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Minnesota Professor To Give Science Talk
"Limitations of Science," will be the topic of Prof. Gerbert Feigl, of the department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, in a University lecture to be given at 4 p.m., Thursday, in Fraser theater.
The lecture will be sponsored by the University departments of philosophy and psychology. The public is invited.
Edward Schouten Robinson, associate professor of philosophy, describes Prof. Feigl as "one of the most acute living students of the philosophy of science. His lecture on 'Limitations of Science'?" should be as provocative as the recent Humanities lecture of Prof. Margenau, which touched on similar issues from a different point of view."
Prof. Feigl has been for many years one of the leaders in the movement known as "logical empiricism" or "logical positivism," which developed in Vienna about 30 years ago and flourished there until the occupation of Austria by Hitler. Prof. Feigl was one of the first to introduce Americans to the work of this school, which has since become widely influential both here and abroad.
Prof. Feigl will address the psychology colloquium at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, in the Jawhayk room of the Student Union, and the staff seminar of the department of psychology.
Born in 1902 in Reichenberg, Austria, and educated in Munich and Vienna. Prof. Feigl received his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 1927. He lectured in Vienna until 1930, when he came to this country. He taught at the University of Iowa from 1931 to 1941.
Prof. Feigl's own writings include many important articles on basic philosophical issues and problems in the philosophy of science. He is co-editor of the "Philosophical Studies" journal and has been coeditor of two important anthologies of recent philosophical writing: "Reading in the Philosophical Analysis" and "Reading in the Philosophy of Science."
Washington—(U.R.)-Son. Karl E. Mundt (R.-S.D.) said today testimony in the Peress case showed that the Army's security program in 1953 was in "an unconscionable state of confusion."
Mundt Cites Peress Case
Sen. Mundt told newsmen the hearing had reinforced his prophecy that the investigation would "show not who was wrong, but what was wrong" and would turn up no individual "villain" in the case.
The second annual alumni debate will be held at 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday in Green theater.
Chairman John L. McClelland told reporters, "we're going to lay out the cards face up and show the public what the facts are in this case."
"I hope there will now be indication that the roadblocks have been eliminated," Sen. Mundt told newsmen.
The Senate investigating subcommittee recalled a Pentagon intelligence officer LA. Col. James Anders, for more questioning on the Army's handling of former Maj. Irving Peress, who was honorably discharged after refusing to tell Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Ws.) whether he was a Communist.
Alum Debate Is Sunday
John Fields, second year law, and Hubert Bell, college senior, will face William Means, '54, salesman for International Business machines in Kansas City, Mo., and Edward Stollenwerck, '50, public relations director of the Spencer Chemical company, Kansas City, Mo., at 4 p.m. Fields and Bell will take the affirmative on the question: Resolved, that the present price support of farm products should be abolished.
Testimony showed that Peress received his Army commission before returning a loyalty questionnaire—and that he claimed the fifth amendment on this form when asked whether he was a Communist.
At 7:30 p.m. John Eland, college sophomore, and William Arnold, college senior, debating the negative will meet Kent Shearer', '51, practicing lawyer with Holland, Thompson, and Holland law firm in Russell, and Robert Bennett,'49, practicing lawyer in Prairie Village.
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Book Censors Strike Again
"Voluntary censorship is the ideal method of suppression." This is actually a statement of Inspector Herbert Case of the Detroit police license and censor bureau. He didn't mean voluntary censorship by the public, either. He meant voluntary cooperation of the book distributors in keeping books on his censorship list from ever being known to the public.
It is a wonder that we still have distribution of the little handbooks for sociology, because take away the context, and they also are
Inspector Case's "Detroit Line," a list of obscene literature, goes to police chiefs or city censors all over the country for use in banning books in their cities. As long as Inspector Case has the "voluntary" cooperation of the book distributors, this is a nationwide action, not just localized in Detroit.
So far, in certain parts of the country the ban has been placed on smutty literature such as Chaucer, Moby Dick, and such authors as Hemingway and Hans Christian Anderson.
The methods of censorship would be effective in banning the work of almost any author you choose. The books are read by full time "checkers" who take from context and copy any obscene parts of the paper-backed books they read. Then the head censor reads all the collections of obscene passages and passes judgment on them. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled out this method of censorship several times, but it still continues in Detroit.
It used to be a joke to mention the Boston censors, and say that a book's sales jumped 200 per cent because it was banned in Boston. And it was funny, to see how ridiculous that useless situation was. And we could laugh, then, but now the joke is on us. Literature is being suppressed, distribution stopped, so that we no longer have a choice of whether or not we want to read a certain book. We don't even know about the book that has been banned.
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Senate Confirms Harlan Appointment to Bench
Washington—(U.P.)—Senate confirmation of John Marshall Harlan as an associate justice of the Supreme Court cleared the way today for early action on the controversial issue of public school segregation.
The high court is expected with in the next few weeks to set a spring date for hearings on how and when the states shall abolish separate school systems for whites and negroes. Segregation was declared unconstitutional last May.
The oral arguments have been held up for months until Mr. Harlan could fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Robert H. Jackson last October.
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The Senate's long-delayed vote came late yesterday after a day of debate in which opponents attacked Mr. Harlan's lack of judicial experience, his association with internationalist groups and with former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
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Senators favoring the appointment defended Mr. Harlan as a brilliant lawyer with a judicial temperament.
Nine Democrats, all from the South, and two Republicans opposed confirmation of Mr. Harlan, 55-year-old judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from New York.
He was confirmed by a vote of 71 to 11.
Mr. Harlan, who was nominated by President Eisenhower last November, can report to work as soon as he takes his oath of office, which can be given by any judge at any time.
The Supreme Court justices, according to sources familiar with the court, want to tackle the crucial integration problem as soon as possible so that the court can issue its final decree next fall.
The grandson of a famous Supreme Court justice, Mr. Harlan becomes the third Republican member of the high bench, joining Chief Justice Earl Warren and Associate Justice Harold H. Burton.
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