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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 12, 1959
'Don't Ever Forget'
The little boy stood with his mother before a window on one of New York's busiest streets.
"Who is that man?" she asked her son, pointing to a picture in the window. She spoke with a thick accent.
"Lincoln." was the answer.
"Who?" she demanded.
"Abrham Lincoln," the boy answered. He held her hand and looked up into her eyes.
"Now don't you ever forget that," said the mother, as though teaching him something to be remembered all through life.
This exchange between mother and son, an actual occurrence overheard by us, indicates just one more attitude toward the man whose one hundred fiftieth birthday anniversary we observe today.
It is difficult to say anything new about Lincoln. So many terrible things were said about him during his lifetime, and so many good things have been said about him since. The field has been so thoroughly covered that it seems impossible to add new material.
Yet the subject of Lincoln forever seems fresh. New books are published each year, new discoveries continue to throw light on his life.
Knowledge of Lincoln starts early in life, as indicated in the exchange between the mother and son. Perhaps the mother had recently arrived in America. Possibly the son's first lessons about America were in the examples of Lincoln.
Anyway, the boy knew his lesson well. His
mother had devoted time to his tutoring. He did not take Lincoln for granted, as probably most of us are inclined to do.
—Robert Harwi
Who, Me?
Jerry Jerk sauntered into class for the first in the semester He began searching for a seat and the ones he liked best were the ones in the center of the room where he had to crawl over the most people. Spotting the perfect 'comfy' chair in the very very middle, he stumbled over chairs, feet, and coats to obtain his goal.
Class began. What a drag. Not a thing he could take notes on. Ah, what was this in his pocket? Why, sure, his pair of fingernail clippers from last semester. Might as well make the hour pass faster. So for the next hour Jerry snipped and snapped and let nails fly while the people around him glared and stared. Most of them, that is.
Jerry found some companions after a few moments of sawing. A few others scattered throughout the room pulled out their shears and soon there was a steady 'snip,' 'snap' and 'crack' sounding like stereophonic sound. Sadly enough, the only ones who were aware of this beautiful 'music' were the students who were trying to listen to the professor.
Jerry had more friends in the class though.
There was Barbara Beautiful, who just could not let the hour pass without pulling out her complete do - it-yourself-in-the-classroom-make-up - kit. With a flourish and a flounce, Barbara managed to get her essentials—comb, compact, lipstick, powder and fingernail file—scattered all over her desk. Poor Barbara did not know that her two victims of flying powder and loose hair that sat behind her didn't think she was beautiful at all!
Tamara Tapper had a wide field of acquaintances in the class. At least she did by the end of May. She changed seats often—almost every other day—to try out the backs of desks to tap her dainty size 16s on. Of course she did not tap the entire period because she had to take time to give her charming smile to the ugly old unfriendly people around her who gave her such nasty glances.
There was one consolation for the rest of the class. Maybe next semester class nail clippers, make-up kits and tappers would be outlawed on campus. At least the All Student Council could look into it. —Martha Fitch
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"GO YOU FLUNK MY COURSE — I UNDERSTAND
YOU'RE GOING TO GET AN "A" IN DRAMATICS !"
Short Ones
We heard the story of a child who never uttered a word for the first five years. One morning, soon after the child's fifth birthday, he said to his mother: "I'd like some more sugar in my cocoa."
The startled mother gasped:
"You can talk? Why did you wait five years before saving a word?"
The child explained: "Up till now everything's been all right."
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From the Newspaper Rack-
Up to the Legislature
The future welfare of Kansas' major state educational institutions now hangs in jeopardy. If it is to receive adequate protection, the current session of the Kansas Legislature will have to provide it.
...The State Board of Regents last year made what was probably the most careful and searching study of the needs of the state's top schools that has ever been attempted. Guided by its findings, the board submitted to the governor a program, whose chief items concerned merit salary increases to faculty members which would move the scale only "up" to the national average, and an accelerated building plan to prepare for heavily increased enrollments which are bound to come in the next few years.
The governor was not impressed. In his budget message... he recommended a 3.2 per cent increase in the sum for operating expenditures for the schools. He disposed of the proposal to increase the salary average by saying he could not approve it "until the Board of Regents has established a board-administered pay plan for the unclassified ranks."
He gave the nod to building improvements in the sum of less than $400,000—but said nothing at all about the building program for future needs.
Thus, the governor dumped the whole problem into legislative laps. . . .
A strange sentiment, however, is reported to prevail among certain legislative members. This is the doctrine that since Gov. Docking received his 112,000 plurality in the last election, he holds a "mandate" to have all his views on every governmental subject closely followed.
Such a notion, of course, is based on fallacy... If the governor has proposed a "dare" to the legislature in these school proposals ... that body can do no less than accept it.
Abundance of support for supplying the schools' needs has been offered. Resolutions have been passed by such strong groups as the Kansas Farm Bureau, the State Federation of Labor-AFL-CIO, the Kansas Council of Women, and others...
Members of all these groups voted for Gov. Docking, but...they were surely giving him no "mandate" to dictate the progress of Kansas' top schools.
So the "mandate" talk is a myth... All that regents and state school men have asked for are funds to bring their salary brackets up to the national average—no more—and to have some additional buildings at hand when the inevitable horde of students floods into classrooms in a few years. Surely these may be regarded as prudent and reasonable requests.
The legislature has no cause to knuckle down to the governor's opinions—but should accept the present wide-open opportunity to demonstrate its judgment, its independence and its responsible statesmanship by weighing the schools' proposals—and supporting them with the liberality they deserve.
If favorable action is not now taken on these mores—which have been submitted in high faith and sound understanding by dedicated school men—Kansas may one day awaken to the distressing discovery that it has a second-rate and outmoded higher education system on its hands.
Which would be a tragedy.
excepted from "Strictly up to Legislature" in the El Dorado Times Feb. 6, 1959
By Calder M. Pickett
Assistant Professor of Journalism
THOMAS JEFFERSON: The Apostle of Americanism, by Gilbert Chinard, Ann Arbor Paperbacks, $1.95.
An excellent biography, written in 1929 and revised a decade later, this is now available in a less expensive edition.
It carries Jefferson through his boyhood, with valuable appraisals of the forces at work on him, the American Revolution, the upheaval in France, the debates with Hamilton and the rise of the Jeffersonian party, the presidency, and the later years at Monticello, where the old man could work for his beloved University of Virginia, read his philosophers, and correspond with his old friend John Adams.
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STONEWALL JACKSON, by Allen Tate. Ann Arbor Paperbacks,
$1.65.
This biography of the Confederate general, though it contains touches better suited to historical fiction, is engrossing, readable, and loving.
Its author, the noted poet Allen Tate, was one of the Southern Agrarians of 1930, and his affection for one of the South's most famous folk heroes cannot be questioned.
Especially interesting are descriptions of some of Jackson's most famous battles—the Seven Days against McClellan, Second Bull Run (which the South calls Second Manassas), Antietam (which the South calls Sharpsburg), Fredericksburg, and the battle in which Jackson fell, that bloody conflict around a colonial estate that we now call Chancellorsville.