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(Editor's note: Every year Col. J. P. Murphy, commandant of
university military units, contributes an article on Abraham Lincoln
in commemoration of the great statesman's birthday, February 12.
Colonel Murphy has long been an admirer of Lincoln and is recog
nized as an authority on the life of the ex-president of the United
States. Presented here is the colonel's 1945 salute to Lincoln.)
In a massive temple beside the Potomac, overlooking a beau
tiful mall, a rail splitter sits upon too massive a throne. The Lin
coln whose awkward greatness seems so endearing even in stone,
is one of our great folk myths. Born in a humble Kentucky log
cabin, reared on the then frontier of Illinois, and grown to manhood
in the village of New Salem, he is the most revealing of national
legends.
It is well, at this time, that we remember that Lincoln belongs
s much to the democratic men of Europe and Asia as he does to
America to the working men of England, to the patriots ef France
and Poland, to the peasants in the Caucasus, who, history relates,
wept when they heard he was dead. Tolstoy said that of all national
heroes "Lincoln is the only real giant."
Lincoln appealed to democratic minds not because he neces
sarily shared their opinions, but because his view of society gave
room to all He believed that so long as men were free and re
spected the freedom of others, they could make a worthy life for
themselves.
Lincoln expounded a spirit of true democracy based upon the
principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence, and in de
fense of these principles his greatest inspiration he was tremen
dous in the directness of his utterances, as his soul was inspired
with the thought of human right and divine justice.
Lincoln's belief was not a visionary or even a fraternal faith:
it was a creative tolerance, a vast patience with human life. Live
in freedom and let live; let men develop as they must; and believe
that the American idea, if it is an idea for lis at all, is inseparable
from world democracy from the struggle of the Irish for their
freedom, from the European revolutions of '48, from the need of all
"to establish in their several governments the supremacy of the
people."
These were the articles of Lincoln's faith; the particular applica
tions were as diverse as men. The Lincoln legend of a new human
redeemer, had not been born in America alone; now it belonged to
all. And, however pious and unhistorical the legend was, it ex
pressed a need and a hope of democratic men everywhere that was
more "true" than the truth of one man's career.
That need and that hope are not dead in Europe yet. And the
best of Europe looks to the best of America to believe again with
the child of the frontier: "I say in relation to the principle that all
men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we
cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will
impose slavery upon any other creature."
JAS. P. MURPHY,
Colonel, Infantry Commandant.
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tural designing in Indiana, Wy
oming, Colorado, Michigan and
Illinois.
Kesner was a member of tht
American Society of Civil Engi
neers and the American Interpro
fessional Institute, Phi Beta Kap
pa, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Theta
Tau, Sigma Tau, and Beta Theta
Pi fraternity.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher of
the University said, "Professor
Kesner's death is a great loss to
the institution and a shock to all
on the university faculty."
Professor Kesner was reported
to have left home Saturday morn
ing to walk down to work as was
his' usual custom.
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and on a South Pacific island.
Some hot boogie, a dance team,
accordian and marimba soloists, a
duo-piano feature,. and a comedy
vocal team, give their all to keep
the boys hitppy in the U. S. eamp.
Italian street girls, a can-can
dance chorus, cigaret girls and a
Hawaiian trio make a hit with
"Wolf Brooklyn in the last three
acts.
Lucy Ann Hapeman student di
rector, promises "lots of atmos
phere" in the Parisian carbaret
scene, in the nnai act, a com
pany of USO entertainers from
Nebraska appear to play before
the GI's.
"With the abundance of talent
on the campus, this year's show
is going to be bigger and better
than ever," Miss Hapeman re
ported.
The show is backed by the War
Council and will be staged in the
Union ballroom Feb. 23, 24 and
25 and all proceeds go to war
charities.
Theatre
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they are the stuff of which heroes
are made heroes and buffoons
They are true offspring of Adam
and Eve. They have survived a
thousand calamities by the skin
of their teeth." That is Thorn
ton Wilder' explanation of hisJ
own play.
Mr. Wilder offers Excelsior,
N. J. (scene of the play) as a liv
ing fragment of the universe, in
digenous not merely to New Jer
sey but to the life of man. To
attain this atmosphere of time
lessness, the scene is laid in the
Antrokus' home in New Jersey,
located near a public school.
Methodist church and fire house.
Here the maid milks a mammoth
and Moses and Homer appear on
the stage. Amid the ice age and
the reluge, a Postal Telegraph
messenger boy, a bathing beauty.
a broadcasting radio man, a mam
moth and a dinosaur appear on
the stage. Shakespeare's plays, a
Bingo parlor, Aristotle and men
in Shrine fezes heighten the
atmosphere.
It is 1945, and it is 600,000 B. C.
Man is civilized; he lives in caves
It is the contemporary world; it
is the ice age. George Antrobu?
live fci 43, yet baa )wt in
vented the wheel, the alphabet
and the multiplication table. Aa
one of the characters put It, The
author hasn't made up his silly;
mind whether we're living back in
caves or in New Jersey. All the
troubles the human race has gone
through, there's a subject for
you."
Symbolisms represent problems
man has always faced. The son
of the Antrobus (human) family
is really Biblical Cain. He repre
sents the brutal, savage element
which exists in every nation and
in every man. me struggle be
tween Cain and a negro repre
sents the negro, or race problem.
The mad, wild, uninhibited rev
elry in Act Two represents the
general wickedness of men just
before the Great Flood,
Acts rise from all parts of the
house, race down aisles and de
stroy the usual barrier between
stage and auditorium.
Tuesdoy February 13
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seem to have the better method.
Deaths in teams are relatively
rare. There are those minor mis
haps which occur when one mem
ber of the partnership breaks her
neck falling downstairs, while at
tempting to beat her colleague to
breakfast (object, one glazed
doughnut), but things like that
don't happen very often. Usually
it's only a collarbone or some
thing. "Team" Procedure Simple.
Getting back to the "team" idea,
the procedure is relatively simple.
Each is armed with a club and
several assorted stool pigeons, and
sees that her partner does not get
a bite over her calorie require
ment for the day. It's really quite
pathetic sometimes seeing a "girl's
skull smashed as she reaches for
the mayonnaise; but you get used
to it.
No, we think we shall never see
the day when women do not
wander around looking like plates
full of warmed up death, or when
we can eat what we'd like and
still have a clear conscience.
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