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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 25, 1958
KU's Unsilent Ones
Why live?
Why do I live, why am I alive? To what purpose was I destined? Was I born to die for a Cause, or was I born to die because of a Cause? Where shall I find reason in living—to whom, to what can I turn for relief? Must I create a Purpose or shall I wait and hope that one will be given to me?
These are questions burning within this member of the "Silent Generation." It may be the question of many University students. If you believe the answers to these questions are insignificant, then you are a fool. If you have the answers, then you are blessed—you need read no farther.
Many men find relief from these questions through external means. They either escape into the race for wealth and power, plunge their souls into cozy brown bottles, or play a stacked game of Russian roulette.
Neither prostitution, embalmment, nor death of the questions plaguing a man's very soul seem to be likely question-quenching techniques. To search soberly is noble. To search on with a hint of failure is magnificent. This generation needs to be more noble and magnificent.
It seems to me that our society forces its inhabitants to be subtle. It prevents man from being spontaneous, from being an individual. Here on the campus the greatest virtue of a student is to be "well-rounded." The sharp edges of one's personality that give a person an individual character are desirably disposed of and disguised.
To be complete, one must assume a prone position and allow himself to become smooth and cylindrical. One must be relatively bright, pleasing to the eye, and have a fair share of the social graces.
To be a success, one must subtly proclaim his "well-roundedness," present a few cautious ideas, and then allow himself to ascend. The competition in this ascending process is most intense on this campus and in our society.
We enter the competition and seek a successful position in society. Why, I am not sure. But it seems that hollow success has become holy. Drums are hollow, but most are successfully loud. The answer to the question of when will my life, rather than when will I, be a success and have meaning will come silently and be filling.
We need silence.
Time To Invest In U.S.
—Marilyn Mermis.
The way out of the present recession is to invest. To aid students on the campus in realizing the importance of investments for a strong economy, a campus campaign has been organized for Invest-in-America Week starting April 27.
The investment week is a national affair, and is of special importance in this present low ebb of the economy. When the citizen invests he makes his stake in society that much more secure.
What does the week mean to the student? Only through the American free enterprise system, built on investments, does the student get a free public education with the opportunity for unlimited study.
Behind the free public education is the money
Money that is put into savings and investments, insurance policies, homes and bonds creates new jobs, new plants and new businesses.
An average of seventeen thousand dollars must be invested in the plant and tools that make that job possible. The students savings and investments can do that job.
"Money at Work Means Men at Work" is the slogan of Invest-in-America Week. To the students who will be trying to get jobs in the future this might be very important.
When representatives for the investment week speak in the coming week at the organized houses on the campus, think about the proposal; it will make your future more secure.
—Doug Parker
... Letters To The Editor
Edito::
Through your columns I take
. . .
It has been noticed by many students this semester that somebody makes a pencil or ink mark around certain news items appearing in the newspapers kept in undergraduate library. All such marked news I have come across are those which abuse India in one way or another over so called "Kashmir Question". Apparently this is done to draw special attention of the readers towards such publicity.
this opportunity to point out to my my friends who resorted to this method, that this practice is not only against the rules and regulations of the library but fall short of any decency expected from the University students. The newspapers are purchased from the funds contributed by all students and are not to be misused like this by any particular group.
In case this practice continues in future I might call upon the good offices of the director of libraries
and dean of students to do the needful since such practice creates in discipline among the student community and creates bad blood in various groups of foreign students.
Harbans Lal
India graduate student
Before the first dose of mass-produced penicillin was marketed, according to the Health News Institute, private firms spent $25 million and the government $3 million in development.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
THE GUIDANCE OFFICE --- HIS CLASSMATES --- HIS MAJOR PROF.
South Carolinians employed in the textile industry share an annual payroll of approximately $440 million.
UNIVERSITY DAILY TRANSAN
University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded in 1904.
trademarked 1908. daily Jan. 16, 1912.
Extension 251, news room
Extension 276, business office
Telephone VIking 3-2700
Member Inland Daily Press Association.
Associated Collegiate Press. Represented National Advertising Service 420 Madison Ave. New York, NY service: United Press. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $50 a year. Published during awards. Kan., every afternoon at Sundays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 19, 170, at inland post office under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Dick Brown ___ Managing Editor
Larry Boston, Bob Hartley, Mary Beth
Noyes, Malcolm Applegate, Assistant
Managing Editors, Douglas Parker, City
Editor, Barbara Duffield, Assistant City Editors; Mary Alden,
Telegraph Editor; Martha Frederick.
Assistant Telegraph Editor; George
Anthan, Sports Editor; Bob Macy, Dale
Morseh, Jim Cable, Assistant Snorts
Editor, Richard Taylor, City Editor;
Ron Miller, Picture Editor.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Ted Winker Business Manager
John Clarke, Advertising Manager;
Carol Ann Huston National Advertising
Manager; Bill Irvine, Classified
Admin Marion Macon Tom McGrath,
Circulation Manager; Norman Beck,
Promotion Manager
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Del Haley          Editorial Editor
Evelyn Hall, Marilyn Mermis, Leroy
Zimmerman, Associate Editors.
3rd Issue
1958
Jayhawker
will be on sale and distributed
at the
Information Booth
and
Strong Rotunda
Today and Monday
limited supply
(No House Distribution)