Tuesday, February 13, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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'He was—'
Continued from page 1
Father taught son to "use strong, short words."
William Allen White used just those kinds of words when he wrote his first Pulitzer Prize editorial, "To An Anxious Friend."
It was the civil liberties issue of a "hopeless strike" of Santa Fe shopmen. White said, that prompted his father to write the prize winner.
The governor had issued an injunction prohibiting the strikers from displaying placards and the Emporia editor took the position that the injunction was illegal. In addition, he displayed a placard in the Gazette office.
"The verdict up and down Commercial Street among his advertisers was, 'Well, he's gone crazy again.'"
Few realized the civil liberties issue and "respectable Emporia thought he was out of his mind. I know, for I was there fighting with him, covering that strike, hearing the angry protest on Commercial Street."
He never wrote an important article without going over it with his wife, Sallie.
In the fall of 1943, at age 75, William Allen White got cancer.
"Usually she read it aloud to him. Her pencil marks are all over his manuscripts; any top editor would agree that her suggestions for cuts or revision were highly professional."
Again the "younger" White marveled at how carefully his father had planned things.
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fine but, just in case he did not come out of the ether tomorrow, there were a few things we might go over.
"His will we would find in the office safe. He owed nothing except for current bills. His letters, he had promised the Library of Congress. Then there was his autobiography."
He only had a first draft that covered up to the early 1920's.
"The last thing he wanted to do was to impose on me. I had my own work to consider, my own life to lead. If I were too busy to bother with it myself, I could get one of those fellows working on a PhD to take it over. And if he came out of the ether the next day, he would do the work himself."
The United Press and the AP had brought up to date their biographical sketches of William Allen White and they "had been discreetly calling—would we promise to let them know, so a flash would be put on the main wire?" Several months later at 4 a.m. he died.
"So now, being of a newspaper family, a chip, if you like, off the old Sage of Emporia block. I found myself hastening to the phone to call, not the undertaker as any sane family would, but the AP and the UP.
"Four o'clock would be just right to start getting them out on the main trunk wires, so that the Sage of Emporia's last big story could get full dress treatment and page on play in the papers across the land.
"Only after I had hung up, did I remember the undertaker.
"Stupid, isn't it?
"My father would have laughed."
Minority Opinions Forum brings Rhodesian official
H. J. C. Hooper of the Rhodesian Information Office in Washington, D.C., will speak to the Student Union Activities (SUA) Minorities Opinion Forum at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union.
Hooper's talk, "Rhodesian Independence and Two Years Later," will defend Rhodesian policy since the nation declared its independence of Great Britain in September of 1965. He will also give a brief background of the events which led to the decision to declare independence.
Hooper opened the Rhodesian Information Office in February of 1966 after registering as a foreign agent under the provisions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The office was established to provide factual information about Rhodesia.
Hooper and his colleague, Kenneth Towsey, are the only Rhodesian officials in the United States. They have no diplomatic or consular functions.
In 1964, Hooper was appointed to the Rhodesian Mission, which operated in Washington under the protection of the British Embassy. When Rhodesia declared her independence, Hooper lost his diplomatic status and the protection of the British Embassy.
Hooper was born in London and went to South Africa with his parents when he was 4 years old. He was educated in South Africa and served in the Middle East with the South African forces during World War II.
After the war, he went to Rhodesia to join the Rhodesian Broadcasting Organization. He resigned from his position as Head of Features in 1962 to make television documentaries on Rhodesia.
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