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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1956
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Westerners Like The Philippines
(The following editorial is the first of two informative articles on the Republic of the Philippines. They are presented as background in connection with talks by the American Universities Field Staff lecturer.)
Albert Ravenholt, the American Universities Field Staff speaker on Far Eastern affairs, who is now on the campus, believes that environment has been the basic influence in shaping the character of the people living on the 7,000 islands comprising the Republic of the Philippines.
Because the islands, which are located southeast of the Asian continent, were under the jurisdiction of the United States 46 years before they were given their independence on July 4, 1946, the people patterned their institutions after ours.
Asians call the Republic "little America" because the Filipinos, on the whole, share our casual and easy friendliness and have high regard for success. Westerns say they feel more at home in the islands than in any other Far Eastern country.
The rapid increase in population—it has tripled since the beginning of the century and now stands at 22 million—is due to the rising standards of living and the development of agriculture, pastoral, and forest products.
The Indonesian, Malay, and Chinese blended to form the Filipino race on the islands, which were discovered by Magellan in 1521. The Philippines, which if placed on the United States map, would extend approximately from the southern point of the Great Lakes to southern Alabama and Georgia, were conquered by the Spanish in 1565. After the Spanish-American war they were ceded to the United States in 1898.
Because rough water between the islands and other geographical barriers has discouraged the people from merging into a single culture, there
are still three general racial types. These are the Pygmy, the Indonesian, and the Malay.
The Pgymy racial type is divided into two classes. The purest type lives in the deep forest, in wandering bands which have no homes. They are the exception, for most of the Filipinos have settled along areas of the seacoast rather than in the fertile valleys and the forests of the interior. The pure type of Pgymy practices no agriculture, but gathers forest products and hunts and traps by using only a bow and arrow. Because he is afraid of water and does not swim, the Pgymy does not use boats or rafts.
The other class of Pgymy, who has mixed with the more cultured Filipinos, has adopted some traits from his neighbors. He sometimes builds houses of good quality, so he cannot be compared with his brother pgymy. In the dry season he hunts in the forest to gather products to trade with his neighbors for clothing, ornaments, and weapons. If, by chance, he goes to a city to live, he usually returns to the forest.
Although they cannot be compared with the Pygmies, the Indonesians are a pagan tribal group who have settled principally on the islands of Luzon and Mindanao. Filipinos for the most part live on only about 10 of the 7,000 islands, which vary in climate and terrain. Scattered over 1,200 miles, many islands are sparsely settled and others are uninhabited.
The major portion of the people are Malayans, but are divided into three groups because of religious beliefs. The three are pagans, the Mohammedans, and the Christians, who are the dominant people.
Constituting over 93 per cent of the population, the Christians are the agricultural and industrial laborers, the business and professional men, the educators, and the social and political leaders
Jane Pecinovsky
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Well, for all you kiddies who haven't noticed it yet, we hereby remind you of an event which will have a profound influence upon all your lives for the next few days.
It's Homecoming week, and there's not much that anyone can do about it.
So, forget about the aftermath of the election, forget about the world crisis, forget about your grades, forget about your down slips, forget to write home, forget to shave, etc.
They all take time.
This is the time of the year when activities majors really have a ball, what with committee meetings to plan this, that, and the other things. Most of these miscellaneous meetings vaguely refer to plans for Homecoming, and in addition to this, they have another thing in common.
But time, during Homecoming week, is a relatively minor and unimportant matter, and one which should be thought of only in passing.
For once the weary student finishes attending various meetings, making various plans, and performing various tasks, it becomes time to build Homecoming decorations.
Now for those of you who are uninitiated into the fine art of building Homecoming decorations, perhaps we should explain.
The primary purpose is to construct some sort of masterpiece which is at least twice as big as any other house on the campus is displaying.
To achieve this end, committees are appointed months in advance.
These committees normally fail to function until about three days before Homecoming, when hasty plans for some monstrosity are hastily drawn up.
The actual construction begins on Thursday night, continues through Friday morning, and is hastily completed late Friday afternoon, just before the judges make their annual tour of inspection.
