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Veterans' Day Recalls Dead Who Fought War to End Wars
By Jane Larson
A gray, drizzly rain was falling on a field in southern France. A few American soldiers stood almost drenched to the skin.
But it didn't matter—they were going home. The date was Nov. 11.
On Nov. 8, there had been a false news flash which had set off coast-to-coast celebrating in the United States. But this time there was no false news flash—it had actually happened.
Such were the beginnings of Armistice Day signifying the end of World War I.
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the Treaty of Versailles was signed in the hopes of making the world safe for democracy and war forever impossible.
FROM ALL OVER the allied world arose a joyous, hysterical, even riotous shout of relief—all because one particular war was over.
In remembrance of this day, Congress made it a national holiday in 1938. It was dedicated to the cause of world peace and the remembrance of 16 million soldiers who fought for American freedom.
CITIZENS OF LAWRENCE and KU students participated in a parade today commemorating the dead of three wars.
At 10:30 this morning the parade of colors, consisting of veterans and ROTC members, marched from Seventh and Massachusetts to South Park.
At South Park Rev, Harold Barr, of 1728 Indiana, gave the invocation and Mayor Jim Owens spoke.
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1964 University Daily Kansan
Participating in the parade, sponsored by the American Legion, were the Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC, all of KU, each sending four men as color guards. Others participating were World War I Veterans, Disabled Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion Posts No. 14 and No. 112, and the National Guard.
THE NATIONAL GUARD presented a Civil War color guard dressed in Civil War uniforms.
An unidentified World War I veteran said of one of the original Armistice Day parades, "It is etched on my memory in gooseflesh."
"WE WERE ALL stylishly dressed in broad-brimmed hats and rumpled blouses," he said, "while only I was wearing The Overcoat' made for a man of '74' and hanging one inch from the ground.
The 6-1 soldier was marching down Grand Ave. in Des Moines, Iowa, in a parade from the Drake University campus.
"I varied my martial gait with a little skip every now and then to keep from falling on my face," he said.
The treaty of 1918 was signed with the hopes of making war impossible forever, but World War II and the Korean War destroyed these hopes.
On June 1, 1554, Congress changed the name of Armistice Day to Veterans' Day to commemorate the dead of all three wars.
ON THIS "FIRST" Veterans' Day there was the traditional silent observance at 11 a.m. for the war dead, but this Veterans' Day was different
Over 48,000 recent immigrants gathered in mass ceremonies in baseball parks, amphitheaters, and historic sites across the land to take the oath of United States citizenship.
In addition to setting aside a day for commemoration the University of Michigan provides a "living" memorial to the dead.
This memorial is the Phoenix Project, a broad study of peaceful uses of atomic energy named after the mythical Egyptian bird that was periodically consumed by fire and rose from its ashes.
Wescoe to Attend At Blood Donations
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will shed his administrative garb and don medical clothing to be the attending physician at a blood donation by four men's residence halls Dec. 9.
Dr. Wescow, a medical doctor and a former dean of the School of Medicine, will attend as men from Ellsworth, Grace Pearson, Joseph R. Pearson and Templin halls contribute blood to the Red Cross. The chancellor assisted last year when Ellsworth residents gave blood.
The site of the blood donation center has not been set as yet, but it will be in one of the halls.
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KU's memorials to the dead include Memorial Stadium, campanile, Memorial Drive and the Kansas Union.
Other "living" memorials are 20 college scholarships awarded by Amvets, and a park and rehabilitation center in Honolulu
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KU Printing Plant Defines Operation
The University Press no longer is, but it still is.
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Explanation of the enigma is that the name "Press" has for two decades meant both the KU printing plant and a publishing division that produces several books of a scholarly nature each year. The two have been administratively separate although the latter has its books printed by the former.
Clyde K. Hyder, professor of English, is editor of the Press. Thomas C. Ryther is superintendent of the Printing Service. Both are in Flint Hall.
To end the confusion, University Press now means the book publishing arm of the University. The older and larger operation becomes the University Printing Service.
The University Press has published over 100 books since its creation in the mid-1940's. The Printing Service handles most of KU's printing, including books of the Press, the Daily Kansan, Alumni Magazine, and publications of other divisions.
Kansas Supplies KU 45 Per Cent of Funds
State appropriations provided less than 45 per cent of the operating income for both KU campuses last year, the annual financial report for the year reveals.
Although the total amount of state assistance has been increasing over the past six years, along with the enrollment, the proportion of the operating income from state appropriations has decreased from 51.4 per cent in 1957-58 to 44.1 per cent in 1963-64.
At the same time, grants received by the University for research and associated research training projects have quadrupled—from approximately $2 million in 1957-58 to $8 million in 1963-64. The proportion of the University's income from this source has increased from 13 per cent to 20.6 per cent.
The proportion of the University's income from student fees has remained relatively constant around 9-10 per cent.
Total operating income of the University, including both campuses, was approximately $39 million in the last fiscal year. This does not include income of $2.3 million to the Memorial Corporation which operates the Kansas Union and its bookstore, $307,000 for the Medical Center Student Union Corporation, $116,000 for the independently financed Alumni Association, $640,000 for the Physical Education Corporation which operates the University's intercollegiate athletic program, and a contribution to the University's programs of more than $3.5 million, principally in student scholarships and loans, by the Endowment Association which receives and administers gifts and bequests in behalf of the University.
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