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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 21, 1957
The frankfurter and the hamburg- A factory in St. Marys, W. Va., er owe their names to the German shipped 14,000,000 Chinese-checkers cities of Frankfurt and Hamburg marbles in one 6-month period.
'Ambassador Satch'
Our Best Foreign Relations Man
He took the music of his time, his area, and his race. He followed it in funeral parades, in dingy backrooms, up the river to Chicago, to New York and finally helped lead it to tuxedos and respectable surroundings.
Like the Yankee Doodle in George Cohan's song, dandy Louis Armstrong was born on the fourth of July. He was born on that night in 1900 in James Alley in the heart of what was called The Battlefield in New Orleans.
A world understanding of the United States' only original contribution to music was born that night, too. For a few years later Louis Armstrong learned to play a coronet in a waif's detention home. He has been playing ever since.
Louis' birthplace didn't get its name because it was a historic battle site. It was called The Battlefield because the citizens who lived there spent much of their time fighting and shooting.
As might be expected most of them celebrated the holiday with pistols and shot guns. May Ann Armstrong celebrated it by giving birth to a baby boy.
Now he takes it to foreign countries as Uncle Sam's most effective public relations man. Only natural for a man born on the fourth of July.
Louis and his music has done something that all the diplomats of the country could not do. He created a common bond between peoples who cannot speak each others language.
For jazz is a universal language. Whether it be Dixieland or modern the meaning is the same - and not hard to understand.
But "Ambassador Satch" isn't cementing good relations with his music alone. He has a way with people. He doesn't just walk out, play his set and walk off. He lives his music and he loves it too. European audiences find they love this type of music and the spontaneous enjoyment and feeling that it creates.
American jazz has taken a firm hold in Europe. This is very important to the future relationship of this country in that part of the world. It doesn't save the world from itself but it does help a lot of people understand each other when understanding is so necessary.
Louis Armstrong and a few others like him have succeeded where other attempts have failed. It is very appropriate that "Satch" should be born on the fourth of July.
Jerry Thomas
JUST INSTALLED
(By Buddy Hanna)
A NEW 21 INCH SPACE COMMAND
Zenith TV
One Man's Opinion
These papers devoted several inches of space to all the details of the actions of the crowd and the other teams. The action of the anti-Kansas crowd was, one paper suggested "tinged with racial prejudice." One of the other teams was supposed to have been making derogatory remarks about our two Negro team members. And to support the theory that the other team wasn't playing cricket, the papers said that Wilt Chamberlain was fouled obviously and constantly.
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JAYHAWK CAFE
Mentioning that the crowd was anti-Kausas was all right, although stating the obvious. How else would a home crowd be to a visiting team? Even the fact that the crowd "adopted" OCU the next night isn't too hard to figure out. Any crowd that was disappointed that their team
The trouble started when KU played two basketball games in Dallas last weekend. The crowd was very hostile to them, as were the members of the other team, supposedly. The newspapers in this area played this up in a big way.
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The segregation issue is probably one of the nation's biggest problems today. The people in the North are supposed to be the group that stirs up the least trouble over this issue. But the last few days, the area newspapers have done more harm than good in relation to this issue.
Aiding Segregation In Reverse
lost a chance at the national championship by a close score, would be against the team that denied them that chance.
All the space that was devoted to the fact that Wilt was fouled many times, obviously, and that these fouls went uncalled, was playing on a point that was anything but new. Wilt has been getting beat around all season by almost every team Kansas has played, and many fouls have gone uncalled before. Why make such a big point of it now?
But the worst thing that these papers are guilty of is trying to pin the racial prejudice label on these actions. That accusation at the best is ridiculous. The only possible justification for that label, is that the fans were in the South. Does locality change school loyalty to prejudice?
The crowd was no more hostile than the crowds at KU have been at times this year. When Wilt fouled out against Oklahoma, the fans booed for 15 minutes, including the time when the other team was shooting free throws. And Wilt has been treated just as roughly in other games.
When the KU players and coach manage to keep silent on the whole affair, why do the newspapers feel it necessary to play it up so big? They can only hurt the team's reputation by their actions.
—Del Haley
Voting Apathy
One Of Every 2,750 Voters Registered In Leavenworth
Leavenworth city officials reported there was no primary election there March 19 as originally planned. The reason: of 22,145 persons in the city, only eight voters registered.
Old-timers in the city were incredulous when registration for the primary closed. Absolutely no one had filed in opposition to the mayor, four members of the board of city commissioners and three members of the board of education, whose terms expire soon. In previous years, as many as 50 candidates have filed for elective offices.
The Leavenworth city attorney has declared the city will "save" $3500 in election costs by not holding the primary. Nevertheless, the law requires a general election. Ten thousand ballots will be printed, since "some" are always spoiled; polling places will be rented and 65 election judges and clerks will maintain them, waiting for the eight voters to come in.
Whether or not the city is saving money is a question. There is no question at all, however, that the citizens of Leavenworth and voters everywhere are losing a lot when they give up their right to choose their own government. Staying away from elections has become the great American pastime.
Larry Boston
The reason advanced by some observers for the election apathy in Leavenworth is that the present city officials are completely satisfactory. The fact that no candidate has offered to run against these officials is a tacit endorsement of their efficiency.
But no one has been able to explain why, if these men are so good, none of their friends and followers have bothered to support them. The best candidates in the world can't get elected, even with no opposition, if nobody votes for them.
It is to be assumed that the eight registrants at the primary were these same eight candidates who, it is hoped, believed in their own candidacy enough to vote for themselves. Even so, if national averages are an indication, only about four would have shown up to vote had the primary been held.
Leavenworth was a pioneer city. Probably enough men were killed there in early-day election fights to pay for all the money to be "saved" in elections everywhere.
All the old clichés about our founding fathers having fought for our priceless right to vote have been repeated so many times apparently no one believes them anymore. The sad part of it is they are all true.
Oil fields and huge refineries bulwark the island's revenue and is a leading export item. Sugar production is next, followed by cacao, rum, and asphalt.
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