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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 23, 1961
The Peace Corps
Of all the proposals introduced by President Kennedy in his first few months in office the Peace Corps seems to be one of the least understood of all. Americans have reacted in many ways to this plan to make junior diplomats out of young Americans. Some have expressed strong disapproval while others acclaim it as one of the most useful proposals since the days of FDR.
ALTHOUGH THE PEACE CORPS HAS provoked various shades of reaction the majority seem to be opposed to it. Even at the colleges and universities response to the Peace Corps has been far from what its founders had hoped for. Members of older generations as well as many from the generation the corps was designed for doubt that American youth is actually ready to accept the responsibilities that await him in foreign lands.
It is bad enough when the elders of our country express doubt of the qualifications of American youth, but it is much worse when these young people agree with the opinions of their elders. American youth apparently does not have much confidence in its own abilities.
THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY are reluctant to face up to the challenges that surround them and demand their attention. How can the world political situation be ignored? People are starving in many areas of the world. Communism is on the move almost everywhere. Almost everyday a new trouble-spot ignites and threatens to engulf the world in another global conflict.
These are the great challenges of our day. They cannot be met by a person who is not confident in himself. They will never be contested by those who refuse to realize their responsibilities not only as a citizen of the United States but also the world.
President Kennedy was right all the frontiers have not been exhausted. The frontiers now on the horizon are not the Western or the Alaskan frontiers so often mentioned in American History. The frontiers now within our vision are those of the political ideology we as Americans subscribe to. Will the revolution of 1776 continue to liberate and free the peoples of the world to live the life they were created for? This is the question for the new generation.
YOUNG AMERICANS SHOULD BE QUICK to accept the invitation to participate in this great contest. Their elders should urge them to do so instead of doubting their ability to do the job that must be done.
Everyone will not be able to sell the idea of Democracy in some foreign land. But judging from the number of applicants who were accepted in the Peace Corps we can assume that only the best will be accepted as representatives of our country. As long as the Peace Corps preserves a high degree of selectivity and takes only the best for training there should be high regard for American youth in the under-developed areas of the world.
- Ron Gallagher
Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Brazilian dance.
2 Between Kukla and Ollie.
10 Priggish.
14 Full of: Suffix.
15 River in France.
16 Center part.
17 Camper's equipment.
19 Algerian seaport.
20 Fancy goldfish.
21 Anthony Trollope's "Doctor "
23 Japanese apricots.
24 Performer on a wind instrument.
25 Drive away.
26 Fragrant resins.
29 Danube tributary.
30 Lora of fiction.
32 Come in.
35 Prize fight decisions.
37 Servicewomen.
38 Blood.
40 Wife of Abraham.
42 Steam turbine part.
44 Triumph.
45 Mousy character.
47 Delicate gradation.
49 Kind of newspaper.
51 Wine.
52 Rub with oil.
53 Stately Spanish dance.
54 Astound.
56 Get better.
58 Chinatown group.
61 Pierette to Pierrot.
62 Prevent legally.
63 Remnants.
64 Opposite of reveille.
66 Geological term.
DOWN
1 Suffix: Abbr.
2 __ prima (at once): Italian.
3 Songling sound.
4 Break off, as a friendship: Slang; 2 words.
5 Abashed.
6 Fencing swords.
7 Fishing outfits.
8 Fallout over Eina.
9 Sting.
10 Scampering off.
11 Washington's headquarters, 1777 and 1779-80.
12 Monitor lizards.
13 Relative of the civet.
18 Hide oneself: 2 words.
22 Actor Cronyn.
24 Swift.
25 Sign of ellipsis.
26 Actress Chase.
27 Held up by weather.
28 Ambassador.
31 Equipped for sculling.
33 The Red navigator.
34 French man's name.
36 Lloyd's Register items.
38 State south of Arizona.
41 Image.
43 Police in 33 Down.
46 Famous Club of Addison and Steele.
48 Under most favorable circumstances: 2 words.
49 Inbox.
50 Dancer and choreographer Dolin.
51 Lays asphalt.
53 Dissever.
54 Concerning: 2 words.
55 Noncoms.
56 Departments: Abbr.
59 Ex-boxer.
(Answer on page 16)
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Dentists Work To Halt Aches In Space Man
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—(UPI)—Because space travelers won't be allowed to use toothpaste, U.S. Air Force dentists are at work to find something that will prevent a toothache from calling off a trip.
The work in preventive dentistry at the Air Force's Aerospace Medical Center should lead to better teeth for everyone, according to Lt. Col. (Dr.) Norman Harris.
Dr. Harris believes one way to protect teeth from cavities is by treatment with stannus fluoride two or three times a year. He said surveys show that the process reduces trouble by 20 per cent with only one treatment annually.
Astronauts face a special tooth problem, he said. They won't be allowed to use toothpaste because the sudsy water from the brushing would not be fit to be reprocessed for drinking.
By developing antibodies to fight germs that cause tooth decay, they may develop an inoculation serum to protect spacemen from bad teeth along with other diseases.
Dr. Harris is also experimenting to find out what goes on in a person's mouth during the course of a day. Radio is helping him to do the job.
