Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
51st Year, No. 29
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Oct. 26, 1953
-Kansan photo by Dean Evans
TRAIN TIME—About 150 KU students were on hand Saturday morning at the Santa Fe railroad station to greet the SMU football team and band. About the same number of townspeople were at the station to greet Chalmer Woodard, who coached Lawrence teams for seven years.
Classes Cancelled For Senior Coffee
Officers of the Class of '54 and the editor of the KU Calendar today outlined some of the business to be handled at the class "Coffee Bust" set for 10 a.m. Thursday in the Union ballroom.
The "Coffee Bust" has official backing from the University administration as a class convocation, and all members of the Class of '54 are to consider themselves excused from 10 o'clock classes.
Items to be discussed includes
1. Voting for the Class of '54 Calendar Girl. Sixteen seniors have been nominated by their respective houses. Nancy Canary, education senior and class president, said the selection of the Calendar Girl will be made entirely on the basis of voting done at the "Coffee Bust." The candidates are to be present.
2. Discussion of the specially reserved Class of '54 section at the football game with Kansas State college. "Over 400" seats on the 50-yard line have been set aside for the class, B. H. Born, education senior and class activities chairman, said, and no one will be admitted to the section without a ticket obtained at the "Coffee. Bust."
Payment for coffee consumed will be optional.
One calendar girl candidate is not from an organized house. She is Anna Marie DeMelfy, college.
The other candidates, all seniors, are Priscilla Angersbach, college, Chi Omega; Barbara Bowdish, business, Alpha Chi Omega; Shirley Beniston, fine arts, Gamma Phi Beta; Danna Denning, 'business, Alpha Omicron Pi.
Norma Lou Falletta, college, Alpha Phi; Jeaneenc Fischer, education, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Barbara Gilbert, business, Sigma Kappa; Nancy Gilchrist, education, Kappa Alpha Theta; Marilyn Hawkinson, college, Pi Beta Phi; Lessie Hinchee, college, Sellards hall.
Mary Gayle Loveless, fine arts, Delta Delta Delta; Shirley Holmes, college, Watkins hall; Dolores Myers, education, Alpha Delta Pi; Carolyn Nardy, college, Delta Gamma, and Vicki Rosenwald, college, Miller hall.
Nathan Harris, college junior and editor of the KU Calendar, said pictures of the 16 candidates for Calendar Girl will be displayed at the information booth for several days.
Museum Director to Speak
Museum
Dr. E. R. Hall, director of the
Museum of Natural History, will
spend a noon tomorrow on "Zoological
Expeditions from the Arctic to
the Tropics" in 417 Snow. The public is invited to attend the lecture which will also present 30 minutes of movies.
9KU Students Hurt in Wreck
Fifteen persons, including nine University students, suffered minor injuries at 8:45 p. m. Saturday when a car driven by Virginia Farley, Route 1, crashed into the back of a hayrack one and one half miles north of the Country Club. Two wagons were going south when the car crashed into the end of one.
University students injured were James Grady, first year architecture, Charles Salanski, engineering freshman; Harry Smith, engineering freshman; Patricia Thomas, college freshman, Kay Cohlma, college freshman, David Hamilton, engineering freshman; Dorothy Sorrels, college freshman; Carolyn Settle, college freshman, and B. L. Redding, college freshman.
Others injured were Jean Payhe, Maureen, Barackman, and Barbara McCue, visitors on campus; Jess Gamble, driver of the hayrack from Oskalowa; Virginia Farley, driver of the car, and Ben Bowen, passenger in the car.
X-rays this morning showed that Miss Thomas suffered a fracture of the pelvis. Cohlmia and Smith were being treated at Watkins Hospital for bruises and shock.
A planted burning cross covered with oil-soaked rags was found in front of the AlphaPhi Alpha fraternity house at 1:30 a.m. m. today.
Fiery Cross Called 'Prank' by Police
Police termed the action as a "brank."
The hayrack ride was given by the Delta Chi fraternity.
The others were treated for shock and bruises and released.
The fraternity is the one into which Roger ee Youmans, college junior, will be initiated soon. Youmans was pledged last spring and is living in the house this fall. He will be the first white student ever to be initiated into a Negro fraternity on this campus.
Youmans plans to be a medical missionary. He said that by living with the Negro group he could better develop understanding of prejudices of others to help him in his chosen field.
Russian Visit Called Off By Sir Winston
London —(UP)— Prime Minister Winston Churchill has put aside his plan to travel to Moscow to talk to Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov because of American opposition, lukewarm support in his own government, and chilly silence from the Kremlin, his advisers said today.
Sources close to the 78-year-old prime minister also said Mr. Churchill's doctors were understood to have advised him against the trip because of the strain on his health.
Mr. Churchill is reported to be feeling the strain of government responsibilities he resumed fully recently after recovering from an illness in June.
His advisers said Mr. Churchill shows no sign of a relapse, but his illness left him weak and he must take things easier.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and other members of the Churchill cabinet are reported to have been against the Moscow trip because they felt the prime minister should not leave the country unless required to do so by an emergency.
The prime minister, in addition to his duties as head of the British government, recently has attended a full dress parliament debate and a series of top-level international conferences including long talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
Mr. Churchill feels the West has missed an important opportunity by letting the psychological moment for an approach to the Soviet pass, his advisers said.
Mr. Churchill has indicated he felt the right moment for approaching the Communists was shortly after the death last March of former Premier Joseph Stalin, when Red leaders were uncertain and confused.
L. R. Lind, professor of Latin and Greek, will address the Browning society of Kansas City, Mo., on the subject "Vergil and the Meaning of the Aeneid" at 1:45 Oct. 29 in the Westminster Congregational church The Browning society, one of the oldest and largest cultural groups in Kansas City, has 185 members. Ancient Greece and Rome is the theme for the fall term.
