Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
wrence he As-
on, and
e Uni-
Daily hansan
College ttended
hours, even in room.
Tuesday, March 30, 1954
51st Year, No. 118
Carpenter Expresses Homeric Disbelief
"Did Homer write both the Iliad and the Odyssey or were there really two Homers?" Dr. Rhys Carpenter, chairman of the classical archaeology department at Bryn Mawr college, asked the English II and IV students yesterday.
He said that in th seventh and eighth centuries before Christ, Homer was not a proper name but a name for professional men who recite poetry.
"When the poems were written a matter of judgment," Dr. Carpenter said, 'but in my opinion the Iliad' was written a century before the 'Odyssey.'"
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Speaking in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union, Dr. Carpenter said that the "Hollywood conception of the archaeologist digging away in sun hat and shorts was not the literal truth, as the archeologist does very little digging and a great deal of supervising.
One of Dr. Carpenter's most outstanding "digs" was the uncovering of the ruins of Alexander's Hellenic mausole digging at Balkh, Afghanistan.
Dr. Carpenter will speak at 8 p.m. today in the fourth Humanities lecture of the year. He will speak on the topic "Spain Discovers Her Past."
Dr. Carpenter said the use of aerial photography has been a tremendous aid to archeology, as mounds in the terrain indicating possible burying grounds show up very clearly.
Pictures drawn on cave walls more than ten thousand years ago will be included among slides illustrating the lecture.
Murals of rock shelters in Eastern Spain, dating back to about 6000 B.C., will be shown. There is considerable evidence that they were done by men who were forced to migrate from the region in Africa which is now the Sahara desert, Dr. Carpenter said.
Dr. Carpenter has a valuable collection of slides resulting from a lifetime of research and exploration in the Mediterranean area.
Election Postponed Until Thursday
The primary elections, prior to the general elections held in the spring, which were to have been held Wednesday have been postponed until Thursday. Dana Anderson, college sophomore, and chairman of the election committee announced today.
Because of the unusual large number of candidates, the printers weren't able to finish the ballots in time for election to be held Wednesday.
--the next to last
d a y of March.
10 days i n t o
spring. The air
was sh a r p and
cold and tempera-
tures in m a n y
sections — especially the e a s t —
held under t h e
freezing m a r k.
State Weather-
man Tom Arnold
said there won't
Engineers to Show Unusual Plane
An Army reconnaissance plane, the L-13, will be one of the feature attractions of the aeronautical engineering exhibit in the 34th annual Engineering Exposition, April 16 and 17.
The airplane, unusual in design was developed for taking off and landing in areas too small for conventional aircraft. Exhibit visitors will be able to see and examine the special "lift" devices.
Among the other exhibits are cutaway constructions of several types of engines, including a piston engine and a turbine engine. Also on display will be two small wind tunnels.
North Costs Man $270
Topeka —(U.P.) It cost James B. Moore $270 to take a bath. While he was in the process that amount of money was taken from his shirt pocket in a rooming house here, he told police.
Soil Conference Set for Friday
The use and problems of soil as an engineering material will be examined in the fourth annual Soil Mechanics Foundation Engineering conference Friday.
About 100 persons are expected to attend the conference, sponsored by the department of civil engineering and University Extension.
T. DeWitt Carr, Dean of the School of Engineering, will open the session. D. D. Haines, associate professor in civil engineering, will present a paper on "Soil Pressures Beeneh Footings of Various Sizes and Shapes."
Other papers to be presented at the conference are "Chemical Soil Solidification," C. Martin Riedel, Chemical Soil Solidification Co., Chicago; "Earth Pressures and Stability of Retaining Walls," W. C. Huntington, head of the civil engineering department, University of Illinois, and "Some Fundamentals of Flexible Pavement Design."[1]
The conference is for all persons interested in furthering their knowledge in the fields of soil mechanics and foundations. Time for discussion and presentation of personal problems has been allotted.
Quill Club Awards Given
Don Tice, journalism senior, and Joan Stockmyer, college junior, won first place in the Quill club prose and poetry contests, respectively.
Diane Gard, education senior, took second in prose, and Francis Moon, education junior, was second in poetry. Jack Pickering, college senior, was awarded third place in poetry. No third place prose award was made.
Trend magazine, the club's publication, will be issued in about three weeks and will contain the winning selections.
Winners won Quill club memberships and cash prizes.
Weather
H-Bomb Tests Will Continue. AEC Head Says
Kansas weather today resembled the tail-end of January instead of
COLD
Washington - (U.P.) A new H-bomb explosion served notice on the world today that the U.S. is going ahead with its awesome thermonuclear tests in spite of sharp criticism in Europe and the Far East.
be much change until late tomorrow, when a warming trend will set in gradually. There may be more rain or snow in the west tonight, with a likelihood it will spread to the east tomorrow.
