Ganus, Pryor to be in ~-L}-)~ bicent,~::ta~~w3 p~~ncation ~c- .. Two of Harding College'~ toli administrators will be among 177ti leaders listed in a special b ice n ten n i a I pub I i c·:n ion "Compatriots in Education." President Clifton L. Ganus Jr. and Dr. Joseph I<:. Pryor, dean of the colleee and vice president for academi~ a'rfairs, have been. chosen by Kappa Delta Pi na lion a I honor society in education for the honor. r pa in for MAXWELL AFB, ALABAMA - Professor James D. Bales, Professor of Christian Doctrine, Harding College1 was among nearly 100 prominent civilian leaders who participated in the week-long National Security Forum conducted here at Air University's Air War College, May 19-23. Initiated shortly after WW II, the National Security Forum is des igne d to broaden the . pr ofessiona l background of Air War College stuclents by an ex– ~hange of id e as with distinguished ci ilians on the fundam tHa i problems of national security. The program is conducted annually. Professor Bales. and other guests repr.esenting labor, fina nee. industry. education, news media. law. religion. Please turn to page three ta5zi. by Muncey'. ~nd was nol lo build lhings up . ·The r evolu(LOnari of <!00 years 3go," Muncy said, ''didn l talk like that. They were a pa r t of the :onstruction crew." Still , Europeans, he said. generall y insis ted lhat the <\rneri ca n experiment of Searcy's Noon Lions Club got, sovernment would never work. straight from the historian's By con tra t, moving on lo a mouth, the story of the city's past late r period of American hi tory. as it will be revealed in the for- Dr. Muncy quoted President thcoming Bi-Centennial volume Lincoln during the trying days of that has been almost completely the Civil War as he was helping lo researched by author-historian dedicate the National Cemetery Dr. Ray Muncy. at Getlys"burg, "We are now . The Harding College History engaged in a great war, testing Department Chairman has been whether thi"S nation, or anv nation researching and guiding others in :>o conceived and so dedicated ' gathering and cataloging all ::an long endure." Dr. 1\luncy available information of any further reminded that the consequence that can give a dedtca tion was to the better historical understanding "proposition that all men are of the city and surrounding area. created equal and that a divided He is almost to the writing stage. nation could not long endure.' · As a background, he contrasted This situation, he reminded, . the patriotism and logical was only a few years short of the resistance of the American Nation's first Centennial bir– colonists as the antithesis of thday. Apparently minimizing current soreheads throughtout the current Bi-Centennial efforts. the world such as Castro, Ho Chi ur . Muncy, by contrast said, Minh, Mao Tse Tung, Huey ·•wnat we are constructing, I , Newton, Eldridge Cleaver ·and think, looks quite pale along side Jerry . Rubin, whom he of what was constr ucted a categorized as modern-day hundred years ago in memory of MUNCY DISCUSSES BICENTENNIAL - Dr. Ray Muncy, who has been commissioned to write the history of the city of Searcy, discussed the Bicen– tennial plans of the city at the Kiwanis Club luncheon here. yesterday. revolutionists. our 1ooth birthday." In contrast, he said, "George Coming down to present times, Washington was every whit a he said, "The history of this gentleman .... and this doesn't fit country is not just the history of our idea of what a revolutionary Washington, ~ . C. , or N~w York ought to look like. The American or Philadelphia ; the. h1story of revolution was a thoughtful this nation is ~sentially the revolution. The men who were history of frontier towns that engaged in this argued, disputed were born after this nation came and thought out very carefully of age and be~an to nu rs_e from every move that they made. (he breast of t.his great~ati~n a~d "They did not want to create a to grow into full matunty m th1s government that would be nation. governed by the mob, but at the "That, I thi nk, aptly ~escribes same time, they wanted a Searcy , Arka~a~. 100mil~ from government that was governed the Mississippi Rtver, g~owmg up by men". on the frontier becommg a c1ty Dr. Muncy quoted a pertinent in 1837; going. thr?u~ wars, part of Edmund Burk 's times of distress, pamc; illnesses, 'Thoughts on the Ptesent scandals, but times of ple_nty. Discontents', written at the time "Main ~treet, USA, IS not map in ber car. "We brought the. rn a p in,'' Muncy said , "and laid it on the tal>Jc ; and much to out surprise, he four streets north ol Inde pend ence quare ir Philadelphia and the four soull of the . qua re are Race, Market. Arch. Locust, Vine a nd Spring. They ot·e our treets. because, ~,o hen he man from Philadelphia laid out our streets, ha simply took the names from Philadelphia and applied them to nur ·treels here in this fronti er town." Dr. Muncy called attention to the fact that lhe Philadelphia map is now displayed on the wall in the Arkansas Room of the 1 Searcy Library. The two maps (of Downtown Searcy and Philadelphia) will be on facing ages of Dr. Muncy's book. The researching aut hor revealed some of the many sources of information that had been catalogued: "One of our best sources was newspapers. We had newspapers on Microfilm going back to 1867 and various collections of other newspapers were found from oU1er sources. City Council recorcl'> ·and in– terviews with 47 older citizens on cassette tapes were also of much value, he explained. Dr. Muncy is being aided by 17 comraittees, covering almost all · possible sources of historical and other in[onntion pertinent to the cause. These things include as he named them, 113 categories of materials; six file drawers full rto date ), JO .OOO four by six index cards ;:m Searcy, 87 large en– \'elopes of documents tcalalogued and categorized land 11 6 old pictures ·con .band now \. He revealed that the book will approximate 500 pages, and that everything will be fully documented. of the American Revolution: necessanly I~depend,ence "The American ~evolution Avenue," he contmued, Its not was not that which occurred to Pennsylvania Avenue, it's not create something that was new. Wall Street or Fif~ Avenue. It Jnstead, it was to preserved what might well be Mam Street or they already had." CA referral to Race Street or Market or Cen- . the degree of self-government ter." that the Colonies had ex- This remark led to an inperienced through their House of teresting and surprising parallel Burgesses and their Town Hall that came out of routine meetings >. research. He explained it like "The men who framed -our this: "We understood that the country w re bu ilders: very man that !aiel out the streets ol · thougl_llfully and very carefully," ~ arcy was from Phil3delphia. A he satd , "they went about this lady came to our Library from business." By contrast, he said, Philadelphia to do some "Modern day revolutionists are geneolo ical work and we as-k d more concerned about tearing if she would send u · back a slr I :lown than bulding up." He then map of Philadelphia, one that she ~uoted Jerry Hubin as saying he could j.Jick up at a filling st:~ti•w." was "part of the demolition crew Her reply was that she had sue~ a
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