Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Wednesday, March 9, 1955
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year; No. 104
Kansan photo by Pete Ford
IT'S ALL FRIENDLY NOW—Members of the University of London and Kansas debate teams get acquainted prior to yesterday's debate held in Fraser hall. The English team took the affirmative against the Kansas squad on the question, resolved: that freedom of speech is substantially decreasing in the United States today. The debaters are, left to right: Hubert Bell, Kansas; Jennifer Copeman, England; William Arnold, Kansas, and Lester Borley, London.
London Debaters Hold Red Fear Harms U.S.
That the threat of communism had created an atmosphere of fear in the American mind and suppressed freedom of speech, was the stand of the University of London debaters, Jennifer Copeman and Lester Borley, who met William Arnold and Hubert Bell, college seniors, in an international debate yesterday in Fraser theater.
Debating before a packed house, the British took the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, that the freedom of speech is substantially decreasing in the United States today."
The English students not only argued that fear of communism had created an "aura of fear" that choked the mind, but that recent purges in the administration and the declaring of security risks on trivial matters also had limited our social freedom.
Miss Copeman and Borley maintained that McCarthyism spear-headed this fear, and by letting McCarthy run wild "we also had lost the confidence of the free peoples of the world."
The British in rebuttal said that though McCarthy had faded, what he represented still remained, and security risk purges still remained to hamper full freedom of thought and speech.
Arnold and Bell argued that there wasn't any such fear and that letting McCarthy have his say was an example of the extremeness of freedom of speech in the U.S. They pointed out that McCarthyism had not been accepted and was fading out, showing an "upward trend in freedom of speech."
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They said that recent trends showed that students were not taking Russian language, history, and sociology courses for fear of such an investigation someday.
Weather
Clear skies and continued unseasonably mild temperatures will continue this afternoon through Thursday in Kansas. The low tonight will be in the 30s northwest to 50s southeast. The high Thursday will be in the 70s northwest to near 80 southeast.
Fire Damages Phi Psi House
A fire which broke out about 4:30 p.m. yesterday at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house, 1100 Indiana st., caused smoke and water damage to the housemother's quarters and slight damage to the rest of the house.
Fraternity members tried to fight the blaze while awaiting firemen but could make little progress because of intense smoke coming up the basement stairs. The fire department arrived shortly and the fire was under control in about five minutes.
The housemother, Mrs. Arthur Little, discovered smoke coming from a basement storeroom and called the fire department.
Oil paintings, brush drawings, and etchings by Mrs. Mary S. Hamacher are on display in the architectural library, third floor Marvin hall. Mrs. Hamacher is the wife of Howard B. Hamacher, instructor of architecture.
Art Display In Marvin
The cause of the blaze was not determined.
Mrs. Hamacher was graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, Mich., in 1947 and has studied in Paris and Florence.
Mrs. Hamacher's work will be on display through Tuesday. The next exhibit will be a series of drawings and paintings by Donald T Walters, instructor of architecture.
School Business Course to Open
A two-day conference or training course in public school business management will begin here Friday.
George Yandell of the Kansas Department of Post Audit, Topeka, will open the conference Friday afternoon with a speech on "School Laws and Budgetary Accounting," and Lew Parmenter, senior counsel of the National School Service institute, Chicago, will open the discussions of "Purchasing Practices in General," at the dinner meeting Friday evening.
Wilbur Wolf, business manager of the Omaha, Neb., public schools and first vice president of the National Association of school Business Managers, will discuss the "Value of Forming a School Business Manager's Association in Kansas."
Discussions on purchasing practices and budgetary accounting will be divided into first, second, and third class city groups. Leaders of the groups will be L. H. Brotherson, Kansas City, Kan; Barney Hays, Topeka; E. P. Paul Lessig, Leavenworth; C. H. Branson, Bonner Springs, and E. D. E. Kerr, Eudora.
Other program participants will include Carl Althaus and A. E. Woestemeyer of Lawrence, and Hugh Bryan, superintendent of schools at Leavenworth.
Junior College Meeting Today
About 50 Kansas junior college representatives and staff members of the University will attend the Junior College conference today at the Student Union.
Dean Kenneth Anderson, of the Schoo l of Education, is chairman of the junior college committee for the University. The other members of the committee or George Waggoner, dean of the College; Jack Heysinger, assistant dean of the School of Business; James K. Hitt, registrar, and Kenneth Rose, professor of mining engineering.