In a terse announcement late yesterday, the Atomic Energy commission said the second in the current series of hydrogen tests was "successfully carried out" last Friday.
It was the third thermonuclear explosion in U.S. history. It came just 26 days after a titanic H-bomb blast sent radioactive dust down on 379 persons in the Pacific and touched off demands in some countries that the tests be stopped.
But he made it plain the tests will not be halted.
Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, just back from the Pacific proving grounds, revealed in the AEC announcement that planes "carefully searched" the Bikinii-Eniwitok area to make sure there would be no accidental victims of radiation Friday.
"Information highly important to teams," he said, from this test series," he said.
Congressional sources indicated today that a third test in the current series has been scheduled. And some members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy committee already have approved the Pacific for the biggest blast of the series, expected the latter half of April, weather permitting.
Color Prints Now on Display
An exhibition of color prints by Eugene Larkin, professor at Kansas State Teachers college in Pittsburg, are on display today through Friday in the architectural library on the third floor of Marvin hall.
The March 1 test was not of an H-bomb in the sense of a weapon easily delivered by plane. It was too big for that. But at least one shot in the series—possibly the one that took place Friday—was supposed to involve a deliverable H-bomb, Congressional sources said.
Ike Asks Congress For Liberal Trade
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower asked Congress today for a liberalized trade program to improve "our domestic employment, our standard of living, our security, and the solidarity of the free world."
Snow Storm Causes Death Of 21 Persons
Twenty-one persons were dead today as a result of a spring storm that piled a blanket of snow up to 16 inches deep over a wide band of territory from Wyoming to Maine, Sunday and yesterday.
The storm began in the Midwest plains states Sunday and moved eastward yesterday, but it was diminishing today. Early today the heavy snow had stopped and the cold front was spewing frozen rain, sleet and showers over much of the East.
In many areas of the Midwest, light powder snow dusted the deep wet wet blanket left by the storm.
The snowstorm left 16 inches of new snow and four persons dead in Rochester, N. Y. Six persons died at Bufalo, N. P., when that city was buried under 13 inches of snow. Most of the deaths were caused by over-exertion in fighting the storm.
At Detroit, in the heart of the storm area, one man slipped on an icy walk and died of a fractured bone. The attack after, showling the wet snow.
Three persons were killed in auto accidents on icy Iowa highways, and one woman died in a similar accident in Indiana. Highway injuries were numerous throughout the Midwest.
Five persons died of over-exertion at Toledo, Ohio, while pushing stalled cars or walking in the snow after the storm unloaded about eight inches of snow on the city.
PAUL BADURA-SKODA
In a 4500-word message on foreign trade policy, Mr. Eisenhower called for a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade program and power to cut tariffs five per cent each year for three years.
He promised to end giveaway economic aid for other nations "as soon as possible consistent with our national interest," substituting loans.
Paul Badura-Skoda, a youthful, Vienna-born pianist who made his American debut only two years ago, will present a concert at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch auditorium.
He suggested a "greater exchange of peaceful goods between East and West. so far as it can be achieved without jeopardizing national security." But he would not ease the curbs on strategic trade nor the total embargo on U.S. shipments to Red China and North Korea.
The national interest, the President said, demands "the highest possible level of trade and most efficient use of capital and resources."
If the United States fails in its trade policy, "we may fail in all," he warned.
"That this would also strengthen our military allies adds urgency," his strength is of critical importance to the security of our country."
"Our domestic employment, our standard of living, our security, and the solidarity of the free world—all are involved," he said. "For our own economic growth we must have continuously expanding world markets; for our security we require that our allies become economically strong."
Mr. Eisenhower outlined four main objectives: trade expansion, curtailment of foreign aid, encouragement of private U.S. investment aboard and support of steps to make it possible for foreign currencies to be changed into dollars freely.
Still in his twenties, Mr. Badura-Skoda has been a student of the piano since the age of six. He entered the Vienna College of Music in 1945, and won first prize in the Austrian music competition of 1947.
Badura-Skoda Concert Set
But he faced a tough fight to get his program through Congress. Opponents of controversial features, such as more tariff cuts, include powerful Republican congressmen.
An offering of the University concert series, the program will be held at the University
Beginning his concert career a year later, Mr. Badura-Skoda performed widely in both Europe and Australia before coming to the U.S. in 1952. He has appeared with the symphony orchestras of New York, Boston, Detroit, and Cincinnati, and has performed in solo recitals in numerous cities in Canada and the U.S.
Mr. Badura-Skoda's program will include a sonata by Beethoven, an etude of Chopin, and selections by Brahms, Bach, and Brendel. The young artist's previous performances have gained him the unusually enthusiastic plaudits of many American music critics.
Seen Your Adviser Yet?
Freshmen and sophomores are expected to see their advisers for midseminer counseling today through Friday. Students' names and their advisers' names and office hours are posted on the bulletin board opposite the college office, 229 Strong.