Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Monday, Jan. 18, 1951
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
51st Year, No. 76
—Kansan Photo by Al Traldi
A GOOD BUY—The board of regents looks over the latest purchase of the Art museum. It is a painting of the Venetian school by Palma the Younger called "Christ in Gethsemane." From left to right are Dr. L. B. Spake, Mrs. Lee Haughey, Lester McCoy, Walter S. Fees, Willis N. Keely, and A. W. Hershberger.
'Christ in Gethsemane Bought by Art Museum
"One of the five top works in the Museum of Art" is how Edward Maser, curator, describes the painting recently acquired by the museum.
The painting, "Christ in Gethsemane," is the work of Jacopo Palm the Younger. Nearly 350 years old the painting was done in Venice during the time of Titan, Veronese, and Tintoretto.
Mr. Maser and Dr. Klaus Berger, associate professor of art history, acquired the painting for the museum from an art dealer when they were in Florence, Italy, last summer.
Sent across the Atlantic by ship, the painting arrived last week and was officially presented to the University at a reception Friday for Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, members of the board of regents, and faculty members.
The painting shows Christ praying in the garden of Gethsemane. An angel holding a silver chalice appears above him, and several apostles are sleeping nearby. In the far background Judas Iscariot can be seen leading Roman soldiers to the scene.
A large oil painting, "Christ in Gethsemane" is 4 by 5 feet in size. The gilded frame, almost a foot wide, is what Mr. Maser called a "superb example of 17th century Italian woodcavering."
Jacopo Palma the Younger has been called the last painter of the golden age of Venetian painting, Mr. Maser said. He studied in Rome, was influenced by Michelangelo, and returned to Venice to do most of his work.
Weather
Last week's praise for the weather-
man turned into gripes and groans
over the weekend
over the weekend and Kansas struggled under the second coldest spell of the winter. However, the weatherman says we can expect some relief in the near future. Not
much, but at least better than the near zero temperatures and cold winds we have had for the last four days.
Eclipse to Be Visible Here
New York — (U.P.)— A celestial crime takes place at 9 p.m. tonight in full view of millions. The earth is going to steal the light of the moon.
The eclipse will take place at 8:50 p.m. in this section of the nation. In this area the weather isn't expected to cooperate. It will be cloudy all day, but should clear enough to make the spectacle visible.
Time was when this periodical eclipse of the moon scared people plenty. It still does, wherever people aren't hep. For Americans it's one of nature's best shows. There is no admission price, no tax.
With the sun behind it, the earth throws a shadow which is 857.000 miles long. By passing through that mighty shadow, the moon gets into a position where the earth takes its borrowed light.
But the moon will be asking for it. Anyway its light isn't its property It belongs to the sun.
Eclipses are as regular as clockwork, since the moon revolves elliptically around the earth and the earth, along with its moon, revolves elliptically around 'the sun. Thus it has to be that every so often the earth comes between the sun and the moon and eclipses the moon or the moon gets between the sun and the earth and eclipses the sun.
eclipse begins. In the Central and Mountain time zones, the eclipsing will be lower in the sky. In the Pacific zone, the moon will be partly eclipsed when it gets above the horizon.
In the East, the moon will be well above the horizon when the
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Senior 'Cellist's Recital is Tonight
Anita McCoy, fine arts senior,
cellist, will present a senior recital today at 8 p.m. in Strong auditorium. Assisting her at the piano will be Dorothy Shoup, education senior.
The concert is free to the public.
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'Partisan' Tag To Brownell
Washington—(U.P.)—Democratic nai national chairman Stephen A. Mitchell has assailed Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., for seeking "partisan political advantage" in his statements about the Eisenhower administration's anti- Communist record.
Mr. Brownell last week announced that the administration has taken legal action against 54 Communist leaders, brought 12 Red front groups to justice, and deported 219 subversive aliens.
Mr. Mitchell said that in nearly all of the cases prosecution or investigation was started by the former Democratic administration. He called on President Eisenhower to "order" Mr. Brownnell to give the people "the facts."
Mr. Mitchel also said President Eisenhower himself has not been "too scrupulous" in referring to the 2,200 government workers fired or allowed to resign as "security risks." He said the Democratic committee has "reports" that less than 10 per cent of the cases involved disloyalty.
A Justice department spokesman said Mr. Brownell would have no immediate comment. It is known, however, department officials feel that a break-down on those fired would point the finger directly at persons discharged on loyalty grounds and stigmatize them for life. It also was said that the dividing line between loyalty and security risks is sometimes narrow.
