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Summer Session Kansan
Friday. July 21. 1961
Girl Scouts to End Tours With Week Study at KU
KU will be the last stop in a six-week tour of the United States by 72 young women,15 to 19 years old,from 27 states and 12 foreign countries.
They will assemble at KU August 8 for a week-long study session after touring the four quarters of the United States. The American girls, all senior Girl Scouts, and the foreign girls, Girl Guide Rangers, began the project June 28. Two busloads left Palo Alto, Calif., for separate tours of the Northwest and Southwest, and two groups left New York City the
more groups left New York City the same day to travel to Lawrence through the Northeast and the Southeast.
While at KU, the scouts will hold group meetings and small discussion sessions to compare notes on the trip and to evaluate the program. Special events, including field trips to points of interest in the area and a picnic at Potter Lake on the campus, have been planned.
Girl Scouts from Lawrence have been invited to attend one of the sessions.
On the road, the scouts will stay in private homes along their routes. At KU they will live in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, and have meals in the Kansas Union.
By the time the four contingents meet at KU, the girls will have covered a total of more than 16,000 miles, traveled through 40 states and the District of Columbia, stopped at more than 52 towns and cities, and spent a night or two in approximately 1,000 American homes.
They will have seen such sights as California's redwood forests, a glacier in Washington, a cattle ranch in Montana, historic Williamsburg, Va., Oak Ridge Laboratory, and New Orleans' French Quarter. They will have ridden a float in Salt Lake City's "Days of '47" parade and will have toured the White House and visited with women Senators.
The foreign girls' trip was financed
Ex-KU Concertmaster Earns Master of Music
Marlan G. Carlson, former concertmaster of the University of Kansas symphony orchestra, has received the degree master of music in music literature from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. N.Y.
Carlson, an honor student from Wayne, Neb., earned the bachelor of music education degree from Kansas in 1959 and the bachelor of music in 1960. He held scholarships throughout his years at K.U. and on the basis of work here won a Danforth Fellowship, which will provide up to three more years of graduate study beyond the year just ended.
by the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund, established in honor of the founding of Girl Scouting in this country and supported by contributions from Girl Scouts. American girls paid a $200 fee raised either by their local scout councils or by the girls themselves.
Film Classic To Be Shown
"The Big Parade," one of Hollywood's all-time film classics, will be shown at 8 p.m. Saturday in the University Theatre.
John Gilbert and Renee Adoree star in this saga of World War I. The picture, directed by King Vidor and released in 1925, concerns the forces that drove people into the war. Much of the action revolves around the American doughboys and the girls they left behind. There are also plenty of combat scenes.
"The Big Parade" has a musical sound track, although the dialogue is silent. Through the years, the film has been considered to be one of the finest of its kind, and rates favorably with such productions as "What Price Glory?", "All Quiet on the Western Front," and "Wings."
Gilbert, one of the screen's most famous leading men, was at the peak of his popularity at the time the movie was released. His reign ended with the introduction of talkies however, because of his poor speaking voice.
By Jerry Knudson
(Editor's Note: A former instructor of journalism here, Jerry Knudson has toured Mexico and Guatemala this summer. This is the second of a two-part series.)
The only stretch of the Pan American Highway not paved in Central America is found in Guatemala, perhaps because the small republic does not want to furnish easy access for Mexican troops.
A flurry of excitement swept this capital city early this summer when Guatemala charged that invasion troops were being trained on the estate of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas in southern Mexico. The charge was denied, but Guatemalans are still jumpy. Troops with machine guns can be seen on the streets of the city.
The United States does not figure large in the foreign policy of Guatemala, for here the "Colossus of the North" is not the land of the United Fruit Co., but Mexico itself.
Anyone who can survive the bus ride from Cuauhtemoc on the Mexican frontier will find a ruggedly beautiful country here. The road is a single-track version of the celebrated Burma Road of World War II, and occasional landslides are merely incorporated into the road itself, providing some ups and downs to match the sinuous curves.
U.S. Doesn't Worry Guatemala
This is an Indian country, with about 53 per cent of its population of Maya-Quiche descent, 38 per cent ladino or of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry, and 9 per cent of Spanish origin.
GUATEMALA CITY — Sensitive Americans, always concerned over the opinions of others, do not get a tumble from the Guatemalans, who are busy disliking their relatively affluent neighbor to the north, Mexico.
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By Jerry Knudson
Nowhere are Indian traditions more alive than in the village of Chichicastenango, which has become a tourist attraction with its Thursday and Sunday markets. At all
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times, Indians may be seen on the steps of the Church of Santo Tomas swinging incense censors to speed their prayers to heaven.
Religion here is a strange mixture of Christian and pagan cults. The Mayan calendar contains good and evil days. On good days the Indians flock to the church to pray for good crops, long life, and the like. But on evil days. On good days the Indians le value, and they repair to nearby hilltops where ancient Mayan idols still serve a superstitious people.
Chickens may be offered as sacrifices, with the practical result that the medicine men enjoy fried chicken lunches. Liquor is also part of the ritual, and if one wants a haircut in Chichicastenango, it is best to go early in the morning while the barber may still be sober.
Another tourist attraction is the colonial town of Antigua, first capital of the Spanish province. More than 40 churches — most in ruins after the earthquake of 1773 — dot the quiet town.
Guatemala City itself is a smaller and less exciting version of Mexico City. One sees more Indians here,
some in traditional dress, and on almost every street corner you can hear the slurred sounds of the Quiche language.
The future of Guatemala is not promising, despite anything that President Kennedy's "Alliance for Progress" might accomplish. The country is too small, and those who hope to restore the Central American Confederation which lasted briefly from 1824 to 1838 are destined for disappointment.
These people are intensely individualistic and suspicious of each other. One drawback has been Costa Rica, which has not wanted to combine with the other Central American republics because it is more advanced and more democratic.
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But people here — as throughout Latin America — are extremely optimistic. A shoeshine boy offered to shine my shoes at the very moment when I was running down the street to catch a bus. I missed the bus, and he shined my shoes.
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.—E. A. Robinson
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