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and Adair County, Okla. months $5.08 months Jg.50 1 YEAH $16.00 City Box Section $18.00 Mail in counties other than above: months $6.00 months $10.50 1 YEAR $20.00 4 Timday, May 1969 See It By ALLAN GILBERT Inflation attacks from every angle. A friend of mine who worries about such things more than the ordinary soul, has called rny attention to the fact that while rolls of toilet paper remain the same on outside circumference, the hole in the middle is larger this year than last. The Nixon Theme President Nixon's emerging position relative to education and campus unrest is rather more conservative than practices and viewpoints presently preached at the University of Arkansas. This is illustrated in articles published last week in the nation's press, and in the UA Alumni magazine, "The Arkansas Alumnus." It is an interesting disparity of position, particularly in view of the University's current fnancial pinch, and what is to be done about it.

President Nixon has adopted an essentially conservative approach (as expected) on the whole subject of public education. His views on higher education, according to an sxecutive memo passed around about two weeks ago, coincide with remarks made in a speech this spring by academic traditionalist Prof. S. J. Tonsor of Michigan.

The President is reported to have circulated copies of Tonsor's speech, and directed his Cabinet to follow its line in future comments. Nixon's own pronouncements last week indicate these wheels are now in motion. The American Council of Education last week reported on the Tonsor talk. It quotes him thusly: "Student and professor activists inside the university and certain ideological groups outside the university no longer believe that the truth must be essential to the academy. "Both the extreme right and the extreme left hold the same destructive view.

Both Mark Rudd of Columbia and Governor Wallace of Alabama stand in the schoolroom door, and seen from the vantage point of the academy they both hold the same low view of reasoned discourse. "These groups cannot be. permitted to disrupt and destroy the institutions they so obviously do not understand. "They constitute a small minority and it is possible that, had university administrations not been long accustomed by their faculties to bearing fools gladly, these groups would have already disappeared from the campus scene." The Michigan academician stresses his conviction that today's universities cannot be all things to all men. He says that the idea of a multiversity is rightfully rejected by discerning students and perceptive faculties.

"They reject it not simply because it is impossible to administer, but because it is an institution without goals. It does not know its own mind. "To compound the problem now by expecting the university to be a court of last resort for the solution of the major social problems of our time? will only deepen the crisis which the university faces. "Higher education." Prof. Tonsor says, "has as its chief goal the education of young men and young women Social tasks are better performed by institutions and facilities outside the university.

Business and industry should increasingly look to sources other than the university for their pure research and applied research." In reference to Tonsor's remarks, Nixon is quoted as saying. "This happens to be my view, By coincidence and contrast, in a talk to Kartlp.sville, UA Alumni Club recently. University vice president for academic affairs Palmer Pilcher expounded a different point of view. Said Dr. Pilcher: "So (ii is) my view that greater participation in ALL aspects of society beyond the university campus is not only desirable but an absolute necessity." Though Dr.

Pilcher'doesn't concern himself i problems of money, the matter of finances is a growing problem for hitrher education. It rather looks as if the President may soon sujrsrcst that one way to case the pinch will be for multiversities to stick more closely to their own educational i i On the other hand, government already has a huge investment in campus activities, which won't be easy to reassign. It's an interesting debate: one which illustrates quite well the scope of today's campus puzzlement. What Others Say GIRLS, ALWAYS GIRLS A man may slap a friend on the back and greet him with, "iiow are you, old man?" But it would be a brave fellow indeed who greeted a wonan friend With, "How are you, old woman?" Today the beautiful word "girl" sweeps across the years imd lakes no heed of time. "The girls are coming to the party" it a phrase so delightful in its ambiguity that masculine gallantry is summoned to its best response.

Perpetual girlhood--this is feminine genius. Ever young. mwiA never old. And who would change port Journal A. Ginsberg, poet and literary pioneer, was warmly received here last week, in case you missed the scene.

