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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 6.1959
Witnesses to History
Midst the bitter feeling that preceded the Civil War and the turmoil that followed, history was being made in the little town of Lecompton, 20 miles from Lawrence.
Today that history is nearly forgotten. Several buildings that were a part in the making of that history remain standing. They are deteriorating. One is an old stone jail; another is the only remaining building of the pioneer school. Lane University, founded in 1865.
If nothing is done to deter the wind, rain and termites that are wreaking havoc on these landmarks, they will crumble into dust. Future generations will never remember that an important battle in the cause against slavery was fought on these grounds.
Before the Civil War, Lecompton was the seat of the territorial capital of Kansas and the center of pro-slavery activity west of the Missouri River. Lawrence was a Free State and gun-running center.
The old jail, which still stands as a mute witness to the conflict between the two towns, imprisoned members of the Free State Legislature from Lawrence in 1856 and 1857.
Lane University was ironically named for the fiery, Free State senator from Kansas, James H. Lane. He was one of the deciding factors in making Kansas free by leading settlers to Kansas and acquiring ammunition and arms for the Free Staters.
A dramatic role in the history of our state was played in the Lecompton area. Outside the history books, the old stone jail and the last standing building of Lane University remain as the only testimony to the drama.
But time and weather will eventually erase this testimony. A little work with a little money could repair and restore these landmarks as monuments for posterity.
Unless we appreciate our history, how can we hope to understand the significance of the present? —Pat Swanson
Lawyer Safari Hunts Reds
The Red hunt is on again. This time the American Bar Assn., which has a membership of more than 200,000 lawyers, has thrown itself into the favorite safari of conservatives and reactionaries.
Its 246-member house of delegates which met in Chicago has voted to recommend the tightening of legal curbs on Reds. A report, criticizing recent Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice Earl Warren, was the basis for the recommendation.
Chief Justice Warren has been the symbol of new liberality and freedom in the Supreme Court and, as a consequence, has been the favorite whipping boy of the nation's conservatives and reactionaries. It is no surprise that the American Bar Assn., heavily composed of corporation lawyers, should move to discredit and attack recent liberal Supreme Court decisions.
But the attack should be recognized for what it is—a reactionary attack which is bigger than just the Red subject. It embodies the kind of thinking which could eventually rob Americans of the exercise of the Fifth Amendment.
It is the kind of thinking which can require school teachers to swear that they are not Communists or atheists in order to teach. It is the kind of thinking which could negate recent Supreme Court decisions on Civil Rights. It is the kind of thinking which could send the nation back to the disgraceful days of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy.
In short, it is the kind of thinking which could rob Americans of their freedom. Individual freedom is more vital to the United States and her citizens than Red hunts.
If the United States is strong on freedom, there is little danger from the Reds. —Larry Miles
Editor:
In response to Geneva Mendenhall's plea in Tuesday's Daily Kansasan for "some course or someone who can show a student how to budget time, and how to organize his daily schedule," I would like to recommend the reading and study methods clinic which is
held in Bailey Hall. (Inquire in Room 102 for details.)
This non-credit course is open to all University students without charge, and requires no preparation outside of class. It meets three weeks weekly for six weeks, and for many of us, these 18 hours will be among some of the most
valuable ones spent in the classroom during our college careers.
Not a remedial reading class, this course offers basic fundamentals in better organizing time (for studying and otherwise), increasing rate of reading speed and enlarging vocabulary, plus many challenges for putting to use good study habits.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
This course is not a "cure-all" or a magic formula for its students, but it does offer many helpful do-it-yourself ideas for the individual who is willing to put forth the concentrated effort in developing reading, listening, and note-taking skills with the realization that studying is work, that it can be done sloppily or well, and that the results can be frustrating or quite satisfying.
"SOMETIMES I THINK THE MATH SECTION OF THIS TEST IS A LITTLE TOO ROUGH."
Carlee Wilson
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It Looks This Way . . .
By George DeBord
With some reservations, I'd like to go on record as sanctioning this youngster's conduct. It smacks of individualism. Perhaps here is an example of the great generation which our tired nation has been searching for since the First World War.
