Page 8 University Daily Kansan Monday, April 16, 1956
Monarchy Best For Belgium, Consul Tells CCUN Members
Frans Taelemens, Belgian consul in Kansas City, is a confirmed monarchist, at least as far as his own country is concerned.
"In a country like Belgium where there are two distinct groups, it is the only type of government that will work effectively," he said at the CCUN international banquet April 13 in the Student Union.
Language Different
The "two distinct groups" to which he referred are the southerners, the French-speaking Latins and the northerners who speak Flemish, a language similar to Dutch.
"However, there is no social or cultural difference between the northernners and southerners" he said. "Only the language is different, and it is not a real barrier because almost everyone speaks the two."
Even parliamentary proceedings are carried on in both French and Flemish.
"It is not unusual for someone to ask a question in one language and receive an answer in the other," Mr. Taelemans said.
He went on to say that the monarchy serves to bind the two groups.
"Baudouin, our king, has about as much power as the English ruler, but he is a symbol of unity for the country."
Married A Commoner
Baudouin was proclaimed king in 1950 when his father, Leopold III was forced to abdicate because of his marriage to a commoner, Marie Bael, druing the war.
"It was a tragic situation," Mr. Taelemans said. "Actually in a plebiscite 58 per cent of the people voted to retain him, but political pressures forced his abdication. His wife, the daughter of one of the provincial governors, was a very beautiful woman—more beautiful than Grace Kelly," he added.
The ex-king and his wife are now living in Brussels.
As a consul, Mr. Taelemans' duties consist of protecting Belgian interests in this part of the country, but since there are few Belgians here his work is mostly commercial.
"Only A Degree"
Asked what university preparation is necessary for a diplomatic position he answered, "Only a degree."
This degree is not restricted to economics or political science; he has one in German philology from University of Luvain in Belgium.
Mr. Taelemans and his family live in Kansas City where his two daughters attend a French-speaking school. Oddly enough, only English is spoken in the home.
He says that he feels "quite aw home" in the United States, and that he would like to have San Francisco for his next three-year post.
"I don't know what the chances are," he said. "Perhaps if I ask to be sent to Shanghai, I'll get as far San Francisco."
YM-YWCA Members Return From Meet
Ten university students attended the Kansas District YMCA-YWCA conference at Kansas State College
The students are David Webb, Independence, Kan., senior; Donald Pizinger, Great Bend junior; Katherine Westgate, Lawrence, Michael Mills, McPherson, Jere Glover, Salina, Marilyn Sue Reeder, Topeka, and Lyn Havens, Joplin, Mo., sophomores; Laurian Seeber, Irvington, N.Y., Joyce Cutting, Ottawa and Robert Berkebile, Kansas City, Mo., freshmen.
Katherine Taylor, general secretary of YWCA and William Allaway, general secretary of YWCA also attended.
Hill Helps At GOP Convention
David Hill, Lawrence senior; served as one of the sergeants-at-arms at the Republican state convention Saturday in Wichita. He was appointed to the position by Robert Ellsworth, chairman of the Douglas County Young Republicans.
SHERLIE STEFFENS
Steffens Reigns At AFROTC Ball
Sherlie Steffens, Kappa Kappa Gamma of Kansas City, Kan., was crowned Air Force ROTC queen by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy at the Air Force Ball Saturday night in the Student Union Ballroom.
The queen and her four attendants, Francile Aronhalt, Topeka senior, Alpha Phi; Barbara Davis, Hutchinson sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta; Jananne Littrell, Kansas City, Kan., Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, and Shirley Kubik, Caldwell, Delta Gamma, juniors walked up a corridor formed by the Air Force Honor Guard and Sabre Flight at 10:15 Saturday evening for the corporation.
Brig. Gen. H. R. Sullivan, commander of the 21st Air Division at Forbes Air Base, and his wife were among the 400 who attended the ball.
Following the theme, "Serenade in Blue," the ballroom was decorated in blue and white. The modern backdrop for the bandstand was a series of blue and white diamonds.
$1,000 Contest Open To Students
The Brand Names Foundation, Inc., is offering a $1,000 tuition scholarship to the winner of its brand retailing college essay contest. The contest starts today and ends Monday, May 21.
The contest is open to all undergraduate students. Entries must consist of an essay on "The Influence of Manufacturers' Brand Names on Better Retailing." The essay must be from 1,500 to 2,000 words long.
