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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1958
Shades of Joe
That old relie of the McCarthy era, guilt by association, is showing signs of life again.
Applying the plasma to the old doctrine is a former enemy of McCarthy, the United States Army. The Army has rejected a young man, Patrick Hallinan, because "he was unable to refute a close and continuing association with two persons identified with Communist-front organizations."
Last spring, the Supreme Court ruled that the Army could not give less than honorable discharges to soldiers simply because of pre-service political associations. The Army, taking up the challenge, now surveys the records of men before they are inducted.
In Hallinan's case, the two fellow-travelers
named are his mother and father. The senior Hallinan was the 1952 presidential nominee for the Independent Progressive Party.
The Army apparently believes the "close and continuing association" between Patrick and his parents is political rather than filial.
A warning to the ROTC: If Dad ever voted for Norman Thomas, Junior may be a traitor who will blow up a tank as soon as he gets the chance.
If the Army were not in dead earnest about the case, it would read like something from Gilbert and Sullivan. But the serious implications are very broad.
We knew that mental ossification was an occupational disease in the Pentagon, but we had not realized it was universal. —Al Jones
One of the books cited by The Bulletin was the Globe Book Company's edition of "A Tale of Two Cities," which left out the "nonessential parts of the plot" and abridged the "long descriptive and philosophical passages."
With all the talk about higher educational standards going on, we recall an article this summer in Time magazine about a small monthly magazine, The Bulletin, which was crying out against what it called "pre-chewed classics."
One of the parts which the Globe editors felt nonessential was Dickens' ringing opening sentence—"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity . . ."
From Classics to Claptrap
The Globe story's opening sentence sounds more like a wild west story than one of the classic works of literature.
The Globe edition of "Moby Dick" has been equally well edited to delete all the memorable passages which made the book a literary work.
The book begins with an explanation to the student: "Herman Melville, the author, a man of wide learning and sea experience, included... much philosophic, literary, nautical, scientific and other material that few readers can hope to understand. In many places his vocabulary is beyond secondary school experience..."
To simplify this vocabulary, the editors changed
"dromedary" to "camel." Where they could not find a simple word, they added a footnote: A clam is "a shellfish similar to an oyster," and a prophet is "one who foresees events."
DANCING—WED., FRI. & SAT.
Despite the complaints of Time and The Bulletin, the book condensation business is going strong and will probably get stronger.
TEE PEE
The alarming thing now is that most of the book condensation business goes to schools. It is bad enough when students try to get by with condensations, but when the schools help them, we begin to worry about our educational values.
Our high school standards need to be raised, not lowered. It would be more helpful to give students the classics as they were written. Let them look up the harder words in the dictionary and increase their vocabularies. Let them read the philosophy the authors included in their works and let them learn other outlooks on life. Let the students read the classics and learn.
Editor:
Stouffer's Story
In a note to the teacher, the Globe editor explains that the original "Moby Dick" is "shrouded in symbolism and mysticism; it became an outlet for the author, who poured into it vituperative venom conditioned by his personal life. Perhaps this shadowy symbolism lends to the greatness of the novel; however, the interpretation . . . is for literary critics and research scholars."
It might be interesting to see what these editors would do to the Bible.
Regarding the comments made on Page one of your paper of Oct. 13, concerning the possibility that Stouffer Place may be "just for those with rich fathers," my father,
7:30-12:00 Never An Admission Charge
... Letters ...
my wife's father, and I question where we are hiding the loot!
—Martha Crosier
If we could afford to buy furniture, washing machines, and refrigerators, we would not have to live in Stouffer Place. Considering that the "most frequent complaints heard at Stouffer Place
"I'M ONLY A JUNIOR—HEY, YOU WITH TH' BOOKS—! WHERE'S TH' LIBERRY?"
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from the Sunnyside people were the amount of rent charged, the fact that apartments are furnished, and that no resident is allowed to keep his own washing machine," it seems that if the Sunnysiders would sell all that furniture, they could afford to live with those of us who are too poor to buy such things.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Paul H. L. Walter
Lawrence graduate student
The Cleveland Browns coach says he was tremendously impressed with a team the Browns beat 35-28. This is a subtle way of telling the world they have a pretty fair team in Cleveland this year.
The Russians have warned their people to keep away from liquor, because our spies may get information from drunks. Does this mean Nikita is on the wagon?
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