Lawrence W. Smith, Peoria, Ill., is a smoker. He is also two years old.
We had a lost generation in the twenties, and now are growing sick of the beat generation. My hope is that Lawrence and his contemporaries will grow into the thinking generation.
Already, at the age of two, he knows what he wants. He wants to smoke. By this time next year, he may want to drink. By 1961, he may want to branch out into world affairs. And by the time he is 21, he could be so familiar with thinking, that he wouldn't buy a particular brand of toothpaste simply because it sends some little brat running across his television set screaming, "Look, Mom, no cavities." I bet old Lawrence won't even own a stinking television set.
I mentioned some reservations about this early smoking. There
about this early smoking. There are several reasons why I think Lawrence should give up the habit:
1. The cost. Two is a little early for him to be out earning 30 cents a day. At the present he is bumming them from his mother, and I don't think this is good training in learning to stand on one's own two feet.
2. Health. His smoking is a cause of worry to his mother, and I hate to see a kid do things that might cause his mother to have a breakdown.
3. Habit forming. Lawrence spends a good amount of time smoking when he could be out forming habits that will shape his life. I think it is bad that these habits are being neglected.
But these three ill effects are, I think, outweighed by this little man's show of individualism. Boy, if there's one thing I like, it's a nonconformist.
How many kids on your block had an ashtray on their tricycle when you were little?
But this Lawrence kid. He knows what he wants. A thinking man's filter and a smoking man's tricycle.
Increase Your Word Power
By Wilfred Funk
( 1 ) eject—A: to throw out. B: exclaim. C: jump out. D: jump up.
In this list of word pairs, check the word or phrase you believe is nearest in meaning to the key word. Answers are on page 8.
(2) **inject**—A; to begin. B; bry
open. C; put into. D; cry out.
(3) introspection—A: official inquiry; B: self-examination. C: unwarranted intrusion. D: home-sickness.
(4) **retrospection**—A: survey of past events. B: depression. C: interest directed toward oneself. D: investigation.
( 5 ) deduce—A: to take away from B: deceive. C: infer. D: influence.
(6) induce—A: to derive, as a conclusion. B: increase. C: comfort. D: persuade.
(7) deduct—A: to ponder B: subtract C: weaken D: guess
( 8 ) induct—A: to invite, B: guide.
C: install. D: be emphatic.
( 9 ) evolve—A: to avoid. B: turn around. C: become clear. D: develop gradually.
(10) devolve—A: to determine. B:
be complicated. C: be handed
over. D: upset.
over. D. upset.
(11) reputed — A: named. B:
proved wrong. C: angered. D: considered or regarded.
(12) **imputed**—A: revealed. B: ascribed or attributed. C: as-sailed. D: purged.
(13) euphony (u' fone)—A: good humor. B: pride. C: pleasing sounds. D: sense of well-being.
(14) cacophony (ka kof' o ne)—A:
harsh sounds. B: laughter. C:
sighing. D: sarcasm.
(15) **erupt**—A: to end abruptly. B:
burst forth. C: call out. D: reduce
to fragments.
16) *disrupt* A: to anger B: per-
pent C: break up, D: mangle.
(17) digres—A: to decline to a worse state. B: make a mistake. C: lie. D: stray from the main theme.
(18) regress—A: to go back. B: apologize. C: surrender. D: be discouraged.
(19) denote—A. to observe. B: be the sign of. C: nominate. D: lack.
(20) commote—A: to write down.
B: notice. C: agree with. D:
suggest.
(From "It Pays to Increase Your Word Power," Reader's Digest, February 1959.)
Poetry Corner
O yon statue standing so straight;
Lonely frosty beaked Jayhawk;
O figurine forsaken by the Class of '58. Take strength, for there is talk. . .
O solitary bird, yes, there is talk; Talk of reprieve by the Class of '59!
Oversexed buzzard on your rock of chalk. This hearkening to your call is mine.
O quiet myth. do not despair;
No, fine bird, you needn't beg;
O student image, lonely and air.
I propose for you one big brass EGG.
—John W. Hargrove