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FRANKLIN LECTURER—“Acids and Bases” will be the title of an address given today by Dr. Joel H. Hildebrand, sixth annual E. C. Franklin Memorial lecturer. Dr. Hildebrand is president-elect of the American Chemical society. (Story on page 1).
Elections Unit Members Feel Justified in Action
A student and a spokesman for the faculty gave their reasons for abstaining from voting yesterday when the All Student Council elections committee threw out the results of the Senate and House of Representatives elections along with the previously invalidated presidential and vice presidential results.
The election results and the invalidation action will be placed in the hands of the student court next Friday.
No date has been set for the second election pending the outcome of the court's action.
Fred Heath, college sophomore said, "I abstained from voting for a new election because I was not acquainted with enough concrete evidence to enable me to make a decision. Therefore, I felt I was unqualified to vote one way or the other."
Jack Heysinger, assistant professor of business, when asked the reason for the three faculty members abstaining, replied, "We ordinarily abstain from voting because we have the authority should run their own government."
He said that the faculty member could legitimately vote on the committee, but added that he couldn't remember an instance when the faculty members had ever exercised this power.
"If an election got completely ou-
tired, suppose the faculty men be-
tend to send it."
In yesterday's decision Ron Sammons, college senior, Jocelyn Daugherty, college sophomore, and Robert Pope, graduate student, voted to invalidate the Senate and House elections. Dana Anderson, college junior, and Farrell Schell, engineering senior, voted against the action
Heath, although he abstained on the House and Senate question, said he voted in favor of a new election for the president and vice president. The results of the ASC presidential and vice presidential voting was invalidated by the elections committee Wednesday morning.
Heath said that "since the margin between the two candidates was only six votes with 63 ballots remaining uncounted, some because they were invalid but others valid except for the technicality of not having the numbers clipped off, and since the election would have turned out one way without counting these and another by counting them, it was a question of whether the result of the count reflected the real choice of the students."
Gary Davis and Robert Bradstreet now are drawing up a formal petition for presentation to the court.
Seniors to Plan For Convocation
Final plans for a senior convocation to be held Wednesday will be made at a meeting of the chairmen of committees of the Class of '54 at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Pine room of the Student Union.
All seniors will be excused from class during the convocation by request of the Chancellor, said Nancy Canary, education senior and president of the class.
The convocation is set for 10 a.m. in Fraser theater.
Besides reports from committee chairmen, Miss Canary said, business to be handled at the convocation will include:
1. Deciding on a gift to be presented to the University.
2. Distribution of the Senior Reminder, a timetable and information booklet designed to clarify and list the activities of commencement week.
3. Discussing the class breakfast, a part of the yearly graduation festivities.
Twelve sororities are competing in the first annual Sigma Chi Derby day Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The races will take place on the tennis courts of the Sigma Chi house.
First 'Derby Day' To Be Tomorrow
4. Planning Senior day.
Two major problems facing Iran today are a strongly developing Communist party and the need to make an oil settlement pay enough to balance the budget dencit and support an economic-social program. Edward A. Bayne, American Universities Field Staff specialist, said in a group interview yesterday. Negotiations began two weeks ago in Iran to attempt to reach an oil settlement, but the Communist party has continued to grow.
Reds, Oil-Iran's Problems
The women will test their skill in the pony express relay, ping-pong ball throw, grapefruit relay, sack race, one legged race, three-legged race, candle race, egg in spoon relay, leap frog race, and backwards race.
Trophies will be awarded to the sorority and the individual with the highest score. All winners will receive citations.
Dan Dibble, business senior, is in charge of the Derby day committee. Other members of the committee are: Dave Cleveland, college sophomore, John Brown, college junior, and Steve Schmit, college freshman.
Mr. Bayne cited three considerations which will be of importance in the re-establishing of Iranian oil production. The price and amount of oil to be marketed, the problem of investment, and the degree of compensation to be paid to the Iranian government are of prime importance, to the settlement. The Middle East has 55 per cent of the world's oil reserves, he added, and of these Iran holds 20-25 per cent.
An interesting contrast in oil production between the U.S. and Iran was cited by Mr. Bayne. He quoted the 17% million ton production from 27,000 wells in the East Texas field as opposed to 30 million tons produced in 23 Iranian wells in one year.
The Communist Tudeh party has grown steadily in Iran, Mr. Bayne noted. Iran has the longest Russian border of any country in the Free World, but there is "no great love between any Iranian and Russia," he added.
the country "may easily be maneuvered by Communism if there is no counterforce."
"Tran represents a basis for instability." Mr. Bayne said. A very primitive country where 75-85 per cent of the people cannot read or write, it is an "easy target for mobs and propaganda." Seventy per cent of the population are found in isolated villages, and in the urban areas only 25 per cent of the people are productively employed," he said, illustrating his statement that
Mr. Bayne described Iran as a country which had known 5,000 years of greatness and had several times ruled the world, yet "had retained its ethic purity and historical sovereignty." With such a background, the country naturally "presented being squeezed between Russia and the British. The impairing of their sovereignty caused resentment in the people," he explained.
The policy of the United States in Iran has been one of general moral support, and there were two purposes for the Point Four aid given to the country, Mr Bayne explained. An immediate direct impression of the U. S. as a friendly country was accomplished by medical aid and improvement programs. A need also existed for a "voice of the West" in Iran, and the American policy was aimed at a device to obtain an effective spokesman for the Free World.
To the many Iranians, a foreigner is still called "Rum," a term dating back to the ancient visits from Romans, Mr. Bayne said. Although the people are grateful for aid, he reasoned, they cannot feel the gratitude or mutual relationship of an educated people. As realists, "they do not want the U. S. per se," but they are interested in the industrial processes which could aid their production.
The basic economy is built on scarcities. He said he felt that Iranians must adapt their philosophy in order to improve their conditions. "Time and the greater exchange of ideas," he predicted, "will accomplish this progress."
The new Shah is very progressive and has done a great deal for the country. Mr. Bayne informed the
students. He described the ruler as "a well-educated, gentle fellow, unlike his father." Since he became King in 1942, the Shah, who is very fond of hunting, has made great improvements in the primitive villages which he has passed, Mr. Bayne said.
Although he cannot be an executive officer himself, the Shah can urge the government toward constructive policies. The government, he said, is "strong so long as the army is obedient to it." He predicted that the present cabinet will not live long after it makes an oil agreement, if it does so.
FilmTonightOpens CervantesDayFete
A Spanish film, "Fuente Ovejuna," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today in Lindley auditorium in connection with the Cervantes day celebration tomorrow. The film is open to the public without charge.
The festivities tomorrow will include a Cervantes day luncheon for 300 participants in the celebration, a variety show presented by students from visiting colleges and high schools, an all-day display of Spanish literature and teaching aids in 111 and 113 Strong.
The Kansas chapter of the American association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese will meet at 10:15 a.m., with delegates from various schools in the state attending.
A tea for all Cervantes day participants will close the program.
A total of 55,700,000 turkeys were raised in the United States in 1953. Synthetic soil conditioners have been found to combat "problem soil" in the garden that's tight and heavy.