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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 24, 1958
Religious Apathy
Before John went to college he almost laughed at the minister who told him to "stay close to the church" while he was away from home. It was ridiculous to think that he would fall away from religion, when it had always been so close to him
It seems that the minister's fears were well founded, for John didn't go to church but five times in four college years. He was just plain apathetic toward religion and he couldn't understand why.
The minister attributed this apathy to the curriculum and the "professors who too convincingly talked about such things as the theory of evolution." His mother thought it was through some fault of early religious training that her son had become so lax.
We do not feel that the curriculum or the professors affected John's religious habits nearly as much as a host of other situations peculiar to college.
When John went to college he experienced a new freedom, an independence. Suddenly he wasn't encouraged to go to church each Sundav
morning by a concerned mother. Too often, he found it much easier to stay in bed.
For one reason or other, in college religion didn't seem too important to John. Sure, he had gone to church for years before entering college without missing a Sunday, "more out of habit than anything else," he guessed.
Suddenly death, eternal life, and salvation didn't seem to affect him. "It is difficult to think of dying when one is so full of life, especially college life," he thought.
Did he actually doubt religion? Of course he did, along with a lot of other things.
He wondered what he was doing in college, how he was going to meet the competition of the outer world after graduation. He questioned the advice of his parents and more than once rebelled at the slightest parental suggestion.
Unlike John, many students remain quite active in church organizations throughout the four years. It is, however, the exceptional student who does not experience some period of doubt as a natural part of growing up.
Evelyn Hall
Minute Destruction
U. S. intercontinental ballistic missiles, when perfected, can be made ready for launching in as little as two minutes after detection of an attack aimed at this country.
That assurance with its dramatic meaning for the strategy of instant retaliation was left with newsmen today by Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, commander of the Air Force missile test center.
Yates also said he expected America to beat Russia in the rocket-to-the-moon race.
He discussed the moon race and the combat and war-deterring potential of this country's Atlas ballistic missiles during a press tour of this 400-million-dollar test base for weapons of the future.
The Air Force has said that the first combat unit to have intercontinental Atlas missiles will be in operation by December, 1959.
Yates said it will be possible to keep the 5.500- mile range weapons fueled and on two-minute
alert at bases such as those being built at Cheyenne, Wyo., and Camp Cooke, Calif.
Moreover, each missile would have an assigned target, just as Strategic Air Command bombers do now.
With data on the target and course to follow "cranked" into its guidance system, a missile would be ready for launching two minutes after receipt of firing orders. Yates said. Thirty minutes later it would hurtle down at its target at 16.000 miles an hour.
The new disclosures on the awesome potential of intercontinental ballistic missiles underlined the belief of statesmen that war can be deterred.
With instant retaliation soon to be a literal possibility, Russia and the United States could exchange in about 15 minutes as much destructive force as used in all previous wars put together.
—United Press
New Library Books
"Challenge to Poseidon; Adventures in Small Craft on the Open Seas." The name of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, symbolizes the great oceans on which brave men have risked their lives throughout the ages. In this book, Commander Erroll Bruce gives authentic accounts of many notable oceanic voyages made in small craft—stories of almost legendary courage and endurance. They include many remarkable storm and coastal studies taken by the author. Mr. Bruce is himself an experienced sailor.
"Beyond the Cabin Door," by Walter Collins O'Kane, is made up of many vignettes, separate items of natural history observed, strung together like cranberries on a thread and thrown on the pine tree to feed the birds.
Well illustrated with black and white sketches by one of the best of contemporary artist naturalists, Francis Lee Jaques.
"America's National Parks," by Nelson Beecher Keyes shows some of the most spectacular scenery on
the face of the earth preserved in our national parks. In this volume both black and white and color photographs capture successfully some small bits of the natural magic.
These are a few of the new books to be found in Watson undergraduate library.
A German locksmith named Henlein is credited by some historians with inventing in the 16th Century the first clock which used a coiled spring as motive power.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd spent the winter of 1934 alone in a hut 123 miles south of Little America.
"IF IT'S TOO CROWDED UP HERE FOR YOU--THERE'S MORE ROOM IN BACK."
Nearly four-fifths of U. S. agricultural exports go to trade agreement countries.
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Quotes From The News
LOS ANGELES—Sen. William F.
Knowland (R-Calif), on the arms race with Russia;
"We don't want the men in the Kremlin to think they ever have us in a secondary position. We have to accelerate production of missiles and planes."
WASHINGTON—Sen, Lyndon R. Johnson (D-Tex), in calling on President Eisenhower not to veto the farm bill;
"I hope the President will not strike this blow at the American farmer. Agriculture cannot take many more jolts."
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