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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
51st Year, No. 130
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, April 22,1954
ASC Throws Out Balloting In Senate, House Elections
300 to Pay Homage In 30th Cervantes Day
The 30th annual celebration of Cervantes Day will be observed Saturday by the department of Spanish, acting as host to about 300 teachers and students of Spanish from other colleges and high schools.
The celebration honors, Spain's Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, who died on April 23, 1616. The celebration at the University was originated by Jose M Osma, professor of Spanish, in 1923.
The Kansas chapter of the American association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese will hold its annual meeting at 10:15 a.m. in Strong auditorium, with Dr. Anita Martin as the principal speaker. Dr. Martin, who was graduated from the University in 1927 and has spent 15 months in Spain, will lecture on "High Roads and By Roads of Research in Spain." The public is invited.
A Cervantes Day luncheon in the Student Union ballroom will follow the meeting. Prof. Domingo Ricart, assistant professor of Romance languages will give the welcome address, and Prof. Osma will be
toastmaster: Mr. and Mrs. A.V Ebersole will sing a group of Spanish songs.
A variety program presented by more than 100 visiting students of Spanish will be given at 2:30 p.m. in Strong auditorium. Forty grade school students from Pittsburg will present songs and playlets. Other schools participating include Concordia high school, Wyandotte high school, Kansas City, Kan. Junior college, Lawrence Junior High school, Winfield High school, Nortonville High school, Wichita university.
Pedagogical and scientific literature in Spanish and teaching aids will be displayed all day in 111 and 113 Strong, and the sound rooms in Strong annex F.
A tea for all Cervantes Day participants will close the program.
"ruente Ovejuna," a Spanish film depicting life during the era preceding that of Cervantes, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday in Lindley auditorium The film is open to the public without charge.
Lawyers Will Crown Queen Give Awards at Celebration
The crowning of a queen and presentation of awards at the banquet, and a picnic will highlight the annual celebration of Law School Day, tomorrow.
Student Hurt In Car Crash
Alfred Sim, special student in the School of Business, was injured near Columbia, Mo., last yesterday when he was pinned beneath a car driven by his brother, Willie, college sophomore.
The car skidded and overturned while the two were returning to Lawrence from St. Louis, where
Lawrence from St. they had taken a physical examination required by immigration service rules. Both students came to the United States after residence in Hong Kong.
Alfred suffered facial cuts and was reported in "fair" condition at the Boone county, Mo., hospital. Willie, who returned to Lawrence to take Alfred's wife back to Columbia, suffered only a few scratches.
suffered only a slight
The accident occurred when the
Sim car went out of control while
passing another automobile.
Kansas will have considerable cloudiness through Friday with thundershowers in the southeas
Weather
portion of t h e state this afternoon and over the west portion Friday. It will be cooler in the southeast portion this afternoon and over the west portion Friday.
The southeast will be cooler this afternoon and tonight and warmer in the west and north portions Friday. Lows tonight will be near 40 north to 40s south. The high Friday will be 65-70 southeast to 70 in the northeast.
At noon tomorrow, a picnic is planned at Prof. Charles Oldfather's country home. This will be attended by students of the law school, their families and dates, and faculty members and families. Following the picnic there will be an athletic event.
The queen will be chosen from among three finalists and the winner announced at the banquet. The queen's title will be Miss Res Ipsa Loolitzer, a Latin phrase meaning, "it speaks for itself." The judging is to be tomorrow morning.
Speaker for the banquet will be Chief Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Tex. Honor guests will be the Justices of the State Supreme Court and their wives and Kansas Federal Judges and their wives.
Judge Hutcheson was graduated from the University of Virginia and earned his LL.B, at the University of Texas. He has served as the Chief Legal Advisor to the City of Houston, Mayor of Houston, and U.S. District and Circuit Judge. Judge Hutcheson is a member of the Order of the Coif and has written many books on law.
The banquet is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom. Program for the banquet is the crowning of the queen and presentation of awards. These awards will be given for outstanding writing in the Law Review, high academic standing of membership in the Order of the Coif, the Moot Court awards, and the class of 1954 gift to the school. The Moot Court is a mock court scene in which the students take the part of all participants in a trial and conduct a trial. Entertainment is planned by the students.
At present, Judge Hutcheson is Chief Judge for the eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
General Asserts McCarthy Tried To Assist Schine
Washington — (U.P.)— Maj. Gen Miles W. Reber testified today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) tried repeatedly to get an Army commission for an aide, G. David Schine.
Gen. Reber, former liaison officer between the Army and Congress, was the first witness in the Senate Investigating subcommittee's public inquiry into a months-old feud between Sen. McCarthy and the Army.
Army.
The general testified that he went to work at once on Sen. McCarthy's request but that in the end Schine's application was rejected. Schine, then an unpaid consultant of the senate subcommittee, eventually was drafted.
The present hearing's opened before television cameras in a jammed Senate caucus room, are an investigation of Army charges that McCarthy and his subcommittee chief counsel, Roy M. Cohen, tried by "improper means" to get special treatment for Pvt. Schine. They also involve counter charges by Sen. McCarthy and Cohn that the Army used Schine as a "hostage" to "blackmail" them into calling off investigation of alleged Communist infiltration of the army.