Mr. Mitchell charged that Mr Brownell's statements were "misleading" and cast doubt on his "fairness and impartiality."
Mr. Mitchell said "Sen. (Joseph R.) McCarthy may think President Elsenhower is soft on communism, but nobody else does. Certainly we Democrats don't."
Toledo Newsman To Give Lecture
Grove Patterson, editor-in-chief of The Toledo Blade, will give the fifth annual William Allen White lecture February 10.
He will speak at 4 p.m. in Fraser theater at a public convoitation sponsored by the William Allen White foundation, it was announced today by Dean Burton W. Marvin, director of the foundation and dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public information.
Federal Health Aid Asked by Ike
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower recommended today that Congress establish a $25 million federal re-insurance program to help private and non-profit insurance companies offer broader health protection to more families.
He also called for a greatly expanded vocational rehabilitation program to restore 660,000 disabled Americans to active working citizens in the next five years.
These were part of a basic fivepoint program Mr. Eisenhower recommended to help relieve the "serious burden" of medical and hospital costs so that "the means of achieving good health" will be "accessible to all."
1. Urged strengthening of research activities by the public health service, particularly in the fields of cancer, mental illness, heart diseases, dental problems, arthritis and blindness.
2. Proposed a new approach to federal grants-in-aid to states for health, child welfare and rehabilitation. He said states with smaller financial capacities should receive proportionately larger federal assistance. He also suggested that part of the federal grants to states be set aside for "the support of unique projects of regional or national significance."
3. Presented a four-way plan for expanding construction of medical care facilities, including added federal financial help in building nonprofit hospitals for the care of the chronically ill.
In laying down his health recommendations, Mr. Eisenhower rejected "the socialization of medicine," but he said the government could well commit itself to "certain national health goals."
Concerned because the total private medical bill of the nation now exceeds $9 billion a year, Mr. Eisenhower proposed that the government launch a "limited" re-insurance service.
Purpose of this plan would be "to encourage private and non-profit health insurance organizations to offer broader health protection to more families."
The President proposed extension of greater federal assistance to the states to speed up and expand the rehabilitation of disabled persons in order to return them to productive employment.
He proposed "a progressive expansion of our rehabilitation resources" with the goal of rehabilitating 200,000 persons a year by 1959. He pointed out that rehabilitated persons would pay back in federal income taxes many times the cost of their rehabilitation.
Farises Entertain Class of Graduates
Dr. and Mrs. Nabih Amin Faris will entertain the dozen members of his class in Government of the Middle East tonight with a dinner at their home.
The Kansan report that members of the class, The Arab World Today, were to be their guests was incorrect.
- The address by Mr. Patterson, close friend of the late Mr. White and twice president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, will be one of the highlights of the day-long program of the foundation, which holds its annual meeting on Mr. White's birthday.
Mr. Patterson has been a newspaper editorial executive since his graduation from Oberlin college in 1895. He has traveled all over the world and has won particular acclaim for his column "The Way of the World" and as a public speaker. It is estimated that he travels 20,000 miles a year and that his average annual writings total 250,000 words.
"Mr. Patterson is recognized as the finest speaker in the newspaper world." Dean Marvin said. "The demand for him is such that in a recent 10-day period he made speeches in Colorado, Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan immediately after he had given eight speeches on the Pacific Coast and three others enroute from the Coast to Toledo. Last summer he was author of an illustrated article in Look magazine on 'How to Give a Speech.'"
"We feel particularly fortunate that he has accepted our invitation, for he is a man who always has a message and who knows journalism and the world in general as few men do."
In addition to performing his many journalistic functions and speaking throughout the country, Mr. Patterson is active in civic and church affairs. He is a member of the International board of the Y.M.C.A.; serves on the Methodist Commission on Public Relations and Information; has been president of the Epworth Club of Epworth Methodist Church for 36 years; and is a member of the executive committees of the Toledo United Nations association and the Toledo Town Meeting.
Other events on Feb. 10 will be the annual meeting of the foundation's board of trustees, with Alvin S. McCoy, president of the foundation and Kansas correspondent of the Kansas City Star, presiding; and the annual luncheon in the Student Union.
Previous William Allen White lectures have been given by James B. Reston, New York Times diplomatic correspondent in Washington and now chief of that newspaper's Washington bureau; Ernest K. Lindley, chief of the Newsweek Washington bureau; Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post.
GROVE PATTERSON