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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 31, 1964
Santa Fe Plans Its Fiesta On 352nd Anniversary
SANTA FE, N. M.—(UPI)—For anyone who is looking for a really old American city, Santa Fe, N.M., was doing business 10 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
This year marks the 352nd anniversary of the unusual and colorful city of the Southwest, and its citizens have opened their doors to what is expected to be a record number of visitors.
number of visits they are welcoming, they also are pointing out that the Royal City of the Holy Faith of St. Francis, as Santa Fe originally was labeled, was a thriving Spanish capital in 1610. The San Miguel mission was built in 1621, a decade after the completion of the Santa Fe Palace of the Governors. The church and the palace are still both in use.
SANTA FE—called the "city different" by the locals—prides itself on its Spanish-Indian heritage. It stubbornly refused progress over the years until today neon signs are almost non-existent and narrow, unpaved streets stay that way.
picked streets The old buildings made of adobe are most impressive to tourists. When territorial governor Lew Wallace arrived in Santa Fe in 1878 to spend three years writing his famous book, "Ben-Hur," his residence, the Palace of Governors, already was 270 years old. The Palace had been home for Spanish dons, captains and even admirals and a royally-appointed sergeant. Sgt. Francisco Gomez governed New Mexico from 1641 to 1642. Indians later took over the Palace in a revolt against Spanish rule and commanded Santa Fe for 12 years.
IN 1821 Mexican rulers took over Santa Fe from Spain—the same year as the first American trader, William Becknell, arrived with a wagonload of merchandise and Yankee know-how. Before the United States took over New Mexico rule in 1846, the Santa Fe Trail was well known to frontiersmen as Route 66 is today to the tourist.
After the Confederate army occupied Santa Fe briefly in 1862. New Mexico finally came under the rule of the federal government, and Santa Fe became a state capitol in 1912.
France claimed the music was written by her famous composer, Lully (who actually was an Italian), in honor of Louis XIV.
A publisher in Denmark printed the song in 1790 under a long title which, translated, means "Song for the Danish subject, to be sung on his King's birthday." This later became the Danish national anthem.
Santa Fe's annual Fiesta in September celebrates the historic reconquest of New Mexico by the Spaniards after the Indian revolt. The four-day fiesta—religious, historic and Mardi Gras in style—began in 1712, and is lauded locally as the oldest celebration in America.
But music experts generally agree on one point—whoever wrote it was an Englishman and the original title was "God Save the King."
MEANWHILE. GERMANY lay claim to the music under the title of "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" (Hail Thee in Victor's Crown). They said it was an old German folk song.
Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism has been elected to a second four-year term on the Methodist Commission on Public Relations and Information.Members of the nine-man commission held their annual meeting last week in St. Louis with the director and associate directors of the nationwide Methodist Information staff.
When the cry went out for a national anthem, "My Country 'Tis of Thee' was a front-runner. It was nosed out in the finals, however, because "The Star Spangled Banner" was claimed to be a superior song—and because of the bothersome existence of another song of the same tune that is England's and Denmark's national anthem.
Psychologist Finds 'Hidden Traits'
AKRON, Ohio—(UPI) —Ever hear a patriotic song entitled "Ode for the Fourth of July"? Or "Hail Thee in Victor's Crown?"
Group Elects Marvin
Few persons except music researchers could identify the tune to fit these titles, but every American over six years of age knows it well because another title is "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
'My Country Has Owned Many Names
Digging into the archives of songdom to support Goodyear's "Great Songs of America" record album, which contains 18 of the nation's most beloved melodies, researchers found the music was composed about 1740 by English songwriter Henry Carey under the title, "God Save the King." During the Revolutionary War, English soldiers went to war against the Colonists singing their new national song, "God Save the King." The Colonists liked the music, so made up a variety of lyrics of their own.
Otto was not discouraged, however. A number of behavioral scientists have suspected "that the average healthy or normal human being is operating at approximately 15 to 25 per cent of his capacity." If that were true, then how people would benefit if they could learn to tap the unused 75 to 85 per cent of their personality strengths and resources!
this test could be applied to persons who have retired or are facing retirement. These are the persons who particularly need to know their personal resources and to learn to realize their potentials, he said.
ONE OF AMERICA'S greatest patriotic songs has had a long and adventurous past, has been sung to many different words, and really isn't an American original.
He has been at his exploring for four years and now is reporting the results piecemeal to other scientists. To the American Geriatrics Society, he described experimental techniques which enabled people to discover strengths and resources they didn't know they had.
NEW YORK—(UPI)—When Dr. Herbert A. Otto, a psychological scientist, first began exploring for the strengths and resources of the human personality, he naturally wanted a look at what his scientific predecessors had turned up.
THE SCIENCES directly involved with human personality—psychology, psychiatry and sociology—bandied about words which seemed on the target, to be sure, but they didn't even agree on meanings of these words such as "ego-strength," "personality strength" and "personality assets."
predecessors had But he found very little to look at. They had made not a single "construct," even though they had been responsible for a proliferation of constructs dealing with personality disorganization, pathology, and breakdown."
Otto also has developed a psychological test that has 176 "strength items" and covers 18 "strength areas" which is intended to provide an "inventory of personal resources" of the person tested. Other psychologists now are checking it experimentally to establish its validity.
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A THIRD WAS "assigned strength roles." A person volunteered to accept the assignment of a "strength role." The class decided which of a number of roles would strengthen him the most, but only after extended discussion. The volunteer then tried to live the role.
Another was "strength bombardment." A class member volunteers to be "it" and becomes the "target." He told the class what he considered his strength and resources. The others then said what they saw as the strengths and resources of the "target."
One technique was the "action program." Each member of the class selected a program he thought would "faillitate the development of strengths or utilization of potential" and tried to carry it out. Once a week he reported to the entire class on progress.
THEY WERE STUDENTS, business men, retired persons and housewives who had enrolled in Otto's "extension" course at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, called "Developing Your Personal Resources" and designed to be, Otto said, "a living laboratory."
As of now these persons are neglected by social sciences, in his opinion. You can believe, he said, that "there is a widespread need to deny that the aged have the capacity for self-realization or that they have abilities and powers. It almost seems as if, by denying the presence of strengths and resources in others, the individual is enabled to excuse his own lack of self-realization."
CAIRO-(UPI)-Black nationalist leader Malcolm X charged here yesterday that American Negro leaders Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King "have sold themselves out and become campaign managers in the Negro community for Lyndon B. Johnson."
Malcolm X Blasts Negro Moderates
To the Geriatrics Society he emphasized how these techniques and
Malcolm X, who left the Black Muslim movement to head his own group of black nationalists, made the charge after learning that the Negro leaders had called a halt to civil rights demonstrations until after the presidential elections and agreed to work for the defeat of Sen. Barry Goldwater.
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