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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, May 9, 1968
St. Paul's words still ring true
Never tire of doing good, Apostle says
By Louis Cassels UPI Religion Editor
"Let us not become tired of doing good."
St. Paul addressed that admonition to Christians in Galatia 19 centuries ago.
It could be appropriately readressed to contemporary Americans of all faiths.
A perceptive observer said recently that a great many Americans who are essentially kind and decent folk seem to be suffering from "compassion fatigue."
It's a good phrase. Think on it for a minute.
Webster defines compassion as
"sympathetic consciousness of others' distress, together with a desire to alleviate it."
If you feel sorry for a person in need, that's pity. If you care enough about his troubles to try to help that's compassion.
Fatigue is defined as "weariness from exertion . . . the temporary loss of power to respond induced by continued stimulation."
Compassion fatigue, therefore,
is a condition in which your capacity for sympathy has been exhausted by overuse.
When you consider all of the human suffering—at home and
abroad—to which American men of good will have tried to respond during the past quarter century, it is not very surprising that some of them are beginning to display symptoms of compassion fatigue.
Among the external symptoms,
two in particular are noteworthy.
The first is a tendency to curtail contributions to worthy causes. You find yourself saying no to people who ask you to give money or time to help others.
The second is a growing readiness to accept any explanation of human misery which implies that the poor and oppressed have no one to blame but themselves.
You don't have to worry about how human beings can live on $50 a month in public assistance if you can believe that everyone on the welfare rolls is a deadbeat who's too lazy to work.
Like most ailments, spiritual and physical, compassion fatigue is easier to diagnose than to treat. It does not yield to exhortation or condemnation—even when self-administered. Flogging a tired conscience just makes it all the wearier.
Nor can the problem be solved by taking a "vacation from kindness" in which you tune out everyone else's troubles and wallow unabashedly in selfishness.
Each time you take that way out, you'll find it a little harder to return to the fray, and one day you'll just stay in your little cocoon of self-concern.
The only real cure for compassion fatigue is the one prescribed by the Bible. When you feel your wellsprings of mercy drying up, turn for refreshment to the source of all love.
Warrants issued in murder
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — (UPI)—Broward County authorities issued a first degree murder warrant for beachboy Jack (Murf the Surf) Murphy and one of his
Yearbook edition 3 is out
The third edition of the Jayhawker yearbook is being distributed Thursday and Friday in the Strong Hall rotunda, according to John Hill, Prairie Village junior and 1968 Jayhawker editor.
Distribution of the fourth edition will be May 24-25 between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The yellow receipt card issued with the first edition is needed to pick up the final two books.
"Living group presidents are encouraged to keep the dates of May 24-25 in mind and remind their groups, since the Daily Kansan will not be published during finals week," Hill said.
companions Wednesday following an investigation of the murders of two pretty young secretaries.
The Florida Bureau of Law Enforcement transmitted a bulletin calling for the arrest of Murphy and Jack Griffith, 34.
A Broward County grand jury investigating the murders of the two girls, whose budgeon and stabbed bodies were fished from Wiskey Creek Canal near Hollywood, Fla., last Dec. 8, earlied had returned two sealed indictments.
A team of detectives from the New York Bureau of Law Enforcement are heading the search for Murphy and Griffith.
Murphy, who was indicted in the spectacular Star of India sapphire burglary in New York in 1963, was mentioned as a suspect in the case shortly after the weighted bodies of Terry Rae Frank, 23, and Annelie Mohn, 21, were pulled from the waterway.
Police records in Los Angeles
The two girls had worked for a Los Angeles Brokerage where some $500,000 in securities were stolen until a week before they moved to Florida. Five men have been indicted in New York for the thefts
Suds.
Foamy pranks spell work for B & G
To the "typical" midwestern college sophomore, they can be very tasty.
To a "typical"—if there is such a thing--college housewife, they symbolize the drudgery of cleaning hubby's dirty shirts every Monday.
Top engineer honored
Gale Dewayne Lantis, Pomona senior, was cited as the outstanding senior in civil engineering at KU by the Kansas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at their meeting Monday night.
Lantis is a member of Chi Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi, both honorary engineering fraternities, and has been president of the KU chapter of the ASCE.
But to Leo Ousdahl, assistant superintendent of the KU physical plant, they symbolize extra work for cleaning the Chi Omega fountain and the Chancellor's fountain.
Putting detergent into the fountains really doesn't harm them but Ousdahl said he "wouldn't encourage it." "It takes a lot of trouble to clean the suds from the fountains—and a lot of money," he said.
It takes half a day to drain and scrub the fountains. The job—which costs $200—usually involves taking men from other jobs around the campus, Ousdahl said.
However, Ousdahl said, the fountains have been "sudsd" only "half a dozen times since we turned them on this spring."
Last spring, it happened that many times in one week.
presents
W. C. FIELDS
show that Mrs. Frank was seen with Murphy and another man in the California city last September.
THE FIERY FURNACE
Griffith, identified as a judo expert and a friend of Murphy's, was not one of the beachboys convicted of the Star of India theft.
in
"The Man On The Flying Trapeze"
Murphy has been out of jail on bond in Dade County following a muffed burglary attempt in Miami Beach Jan. 28.
The Methodist Student Center (Across from the Union) Admission 50c
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He and three others were arrested after a wild gun battle following the attempt to rob the millionaire row home of Mrs. Olive Wofford. Murphy was hospitalized with severe facial lacerations when he leaped through a window at Mrs. Wofford's home in a futile attempt to escape police.
Thursday, May 9 — 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Auto theft and car stripping now major problems
C. C. Benson, manager of the southwestern division of the NATB, said the unprecedented rise in motorcycle thefts by teenagers is particularly alarming and that they now represent nearly 25 per cent of all the vehicles stolen in many cities.
DALLAS—The theft and stripping of sports cars and motorcycles by teenagers has rapidly developed into a major problem for law enforcement officials, according to the National Automobile Theft Bureau.
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Foreign Culture Forum presents
"Good-by America"
SWAEBOU CONATEH: Student from Gambia, Africa speaks on the adjustment problem of the foreign student in American society.
Thursday, May 9th 4:30—Meadowlark Room Kansas Union