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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 15, 1950
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Aid To Hungary Needs Support
"Five hundred dollars from 8,000 students is only a lousy, stinking six cents apiece."
This was the substance of a letter received by us from an anonymous author who sums up in 3-letter words his feelings on a move by the KU-Y to send $500 to Hungary to aid that country's struggle for freedom.
At the request of the KU-Y, the All Student Council has designated the Campus Chest organization to assume responsibility for collecting AT LEAST that amount, to be distributed by the World University Service in Geneva, Switzerland for aid to Hungary or the Middle East.
Bill Allaway, secretary of the KU-Y, which first conceived the "aid to Hungary" idea, said that undoubtedly most if not all of the funds would be sent to Hungary. He explained that he has promised the WUS at least $500, but that figure does not limit the amount that could be sent.
our hopes for a free world in tangible terms, it is with us now. The United States' determination to stay out of war does not excuse turning our backs on an oppressed people who still think in terms of freedom. It took 10 seconds of long division to make the point hit home. We agree: $500 from 8,000 students is indeed stinking and lousy.
If there were ever an opportunity to express
The anonymous letter ended with the question:
The anonymous letter echoes, "If the time ever comes, and God grant that it never does, that we have to fight for freedom as the Hungarians are fighting, will six cents anniece be all we need?..."
The writer enclosed a $5 bill as his (or her) contribution to the aid-to-Hungary fund.
We hope that more students and faculty members feel just as strong an obligation.
Contributions may be sent to Bill Allaway at the KU-Y office in the Student Union, or to us at the University Daily Kansan news room.'
Jerry Dawson
TOKYO—(UP)—Santa Claus has an early start this year. The first Santa of the year has appeared here on a street carrying a sign advertising a coffee shop featuring classical music.
Sherwood Newton, assistant professor of business administration, will speak on "Partnership Distributions" at the third annual tax conference of Missouri accountants Friday in Jefferson City. The conference is sponsored by the Public Accountants of Missouri.
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Don Quixote and Don Juan were surprised, but the brays of Platero
Nobel Prize Winner Jimenez Praised For 'Platero And I'
Two great figures had arisen in Spanish literature—those of Don Quikote and Don Juan—until one day the door to their impregnable abode of fame was opened and a little white donkey entered.
Forty years after being created, Platero finally acquired world interest. His bray will be heard everywhere for a long time.
Mr. Jimenez is a man who has distinguished himself in prose as well as verse. Among his best known books are "Stone and Heaven," "Nostalgic Gardens," "Diary of a Poet," plus others.
One of his poems, "Platero and I" has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, Swedish and English. It's about a charming white donkey named Platero, with whom the children liked to play. The work is like a game of light and color in the wide range of the author's sensitivity.
Recently in Stockholm, Sweden the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Spanish poet Juan Ranion Jimenez who at the present is teaching Spanish literature at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
(Editor's note: The following article was written by Miguel (Mike) Cardenas, Chihuahua, Mexico graduate student.)
sounded so pleasant that they could not help approaching him and petting him. He remains with them to this day in that ageless realm of heroes and lovers of literary mythology.
Mrs. Jimenez, also was respected in the world of literature. Her field was translation, and she concentrated on Rabindranah Takure, better known as Tagore, the illustrious Indian philosopher-poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
His wife, Dona Zenaida Camprubi de Jimenez, died a victim of cancer, leaving a deep vacuum in the heart of the poet.
The poem has enchanted for one generation the children of Spain and Spanish America. Now it will enchant (as the stories of Hans Christian Anderson) the children of the world.
The Spanish speaking world owes much to Mrs. Jimenez for outstanding translations of practically all the works of Tagore, among them "The Gardner," "The New Moon," and "Malini."
Almost as soon as fame, respect and admiration surrounded Mr. Jimenez, destiny played a sad trick on him.
Our most sincere congratulations to Doh Juan Ramon Jimenez for his deserving award, and at the same time our condolences at the loss of his precious wife.
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Fish are not born with scales. A baby fish is born naked of scales, later sprouting them from under its skin.
The pocket gopher is one of the few animals that can run backward as fast and as easily as it can move forward. Here its tail serves it in good stead as it is endowed with tactile organs, enabling the animal to feel its way around underground when it moves in reverse.
All of a sudden, this has become a week of watching.
Somehow parents just don't understand these matters, despite numerous attempts to orient them to the ways of KU life. They just don't see how their brilliant little offspring could be doing below average work in any simple little University course.
Students spend all morning and part of the afternoon sitting around waiting for the mailman to arrive, and this eagerness doesn't come from anticipation of the perfume-soaked letter from the little dollie back home, who just can't wait to see her lover man as soon as vacation starts.
There could be no worse time to send out the evil little cards than in the week preceding a school vacation.
Because the students are worrying about down slips, and hoping for the absence thereof.
And you'd better believe that such topics of vacation don't make your vacation go any smoother. We even heard of one student who lost 15 minutes of sack time worrying about the effect the news was having on his folks.
Things won't be so tough up here, what with only the dean and the scholarship chairman to face. But just wait till you get home.
We realize that this column has come along too late to be of service for most of you this semester. The nasty little things are already in
—Dick Walt
the mail, and there's nothing much that can be done about it.
That way, no one will ever know. Until the end of the semester, that is, and maybe not even then, for the University also will send your grades to this same convenient box. And it can go on indefinitely.
But clip this out and paste it on your wall, for it's a sure way to avoid this problem come Easter vacation.
At least, until they won't let you enroll for another semester. Then, it's time to enlist.
Then, when down slips are mailed, they will be delivered to this private little receptacle, to be disposed of secretely when you finally make it home.
The thing to do is to go down to the post office in the old home town, rent yourself a private mailbox, and then, when you enroll for the second semester, list this box as the mailing address of your parents.
Editor:
Only one thing marred the wonderful concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Nov. 1. That one thing was the dress of the usherettes and also of certain sporty gentlemen guests.
Now, I realize that we do not go to a concert primarily to look at the fashions of other people, but in the case of the Berlin Philharmonic concert I believe that a certain standard of appropriate dress is mandatory!
If the musicians consider the concert an important enough occasion to wear formal dress, then it seems to me that the guest should show a certain amount of respect for the musicians by wearing at least "Sunday best." In the case of this concert, good dress is not a matter of fashion show, but of respect and good taste.
I certainly do not feel that young lady ushers attired in-bobbys shoes, white bulky knit sweaters and sport skirts are properly dressed to perform their duties at a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic. I do not think that it would be asking too much for these young ladies to wear a formal gown when they usher at such a concert.
And then, there are some gentleman students who thought they were going to just another class. They marched down the aisle with apparently no embarrassment about their casual dress. They were wearing sport shirts with no ties, and pull-over sweaters, and no jacket. Really, where are some people's ideas of taste?
Mrs. Paul H. Walter
1738 Massachusetts St.
(Editor's note: Just as most ushers
wear uniforms, the Jay Janes, who
volunteer to usher for such events,
wear theirs.)
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