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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 29, 1958
Facts Or Fairy Tales?
In order to stimulate interest in science among the nation's youth, Mr. J. Allen Hynek, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institution, has suggested scientific fairy tales to accompany "Mother Goose" stories.
Further he suggests bed time lessons "on the origin of the numeral zero" should be inculcated in children in order to give them "a basic interest in science from an early age," preferably before they enter kindergarten.
A child will memorize and be able to repeat nursery rhymes and bed time stories long before he is able to read them. Why not put this learning capacity to use?
He may not be able to understand the full meaning at the time but he will have the knowledge and as he grows older he will understand
it. This would be just the same as a child memorizing Bible verses and as he grows he is able to more fully realize the meaning of them.
A pre-school child is interested in everything in nature. Why not take advantage of this and develop it? Why not direct his curiosity in such a way that the answers to his many questions become a basis of scientific knowledge?
The Russians are far ahead of us in the training of scientists. We can not afford to pass up any opportunity to teach our youth.
Why not fill the child's mind with facts instead of fiction? They can be just as fascinating as a fairy tale. It certainly is not going to hurt the child to dream of becoming a scientist or teacher rather than a cowboy or princess and it may be a step toward helping our country.
-Martha Crosier
We'll Fight For Democracy
Today we stand on the brink of what could be the most devastating war in history. With the weapons and knowledge now in the hands of both sides no spot on the earth is out of reach of the war if it comes.
Why will we fight this war?
We will fight it for democracy—so that all people everywhere can have freedom from tyranny.
We will fight it to protect our homes, families and friends. We will try to fight it on foreign soil so that our loved ones will never know the terror of bombs being dropped on their homes or the starvation that comes when war has ravaged the countryside, killing all the crops and animals.
We will fight it so that once and for all peace can be established on the face of the earth.
There would be many good and valid sounding reasons given by both sides why we would be fighting the war.
There will be Christians fighting on both sides if war comes. Christians who pray to and believe in the same God, Christians who know and repeat God's commandment "thou shalt not kill."
They will all enter the war because they feel they are right.
I cannot help but think of what James Hilton once wrote. He said, "You cannot fight a war to make the world safe for democracy because all wars kill democracy, and you cannot fight a war to end all wars because each war begets a new war."
Chuckles In The News
EVESHAM, England—The Evesham Council recently voted to charge $2.80 to every wedding party which insists on saluting the bride and groom with showers of confetti which mess up the district.
The money will pay for a street cleaner.
WACO, Texas-There is little swimming in the Bosque River these days.
Albert the Alligator, who escaped from Central Texas Zoo at Waco Sunday, still is at large despite an intensive search.
LONDON—The Lone Ranger is walking the London range unarmed.
—Martha Crosier
Clayton Moore, Chicago-born actor who plays the masked rider,
had to surrender his three Colt 45's when he arrived yesterday from Los Angeles because British law forbids bringing firearms into the country.
RICHMOND, Va. — Police are looking for the thief who stole a 500-pound safe from the Anthony Grappone Tombstone Co., and cached it in a cemetery.
MAUD, Texas—Justice of the Peace Paul Jones didn't succeed on his first attempt, so he searched the waters of Lake Texarkana every day for a month and a half.
Yesterday, he proved the time-honored theory that persistence pays off by finding a wallet he had dropped in the lake six weeks ago.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I HELD HIS HANDS ALL EVENING — I WAS AFRAID TO LET GO OF THEM."
TV Notes
Robert Herridge, the producer who started off CBS' experimental "Camera Three" program in May, 1953, and attracted so much attention that he went on to more commercial things, will be back at the old stand as "guest producer" during August and September. He'll do nine shows. Lewis Freedman, who has been producing "Camera Three," starts a vacation July 31 prior to joining the staff of the night-time Garry Moore show next fall. Just who will take over when Herridge's time is up is not yet known.
NBC sent a production unit to Israel to produce two half-hour films showing the historical development of the Holy Land, based on scripts by plawright Morton Wishengrad. The general title will be "The Holy Land," with the first program labeled "The People of the Book" and the second "The Land of the Book." The films will be shown toward the end of the year on NBC's "Frontiers of Faith" program.
Another great Broadway attraction ticketed for the 90-minute live treatment next season is Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!" This one will be done on NBC's "Hallmark Hall of Fame" April 28 as the last of its six productions of the season.
