Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No.93
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1954
Senate Leader Fears Geneva Peace Plans
Washington—U.R.P.)The administration today appeared to have failed to convince its own Senate leader in its efforts to dispel congressional fears about the forthcoming Geneva Peace conference.
Jayhawker Needs Senior, Party Photos
Party and senior pictures are needed by the Jayhawker, Wilbur Larkin, education junior and editor, said today.
Seniors have only two weeks to have pictures taken by the Estes studio, he said, and party pictures are needed for that section of the third issue of the yearbook. All pictures not used will be returned.
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Religious Needs Seminar Subect
"What Can Religion Do for the Student Personally?" was discussed informally by students and speakers in the first of several religious seminars yesterday.
Moderated by Dr. Albert Bramble, minister of the First Methodist church, Lawrence, the panel included Dr. G. Edwin Osborn, professor of practical theology at Phillips university, and Dr. G. Thomas Fattaruso, pastor of the First Baptist church, Vermilion, S.D.
"We believe in a God of love, and yet one of justice. How do we reconcile the two?" asked another student. Dr. Bramble replied that he failed to see any contradiction and posed the counter-question, "Cannot love be justice, and justice be meted with love?"
A student presented the problem that sometimes her life became so cluttered with trivialities that she had no time for religion and became confused. In the discussion, Dr. Osborn observed that "if you recognize the trivialities for what they are, and keep your eyes on your goal, the trivialities will not divert you."
Another student queried whether it was possible to have a religion without formal dogma or creed. Dr. Fattaruo reminded the audience that Jesus did not concern himself with writing down a creed.
Band, Orchestra Schedule Concerts
The 150 members of the University band and symphony orchestra will trek to Iola tomorrow for concerts in that city. Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director of both groups, said today.
The Iola concerts will mark the first performances of the band and orchestra in a series of spring semester engagements that will take the two organizations to six Kansas cities and Kansas City, Mo.
Sponsored by the Lions Club of Iola, the University band will perform before a special matinee audience of school children. The symphony orchestra will join the band in a concert intended for an adult audience that same evening.
In addition to the Iola performances, Prof. Wiley said the band and orchestra would also journey to Herington, Hutchinson, Great Bend, McPherson, Wichita, and Eureka for concerts this spring. The symphony orchestra is also slated to perform before the annual convention of the American Chemical society in the music hall of Kansas City's Municipal auditorium on March 28.
Sen. William F. Knowland, a leading GOP spokesman on Far East policy, said in a New York speech last night that he has "substantial misgivings" about the conference which will include Red China.
Sen. Knowland said the Communist price for peace in Asia would be the admission of the Peiping regime to the United Nations. He said this would amount to a "Far Eastern Munich" and "make almost inevitable World War III."
Sen. Knowland said, however, that his "misgivings" did not stem from the decision to discuss a Korean peace at the Geneva conference. He said there was "justification" for Red China attending the meeting since it was an aggressor in the Korean war.
He objected instead to the decision to discuss the Indo-China question at the conference "before there was an agreement" and of Korean peace can be achieved."
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pushed ahead, however, in his campaign to whip up bi-partisan support for the conference which was agreed upon last week at the Big Four foreign ministers meeting in Berlin. Mr. Dulles goes before the House Foreign Affairs committee at 4 p.m. today, before the Senate Foreign Relations committee tomorrow, and before the people in a radio - television report tomorrow night.
Other congressional developments:
Taxes: Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.), a member of the Senate Finance committee, said he was studying a pre-war plan for giving taxpayers a break on "earned income" to balance proposed tax concessions to stockholders. Under the plan, a taxpayer was permitted to subtract 10 per cent from his net income—after taxes but before exemptions—and pay taxes on this rather than the full amount.
Bricker: Sen. Homer Ferguson (R.-Mich.) the substitute for the Bricker treaty-limiting amendment that he and other GOP leaders are sponsoring will win the necessary two-thirds vote for final Senate approval. It has already been adopted tentatively by the Senate.
Publications Group to Meet
The publications committee of the All Student Council will hold an open hearing on the senior calendar bill at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The meeting will be held in room 210 in the Journalism building.
McCarthy Target Was Red, Former FBI Agent Reports
REV. JOHN C. SCHROEDER
Schroeder to Give HumanitiesLecture
The Rev. John C. Schroeder, chairman of the department of religion at Yale university, will give the Humanities lecture at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater.
Dr. Schreeder's subject will be "What Is Education For?"
Finance Grant Is Announced
Antigone' Is Modern Version Of Classic Greek Tragedy
A new $2,000 fellowship in finance in the Graduate school has been established by the Kansas Association of Finance companies, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced yesterday.
The fellowship will be awarded in alternate years to a student ready to prepare his dissertation for a Doctor's degree in economics. The subject will be some phase of consumer finance.
"The University deeply appreciates this evidence of support of its program," Dr. Murphy said, "and I further express the conviction that it will be of mutual benefit."
The new fellowship, which may be conferred in the 1954-55 school year, is the first student grant in the finance field. The University Endowment association is to administer the funds.
Tyranny in Anoulih's case was directed toward the German occupation of France during World War II. The play became a mouthpiece for the French movement during the war, but as one critic has said, "Some of its Sophoclean force was lost because attacks on dictatorships had to be veiled."
