Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1954
51st Year, No. 94
2 Senators Ask Army Data On Accused Woman
Washington — (U.P.) A Republican and a Democrat demanded today that the Army reveal what its security sleuths found out about a woman worker whom Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said was and still be a Communist.
Specifically, Sens. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) and Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash). said the Army should explain why the woman, identified as Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, was shifted recently to a non-sensitive job after a security check.
They made the demand as Sen. McCarthy summoned four unidentified witnesses before his Investigation subcommittee to dig deeper into Mrs. Moss' associations and activities.
A former FBI undercover agent, Mrs. Mary Markward, testified yesterday that an Annie Lee Moss was listed as a Communist here in the 1940s. However, the woman in question told reporters she never had any Communist connections.
Sen. McCarthy launched the Moss hearings yesterday to give Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens what he called a "true picture" of how his services has "coddled" Reds.
Mr. Stevens, who has accused McCarthy of "unwarranted abuse" of loyal Army officers, will go before the subcommittee tomorrow in a kleig-lighted showdown in the angry feud between the two men.
Another witness tomorrow reportedly will be Dr. Irving Peres, a former major in the Army Dental corps who received an honorable discharge last Feb. 2, touching off the bitter battle between Sen. McCarthy and Mr. Stevens. In two previous appearances before the subcommittee, Dr. Peres has invoked the fifth amendment to avoid answering questions about his alleged Communist affiliations.
The Army announced late yesterday, after the subcommittee hearing, that the Moss case was being "re-examined" under the President's new security program and that she was transferred on Feb. 5 from the Army Signal corps communications center here to "an unclassified position."
Kansan photo by Jim Baird
Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark), one of two Democrats sitting with the subcommittee, said today "I'm not criticizing Stevens or anyone else since it seems like most of this happened before Stevens got into government."
AWS to Elect 'Dean, Have Picnic, Skits
But he said the Army should not employ "people of doubtful loyalty of any degree" and "merely transferring them to some non-sensitive position is not adequate."
position. Sens. Mundt and Jackson, also subcommittee members, took the same position and said Army officials owe the group a full explanation.
The election of 'Dean for a Day' and an assistant dean will be held at 5 p.m. today outside the north door of Fraser theater.
A picnic for members of Associated Women Students will be at 6 p.m. today in the Student Union ballroom, Skits will be presented by members of AWS.
Ferman Club Meets Thursday
The German club will meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow in 502 Fraser, Mrs. Werner Winter and Max Johnson will give a recorder concert. Following the program refreshments will be served.
MEN WORKING-Bill McGruder, working on the Methodist student center now under construction just north of the Faculty club, lays a trowel to the last bit of cement to be poured for the basement walls of the structure. Today, preparations are being made for building the walling over the area where McGruder is working.
Former U.S. Treasurer To Address Students
Georgia Neese Clark Gray, whose Kansas political activities were climaxed by her appointment as Treasurer of the United States June 4, 1949, will speak at 4 p.m. today in Fraser theater. The title of her speech is "What Price Interest."
Born in Richmond, Kan., Mrs. Gray prepared for the real stage, not the political one.
She attended the College of the Sisters of Bethany in Topeka, and Washburn university, also in Topeka, with the goal of becoming an actress.
She went on to Sargent's Dramatic school in New York and then started her acting career. For 10 years she toured with stock companies and was at one time a member of the Earl Carroll company.
Coming back to Kansas in 1930 Mrs. Gray started the political activities that moved her on to Washington.
After her appointment, Mrs. Gray dis-associated herself from her various enterprises, among them Richmond bank president, due to legal requirements of her post.
The Young Democrats club was her springboard. She became a Democratic national committeewoman in 1936.
Weather
Kansas weather should be mostly fair, a little warmer—and not par-
neutrality through Thursday, eastern Kansas, hard hit by dust blower winds recently, had wind velocities this morning only 14 to 18 miles
an hour. Temperatures tomorrow will rise into the 60s in eastern Kansas and will probably get into the low 70s in the west. Kansas maximums Tuesday ranged from 47 at Olathe to 59 at Hill City and Goodland. The state lows early today were spread between 31 at Topeka and 39 degrees in Concordia.
Dr. Canuteson Assists Group
Dr. Ralph I Canuteson, director of Watkins health service and state president of the Tuberculosis and Health association, last night took part in a move to reorganize the Douglas county Tuberculosis association. Dr. Canuteson emphasized that the national association "makes a strong point of local county autonomy."
Humanities Values Told by Schroeder
By AMY DE YONG
The health board decided to adopt a constitution for the county association, to be ratified at the annual spring meeting of the county health board.
"Tuberculosis is just as prevalent today as it was 50 years ago," Dr. Canuteson said. "There are more than 5,000 cases in Kansas today, and with tuberculosis, this becomes a major health problem," he said.
"Education is the food upon which the good life subsists," Dr. John C. Schroeder, chairman of the department of religion at Yale university, said last night in the Humanities lecture at Fraser theatres.
