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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 18.1961
Enrollment Forecast
There probably will be more than 10,000 students on the Lawrence campus this fall, and nearly 11,000 total, counting the Medical School.
Just a few years ago, KU almost had the atmosphere of a "small" college, considering that there were barely 6,000 here. Quite a change, eh what?
AND IT WON'T BE TOO LONG before that 11,000 figure jumps to 12,13,15,and. by 1970, 17,000, which by contemporary statistics would make KU one of the biggest schools in the country.
Only trouble with this is that other schools will grow at a proportionate rate. Big Ten institutions such as Ohio State, Minnesota, and Illinois, for example, will undoubtedly crowd the 35,000 or 40,000 mark nine years from now.
Nevertheless, a prospective 17,000 student body is something to think about, especially if you're a businessman or contractor. Why? For several obvious reasons.
For one thing, this means you are living in an area with a guaranteed population growth. This means, in turn, that all sorts of juicy construction jobs will be available; more and bigger dorms will have to rise on the campus skyline.
If you are a clothing merchant, to name just one occupation, your chances of expanding your trade are bright indeed. Seven thousand additional students can buy a lot of sport coats and slacks.
THERE IS NOTHING MERCENARY ABOUT this, because Lawrence has always had many
fine stores and owners who have treated KU students fairly and squarely for years. But you can see the economic possibilities.
Academically, the University will have to hire several hundred more instructors to accommodate the increased load. On the surface, this doesn't appear to be too big a problem.
But other schools will be competing for their services, probably even more so than today. KU has always had an excellent faculty, even though salaries have been low compared with Big Ten rates for example. Many have turned down higher paying jobs elsewhere out of pure loyalty, because there's some intangible quality about Mt. Oread which just doesn't exist in most schools.
MAYBE IT'S THE SCENERY, the people, the location, or the reputation—whatever it is, KU has it.
However, if an all-out salary war begins, loyalty might not count for much. This is one reason why the administration is so eager to push the wage scale up now, before possible stagnation sets in. In other words, KU officials want salaries hiked immediately, to avoid losing faculty members en masse a few years from now.
Students in 1970 will probably be about the same, and that's something to cheer about, for most Jayhawker men and women today are much more serious minded and intellectually inquisitive than their counterparts of 25 years ago.
We should have a pretty good football team by then too...
- Chuck Morelock
Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1. Exploits,
6. Chief,
10. Kiln.
14. Emblem of New
Hampshire.
15. Vault.
16. Isinglass.
17. Home strategist:
2. words.
20. TV offering.
21. Altar boy.
22. First word of
"Home, Sweet
Home."
23. ___ qua non.
24. Impetuous people.
25. Thespians.
26. Slip.
27. Baldwin or
Jonathan.
28. "Sketch Book"
character.
29. What Rome
wasn't built in:
2. words.
30. Castor and Pollux.
31. Hard green stone.
32. Sea.
34. Glove material.
35. Ballroom dance.
36. Quivering motion.
45 Older.
47 Greek god.
49 Aurora.
Repeating.
53 Girl's name.
58 Unwelcome touring companies; 2 words.
60 Concerning; Lat.
61 Pintail duck.
62 Floor coverings; Brit. colloq.
63 Distasteful.
64 Yard.
65 Outcome.
DOWN
1 Crack.
2 Ireland.
3 Charitable gift.
3 Savoir-faire.
4 Crafty one.
4 Beginning of many a romance;
2 words.
5 Poet's contraction.
6 Stories.
6 Certain policemen.
7 Menu item.
11 Light-hearted.
12 Shoof!
13 Falschool.
13 Albanse song.
19 Present occasion.
24 Vital part.
25 Command.
26 Exchange.
27 Hog caller's word.
28 World War I planes.
30 Zoo attraction.
31 Range of hills.
32 Fishing imple-
ment
34 Claimant to a throne.
38 Reliability.
39 Man's name.
41 Rail birds.
42 Former kingdom of Spain.
44 License plate.
46 Bellow.
48 Postage —
48 Bird.
51 Pueblo Indian.
52 Beige.
54 Tel —
56 Anspirate, as a consonant.
58 Household appliance.
59 Assistant: Abbr.
69 Hysson or gunpowder.
(Answer on page 4)
Agent's Life A Tough One
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — There you are with a few hours notice when the President of the United States lands where you didn't figure he would, and comes to town in a borrowed 1954 civilian car.
That was one of the harassing moments in the life of Howard R. Haas, special agent in charge of the Kansas City office of the secret service. He is retiring July 31 after 30 years service.
The 50-year-old Haas is quitting early as most retirements go. He says he wants to get into something else while he still has plenty of vigor.
Not that Haas doesn't like secret service work. He does very much, especially the tracking down of counterfeiters.
There was the time last year that President Eisenhower was visiting his boyhood home of Abilene. Haas and cooperating law enforcement agencies had set up tight security plans for the Chief Executive's split-second schedule. The President was to inspect progress of construction at the Eisenhower Library.
