---
---
Summer Session Kansan
Page 2
Tuesday. July 17, 1962
A Good Sign
The University of Kansas is busily preparing for another fall school term when students will pour in by the thousands (10 to be exact) to take another crack at this thing called higher education.
The fall students, who did not grace the campus with their presence during the summer session, will find that Mt. Oread will have a new face.
On a student's daily trek to the Union for the stimulant of all stimulants, coffee, he cannot but see the new addition to the Museum of Natural History. The new addition will provide classroom and laboratory space which was so badly lacking in the old wing.
THE SUMMER SESSION student can hardly move without observing the "Hill's" new face. Construction is in full swing and this is a positive sign of the progressiveness of the University.
As construction work continues on the new addition, museum personnel are also working to expand its specimens. There are presently four major expeditions in the field which will return with new specimens to classify. There are three displays under construction which will add to the museum's already comprehensive exhibits.
ON A STUDENT'S trek to Watson Library, he will notice that groundwork is being done for the new addition there. Bulldozers are scooping out dirt preparing the site for construction.
Watson Library does not have adequate facilities to house the future rush of students to
the University. In preparation for the future enrollment flood, the University has taken a step forward to improve its library facilities now.
THIS CONSTRUCTION is necessary so if enrollment of one sex is larger than anticipated, the dormitories can be split with women in one wing and men in the other.
Additional insights to the future can be seen in the new engineering building and the new dormitory now under construction on west campus.
Hashinger Hall, the third of KU's skyscraping dormitories, will open to students this fall. Many university administrations would have said that one new dormitory would be enough. KU, however, is going ahead with a fourth just south of Hashinger.
THE ENGINEERING SCHOOL has long been housed in antiquated Marvin Hall. Its new home will be a modernistic structure to the north of Allen Field House.
These new constructions will not be completed for several months. However, they are underway and the University is closer to equipping its facilities to meet the rising enrollments which institutions of higher education are facing.
Foresight was used in the construction of Hashinger. Its facilities are so equipped that it can provide housing for both men and women. During the 1959-60 school term Carruth-O'Leary was used in this way.
—Steve Clark
The Civil Defense Gamble
Editor's Note: "When the skies are clear, no one is interested (in civil defense). Suddenly, then, when the clouds come after all, and we have no assurance that they will not come, then everyone wants to find out why more has not been done about it." — President Kennedy at his July 5 news conference.
By Darrell Garwood United Press International
WASHINGTON — The tall, lean, 43-year-old Yale graduate who heads the nation's civil defense program is willing to gamble that interest in fallout shelters will pick up this fall.
Assistant Defense Secretary Steuart L. Pittman believes, furthermore, that the resurgence of interest will not reflect a rise in international tensions. The reasons, he thinks, will be closer to the family hearth.
WHEN PITTMAN left his Washington law practice to take the civil defense job last Sept. 21, the Berlin crisis was at its height and the big shelter program was the apple of the administration's eye.
Now he is faced with monumental indifference in Congress and a pall of apathy on the subject throughout the country. But he isn't discouraged.
"I think we're at a low point," he said in an interview. "I think public interest will pick up when we get more intensive action at the local level. And that will be soon."
PITTMAN HAS purchased $35 million worth of food and equipment which is scheduled to start moving next fall into well-marked public shelters. He made clear he expected this to perk up public interest.
He conceded that it is difficult to stir enthusiasm for distributing umbrellas when it isn't raining, and that national interest in homefront protection seldom runs high when diplomatic waters are calm.
"But," he said, "when you come hard up against deciding who is to get what shelter space, and under what circumstances you should bring the baby's bottle, such small
questions in total may have a strong if less spectacular hold on the public interest."
PITTMAN SAID there are several misconceptions about the shelter program, and listed them as follows:
- That Congress is about to scuttle the whole shelter project. It's true, he conceded, that Congress has scheduled no hearings and seems unlikely to act favorably on the $460 million "Shelter Incentive Program," but 135,000,000 shelter spaces are planned under other programs and 60,000,000 already have been selected. Without the incentive money, civil defense still should have about $235 million for the fiscal year begun July 1, or about the same as last year.
- That studies have shown fallout shelters wouldn't save many lives in a nuclear war. On the contrary, Pittman said, the trend is toward a potential war situation in which shelters would be increasingly effective. He pointed out that more and more intercontinental missiles are being placed in underground launching silos, and that attempts to knock these out would require ground nuclear bursts—the kind that create fallout.
- That people are no longer concerned about fallout and are opposed to shelters. This apparently confuses apathy with a change of opinion, he said. Pittman said a study just completed for the Defense Department by the University of Michigan indicates that 71 per cent of the population still favors the government's shelter program as far as it goes. This, he said, includes 26 per cent who think it doesn't go far enough.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE people are no longer concerned about fallout, when it poses some of the most horrible prospects ever contemplated by man.
"Just imagine," Pittman continued, "a situation in which a series of ground nuclear bursts has scooped up millions upon millions of tons of fallout, and millions or tens of millions of people without shelters have suffered a lethal dose of radioactivity in the first half-
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
WHILE PITTMAN did not mention the fact, the recent trend in nuclear strategic thinking as well as in weapons deployed underground has suggested to many that increased importance should be given to shelters.
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, in an Ann Arbor, Mich., speech, said the U.S. nuclear force is sufficiently strong to permit a strategy in which only Russian military targets would be attacked in war. This, he said, would give the Soviets the "strongest possible incentive" to spare American cities.
