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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 31
Wednesday, Oet. 27, 1954
Plot Foiled- 'Putty Tat' Stays Home
CAST YOUR BALLOT—Voting in the freshman primary election for class officers and for ASC representatives are Charles Ferguson, college freshman; Rex Owen, and Ronald Hardten, engineering freshmen. Jo Ann Overman, college sophomore, is helping with the elections.
Cooperative efforts of the Manhattan police and Kansas highway patrolmen, thwarted a Wildcat abduction early this morning. The Kansas State mascot was twice on its way to Lawrence, but was recovered both times.
A group of Kansas fans managed to remove the animal from its cage last night, box it, and start out of town. In their haste to leave the scene, they ran a Manhattan stop sign. This resulted in the first recovery of the cat.
A patrol car stopped the ad-ductors and one of the patrolmen started to write a traffic ticket when he noticed the cat in the car.
"My god, they've got the wild-cat," he said.
The group was booked at the Manhattan police station about 1:15 this morning. There, they met five other carloads of University students who had just been arrested for putting up "Wreck Silo Tech" signs and staging Kansas pep rallies. The whole group went outside to see the animal.
Then came the escape. The police went back inside the station, and for a few minutes, the prisoners and wildcat were left unguarded. The catnappers got back into their car and started for Lawrence again.
Noticing the loss, the Manhattan police gave chase, and notified the Kansas highway patrol, requesting that road blocks be set up. The cat was recovered the second time at Wamego and returned to Man-
The students with the wildcat were released at Wamego. The others were held at Manhattan until about 3:30 a.m.
KU Graduate to Be At Beloit Inaugural
Mrs. George Luhman, Oconomowoc, Wis., will represent the University at the inauguration Friday of Dr. Miller Upton as president of Beloit college, Beloit, Wis.
Mrs. Luhman is the former Miss Amarynthia Jenkins Smith, a member of the class of 1914. She received an M.S. degree from KU in 1918.
Dr. Upton's immediate predecessor as head of Beloit college is Dr. Carey Croneis, an alumnus and former faculty member at KU.
Ike to Make Air Tour Friday
Washington — (U.P.) President Eisenhower said today at a White House news conference that he hopes to make a flying tour of about four cities Friday in an effort to stir the voters out of what he called apathy and stimulate a large turnout at the polls for the Nov. 2 elections.
He said Friday of this week would be the only day he could get away before the elections. He said he expects to make a definite decision about the trip within a few hours.
The President will not fly in a government plane, but use a chartered commercial craft. He will make a maximum of four stops which he did not identify. He will appear only at airports.
Asked whether he thought this apathy stemmed from voter-"disenchantment" with the administration program, the President with obvious displeasure shot back at his questioner what did the reporter expect him to answer?
KuKu's Sell 12,000 Cards For 'Brigade'
About 12,000 post cards, far short of the goal of 60,000, were sold by the KuKu's in the Kansas—Kansas-State game post card brigade.
The winning house, to be determined by the number of cards sold per person, has not yet been determined. The winning house will be awarded a trophy.
"We were short of our goal, but we were pleased to sell as many as 12,000." Paul Culp, manager of the campaign, said. "I think they will do the job."
The first card was bought by Ted Cox, campus policeman, who wrote this slogan: "Orange blossoms or Agrews? Guess which, K-State?"
Weather
Kansas will be partly cloudy tonight with freezing temperatures in the northeast. Increasing cloudiness with rising temperatures in the west and north is forecast for tomorrow. The low tonight will be from 25 to 35 in the north and in the 50s in the south.
—Kansan photo by George Gribble
UN DEBATORS—Debating the issue of the United Nations last night were Ed Abels, Lawrence publisher, and Dr. Robert Sternfeld, assistant professor of philosophy, in the center of the picture. Jim Johnston, CCUN president, left, and Nino Lo Bello, CCUN faculty adviser, right, presided at the meeting.
