Topeka, Ks.
Thursday, Feb. 25, 1954
—Kansan photo by Rozanne Atkins
THE BIG SWITCH—Martha Nienstedt, dean for the day, got down to business early today with a visit from Eddina Symons, college senior. Dean Martha Peterson, who was to attend Miss Nienstedt's classes, got off lucky because the student has no classes on Thursdays. Like the typical Jayhawker, Miss Peterson took off to the Union for coffee. With her are Colleen Engle, college sophomore, and Dick Backman, engineering junior.
engineering junior.
Martha Nienstedt, business junior, was announced the "Dean for a Day," and Letty Lemon, journalism junior, assistant dean, at the All Women Students picnic last night.
Miss Nienstedt Dean Assistant Miss Lemon
'Welcome' Fete For Coach Today
The new head football coach, Charles E. "Chuck" Mather, will be the honor guest at a "Welcome Chuck Mather" banquet in the Union ballroom at 6 p.m. today.
Mr. Mather, who replaced Coach Jules V. Sikes, will speak for the first time before students and faculty of the University. He will show a movie, of his previous teams entitled "Touchdown Town."
Welcoming Mr. Matner for the various departments of the University will be Laurence C. Woodruff, Dean of students; George B. Smith, Dean of the University and administrative assistant to the Chancellor; and Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, head basketball coach.
Weather
A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, director of athletics, will introduce Mr.Mather to the approximately 450 persons expected to attend.
The invocation will be given by Dr. John H. Patton, Presbyterian University pastor. Entertainment at the dinner will be musical skirts by Edwina Jones, education junior, and Miss Shirley Hughes, instructor of physical education.
The weatherman predicted fain and warmer weather for Kansas tomorrow w i t h
increasing south-
erly winds. Highs
t o d y will be
f r o m the 50s
north to near 60
s o u t h. The
weather will be
partly cloudy and
cooler a afternoon and tonight with rain or snow in the extreme northeast early this afternoon. Northerly winds near 35 miles per hour will diminish tonight, and most of the state will be a little cooler.
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The picnic was held in the Union ballroom. The classes presented skits, with Joan Leonhart, education junior, as mistress of ceremonies.
Guests at the picnic included the AWS speaker, Georgia Neese Clark Gray, former U.S. treasurer, and several girls from surrounding schools which do not have AWS organizations.
Miss Nienstedt and Miss Lemon have a full schedule of meetings today. They are scheduled to listen to committees, such as the All Student Council committee, which will visit them at 4 p.m. to see about abolishing closing hour.
In an interview this morning, Miss Nienstedt said, "I can see the dean is kept rather busy. I'm glad to see I have an hour off for lunch, anyway."
Also on the agenda is a visit to student hospital patients, a combined meeting of the AWS House and Senate, and the job of sending out invitations to the freshman open houses.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No.95
Stevens Seeks Ike Support
The upper 10 per cent of the senior class in each school and the top students or students in freshman, sophomore, and junior classes of the schools will be announced at the convocation.
Washington —(U.P.)—Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens sought a showdown with President Eisenhower today on whether he is to be "sacrificed" to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy "for the sake of future politics."
Students elected to honor societies will also be listed at that time. The honor man of the year, if one is chosen, will be announced.
Dr. Earl James McGrath, president of Kansas City university, will speak at the Honors convocation April 21 in Hoch auditorium, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today.
A high administration source revealed that Mr. Stevens feels the White House has failed to give him adequate backing in his angry feud with the Wisconsin Republican. However, Secretary Stevens "categorically denied" that he intends to resign or has asked for any public statement of support from President Eisenhower.
That meeting led to a "memorandum of agreement" in which the secretary reversed himself and lifted his ban against army officers testifying before Sen. McCarthy's investigating subcommittee on alleged Communist pentration of the service. It also canceled a showdown hearing with Mr. Stevens that was scheduled before television cameras today.
Dr. McGrath was U.S. commissioner of education from 1949 to 1953. He received his doctor's degree from the University of Chicago.
"It has been said I have capitulated to Sen. McCarthy," Mr. Stevens said last night. "I have not capitulated."
Mr. Stevens tried to reach high officials in the White House last night, it was learned, to arrange an appointment with the President. He was unsuccessful in contacting them, however, and planned to renew the effort today.
Things came to a head shortly before midnight when the secretary got "steaming mad" over reports that he surrendered to Sen. McCarthy yesterday in a secret "complete accord" meeting on their differences.
Head of KCU ToSpeak Here
Hope Would Ask Aid to Fight Dust
Garden City—(U.P.)—Rep. Clifford R. Hope, (R.-Kan.), chairman of the House Agriculture committee, said today that he would recommend appropriation of additional funds, if necessary, for soil conservation practices to combat dust storms.
Mrs. Gray Said:
Here to address the Southwest Agricultural conference last night, Rep. Hope said state committees could authorize county units to make conservation payments to farmers who plow their dust eroded land to halt blowing. Subsoil moisture, he said, is sufficient to prevent blowing of turned land.
Rep. Hope said, however, that state agriculture stabilization and conservation committees already had authority to channel conservation funds to the relief of wheat growers whose fields were devastated Friday by the worst storm in 15 years, a storm that swept an area of 80,000 square miles in five states.
However, in some localities funds may be insufficient for the project, Hope said. In that event, he will recommend a new appropriation.
