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Visitor To Soviet Says 'Old Russia Unchanged'
Sam Anderson, instructor of German, recently returned from a three-week tour of the Soviet Union, one of some 2,500 Americans to visit behind the Iron Curtain this summer.
He toured Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and other points and took more than 600 photographs for use in Russian history classes taught at KU.
His impressions of Russia are varied, but, being primarily an art-lover, he said, "The old Russia is romantically beautiful and unchanged. Even with the new government, in many places, the buildings and costumes are like something out of the old novels."
Mr. Anderson said the Winter Palace in Leningrad has one of the world's greatest art collections. He also said Russian opera is superior to any he had ever heard, but noted that even at the opera, high prices prevail in the Communist nation. His seat for one performance cost $8.
Commenting on present-day Russia, Mr. Anderson said many persons told him bad conditions were Stalin's fault, and now that he is dead these conditions will improve.
He found evidence to support recent stories from Russia maintaining that all reminders of the late dictator are being quickly removed from sight. In Leningrad he saw a statue of Stalin being torn down, and was told that the street it was on, Stalin Boulevard, would soon be known as International Boulevard.
Ask About America
Many persons he talked with expressed dissatisfaction with present conditions, especially in the Ukraine, where the people resented the government taking everything they were able to grow.
Mr. Anderson, who speaks Russian, was guided away from curious peasants, who want to know prices of U.S. commodities, particularly sugar. Many in the Ukraine envised his apparent freedom, and asked if America was as free as they had heard.
However, he said the average Russian has a distorted view of America as it is today.
Most of the people in the cities think of the U.S. in terms of the 1930's, with masses of unemployed walking the streets. Employment in the Soviet Union is very high, with many signs displayed asking for workers."
"However, when they showed me a combine that was bigger and better than any I had ever seen, I had a suspicion it was the only one they had."
When asked about reported "guided tours," Mr. Anderson said the Russians are geared to show visitors what they think will impress them.
Many times he saw the peasant cutting wheat with a scythe and thrashing it with a flail. In many instances he observed a slovenliness and inefficiency which belied the success of Russian mass production,
"An elevator rattled and creaked in a new building at Moscow University. Windows went unwashed and doors didn't fit in a new skyscraper hotel. Ten chairs were included in the furnishings of a single room in that same hotel. And—the saddest sight of all—the people were poorly dressed," he said.
Mr. Anderson's interest in lit- erary, historical and architectural
Smith College Gets $1,464,000 Grant
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—(IP) —The trustees of Smith College announced here that the entire $1,464,-000 granted the College by the Ford Foundation will go into an endowment, the interest of which will be used to improve faculty salaries.
The major part of an increase of $100 in tuition, approved by the trustees last December and effective this year, will also be used for faculty salaries. Except for those in the lowest brackets, these have never been brought up to the increase which has taken place in the cost of living since 1939.
SAM F. ANDERSON
There are about 2.5 million motor trucks on American farms.
monuments took him to a monastery near Zagorsk, center of learning for the Russian church; the Tolstori estate, where he conversed with the famed author's secretary; Peterhof, site of Peter the Great's palace and many other world famous points of interest.
He feels the timeless quality in Russia is the ancient nature of the whole of eastern Europe, but that many eastern countries, Finland for example, have advanced considerably in the last 30 to 40 years.
"Russia might have, too," he said, "had not her Communist government kept her down."
ToAttendMeeting Of Youth Council
Several faculty members will attend the annual meeting of the Kansas Council for Children and Youth at Emporia State Teachers College Oct. 5.
Theme of the meeting is "The Challenge of the Teenager." Speakers will be Judge Philip B. Gilliam of the Denver Juvenile Court, the Rev. Charles A. Smith of Wichita, who is the executive director of the Catholic Social Service and Dr. Paul Popenoe of Los Angeles, director of the American Institute of Family Relations.
