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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Nov. 5. 1957
If 'Curly' Dies—
Let's Hope
We're sorry to see the Russians toss that second moon into space for a number of reasons.
As Americans, we could console ourselves that the first Sputnik was mostly a propaganda weapon. Although heavier than proposed U. S. space moons, it appeared to be a crash project to "get there fustest."
We'll get up there later, we told ourselves, with a lot better satellite; one that demonstrates real American know-how.
But when the Ruskies start tossing packages into the air which weigh 1,100 pounds and more, it seems to indicate that they are in the space business to stay.
To top off our worries, a Russian dog went along with Sputnik II—just for the ride. That "Curly" survived the shock when the rocket started indicates that her compartment was designed better than most Pullman berths.
If we had known the Reds were in the market for a space animal, we gladly would have volunteered our neighbor's cat.
But the sad part of it is, "Curly" may not come down alive. Although a Russian scientist hints "Curly" may be parachuted to safety, the chances
are great that the little white-haired dog may be space travel's first victim.
Dog-lovers the world over have already set up a howl. One of the first to object was Mrs. Irene Castle Castle Maughlin Enzinger. Mrs. Enzinger once won fame as a member of the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle. She charged the Russian use of a dog in a rocket was "disgraceful and cowardly."
The Russians will have to admit that Mrs. Enzinger is at least half right. The dog was blasted off into space because no man in his right mind, be he Russian or American, is yet willing to make a trip into space. It's just too dangerous.
To send a person up in a rocket now might ruin a career in science or engineering. In Mrs. Enzinger's case, it might terminate what has been a life filled with entertaining audiences and caring for animals.
If Curly dies, let's hope she is the last living thing to be killed in space experimentation. What's more, let's hope that neither the Russians nor we Americans put anything more explosive than a dog in the projectiles which we hurl into space in the coming years.
Larry Boston
Gunpowder Treason And Plot
(Editor's Note: The following article was written by Alan Brooke, London, England special student. Brooke informs us that the KU contingent of Britishers, called "Britons Abroad," will hold a Guy Fawkes party at 7 p.m. Friday at Lone Star Lake. Food will be furnished. All American-type blokes invited.)
In 1605 when James I reigned over England, there was unrest among his faithful subjects.
By law all subjects were required to attend the Established Episcopal Church. The penalty for non-attendance became so expensive that a band of gentry organized, and I quote from Winston Churchill, '...an infernal design for blowing up James and his whole parliament by gun-nowder...'
This band was led by a pair of noblemen—Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes—to whom we are indebted for our annual celebration and festivities. These men were organizers—the like of which is hard to find today. They floated barrels of gun powder down the river Thames and managed to keep the powder dry. What is more, they stowed their barrels in the cellars of the House of Commons without even being perceived—this was truly an infernal design.
About the time everyone should have been blown up, one of the plotters discovered that one of the
Lords sitting above the keys of powder was in fact his first, second or third cousin or something, so he (the plotter) warned him (the lord) that it might be advisable to take a day off from ruling the country, Nov. 5, to be precise.
It may have been coincidental that next day before Parliament was opened, a squad of Beefeaters took a look around. They met Guy Fawkes with a flaming torch in his hand, somewhere down in the depths of Westminster. There were a lot of round wooden things lying about down there with a powdery substance in 'em.
Guy Fawkes and the boys did not last very long, but their fame has (a lot of good it does them!). And so every year on November 5th the British and the British Commonwealth celebrate the failure of the plotters to blow up the chamber where king, lords, and commons were to assemble, and their failure to secure control of the government in the confusion, that was to result.
On Nov. 5, at the little town of Lewis in the south of England, one might see, as in most other little towns, benfires, displays of firecrackers and barrels of flaming tar rolling down from the castle on the hill into the river below. Many effigies of Guy Fawkes might be observed—most seated in a royal position on the top of a bonfire.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I SEE IVE LECTURED INTO YOUR 'LUNCH HOUR' AGAIN."
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