Haas has been protecting presidents and doing other secret service work since he began in his native Cleveland in 1931. He has been in charge of the service's Kansas City office since 1954 and before that was head of the unit at Toledo, Ohio.
That meant a wholesale change of security plans, including a quick call to the Los Angeles office of the Secret Service. With about 15 minutes notice that office was well on its way to having protection measures set up.
Mr. Eisenhower was scheduled to go to Denver from Abilene. But the weather was miserable at the Colorado city and the President's plane wouldn't have been able to land. So the Chief Executive said: "Well, we'll go to Palm Springs."
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN NEWS DEPARTMENT
NEW DEARFIGENT
Chuck Morelock and
Ron Gallagher ... Co-Editors
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Chuck Martinache ... Business Mgr.
By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
MOUNTAIN MEDICINE, by A. B. Guthrie Jr., Cardinal, 35 cents. These stories of the West which Guthrie first called "The Big It and Other Stories" have qualities lacking in much writing of the plains and mountains. There is style, first of all. "The Big Sky" and "The Way West" proved Guthrie, and even a weak novel like "These Thousand Hills" still had qualities that placed it above the ordinary.
The style that marks Guthrie in his novels is found in these short stories. Another quality is believability; another is a basic lack of romantic outlook. Every story here can be believed, and the one that seems least credible, that which gives the title to this paperback volume, is itself based upon a true experience of a trapper who went west with Lewis and Clark.
THESE ARE SIMPLE TALES for the most part, tales in which right and wrong are clearly separated. "The Therefore Hog" tells how one range rider got the best of a bed hog and wound up with the bed all for himself. "The Big It" tells how a mountain howitzer fails to impress Indians. "Independence Day" is about a classic fist fight in Moon Dance, Mont.
"The Wreck" is a modern tragedy of how a small town photographer is unjustly convicted of drunken driving. "Old Mother Hubbard" tells about a foreman—in bib overalls—who wins the grudging respect of cowboys who hate sodbusters. "Ebbie" is about a one-eyed hunting dog that loses the other eye in a fight, and about the boy who feels his life has shattered when his father feels called upon to kill the dog.
"BARGAIN" TELLS HOW a store proprietor gets the best of a freighter who not only won't pay his bills but is a bully. "First Principal" describes a male school teacher's attempt to win the respect of townsmen used to women teachers. "Last Snake" (a tale that recalls the Missouri boatmen of "The Big Sky") is about a Missouri boy who tries to flee the tough, brutal foreman of a boat going up the Big Muddy in trapper days.
"The Moon Dance Skunk" is a tall tale about how a bartender succeeds in driving out a man who has taken over the saloon with his pet skunk. "Mountain Medicine" describes a trapper's harrowing escape from Blackfeet. "The Keeper of the Key" is about a judge's vacation and the troubles of a town with the temporary "judge." And "The Fourth at Getup" shows how Kentucky tenderfeel fail to mix with the casual, whiskey-drinking Montana folks bent on a happy Fourth of July.
HENRY ESMOND, by William Makepeace Thackeray. Bantam Classics, 50 cents.
Thackeray's design in writing this supposed memoir of an Englishman in the days of Queen Anne was to duplicate the style and mood of that era. In this respect he is extraordinarily successful. "Henry Esmond" has touches of Fielding, and contains the amusing conceit of an essay supposedly taken from Addison and Steele's Spectator.
The book is not for the 20th century reader accustomed to the sub-literary style of a "Peyton Place." It is slow and it meanders—as it was meant to do. It is almost entirely in third person; Thackeray allows his hero, who is telling the story in third person, to forget momentarily, and an "I" takes the place of a "Mr. Esmond."
Most interesting, perhaps, are the portraits of real men—Swift, Addison, Steele, and Bolingbroke. Henry Esmond himself is a hero who deserves all the trouble he got, but the lovely Beatrix is one of the most believable heroines in fiction.
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Modern Library Paperbacks, 95 cents.
In the history of literature of the West, this novel occupies an honored place. It is scarcely a horse opera, being, instead, the story of a lynching and the retribution that follows. It is a story of how the people of a little Nevada town become swept up in mob fever.
Clark describes how two cowboys come into town and become part of an expedition designed to find cattle rustlers, and string them up. The mob contains an interesting group, including a vicious father who is determined his son shall share the experience of a lynching.
THE TOWN HOUSE, by Norah Lofts. Cardinal Giants, 75 cents.
Here is a historical novel, set in the 14th and 15th centuries. An English serf rebels, escapes, and goes through many trials and tribulations before he becomes a wealthy wool merchant. Needless to say, he never finds true happiness. Not nearly as busty as the cover might indicate. "The Town House" is an interesting piece of writing, with good background on cities and towns, castles and hovels.
NEVER DIES THE DREAM, by Margaret Landon. Pocket Books, 35 cents.
The author of "Anna and the King of Siam" here gives us a compassionate story about a woman missionary in Siam. She refuses to play politics in the mission hierarchy, loses her school but knows she has done things of value for the Siamese people. The novel recalls "The Keys of the Kingdom" and "The Small Woman."