Alpha Chi Omega Meets GSP Hall In Quote Quiz
the champions of KDGU's "Quote Quiz," Grace Pearson Hall, will meet Alpha Chi Omega sorority in a challenge match tonight at 6:30 over the campus radio station's quotation program.
The first prize will be for one year of undergraduate or graduate study in business, advertising, or retailing at any college or university. The alternate first prize is a $1,000 U.S. savings bond. Entry blanks may be obtained in the office of the dean of students in Strong Hall.
Alpha Chi Omega's team will be composed of JoAAnn Brown, Massena, N. Y., and Jane Cornick, Newton, sophomores, and Kay Davis, Kansas City, Mo., junior. They will meet Elina Holst, Topeka junior; Renee Ehrlich, Passaic, N. J., sophomore, and Maureen Harris, Great Bend senior of Grace Pearson's Hall.
In World War I there were 23 Allies and 4 cernal powers. The four were Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary.
Coeds Aren't Colds, Nor Colds Coeds
A typographical error on Page 11 of Thursday's University Daily Kansan story about Prof. Martin E. Rice, created what was described by an instructor as "weird logic." The last sentence of the story should have read: "Prof. Rice said when he attended, there were not so many coeds," not "colds."
An hour before the Kansan came out the instructor had told his Reporting II class of a similar typographical error made by the Washington (D.C.) Post concerning the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It seems the President had a severe cold which kept him in bed. The Post printed 50 copies with a headline which read "President in Bed with Coed" before the error was caught. All 50 copies were sent to FDR.
15 To Attend School Talks
A group of about 15 University faculty members will attend the annual Kansas Adult Education Conference at Emporia Monday, April 23.
Participating in the program are: Carroll Clark, professor of sociology, who will speak on the "Characteristics of the Adult Learner."
Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, who will give a report and a summary of the meeting.
Robert Vosper, director of the libraries, who will be chairman of a panel discussion on a library experiment in adult education at Ottawa. Prof. Clark will be a member of the panel.
Israeli Official To Speak Thursday
Israeli Vice-consul I. D. Unna will speak at the Israel Independence Day program at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
His topic will be "Birth and Heritage of a Nation."
The Oranimi Song and Dance Group of Haifa, Israel, will present Israeli songs and dances.
Members of the group are Rachel Hadass, Avraham Elber, Amitai Neeman, and Michael Kagan.
KU Botanists Take Field Trip In Texas
Dr. Ronald L. McGregor, assistant professor of botany, was in charge of the trip. Others making the trip were Dr. Norval McClung, assistant professor of botany, and Emily L Hartman, Kansas City, Mo., William Keith, Burt L Wagenknecht, and Earl Lathrop, Lawrence, Charles Kramer, Leavenworth, and Beryl Scott, Sheffield, England, all graduate students.
Eight members of the botany department gathered several hundred plant specimens during a field trip to Texas.
L. R. Lind, professor of Greek and Latin, will show slides at the forty-ninth annual meeting of The Classical Association of Kansas and Western Missouri Saturday, April 28.
Lind To Show Slides To Latin Tachers
The Association is for all teachers of Latin and Greek in high schools, colleges, and universities of Kansas and western Missouri.
Dr. Lind is secretary-treasurer of the Association.
Home Economics Club To Install Officers
Miss Muriel H. Johnson, instructor of home economics, was a guest speaker at the Nebraska State Meeting in Lincoln, Neb., April 14.
Miss Johnson spoke on "Unit Clothing Tables." This subject was part of her thesis for her M.S. degree from the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Government Must Set Sights Higher, Dr. Bailey Asserts
Leadership in local government exists to overcome paralysis of will and cannot be achieved by trusting to luck or an unseen hand, Prof.
By JOHN BATTIN
Lorene Hunt Law Day Queen
Lorene Hunt, Liberal junior, representing Gamma Phi Beta sorority, was crowned "Miss Res Ips Laoquitur" at the Law Day banquet April 13. Her attendants were Lucygne Cornett, Wichita freshman, Corbin Hall, and Sally Rendigis, Lee's Summit. Mo. senior, Pi Beta Phi.
About 300 persons attended the banquet at which Stephen S. Chandler, chief judge of the Federal District Courts of Oklahoma, spoke He also was made an honorary member of the Order of Coif, honorary law fraternity.
Five students were elected to the Order of Coif. They are Donald Tinker, Lawrence, Ronald Thomas, Baxter Springs, and Frederick Six. Lawrence, third-year students, and J. Edward Taylor Jr., Sharon Springs second-year student.
