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Summer Session Kansan Friday, June 16. 1961
Kansans: a Proud People
This year's centennial celebration, now coming to a climax in most Kansas towns, is a good index of the pride Kansans have in their state. Even the smallest Kansas towns have had or are planning elaborate celebrations to recognize the 100th anniversary of this state. Kansas newspapers have already printed many special issues recounting the history of Kansas as a territory and a state.
THIS YEAR THE KANSAS STORY IS fresh in the minds of every native and adopted son of the "Sunflower State." This is a story that started centuries ago when gold-seeking Spanish explorers pushed their way into the plains state. It is full of the drama of railroads and trails carrying another gold-hungry group west to expected fortunes. It includes some of the wildest tales of the cattle drives and gun fights of the old west.
The first conflicts of a bloody Civil War and the fight to make this a free state reflect in the Kansas Story the involvement of this state in the events that have made our country great.
Kansans have a heritage which would generate pride in the hearts of even the most humble. But Kansas has more than a heritage. It has the pride and the drive to improve its heritage and leave with each coming generation a legacy of more accomplishment.
A LIST OF THE WHEAT ACREAGE, FARM production, minerals and other natural resources found in Kansas is lengthy and impressive. But this is just part of the state's wealth. The people of Kansas are its greatest asset for it takes more than resources to make a country or a nation great. It takes dedicated, determined people to raise a state to prominence.
Ron Gallagher
The Chicago Trib and NSA
The Chicago Tribune has expressed interesting opinions on a number of subjects. Recently it dealt with the U.S.National Student Association (NSA).
THE ANNUAL NSA CONGRESS, ACCORDING to the Tribune, is "made up of delegates most of whom have no mandate from their home campuses." The resolutions passed are "half-baked and often leaning to the left."
This excellent newspaper (it prefers such spellings as tho, thru and buro to more accepted versions) has gotten its information from a former Northwestern University May Queen who
attended an NSA congress. She is trying, the Tribune says to "win this outfit to responsible tactics."
First of all, we didn't notice any Chicago reporters at last summer's congress. Secondly, many of those who left the congress disgruntled did so, not because voting procedures were unfair, but because the vote didn't go their way. Not everyone agreed on the issues, certainly, but everyone had a chance to speak and vote.
IF IT IS TRUE THAT INDIVIDUAL DELE-
IF IT IS TRUE THAT INDIVIDUAL DELEGATIONS aren't representative, that is the fault of the member schools, not the national staff.
— (From "The Minnesota Daily," Anil.4)
Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1. Singer.
6. Ben _ of "Treasure Island."
10. Pixyish comedienne.
14. Novelist Hervey.
15. Drug plant.
16. Man's name.
17. Granite.
18. Sofa.
20. Shows great deference.
22. Bookmakers.
23. Feminine suffix.
24. Poetry unit.
25. Carbed KKK-style.
29. Where Berlin is.
33. Actress Loy.
34. Gather.
37. Miss Lillie.
39. Give off.
43. Leafet.
40. Animal.
41. Girl in uniform.
42. Run after.
43. Chateau room.
44. Scythe handle.
46. Prominent Republican.
48. Heroine of "Green Mansions."
50. Fuss.
51 Beach bungalows.
54 Get overhot.
58 Keeping up with the Joneses.
60 Authentic Frank.
61 Substitute for potatoes
62 Like a "painted ship upon a painted ocean."
63 Finnish lake.
64 Phony.
65 Give up.
66 The people.
DOWN
1 Sit in the sun.
2 Voice.
3 Not quick.
4 Perceptive.
5 Town in Upper N. Y.
6 Flits about.
7 The gums.
8 New.
9 Most in want.
10 Flying egg-heater.
11 Companion novel of "Typee."
12 Master of mystery.
13 Master of ——
19 Founder of Nineveh.
21 Small.
25 Sawbills.
26 Author of "No Time for Sergeants."
27 Violinist Morini.
28 Bibleical name.
29 Greek coin.
31 Positive Thinking man.
32 Finished dinner.
32 College degrees: Abbr.
34 Goren 4-pointers.
34 Pertaining to the principal subject.
34 Petrol: Var.
34 Cups and saucers.
34 Describing a cocker spaniel's book.
35 Home of an Irish Rose.
37 Marble.
39 Apart.
41 Panelist Bennett.
42 Bowfin.
43 Author Pearl.
44 Snicker —
45 Car.
46 Spanish river.
47 Gypsy gentlemen.
48 One-time.
(Answer on page 8)
Children May Learn to Type
Children in grades four through eight may learn to type this summer in a special course offered here.
An eight-week class in the fundamentals of typewriting is being scheduled by the University Extension Bureau of Institutes and Conferences. It will meet daily at 4 p.m. beginning Monday in 108 Summerfield.
Miss Loda Newcomb, assistant professor of secretarial training, will be the instructor.
The class is scheduled for 4 to 5 p.m. because of possible conflicts with recreational activities. A shift to a morning hour may be considered if a convenient time can be arranged for students enrolled.
The youngsters also would possess a skill which they can use for school work next winter, McFarland added, and would have the satisfaction of having accomplished something worthwhile during the summer.
