Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 131
Friday, April 23, 1954
World Understanding Our Goal, Ike Says
New York—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower said last night that America must take the lead in developing the genuine understanding among the peoples of the world that will lead to an enduring peace.
"Nowhere on this planet today is there an impregnable fortress, a continent or island so distant that it can ignore all the outer world," he said. "If this is not to be the age of atomic hysteria and horror, we must make it the age of international understanding and coopera- peace.
"Even the most rabid Marxist, the most ruthless worshipper of force, will in moments of sanity admit that. International understanding, however, like domestic unity, depends—in large part—on the free, full flow of information and its balanced presentation."
This also applies, he said, to magazines, radio, television, and the newsreels.
The President spoke at the concluding event of the 68th annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers association — the annual dinner of the ANPA Bureau of Advertising. He called on the newspaper publishers to provide the framework of world understanding and of domestic strength by giving all the facts in balance and in their truthful perspective.
"The malignant germs of misunderstanding and misinformation are at work in the minds of men 24 hours of every day," Mr. Eisenhower said. "To combat them challenges the study and the effort of any individual who occupies any position of influence on public opinion."
Mr. Eisenhower "began his address by recalling that he addressed the same group eight years ago when Americans were feeling a repulsion for war that could have destroyed the country's military strength. Fortunately, he said, the newspapers did not permit the country to forget the "ever-present reality of aggressive threat."
Law Faculty Picks Finalists
Four girls were chosen this morning in Green auditorium to compete for the title of Law queen.
The finalists were Joane Manney fine arts sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta; Barbara Bowdish, business senior, Alpha Chi Omega; Beverly Taney, fine arts sophomore, Alpha Phi, and Barbara Curtis, college junior, Delta Delta Delta.
The girls were judged on poise, hair style, stage presence, figure and personality. Three faculty members of the School of Law were judges. The queen will be announced at the annual law banquet tonight in the Student Union ballroom.
Owl Society Elects 18 New Members
Election of 18 members to the Owl society, honor group for junior men, was announced today.
The new Owls, all of whom will be juniors next year, are Henry William Buck Jr., Robert Conn, Dwight Allen Frame, John Hawkinson, Fred Heath, David Hill, Walter Joseph Muller, John Grant Napier, Perry Lee Rashleigh, George Remsberg, and John Simpson, college; Robert Crisler, Walter Scott Hayden, and Jack Rogers, education; William Brainard, Jeremy Alyn Matchett, and Richard Rees Reynolds, pharmacy, and Samuel Van Meter Jr., fine arts.
The Spring issue of the Jayhawker will be distributed Monday in the information booth and the Jayhawker office in the Union. Students may purchase the four-issue book for $5.75.
McCarthy Attempt To Aid Schine Told
Next Jayhawker Out Monday
6th Memorial Chemical Talk Set at 4 Today
Dr. Hildebrand's teaching technique developed a new type of general science course. Rather than performing laboratory experiments for nothing more than to prove the statements in textbooks, his students used experiments as a means of explaining and understanding these statements.
The Franklin lectures are in honor of the late E. C. Franklin, former professor of chemistry at the University. The event is sponsored by the local chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemistry society.
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Dr. Joe H. Hildebrand, president-elect of the American Chemical society and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of California, will deliver the sixth annual E. C. Franklin Memorial lecture at 4 p.m. today in 305 Bailey hall.
Dr. Hildebrand's subject will be "Acids and Bases." He will approach the topic from the standpoint of one acquainted with recent advances in his field.
Washington—(U.P.) Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens said today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy asked him to get an officer's commission for G. David Schine several weeks after the Army had turned down Schine as unqualified.
--class this morning.
P art l y cloudy skies will prevail in the northeast portion of t he state this afternoon with the temperature expected to climb to about 70 de-
Groups Must Sign For Fall Activities
All groups planning activities during orientation week next fall. Sept. 8-16, are asked to register activities in the dean of men's office before Thursday.
Girls to Model Own Fashions
Seventy-six girls from 17 schools will model dresses which they have made themselves in a fashion show presented as a feature attraction for Home Economics High school day, which will be held here tomorrow.
The commentator for the show,
"Fashions from Hollywood Presented
by Johnny Jayhawk," is Diane Worthington, college freshman; master of ceremonies is Bill Crews,
business senior and Johnny Jayhawk is Jack Buchanek, college junior.