He appeared on campus courtesy of the UA's creative writing department, and gave a public lecture and sing-a-ling, last Friday and Saturday. He packed 'em in wherever he went. Ginsberg carries his own identity around with him. You wouldn't mistake him for Robert Frost, or Da i Mullms, for instance. He is one of the genuine "spirits" of the mod movement and most likely of serious art as well; there is little argument that he is one of the most influential literati of his generation.

His most readily identifiable effects include a great bush of whiskers, a red bandana handkerchief, denim trousers, a carpetbag, and a lilting love of words (some dirty, some not), their sounds and their tempos. He packed the S-E Auditorium until there wasn't room on the floor or steps to squeeze in last Friday, and he held his audience spellbound in their own seat. (It was hot, but who cared?) A Ginsberg performance is difficult to adequately discribe. There is a mystical quality about the fellow which transcends what might otherwise best be discribed as hokum. With Ginsberg it's an art form.

(You also keep expecting the cops to break in.) The thing I believe I was most impressed with, however, was not so much Ginsberg, but the throng he drew and the rapt attention he was given through a rambling, sometimes introspective set of recitations. I've been to a great many programs at the S-E Auditorium since it was built a few years ago. Never before, though, do 1 recall so large and engrossed a group of students in attendance. To me. at any rate, it is very encouraging to find a poet, a man of letters, and a philosopher, too, creating that sort of excitement on our campus.

The fact that his talk was made in a "Science-Engineering" facility only served to add a slight extra spice to that aspect of the occasion. A spring exhibit by members of the Ozark Writers and Artists Guild will be staged at the Roberta Fulbright Library- May 11-17. Hours: 10-12 a.m. and 2-4 p.m.. with a 7-9 p.m.

showing on Tuesday, May 13. This same group, which gets a good part of its impetus from the tireless enterprise of Fay- eltcvillc's Florence Wray. will stage its second annual conference in a row in Fayetteville. August 911. Last year you may recall, the group staged an exhibit in downtown Fayetteville with a majority of the city's downtown merchants participating in the exhibits.

It was a better than average success, I thought, and this year's event should be even better. So as not to show partiality to any particular shopping area. I must mention that the second annual Sidewalk Arts and Crafts Show at beautiful (though the traffic's a little tricky at times) Evelyn Hills Shopping Center will be held May 23-24 with more a 100 area artists and craftsmen showing their wares. Actual demonstrations of many of the crafts will he staged, and the show will be held in conjunction with the second annual Young Peoples Art Show, which will carry cash awards in three age groups i year. Deadline for entries is May Except for the fact that I'm not supposed to mention mixed drinks again, the fact that the ABC lias decided to allow public licensees to obtain their booze wholesale would be an item of interest.

SEFOR, an experimental project designed to prove out a a potentially means of producing electric power, will he dedicated tomorrow. A great many dignitaries from a dozen states and from overseas will be on hand to officially send the reactor on Us important way. Alter that, attendant publicity will be sparse for some time to come. National publicity, purposely we .1 has been relatively conservative in relation to the potential importance of the project. Stories in national magazines continue to discuss nuclear power in terms of other projects than SEFOR.

You can bet your boots, though, with scientists know- ledgable in the i of nuclear power, tomorrow looms as a important day for tlie world. from Peopft Historical Recollections WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Bolivia Loses Its Quietly By By DREW PEARSON (C), 1969, Bcll-McClure Syn.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: PRESIDENTIAL CHANGE IS QUIET IN BOLIVIA; THE UNITED STATES AND INDIAN MASSES HAVE LOST A FRIEND: NIXON WORRIES ABOUT ABM DECISION WASHINGTON It didn't make the headlines of Charles de Gaulle's abdication in France, but a onetime turbulent country in Latin America last week survived tragedy a political change without turbulence. Bolivia suffered the loss of its president, Rene Barrientos Or- tuno. killed in a helicopter crash, and the vice president, Luis Adolfo Siles-Salinas quietly stepped into his shoes, without incident or revolution. Not a shot was fired in a country where a good many presidents have been shot or hanged in the past.