Jean Anouilh, French dramatist, wrote and produced the new version in 1944 in France, using modern dress and adapting it to contemporary times. The play became a classic study of woman's stand against tyranny.
"Antigone," a tragedy in one act to be presented March 17-20 by the University Theatre, is a modern version of the Greek play by Sophocles.
The Kansas Association of Finance companies has 97 member companies in 40 Kansas cities.
The play was first brought to the
American stage in 1946 by Katharine Cornell. Having seen the play in Paris while she was entertaining troops during the war, Miss Cornell became inspired to play "Antigone," and to produce it in the United States. It ran 64 performances on Broadway.
Like the original Sophocles play, "Antigone" is the story of a young woman (Antigone), who defies Creon, the king, by trying to bury her brother despite the royal commands to leave him rotting and unburied. As a result of her defiance, she dies tragically, but her dauntless spirit is the final victor.
Washington —(U.P.)— A former FBI undercover agent said today she identified as a Communist in 1944 a woman said by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to be currently employed in an Army coding room.
Faculty Follies To Have Auction
A special feature has been added to this year's annual "Faculty Follies" sponsored by Associated Women Students. An auction of the services of faculty members and other prominent persons on the Hill will be midway through the evening's entertainment.
All funds from the door and auction go to the AWS Memorial scholarship fund given each year in memory of women students whose lives have been cut short by death. The Follies will be held in Fraser theater at 8 p.m.*March 5.
Among the faculty performers will be Shirley Hughes, dance instructor; Donald Stewart, instructor of English, and the faculty band, directed by Prof. Carroll Clark, professor of sociology. Offering their services for such tasks as answering the door, phone, being a housemother for the evening, and waiting tables are Charles Johnson, assistant professor of education, Dean Martha Peterson, "Phog" Allen, Dean Laurence Woodruff, and Ted Cox, campus cop. Both lists will be announced in full the end of the week.
In order to bid in the auction, a student house should set aside or contribute as much money as they want to bid and appoint one person to bid for them in the auction.
Radio Players Shift Stations
The Radio players have been transferred from station KANU to the department of speech and drama, Gene Reynolds, instructor of the department, announced today.
In addition to a new home, the players have a new name. It is Radio and Television players. The organization has added "television" to its former title in anticipation of TV facilities at the University in the future.
Reynolds, now the supervisor of the Radio and Television players, explained the transfer of the players: "Direction of the Radio Players is a teaching area under the responsibility of a teaching department. Formerly KANU, not an academic facet of the University, was supervising the players. Now under the reorganization the speech and drama department is responsible for teaching and managing them."
Forthcoming productions of the newly-reorganized players will be broadcast by KDGU. Occasionally, however, KANU will provide dramatic productions featuring the Radio and Television Players.
The Little Studio in the basement of Green hall is the new headquarters and daily workshop of the group.
Psychology Teacher To Veterans Hospital
Dr. Erik Wright, director of clinical service in the department of psychology, has been appointed consultant in psychosomatic medicine for the Veterans administration hospital in Kansas City.
Dr. Wright will participate in the training of medical residences in internal medicine.
Mrs. Mary Markward, the undercover operative, said she reported "as early as 1944" that the woman—Annie Lee Moss—was a member in a Communist organization in which Mrs. Markward was an officer.
Outlining the case before Mrs. Markward began her testimony, Sen. McCarthy said the woman has been working for the Army Signal corps but "the Army wouldn't get rid of her."
Sen. McCarthy said she currently is employed in a code room which handles "the encoding and decoding of confidential and top-secret messages."
"I did," Mrs. Markward said.
He then asked Mrs. Markward whether she reported on Mrs. Moss to the FBI.
Mrs. Markward testified before the Senate Investigations subcommittee in what Sen. McCarthy billed as a demonstration for Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens of how the Army mishandles security risk cases. Mr. Stevens, who has accused Sen. McCarthy of hurting Army morale by "unwarranted abuse of loyal officers," will testify before the subcommittee Thursday.
Sen. McCarthy commented that it can be "assumed" that Mrs. Moss' "boss" was informed by the FBI of her party history. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) stressed the point the information was given to the FBI and has been in its hands ever since.
But Sen. McCarthy said he is sure that Mr. Stevens did not know personally of the Moss case.
Mrs. Markward said that at the time she knew Annie Lee Moss she was a cafeteria worker in the Pentagon.
Miss Moss was not present at the hearing today. Subcommittee Counsel Roy Cohn said her physician had told the committee she was ill and could not appear at this time.
Sen. McClelland sought to establish whether the 1944 cafeteria worker known by Mrs. Markward was the same person as the 1951 code room worker reported by Sen. McCarthy. He asked Mrs. Markward if she could identify Annie Lee Moss.
"I doubt that Secretary (Robert T) Stevens knew about this case—if he had, he'd have taken care of it," Sen. McCarthy said.
Mrs. Markward said she was "not sure if I could identify her." She added she was "very sure" the Miss Moss she knew was a dues-paying member of the Communist party, belonging to the Northeast club
Sen. McCarthy announced that today's hearing by his Senate Investigating subcommittee would give Mr. Stevens a "true picture" of the way the Army handles Reds.
Weather
Mostly fair this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday except for some high
cloudiness Wednesday. Cooler southeast and extreme east this afternoon and tonight. Warmer Wednesday. Low tonight 25-30 northwest to 35
COLD or FAIR northwest to 35 southeast. High Wednesday generally in 60s.