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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 9.1958
Too Much Of A Good Thing
Remember the juvenile delinquent shepherd who always cried "wolf, wolf, wolf" to scare the villagers into running to their sheep to protect them from the wolf.
After several false alarms the villagers tired of the delinquent's antics and sat still one day when the shepherd let out his cry. The result was the loss of some sheep.
Nowadays we have similar false alarms, though cried out not by shepherds, but the man in charge of queens of some affair.
As each affair pushes into the limelight, the committee for the affair meets, and to get the ball rolling a plan for a reigning queen is completed.
Multiply this scene by a dozen or more times
and you do indeed have a situation of "training queens." And as each affair shows its queen to the villagers—or nowadays the students—they stand in awe, the awe lessening a little at each presentation of a queen.
Soon the students tire of the cry of reigning queen, and one day they get so tired they don't care if they see another queen.
On that day we find the currently reigning queen standing alone with only the committee that presented her. They are forlorn, bitter, a victim of their own doing.
So remember, suggesters of queens, the cry of "queen, queen, queen" sooner or later will liken you to the juvenile delinquent shepherd.
—Doug Parker
Sounds Like A Winner
Here's a plank for one of the two political parties preparing to fight it out in the coming general elections: beer in the Kansas Union.
It's not such an outlandish idea, since some colleges are doing it or contemplating doing it. And think what a trend it would start in the parched state of Kansas!
Quoted in the Michigan Daily, Walter B. Rea, dean of men, said a taproom serving beer in the student union might not be a bad idea there. "If students are to drink and learn to drink like ladies and gentlemen there might be a better way than having to go off campus to drink," Dean Rea said.
No minor can drink at the university without breaking some rule, he said, and a responsible group can start a move to change the rules.
After the dean's comments were published, the students had a few things to say:
"Drunkenness wouldn't be much of a problem. Social pressure would keep most from overstepping limits."
"We came here to study, not to drink."
"Fabulous—but there are many questions on how it would be run."
"Excellent—there's quite a bit of drinking any how and it seems ridiculous not to have it at the union."
Our situation at KU may not be the same as at Michigan, but think of the votes a political party would get if it dedicated itself to the propagation of beer in the union! One could almost predict a mass appeal in the beer platform.
However, one can equally predict another Carry Nation rising up on our campus. It would indeed be interesting.
The Army Has The Answer
Doug Parker
A Catholic priest whose "parish" covers 13 states said today that the U. S. Army has the answer to some of the nation's juvenile delinquency problems.
Col. John K. Connelly, 52, is boss chaplain for the 5th Army area. A combat veteran of World War II and Korea, Connelly wears the purple heart as a souvenir of four years of jungle warfare and a streak of gray hair, perhaps as a token of listening to the woes of thousands of GIs.
"We don't have any delinquents in the Army, juvenile or otherwise." Connelly said in an interview at 5th Army headquarters where he arrived last week to begin his command.
"I just finished serving three years at Fort Dix, N. J.," Connelly said. "We've gotten some very tough young men from the sidewalks of New York, and you know how they ended up after they spent a few days with us? Like the good soldiers we made them. The Army doesn't have time for misfits. They shape up or else."
Connelly, a native of Berkeley,
Calif, got into the Army after serving the boys in the old Civilian Conservation Corps in Idaho, Montana and Utah.
Connelly was saying Mass at Fort Shafter, Honolulu, when the Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. He subsequently landed with American troops on Buna, Guadalcanal, Munda, Luzon and Leyte. His purple heart was awarded for a shrapnel wound on New Guinea. He also wears the bronze star with four oak leaf clusters.
"I've been in the Army 23 years," Connelly said, "And I've seen just about every kind of soldier you can imagine in just about every kind of condition. And I can say without doubt the Army's morals stack up with the best of the civilian morals, and maybe better.
"Oh, we get hold of some bums sometimes. We get some real bumps. They come to us from civilian life, often from homes where they've been pampered half to death. Sometimes we can't do anything with them. But most times we can. We turn them into men."
"What's the most typical problem the men bring us chaplains? That's easy. They don't like being in the Army. It's our job to remind them they're not wasting their time the years they spend with us. We do as well as we can. We've got a big shortage of chaplains. An Army chaplain could work 24 hours a day and still not finish all his work.
"No, as far as I have observed there's no religious discrimination in the Army. It's against the regulations for one thing. Here's something I'm real proud of---"
The chaplain displayed an award received last fall from the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America for "outstanding contributions to the spiritual and moral welfare of Jewish servicemen and women."
Telegraphic Tabloids
United Press
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Joe Campbell made his debut as a professional golfer yesterday and won $5, which exactly covered the tournament entrance fee.
LONDON-Mrs. Lola Blackall, whose home in suburban Hornsley has been burglarized twice in the past few months put this ad in the local newspaper:
MIYAZAKI, Japan—Housewives here inaugurated a "Let's Talk Circle" club open only to women with one or more of the following problems:
"Please, I have nothing left to pinch."
Ugliness, poor cooking, a dislike of husband, being a bad mother, too much housework, being unsocial.
ATLANTA—Fire Chief Roy O.
Colston can't figure why his brick and concrete fire station is swarming with termites. "These isn't a thing around here for them to eat," he said.
NOTTINGHAM, England-A youth charged with shopbreaking told police:
Mammoth Spring in north Arkansas is one of the largest springs in the United States, flowing at the rate of 215 million gallons a day.
"I did it to get money to pay a fine."
.. Letters ..
Thanks
About half of the national territory of Venezuela lies south of the Orinoco River in a region known as the Guiana Highlands.
Editor:
In canvassing the city of Lawrence for the 1958 Multiple Sclerosis Drive, KU sorority members collected a total of $1,622. Additional contributions from the KU faculty are still being received. The grand total for the campaign so far amounts to $1,798.
What makes this project such a fitting one for college students is that they themselves are just reaching the susceptible age. In 70 percent of all cases the onset of multiple sclerosis occurs between the ages of 20 and 40. It is the commonest of grave neurological diseases, and no cure is known. That is why discovering the cause of MS is so important.
We wish to thank all who have so unselfishly helped in this campaign, particularly the girls who canvassed; Joyce Elliott, the project chairman, for her efficient management and planning; Mary Claire Purcell, the Greek Week chairman, and all the many donors. We are indeed grateful.
The 1958 Multiple Sclerosis Campaign committee
The 1936 Multiple Sclerosis Campaign committee
Milton Allen
Charles Springer, co-chairmen
Walter Sandelius
Ruth Quinlan
Edgar Wolfe
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During Easter vacation spring tree trimming took place on the campus. Workers swarmed over the trees on the south side of Jayhawk Boulevard, the side where there is never any parking.
When the 8,500 students returned to the campus the tree trimming emphasis was put on the trees on the north side of Jayhawk Boulevard. How do you explain it?
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