"But they will not die for about two weeks. The man who thinks he is going to bare his breast for a quick death in the nuclear war should think about those possible two weeks of living death."
The shelters admittedly could not save people within blast range of attacks on cities. But if the attacks could be confined to military targets they would have a good chance of saving civilians from the long-distance effects of fallout.
hour or hour after the fallout begins.
For the shelter survey, marketing and stocking program on which $140 million has already been spent, the administration has requested another $58 million. Other requests include:
NONE OF THE civil defense money for the current fiscal year has been voted as yet, but all of the serious objections voiced so far apply to the incentive or subsidy money.
Shelter in federal buildings $25
million; warning and detection $46
million; emergency operations $33
million; aid to states and localities
$32 million; management $14
million; research $17.7 million.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Letters
Steve Clark and Karl Koch Co-Editors
Dear Editor:
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Bonnie McCullough and Bill Woodburn ... Co-Business Mgrs.
Why the machinegun pits being built to encircle the campus? This is no doubt a plot of the disruptionist feudal revengist militarist elements, who scheme to impose compulsory ROTC on us all.
Students, cast off your beanies, arise!
Stop nuclear testing on Mt.
Oread!
Don McClelland
Vladivostok graduate student (Ft. Leavenworth senior)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S AMERICA, edited by Farida A. Wiley (Doubleday Anchor, $1.45).
Imagine a small boy out in the woods, looking for birds, and coming across, instead, that great American curiosity—Theodore Roosevelt, rising out of the brush himself. That is the Roosevelt pictured by a New Yorker writer in this excellent collection, published by Doubleday in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History.
Roosevelt was the president who did more than any president prior to his time to preserve the beauties of America. Roosevelt was a naturalist himself, an outdoor man par excellence, a South Dakota rancher who later irritated Mark Hanna as that "damned cowboy!"
The president's own writings are in this volume, his story of life on the Elkhorn ranch in South Dakota, his experiences as a sheriff, his descriptions of cowboys, ranch life, Indians, and all the marvelous game of the prairies—a grizzly bear with whom he had a near-perilous encounter, deer, bighorn sheep, and birds.
"It will be a real misfortune if our wild animals disappear from mountain, plain, and forest, to be found only, if at all, in great game preserves." Roosevelt wrote. "It is to the interest of all of us to see that there is ample and real protection for our game as for our woodlands... More and more as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle."—CMP
THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH, by Franz Werfel (Cardinal, 75 cents).
In the 1930s this long, frequently exciting, sometimes tedious novel was quite a cause celebrate. It is anti-Turk, but beyond that there can be little doubt that Franz Werfel was speaking out against national and racial extermination, such as that practiced by Nazi Germany. So controversial was the novel that M-G-M, which had purchased screen rites, has postponed, to this day, plans for a film version, for fear of injuring the foreign market.
The modern novel which "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" most closely resembles is Leon Uris' "Exodus." But it is a much better novel. Werfel could write. Uris can only tell a story. "The Forty Days" is a sweeping theme, but Werfel's mistake (he erred similarly in "Song of Bernadette") was to include far too much irrelevant detail.
The novel concerns a 40-day siege of Armenians on a mountain top by the Turks in World War I. The Turks were engaged on a campaign of decimation of the Armenian people in Syria, and a 30-ish dilettante named Gabriel Bagradian becomes the self-appointed leader of the Armenians in making the battle.
It is truly a fine novel, and, once again, it is too bad that Werfel could not have pared off about 200 pages.—CMP
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING, by T. H. White (Dell, 95 cents).
"In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush."
This, as you may guess, must have been Alan Jay Lerner's inspiration for "Camelot." For this warm and wonderful novel was the book upon which Loewe and Lerner based (rather loosely, I am afraid) their musical play. It is a delightfully funny story of Arthur and Lancelot (a grotesquely ugly man!) and Guenever and Merlyn and the foul Mordred and the battling Scot knights Gawaine and Gareth and the sickeningly sweet Galahad and all the rest.
One of the truly outstanding biographies of the past several years now is available in quality paperback. This Sentry edition is put together so that it has the value of a hardback and the flexibility of a paperback.
The novel has, in this reader's opinion, a genuine chance of attaining the stature of a classic. White provides a retelling of the Arthurian legends that gives new dimensions to them. He indulges in the most frightful, and intentional, anachronisms — characters reciting from "As You Like It," a badger that sings "Sweet Genevieve." Merlyn discussing Hitler and Einstein. It is philosophical and wise and utterly charming, and it is readable by people of almost all ages.—CMP
JOHN C. CALHOUN, AMERICAN PORTRAIT, by Margaret L. Coit (Sentry, $2.45).
Margaret Coit won the 1950 Pulitzer prize in biography for this volume, and it is easy to see why. She takes a man who is not greatly beloved by history and makes him human and understandable. Beyond that, she has done enough researching into political philosophy to explain Calhoun's idea of the concurrent majority and why he became the virtual symbol of the antebellum South.
It is a big book, and a thorough one. The biographer presents Calhoun's humble background, his marriage to a girl of the Charleslton aristocracy, his War Hawking days in Congress, his uneasy alliance with Jackson. But the greater part of the book is about Calhoun as leader of the sectional South, fighting his congressional battles with Clay and Webster.
If there is any complaint about this book, it is in Margaret Coit's swallowing-up of Calhounian principles. These have led to the South to much of its latter-day trouble, and Calhounism certainly is not going to save America today.—CMP