Page 2
University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1958
He Must Be Remembered
He was a stranger when he came to us, a wide-eyed, intelligent chap. He didn't go along with the "Ivy League" dress, and didn't care for soda pop. Hollywood, TV and comics were "nice" he thought, but he valued much more an ordinary conversation. He didn't go along with the idea that romantic love is the basis for marriage and he thought that when a teenage girl said something was "real crazy" she meant it was ready for the mental hospital.
We didn't pay much attention to this lad. He was so insignificant. He didn't wear a fraternity pin, own a sports car, have a flat-top haircut, or attend the local night spots. He wasn't much of a dresser and certainly didn't know all of the "cool moves."
When he left us, he was still a stranger. We don't miss him. We're still listening to the same music, going to the same movies and living in the same glass bubble.
He was just another foreign student. He came, extended his hand, and offered to us his ideals, his social customs and his way of life. He came to share with us, in many cases, cultural influences much older than our own. We were too "busy" to accept these things.
Now we wonder why we don't understand him. How were we to know that the same dark-eyed, thoughtful boy from India, Argentina, or China would become one of the important leaders of his country, one of the persons to set the pace for American relations abroad?
Evelyn Hall
They Went Thataway
In an age of supersonic missiles, a high percentage of America's 42 million TV homes last week preferred to watch a much slower mode of transportation—the horse.
Five of the ten most popular shows on the circuits were westerns, according to a national TV rating service. The horse operas have earned a unique distinction this season by grabbing off more TV time than any other type of program.
They came on the airwaves 21 strong this fall, and not one of them has been shot down along the way.
One wonders in the face of this onslaught of thundering hoofbeats what magnetic force draws western fans. Psychologically there are many answers.
The most popular theory is that the viewer projects himself into the role of the hero. There
are very few heroes in modern civilization, although the desire to live the role of hero perhaps exists in all of us.
Some suggest that the western has gained popularity because it depicts rugged individualism. In this situation the TV fan who has little chance in our mechanized life to be an individualist, can escape for half an hour into a dream world where men are men. In the typical horse opera, the hero always does the courageous thing in a tight spot, something that his modern counterpart rarely has the opportunity to do.
At any rate, the viewer who can't live with the tales of the Old West seems to have only one alternative in the face of more westerns to come. That is to saddle up and ride out of the living room for new parts.
Associated Collegiate Press
The Soviet Sputnik and Muttnik,
and the stories of Ivan-the-Space-
man have most of us looking over
our shoulders and into dark closets,
and even straight up in the air.
The call has gone out for the Egghead.
And we are doing a lot of talking. One of the things we're talking about is schools. And brains. How, we are asking, can we produce our Eggheads faster and better than the Soviets produce theirs?
Calling All Eggheads
Apparently we're looking for the kind of disciplined brain which can master all the formulas, and devise some new ones, so that we can get our space ships to soar higher than anyone else's.
We think we need all kinds of
Eggheads—not just the science kind and the math kind. We think we need the history kind, and the philosophy kind, and all the rest.
We need them because we need people who can figure out peaceful and productive uses for some of these machines now coming off the drawing boards.
We need people who care a lot about the way of a machine—or a bomb—as well as the how of it.
We are in favor of a world that has some pie in the sky, along with satellites.
Some of them are pretty wild machines, and we want steady hands—and heads—in charge of them.
Associated Collegiate Press
Quotes From The News
can people into believing that we are having no recession."
WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO legislative representative Hyman Bookbinder, in discussing his proposals for stimulating the national economy:
"It is absolutely shocking to me how the spokesmen of this administration for these many months have been trying to tranquilize the Ameri-
LONDON—Mrs. Jamesina Orsborne, widow of Captain Dod Orsborne, Britain's so-called "last of the buccaneer," giving her opinion of the real character of her husband:
"The whole world thinks my husband was a hero but they have been hoaxed."
