University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 25, 1962
Japanese Students Protest U.S.A-Tests
TOKYO —(UPI)— A snake-dancing mob of about 100 leftist Zengakuren students marched on the U.S. embassy today to protest American atmospheric nuclear weapons tests but were driven off by waiting police riot squads.
The march was the first of an anticipated series of demonstrations against the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing in the air over the Pacific.
About 500 policemen, armed with pistols and clubs, ringed the U.S. embassy compound. The students moved to within about 50 yards of the embassy before they were blocked by a cordon of policemen, about six deep. government to reconsider its plan
The students tried to break through the police lines but were hurled back. A police loudspeaker warned the demonstrators to disperse but the students refused and attempted again to smash through to the embassy.
POLICE THEN began a series of football-like rushes, steadily forcing the students back. The demonstrators were driven across town more than a mile from the embassy.
There were no reports of serious injuries in the more than a dozen kicking, fist-swinging clashes that tied up traffic in downtown Tokyo during the evening rush hour. But numerous policemen and students were roughed up.
While the demonstrations were continuing, Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka summoned embassy Charge d'Affaires William Leenhart to deliver a formal protest note against the resumption of the U.S. nuclear tests.
"THE JAPANESE government cannot agree with the American plans to resume tests for whatever reason," a foreign office spokesman quoted Kosaka as saying.
"My government deeply regrets that the United States scheduled tests in the midst of the Geneva conference on disarmament. My government strongly urges the American
government to reconsider its plan from the standpoint of human welfare," Kosaka was quoted.
Leonhart said he would relay the protest to Washington.
The students from Hosei and Waseda universities snake-danced across the city to the embassy, carrying school banners and a few placards demanding the United States refrain from testing.
About 500 club-carrying policemen ringed the embassy compound. About 100 lined up in front of the iron gates at the main entrance while about 50 yards down the road another 200 policemen formed a solid phalanx.
Bunichiro Sano, director of the Ban-the-Bomb group, called an emergency news conference after the Washington announcement and told newsmen: "It cannot be allowed."
He said "our real action begins" when council chairman Kaoru Yasui returned from a visit to Moscow.
"That will be powerful and effective." Sano added.
Sano said that all 77 directors of the council — the nation's biggest ban-the-bomb organization — and 300 other persons, "including professors, religious representatives, students, actors and men of culture and knowledge" will go to the U.S. embassy tomorrow to protest to Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer.
Reischauer is currently on a tour of Japanese provincial areas.
'Yellow Book' Illustrations In Major Exhibit of Season
"A Study in Yellow," the Museum of Art's major exhibition this year, will open Sunday.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the national repository for prints and drawings in the British Isles. The Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has the finest collection of Beerbohm drawings.
The exhibition will feature illustrations from "The Yellow Book" of the 1890s. It will contain drawings borrowed from Oxford and Victoria and Albert Museums in England and from Princeton University.
'Twelfth Night'
To Open Tonight
The University Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night, or What You Will" opens at 8 p.m. today in the University Theatre.
Performances are scheduled through Saturday. Gordon Beck, instructor of speech and drama, is director.
Before the curtain goes up, the "Lobby Singers," led by Ted Lawson, Medford, Ore., junior, will sing Elizabethan madrigals for the audience.
ID cards will admit students. All other tickets are $1.50.
Scabbard and Blade To Install Officers
Scabbard and Blade, national honorary military society, will install newly-elected officers for 1962-63 at the next meeting, early in May.
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The officers for the coming year are Richard Hartman, Kansas City, Mo., junior, president; William Textor, Leewardworth sophomore, vice president; Paul Stone, Lawrence junior, treasurer, and Frank Breen, Cincinnati, Ohio, junior, secretary.
"The Yellow Book" was founded by Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley and was published by John Lane of London from 1894-1897. It gave young writers and artists an opportunity to have their work published. The art, however, was completely disassociated from the text.
Yellow Book contributions from Princeton will include material from the Gallatin Collections of works by and about Aubrey Beardsley.
"The artist had only to choose his subject, produce his masterpiece, and if it passed the scrutiny of the editor and John Lane, the offering would be accepted and its creator amply recompensed."
Mrs. Katherine Mix of Baker University, who recently did a study of "The Yellow Book." writes:
The Art Museum will sponsor a public reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The exhibition will run until after commencement.
The Presidential Forum will hold its last meeting of the semester at 7:30 tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. The topic of discussion will be "Medicare-Pro and Con." Vaclav Mudrohr, assistant professor of history, and Oswald Backus, professor of history, will lead the discussion.
Medical Care Plans To Be Discussed
Guest panelists are Dr. C. Y. Thomas Jr., a physician from Prairie Village and L.R.C. Agnew, professor of history and chairman of the department of the history of medicine at KU.
Last night's All Student Council meeting was the most lively one of the semester although only one piece of legislation was passed and one was defeated.
