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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Monday, Feb. 11, 1957
William Allen White Day-
To An Anxious Friend
(Editor's note: Following is William Allen White's famous Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial on freedom of expression which spread like wildfire across the nation after it was first printed in the Emporia Gazette July 27, 1922. It has been heralded as one of the outstanding works to assert freedom of the press and is reprinted here in honor of the 89th anniversary of his birthday.)
You tell me that law is above freedom of utterance. And I reply that you can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people—and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive. That is the history of the race. It is proof of man's kinship with God. You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger. No one questions it in calm days, because it is not needed. And the reverse is true also; only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, it is most vital to justice.
Peace is good. But if you are interested in peace
through force and without free discussion—that is to say, free utterance decently and in order your interest in justice is slight. And peace without justice is tyranny, no matter how you may sugar-coat it with expedition. This state-today is in more danger from suppression than from violence, because, in the end, suppression leads to violence. Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression. Whoever pleads for justice helps to keep the peace; and whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. When that is killed, brute meets brute on each side of the line.
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts-hold—by voice, by posted card, by letter, or by press. Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
—William Allen White
Winter Comes To The Hills
(Editor's note: "Winter Comes To The Hills," by R. A. Clymer, editor of the El Dorado Times and president of the William Allen White Foundation, first appeared in the Times Feb. 2, 1957. Mr. Clymer is the 1957 recipient of the Certificate of Journalistic Merit of the William Allen White Foundation which was awarded today.)
The Flint Hills, at this season, are fast asleep. They are now resting under the pale rays of the winter's sun, their peaks and sides covered with light siftings of snow—not the heavy blankets of other years. Here and there limestone ledges which are part of their basic structure, peer through their winter dress. Streams and rills are silent. Tree clumps along the creek banks stand huddled in patient and immobile waiting. A few small furry creatures scurry about their business, while the bugle of the coyote sounds at intervals over the wastes. The bluestem lies dormant—and in the vast domain of the ranges all movement is at a standstill.
As always, in every mood of nature, the hills contrive to present a scene of surpassing loveliness-one which casts its benediction upon the traveler in their midst.
Today more wayfarers are passing through the hills than ever before since these mounds pushed up from the basin of the ancient sea. The questing race of men has carved a giant gash through the hills—a mighty roadway wriggling
with sinuous curves upon whose surface swiftly passes the traffic burden of the outside world. Sleek and graceful vehicles, with monstrous power concealed within their mechanisms, glide along this winding path, intent upon speedy passage. More often than not, their human cargoes utterly fail to "lift up their eyes unto the hills," from whence might be gained strength to gird the sinews of the spirit.
Thus, the race of man has always rushed from one objective to another, gaining its headlong momentum but losing its ultimate achievement. The hills look upon this display of animation tolerantly. They are changeless. They have vast patience—and they can wait. Now they are waiting again—waiting for the modicum of moisture to sink into the roots of their grass, waiting for the mildness of spring days to come again, waiting to welcome the Big Beef Steer back to their fastnesses, waiting to make beef food for a hungry world.
The hills are ever beautiful—but never more so than in the grip of winter. Even June, in all its glory, can enhance but not magnify their appeal as they stand in snowy cover, brooding over ageless mysteries and holding their secrets deep within their massive breasts.
—R. A. Clymer
Editor:
I noted $ _{k} $ casually, and without alarm or any the least discomfortable of reactions, that Mr. Tice essayed to suggest with creditable fervor though regrettable imprecision, that we in college study English that we might learn a language different than our own.
I find his enthusiasm wholly applaudable but beg to inject a more sobering thought, that when in those ecstatic flights to which a teacher may be given through absorption in his subject he use himself temperately and omit misprisons so ridiculous. The attempt abortive, the attribution uncertain, the defense of necessity, inadequate, I suggest to Mr. Tice that he identify his errors as well as his quotations.
James A. Nash
Rochester, N.Y., freshman (Editor's note: Many thanks to our young friend for his correction. Regarding the attribution for the direct quotation "College students should take a course in English so they'll be able to speak a language different than their own" another wit, Groucho Marx, said it and it was carried by a wire service as printed. We should have corrected this error as we corrected those in the letter which Mr. Nash sent to us. Again, many thanks!)
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Ultimately Defrauded
Most of us are easily diverted. That is why many of us vacillate from one interest to another and end up by being simply bewildered, or with a deep sense of having ultimately defrauded.
Editor. The El Dorado Times
Gov. George Docking's recently expressed possibility of taking a percentage of the gate receipts from KU football and basketball games as a "fair rental" for the stadium and the field house should not come as too much of a surprise to the people of Kansas.
One Man's Opinion
-Irwin Edman
To the Kansas voter it is becoming apparent (to paraphrase Gov. Docking's assertion that "Now that they have Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain they should be making good money at the gate") that now that we have Mr. Docking as our governor the people of Kansas are going to pay higher real and personal property taxes
Rats multiply so fast that one pair could conceivably result in a rat population of 400 million in only three years.
Robert S.Wunsch Kingman second-year-law
Editor:
Cornell University's 10,700 students come from 48 states and 70 foreign countries.
The only stockaded post, between the Alleghani and the Mississippi River, still standing as originally built, is Fort Wilkin's in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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The two policemen stopped their prowl-car in front of Green Hall late the other night in order to watch two young men sneaking a long box into the building.
A Painter Explains
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"Abstract Art"
Detecting something suspicious, the two officers investigated, only to discover that two students, Glenn
Discussion By John Armstrong
Tuesday, February 12
Bickle, Spearfish, S. D., sophomore, and Ted Morris, Wichita sophomore, were delivering a casket box to be used in a class skit the next day. The policemen walked back to the car mumbling to each other something about theater people.
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TIE-BREAKING PUZZLE NO. 3
CLUE: This West Coast state university, chartered in 1868, has campuses at various locations throughout the state. Degrees in oceanography are among those conferred by this institution.
CLUE: Named for its founder, who also founded the Western Union Telegraph Company, this eastern university has many schools, among which is one for hotel administration.
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