Other speakers are Dr. Edward Greenwood of the Meninger Foundation; Dr. C. Arden Miller, assistant professor of pediatrics at the KU Medical Center; Dr. Melvin Muroff, clinical director of the Topeka Boys Industrial School and Dr. Antonio Fueyo, chief of the children's section of the Topeka State Hospital.
Names for the official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:38 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring bulletins from the Kansai Natics should include name, place, date, and time of function.
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American Society of Tool Engineers field trip, to Union Wire Rope. 21st and Manchester, Kansas City, Mo. Leave Fowler Building 6 p.m., or meet at plant site at 7:30 p.m. Rides can be furnished. Please register at Fowler.
TODAY
Record concert, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Museum of Art. Verdi: "La Traviata," conducted by Arturo Toscanini (the complete opera).
Sociology Club, 4 p.m., Bailey Lounge. Dr. Carylle Smith will show a film on his recent South Pacific expedition. Everyone invited. Election of officers.
Al Ch. E picnic, 6 p.m., at the sand-
bar. Meet behind Lindley Hall at 6 p.m.
Ph.D. reading examination in German,
9-11 a.m. Saturday, in 206 Fraser.
Graduate Club, 8 p.m. Jayhawk Room.
Election of officers and
southern dance patrons.
Ph.D. French reading examination,
9-11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, in 110 Fraser.
Candidates should turn in books to Miss
g. 120 Fraser, no later than 4 p. Tuesd.
PRESENTAY
Kappa Phi, 7:30 p.m. Methodist Student Center. First open meeting. All girls interested are invited to attend.
Museum of Art record concert, 2 p.m.
Art Museum, Muzart: "The Magic Flute."
Lutheran Student Association coffee hour, 10:30 a.m.. Trinity Lutheran Church; Cost Supper, 5:30 p.m. Discussion: The Christian Standard of attendance
SUNDAY
Wesley Foundation. 5:30 p.m. Methodist Student Center. Cost supper, recreation. Talk by Professor VanderWerf: "An Adequate University Religion."
Wesley graduate group, 6:30 p.m.
Methodist Student Center. Discuss.
What Does a Graduate Student
Explain of the Church?" Chaperon: Jeanne
Fisk.
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
The Magick Flute, Art Museum. Mozart: The
Magic Flute.
KU Engineerettes get-acquainted tea, 7:30 p.m., women's lounge. Art Museum. All wives of engineering students invited.
Women's Club To Meet
The University Women's club will have a board meeting at 10 a.m. Monday in the lounge of Spooner-Thayer Museum. The club will have a tea from 3 to 5 Thursday in the home of Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy.
American motor truck builders now produce more than one million units per year-approximately half of the world's annual output.
Cartoons Displayed
Original humor panels, comic strips and editorial cartoons received recently from King Features Syndicate are now on display in the William Allen White Memorial Reading Room of Flint Hall.
The cartoons were added to the Albert T. Reid collection which now contains originals of 58 of the 65 categories of cartoons distributed by King Features Syndicate. The exhibit contains brief biographical sketches of the artists and cartoonists whose work is shown, as well as a brief sketch of the history of newspaper syndicates.
Also on display is a part of the George Matthew Adams collection of first edition William Allen White books and gifts given by Miss Nellie Barnes and Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, retired professors of English, and Mrs. Beulah Murphy White, Bonner Springs, a member of the first journalism class to graduate from KU. Another exhibit shows the faculty of the School of Journalism and a man showing the home towns of students enrolled for the 1956-57 term.
The exhibit may be seen from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
One of the first effective vaccines for protection against whooping cough was developed and standardized in the laboratories of the Michigan State eHalth Department.
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Correction
Recital Date - Changed
The Quintette Beecherzi, scheduled to appear Friday, Oct. 5, in Strong Auditorium, will appear the following Friday, Oct. 12, Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts announced today. The time, place, and program will be the same, he said.
Tonganoxie High School will replace Lacygne at Band Day Saturday, and not Long High School as reported in The Kansan Thursday.
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