Page 2 University Daily Kansan Monday, February 28. 1955 Walking in the Night Windows grow black again as they blend into the gray of night buildings. Two flags flap loudly in the wind. A smooth fog filters light dispersed from streetlights.And the night is cold. You listen to your footsteps, sounds unimportant in daylight hours. You listen carefully at night when little things are important. You hear tiny sounds, not voices, not shouting, but sounds made sharp and penetrating by silence. The campus sits alone, somehow aware of the hollowness of voices and people gone for awhile. It soaks up a long black sleep, waiting with stoneelike patience for sunrise. And all is quiet —Gene Shank Russia Today- For Power or Ideals? Since the sudden shift in Russian leadership, the world is anxious to learn what the moving force behind Georgi Malenkov's dismission and Nikolai Bulganin's appointment is, but the walls of the Kremlin are high and thick and only vague considerations may lead to any reasonable results. In this time of high political activity Russia must have been driven by striking inner-political difficulties to offer the suspicious world a weakness—which a change in leadership represents. Is it a fight for power and influence among the leading personalities, are certain other interest groups involved in this struggle, or is it an ideological duel which might cause revolutionary changes in the further development of Eastern politics? Since the death of Stalin, the Communist party has had no central leadership The significance of the party was reduced by the new, growing generation, which denied the further existence of the party, because it had fulfilled its general sense, the creation of socialism. Since a certain standard of life had been developed, the post-revolutionary middle-class asked for the "maximum satisfaction of the steadily growing material and cultural needs of all members of the society" as Izvestia, a Russian paper which follows the government and expressed Malenkov's opinion, stated. When Malenkov became premier he waited six months until he appointed Nikita Khrushev as leader of the Communist party. During this time a struggle for power between the two most important groups in Russia—the government and the party—was evident. In the scientific sense of communism the Communist party needs movement and changes for its ideological existence. Therefore, it will never accept the idea of fulfilled socialism. Logically it urged—after recovering and strengthening under its new leader Khrushchev—the development of heavy industry in its program, according to Pravda, the paper of the Communist party. Thus the main point of the struggle between both groups in Russia is the decisive characteristic of communism: At what stage of social and cultural development is the switch from socialism to communism possible and necessary? This decision will have realistic influence of great importance. It will decide between party and government, heavy and light industry, stronger armament or dearmament, and the whole trend of foreign policy. —Heiko Engelkes Letters To the editor of the Kansan: Receipt of a letter asking me to contribute $1.00 to $5.00 toward the purchase of a Cadillac to be presented to Dr. F. C. Allen makes one ask exactly how civilized are we and how much broad, sympathetic, human understanding do we instill into our graduates. While vicarious consumption of this particular conspicuous type is nothing new—the pyramids of Egypt and the cathedrals of medieval Europe are enduring reminders of the homage paid to the gods of an earlier day—still. Dr. Allen is an educator as well as having some connection with the medical profession. How much more fitting and more humane, therefore, would be a gift of the funds to cancer or heart research, or the establishment of an academic scholarship which would last far longer than even that supreme example of American workmanship, the Cadillac. If the human appeal of a testimony like this escapes the understanding of the alumni group, it might still be possible for Dr. Allen to turn in his shiny new car on a memorial such as I have suggest.4 Charles E. Staley Instructor of Economics To the editor (re, the letter of Mr. Staley); Thank you for your very nice letter as of the 24th inst. I quite agree with you in your raising the question asking just how civilized are we by our failure to instill in our graduates the broad, sympathetic and human understanding. I am sure that you can still feel with me the embarrassment that is presented to me under such conditions. And I fully agree with you that a much more fitting and humane treatment would be gifts to the funds of cancer and heart research. Ten years ago the alumni and friends made a gift to me of $1,000 by the purchase of a $750 defense bond which was turned over to the University as a scholarship fund. If my memory serves me correctly, the fund lacked $160 of that amount, and I personally contributed that amount to enable the scholarship fund to purchase the bond. That bond has matured and Mr. Irvin Youngberg has the $1,000 scholarship which is known as the "Phog" Allen scholarship. While this does not erase the thought of the situation you