"She turned fragments of living into impressions," Professor Geoffrey Moore said last night describing the secret of Virginia Woolf's writing. He also discussed the Bloomsbury group.
Moore Describes Woolf's Style
The Bloomsbury group, made up of the off-spring of Sir Leslie Stephen, English author and critic, and the children's friends was a literary group which had a great influence on English literature. Virginia Woolf was a daughter of Sir Leslie.
Mr. Moore said that the outstanding aspects of the Bloomsbury people were their absolute candor, their intellectuality, their aesthetic sense, their sensitivity, and their love for beauty. They were also characterized by their conversationality.
Mr. Moore said that the methods used by the group for judging good in something was to submit to it, then reason out the feelings caused by the submission, and then use knowledge to finish the judgment.
In telling of Virginia Woolf's work, Mr. Moore showed how her first novel, "The Voyage Out." followed the traditional pattern for novels and then told how her following books began to reveal the true Virginia Woolf.
Voting Light In Freshman Primary Election
Voting in the freshman elections for class officers and party primaries for ASC positions was light today at 11 a.m. At that time a total of 197 votes had been cast for class officers and POGO led AGI by a margin of 26 votes with the total vote for both parties standing at 164
Polling booths are located on the north side of the main lobby of the Student Union, in Strong hall rotunda, on the main floor of Fraser hall, the main floor of Marvin hall, and the main floor of Lindley hall.
Law Homecoming To Be Tomorrow
The polling booths at the five locations will be open today until 6 p.m. Voters must present ID cards to vote for freshman class officers, and party cards to vote in the party primaries for freshman representatives to the ASC.
The School of Law's annual homecoming football game will be played at 4 p.m. tomorrow on the Intramural field. The Jim Beam team, sponsored by the Law School will play the 69'ers, an independent intramural team.
Women's houses are submitting candidates and a queen will be named at the half.
The game will feature a band and cheerleaders.
The Jim Beam team is going into the game undefeated.
Mather Will Not Present Trophy
Coach Chuck Mather, in a printed statement, yesterday denied that he is to present the trophy to the winning house, as previously reported. The statement:
"I am taken aback that I am associated with such a project. I was asked by an officer of the KuKu's if I would present a trophy to a group selling the most postcards in a campaign. This is all I knew about it.
"I can see no point in this project. I don't see how, in any way, it is going to help us win a football game. I am sure that the KukuKu meant to be helpful in their project."
U.S. Sovereignty Hurt, Russia StoppedbyUN,DebatersSay
"I am deeply concerned about the threat to our sovereignty as a nation since we have become one of the 60 nations in the UN," Ed Abels, editor of the Lawrence Outlook, said last night at a debate sponsored by the KU Collegiate Council for the United Nations.
Speaking for the UN, Robert Sternfeld, a member of the Douglas county UNESCO and assistant professor of philosophy, said Russia hasn't made gains through the United Nations.
"I think it is an insult to our people to think that they will be persuaded by Russian propaganda," he said.
Prof. Sternfield said that the UN did not draw the U.S. into the Korean war, because the U. S. requested action when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel. The UN has no power to order soldiers of any country to war, he added.
Speaking against the 69-nation organization, Mr. Abels said that the
UN has issued a paper entitled "Report on Standards of Conduct in the International Service" that requires employees to subordinate loyalty to their own countries to loyalty to the United Nations.
"Too many people think more of the UN than the U.S. The UN was sold to us on the theory that it would be a place where disputes between nations could be settled without war. The UN did not bring peace after World War II and eventually American history. The U.S. probably would not have entered the Korean war if it had not been a member of the UN." Mr. Abels said.
Answering the accusation that the UN is useless, Prof. Sternfeld said that its usefulness is the function of being used. He said the UN has never pretended to be an answer to all the problems of the world.
"The success of the UN will be measured in terms of keeping out of war, but we must consider the positive activities which the UN has fostered," the professor said.