Lind to Address Brownings
Peabody Recital Is Tonight
Miss Irene Peabody, mezzo-soprano, will be presented in a faculty recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. Winifred Gallup will assist at the piano.
DeVoto Trounces Modern Escapism
Bernard A. DeVoto believes Americans seek escape from the complexities of the modern world by regressing to "the good old days."
AWS Schedules Future Activities
The Associated Women Students have scheduled a Halloween party for housemothers; a coffee for women living in private homes; selection of candidates for the AWS Senate, and the Faculty Follies, all in the near future.
The housemothers' party will be held from 8-9:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room of the Union. Members of the party committee are Sally Yoder, Wanda Sammons, and Kathleen Knauss, college junior; Sheila Haller, Gretchen Guinn Peggy Whitney, and Dorothy Sheets, college sophomores, and Nancy Garrity, education junior.
Women students from private homes will meet for a coffee from 4:30-5:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room. Duties and functions of the AWS will be explained. The group will elect a representative and an alternate to the AWS House of Representatives.
An instruction period for candidates to the AWS Senate will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the Oread room of the Union. Functions and the constitution will be reviewed by Senate members. A test over the material will be given at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Oread room. Candidates receiving the highest score will be invited to a coffee at 4 p.m Thursday in the English room.
Seven women will be selected for two Senate posts from the more than 30 women who have petitioned. The seven candidates' names will appear on the ballot at the All Student Council elections, to be held Wednesday, Nov. 4.
The Faculty Follies will be held Nov. 13 in Fraser theater. Houses and individuals will bid in an auction for faculty member's services—such duties as waiting tables and answering phones. The AWS asks that organized houses allocate funds for bidding purposes at their house meetings tonight.
Pach Leaders Hit' Sheldon
Denouncing Sheldon for allegedly violating the terms of the agreement, Pach members Farrell Schell, engineering senior; Larry Loftus, college junior; Bob Worchester, engineering junior; and Charles Kirkpatrick, college senior, said they were no longer keeping secret Sheldon's statement because "the ASC president has broken his promise of good faith."
"Dick Sheldon last spring made a working agreement with Pachacamac political party to run as a candidate for ASC president on the FACTS ticket, even though he was a member of Pachacamac," said a letter today issued by Pach political party.
"It has become quite apparent that Sheldon has completely disregarded the terms stated when he ran. It has also become evident that Sheldon's aim has become the furthering of FACTS party rather than bettering student government," the letter said.
"This is both a condemnation and a statement of policy," Worchester said. "We're a majority party, and we're going to start acting like one. We will no longer allow our legislation to be blocked by irregular procedure. We've refrained from bickering in the interest of student government—but at the ex-condition of our party policy and constructive legislation for the student good. That won't happen any more," he said.
The statement of policy containing this information can be found on today's editorial page.
8 Americans try to flee mentally from the "nuclear fission, push-bu-ton war with Russia, but that is our estate as the first nation of the world," the social historian and literary critic told a capacity audience in Fraser theater Friday.
Mr. DeVoto's speech highlighted an English conference on composition and literature for Kansas high school and college English teachers held Friday and Saturday. A reception followed the speech in the Spooner-Thayer Art museum.
Mr. DeVoto criticized "book burners," "McCarthyism," and "witch hunters" in Congress and asked for freedom from these "self-styled guardians" of freedom. He cited Rep. Harold H. Velde's (R-Il.) proposal to throw out any of the 8 million volumes in the Library of Congress which might be subversive or obscene and called it an impossible task.
"If Rep. Velde wrote a book," Mr. DeoVto said, "he probably could find something objectionable in it, assuming that Rep. Velde was literate enough to write a book."
He cited America's mania for such symbols as Currier and Ives prints,—“a Christmas card sentiment”—and the cowboy.
A Westerner himself, Mr. DeVoto decided the commercialization of the cowboy, denouncing the "synthetic cowboy" who sings Western ballads on the radio from New York and who was "never nearer a cow than a steak at Toots Shor's."
"This pure fantasy originated in our longing," he said, adding that "this fantasy may be fear instead of escape.
He intimated that the "good old days" were never as good as we now believe, but said, "surely here is the age of escape from the dread of the world we live in. Back there in an age of innocence and simplicity is peace and security.
"Is the picture of ourselves changed?" he asked. "I don't believe it has. It is no longer the eggheads or intellectuals, but the educated who share our cultural heritage," he said.
Mr. DeVoita also took some pot shots at the comics and John Steinbeck's statement that "Li'l Abner is an example of the highest peak of creative genius," and "Al Capp is the greatest literary figure the United States has ever produced."
"I can't understand the intellectual also preoccupation with the comics," he said. "In such images, America expresses its basic wishes. Folk love can't be tailor-made," he said.
Of the political scene, Mr. DeVoto said our nation was committed to the thesis that man can govern himself—an idea so big that from time to time governments have fled from it to absolutism. God and heaven do not guarantee the preservation of the Bill of Rights. Only we can.
"We are a more powerful nation than we were in 1945," he said, "but by no means are we as free a people as we were then. Our government sees us as a weak and stupid people who must be protected. Our own wrecking crew has joined hands with the same gang they set out to oppose."
But DeVoto sees some hope. "The demagogue has no stomach for opposition," he declared. "He will not long persevere when opposed, and once the tide of battle turns, it becomes a rout. A demagogue in retreat is a figure of farce."
Weather
weather were expected in this part of Kansas today following rain storms that covered most of the state yesterday. Highs today were expected to be in the upper
50s and down to the 30s tonight. The outlook for tomorrow isn't much better. The temperature is expected to stay in the 50s. All in all it looks like great weather for ducks.