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University Daily Kaatsan Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1956
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Eyeglass Frames Source Of Aid
A short and fast survey shows that four out of five persons who wear glasses have discarded glass frames lying around at home, picking up dust and making no money.
This fact could be of service to any of several campus organizations who are community as well as publicity conscious. A worthwhile community deed could be done by collecting discarded glass frames and sending them to New Eyes for the Needy, Inc., a non-profit, non-sectarian organization with headquarters in Short Hills, N. J.
New Eyes wants 350.000 eyeglasses to defray the cost of new, individually fitted, prescription lenses for thousands who need but cannot afford them.
The precious metals in the frames are melted down and sold and the proceeds pay for new prescription glasses. It takes about 40 old pairs to pay for a single new pair.
A collection of old frames by a campus organization would be to its benefit. The necessary investment for such a collection would be slight, and the publicity gained would be great.
The chancellor's office says that collection boxes, cardboard would do, can be placed outside various buildings, after the appropriate clearance. It has been a good while since any collecting of this sort has been done and the unusual aspect of it would publicize the organization and perhaps start other's on similar campaigns.
New Eyes says that hundreds of pounds of plastic framed lenses are received in each week's mail and that these are carefully examined by a testing committee working under the supervision of an optician.
The organization's work is not confined to the United States since missionaries in Africa, Borneo, Burma and the Philippines, in acknowledging the receipt of shipments, report that people travelling by foot frequently come hundreds of miles for glasses.
Recently 1,800 pairs of sunglasses were sent to lepers, whose eyes are supersensitive to light, at the famed leper colony of Airaku-en, on Okinawa.
New Eyes has been endorsed by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness and by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. Active support has come from the American Legion Posts, Grange groups and from local organizations.
Any organization or individual who is interested should send discarded glasses, jewelry, unwanted household silver, even dental fixtures, to Short Hills 24. New Jersey.
Bender Must Fight For Senate Seat
—Ray Wingerson
Added emphasis is given to the national elections this year by a GOP attempt to overcome a Democratic two-seat (49-47) majority in the Senate.
Thirty-five seats are being contested. This is three more than normal, due to deaths and resignations.
One highly contested race is-that in Ohio.
One highly contested race is that in Ohio. There, incumbent Sen. George Bender is pitted against former Gov. Frank Lausche,recognized as being a conservative Democrat, and wellliked in Ohio, as shown by his five terms as governor.
Sen. Bender, former Taft man who allied himself with Illinois' Sen. Everett Dirksen to place Taft's name in nomination at the 1952 GOP convention, has since done an about-face on his political alliances, trying to take advantage of President Eiserhower's popularity.
While a member of the House, Sen. Bender voted to cut foreign aid, opposed Greek-Turkish aid, and said no to the Marshall Plan. However, when he was elected to the Senate in 1954 to fill Taft's unexpired term, Sen. Bender began to alter his practice of siding with the Taft old guard, particularly with another election coming up, and also because he felt that President Eisenhower's popularity would carry Mr. Eisenhower through
Mr. Eisenhower also made it known that he wants a Republican Congress this year, and assumedly would endorse any Republican in preference to a Democrat, though Gov. Frank Lausche has time and time again voiced agreement with President Eisenhower.
another term as president. Sen. Bender began to side with President Eisenhower, which some called "cont-tail riding," meaning that if his name were associated with that of the popular President his chances for re election were improved.
Sen. Bender attained some political stature while a member of the Ohio legislature for five terms.
However, Gov. Lausche, as governor of that state, amassed a popular vote unsurpassed in Ohio history. Gov. Lausche will be a hard man to beat, and Sen. Bender knows it.
More than once Sen. Bender has asked for Mr. Eisenhower's endorsement. Finally, he gave it, couching it by saying, "If you're for the same program as I am, then I'm for you." This, of course, was not a personal endorsement.
If Gov. Frank Lausche convinces the President that he is basically for the "same program" (which shouldn't be too hard to do), then the contest may go either way.
Just Browsing ...
We were struggling through Tuesday's issue of The Daily Kansan when we happened to stop on the classified advertising page, and, despite the small print, we started reading.
You know, it's really amazing some of the things that people will advertise these days, and some of the classified really make a person stop and think.
—Jerry Dawson
For example, one poor fellow has lost his basketball, and doesn't know where to find it. That is a little hard to explain. We can see how a person could lose a golf ball, or maybe even a baseball—Enos Slaughter did it—but a basketball looks like it would be a little hard to lose. But maybe he didn't really lose it. Maybe it's just been misplaced. Has he looked in all his pockets? How about checking under that pile of books on his desk? Or in the dirty socks?
Journeying on through the classifieds, we found suggestions on how to do your house work faster, a deal guaranteed to help the struggling freshman pass General Biology, and a baby sister service.
In another one, some kind soul offered to return a set of girl's glasses he found out at Lone Star Lake. This one needs no explanation, as everyone knows that girls have no reason to be wearing glasses out at Lone Star.
And changing the subject as quickly as possible, our own spee-
ial news agency, after three weeks of research, has finally discovered a tract of land which isn't soggy from incessant waterings by our Building and Grounds buddies.
Everyone knows that it would be ridiculous to water an area like that, because things might get muddy, and then the fields would be slick, and then the players might fall down and injure themselves.
