Smashing time with Carry
She remembers Carry.
In fact, she remembers going on a tavern-smashing raid with Carry Nation in the heyday of the notorious temperance leader from Medicine Lodge.
She is Miss Ruth Stout, former Topekan living in West Redding, Conn. Miss Stout is the author of several books on gardening and homemaking and is a sister of Rex Stout, author of the Nero Wolfe mystery stories.
At the request of Dr. Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts here, where a new opera based on the life of Carry Nation will be premiered April 28 during the KU Centennial. Miss Stout recently wrote this description of the raid:
"THE MEN LEFT: the women raged and fumed because Mrs. Nation had given in to them. Mrs. Nation, with the tears running down her face, said: 'I was never so happy in my life, to see you care so much.'
"THE RAID I TOOK PART in with Carry NAID Nation was, I believe, early in 1901 and I was a 16-year-old Topeka High School student.
"The men talked her into postponing the raid, promising to see it that the selling would be stopped without violence.
"There was a meeting in a doctor's office with about 20 or 30 women and four or five men present. Mrs. Nation made the point that she smashed joints not because she was against alcohol (although she was), but to bring it home to the voters that it was illegal to sell it in Kansas.
Well, of course the men didn't come through, and a raid was arranged for a Sunday morning. At a rough guess there were about 30 women. My sister, May, 24 year old, who had been a school teacher but now was studying to be a doctor, and I, 16, were the youngest; the rest, I would say, were around middle age.
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"Two policemen (they were right on our heels now) stepped up and arrested her. While that was going on, I raised my hatchet and gave the other plate glass window a good hearty smash.
"We met at the State House; the sun had not come up when we started toward our first joint. It was a very quiet, very solemn march; I don't believe there was so much as a whisper. Then, as we slowly walked down Kansas Avenue, came slow, loud, pounding sounds, which meant the police had spotted us and were alerting other policemen.
"WF REACHED THE JOINT—a drugstore which Mrs. Nation had somehow found out sold liquor illegally—and Mrs. Nation stepped up to the large plate glass window on one side of the door, ra'ed her hatchet and gave the window a worthwhile smash.
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Wednesday. March 23. 1966
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"Glass fell, a piece cut my finger, blood flowed and I looked over at the group of policemen, expectantly, exultantly, for now I would go to jail for my lofty ideals.
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"They ignored me, and mingled with my disappointment was some astonishment, for Mrs. Nation was smiling and they were laughing hilariously at what she was saying.
"THEY TOOK HER OFF to jail and I learned later that she was always very friendly with the policemen! They were simply doing their duty.
"With the leader gone, the
"Then, knowing the address of another joint, not far away, we went there and did a fairly thorough job. Then home."
women simply went home. My sister May was so outraged at this that she went inside the store and smashed a bit here and there. Of course I helped.
Miss Stout, now 81, adds a postscript, "Just for the record, I like a daiquiri before dinner. Also, for the record, I'm still willing to go to jail for my convictions" (referring to the fact that she writes two weekly newspaper columns, many of them controversial attacks on what she calls "our doings in Viet Nam").
By Cheryl Hentsch
Lecturer describes translating problems
Translating the Bible and school primers into native languages presents many personal frustrations for the "civilized" translator unaccustomed to "primitive" societies.
Mr. Richard Ver Lee, representative of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, described his personal experiences with "cultural shock" to faculty and students attending the Linguistics Colloquy yesterday at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Ver Lee, who spent six years in Mexico with the Aztec Indians, explained that a translator, uprooted from familiar settings when he lives with a native tribe, frequently encounters "cultural shock." One symptom of "cultural shock" is rejection against the host country, the home country, self, God and the mission board, said Ver Lee.
VER LEE DEFINED "cultural
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Ralph N. Adams, professor of chemistry, received a grant of $29,882 from the U.S. Public Health Service for a study of biological electron transfer.
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The Summer Language Institutes, which offer method instruction to linguists and anthropologists, try to minimize the problems of cultural change from school theory to field practice. Special programs simulating field situations make translators consciously aware of the necessity of cultural adjustment.
Even the translator's family becomes enveloped in "cultural shock," said Ver Lee. "My son Phillip, while living in Mexico and playing with native children, had to learn that children in all cultures are responsible to an adult for their actions. In Phillip's culture, the son obeys his father while in the Aztec culture, a boy obeys his uncle."
shock" as "the upsetting of an individual's psychological balance due to his new relationship with a new culture and his subsequent struggle to re-establish his balance."
immunology. The program is designed to train graduate students to teach in medical-allied subjects and to do research in immunology, and to provide specialized post-doctoral training in immunobiology.
The Public Health Service also awarded a grant of $8,162 to Charles A. Leone, professor of zoology, for a training program in
James McChesney, assistant professor of botany, was awarded a $15,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to purchase equipment and update facilities for plant physiology.
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