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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 4, 1857
Give To March Of Dimes
Concentrate On Preventing Polio
The March of Dimes drive is on now and will continue during the month of January. It is very important to the students at the University in that polio hits many people who are of college age.
The clinic at Watkins Memorial Hospital is open during the daytime and the students are urged to take the series of polio shots. Dr. Maurice Gross hopes that many of the students will start their shots as soon as possible.
The March of Dimes drive will be finished with polio when polio is finished as a crippler of human beings and when repair of the damage it has done is carried to the limit of our knowledge and ability. This cannot happen all at once—not even with the help of the Salk vaccine.
Since the vaccine was scientifically approved for general use last year 43 million Americans have begun the course of three shots which are necessary for maximum protection. In the months ahead it is the National Foundation's hope not only that these millions will complete the course but that as many more will start it.
Ideally, for a polio-safe America, all persons between the ages of six months and 45 years should
get the protection of the vaccine. Necessarily, all up to 35 must get it. This means more than 105 million persons and three shots for each.
That's a lot of vaccinating. It won't be finished overnight. And polio doesn't wait for people to be vaccinated. Despite the vaccine, those stricken by polio last year still number in the thousands.
And so it is that the March of Dimes coin has two sides. On the one hand, a needle punctures an arm and we have the miracle of a tragedy that didn't happen. On the other, are the tragedies that did happen to 16,000 persons in 1956—the shriveling of an arm, the paralysis of a leg, the failing of breath—and they may happen to more next year.
Finishing the job of conquering polio means repairing the damage polio has done. So more March of Dimes money is needed in 1957 to insure that no polio patient goes without the care he needs because of lack of funds.
The University student should give to the March of Dimes and also be sure that he begins his shots at Watkins Memorial Hospital. These accomplishments would be two excellent New Year's resolutions.
David Webb
Campus Beauty
Editor:
Here's a reply to your recent front-page collection of comments on the beauty of our campus.
All your contributors seemed to agree that we have a very beautiful campus. Well, I strongly disagree. I think at one time the K.U. campus had the potential to become a hill of inspiring beauty. However, for a long time the campus has been deteriorating, until today it is just another campus.
Where is your beauty on K. U. campus? Sure, in a number of places there is a view, or a small area of plant growth that manages to retain some of the natural beauty of the site, but is the campus as a whole beautiful? To me the campus is an unorganized group of buildings which appear to have been designed at 500 year intervals.
There is no harmonious relationship between any two of the buildings. And the individual buildings are nearly as bad as their group relationship. The eclectic buildings have been so mauled in transformation that their original beauty has disappeared with their original functions. And does anyone dare call the majority of our modern buildings beautiful? - the squatting, bulky fieldhouse? - or the cluttered, confused fine arts building? - or the false-fronted, boxy scholarship halls? Not I. And what about Sunnyside? Is that beauty?
The worst part of this situation is that it is getting worse all the time. Every new building is designed as another entirely unrelated unit.
I can't believe this poor planning or lack of planning needs to continue. There should be an over-all campus plan in use. The administrators could at least request that the architects on the new buildings integrate their designs into the existing facilities of the school. In this way we at least wouldn't be adding to the confusion already existing on campus.
Roger Stover
Independence, Mo. junior
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New York's senate met for the first time Sept. 10, 1777, at Kingston, N. Y. A month later, the British army burned the house in which the senate met.
It takes about 750,000 gallons of water to grow a cord of pine pulpwood.
Andrew Jackson's Career Was Marked By His Temper
"Andrew Jackson," by Gerald W. Johnson (Bantam Books, Inc., 244 pp. 50c.)
Andrew Jackson was a man who used his temper like a booming hand slap on a hardwood table. Some people consider his temper uncontrollable but author Johnson sees it as a defense mechanism which worked wonderfully to Jackson's advantage whenever he was attacked. Although his temper, which was unfigured, occasionally betrayed Jackson into an uncontrollable position, Johnson says that it more frequently blasted him out of one.
