive attempt at peace, if presented correctly, may be welcome. —Doug Yocom
Editor:
These accounts have been con-
The historian has a tremendous job in deciding what accounts should be considered unbiased. He is not always able to be an eyewitness to the events himself. Many groups have been hurt by the historical accounts of biased people.
... Letters ...
sideder by a few historians as a true representation of history. We as students read these accounts in history courses and generally consider them as the way things really happened.
In several American history courses the topic of "Mormons" always enters. This is part of our historical heritage and should be
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"HE'S MOST EVEN TEMPERED MEMBER OF TH' WHOLE FACULTY - HE'S IN A BAD MOOD"
The term "Mormon" usually describes to the reader a person that believes in polygamy and the many other supposedly secret rites of this group. In reality, the term means people who believe in the "Book of Mormon." There are two large groups that carry this title, but have very separate and distinct beliefs.
included. However, the tag that has been given to these people and their founder, Joseph Smith, has generally come from the antagonists and enemies of this movement.
One is the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints with headquarters in Independence, Mo. This group has never practiced or believed in polygamy or any other secret rites of worship.
To give the interested person a first hand account of the beliefs of this church, the Liahona Fellowship at KU, in conjunction with the local church, will present a series of lectures at 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursdav and Sunday, April 12. These will be given at the church at 12th and Vermont Streets and will be conducted by a guest minister.
Joe Bayless.
Joe Bayless,
Wichita senior and
president of Liahona
Fellowship
Worth Repeating
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable—Samuel Johnson
There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.-Anonymous
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By Donald S. Pady
The Castle was a huge, five story, rambling ark of a building that was quite out of place amidst the modern architecture of Midwestern University. A small, but powerful group of students felt it was out of place too, but principally because it housed the foreign students attending Midwestern.
CASTLE ON THE CAMPUS, by Don Wilcox, Little Brown and Company, 1959, $3.00.
John London, a graduate student from England, was one of the first to learn that his presence was resented. During his second day at Midwestern he was thrown into the campus lake by some students who felt there was no place for foreigners at the university. "Those exchange students" were considered by some too haughty and contemptible to be a part of university life!
Jet Kaley, the ringleader of the anti-foreigner pressure group called the "Black Eye Party," campaigned vigorously to exterminate the foreign, "black eyes," in order to be elected president of the student council.
John found that not only did some Americans dislike him for trying to be a nice guy; some despised him for just being English—particularly the boy from Cyprus whose country so bitterly resisted British authority.
Even the school's "yellow press" was influenced to print the trumped-up scandals reported against the foreign group that inhabited the Castle.
Soon, however, most of the bitter feelings disappeared; John's tact and pleasing disposition literally transformed the Castle's atmosphere into one of international good will and cooperation.
John's year at Midwestern was a full one, especially after he met pretty Geneva Addison and began to think seriously about her. Geneva was the niece of John's major professor and did much to aid John with the solution of his problems and he helped her with hers. John's prestige soared while she pulled the strings and gradually the foreign students were accepted as real assets to the university community.
Author Don Wilcox presents a delightfully entertaining story that reveals college life in a realistic manner with an international twist.
His characters act and speak with enthusiastic spirit, and somehow depict a freshness of living that should mark everyone's college experience. The plot is developed simply and not so clinically with campus morals, frustration and sex, as so many college-minded writers think it necessary to write.
Wilcox is a graduate of the University of Kansas, and also received a master's degree in sociology here.
By Robert Harwi
Mr. Williams, a noted actor and playwright, will read selections from the works of the late Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. Rather, it should be said that Mr. Williams will give a personal dramatization of Thomas' stories and poems.
The appearance of Emlyn Williams tonight in the University Theatre will produce a fusing of two multi-talented artists from the worlds of literature and the theater.
Mr. Williams conceived the idea of presenting the works of Thomas when he was asked to read a couple of the poet's works at a memorial service shortly after Thomas' death in 1953.
Artists Fuse in Actor's Reading of Poet's Work
The present program was shaped and developed for a whole year while Mr. Williams was touring through South Africa presenting readings from Charles Dickens, and during the filming of the Vivien Leigh film, "The Deep Blue Sea", in which he had a leading part. He first presented the Thomas readings at the Globe Theatre in London.
The tragic personal life of Dylan Thomas is perhaps as well
known as his works of literature. He is already a legend despite the fact that it has been only five years since his sordid death in New York.
Thomas was born in Swansea, a seaport in Wales, in 1914. He published his-first book of poems in 1934. Today he is regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets of the century and is perhaps the most remarkable literary personality of his generation. His disorganized way of living and his wild alcoholic binges did not prevent him from imbining his work with a moving lyricism and an intense vision.
Mr. Williams, besides his career before the footlights, has done considerable writing for the theater. His plays include "The Corn Is Green" and "Night Must Fall." The former starred Ethel Barrymore on the stage and was later made into a film with Bette Davis in the leading role.
With all the talk today of Britain's "angry young men," it might be said that Thomas was the original in this movement in literature. He has been given credit for blazing the way for the "beat generation" of writers.
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