"I'm studying the problem now," he said.
Rep. Houpe, whose home district here was hard hit by Friday's blow, yesterday received a delegation from seven southeastern Colorado counties. He was told that farmers in that area lacked funds for gasoline to run tractors and for labor to turn the soil.
Southeastern Colorado, he said, apparently was hit hardest in last week's storm, although damage was "very severe," in other localities, he said. He described the damage as "spotty."
He emphasized that speed is essential in combating wind erosion in the next six weeks, when seasonally strong winds can be expected. For that reason, a change by state and county committees in allocation of existing funds would be preferable to new appropriations.
"Politics should be looked upon as a must in every life" said Mrs. Gray. She added that while politics needn't be a career, nevertheless there is a need and a place for young people, and the so-called elder statesman is "just plain elder."
Dust blew again early today over western Kansas, reducing visibility here to about a mile, but winds died down around daybreak.
County farm agents attending the agricultural congress described fields transformed to a series of dust dunes by last week's storm and some reported that even virgin pasture was damaged, but there was no agreement on extent of the wheat loss.
Vote--Private Opinion Made Public
Mrs. Gray, the first AWS Day speaker, described the vote in the words of William Allen White, as "private opinion made public."
Business Movie to Be Shown
A movie on electronic accounting will be shown at 8 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Student Union. After the movie, W. W. Simmons, a representative of an IBM machine company in Kansas City, will speak and interview business students interested in a job. The meeting is sponsored by Sigma Delta Pi, honorary business fraternity.
"The obligation of good citizenship demands that we should vote in all elections. To vote is a debt we owe ourselves and our country," said Georgia Neese Clark Gray, former U.S. treasurer, in a speech at 4 p.m. yesterday in Fraser theater.
"The water control problem," said the former treasurer, "shows the need of a public interest in politics." Something should be done, something can be done, or future generations will suffer for our lethargy," she said.
Mrs. Gray was introduced to the audience of college women by Novima Lou Falletta, college senior, of the Associated Women Students.
Kansas university, said Mrs. Gray,
represents a community and every-one should take part in these
community activities, and then apply the knowledge gained from this
participation.
"I am proud of the Midwest." Mrs Gray, a native Kansan, said. "It is more than the nation's breadbasket, it is an expression of independent thought, and so long as it remains thus, we will grow, and so will the nation."
Mrs. Gray emphasized four characteristics of the Midwest which
have given strength to her people and the nation. "The growth of the Midwest has expressed the rise of the country to prominence, and has really just begun," she said.
"Private opinion forged into sentiment which has changed the course of the globe is to be found in the Midwest," she said.
"The freedom of expression, a characteristic of America, is exemplified in the great newspapers of the Midwest, with their diversified editorials which the people read not to adopt the editorial policy, but to think and disagree with if they choose." said Mrs. Gray.
"When the piloneers came to the prairies, the churches were always built, and the steeple stood simply on the prairies, testifying the spiritual strength of the Midwest," she said.
Nation's Day Kansas Dust Snow in East
By UNITED PRESS
Dust storms hit the Kansas wheat country again today but up to 10 inches of welcome snow fell on Iowa.
Elsewhere, a cold wave sent the temperature plunging below zero in northern Wisconsin, and rain fell on the central states, the Ohio valley, the Atlantic Coast and New England.
Winds up to 50 miles per hour whipped powder-dry soil into dust clouds at Garden City, Kan., and cut visibility to about a mile. But at daybreak the wind had subsided. When it rained, the wind the worst dust storm in 15 years.
The winds and dust were caused by a storm center which moved rapidly from Montana to northwestern Missouri, spreading rain or snow from northeastern Nebraska to western Illinois.
In Iowa, 8 to 10 inches of snow was reported unofficially. Police reports of schools stalled in deep Iowa Schools closed in several Iowa towns.
Cold weather hit northwestern Wisconsin and sent the temperatures at Grantsburg to 5 below zero, coldest in the nation.
Six Concerts Set for March
Six concerts are slated for the first ten days of March.
The Albenieri trio, consisting of a violinist, a cellist, and a pianist, will play Monday, March 1, and the University Little Symphony orchestra will bring the series of concerts to a close with a program on March 10.
Between these events will be concerts by Fernando Valenti, harpsichordist, on March 4, and Ann Russell, concert commediene, on March 3, along with the 117th Musical Vespers program on March 7, featuring the University band, orchestra, A Cappella choir, University chorale, and the men's and women's glee clubs.
The Albenieri trio will return for a second performance on March 8.
Religious Training Discussedby Panel
"Society needs a soul, and that is where religion enters the picture." This statement sounded the keynote of the final Religious Emphasis week seminar, yesterday, as a group discussed, "What Can Religion Do for Our Society?"
Panel leaders were Robert Bates, Christian church minister for students; Rabbi Abba M. Fineburg, and the Rev. Mr. Harry R. Heeney, Religious Emphasis week speakers.
Father Heeney emphasized that thought and habit patterns are gained at an early age. Since our religious concepts and beliefs issue into everything we do, it is necessary to teach moral precepts early. Although students seemed agreed that deficiencies existed in religious education, almost all who spoke on the subject were against the teaching of religion in the public schools. One student feared there would be too much pressure on conformity if religion were taught in the schools