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Daily hansan
Thursday, February 17, 1955
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
52nd Year, No.90
-Kansan photo by Larry Tretbar
House May Get Statehood Vote
Washington—(U.P.)—Key statehood supporters expressed cautious optimism today about getting the Tandem Hawaii-Alaska statehood bill to a House vote.
This hope was based on indications that Speaker Sam Rayburn (D.-Texas) may not order the bill locked in the rules committee, although he still finds it personally objectionable.
Chairman Clair Engle (D.-Calif.) said "the prospects are good" that the rules committee will consent to its going to the floor.
The interior committee went a big step toward overcoming presidential objections to the Alaska title of the combined bill which it approved by a 19-6 vote.
The rules committee, a sort of traffic control station, determines when major bills shall go to the floor. Its chairman is regarded as usually taking his orders from the sneaker.
The committee adopted a last-minute amendment by Mr. Bartlett that would permit the President to detach up to 40 per cent of the territory as federal military property before ratifying its admission as a state.
The Bartlett provision was a modification of a twice-de defeated amendment proposed by the ranking committee Republican, Rep. A. L. Miller (R.-Neb.), and represented as having White House stanction.
Program Listed For Indian Day
"Indian Day" will begin at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union. The program will be sponsored by the Indian Students club.
There will be an exhibit of Indian art from 3 to 7.30 p.m. At 7.30 p.m. Dr. Gardner Murphy, clinical associate in psychology, will speak on "Long Range Relations Between India and the U.S."
An Indian costume show will be held at 8 p.m. and folk songs with background commentary at 8:15 p.m.
Two movies, "Caves of India," and "Melody of India," will be shown at 8:45 p.m.
DEDICATION OF ROOM—Dr. Marston M. McCluggage, acting chairman of the department of sociology and anthropology; Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy; James A. Schellenberg, president of the Sociology club, at the dedication ceremonies of the Eldridge Memorial Kansas photo by Larry Tretbairn
room yesterday.
AWS Ballots Ready For Senate Election
Patricia A. Pierson and Dorothy A. Sheets, education juniors, will be presidential candidates for the AWS Senate on the general election ballot Thursday, Feb. 24.
The candidates were selected by Senate members last night after a tea for the petitioners in the English room of the Union.
The other candidates are, for vice president, Carol A. Mather, education junior; Ona M. Finney, college sophomore, and Eleanor A. Hawkinson, college sophomore.
For secretary: Megan S. Lloyd, Joanne Beal, Carole J. Stucky, Eevlyn L. Hall, Mary Jane Eckles, Gayle A. Hoefener, Carolyn L. Bailey, and Susan N. Frederick, college freshmen.
Weather
For treasurer: Mary Jo Rousse, Sheila D. Dye, E. Joy Immer, and Constance E. Cloyes, college sophomores; Annette Luthy, education junior; Marjorie J. Pennington, fine arts junior, and Sandra J. James, college freshman.
Three University students recently entertained the patients of Winter Veteran's hospital in Topeka. Janice Mason, music education senior, Erleta Covalt, graduate student in music therapy, and David Edwards, college senior, donated their time and talents to the Lawrence Red Cross, who sponsored the show.
Rain tomorrow, followed by snow, will end the current spell of dry and mild weather in Kansas. Chilled air from Canada will bring lower temperatures for the week end. Kansas high readings Wednesday ranged from 36 at Olathe to 60 at Garden City.
For ASC Greek representative:
Joan Ryan, Jeri L. Sanders, Ann
L. Straub, and Barbara P. Anderson,
college sophomores; Edith D.
Jochims and Carol A. Bowman,
education juniors, and Joan M.
Sherar, college junior.
For ASC independent representative: Amy J. Kipp, college junior
Students Give Benefit Show
Doloris J. Alpert, college sophomore, and Margot E. Baker, journalism junior.
Wortham to Read T. S. Eliot's Poems
--it honors the late Dr. Seba Eldridge, who for more than 30 years was a member of the sociology faculty here before his death in 1952.
Dr. James Wortham, head of the English department, will read some of the early poems of T. S. Eliot at the poetry hour at 4 p.m. today in the Music room of the Student Union. He will read principally from Eliot's poem, "The Waste Land."
--it honors the late Dr. Seba Eldridge, who for more than 30 years was a member of the sociology faculty here before his death in 1952.
Murphy Dedicates Eldridge Room
"Universities, in the last analysis, exist only as the things they represent." Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said yesterday afternoon at the dedication ceremonies of the Seba Eldridge Memorial Room.
The room, formerly a classroom in one of the temporary classroom buildings behind Strong hall, has been refurnished as a study room and research laboratory for sociology students.
Middle East Expert To Arrive Monday
"A chemist deals in his work with the greatest possible accuracy, and the chemist's success has left the word science with an overlay of mandatory precision. I have never felt that this extreme concept of mathematical precision is possible or necessary for the social scientist," Chancellor Murphy said.