The student members of the planning committee for the fashion show include Opal Smith, college junior; Shirley Tawney, college freshman; Ruth Miller, college freshman; Patsy Dlabal, college sophomore; and Shirley Hunsinger, college senior.
KuKu's Paddled, Sprayed in Initiation
—Kansan photo by Jim Baird
DOWN. BOY—Courtney Sloan (with paddle) uses pan of water to quell a KuKu pledge "revolt" on the porch of the Pi Beta Phi sorority house as an unrehearsed portion of the pep club's initiation.
By MARY BESS STEPHENS
Paddle boards hitting on pillow-stuffed back ends made a terrific "wham," KuKu club pledges found last night at their initiation.
KuKu actives, after paddling the pledges a few times for good luck, lined up the pledges and marched them down to Miller hall, where the pledge class speed was tested in a relay race down Lilac Lane. The last-place finisher was rewarded with a little more paddling. The pledges ran in place with knees held high, and then straddle-jumped, both to the chant of "I Want to Be a KuKu," and "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk."
"Blindfolds were put over the pledges' eyes, and a meal of unknown properties was eaten—some pills, sawdust with a "kinda bitter taste," to quote a dismayed pledge, made up the fare. The boys also got a little lubrication, possibly because they were a little rusty in the races. Fish oil made the pledges scented, if not pretty.
About this time, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy drove by and said "good evening" to the boys.
In single file, the boys, still blindfolded, were taken down the hill to the Kappa Alpha Theta house, where they were given a wet welcome, via the garden hose.
Then, still in single file, the boys duckwalked to the Alpha Chi Omega house, where again they were sprayed.
At the Pi Beta Phi house, the water hose act went into reverse—the pledges took over, and sparing the girls, gave the actives a shower bath.
Secretary said the request was made Sept. 16, 1953, in the New York hotel apartment of Schine's wealthy parents.
Secretary Stevens, under questioning in the second day of hearings on the McCarthy-Army dispute, said he went to the Schine apartment in the Waldorf Astoria towers to discuss with Sen. McCarthy the Senator's plans to investigate alleged Communist infiltration of the Army in the New York area.
Secretary Stevens said Schine was present and that he also met his mother. Mrs. J. Myer Schine.
( "I told him I didn't think it possible, especially for a young man of draft age," Secretary Stevens testified.
He also said that he "remembered very clearly" that Sen. McCarthy asked him at the hotel why he couldn't make use of Schine's "special qualifications" as a special assistant to himself or a special assistant in the Army's G-2 Intelligence division.
Secretary Seteven's testimony on the incident was developed under questioning of Ray H. Jenkins, special counsel for the Senate Permanent Investigating subcommittee which is conducting the hearings.
Schine at that time was an unpaid consultant to the McCarthy committee, and was about to be drafted. He had been brought to that post by his close friend, Roy M. Cohn, Sen. McCarthy's counsel.
Secretary Stevens said he knew at the time that the Army already had turned a commission for Schine. The investigators received considerable testimony yesterday about efforts by Sen. McCarthy and Cohn to get a commission for Schine.
Schine, son of the wealthy hotel and theater family, later was drafted and has been on duty at Camp Gordon. Ga. He is a private.
Secretary Stevens said when Sen McCarthy brought up the commission question directly with him at the New York meeting. "I moved away from the subject as rapidly as I could."
He said he knew Sen. McCarthy and Cohn earlier enlisted the aid of Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith and Maj. Gen. Miles W. Reber, Army liaison officer with Congress, in futile efforts to have Schine commissioned.
Secretary Stevens said he first met Sen. McCarthy last September 8, four days after he learned of the senator's intention to investigate the Army. He read about it in a newspaper in Montana, where he was spending a Labor day holiday.
He said he contacted Sen. McCarthy immediately on returning to Washington and met him in Sen. McCarthy's office the next day.
Mr. Jenkins later asked if Stevens' recollection was clear or hazy" with Stevens (1983) quoting commission for Schine at the Sept 16 meeting in New York,
Weather
A light drizzle, which ended before noon, accompanied students to
grees. Tomorrow also will be cloudy with occasional showers in the east and central portions.