ABC has marked the 9:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday time for a new filmed series called "Naked City," beginning Sept. 30. It is described as "human interest mystery" and centers on the activities of two New York detectives. They will be played by John McIntire and James Franciscus.
ABC has signed an automobile sponsor for two 90-minute live variety shows starring Bing Crosby next season. Dates have not yet been set.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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Editor Martha Crosier
Business Manager Bill Irvine
Staff Bob Hartley,
Harry Ritter, Fred Miller, Robert Lymn
Manager James E. Dykes
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
(Answer on Page 8)
ACROSS
1 Refuse from sugar cane.
2 Pedlars.
3 Drive.
4 Geometric curve.
5 Muscle that turns.
6 F. D. R.'s family.
7 Eastern time.
8 Spring flower.
9 Ourarrels; Colloq.
10 New Englander's characterisms.
11 Sinclair Lewis hero.
12 Inserted as something additional.
13 __ victis (woe to the conquered) : Lat.
13 What satellites move in.
13 Impassivity.
13 Hollywood landmarks.
13 Landward.
14 Notre Dame's Brennan, et al.
14 Obtained by craft.
14 Algebra: Abbr.
14 Lunch room.
14 Clean up: Dial.
14 Gear for telephone operators.
50 Clara Bow: 2 words.
53 Danube tributary.
54 Sand bank off a mainland.
57 Cellar storage space.
59 Certain railroad cars.
61 Yellowish-green silicate.
62 Musical term.
63 Eased up.
64 Fatter.
DOWN
1 Dull conversationalist.
2 G. I.'s overseas addresses.
3 An Eisenhower address.
4 Constellation.
5 Dress material.
6 Symbolic bird.
7 More ghostly.
8 Child: Comb. form.
9 Dislikes.
He has a by-line.
Hooded unions.
Paul of Broadway
Buttonless jacket.
Condition, Suffix.
Bodies of water.
Notwithstanding.
25 Preposition used in division.
26 ___ Rica.
27 Russian co-operative.
29 Shading off to a bluish-purple.
30 ___ as a beet: 2 words.
31 Remove errors.
33 Excitable person.
34 One of the upper crust.
36 Odd job.
38 Transmit.
41 Septembers: Abbr.
45 Cowboy gear, south of the border.
47 Character in "The Master Builder."
48 Incident.
49 Slang promise of action: 2 words.
50 Chiller.
51 Drink.
52 Short for Abigail.
55 Skill of an Italian painter.
56 River into the North Sea.
58 Man's nickname.
50 Daughter: Abbr.
No.7 Man May Go Up
HONG KONG—(UPI)He's only ranked No.7 in the Peiping hierarchy, but the man to watch today in Red China is Teng Hsiao-Ping.
These jobs give him enormous power over the party's mechanism. And it should be noted that central committee secretaryship is the closest thing to the party job which the late Joseph Stalin held in Russia and never gave up.
It may well be that Mao Tse-Tung has handpicked Teng as his eventual successor.
Teng, who was born in Szechwan Province around the turn of the century, holds two key posts, Secretary-General of the party's Central Committee and Secretary of the all-powerful standing committee of the party's Politburo. He also is a vice premier.
Diplomatic sources admit that evidence of Teng's growing importance is somewhat intangible. On protocol lists, he still is ranked No. 7 in the party.
Then too, Teng has been making more and more speeches on Chinese Communist policy and campaigns. In May, he delivered a lengthy speech to the party's National Congress. The speech has never been published, but it is believed that it dealt with "revisionism."
For one thing, it was Teng, and no one else, who accompanied Mao to face-to-face conferences with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last fall.
But there have been instances of Teng's being held in Mao's confidence above Liu Shao-Chi and Chou En-Lai, the two most widely accepted candidates for Mao's chairmanship.
He did organizational work for the party in 1925 and in 1927 helped organize the Seventh and Eighth Armies, one of which he commanded.
During the following years he held a number of party posts, mostly in the southwest. In 1953, he served on the committee named to draft a constitution and took over several important government and party posts.
He made a big splash in 1955 when he delivered the report on the Kao Kang-Jao Chu-Shih conspiracy to overthrow the regime. In April of that year, Teng was elected to the Politburo.