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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 11, 1961
Take a Bow, Kids
If you haven't heard them before, plan to do so next Sunday. . .
The high school students currently enrolled here for the Midwestern Music and Art Camp are really a remarkable group of youngsters, with talent to burn. I went to the band, chorus, and orchestra concerts Sunday and heard some music which was of professional caliber. In fact, if you had shut your eyes from time to time, and pretended you were relaxing on the couch following a big Sunday dinner and listening to good music, you would have sworn you were hearing the Philadelphia Orchestra or the Boston Pops. They were that good.
THE KU CAMP is the second largest of its kind in the nation, surpassed only by the Interlochen group in Michigan. The camp here was started back in the 1930s with literally a handful of high school musicians but now it has mushroomed into a "going concern" with a national reputation.
As I said before, you've really missed something if you haven't heard these kids perform...
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NEXT TO THE PRESIDENCY, about the toughest job I can think of is being a university chancellor. My chances of landing these jobs aren't exactly bright, and I'm glad. The latter task is complete with thousands of headaches the general public probably never is even aware of. For instance, a chancellor not only has to coordinate all classroom and research activities, he must interview job applicants, keep the state legislature happy and hope that august body comes through with the appropriation dollars; speak at a hundred and one high school and college commencements, alumni get-togethers, and
professional meetings; support the football coach when public pressure is mounting for his sacking; and maintain the university image through adept public relations. This is just the beginning; the list goes on, and on, and on. You sometimes wonder why anybody would want the job in the first place. Fortunately, here at KU we've had some good men in the past, and we've got a good one right now...
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CONCERNING THE PRESIDENCY, I've never forgotten a remark made by Harry Truman. Harry once stated that his sympathy went out to any President, regardless of party.
Although the mere mention of this gentleman's name usually stirs up a verbal hornet's nest, especially around here, you can't deny the wisdom of the above remark. No matter what a President says or does, no matter how sincere he is in proposing new legislation, he is bound to irritate thousands of citizens from coast to coast. It has often been said that the Presidency is the loneliest job in the world, and I believe it. I'm sure all of our living ex-presidents would second that too.
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE faces more pressure in one day than most men face in a lifetime. How would you, for example, like to polish off breakfast, walk to the White House, then sit down for ten or more hours and solve the Berlin crisis, the unemployment problem, the labor problem, and other problems? Don't forget, you would also have to keep your party united and the opposition off balance, and maintain a bipartisan spirit on the big issues at the same time. This is quite a trick if you can do it.
And I sometimes think I have problems. . . .
Daily Crossword Puzzle
- Chuck Morelock
ACROSS
ACROSS
1. Herring's relative.
2. Capt. Standish.
3. And others: Abbr.
4. Gate receipts.
5. Hacienda material.
6. Nobel prize physicist.
7. Modern household accessory: 2 words.
8. Children's game.
9. Armadas.
10. Handle.
11. Hit show: Slang.
12. Cachalot.
13. Boring person: Slang: 2 words.
14. Growing-up years.
15. Playground treat.
16. Weight.
17. Severe.
18. Suppose.
19. Buttonlike device.
20. Salutation.
21. Brief flash.
22. Game of skill.
23. Warning sign: 2 words.
24. County.
41 Fruit.
42 Exchange: Collog.
43 Jungle journey.
44 Undamaged.
45 Payroll-saving
plans 4 words.
51 enough.
52 Nautical action.
53 King of the Huns.
54 Editorial
instruction.
55 Jewish feast.
56 Judgment.
**DOWN**
1 Pace.
2 Robust.
3 African tree.
4 Roustabout.
5 Decorative stone.
6 Simple Simon.
7 Poisonous wced.
8 Decline.
9 Successful by
one's own
efforts.
10 Wilde hero.
11 Non-swinging
batter; 2 words.
12 Sanction.
13 Wagons
French sleeping
cars.
18 One side of a coin.
19 Having wings.
20 Move like a panther.
21 Cloth pattern.
22 Formerly.
23 Hard stone.
24 Agitate.
25 Football linemen.
26 Sign of spring.
27 Thorn.
28 Actor Laurence and family.
29 Cargo.
30 TV puppet-man.
31 Trinket.
32 Earth, for instance.
33 One who influences.
34 Tennis action.
34 Pert talk.
34 Border on.
35 Eat.
36 Inner: Comb, form.
37 French town.
38 Wedge-shaped piece for leveling in masonry.
39 Letter.
(Answer on page 5)
Sparks Fly Over Reds
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WASHINGTON —(UPI)— There are two subjects of diplomacy whose mere mention starts political sparks flying.
One is the question of Red China or "Two Chinas" in the United Nations; the other is communist Outer Mongolia.
—An administration study of how to deal with the China-U.N. problem and a possible plan to favor two Chinas in the U.N. —a plan officials hoped Red China would reject.
For the past few weeks sparks were sizzling at home and abroad on both subjects.
They raised hackles in Congress and debate in the State Department.