In case you're dying with couriosity to know the answer to this apparently-baffling question, we'll waste no time in telling you where it is.
So, the planning and foresight which goes into the maintenance of these football fields must be commended. Besides, if they watered the fields, the grass might grow to unbelievable proportions, and then some poor team might lose its football in the lush foliage.
It's the intramural football area down there east of Allen Field House.
But where, oh where, could you lose a basketball?
-Dick Walt
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OLD SPECS WANTED—Unwanted glasses are the object of one of the country's most unusual charity drives. New Eyes for the Needy, Inc., began in 1932, is an organization of 40 women from Short Hills, N. J. who are dedicated to helping others help themselves by making it possible for them to see normally.
Movie Review
"Autumn Leaves" Is Usual Knock Down, Drag Out
Although we enjoy Indian Summer in Kansas, the Autumn leaves have finally descended upon Lawrence in the form of Joan Crawford who is currently displaying her histrionic abilities on 3,000-odd feet of celluloid presented to local masochists in the usual assortment of "scopes" and "stereophonic" sound.
This film, as a sympathetic test case for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, exhibits Miss Crawford in the type of role upon which her fame rests. Since her silent picture debut, she has been beaten, loved, chased, caught, and re-beaten in some 60 lurid epics; but never so consumately as in the now-circulating "Autumn Leaves."
The Brothers Warner have again successfully proven that their favorite punching bag can run the gamut of human emotions while tiring no
After reading the filler on page 5 of Monday's Daily Kansan. "Fighter John L. Sullivan used to eat as much as 15 pounds of beef at one time," we have this to say:
(The Daily Kansas welcomes letters to the editor on any topic or of any opinion provided that they are in good taste. They must be limited to 300 words and must be signed. The Daily Kansas prefers to use the name of the letter writer, but will use a pen name if the writer so desires. It reserves the right to use or reject letters for publication as it sees fit, and the right to edit and cut.
John L. Swers, Independence law student, Don Sutton, Troy sophomore, Walt Baskett, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, John Hansen, Wamego senior, Roy Walkinshaw, Cedar Vale sophomore, and Bob Tannen, Hutchinson law student.
Road Paved With Uranium
.. Letters ..
We think that's a lot of bull.
A road on the outskirts of Carcoar, in western New South Wales, is paved with uranium.
Editor:
So are the paths leading to the town's long disused iron ore shafts.
Tests conducted by the New South Wales Government's Department of Mines revealed that the iron ore shafts are rich in uranium and that the horseshoe of hills ranging the town also contains large deposits.
An old time resident remembered that material from one of the old shafts had been used to surface the Mount Road and mine tracks.
Soon after the announcement of the "strike." sheep shearers, station hands, farmers, and others poured into the town on foot, on bicycles, on horseback, and in cars.
one (with the possible exception of her leading man, Cliff Robertson).
For those filmgoers who worship at the shrine of such grand dames of make-believe as Dietrich, Stanwyck, Lamarr, Davis, Bankhead, Colbert and others of the Senility Sorority, there is consolation to be found in that "custom has not staled Crawford's infinite variety." To be sure, not since "Birth of a Nation" has such maudlin midwifery been required of a star to nurture so anemic a plot.
"Autumn Leaves" as literature, is scarcely worthy of the time-capsule. However, as fodder for La Crawford, it is unequalled in pathos, drama, and periodic blood-letting. The sory concerns an arid, aging stenographer, who, though not wealthy, manages 11 costume changes in the first 20 minutes of the picture. Deciding on a last fling before moulding, she meets and marries a man 15 years her junior (Mr. Robertson). We then learn that hubby is a psychopathic liar and the fun begins.
Believing she can salvage his soul and his love, Miss Crawford attempts to persuade her husband to return the purified piano hinges only to be greeted with a couple of quick slaps and a smooth left jab to the groin. We, now know that Mr. Robertson is "eccentric" but are told that it is his father's fault. In a sequence that Crawford must have written herself, she denounces papa in a blaze of colloquialisms and returns to an eavesdropping husband. With mistaken rage, he drops her neatly to the floor with a flying mare and then bounces a typewriter on her hand.
The now bloody remains of Miss Crawford thoughtfully conclude that the bridegroom is ready for the booby bin. A sentimentalist, (they met in a cafe), she has him committed during breakfast one morning and he is trundled away by the little men in white coats amid a barrage of toasters and waffle irons.
In the remaining time warp of six months, the lunatic Lothario is treated, passes his round-peg-in-the-square-hole-test, and is released into the waiting arms of Joan, who coyly confides to him that she has been busying herself by knitting "little strait jackets."
Joan begins commuting to the local psychiatrist's office when she discovers that her spouse is already married. The film-Freud reassures her by explaining that her husband is also a kleptomaniac. Sample dialogue: "Is that catching?" queries Crawford. "No," counters Havelock, "that's taking!"
As in all Crawfordian sagas, one is left with the feeling that the entire, ugly mess will probably happen again. However, if it should, it is doubtful Mr. Robertson will again be assigned as so unartificial a foil for the ranting Joan. Let us rather live in the hope that he has been stimulated in a manner not unlike that of his audience: that is, to the point of enthusiastic suicide.
—Tom Sawyer
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