IN THE FUTURE, "going to the dentist will be less trouble than a trip to the barber shop or beauty parlor," Dr. Harris said.
HE SAID IN ORDER to study chewing habits, tiny transistor radios are mounted in dentures. The radios signal the number of times the teeth are in contact. Dr. Harris said first findings show the number of times a person clicks his dentures together varies from 500 to 15,000 times a day.
Dr. Harris said they have also discovered that it will be safe to send into space a man who has had his teeth repaired many times.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
NEWS DEPARTMENT Chuck Morelock and Ron Gallagher Co-Ed
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Chuck Martinache ... Business Mgr.
By John S. Lewis Assistant Instructor of English AT ELIZABETHAN PLAYS." Bantam, 50c.
"FOUR GREAT ELIZABETHAN PLAYS," Bantam, 50c.
The publication of Elizabethan and Jacobian plays in inexpensive reprints is hardly a recent development. In the 1880s Havelock Ellis, then a young medical student, persuaded the British publisher Vizetelly to publish some volumes of plays called the "Mermaid Series." These "Mermaids" introduced playwrights such as Jonson, Marlowe, Dekker, and even some obscure minor Elizabethan dramatists such as Henry Porter and John Day to British gentlemen.
THERE HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTS ever since to reprint some of the triumphs of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama but none so elaborate as the "Mermaid Series."
However, since the publishers of inexpensive paperbacks have entered the "quality" field it was almost inevitable that some of them would turn to Elizabethan and Jacobbean drama. Bantam, apparently intending the volume as a companion to the collection of four Restoration and eighteenth-century plays, has issued a volume containing Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus," John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi," Thomas Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday," and Ben Jonson's "Volpone." The edition is an attractive reprint. It includes an introduction by John Gassner that is judicious but too short.
IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMAGINE four more varied titles than the plays included here. Two of the plays are tragedies and two are comedies but the variation among them is wide. The Dekker play is a romantic bourgeois comedy, a success story chronicling the rise of Simon Eyre from a shoemaker to Lord Mayor of London. "The Shoemaker's Holiday" is saved from being another vulgar success story by Dekker's sprightly humor.
But "The Shoemaker's Holiday" is utterly unlike the other comedy in the edition, Jonson's "Volpone." Jonson used his major comedies expressly for revealing mankind's worst faults in order that individual men might correct their own.
THE TWO TRAGEDIES are much different from each other also. "Doctor Faustus" was written probably in 1593 and "The Duchess of Malfi" some time between 1610 and 1613. A great deal happened to the Englishman's concept of tragedy between those two dates. Marlowe, although essentially a rebel, espoused the optimism of the 1590s. Doctor Faustus' tragedy results because he, like Marlowe's other hero Tamburlaine, had an aspiring mind. But because Faustus sought to ascend higher than any man before him had done his fall asserts the dignity of man.
Such is not the case with Webster. The hero of "The Duchess of Malfi," if he can be called a hero, is a malignant, discontented murderer. Although the duchess herself is usually taken to be the main figure of Webster's play it is around the melancholic Bosola that the play centers.
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, by Betty Smith. Popular Library, 50 cents.
There was a lot of excitement over Betty Smith's novel when it appeared in the middle of World War II. It soon became an enjoyable motion picture and a fairly successful Broadway musical. Though lacking literary distinction, it is still a good story, one that is likely to endure for a few years at least.
It is the story of the Nolans, the improvident father, Johnny, a singing waiter with irresistible Irish charm; Katie, the struggling mother; Francie and Neeley, the children, and Aunt Sissy, the blowsy and good-natured aunt who goes from one lover to the next. It is especially the story of Francie, her wistful dreams, her love for her father, her books and her tree, growing lonely on a busy Brooklyn street. One episode particularly stands out in the lush holiday season—Francie and Neeley waiting for that unsold Christmas tree to be flung at them on Christmas eve, so that they, like many other children, can celebrate the great holiday.
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THE LAST PURITAN, by George Santayana. Scribner, $1.95.
It was coincidental, perhaps, that Santayana and Marquand should choose to describe a vanishing American at almost the same time. "The Last Puritan" appeared a year or so before "The Late George Apley," and both novels were cast in the frame of a memoir.
Santayana's Puritan has more depth than Marquand's. Marquand's Apley has become somewhat of a comic figure, even lending himself to a gay—more or less—Broadway comedy of the mid-1940s. Oliver Alden is no George Apley. He is as stern and forbidding, yet even more, and he is considerably more conscious of the fact that he may be almost an anachronism.
Alden, whose very name rings of the Puritan past, has two continents for his stage, and there is more than frustrated ambition and frustrated love. Yet, curiously, "The Last Puritan" is relatively unknown, where "The Late George Apley" continues to be read and to amuse and enlighten. Is it the bulk, the style, the philosophical discourse that discourage the reader?
DICTIONARY OF FOREIGN TERMS, edited by C. O. Sylvester Mawson, Bantam Books, 75 cents.
Here's a paperback that will come in handy for the person who is tired of running across "sauve qui peut" and "mare liberum" in novels and not knowing what the words mean. It's a handy reference volume that contains many familiar words and expressions from many languages.