This highlights the fact that Bolivia, a desperately country high up in the Andes, lias made great progress. A few years ago peasant farmers were sold as chattels with the land. But in the last 15 years Bolivia has undergone a social revolution. The peasants now own their land. They have taken on a new pride, a new determination to improve.

It witnessed this two years ago, when Barrientos flew with Chief Justice Earl Warren to the ancient capital of Sucre, landed on a cow pasture and drove into the heart of the city. Thousands of Indians swarmed through the narrow streets. The hills were steep, the altitude high, the cobblestones rough. But the Indians ran as fast as caravan carrying the Chief Justice and President Barrientos. Dressed in rough homespun woolens and wearing thick.

broad-brimmed hats of llama hair, they thronged the public square to shout greetings to their president and the American Chief Justice. It was a demonstration of loyalty to a leader who was doing his best to improve the statu? of Hie Indian masses. VISIT TO IPA Two years before. President Barrientos, came to the United States at my invitation, to be the chief speaker at the annual convention of the International Platform Association. He apoke eloquently of the problems of his country and the American continent, mingled with North Americans, was given an official luncheon by President Johnson, and himself entertained i President Humphrey and N.

Y. a John Lindsay. He was a believer in principle that South Americans must help themselves--borrow money perhaps, but not go on welfare to Uncle Sam. And he carried this out. He did not confiscate a single American company.

He was a good salesman, and last summer flew up to San Antonio to participate in the Hemisfair and show what Bolivia had to offer the rest of the continent. Student strikes may be new to American Universities, but they were not to him. students at the University of La Paz started rioting and dared him to enter their campus, he accepted the challenge--without a bodyguard. The troubles subsided. As Barientos was laid to rest, his young widow, Rosa Maria, wrote a letter to new President Silcs asking: "For all enemies of my husband, I ask forgiveness.

That's the way he would want it to be." BETTER THAN THE ABM Some Pentagon strategists have concluded that America's retaliatory can be strengthened most effectively by spending the billions proposed for an anti-ballistic system upon sea-based missiles. The whole purpose of the ABM system is to protect our strategic missiles so they can be used to retaliate against an enemy. It would he cheaper to build more Polaris submarines, which would be difficult to destroy because of their maneuverability. The Navy is now outfitting 31 submarines with longer a multiple-warhead Poseidon missiles. This will give the United Stairs Position missiles, each with several warheads.

An rncmy wouldn't dare at- tack the United States unless, he could find these 31 subs in their undersea hiding places and destroy them. Some experts be lieve these subs, scattered around the oceans, are vulnerable than would be ABM- protected land missiles. Incidentally, multiple warheads now being mounted on both underground and undersea missiles give the i States close to 5,000 warheads capable of striking Soviet targets. Each warhead packs more destructive power than all the guns fired and all the bombs dropped by both sides during World War II. Meanwhile, President Nixon is having serious misgivings over the ABM system.

A secret Senate poll by White aides came up with less than 50 votes for the ABM system. The President confided to these aides that he may have made a mistake in adopting his own ABM system. He now believes he should merely have gone ahead with ex-President Johnson's ABM plan without a re- viesv and the attendant publicity. BIGGEST HEADACHE President Nixon's biggest personal headache had been finding experts who understand urban problems. The President's Urban Affairs Council discussed this last week behind closed White House doors.

Bob Finch, the Secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare, finally asked presidential aid Pat Moynihan to estimate how many urban experts there are in the country. Moynihan. himself an expert, thoughtfully replied: "Six or HIGH HANDED OFFICIALS Here is how self-important officials can cause snafus. The Philippine government has delivered an unannounced protest to the American Embassy in Manila over the barring of Amadeo Cruz, the Filipino secretary of a 11 from Clark Air Force Base.