L. G. BALFOUR CO.
Fraternity Jewelers
INITIATION PRESENTS
Now is the Time to Order
411 West 14th AI Lauter Phone VI 3-1571
Spring Fever Epidemic Hits Campus
Despite the fact that the calendar hints otherwise, spring fever has invaded the University campus like a re-run of the Asian flu.
Mornings seem to be made of heavy eyelids as lethargic students slowly drag themselves to class—those that can sum up the courage to unchain themselves out of the phenomenon and "great god of the Campus" known as the sack.
Afternoon bring with them frustrations as they hint temptingly of things soon to come;
warm afternoons at Lone Star...water...men, picnics and people. And gratitude for the opportunity "just to be."
Nights that bring restlessness, daydreams interspersed with a busy-doing-nothingness; afterwards, a self-query as to where the hours went.
Yawns and stretching of tired muscles...of an early, tension-relieving spring.
—Marilyn Mermis
Noting that travel by air has zoomed upward almost as fast as the jet planes themselves, a new Twentieth Century Fund report points out that in 1935 domestic airlines carried 679,000 passengers while in 1933 about 26 million were carried.
The Russian Communist party has always been an urban movement in a predominately rural country, according to statistics.
Corn is the most important food plant in the United States. It is grown in every state, and on three quarters of all the farms. Though relatively little corn is eaten by people, vast quantities of it are fed to animals to produce eggs, milk, meat, and other animal products for man.
More than half the adult Americans can swim, according to a recent sampling of the population.
The Health News Institute reports that the over-all costs (estimated by doctors) of a case of mastoiditis 30 years ago, and including the necessary surgery, were about $1,000. Today $15 worth of antibiotics, in most cases, will clear it up.
FOR HI FI &
The U. S. uses about 91 per cent of its total food output for the population at home.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bible
JACK W. NEIBARGER, Prop.
The average church in the United States has about 300 members—and just about that many seats.
VI 3-8855 908 Mass.
See
RECORD PLAYER SERVICE
BIRD TV-RADIO
University of Kansas student newspaper
Founded 1889, became biweekly 1904.
Daily Transan
Member Inland Daily Press Association.
Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by National Advertising Service. 420 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. News service: United Press. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year. Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except May and October. Unique half-days, and examination periods. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan, post office under act of March 3, 1879.
Extension 251, news room
Extension 276, business office
Telephone VIking 3-2700
Patent No. 251
Dick Brown
Managing Editor
Larry Binton, Bob Hardley, Mary Beth
Brown, Bob Hardley, Mary Beth
Managing Editors; LeRoy Lord, City
Editor; Martha Crusier, Jack Harrison,
Assistant City Manager, Sound Parker,
Travel Agent; Mary Wright, Tent
teamlert Editor; George Anthur,
Sports Editor; Bob Macy, Assistant
Staff, George Anthur, Security
Editor; Ron Miller, Picture Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
NEWS DEPARTMENT
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Del Haley Editorial Editor
Evelyn Hall, Marilyn Mermis, Leroy
Zimmerman, Associate Editors
Ted Winkler - Business Manager
John Clarke, Advertising Manager; Ann Huston, National Advertising Manager;
Bill Irvine, Classified Advertising Manager
Tom McGrath, Circulation Manager;
Norman Beck, Promotion Manager.
THIS SPELLS PHOTO SERVICE!
C ameras-
A ccessories-
M ovie and slide projectors-
E exposure meters-
R ental projectors and cameras-
A ll films - black & white & color
Customer Satisfaction-
Customer Satisfaction-
E everything you need-
N ever too busy to help you
T tips to improve your picture taking-
Enjoyable pictures for you-
R easily fast finishing service; both black & white and color-
Stop in today at the CAMERA CENTER for your ONE STOP camera service.
Store Hours 9:30-5:30 M-S; till 8:30 Thurs.
CAMERA CENTER
BILL OLIN
LEO HUNDLEY
1015 Mass. Ph.VI 3-9471
Next To Varsity Theater