Soviet Agriculture Topic of KU Book
Soviet agriculture, a hidden element in Communistic economy, is to be explained in a book to be published at KU this summer.
"Soviet Agriculture and Peasant Affairs," under the editorship of Roy Laird, associate professor of political science, is a collection of papers by 18 leading Western students of Soviet affairs and will be pointed toward the underdeveloped countries of the world to explain the real status of Russian agriculture.
Prof. Laird said the collection of papers, which were presented at KU last September, is concerned primarily with agriculture in the Communist nation.
Law, Society Institute To Begin Thursday
The relationship of the law to city planning of land use will be the topic of the second Law and Society Institute Thursday and Friday in the Kansas Union.
The Institute is sponsored by the KU School of Law and University Extension.
Since most Americans now live in cities, the city's use of land affects the welfare both of its citizens and those in the shadow of its economy and the path of its growth, according to the Institute's program.
Governor John Anderson, Jr.: Charles M. Haar, professor of law at Harvard Law School; Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe; James K. Logan, dean of the KU law school; and several lawyers and planners from the area will participate in the Institute.
Accountants Elect Officers
Larry Shelton, Salina junior, was recently elected president of the Accounting Club. Other officers are David Cain, Prairie Village junior, vice-president; John Keene, Pratt sophomore, secretary, and David Lipp, Kansas City junior, treasurer.
Case of Beginner's Luck
LINTON, Ind. — (UPI) — Bill Biggenbothem, 25, played his first game of golf yesterday.
He shot a hole-in-one on his first stroke at the first hole of the Linton City Course.
He took a 10 on the next.
"The collection is being put together through the efforts of these outstanding scholars in order to deal with a key—if not crucial—aspect of Communism." Prof. Laird said.
HE SAID THE papers' authors are from both the academic realm and the Government.
The professor said concerning economy, no one denies the Communists have been successful in heavy industry, but, as the book will point out, their agricultural development is extremely faulty.
ONE THOUSAND copies of the collection are to be purchased by the United States Information Agency, which has termed it "an important landmark in the progress of research" on the Soviet agricultural situation.
A USIA reviewer said those in the underdeveloped countries will find in the book sufficient evidence showing that the Soviets' state-dominated collective farms have not produced a workable solution to the problems of the land.
Prof. Laird said Soviet agriculture has been recognized as one of the most neglected fields in the study of Communism.
"This book is the story which needs to be told to underdeveloped countries facing revolution, or that have experienced it, and have the tendency to follow the Soviets' easy path," he said.
The collection will be the first book published in a series by the KU Slavic and Soviet Area Studies Group.
"It will tell in the most comprehensible way possible, the story of rural Russia," Prof. Laird said.
The KU Brass Choir will spend the entire 1964 spring semester in the Far East on a U.S. State Department-sponsored tour.
Brass Choir To Tour Asia
The 17-student ensemble, directed by Kenneth Bloomquist, assistant professor of band and of wind and percussion, will play everything from jazz to patriotic marches to contemporary and classical music.
THE CHOIR WILL begin its tour in Karachi, Pakistan, and will tour Colombo, Ceylon; Rangoon, Burma; Bangkok, Thailand; Phnom-Penh, Cambodia; Saigon, Viet-Nam; Canberra, Australia; Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, Malaya, and Wellington, New Zealand.
The purpose of the tour, said Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, is to acquaint Southeast Asians with traditional western music for brass instruments.
The choir will play some Asian music, and will include in its repertoire sixteenth and seventeenth century works from the "golden age of brass."
Brass Choir auditions and tryouts will continue throughout this spring and next fall.
BLOOMQUIST AND choir members have volunteered to lecture on brass music during the tour.
A selection committee which heard the group in Albuquerque, N.M., this year recommended that the State Department invite the choir to make the Far East tour.
Mrs. Kenneth Bloomquist, wife of the director, will accompany the group as chaperone and as piano accompanist of small instrumental and vocal groups.
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AFROTC Team Honored
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The KU Air Force ROTC detachment 280 drill team led by Cadet Major James R. Lewis, Kansas City, Mo., senior, was the only AFROTC drill team detachment to perform at the annual Armed Force Services Day ceremonies at Richards Gebaur Air Force base in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday.
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Gideons Ponder Theft Decline
FRENCH LICK, Ind. — (UPI) Members of the Gideon Society did not know today whether to be encouraged or dismayed.
Hotel housekeeper Mrs. Hazel McIntosh reported during the week end that Bible stealing has fallen off "a lot" lately.
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
With today's installment I complete my ninth year of writing columns in your college newspaper for the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes. In view of the occasion, I hope I may be forgiven if I get a little misty.
These nine years have passed like nine minutes. In fact, I would not believe that so much time has gone by except that I have my wife nearby as a handy reference. When I started columning for Marlboros, she was a slip of a girl—supple as a reed and fair as the sunrise. Today she is gnarled, lumpy, and given to biting the postman. Still, I count myself lucky. Most of my friends who were married at the same time have wives who chase cars all day. I myself have never had this trouble and I attribute my good fortune to the fact that I have never struck my wife with my hand. I have always used a folded
newspaper—even throughout the prolonged newspaper strike in New York. During this period I had the airmail edition of the Manchester Guardian flown in daily from England. I must confess, however, that it was not entirely satisfactory. The airmail edition of the Guardian is printed on paper so light and flimsy that it makes little or no impression when one slaps one's wife. Mine, in fact, thought it was some kind of game, and tore several pairs of my trousers.
But working for the makers of Marlboro has not been the greatest of my pleasures over the last nine years. The chief satisfaction has been writing for you—the college population of America. It is a rare and lucky columnist who can find an audience so full of intelligence and verve. I would like very much to show my appreciation by asking you all over to my house for tea and oatmeal cookies, but there is no telling how many of you my wife would bite.
But I digress. I was saying what a pleasure it has been to write this column for the last nine years for the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes—a fine group of men, as anyone who has sampled their wares would suspect. They are as mellow as the aged tobacco they blend. They are as pure as the white cellulose filter they have devised. They are loyal, true, companionable, and constant, and I have never for an instant wavered in my belief that some day they will pay me for these last nine years.
For many of you this is the last year of college. This is especially true for seniors. To those I extend my heartfelt wishes that you will find the world outside a happy valley. To juniors I extend my heartfelt wishes that you will become seniors. To sophomores I extend my heartfelt wishes that you will become juniors. To freshmen I extend my heartfelt wishes that you will become sophomores. To those of you going on into graduate school I extend my heartfelt wishes that you will marry money,
To all of you let me say one thing: during the year I have been frivolous and funny during the past year—possibly less often than I have imagined—but the time has now come for some serious talk. Whatever your status, whatever your plans, I hope that success will attend your ventures.
Stay happy. Stay loose.
©1963 Max Shuiman
We, the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, confess to more than a few nervous moments during the nine years we have sponsored this uninhibited and uncensored column. But in the main, we have had fun and so, we hope, have you. Let us add our good wishes to Old Max's: stay happy; stay loose.