6 2 1 BBE1 ES ylut yobouT THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN Tuesday, July 23, 1968 Camp needs civic help For 31 years the Midwestern Music and Art Camp has added to the economy of the community of Lawrence. The relationship basically has been a good one, but a few people are trying to darken it. The camp has rules, most of them necessary for the continuing operation of the Camp. When campers violate these rules they are punished. Why is it then when Lawrence citizens violate city laws and ordinances on the premises of the camp no action is taken? For years it has been the game of Lawrence High School boys to sneak into the Camp grounds. With 31 years of practice the game has become pretty sophisticated. This year red camp badges were made and distributed to all campers to help identify them in cases of emergency and to keep intruders away. With the old cardboard identification cards imposters were many. But now with the new identification badges imposters run the hills again. A Lawrence merchant, wanting to make a fast profit, is providing most any young man who wants a badge, with an almost perfect copy. He sells these badges for more than 10 times his cost of manufacture. The only discrepancy in them, is that they have a red back instead of white. Other Lawrence merchants, in good faith of the camp, have cashed checks and readily identified campers by their red badge. Now a non-camper may walk into many Lawrence businesses and cash checks with someone else's good number. A non-camper may shop lift and with his fake number the blame goes to an unknowing camper. And even more tragically, a non-camper with a fake number may be injured and the wrong set of parents called because he is wearing someone else's identification number. Also in the last week young people of the Lawrence community have taken to the streets to taunt and instigate trouble among campers. Three young campers have been treated in the past week at Watkins Memorial Hospital for injuries resulting from such scuffles. Yet no charges have been pressed, only parents have been called. The Camp does much for KU. It is one of the biggest recruiters KU has. It brings talented young people in many fields to the campus for a summer and many return for their college education. With these students comes more money for the Lawrence economy. It is about time that the University and the Midwestern Music and Art Camp receive a little more cooperation from the City of Lawrence. When Campers are wrong they are punished. When city laws are violated then the offenders should be punished. The late summer novels range from history to science fiction, with plentiful spy stuff along the way. Here are some of them: Elliott Arnold's A NIGHT OF WATCHING (Crest, 95 cents) — A book based on the Danish rescue of the Jews in World War II. Here is an exciting story based on real-life events of a quarter century ago. Arnold wrote the famous "Blood Brother," the story of the Indian Cochise. Many suspenseful stories are available in paperback today; here is one with significance. Daniel Panger's OL' PROPHET NAT (Gold Medal, 75 cents) — One that appeared—coincidentally?—the same year as William Styron's already celebrated "Confessions of Nat Turner." This slight work also is based on the famed confession made by the Negro slave who led the great rebellion in the summer of 1831. John Godey's A THRILL A MINUTE WITH JACK ALBANY (Gold Medal, 50 cents)—Wild comic adventure of a character involved with crooks and police. As a movie it's called "Never a Dull Moment." Richard Stark's THE BLACK ICE SCORE (Gold Medal, 50 cents)—The anti-hero Parker is back again, in a wild tale of jewel thievery and much sex. New Books Hugh C. Rae's SKINNER (Crest, 60 cents)—The story of a sadistic pathological killer. Here's a sickening tale of violence, if that's what you're looking for. Clay Randall's AMOS FLAGG HAS HIS DAY (Gold Medal, 50 cents)—A western that describes what happens when a town honors, of all people, the sheriff, and he spends the day defending himself and the town. Fred Houle's OCTOBER THE FIRST IS TOO LATE (Crest, 60 cents)—Science fiction that shows time all in turmoil as the world is ready for that long-predicted end. There are some real rousers ready for you in that display at the supermarket. Sex and competition in the garment industry. A biography of the fantastic Howard Hughes. A kid out to kill the whole faculty of a junior high school. Terror from Mary Roberts Rinehart. Western excitement. An old one about Hercule Poirot. Sex and desire all over the place. A new tale of the cops of the 87th Precinct. Alongside which William Saroyan's THE MAN WITH THE HEART IN THE HIGHLANDS AND OTHER STORIES (Dell, 50 cents) seems sweet and pale. There was a time when Saroyan was mighty "in." Like, say, 1939. His humor and his pleasant tales seem alien to an age of anti-heroes, but they're good to return to. There are 32 stories in all that came from the once-celebrated novelist-playwright-short story writer. About the garment industry story—it's by Norman Bogner, and it's called SEVENTH AVENUE (Dell, 95 cents). It may take you a few days to get through the experiences of Jay Blackman, who goes from Brooklyn slums to Seventh Avenue. His method is quite like that of O'Hara's Pal Joey or the early heroes of Jerome Weidman (see, especially, "I Can Get It for You Wholesale.") But it's the feeling of the sixties rather than the thirties. And so to the relief of Ed McBain's GIVE THE BOYS A GREAT BIG HAND (Dell, 50 cents), which is violent but so is the life of a cop. It's about Patrolman Genero, who finds a severed hand in an abandoned suitcase, and the messy business that follows. The 87th Precinct stories are good ones, some of the best, in fact. White's Wit and Wisdom FLOWERS AND THINGS May 23, 1922, Emporia Gazette When a house is adorned by garden flowers, it is a sign that someone in the house, perhaps everyone in the house, is trying to give pleasure to the neighbors and passing strangers. Flowers are planted to make beauty out of doors where every one may see them, may enjoy them and share in the joy that comes with seeing beautiful things. Flowers about a house are a sign of kind hearts inside. Flowers about a house are the sign that the house is a neighborly house. Flowers are the insignia of generous folks trying to teach their neighbors by mute tokens of good will. And so when a passerby steals flowers, he steals the cement that holds us together. He steals the joy that belongs not to one household but to all wayfarers, to the whole neighborhood. He steals the good will that makes this a better world. And such a thief is either blindly ignorant or grossly selfish. In any event he is a low-life who ought to be shot at sunrise, drawn and quartered and buried at the crossroads with a spike in his entrails. Nothing is too mean for the flower thief. The Castle Tea Room IN LAWRENCE STILL THE MOST UNIQUE RESTAURANT There has to be a good reason why students and faculty alike continue year after year, to patronize us. It could be our warm, friendly atmosphere, fine food, "Old World" decor, or just the fact that we're different. Our four dining rooms, furnished in birch, cherry, walnut, and oak, are perfect for dinner dates, meetings, and even wedding receptions. But, whatever the reason may be, we're glad you've made us the most popular restaurant in Lawrence. We've been that way for 20 years. If you're new in Lawrence, we'd like to get acquainted with you. If you already know about us, you will be glad to know that we're still here. We haven't changed! 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