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University Daily Kansan Friday, Dec. 20, 1957
One Solitary Life
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in a small village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was 30 and then for three years He was an itinerant teacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this world, except the power of His divine manhood.
While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth while He was dying—His coat. When He was dead, He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone. Today He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of
Yuletide Cheer
Clayton Krebbiel, assistant professor of music education, and members of his choral clinic classes have been putting their professional training to work this week.
The groups have been touring classroom buildings on the campus, giving serenades of Christmas carols.
Christmas carols sound good when anyone sings them. We've heard kids sing them, soldiers sing them, old women sing them. Carols sound good even when sung by off-key baritones at an office party. But Mr. Krehbiel and his carolers, with their fine singing, put the finishing touches on the songs of Christmas.
"It is not our intention to unduly disrupt the class procedure of anyone, but merely to spread a bit of Yuletide cheer to you all," Krehbiel wrote in a memo to the faculty.
He needn't have worried about the disruption. The singing was fine, and the Yuletide cheer most welcome.
Best Stories Of The Year
—Larry Boston
The development of the Russian Sputnik and its effect on world tensions has been chosen the outstanding news story of 1957.
The stories were chosen by the editorial class in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information. The stories were judged on the basis of interest, importance, and their probable place in world history.
The Sputnik transformed the age of space from fantasy to fact and the impact was heavy and world-wide. To the Russians it was a cause for jubilation and increased propaganda activity; to the West it was a warning that Soviet technology was surging and that it was a force that must be recognized with hard work and sacrifice on the part of free nations.
Racial tension stories placed second. The Civil Rights bill for desegregation was debated for long hours in Congress and emerged very modified. Nine Negro students were attacked and kept out of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Eisenhower was forced to call out federal troops. The students are now in school, but feeling still runs high against desegregation in some areas.
Nikita Khrushchev's rise to power placed third. In July Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev emerged victorious as Russia's leader. Four top Soviet officials—Georgi Malenkov, V. M. Molotov, L. M. Kaganovich and Dmitri Shepilov—were accused of activities directed at "breaking up the party" and ousted from the Politburo. Khrushchev is now in full power with his own "men" surrounding him.
The Middle East story was chosen fourth place. This area threatened to erupt many times in 1957, even after the Egypt-Israel incident. The Syrian problem was the biggest news maker this year in this area when they massed troops on the Turkish border. The Arab states and Nassar created big news stories this year also.
The fifth place story concerned corrupt union activities. The November ouster of the International Teamsters Union from the AFL-CIO brought a climax to several months of Senate investigation into union corruption and graft. The investigations have so far prevented Jimmy Hoffa, duly elected president of the Teamsters, from becoming president, and have convicted Dave Beck, president of the union, of taking funds allocated for union use.
Sixth place went to stories on the Asian flu. The flu has posed a health problem to the United States and separate communities. The vaccine developed to control it, however, has lessened its potential effects in many areas. A number of people have died from complications resulting from the virus.
President Eisenhower's "battle of the budget" was chosen seventh place. Before Congress ended its session in August, both it and the President were determined to economize, but on different programs. The President wanted defense cuts; Congress wanted to cut the foreign aid program. The world situation a few months ago was different from the present one and the President felt the nation could afford to cut back on defense expenditure. The Senate and House felt that the foreign aid request of nearly $4.5 billion was too much and swung an economy axe cutting it to $3.4 billion. Disputes over the nation's economy are not uncommon, but the 1957 battle was a vigorous one.
European Elections were eighth. The three chief allies of the U.S. in Europe held elections during the year. England named Harold Macmillan to replace Anthony Eden as prime minister. Eden retired due to poor health.
West Germany elected Konrad Adenauer chancellor with an overwhelming vote. The 82-year old Adenauer is one of the biggest supporters of the U.S. in Europe.
France elected its 24th post war government since the war. Felix Gaillard is the new premier. The young financial wizard is the youngest head of state since Napoleon.
The International Geophysical Year was chosen the ninth most important story. This scientific effort is making the most concentrated effort in history to determine the natural causes, within and without, which affect the world. Sixty-four nations are represented in the research. The year began June 30 and will continue through Dec. 31, 1958. The scientists are concentrating on 11 major fields, they are: meteorology, oceanography, glaciers, solar activity, ionosphere, auroras, cosmic rays, geometism magnetism, gravity, geodesy, seismology.
World disarmament talks placed tenth. They were recessed in September but efforts will be made at the United Nations meeting to resume the talks. If Russia won't continue the talks, the U.S., England, France and Canada may be deputized by the 15-nation NATO to make a direct approach to Russia.
The largest number of accidental deaths on farms occur among the 15 to 19-year-olds, next largest number among children 10 to 14, and then under 5 years.
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progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched and all the navies that ever were built and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned put together have not affected the life of men upon this earth as powerfully as that One Solitary Life.
—Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
. . . Short Ones . . .
PENSACOLA, Fla.—(UP)—Firemen jumped on their trucks when the alarm sounded yesterday, but the trucks didn't go anywhere.
When instructions came, the firemen climbed sheepishly down and used a garden hose to put out a small trash fire behind the fire house.
ATLANTA—(UP)—Detective C. A. Royal got something of a back-handed compliment when he donned a uniform and took his ailing wife's post at a school crossing here.
"Oh, Mr. Royal," said a lady acquaintance, "you look like a real policeman."
CLEVELAND, Ohio—(UP)—Joseph Larysz thought a paper bag his wife left on the kitchen sink was full of garbage and pitched it into the garbage pail. Then he learned the bag contained the Christmas cards he and his wife spent their evenings addressing last week and that his wife had left them out to mail.
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TO STUDENTS AND STAFF
AT KU
A Very Merry Holiday Season to You and Yours
We at the Jay Shoppe are grateful for your patronage of the past season and hope to serve you again in 1958.
Best Wishes For A Safe Trip And For The New Year.
Mrs. Harry Dauberman
Mrs. J. A. Duffy
Mrs. Leo Eller
Mrs. Jerry Cox
Miss Barbara Hodgson
Miss Mary Hammig
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