University Daily Kansan Monday, April 23. 1962
Spring!—and Down the Hall-
By Richard Bonett
"Ah, sweet spring — NUTS!"
"Sitting in this cell — just like some kind of medieval monk, the same page staring up at you for half an hour. If there's a message there, if just doesn't come through."
(Somewhere down the hall the happy sound of a bull session mingles with music from a record player or radio.)
"Brother, if I don't study for this chemistry exam I've had it — like shot down. But it's spring. Things are happening. . . . OK, forget it. Now concentrate. . . . "
(Feel that vague panicky feeling sending a shiver down your spine.) "That %$# g$"*d test!"
(LEAN BACK in your chair and stretch your arms. But all the squirming and shifting doesn't take the hardness out of the back, or seat.
(A whiff of spring air, half warm,
half cool, charges through a partially
opened window. That bird has been
chirping its head off all afternoon.)
"BOY. IF I don't pass this test..."
"What was it that put Mike Boucher (Overland Park sophomore) said? Oh, yeah. 'I always make my worst grades during the spring semester, but I'm glad to see it come anyway.'
"I guess it's the same with everybody. . . . Man, I'd sure like to be wrapping myself around a cool one somewhere.
"There are so many important things that need to be done. The old pitching arm has to be put in shape. The car hasn't been washed since last fall. And . . . oh, hell . . . I've got that chemistry test."
(Sharon Ray, a Joplin, Mo., freshman, and Cynthia Watts, a Mission freshman, were sunning themselves in front of Strong Hall. A couple of nice kids. They've got the same problem.)
"Til JUST have to stay up late to do all the studying I can't do when it's daylight." That's the way Cynthia thinks she's going to beat it. "Yeah, wish her luck."
(And Max Shellhaas, a Hays junior, just plunked down on one of those iron rail guards along Jayhawk Drive.) Remember what he said: "It just makes me feel lackadaisical."
(Alright now, come on. Down to work...)
Mayor Tells of People In Kansas' Early Days
"If only those guys down the hall would pipe down. . . If only this chair wasn't so hard. . . If only that stupid bird. . ."
"Statehood was difficult for us," he said. "And in the end, it is not railroads or money, but people, who finally make up a state."
Speaking at the International Club meeting Friday night, Ted Kennedy, mayor of Lawrence, gave some colorful anecdotes about people in Kansas history.
(WHAT YOU need is a soft drink.
"Free land and the railroads did as much to bring people to Kansas as anything else," the mayor said.
"The common price for land in Kansas was at one time as low as $1.25 an acre," Mayor Kennedy said. "And the government gave 20 million acres of Kansas land to the railroads as an incentive to get them to build a railroad across the state."
AT ONE TIME, Kansas land was open to homesteading. A man could settle on 160 acres, improve it, and live there for five years to acquire ownership. Land was also for sale by the government and by the railroads.
The mayor read examples from old Kansas newspapers during his talk. He said that he is "fascinated" by some of the news accounts.
But the old-timers were not without a sense of humor, as evidenced by an account of a divorce proceeding the mayor gave.
"SOME OF THEM will turn your hair gray," he said, "if it is not already gray. But in the early days some pretty wild things were reported as routine news events."
"One couple traveling to the West, decided they could not stand the blissful state of matrimony any longer. They got a few witnesses together, agreed to disagree, sawed their wagon in half, divided their goods, each took a horse, and they separated. One went to California, and the other to Oregon — each with a two-wheeled cart.
The mayor said that he thinks it is significant that the only time President Lincoln came west, he visited Kansas. But despite popular belief to the contrary, he said that Lincoln never visited Lawrence.
"THATS WHAT I call a complete separation," Mayor Kennedy said. "But like most newspapers," he added, "you can believe about half of what you read in them."
"One day when Lincoln was on the way from Atchison to Leavenworth," the mayor said, "he stopped and stepped out of his buggy and looked over the countryside and said, 'Kansas is truly beautiful — America is truly beautiful.'"
According to Mayor Kennedy, Lincoln spent most of his time in Leavenworth and personally helped Kansas gain statehood.
THAT SAME DAY, according to the mayor, another man said about the same words. His name was John Brown, and he was riding on his coffin on his way to be hanged.
"No matter how you may feel about John Brown," the mayor said, "you can't forget that less than ten years from the day he was hanged, freedom for all Americans was won, and the 100 years war to make America a democracy for all Americans began."
He told the international students that, "If you scratch the veneer of your Kansas classmates, you will find that all of them had a pioneer grandfather.
"There have been some wild times in Kansas, as there is now in some other parts of the world. But we shouldn't be too impatient — a little over a hundred years ago there was no law at all here."
Just run downstairs and grab a quick one. Maybe take a little walk just to get the stiffness out.
PHOENIX, Ariz. — (UPI) — House Minority Leader Charles A. Halleke, R-Ind., sharply criticized federal spending Saturday night and accused President Kennedy of not backing up words with action.
(Better put an ash tray or something on that book so you don't lose your place.)
Halleck Rips Spending
Speaking at a Republican dinner, Halleck said, "He (President Kennedy) is trying to fulfill campaign pledges with reckless Presidential rhetoric, knowing that not even a Democratic-controlled Congress will buy all the proposals he had been making."
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. . . . This ash tray will do . . . Besides, I won't be gone long . . just a few minutes, no more.
The Indiana legislator said Kennedy had sent 24 messages involving spending to Congress. Halleck said what was needed was a 25th message "calling on the Congress to slow down."
"I really believe," said Halleck, "that if the President thought Congress would approve all of these things he'd be scared to death and take to the hills."
"Man, it feels good to stretch. I wonder what those guys down the hall are gumming it about anyway..."
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