Earlier two Democrats on the disputed Sen. McCarthy's charges that "cleverly laid" plans are being made to block the group's search for subversives.
"I don't know what he's talking about," Sen. John L. McClellan (Ark.) told newsmen. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (Wash.) said he knew of no pending efforts to change the subcommittee's rules.
Sen, McCarthy, in a speech at San Jacinto Monument, Tex., yesterday, said "The plan is to shift and change the rules of the committee under the guise of fair play and make it impossible for the committee to effectively operate."
An hour before the hearing's start the brightly lit caucus room had begun to fill up. Relatives of senators, their friends, and staff members got priority in obtaining seats.
Among those seeking seats were two airmen from Camp Kilmer, N.J., whose commanding general, Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker, allegedly was abused by Sen. McCarthy. They said they had their personal opinions but didn't think they should speak them.
Wilson Asks Court Review Voting, Committee's Power
The All Student Council elections committee last night threw out the results of the Senate and House of Representatives elections along with the previously invalidated presidential and vice presidential results.
The action occurred last night at a meeting of the elections committee with a 3-2 vote in favor of the action and four members of the committee abstaining from the voting.
But William Wilson, engineering senior, who had been in attendance at all post-election meetings of the committee, has asked for an appellate review of the decision to determine: 1. whether the election committee has the power to make such a move, and 2. whether the election had enough irregularities to warrant the action.
Wilson was president of the ASC in 1952-53 before resigning that post in February.
The election results and the invalidation action will be placed in the hands of the student court next week.
Wilson said he had no party affiliation, and that his appeal was based on the fact that he had seen no 'evidence presented to the committee other than an appeal to Chairman Dana Anderson. This appeal itself was never voted on by the committee; that is, no decision was reached as to whether or not these ballots are correctly voided.
"The student members of the elections committee were obviously biased. Also, I seriously question even the right of the committee to void this election," Wilson charged. Dana Anderson, head of the election committee, has appointed a subcommittee to handle the suit opposing Wilson. Members of the subcommittee are Jocelyn Dougherty, college sophomore, chairman; Ronald Sammons, college senior, and Anderson.
Last night's voting on the invalidate motion saw Sammons, Dougherty, and Robert Pope, graduate student, voting to invalidate the Senate and House elections, and Anderson and Farrel Schell, engineering senior, voting against the action.
A definite date has not been set for the re-election, pending the outcome of the court's action.
Fred Heath, college sophomore. and the three faculty members of the committee abstained from voting.
No Exit Has Excellent Cast
By GENE SHANK
"Hell is other people." Garcin said, and the audience shivered.
And when the curtain was drawn at the close of "No Exit," the horrified audience stopped shuddering long enough to applaud the thrilling performances of an excellent cast.
Three players—David Rosario as Garcin, JoAnna March as Inez, and Marjorie England as Estelle—gave three of the most convincing performances of the year, making the Jean-Paul Sarte play even more compelling and more vivid with their sensitive portrayals.
Bonnie Royer, director kept the already high-strung play in an atmosphere of intense emotion, presenting Sartre's hell as something far more terrifying than the usual fire and brimstone.
The three characters, who cannot and will never be able to live with one another, are thrown together in a drawing room with "no exit." The drawing room is Sarte's version of hell, where people are continually hurting each other. Life to Sarte is only what people themselves make of it, and even in a drawing room, they can make it as horrible and as agonizing as hell.
"The Happy Journey," a curtain-raiser to "No Exit," was a delightful bit of nothing that had very little to say, but said it well.
Engineering Junior To Head SUA Group
Ludwig Smith, engineering junior, was selected president of Student Union Activities by the SUA operating committee last night.
Other officers are Althea Rexroad, education junior, vice president; Rollin Peschka, college sophomore, treasurer; and Suzanne Schwantes, college sophomore, secretary.
SUA board members will be announced May 5 at the SUA honors and recognition dinner.
Honors Program Has Long History
Rv AMY DE YONG
The honors convocation held yesterday was the 31st annual announcement of outstanding students since the first such convocation on May 12, 1924.
At the first program, Chancellor E. H. Lindley said, "The recognition of leadership and intellectual attainment will, on convocation morning, bring to the platform of the gymnasium a considerable number of the students of the University."
An honor man, outstanding students, and new members of Sachem were named at that time, and the program since has been extended to include all of the honorary groups
which were noted yesterday. The ceremonies in which members of Mortar Board cap the newly-chosen students and members of Sachem place blankets around the newly-elected men are highlights of the program.
"The honor men," said Chancellor Lindley, were to be chosen for their "breadth of interest, scholarship, unselfish service, and outstanding achievements." The award has been given in the past to such students as Glenn Cunningham, class of '34, and Raymond Nichols, '27, now executive secretary of the University. Ronald Lee Wingington received the award in 1953. Mr. Nichols said the
program was one of the earliest of its kind.
Preceding Dr. Earl McGrath, president of Kansas City university, in the position of Honors convoitation speaker, have been representatives from Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Indiana, Minnesota, Chicago, and Denver universities.
A speaker from India, E. Stanley Jones, addressed the convocation in 1928. Will Durant, Henry J. Haskell of Kansas City, Chancellor Lindley, author Nora Wain, Judge Merrill Otis and editor Roy Roberts of Kansas City, and William Vogt, author and botanist are among the other speakers.