He had been invited to attend a graduation ceremony at the base hospital. But apparently it hadn't been cleared with the officer in charge of the gate, who decided to show how important he is by refusing to admit the Filipino cabinet officer to a on Philippine soil. Hade's They'll Do It Every Time MY DAUGHTER HAD A CHOICE OF THREE SCHOLARSHIPS-SHE TOOK VASSWELL! MY BOY GOT A FULL SCHOLARSHIP AT MALAMUTE NONE OF MY KIPS COST ME A CEUT FOR COLLEGE THEY ALL PUT THEMSELVES THROOSH MY DIMWIDDYS STUDYING IN EUROPE ON A FREEBRITE PUZZLE PICTURE- FIND THE POOR GUY WHO NEEDS A LOAM TO PUT HIS KIP THROUGH COLLEGE W.V*. To the Editor: I have just spent a week in Fayetteville. after two years of elsewhere, and it brings back recollections of when our family first a to this charming place, in 1902.

There was my father, an older sister, and seven young motherless stairsteps. We had long wanted to escape rigors of Wisconsin winters, and our father came to Fayetteville on a homeseekers' excursion. On his return he said, "Girls, I've found the garden spot of the world." In a month we were moved. We came in on a midnight train, and the air was redolent with apples, which were shipped in large quantities in those days. The picturesque court house stood in the middle of Square, with a dog-trot running through it.

Old men wore long white beards, and spoke courteously to all strangers, as was not customary in the north. My sister and I saw our first dogwood, lining a ravine of East Mountain (Mt. Sequoyah) and it took my breath away, as it does still. We went to church at First Christian, where N. M.

Ragland was pastor. Often in attendance was a young negro; an usher greeted him kindly and set a chair for him. I did not know until long afterward that he was Jacob Kenoly, who a doing carpentry in Fayetteville. Bentonville, and up in Missouri, trying to save the money to go to Liberia and teach the Gospel of Jesus. He did not know that financial help could have been from missionary sources, but undertook a From The People carried out the Utk aloot.

He reached New York and worked his way to Liverpool. On shipboard all his possessions were stolen, including i clothes and his Bible. Again working his way. he reached Liberia, and somehow managed to open a school and win some converts, although the school lacked everything in equipment. After several years of hard labor and struggle, the Christian Women's Board of Missions heard of Kenoly's work and undertook to finance it, but soon afterward he was drowned when, with the help of some of his boys, he was attempting to dredge the river mouth and so improve the food fish supply.

Someone connected with the C. W. B. M. wrote The Life and Work of Jacob Kenoly.

and it was published and used as a study text by chapters of the organization. I ran across a discarded copy at City Library. Someone told me that one of the houses he built was still standing if that is still true, it should be identified a marked. The book is long since out of print, but if a copy can be found, it should be preserved in the Historical Library. I shall place my own copy in the Central Christian Church library, and if possible, find another copy for the County Historical Library.

The story of this heroic young man deserves to be known and cherished. Great changes have occurred in Fayetteville in the course of the years. but it still retains vestiges of its old time charm. May it ever continue to do so. Grace Reese Adkins Springfield.

111. Just One Tiny Flow To the Editor: Receiving my application for football tickets makes me more aware of how fortunate we Razorback fans really are. Razorback fans everywhere are enthused about the next decade of Razorback football due to so many fine things going for them. It is with a sense of pride that we are able to have so many things going our way-among these are: (a) The installation of Astro- Turf, which will eliminate a large percentage of injuries. (Poor Texas schools apparently can't afford it).