Sometimes the themes of the decorations are changed midway in the course of construction. The chairmen sink into the depths of despair, but by Friday night, most everyone usually has thrown together a mass of paper mache, crepe paper, and cardboard into something resembling a Jayhawker, a football, or some traditional symbol of victory.
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And it's all in fun. Sleep is unnecessary during this vital period, so that everyone is in great shape to live it up at the big game and subsequent dance Saturday night.
So, make your plans now. Wear thick soft clothes to all your classes, and carry a pillow with you into each lecture. It's going to be your only chance for sack time.
And in closing, to inject a brighter note into this otherwise drab day, there are only two more weeks until Thanksgiving vacation.
—Dick Walt
Book Review
Dead Sea Scrolls Light Early Christian Period
"The Scrolls from the Dead Sea," by Edmund Wilson (Oxford, 121 pp. $3.25.)
When two small boys found some strange scrolls in a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, it took the world a relatively long time to discover the importance of these scrolls.
Once the importance had been determined, it didn't take long for Edmund Wilson to present a complete, objective recording of the findings. The book, which gives the history of the scrolls, was published in 1955.
There have been other books written on the subject. Why is Mr. Wilson's so important?
The Dead Sea scrolls, are an archaeological discovery of great religious importance. They are the first great step in answering a question hundreds of years old—where did Christianity come from?
For hundreds of years members of two different religious groups—Jewish and Christian—have argued the origin of Christianity, Jewish belief is that it stemmed from the Jewish religion. Christianity states that its birth was independent of and other dogma.
Other books on the subject of the Dead Sea scrolls have been written by men trying to use the scrolls to prove one of the two points. Both have succeeded by not presenting all the facts, by showing them in a not completely true light, or by stating as true that which so far experts can only guess at
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This is not the case with Mr. Wilson's book. In it he tells how the scrolls were found, how they were rediscovered by historians, how they were read, and what they mean to men who have studied that branch of science all their lives. Mr. Wilson does not attempt to uphold either argument.
The scrolls were written by a religious sect that was active from around 200 B. C. until about 150 A. D. according to Mr. Wilson's book. This sect, called the Essene Order, lived in a monastery near the Dead Sea and close to the caves where the scrolls were found.
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The scrolls were probably hidden in the coves when the Roman occupation force began hostile repression against the Essenes and either destroyed the sect or scattered it enough to make it die out shortly after.
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Part of the scrolls tell of many of the same things that the Old Testament does, in much the same style. Other scrolls are concerned with the life of the sect itself ...
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The sect was made up of men who had "grown tired of the ways of the world." These men lived in
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One had no money that was not in the general treasury and anyone could wear another's clothes. The sect lived by a standard of rules similar to the Ten Commandments, held Baptistical ceremonies, and set excellent examples of brotherhood for the surrounding communities.
Some of the scholars believe that the Essene sect is the origin of Christianity, that Christ spent the unaccounted for years of His life with this sect, and that when Christ was born there was already a living Christianity in progress for Him to teach. He wasn't the author of it, the scholars say.
Mr. Wilson has included in his book the statements of several scholars who have spent their lives studying that particular time and region. What they say the discovery of the scrolls means opens a new window into the study of Christianity.
a society by themselves. They took no wife (ancient historians say this was because the Essenes believed no woman could remain true to one man) and lived in a Communistic community.
There are also poinions that there were many masters of the Essene order who traveled the country and taught Christianity before the birth of Christ but that Christ was the last and greatest Master.
Historians say that with some concentrated excavation and study in that part of the world, these opinions and others can be proved or disproved in not too many more years.
Mr. Wilson, a man of many interests, offers a well written book that is often dramatic and never dull. Besides being one of the best literary critics writing today, he is an outstanding novelist, poet, and playwright.
21 Highway Police Train At KU
Twenty-one Kansas Highway Patrol probationary troopers began a 7-week training program Monday at KU.
The addition of the 21 men to the Highway Patrol will mean the release of six men to Kansas Turnpike duty. Some of the new recruits may be assigned to the turnpike or may relieve experienced troopers for such duty, according to Major Lloyd Vincent, who is in charge of turnpike safety.
The men will study at KU until Dec. 10, when they will begin their week's on-the-road apprenticeship.
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