Daily hansan
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
52nd Year, No.128
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, April 20, 1955
ASC Proposes 25 Cent Increase To Aid Yearbook
The House and Senate of the ASC passed a resolution last night to recommend that student enrollment fees be raised 25 cents a semester to cover the financial deficit of the Javahawk.
The Senate passed a motion to recommend to the University that a minimum student wage of 65 cents an hour be established. The recommendation was passed by the House at an earlier meeting.
The Senate referred a request for $100 to help finance the K-Book to the finance committee.
In other business, William Ellis, visiting student religious leader, and William H. Allaway, YMCA secretary, spoke on the National Student association. The University of Kansas is not now a member. No action was taken.
The resolution will be enacted next fall if it is approved by the ennacellor and the Board of Recents. The yearbook will still be sold on a voluntary basis, with the money received from fees used to cover losses.
Delay Forced By Chou En-Lai
Bandung, Indonesia —(U,P)— Chinese Communist Premier Chou en-Lai forced today a postponement of an eight-nation meeting called to seek an end the Formosa crisis that threatens war in the Far East.
Kansan photo by Pete Ford
The Colombo powers—India, Burma, Pakistan, Ceylon and Indonesia—announced an indefinite post-ponement after Chou's tactics twice halted work of the Afro-Asian conference's vital political committee
First Chou refused to accept the United Nations definition of "human rights" in a scheduled discussion of that topic and the conference was forced to set up a subcommittee to work out another definition.
Then he brought up a technical point of procedure in the parliamentary arrangements for the political committee, which delayed start of the committee.
Later he reversed himself on both points.
The political committee, composed of the heads of delegations, met in the afternoon and unanimously adopted a provision on human rights as set forth by the United Nations. It reads:
Some conference quarters believed the momentous Formosa talks were delayed because Communist China did not want to discuss specific issues, but one chief delegate said it was only a case of "Communist tactics."
"The Asian-African conference declares its full support of the fundamental principles of human rights as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and it takes note of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement of all people of all countries."
The afternoon session of the political committee was delayed past its starting time while Chou held urgent talks with V. K. Krishna Menon, India's representative in the United Nations.
Kansas—Generally fair today and tonight. Cooler today and in the east and south central tonight. Thursday partly cloudy. Warmer west and north. High today in 60s. Low tonight 35-40 northwest to 40s in southeast.
Weather
HUMANITIES SPEAKER—James Sweeney, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, New York, relaxes at a reception in his honor after his humanities talk on "The Language of Painting."
honor after his humanities talk on "The Language of Painting."
Lawyers Will Honor Davis Tomorrow in Festivities
Law students at the University of Kansas will honor retiring Prof. Robert McNair Davis tomorrow in their Annual Law Day activities.
Professor Davis, now 70 years old, will in June end a 40-year teaching career, 26 of them at KU, in which three deanships were included.
The students have purchased for hanging in Green hall a large camera study portrait of the veteran teacher. The presentation will be at the evening banquet in the ballroom of the Student Union. The speaker at the banquet will be Judge Walter A. Huxman, former governor of the state of Kansas and at present a judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Huxman graduated from the School of Law in 1914.
Mixing fun with the serious, law students will choose their queen Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur in a program at Green hall tomorrow morning. The following candidates have been submitted: Alpha Chi Omega, June Maune, college sophomore; Alpha Phi, Babe Cooper, education senior; Chi Omega, Jan Taton, college sophomore; Alpha Delta Pi, Kathy Thomas, education junior; Alpha Omicron Pi, Mary Fischer, fine arts sophomore; Delta Delta Delta, Joanne Hobbs, college sophomore; Delta Gamma, Marilyn Stueck, college junior; Gamma Phi Beta, Isabel Bolin, fine arts sophomore; Kappa Alpha Theta, Kay Weigand, education junior; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Althea Rexroad, college senior; Beta Phi, Phyllis Landee, college sophomore; Sigma Kappa, Barbara Barnhill, fine arts sophomore; Corbin Hall, Mary Laird, engineering freshman, and North College, Shirey Andrish, college freshman.
The annual tug-of-war with the Engineering students will be renewed at noon. The losers will know it first, for they will be pulled into Potter lake. An afternoon picnic will be held at the farm of Prof. Charles Oldfather southwest of Lawrence.
A native of Marshall, Mo., he earned the A.B. degree at Harvard University in 1905, was an instructor there one year and went on to obtain a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1908.
Professor Davis moved to the University of California as professor of law in 1921 and from 1923-29 was dean of the law school at the University of Idaho. In 1928 he received a doctorate degree from Harvard. The late Chancellor E. H. Lindley called him to the deanship of the KU Law School in 1929. In 1934 he returned to full time teaching.
After a period of private practice in Portland, Ore., he became professor of law at the University of Arizona in 1916. He later became dean of men there.
Challenge Accepted Engineers Ready
Marvin Hall April 19, 1955
Editor
University Daily Kansan Dear Sir:
We, the Engineers, do hereby accept with great pleasure, the invitation to dump the shysters unceremoniously into Potter lake on Thursday noon, the date and time set for the annual Lawyers-Engineers Tug-O-War and Beer Bust. It will be difficult to round up 50 engineers, (who by nature are endowed with more brains than bruned), who will not be feverishly busy setting up departmental displays for the Engineering Exposition which is to be held Friedy. But, for this golden opportunity, how can we refuse?
We will be there with slide- rules at the ready!
