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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 23,1959
'Fowl' New in Name Only
The University now has a new humor magazine, new in name at least. The jokes and even one of the stories are reprints.
The coed of the month is attractive, but the photography could definitely be better. It is the photographer's fault, not hers, that the poses aren't really the most flattering. (These are the opinions of a male photography friend of mine.)
The advertisements had a unity throughout the magazine. They were so uniform, in fact, that they all looked alike.
There is nothing terribly bad about the magazine, but yet there is nothing worthy of praise. It is not the kind of magazine one would want to show to a student of another college as "KU's humer magazine."
A good humor magazine is needed on campus. Perhaps "The Fowl" will improve in quality in future issues.
But the magazine should show originality, and include subtle, sarcastic humor.
None of this is evident in "The Fowl's" first attempt.
Granted the magazine has had problems getting its first issue out, but it is too bad that there are not enough students interested in putting out a really first-class humor magazine.
Perhaps the magazine's staff could get ideas from humor magazines of other schools such as the "Show Me" at Missouri University. The student body has a right to expect and demand a really worthwhile campus humor magazine.
Martha Crosier
Luxury of Nationalism
A
Earl Clement Attlee and other statesmen and scholars have called for a world federation. There is much to be said in favor of such a union from an economic standpoint.
The world loses much wealth because of its disunity. This wealth is lost not only because of the wanton wastes of war, but because of the not-so-obvious wastes of trade restrictions.
An example of how much the world loses because of trade restrictions was evident recently in a Newsweek article. In Belgium, millions of tons of coal, unsold and unwanted, are being heaped on the ground. The price is too high.
The cause of Belgium's plight is Europe's drive for economic unification. Europe is abandoning her customs, quotas, and other trade barriers on coal, iron ore, and steel.As a result Belgium's coal mines are no longer protected through artificial barriers. They can no longer operate inefficiently and still compete.
Some of Belgium's mines were dangerously outmoded and inefficient. Miners often had to descend half a mile into the ground and work
Iying down in cramped shafts to produce at a rate only two-thirds as efficient as the European average output.
Belgium is now in a period of readjustment. Her mines will either have to be modernized so that they can compete with other European mines or her miners will have to seek other employment.
Either way, the world's wealth will be increased.
There are opportunities in the United States, also, to increase the world's wealth.
If tariffs were dropped against foreign automobiles, for instance, Detroit no longer could hire a corps of engineering designers to produce an automobile inferior to the product produced with one or two designers by European companies.
With the diminishing size of the world and increasing populations, the world can no longer afford the luxury of nationalism and its resultant trade barriers and wars.
A world federation may become imperative.
. . . Chuckles in the News . . .
RIPLEY, Tenn. — (UPI) — Radio station WTRB sold James W. Porter, who hates rock 'n roll music, 15 minutes of silence yesterday for $14.
Station manager John Stewart said he had received quite a few protesting calls and had decided never to sell silence on the air again.
MONTREAL — (UFT) — Tom Wong, 53-year-old Chinese chef, pleaded guilty yesterday before a French-speaking judge to the assault of an Irish waitress on St. Valentine's Day in a Greek restaurant where they both worked.
Testimony indicated that the incident was provoked by some Anglo-Saxon words.
DES MOINES, Iowa — (UPI) —
Gov. Herschel Loveless received
the following request from a West
Burlington, Iowa, schoolboy to be
excused from gym class: "I have
bad cars so I can't take a shower,
and I don't want to stink up the
classes I have after. So, if you
would dismiss me, I would like it very much."
TOKYO — (UPI) — Prof. Tokyo Yamamoto of Nagoya University has developed a breed of "sexless" rainbow trout through the use of hormones, it was announced today.
Instead of expanding energy pursuing the opposite sex, the sexless trout just grows indolent and fat and thus of greater commercial value, it was said.
