Even Nursery Rhyme Conceals Shady Ideas
By Don Redmond
(Acting Assistant Director of Watson Library)
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't her;
Put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he her very well.
What happens when a book is censored?
Even the innocent nursery rhyme contains sinister ideas.
PETER'S MISTREATED wife, an other sadly censored books, are on display this week in the Special Collections exhibit area on the basement floor of Watson Library. Books blacked out with paint, scissored, pasted over, and just blacklisted, are all displayed.
The futility of censorship is one of the things shown in the exhibit, and to be discussed at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Forum Room of the Union in the Library's 12th annual books and bibliography lecture. Lecturer Elmer Gertz, Chicago lawyer, author and defender of civil liberties, is speaking on "Books and Their Right to
Live." He will deal with Kansas censorship problems as well as such national issues as the attempts to ban Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer."
CENSORSHIP OF books may be for religions, political, personal or business motives, the library exhibit shows. It has been a problem through hundreds of years, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1483 to the Germany of Hitler and the Donald Duck of today.
And what happened to Peter?
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater,
Had another and didn't
her; Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he ___ her very well
Observatory Open
The astronomical observatory in 530 Lindley Hall will be open tomorrow night to the public to view the rings around Saturn. The observatory will be open from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
New Prexy Has Praise For Traffic
The new president of the National Association of Colleges and University Traffic and Security Directors praises KU officials in his first message in the organization's publication.
Those praised were Vice-Chancellor Keith Lawton, Jerry Adams of University Extension, B. L. Scruggs of the Governmental Research Center and Police Chief E. P. Moomau "for their significant contributions to the success of the conference."
"They stepped in under trying conditions after the death of our beloved friend and respected member, Chief Joe Skillman," Tanner said. Skillman died last year.
W. A. Tanner of Florida State University complimented the officials for their manner of playing host to the national meeting last June.
He also noted that KU "can take great pride in a beautiful campus."
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