Other awards presented were:
Other awards presented were
Moot court—LaVerne Morin, Damar, and John Jurcek, Kansas City, Kan., second-year students.
Law Review-Walter J. Kennedy Lawrence third-year student, and Tinker, outstanding senior writers, and Walter B. Ash, Lawrence second-year student, outstanding under-class writer.
Law Review certificates of merit- William R. Leonard, Independence third-year student; John C. Wesley, Ullysses, James Wheat, Kansas City, Kan., second-year students; Clifford R. Holland, Russel third-year student; Robert A. Garrity, Carl E. Stallard, Lawrence, third-year students; Taylor, Six, Tinker, and Kennedy.
Lawyer's title award—$100 for out-
standing work on property, Thomas
History Professors To Speak In East
George L. Anderson, professor, and Robert W. Johansen, assistant professor of history, will attend the annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association in Pittsburgh, Pa., Thursday to Saturday. Prof. Anderson is chairman of the Association's executive committee.
Stephen K. Bailey, director of the graduate program of the Wood Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, said April 13 in the Student Union.
Prof. Johannsen will be a commentator on western history Papers presented will deal with the Army-Indian policy before and after the Civil War. Prof. Anderson was chairman of the program committee on Ohio Valley Agriculture.
"Unless we unleash imagination locally, we'll never unleash it nationally." Prof. Bailey said, contending that it's time we looked at local government to achieve a civil community.
Every possible resource at the local, county, and state level should be mareslalled to provide a more beautiful and humane society, he said, but "unfortunately local governments set their sights too low.
"We must dream dreams about the future and make them come true," he said. "If local government exists only to remove snow, check fire hazards, or empty parking meters, we'll never build a civilized immunity."
Prof. Bailey asserted an effective local government's first job is to identify three resources. The first resource is creative and alert individuals such as a woman who sees a dangerous corner and reports it, individuals who create community chests, or a businessman who brings the problem of a dirty alley to the chamber of commerce. Individuals are the ones willing to give up peaceful living rooms for smoky committee rooms in smoky cities."
The second resource is capital, he said, whether it is local or imported. Private capital has created parking lots, city halls and county court-houses, and made possible zoning and planning studies, he said.
The third resource is state and federal governments, although it is ridiculous to pit one government against another. Prof. Bailey said. Leadership at the local level exists to inspire higher levels of government to act, not pass the buck to higher levels, he said.
"All three resources involve a substantial administrative risk" away from the desire to return village status," he said.
"Private capital resource is local political leadership which gives direction to all other resources. It becomes a major catalytic agent in government."
But the resources incur certain obligations in leadership of local government, he said, the first being a valuation of resources. The second responsibility is to search until government finds certain "permanent forces" which involves selection over transient forces.
The third responsibility is self-restraint in the exercise of power of public officials, although democracy combines to resolve and to move those who are in the way, he said, concluding that vision is the fourth responsibility needed to create a town of tomorrow.
Miss Ladd received her bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan. While working in the children's library at her birthplace, Ann Arbor, Mich., she started to study the history of art for an M.A. degree. Every summer she traveled in Europe, and in 1936 she attened the Summer School for foreigners at Munich, Germany. She decided to stay there for the winter semester to study art history and continue work on her M.A. degree.
'Must Travel To Appreciate Art,' Exchange Librarian Says
"If you try to study the history of art in books you can never know what art really is," Miss Helen Ladd, gift and exchange librarian at Watson Library told a Daily Kansan reporter in an interview.
"It is such a wide field that even though you may go to every place that masterpieces of art are kept, will hardly be an expert," she added.
"Munich museums have the best collections from all over the world," she said. "They are things that fascinate you and cannot help but increase your interest in art."
Her courses were combined with Greek and Roman archaeology.
Finally she completed the M.A. in history of art in 1937 at the University of Michigan.
Later she studied Islamic art because, as she said, "You can never stop studying art when you start understanding what it really means."
As assistant curator in the research seminar of Islamic art at the University of Michigan she hoped in publishing "Ars Islamica."
In 1949, when the seminar was dissolved, she was employed by the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kan- tuary, Mo., as librarian and lecturer.
Miss Ladd attended the International Congress of Orientalists in Istanbul and Ankara in 1951
In 1953 she visited the National Libraries of Greece, Egypt and Lebanon and met the heads of the library associations in those countries.
She has been in Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia, where in 1942 she attended a library course in summer school at Bogota. At that time she made a bibliography of Latin-American art books and purchased art books for the University of Michigan Library.