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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1957
Same Spirit, Same Junk
Once upon a Christmas time there were no sequined fly-swatters, no Jayne Mansfield hot water bottles, no gilt telephone dialers. Not a mouse stirred in a mink-wrapped mousetrap anywhere.
This was the golden, gadgetless era. This was the time when a clock was a clock-not a combination radio, egg-timer, coffee percolator and steak broiler.
Back at the turn of the century the newspaper and magazine advertisements were moral, sentimental and religious in their approach to Christmas giving. The mere mention of a handkerchief case, a pipe cleaner or a doily sent their imagination soaring. Always they emphasized that in giving a gift it was "the thought that counted."
In 1900 gift suggestion lists favored the mottoed napkins . . . "A pretty present though one requiring busy fingers is a set of luncheon napkins with appropriate mottoes like, 'The Cup That Cheers But Not Inebriates,' Twixt Soup and Cheese What Rare Discourse.'"
In polling the tastes of a group of college women in 1908, a newspaper reported that "a red, hooded broadcloth cape to wear across campus at night," brought cries of exultation. The women also admired "a teacloth for a wicker table." They adored a brass tea kettle. Opera bags, boudoir caps, gold lockets and hair ribbons were favorites. In those days everyone was case happy. They made cases for brushes, combs, for cups. A coffee-cozy was a thoughtful item.
At the end of the First World War, most of the magazines recommended useful gifts. The donation of $1 to the Red Cross bought a comfort bag, filled with soaps and shaving equipment and destined for the men overseas. Shoe trees, picture frames and a talcum powder holder were all held in esteem.
The year before fortunes crashed in 1929. Vogue magazine wrote that "every woman likes a gift that will add to the luxury of the breakfast in bed."
When December 1941 rolled around the magazines met the war crises. They were full of "Grand Gesture Gifts for Sergeants, Seamen and Civilians." In 1942 they talked of the giving of hearts and hope, of love and courage.
The gifts advertised in 1957 seem to cater to the man or woman who has everything. But as Bill Vaughn says, this year some of the gifts suggested for the man who has everything wouldn't even please the man who has nothing.
—Marilyn Mermis
... Letters
Helpful
I would like to make a reply to a letter submitted by Roy Hartley (The Daily Kansan, Dec. 12) regarding our campus police. He remarked that a campus police car passed a stalled car that might have caused a traffic snarl. I am quite sure that if this situation existed and the person in the stalled car really needed help, the policeman would have stopped to lend a hand. I would say that what happened was unintentional and that the campus policeman was trying to complete his regular rounds. Mr. Hartley must have forgotten that each organization has different jobs for all personnel and that each campus policeman has a definite territory to cover each day.
I know that with nearly 8,500 students and pretty near as many cars on the campus, that the job of directing traffic at the various intersections is a pretty busy job. With only one main street across the campus and 8,500 students, they would have to double the force to give tickets to our many jawwalking Jayhawkers. The force is also charged with the security of the entire campus, buildings and welfare of the students. They are deputized
by city, county and state, and subject to call as such. They are on duty at all campus functions, operas, athletic events, and if a person has ever stood a mid-watch in the winter he could realize how cold it is directing traffic at basketball games and other winter functions.
Their relationship with the many different personalities on the campus is very good. I'm sure that they understand our problems of trying to get an education and are pulling for us as a school and as individuals. If all the present and former students that the various campus policemen have helped would send them a card or a little gift for Christmas or tell them, "Merry Christmas," it would let them know how much we appreciate a job well done.
Jerry Barland
Jerry Barland Beloit graduate student
Hangover; Something to occupy a head that wasn't used the night before.
A pessimist is a man who can look on the bright side of things and complain that the light hurts his eyes.
A tele-prompter unrolls script to television actors unseen to the viewing audience.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
By Dick Bibler
"OK, IN TH' BACK ROW ~ LETS HAVE THAT 'GIRLIE' MAGAZINE UP HERE IN THIS BASKET!"
Quotes From The News
NEW YORK—(UP)—Vice President Richard M. Nixon, saying American parents must assume responsibility for improving public education:
"Whether it takes more classrooms, better teaching, salaries, fewer frills, more algebra and less square dancing, this responsibility cannot be passed by the people to Washington."
PARIS — (UP) — News dealer, Emile Cordy, 48, when asked what he thought about NATO:
"I can't tell you exactly what it is. I don't have time to read the papers, mister."
WASHINGTON — (UIP) — Sen.
Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), calling for a "shakeup at the Pentagon" to get rid of military politics and improve the efficiency of the missiles program;
"There is duplication, waste and overlapping and the result is... where we are now, we were two months ago."
WASHINGTON —(UF)— Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), urging a new wiretap law to permit tapping by authorized FBI and state agents and use of wiretap evidence in federal courts in national security cases:
"It is time we brought our wiretap laws up to date so that our law enforcement officials can effectively combat criminals and subversives now operating under the shield of the present statute."
NEW YORK —(UP) —Mayor Robert F. Wagner in a special radio and television broadcast on the subway strike;
"It is the strike of a group which has submitted its cause to an impartial board and now seeks to use economic force to compel the city and the transit authority to overrule the board's decision. The city of New York cannot, and will not, permit itself to be blackmailed into such action."
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