"The humanities are worth pursuing for their own selves, as they are the very stuff out of which goodness is created," the speaker said. "Without them man cannot subsist." Dr. Schroeder defined a good man as "one who is good because he faces insolvable moral problems."
"Society demands a trained man rather than an educated man." Dr. Schroeder said. He presented the current problem resulting from this demand—that to many people "education and the good life are becoming disassociated."
As the range of experience and vision becomes wider, he said, the situations which call for a variety of responses-increase. Thus it is the duty of education, Dr. Schroeder said, "to provide stimuli to provoke these responses."
Dr. Schroeder, a Congressional minister who holds a degree from Union Theological seminary. New York, spoke on the topic "What Is Education For?" at the third Humanities lecture in the 1953-54 series. He was introduced by the Rev. Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion.
"There is deep internal suspicion that vocational education has nothing to do with the good life" the speaker said. "The good life," Dr. Schroeder said, "must encompass and include what happens to man. Unless there is some commitment to the good life, competence and skills will function in a moral vacuum.
"Our trouble is in separating the practical and moral, the secular and the religious," he said. "To limit the arena in which the good life can operate is to deny altogether its expression," the minister said. "We face a dilemma in our complex life," he said, "because we are obligated to train a person to be competent and to help him to become a good person."
"What gives us morals is technology," the speaker said. "Moral problems occur when alternatives are present. Thus skill got beyond man's moral capacity" when he first found the power of a club, Dr. Schroeder said.
"The Christian religion had to come to terms with all kinds of people, backgrounds, and traditions, despite the competition of rivals," the minister said. "The religion became humanistic, and it came to terms with the fantastic variety of experiences encountered."
"Many people are shocked that the highly skilled individual is failing to be mature, open-minded, and tolerant," he said. "Often the educated man has used his advantages for his own selfish aggrandizement."
'Hoover' Commission to Meet
Hoover Commission to
The little Hoover commission on
the education of the All
Student Council will meet at 5 p.m.
today in the Student Union.
Quack Club 'Ballet To Begin Tonight
The Quack club's "Kansan Ballet" will be presented at 8 p.m. today, tomorrow, and Friday in the Robinson pool.
The annual water show, this year based on a "newspaper" theme, will show the various features of a special newspaper edition. Admission is 60 cents.
--will be some 16 nightly parades and up to 50 glittering balls.
Bates to Lead Seminar Talks
Religious Emphasis week activities for today include a seminar at 4 p.m. in the music and browsing rom of the Student Union, with the Rev. Robert Bates, minitser to the students at the First Christian church, discussing, "What Can Religion Do For Our Society?"
Leaders of the seminar will be Rev. Hary R. Heeney, St. David's Episcopal church in Topeka, and Rabbi Abba M. Fineberg, Nebraska State chaplain of the American Legion.
The speakers will be in the organized houses this evening and an evaluation meting of the day will be held at 9 p.m. in the English room of the Student Union.
The second afternoon seminar on religion Tuesday, discussed "What Can the Church Mean in Our Day?" William Bryant, assistant pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, Lawrence, led the discussion. Dr. Thomas Mather and Dr. William Phifer, Religious Emphasis week speakers, completed the panel.
An early question from the floor asked whether people in non-Christian countries were accepting Christianity because of its ideals, or because missionaries practiced the medical and scientific discoveries of the West. Dr. Phifer paralleled this to Jesus' ministry when throngs followed him in hopes of being cured. Dr. Mather advanced the thought that "Christianity has more to do than save men's souls" and the healing of bodies is still a Christian mission.
Much of the hour was occupied with the problem of church attendance, especially among men. One minister stated that more than twice as many women as men went to his church. Women students were reminded that it is never incorrect to invite a man to church.
Tourists Jam Mardi Gras Town
New Orleans —(U,P)— Thousands of free-wheeling tourists kept the French Quarter cash registers jingling today as this lusty old city's famed Mardi Gras season roared toward its flaming climax with fantastic parades, exclusive balls and restless pageantry.
The million dollar show, called the only one of its kind in the nation, ends at midnight next Tuesday as the tolling of bells in historic cathedral signals the end of fun and frolic and the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season.
But the jammed-packed events of Mardi Gras day, which features the reign of Rex, Lord of Misrule, and the often-intoxicated rambling about town of the Zulu, King, a Negro carnival association, are supposed to make Lenten repentence easy.
Between now and the fantasy of Mardi Gras day during which revelers, masked from sunup to sundown, can get by with almost anything short of murder, there
City fathers estimate some 300, - 000 visitors will have spent more than a million dollars by the time the fabulous holiday draws to a close.
Already night club proprietors in the French Quarter are looking at their cash tills with contentment. Touis, who have jammed all accommodations north to Baton Rouge and nearly to the Mississippi gulf coast, were spending freely in between parades and balls.