"Dr. Eldridge belonged to a generation in which the science of sociology was maturing." Dr. Murphy said. Dr. Marston McCluggage, acting chairman of the department of sociology, placed Dr. Eldridge "between the pioneering generation of sociologists and the present generation of exacting scientists."
Chancellor Murphy, giving the dedicatory address, said "Those who are exploring the problems of people are operating in a mature science."
"One falls into quite a terrible trap if one feels obliged to deal with human beings quite the way the chemist deals with atoms. Man is equal to more than the sum total of his parts and a social scientist's greatest contribution to the work is maintaining the kind of humanity that is not possible in the physical scientists." he said.
Dr. McCluggage said that Dr. Eldridge became a sociologist after he found farming and engineering lacking an adequate challenge. He pointed out that Dr. Eldridge wrote 12 books in his lifetime, "... much of his writing was directed toward improving the quality of citizenship in the United States through stimulating the individual in the processes of citizenship."
"Dr. Eldridge was incapable of hearing the word 'no' when he had a project which he thought should be carried through. He believed in learning through doing, and we hope this memorial room and research lab will project into the future. Dr. Eldridge's love of learning." Dr. McCluggage said.
A specialist on Middle East affairs, Richard H. Nolte of the American Universities Field staff, will visit the University for 10 days beginning Monday. He will lecture to students in seven different fields.
It will be Mr. Nolte's second visit to the campus. Since he participated in campus visits in 1952-53, he has studied at Oxford university and has revisited the Middle East to study the developments in that area.
Mr. Nolte was graduated from Yale university in 1942 with "exceptional distinction" in his major subject, modern European history. As an undergraduate he won the Andrew D. White prize and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1947, following a two-year military career, he received his master's degree in international relations from Yale.
Awarded a Rhodes scholarship, he
continued his studies at Oxford university (1947-50) in the faculty of Oriental studies. He studied Arabic and Turkish language, history, literature, and Moslem social and religious institutions. He received his degree with Class I honors. Since then he has been working on a doctorate degree at Oxford on "The Foundations of Administrative Law in Islam with Particular Attention to Modern Developments in Egypt."
As a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Mr. Nolte made field trips to the Middle East in 1948 and 1950, and lived in Lebanon and Egypt from the spring of 1951 to the fall of 1952.
Ballet Theater Set for Tonight
The ballet version of "A Street-
car Named Desire" will highlight
the Ballet Theatre presentation at
8:20 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium.
"Les Sylphides" the "Pas de Deux"
from "Don Quixote," and "Theme
and Variations" to music by Tchaikovsky complete the program.
Tickets may be purchased at the office of the School of Fine Arts and the Bell Music company. Admission will be free to students with ID cards.
Nora Kaye, outstanding American ballerina, rejoined her "home company," the Ballet Theater, after an absence of over three years. She will co-star with Igor Youskevitch and John Kriza in "A Streetcar Named Desire. Other dances include Ruth Ann Koesun, Eric Braun, Lupe Serrano, and Erik Bruhn.
When the Ballet Theater gave its first performance at New York's Center theater in 1940, Miss Kaye was a member of the corps de ballet. Two years later she starred at the premiere of Antony Tudor's "Filler of Fire" and ultimately became internationally known as an exponent of romantic and dramatic dance roles. She remained a member of the company for 10 uninterrupted years.
Leading soloists include Lillian Lenese, Scott Douglas, Barbara Loyd, Joe Sanders, Catherine Horn, Fernand Nault, Christine Mayer, and Enrique Martinez.
The dance company of 100 travels with its own symphony orchestra, under the musical direction of Joseph Levine.
Purdue Dean ToSpeakHere
Her topics will be "The Status of Our Status, or Housemothers as Others See Us," "Student Trends and Concerns," "The Freedom of Insecurity," and "Personal Needs in Personnel."
Dr. Doris Seward, assistant dean of women at Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind., will lead a House-mothers' Workshop here Feb. 22 to 25.
The workshop is being conducted by the offices of the dean of women, dean of men, and dean of students. It is an annual event and part of the monthly meeting schedule of the KU housemothers.
Miss Seward, who has been on the Purdue staff since 1952, and assistant dean since the following year, has been associated with the Purdue Housemothers Training school as coordinator and lecturer since 1949.
At KU she will be the principal speaker for the two-day event, planned for fraternity and sorority housemothers and head residents of scholarship and residence halls.
Miss Seward's visit here coincides with the "Dean for a Day" event, in which two University women students are elected to "trade places" with the dean and assistant dean of women. The girls will be hostesses for Miss Seward for one or two teas and luncheons.
Civil Engineers to Meet
The University Civil Engineers will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in room 305-B of the Student Union. Lt. Robert Denning of Forbes Air Force base will be the speaker.