Student Council Meeting Lively
The council voted to have a council picnic early in May to "further jovial relations between the political parties after the election."
A RESOLUTION TO send a letter to all department heads requesting that no tests or papers be due the week preceding final week was defeated.
- The present night bus service will be discontinued...
- The following reports made were:
- Recommended that the budget for All Women Students be returned to the University thus eliminating it from the ASC budget and lowering the ASC appropriation from student activity fees 40 cents.
- Placing a stop sign at the top of the hill at the intersection of 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard will not be necessary after the new traffic plan is in effect next fall because there will be a check point on Fourteenth.
- The possibility of having a stop sign at the corner of Eleventh and Louisiana Streets has been passed to the Lawrence planning commission for investigation.
- The planned debate between representatives of the Truth About Cuba and Fair Play for Cuba committees will not be possible because the latter cannot come. A speaker from the Truth about Cuba committee will be here and will speak at the Minority Opinion Forum.
- A representative of the John Hancock Insurance Company will be on campus this week to discuss with student leaders the possibility of starting a group life insurance plan at KU similar to that now operating at West Point and several other Eastern schools.
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KU Solicits Bids
Specifications for the Watson Library additions were sent out yesterday to contractors for bidding.
Preliminary estimates place the cost of the additions at $1,800,000. The opening date for bids will be 2 p.m.
May 22.
Representatives of WDAF, Kansas City radio station, will be at the next People-to-People "Happy Hour" to interview students about the "Happy Hour" and the P-t-P program in general. The "Happy Hour" will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
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CRAM COURSE No. 3: ENGLISH POETRY
Final exams will soon be upon us. This is no time for fun and games. Let us instead study hard, cram fiercely, prepare assiduously.
In this column today let us make a quick survey of English poetry. When we speak of English poetry, we are, of course, speaking of Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Some say that of the three, Keats was the most talented. It is true that he displayed his gifts earlier than the others. While still a schoolboy at St. Swithin's he wrote his epic lines:
If I am good, I get an apple.
So I don't whistle in the chapel.
From this distinguished beginning, he went on to write another 40,000 poems in his lifetime—which is all the more remarkable when you consider that he was only five feet tall!
I mention this fact only to show that physical problems never keep the true artist from creating. Byron, for example, was lame. Shelley had an ingrown hair. Nonetheless, these three titans of literature turned out a veritable torrent of romantic poetry.
Nor did they neglect their personal lives. Byron, a devil with the ladies, was expelled from Oxford for dipping Elizabeth Barrett's pigtails in an inkwell. He thereupon left England to fight in the Greek war of independence. He fought bravely and well, but women were never far from his mind, as evidenced by this immortal poem:
But I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing cheek to cheek.
How splendid it is to fight for the Greek.
But I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing cheek to cheek. While Byron fought in Greece, Shelley remained in England, where he became court poet to the Duke of Marlborough. (It is interesting to note in passing that Marlborough was the original spelling of Marlboro Cigarettes, but the makers were unable to get the entire word on the package. With characteristic ingenuity they cleverly lopped off the final "gh". Of course, left them with a "gh" lying around the factory. They looked for some place to put it and finally decided to give it to the Director of Sales, Mr. Vincent Van Go. This had a rather curious result. As plain Van Go, he had been a crackerjack director of sales, but once he became Van Gogh, he felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to paint. He resigned from the Company and became an artist. It did not work out too well. When Van Gogh learned what a great success Marlboro Cigarettes quickly became—as, of course, they had to with such a flavorful flavor, such a filterful filter, such a flip-top box, such a soft pack—he was so upset about leaving the firm that he cut off his ear in a fit of chagrin.)
But I digress. Byron, I say, was in Italy and Shelley in
England. Meanwhile Keats went to Rome to try to grow. Who does not remember his wistful lyric;
Although I am only five feet high.
Some day I will look in an elephant's eye.
But Keats did not grow. His friends, Shelley and Byron, touched to the heart, rushed to Rome to stretch him. This too failed. Then Byron, ever the ladies' man, took up with Lucrezia Borgia, Catherine of Aragon, and Annie Oakley. Shelley, a more domestic type, stayed home with his wife Mary, and wrote his famous poem:
I love to stay home with the missus and write,
And hug her and kiss her and give her a bite.
Mary Shelley finally got so tired of being bitten that she went into another room and wrote Frankenslein. Upon reading the manuscript, Shelley and Byron got so scared they immediately booked passage home to England. Keats tried to go too, but he was so small that the clerk at the steamship office couldn't see him over the top of the counter. So Keats remained in Rome and died of a broken heart.
Byron and Shelley cried a lot and then together composed this immortal epitaph:
Good old Keats, he might have been short.
But he was a great American and a heck of a good sport. © 1962 Max Shulman
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