They produced bitter resentment against the United States in the Nationalist Chinese stronghold on Formosa. And they brought U.S. Ambassador Everett F. Drumright flying home from Formosa for consultation.
A series of U.S. talks in Moscow with Outer Mongolia about possible U.N. membership and U.S. recognition.
THE CAUSES OF THE FIREworks were:
In each case, the administration was reacting to a changed world scene which threatens to outmode the old policies.
For years the Soviet Union has tried to gain U.N. membership for some of its less popular satellites by packaging one of them in a resolution with a country the West wanted admitted.
ON THE QUESTION OF RED China in the U.N., one veteran Washington diplomat complained, "It's gotten so you can't even consider China. We are now being clobbered just for trying to think ahead."
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Chuck Morelock and
Ron Gallagher ... Co-Editors
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Chuck Martinache ... Business Mgr.
the took world
By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
COMMUNIST CHINA AND ASIA, by A. Doak Barnett. Vintage Books (Random House), $1.65.
Though American foreign policy in recent months has been focused on Latin America and Southeast Asia, the constant danger of Communist China has not been dissipated. This we should all keep in mind, and this is what A. Doak Barnett stresses in this thorough and scholarly examination of China in the world today.
Barnett will be remembered by many on this campus as one of the best representatives of the American Universities Field Staff to appear here. The perception which he demonstrated in his lectures a few years ago is evident in this volume.
He examines the many facets of the problem, providing not just a current events approach but historical perspective as well. Communist China did not suddenly arise as a threat in late 1949. What China is today had been building in Chinese revolutions for a century. Mao Tse-tung had been a powerful Chinese leader throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists had been at war for many years before the eruption of their conflict at the end of World War II.
Doak Barnett offers suggestions throughout as to what the United States should do about China. One suggestion would anger many, for Barnett believes that recognition of Communist China is necessary. He also believes that, when possible, China should be seated in the United Nations. He scoffs at the notion that Chiang Kai-shek's troops can retake the mainland, and that there are many on the mainland who would revolt immediately should Chiang return.
China is no longer the decentralized country that it was in the days of Kuomintang power. It is, relatively speaking, an economic giant. It is a great power as it never was in the Chiang era. It is a threat to Southeast Asia, and its existence is very good reason for such nations as Burma and Indonesia refusing to line up with the West.
It could be said that, even though American policy planners have worried most about Cuba and Laos in recent days, the problems of these countries cannot be dissociated from problems connected with China. For it is the Communist Pathet Lao that has brought Laos to its present state, and it is communism that has made Cuba a problem.
These matters, and many more, constitute this illuminating volume, and Doak Barnett's knowledge and experience make this a book that Americans should be aware of.
It is interesting to note that this brilliant writer, composing his tales and novels in a time of national and international ferment, restricted himself to psychological excursions, to slow developments of human enigmas. These people of James, like those in his novels, are not people of action but of leisure, working at self-fulfillment and the pursuit of meaning. Dencome of "The Middle Years" is the artist, wondering about the meaning of life. Marcher of "The Beast in the Jungle" is the man coming to a realization that "the beast" is within himself.
Here is a collection from our greatest craftsman, representing a spread of stories that begin with the early James, writing in simple, direct style, and end with the later James, complex and direct. Included are such famous stories as "The Middle Years" and "The Beast in the Jungle."
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So Maggie dies, like Daisy Miller before her, sacrificed to society. The book is a curiosity, for we have become hardened, somewhat, by Dreiser and Farrell. In the terms of her society, Maggie couldn't be allowed to survive. A vivid story, it moves one but never quite makes one believe all that happens.
This "shocking" landmark in literary naturalism seems tame to a reader of 1961. But it was real pioneering for Stephen Crane in the 1890s. Maggie comes from the humblest of backgrounds. She has hard-drinking parents and a brother who is a street tough but who is conventionally shocked by Maggie's association with another street tough.
FIFTEEN SHORT STORIES, by Henry James. Bantam, 75 cents.
MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS, by Stephen Crane. Fawcett, 50 cents.
IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR, by MacKinlay Kantor. Bantam, 35 cents.
This is utter nonsense, and not delightful nonsense. It is timewasting and not in the least provocative. Kantor does not try, in the fashion of Robert Penn Warren, to show what the South might be like today had the war taken different turns. He merely does such foolish things as have Grant killed when thrown by his horse, Lee triumph at Gettysburg, the war end in 1863, Lee become president of the Confederacy, Wilson another southern president, and so on.
THREE PLAYS. by Thornton Wilder. Bantam Classics, 60 cents.
Though superficially these plays seem to have little in common, actually they have much. Each has Thornton Wilder's sweeping look at history, his ability to relate contemporary happenings to other developments of civilization. Theatrically, each represents a departure from 20th century forms. The Stage Manager of "Our Town" steps forth and talks to the audience; so several of the characters in "The Matchmaker." "The Skin of Our Teeth" does outrageous things to the conventional theater. All three are among the genuinely memorable works of the last quarter century.