U.S. Called Ready To Hit Red China
Washington—(U.P.)—United States forces, backed by a Sunday punch of atomic weapons, stood battle ready today to hit Communist China itself if the Reds attack Formosa or other important Allied defense areas in the Far East.
Secretary of State John Fostel Dulles unfolded this strategy last night in a nationwide broadcast which served both as a report to the nation and as an extraordinary warning to the Chinese Reds.
The warning was prompted by a growing feeling that the Communists really intend to try to conquer Formosa...
Mr. Dulles was reported convinced that the Reds must be told now that they will run into serious trouble if they try to attack Formosa or commit major aggression elsewhere in Asia.
The answer now will be up to the Reds.
At the same time Mr. Dulles kept the Communist Chinese guessing about U.S. intentions to defend Nationalist-held Quemoy and Matsui islands located near the Communist mainland. President Eisenhower, he said, will decide how the present "flexible defense" system will be carried out "in the light of his judgment as to the overall value of certain coastal positions to the defense of Formosa."
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson also made it clear yesterday that the United States has no fixed policy for the island groups.
Mr. Dulles' comments avoided a public showdown at this time with Britain.
British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden had said earlier yesterday that the Nationalists should give up these islands to the Chinese Reds. Mr. Eden said this action could lead to a ceasefire and eventual admission of Red China to the United Nations.
Mr. Dulles suggested that if general war started, Red China would risk retaliation from three fronts—Southeast Asia, Formosa itself, and the Republic of Korea. The United States has defense treaties with these three areas.
"The allied nations possess together plenty of power in the area."Mr. Dulles said in a radio and television report on his recent trip to the Far East.
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IAWS Committees To Meet at 7 pm.
All University women currently working on committees for the IAWS convention, to be held at the University during Easter vacation, will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Jayhawk room of the Union.
Harlan Approved By Committee
The vote was 10 to 4, with one member, Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), voting "present."
Washington — (U.P.)— The Senate Judiciary committee today finally approved the controversial nomination of John Marshall Harlan of New York to the Supreme Court.
Voting against the nomination were two Democrats, Sens. James O. Eastland (Miss.) and Olin D. Johnston (S.C.), and two Republicans, Sens. William Langer (N.D.) and Herman Welker (Idaho).
Chairman Harley M. Kilgore (D-W.Va) said he hopes the Senate can take up the nomination for final action late this week.
"But I don't see how we can get it up before Friday under the Senate rules," Sen. Kilgore told reporters.
The 55-year-old Judge Harlan, now a U.S. circuit court of appeals judge, was nominated last November by President Eisenhower to succeed the late Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson. But the last Senate failed to act on it during a special session called to consider censure action against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.).
Mae West-Fields Film Scheduled for Friday
The comedy classic, "My Little Chickadee," starring Mae West and W. C. Fields, will be the University Film series presentation at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch auditorium. The film will be final one in this series.
The film series committee will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the chancellor's office to prepare the program for next year's film series.
The feature is not only unique because it stars Miss West and Mr. Fields, said to be two of the most celebrated figures ever a part of the entertainment world, but also because the original screen play was written by them.
The story is set against the background of the 1880 frontier. Miss West portrays a wise-cracking Chicago cabaret singer who causes a tornado of excitement upon her arrival in the wide open spaces.
Other parts are played by Anne Nagel, Margaret Hamilton, Fuzzy Knight, Ruth Donnelly, and George Moran.
Mr. Fields is cast as a traveling medicine man and card-sharp who is fascinated by Miss West and who struggles throughout the film to win her affections.
Also included in the cast of supporting players is Joseph Calleia as the crooked boss of the western town where most of the action takes place. Dick Foran enacts the crusading newspaper editor and Donald Meek does a characterization of a shifty gambler who looks like a deacon.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor and chairman of the committee, said the committee welcomes nominations and suggestions for the series next year. Mr. Nichols said suggestions should be sent to the chairman, or any member of the committee, before the meeting March 15.
The committee is comprised of five department heads and two students. They are J. A. Burzle, professor of German; Allen Crafton, professor of speech; James L. Worthham, professor of English; Robert Vosper, director of libraries; J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages; Roland L. Denchfield, college junior, and Donald G. Fine, engineering senior.