The author of this historically inspiring biography sees Jackson's temper arising from his supersensitiveness to ridicule, which stemmed from liabilities in his youth. Besides having a nervous affliction which caused him to slobber in his early years, he was also the penniless orphan of a landless immigrant woman.
Although Jackson's career was successful, it was trouble-filled with ill health from wounds in numerous military campaigns, public and private ridicule, and many years of absence from his beloved wife, Rachel, and their plantation which Rachel managed. So sorrowful were his years that he questioned their fruitfulness.
Between Jackson's election in 1828 and his inauguration, Rachel died after a hard, trying life. She suffered from public contempt for a marriage made in good faith but which spelled adultery to both the community and the nation's busybodies. Jackson spent his life defending her honor.
Of Rachel, Jackson said, "All I have achieved—fame, power, everything—would I exchange if she could be restored to me for a moment."
Jackson out-dueled and killed the best pistol shot in Tennessee for using the word "adultery" in his presence. He shot two other men for the same reason.
The adultery charge arose from the couple's marriage two years before Rachel was divorced. Jackson, even though a lawyer, was ignorant of the law and assumed Rachel to be free when her husband, Lewis Robards, went to court to sue. However, the request for suit didn't affect the marriage. Robards waited two years to take action and when he did, he had good grounds for suit: two years of adultry.
Jackson's temper, along with his iron nerve, made him a man to be feared long before he became president. In the American Revolution, at the age of 14, he was cruelly injured to the hardships of war and life. He discovered early that the essence of war was death, not glory or manliness or heroism, and he suffered captivity, disease and hunger as other soldiers did.
His captor awarded him a scarred face with the blow of a sabre
when Jackson's quick temper flared over the unglorious punishment meted to him: To clean the officer's mud-snattered jack-hooks.
Author Johnson devotes a proper 3-4 of the book to Jackson's 61 years prior to his eight in office. Readers will see that Johnson appears to succeed in giving a fair picture of this man who was wrong offender than most men will admit but who also was deservingly loved and respected by a nation.
Mr. Johnson writes an attentionholding story full of significant side lights which provide for a tolerant perspective of Andrew Jackson, a unique president in that he was the first to be elected by the masses.
The biography was first printed in 1927 and is now in its seventh printing.
In Chicot county, Arkansas, stands a monument commemorating the first night airplane flight ever made by Charles A. Lindbergh — in April, 1923. Lindbergh spent several days in Lake Village, taking passengers on short flights. One moonlit night he ventured into the air for the first time after dark.
George Boldt spent millions on Boldt Castle on Heart Island in the St. Lawrence River. The Rhinelike castle was to be a present to his wife but work stopped before the building was completed when Mrs. Boldt died.
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WASHINGTON — (UP) — President Eisenhower will go before a joint session of congress at 11:30 a.m., Kansas time, Saturday to outline the "Eisenhower doctrine" for blocking Soviet aggression in the Middle East.
President To Outline Doctrine
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Time of the President's speech was officially fixed when the House unanimously adopted a resolution sponsored by Democratic leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) providing for the joint session with the Senate.
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The House then agreed to adjourn until Saturday after the close of today's business.
This removed any possibility that arrangements might be made for a joint session to hear the president on Friday, as had been discussed earlier.
Mr. Eisenhower is expected to ask Congress for standby authority
to use U.S. troops, if necessary, to defend the oil-rich Middle East from Communist seizure.
Advance indications were that the democratic-controlled Congress would talk, inquire and even complain at the need, but that in the end members would vote overwhelmingly to give the President what he wants.
Secretary of State John Foster Duelles told Congressional leaders last night that the exact language of the administration proposal still was unsettled.
The earliest dwellers in New Mexico—now known through the artifacts they left as Folsom, Sandia and Clovis Man—hunted such animals as the giant ground sloth, musk, ox, three-toed horse, camel, four-pronged antelope and mammon. These early nomads lived in New Mexico from 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.
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