The Engineering Student Council
David C. Bartlett, president, senior, chemical engineering
Jayhawk Applications Taken
Letters of application for the positions of Editor or Business Manager of the 1955-56 Jayhawker must be given to Jerry Jurden, 1100 Indiana, phone 284, by Saturday noon, April 23.
Sweeney Defines Meaning of Artist
"If we hope to understand art we must see the artist's efforts as a means of communication," James Johnson Sweeney, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, said in the final Humanities lecture last night in Fraser theater.
The surface elements in art are constantly changing, a fact which confuses the layman unless he looks deeper, he said. The greatest stumbling block that the individual faces, Mr. Sweeney said, is to understand that art is forever changing.
"Artists should make statements and not restatements," he said.
The artist's success, Mr. Sweeney said, is measured in "conception rather than refraction."
Like the language of the poet, the painter's language must be constantly refreshed, he said. As the metaphor is a fundamental of speech, it is also vital in painting. "Painting is a metaphor of structure," Mr. Sweeney said, which is organized by color, line, and space relationships.
Vocabulary is only a surface feature of painting, the speaker said besides being the raw material of all language. Order is the underlying syntax of a work of art, he said.
Of contemporary painting, Mr Sweeney said that no matter how unfamiliar the surface elements their fundamental characteristics relate it to past art. The surface elements will be constantly changing, he said, but it is the underlying elements which will be the same forever.
What is timely, he said, is that which relates the artist with the earliest beginnings of art—"the 65th."
Surface elements, Mr. Sweeney said, should not break with tradition, but neither should the past be permitted to freeze current impressions and therefore be lost sight of.
Another hindering factor, he said, is the fact that interests in art are quite different now than they were in the 16th or 19th centuries of the post-Renaissance period.
Mr. Sweeney said the layman is being hindered constantly by forgetting the underlying elements and judging by the narrow standards of a limited period.
Today's pictures are creative in their own element, he said. Artists now desire to dominate the subject instead of letting it become as all-important as it once was. It is not possible to know contemporary painting, the speaker said, if we continue to view it in such an outdated manner.
There also has been a change of attitude toward subject matter in the last few centuries, he said. The subject of painting which was once so important is now considered only as a means, the end being all-important.
Painting resembles poetry, he said, in that like poetry, the subject matter in art exists only to create an impression. The interest in subject matter has definitely gone into retirement, Mr. Sweeney said.
Man must make new traditions whenever his past traditions no longer serve him, he said. The true tradition of art is the tradition of human expression and does not need to be frozen into one conception forever, he added.
Painting is truly a language of expression, he said, and is "man's homage to a higher order."
Krehbiel to Assist Shaw in Workshop
Clayton Krebblei, assistant professor of music education, will assist Robert Shaw of the Robert Shaw choreal this summer in the direction of a workshop in chorale art at San Diego State college.
Mr. Krehbiel first worked with Mr.Shaw from 1944 to 1950 as tenor soloist and assistant director in the chorale's recording and concert work.
KuKu's Meet Tomorrow
KuKu pledges will meet at 7:30 tomorrow evening in the Student Union to discuss their informal initiation to be held April 28.
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Early Check Shows Heavy Election Vote
More than 150 persons had voted at the two polls at Strong hall by 10 a.m. today, indicating a heavy vote on ASC and class officer candidates and the honor system proposals.
Polls will be open util 6 p.m. today. Besides Strong, students may vote at Marvin hall, Fraser hall, Green hall, Malott hall.-Lindley hall, and in the lobby and Hawk's Nest of the Student Union.
Students must have ID cards to vote. Party membership cards are not required.
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Big Engine Show To Open Friday
More than 10,000 visitors are expected for the 35th annual Engineering Exposition here Friday and Saturday.
The student planned and managed exposition will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Twenty-one divisions of the School of Engineering and Architecture and allied divisions of the University will have exhibits in Lindley hall, Marvin hall, Malott hall, the engineering research building, Fowler shops, Military Science building, the aeronautical building, and the electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic laboratory building.
General chairman is Dale Trott, engineering junior.
The emphasis for the year's exposition will be on fundamental achievements of science and engineering rather than on novelties.
Foreign Aid Asked by Ike
Washington — (U.P.) — President Eisenhower asked Congress today to approve a $3,530,000,000 foreign aid program to "meet the grim essentials of security" and to strengthen the defenses of friendly Asian nations against communism.
The President sent his proposed program as a 3.000 word special message urging the House and Senate to approve the expenditure as "an indispensable part of a realistic and enlightened national policy."
It came strategically at the height of the Afro-Asian conference in session at Bandung, Indonesia.
The Chief Executive's message provided no dollar breakdown for Asian aid. That undoubtedly will come later during Congressional hearings on the legislation.
But Foreign Aid Chief Harold E. Stassen previously had disclosed that the biggest share, $2,140,-500,000 would be earmarked for "the arc of free Asia," the group of neutral or pro-Western nations around the periphery of Red China from Afghanistan to South Korea.
Military aid for free Asia would
total $1,225,500,000, compared to
$826,700,000 this year.
The President's overall mutual security requests for fiscal 1956 were about $150 million below last year.
In his message, Mr. Eisenhower emphasized that:
1. The immediate threat to world peace is centered in Asia.
2. Enduring peace in the world will come only after the "spiritual aspirations of mankind" are realized. This, he said, would be a long term process requiring "patience, resourcefulness and deduction."