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Douglas Parker ... Managing Editor
Al Jones, John Husar, Jack Harrison,
Jim Cunningham, Richard Moore,
Editors; Jack Morton and Carlo Allen,
Co-City Editors; George Debord and
Doug Locum, Co-Sports Editors;
Sandra Rubin, School Counselor
Bonna Nelson, Assistant Society Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Bill Feltz Business Manager Robert Lida, Advertising Manager; Howard Young, Classified Advertising Manager; William F. Kane, Promotion Manager; Paul Nielsen, Circulation Manager.
Pat Swanson and Martha Crosler, Cose-
mate, Harvil, Associate Editorial Editor.
It Looks This Way...
By Donna Nelson
If all universities continue to tighten their academic programs, the directory known as Who's Who in American Colleges will have to be called Who's Through in American Colleges.
One of our campus beauties states that the girls who find it easiest to stay on the straight and narrow are the ones who are built that way.
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北 南
Said the freshman party girl: What a perfectly wonderful date. I'll never forget old what's-his-name.
After the St. Louis Symphony Concert last week, one of KU's many self-esteemed critics remarked that he much preferred the zoo.
An interested friend who had forgotten exactly which day the senior girl had scheduled her wedding, asked if it was to be on Good Friday. "Good Friday," the girl giggled, "It'll be the best darn Friday ever."
The sorority's social chairman promised each girl a boutonniere for her date. Everyone was satisfied except the senior girls who felt that it would be better to guarantee a man for each boutonniere.
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Now that Hawaii is recognized as the 50th state we are again faced with designing another flag. Our suggestion is to encircle the 49 stars with a hula hoop.
The would-be intellectuals were delighted when "Rally Round the Flag, Boys" came to town. It's the first movie they've seen where they could honestly say they had read the book first.
It has been brought to our attention in keeping with Greek Week, the sororities and fraternities have been referred to as Greek Orgynizations.
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Said the average KU male to his date, at the end of the ballet she forced him to attend: I'm not clapping because I liked it, I'm clapping because it's over.
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The latest fad among the American men is growing beards. This they believe will accentuate their masculinity and charm. It occurs to us that a more convincing way would be for them to try acting like gentlemen.
People are still gripping about the cost of parking on the campus and we fail to see what all the hassle is about. Everyone has always known that there is a price to pay for parking.
Statistics show that bowling has replaced baseball as the great American sport. What an improvement! Get the kids off the streets and into the alleys.
By Ruth Sturtevant
BEACHCOMBERS OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE, Jack Sholomir. Doubleday and Co., $4.00.
A would-be journalist with a South African background and a discontented, would-be nurse with a like background make their way on foot from the port of East London, South Africa, through the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Belgian Congo, Uganda and the Sudan to the port of Alexandria, Egypt, and become, in the process, the "Beachcombers of the African Jungle."
The purpose of the journey was to discover "an Africa that had significance for us..." and the narrative Jack Sholomir has produced is an account of their trip through the jungle.
Emphasis is placed on a series of events of which their trip was composed. Among the most significant was a deportation from Uganda as undesirable aliens and the staging of two-man shows in order to accumulate the needed cash for their meager needs along the way. Such shows, which they frequently found necessary, included tricks learned from South African gypsies and an organized union of beggars from the Federation. Accounts of battles with tropical rain storms, hungry crocodiles and inquiring police consume page after page of the narrative.
Between accounts of daily perils and accomplishments, Sholomir keeps the reader informed on the broad area of the continent in which they traveled. Infrequently does he supply enough background information to stimulate the reader to seek a link between the ceaseless discontent currently reported from Africa and the travelers' everyday experiences. But instead of a link, there appears a vacuum.
The content of the book is coupled with a style of an amateur searching for a spectacular means for telling his story. A correlation exists between the dramatic attempt to tell a stylized version of a unique journey and the information gained through exploring the book's 275 pages. Such correlation would send the book directly to the travelogue section of a high school library.
If Sholomir's purpose is one of recording adventures sought and found in the journey, neither the content nor the style can be questioned. For within this purpose of becoming the "Beachcombers of the African Jungle," all the freedom of expression desired must be honored.
It remains to be said that those seriously seeking more knowledge of Africa would save both time and energy by by-passing Sholomir's account of his travels.