Monday, Nov. 8, 1954
University Daily Kansan
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MULE TRAIN—This gay varavan wound its way across the Sigma Chi's front yard Friday and Saturday to win first place for home-coming decorations in the fraternity division.
—Kansan photo by Bill Taggart
ANOTHER PRIZE WINNING DISPLAY—Jolliffe hall won first place in the independent men's division with the theme "Peck Those Cornhuskers Clean."
WE'RE BEHIND YOU—Delta Delta Delta sorority won first place with its house decoration in the sorority division with the theme that everyone was backing the team. A record of the Rock Chalk chant was played while people drove by looking at the decorations.
KU Debate Squad Wins Tournament
The junior varsity debate squad won the Kansas State Novice Debate tournament held Saturday in Manhattan.
Mahattan
the teams won 16 rounds and lost none to win first place in the tournament for inexperienced debaters ___
Total fair attendance in the United States topped 85,000,000 in 1953—equivalent to half the United States population.
Rayburn Promises DemocraticProbes
New York—(U.R.)—Rep. Sam Rayburn (D.-Tex.), who will become speaker of the house in January, said yesterday the Democrats will conduct "some investigations" but will try to cooperate with President Eisenhower.
Lishn. Rayburn said the investigations would include an inquiry into the "Nixon-Dixon-Yates" power contract.
The National Multiple Sclerosis society will receive 5 per cent of the Campus Chest funds. The disease first strikes persons between the ages of 20 and 40.
Education Is Threatenedby Lost Freedom
Chicago —(U.P.)— Henry Steele Commager, noted American historian says anti-intellectualism and fear of thought are threatening the United States' political system.
Commanger spoke yesterday at the opening of a three-day meeting of the national conference of the Adult Education association.
Education class
He urge that Americans' in order to assure their liberty, free them from fear and adopt an attitude toward intellectuals more in keeping with their respect for education.
"to should abandon that easy and shabby pose of anti-intellectualism that has become popular in our time," Mr. Commager said.
our time. Mr. Cohen,
"It is unbecoming in a people who have made a religion of education, whose whole political system rests upon the assumption of an enlightened electorate," he said.
Mr. Commager said he found a "terrifying, widespread intolerance of ideas, persons, and associations in this country as an outgrowth of the fear of thought.
He said the existence of freedom in any society depends on its regard for justice.
"A society which permits and does not repudiate injustice to individuals even to the weakest of them, is a society that has already lost its sense for the meaning of freedom and will soon lose freedom itself," Mr. Commager said.
Mr. Cormaghan said:
“A free society never yields to the seductive but perilous doctrine that the end justifies the means.”
Reginald
KELL
"The world's greatest clarinetist."—Life.
with assisting artists:
Melvin Ritter, violinist
Aaron Shapinsky, cellist
Joan Rowland, pianist
Strong Aud.. Today at 8p.m Tickets on sale at School of Fine Arts office Phone K.U.345
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Bohlen Toasts Soviet Official At Anniversary
Moscow  (U.P.) U.S. Ambassador Charles F. Bohlen offered a toast to Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov last night and described him as "the most experienced diplomat in this room."
"This room" was a reception hall in the great palace of the Kremlin where Soviet leaders and foreign diplomats, including Communist China's ambassador, had assembled on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
kov Dukhin paid tribute to Mr. Mobolotov after the Russian foreign secretary had suggested that Soviet and American diplomats strive for better relations between the two countries.
Mr. Bohlen also held a 40-minute conversation with Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov in their first meeting since the American diplomat came to Moscow. Mr. Bohlen recalled later he had met Mr. Malenkov during World War II.
countries.
"Mr. Molotov has spoken of functions of both Soviet and American diplomats in improving relations and friendship," Mr. Bohlen said, "I share that view fully. I drink to Mr. Molotov, who is the most experienced diplomat in this room and I drink to his next visit to Washington with this in view."
Ambassador Bohlen said later the toast was not to be construed as an invitation to Mr. Moiotov to go to Washington.
Soviet Premier Malenkov, who was the hit of the party, strolled with Mr. Molotov through huge rooms talking to foreign guests and Soviet artists, scientists, and members of the military and government services.
so he chatted with Dr. Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury, who had visited the Soviet Union on other occasions.
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