(b) The very top coaching staff in the United States and the cream of the crop of football players. (c) Unlimited financial situation. (The Marching Razorback Band should be able to attend every Texas game--and with all expenses paid). These are the most important items, but I would like to add, we need additional seating capacity between the 40-yard lines, in order to get some of us poor supporters away from the goal line. Buster Dunlpa Fayetteville Gaul list Ebb Rekindles Idea Of European Unity By CLAYTON FRITCHEY WASHINGTON-In the wake of President De Gaulle's retirement, it is natural that interest should first center on the possibility of new life for the Common Market and the Atlantic Alliance, but beyond that there is the larger prospect of reviving the old dream of a United States of Europe.

During De Gaulle's long reign the idea had to go underground, and this has led many to con- elude that it had perished. But there are good reasons to believe that this is a major miscalculation. Coming events may show that the idea was only hiding out, waiting for the riglit moment to reappear. It is true that, in deference to De Gaulle's implacable opposition, most of the leaders of western Europe muted their former interest in political unification. And in France itself.

top members of the government including those who used to be open advocates of unity, felt compelled to gag themselves or even recant. All of this has created a surface impression that the idea is more dead than quick, but just the opposite view emerges from talks with businessmen, a leaders, editors, and, above all, students and women. The young are solidly pro- European, so are many of the politicaians when you talk privately with them. Significantly, most public opinion polls have shown the same trend. It is even conceivable that political unity could pick up more momentum than the Common Market.

Much depends, (if course, on the outcome of the coming presidential election in France. Among the leading possibilities are Georges Pompidou, the former premier, and Alain Poher. the interim president. The latter is a longtime advocate of unity: Pompidou comes from the international hanking house of Rothchild, always European minded. The future shape of Europe is naturally of supreme importance to the U.S.

which has always favored unification. After World War II when three BENNETT CERF great Europeans (Germany's Adenauer, France's Schumann, and Italy's de Gasperi) were in power simultaneously, the U.S. actively promoted political unity, but first Churchill and later De Gaulle torpedoed it. President i is an old supporter of the idea, although in view of De Gaulle's opposition he has not said much about it since taking office. If the French election result is encouraging, however, it would not be surising if Nixon showed fresh interest in the project.

During the post war years U. S. administrations a thought of a U. S. of Europe as an independent entity, but still tied to the U.

S. There is a hint that Nixon, on the other hand, sees the future Europe as an entity with no strings attached. In a recent news conference, for instance, he spoke of a strong European community, to bo a balance between U. S. and the Soviet Union, rather than to have this polarization of forces in one part at the world and another." Although that should probably not be taken too literally, Nixon may shrewdly have anticipated iiow any new effort at unification will shape up in the long run.

It is interesting to note that Britain and Italy, within hours of DC Gaulle's retirement, formally pledged to work together for greater European unity. Only last month. George Brown, a key member of the British government, called for "another Messina conference" to launch negotiations for a political community. The European Economic Community was born at Messina just 14 years ago. The "European idea' has long been the guiding principle of German policy, although the Bonn government lias had tn accomodate itself to DC Gaulle's opposition.

In commenting on the General's retirement, the prominent newspaper, Die Welt, spoke for many Germans when it said De Gaulle had "drastically misassesscd the public mood." (C) 1969, Newsday, Inc. Try And Stop Me One of the many difficulties confronting the reslaruant owners who take genuine pride in the food and wines they serve is exemplified hy the proprietor of an exclusive and expensive dining place in New York who complained, "My head chef Is driving me to distraction. Not only was he out drunk three nights last week, but when he's here, his dishes are so had, three of my best customers swore they'd never come here again." "Why don't you fire him?" he was asked. "I don't dare," admitcd the proprietor. "Judging by previous experience, the next one will he twica as bad!" QUICKIES: After his first dny of piloting a taxi through the mnio of Manhattan traffic, driver turned in his cab and announced, "This job is not for mo.

1 Imvcn't got the vociihulary for It." A women served a micrulrnt turkey for Thnnksftlvlng dinner and the gucnts wrrr tinkled In death. Tho conk had forgotten to take the Icnlhers off..