E. A. McFarland, director of the Bureau of Institutes and Conferences, said many children have type-writers in their homes and wish to operate them while they are still young. The course will help them to avoid forming bad habits and handicapping themselves in building skill later, he explained.
Short Ones
Let blockheads read what block-heads write. —Earl of Chesterfield * * *
The Arsenale of Venice once was the world's supreme shipyard. It turned out a galley a day during 16th-century wars.
The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate.
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To laugh at men of sense is a privilege of fools. -Jean De La Bruyere
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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
NEWS DEPARTMENT Chuck Morelock and Ron Gallagher Co-Ec
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Chuck Martinache ... Business Mgr.
By Calder M. Pickett
Associate Professor of Journalism
THE LONGEST DAY, by Cornelius Ryan. Fawcett. 50 cents.
With a sweep and a pace characteristic of the better novels of war, Cornelius Ryan has fashioned a history of D-Day that may be the best thing to date on that historic event.
He has utilized the technique that Walter Lord handled so well in his books about the Titanic and Pearl Harbor, and as Jim Bishop so absorbingly yet melodramatically did in "The Day Lincoln Was Shot." This may become in time the way to set off one historic day
RYAN ALSO GIVES us touches that are reminiscent of Ernie Pyle's human episodes in his war correspondence. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Rommel, though they are unquestionably the great names in "The Longest Day," are men, not supermen. The submarine commander waiting in the channel off the invasion beaches, some of the minor German officers—these too are people important to the story.
History will pay little attention to a number of the people who make this book such fascinating reading. Take the unobtrusive Englishman who composed crossword puzzles for a big London daily. In one month he fashioned definitions for "Overlord," "Utah," and "Omaha"—yet he was not trying to tip off the enemy. It was all coincidence.
TAKE THE AMERICAN soldier who won $2,500 shooting craps but knew that if he didn't speedily lose that money he would die in the invasion. He lived. Take the soldiers and officers who went into the invasion spouting passages from "Henry V." Or the paratrooper in the first stage of the invasion who got caught on a steeple, played dead, was hauled down by the Germans, and was imprisoned instead of being riddled with machine-gun bullets.
Besides being a historian with the human touch, Ryan writes in the grand tradition. He senses the continuity of history, the significance of an event.
Here he describes H-Hour:
"THEY CAME ASHORE ON Omaha Beach, the slogging, unglamorous men that no one envied. No battle ensigns flew for them, no horns or bugles sounded. But they had history on their side. They came from regiments that had bivouacked at places like Valley Forge, Stoney Creek, Antietam, Gettysburg, that had fought in the Argonne. They had crossed the beaches of North Africa, Sicily and Salerno. Now they had one more beach to cross. They would call this one 'Bloody Omaha.'"
And then there are the British;
"They had waited four long years for this day. They were assaulting not just beaches but bitter memories—memories of Munich and Dunkirk, of one hateful and humiliating retreat after another, of countless devastating bombing raids, of dark days when they had stood alone."
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, by Booth Tarkington. Avon,
50 cents.
I am forced to compare this novel with the beautiful film version made of it by Orson Welles many years ago. Welles extracted from it the story of an American family's downfall, and he realized from it many superb individual portraits. Booth Tarkington wrote an interesting story, and one that had slight perceptions concerning the mobility of American society. But he tacked on an ending so conventional that he might have borrowed it from Harold Bell Wright.
SET IN A MIDWESTERN CITY AROUND THE TURN OF the century, probably an Indiana city well known to Tarkington himself, "The Magnificent Ambersons" describes how a family goes from a position of preeminence to one where it is dropped from the list of those who made the city great. Tarkington casts the story in the mold of "Penrod" and "Seventeen"; his protagonist, George Amberson Minafer, could easily be Willie Baxter, twisted by an over-protective mother into something frightening and evil.
George Minafera is a nasty, spoiled brat, and Tarkington knows it. But he rescues George at the end of the book, and the man whom George has tried to ruin comes compassionately to the injured George's bedside. The novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize, exists in that never-never world of porch swings, straw hats, lovely summer days and winter sleigh rides. It is a Christmas card that turns into a sick joke, and if Tarkington had known this it could be a great novel instead of merely a readable one.
GREAT IDEAS FROM THE GREAT BOOKS, by Mortimer J. Adler. Washington Square Press, 60 cents.
By leaning heavily on the classics, particularly those from his famed Syntipicon, Dr. Mortimer J. Adler provides practical advice on a variety of subjects. For the population explosion and what we're going to do about it, he tells a reader what Malthus had to say. A correspondent who asks what a good teacher is gets himself referred to Socrates. St. Thomas Aquinas and Kant are his authorities on beauty, the Christian doctrines on immortality. But mainly it's Mortimer Adler, giving helpful tips from the great books.
THE AENEID, by Vergil. Bantam Classics, 60 cents.
Here is Moses Hadas' verse translation of the story of the founding of Rome. The introduction observes that a certain amount of archaism remains, but that it is difficult to do else to retain the purity of the original. Scholars of the classics, students just approaching this great work, will find this paperback an inexpensive addition to the library shelves.