mention, nor does it assuage the feeling of some educators when they see this thing perpetrate. I did want you to know that a scholarship fund of a much lesser amount than the Cadillac fund was presented to the University. The promoters of the Cadillac idea took over my Chrysler New Yorker in the trading. Going from sublime to the ridiculous, I am sure that you could agree with me if you were in my place, that if I should follow the last suggestion in your letter, I would be a limping pedestrian instead of an aloof and cold-blooded representative of the upper crust. Forrest C. Allen Professor of physical education Varsity basketball coach DailyTransan University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association. Associated College Press association represented by the National Advertising Society. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or a year (add $1 a semester if in Lawruen). Subscription rate is Kansas, every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, university holidays and examinations, second class matter, Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawruen. Post office under act of March 3, 1879 NEWS STAFF Executive Editor. Man Editors. Army Driven. Letty Lemon Lemon Man Editors: Amy Dyong, John don, Karen Hilmer, Jack Lindberg Nancy Neville Asst. News Editor Lee Ann Urban Sports Editor Sima Wang Wire Editor Tom Lyons Editorial Editor Mary Bess Stephens Asst. Society Ed. Travis Feature Editor Do, Trell News Advisor C. M. Pickett EDITORIAL STAFI Editorial Editor ... Gene Shank Ed. Assistants: Elizabeth Wohigenuth JOHN HERRINGTON BUSINESS STAFF Business Mgr . Audrey Holmes Advertising Mgr . Martha Chambers Nat. Adv. Mgr . Leonard Jurden Clr. Mgr . Georgia Wallace Classified Mgr . James Cazier Business Adviser . George Bratton "I must admit that your idea is original, Sam. But I'm still going to flunk you in my class." New Ways of Using Clay Being Discovered in Lab The use of a Kansas mineral resource in a Kansas industry is commonly a follow-up of research carried on by the State Geological survey at the University, but perhaps in no Kansas industrial field are the results of this research more direct than in that of ceramics. The program of the ceramics division, directed by Norman Plummer the past 20 years, is locating, analyzing, and testing clays and ceramic materials and discovering new uses for them-in full perspective of industrial utilization, needs and trends. Clay and shale samples from almost every county have been tested in the kilns of the Geological survey's ceramics laboratory. A file of about 4,000 samples of ceramic raw materials together with source and use information is maintained for ready reference. Reports on Kansas clays and shales steadily are being published in the interests of Kansas industry and the public. In the past decade research of the Geological survey has resulted in the establishment of several new ceramics industries and in the expansion of others. The most recent of these is the plant of the Kansas Brick and Tile company, just south of Hoisington, now in partial operation. Besides testing clays for this plant to use in the manufacture of a light-face brick, the survey ceramists gave advice on plant operation. The Great Bend Brick and Tile company's second plant, under construction just east of Kanopolis, will make brick from clays deemed suitable by research in the survey's clay testing laboratory. Cloud Ceramics, Concordia, which recently expanded about 25 percent, called on the Geological survey to help in locating of new clay deposits. The market area of some of the Kansas ceramics and allied industries is nation-wide and in a few instances world-wide. The demand for some of the newer Kansas clay products is increasing. For example, several years ago, survey research led to the establishment of lightweight aggregate plant near Ottawa. This product of Kansas shale is now sold throughout the country. In the past year many of the state's ceramics industries have received special services from this official clay testing laboratory. Among the major services were studies on the flashing of brick for eastern Kansas brick plants and making tests on the glazing of concrete blocks. In the allied field of glass and fiberglass making, Survey experimental studies on the extracting of feldspar and silica from common river sands are paying off. Feldspar from Kansas river sands is now being utilized regularly in the fiberglass industry in Kansas City, Kan. The ceramics division is an up-to-date clay-testing laboratory. Special equipment and such modern techniques as differential thermal analysis, electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction are being used to determine in minute detail the compositions and properties of various clays. The most recently published bulletin of the Geological survey is, for example, on the petrographic, ceramic and chemical properties of four clays from the central Kansas Dakota formation. Major research now under way concerns central Kansas fire clays, eastern Kansas Pennsylvania shales, and other studies aimed at finding out how characteristics and properties of certain clays affect their commercial value.