Show Apple Polisher Folk lore Prof Finds Welcome By JEAN NEAL polishing says Hector least it helped me to meet my for- Utah ana facu ty with his extensive knowledge of American literature and folk was persuaded to teach a couple of campus classes this His each of whom he calls by qualify his apple-polishing They feel the personality of this with the crinkly laughter lines around his combined with two deep dimples in his cheeks and a soft may have had something to do with The girl who later became his wife was the a wealthy He was a poor student working in a grocery-drug store at Her request for apples instead of keeping the doctor away led her straight to for twelve years later the grocery clerk was awarded his submitting for his doctor's dissertation a paper on American folk Lee's students share his When he stopped over in Salt Lake on business and was persuaded to take the he expected 15 and hoped for The enrollment was to see the patterns in the cultures you live Lee In folk we see culture as a series of The Scandinavians in Utah brought in a definite pattern of The occupational pattern where you get a picture of thought and behavior in a mining camp is quite different from that of a dairy he Lee stressed that in Utah we have still a different the religious one folk are interested in that as a kind of x-ray to our It is very important on a national scale in dealing with people of foreign lands that we know more of their their CT student is expert on folk folk their and how can we deal with Lee Folk lore also develops a sense of importance to the In academic work we constantly try to make the fit the If we let the pattern result from the we would see how any folk lore contribution can come from the under privileged child across the He a rich contribution of songs and just as valuable as the sophisticated stuff from the banker's School teachers like folk lore because it gives them a chance to realize the intrinsic worth of the Lee Lee stressed the aesthetic value of folk lore is important the sheer joy of singing and being around the material and non-material aspects of folk The quilt carved whittled and the various gadgets you see around the homes tell of their The the the legends and the tales tell of their according to Lee said that folk of national calibre are interested in this One of them is Way-land professor of German at He is an authority on folk tales and mining He uses phonograph and was one of the first in this Anyone who collected tales and personal anecdotes knows the way they are told is as important as their substance and actual phrases in which they are You don't get that unless you have a Lee In the very rhythm of you get one of the elements of literature cording to If you have a good folk tale you will sometimes be as interested in the rhythm cf his subject and the item as you are in the |