Manual State Historical Society
Topeka, Ks.
—Kansan photo by Bob Longstat
MISS STUDENT UNION OF 1953-Although her features may appear a little dim now, Miss Student Union of 1953 will be flashing a big smile when she takes part in the formal dedication and opening of the Memorial Union building. Miss Student Union was chosen by a board of students and faculty members, and her name is being withheld until the opening of the Union Friday. Feb. 27.
until the opening of the Union Friday, Feb. 21
Sandelius Hits Teaching Modes
"The climate of modern higher education has not been that of the open-mindedness which it has professed." Dr. Walter Sandelius, professor of political science, said yesterday in a Western Civilization lecture.
The speaker called attention to present-day charges of excessive "scientism" in education in the matter of Christian outlook versus the materialistic hypothesis.
"Silently ignoring a viewpoint, while refusing to inquire about it, often is more effective intolerance than outright repression." Dr. Sandelius said.
The great problems of the day, he said, are (1) how war's destructiveness can perhaps be diminished by means of supra-national levels of law and government, and (2) how to protect the worth of the individual in a time of expending statism.
The lecture is the first in a series of lectures for Western Civilization students. The series is the result of questioning past students in the course, and Sandelhue said, "With all respect to teaching lectures besides the present program of independent reading and proctorial assistance.
Prof. William Gilbert of the department of history, will speak on "The Separation of Church and State," in the next lecture at 4 p.m. Monday in Fraser theater.
Provoo Gets Life In Treason Case
New York —U.P.)—Former Army Sergeant John David Provoo was sentenced to life imprisonment today for treason while he was a prisoner of war under the Japanese.
Federal Judge Gregory Noonan passed sentence on the 35-year-old San Francisco native. A federal jury last Wednesday found Provoq guilty of four overt acts of treason, including offering his services as interpreter to his Japanese captors and contributing to the death of an American officer.
Judge Noonan said he was sparing Provoq the death penalty, but added:
"In justice to those who suffered untold agonies the penalty must be severe. I have arrived at this conclusion after considerable soul searching. . .
In a tearful plea, he said he "got completely confused" after the surrender of the Philippine Island Fortress of Corregidor to the Japanese in 1942.
"But I never had any confusion so great that would violate the oath of allegiance to my country . . . I did not fall my duty." Provoo said. "I love this country."
Kansan Lists New Students
Kansas List
Additions to the Student Directory
collected by the Daily
Kansan, and are published on pages
6 and 10 of today's paper.
Last Day for Tickets; Fellowship Banquet
--master of ceremonies for the opening, will take over the microphone at 7:45. He will be aided by the Scotchone quartet, which will sing until 8 p.m., when the actual opening ceremonies begin.
Today is the last day to buy tickets in organized houses for the Fellowship banquet to be held at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Union ballroom. House agents are to contact Pat Davis at 3439W to report sales by tonight.
--master of ceremonies for the opening, will take over the microphone at 7:45. He will be aided by the Scotchone quartet, which will sing until 8 p.m., when the actual opening ceremonies begin.
4 Profs to Attend Music Meeting
The annual convention of the Music Teachers National association to be held Thursday through Monday in Cincinnati will be attended by four members of the School of Fine Arts faculty.
Leading the group will be Dr. D. M. Swarthout, piano professor, who was president of the association two years. Dr. Swarthout also served 18 years as national secretary and has been elected a life member of the executive committee.
Others attending are Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, professor of music education; Miss Jeannette Cass, associate professor of music theory, and Dr. James Nickerson, associate professor of music education.
Dr. Nickerson, a member of the American Acoustical society, is presenting a paper, "Planning a Musical Acoustics Program for the Music Student," before the Midwestern Symposium on Musical Acoustics Feb. 18.
Tickets for the Independent Students association semi-formal "Sweetheart Swing," Feb. 20, will be sold Wednesday through Friday afternoons at the Information Booth.
ISA Dance Tickets On Sale Tomorrow
ISA, in other business at its meeting last night, was told of a new constitution to be ready for examination at the next regular meeting. Discussion of the new ward system and the possibility of sending delegates to a national convention of organizations of independent students during April at Purdue university was held.
Miss Student Union of 1953, representing the opening of the union, will be presented to the public in opening ceremonies at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the new main lounge.
Queen to Be Named at Union Fete
Jerry Hodgden, chairman, and the opening ceremony committee, Eugene Brubaker, David Butts, Jo Anna March, Ann Stevens, and Jocelyn Dougherty, chose Miss Student Union to be symbolic of the new Union building.
Lynden Goodwin, college junior.
Goodwin will present the Union building to Phil Kassebaum, college senior, who is Student Union activities chairman. Kassebaum then will present Miss Student Union of 1953, whose identity will remain secret until the opening. After the
ceremonies are completed, the doors will be opened to the public.
The Scotchmen, composed of Daniel Hesse, Robert Mellon, Don Malone, and James Porter, also will sing for the floor shows in the Kansas room and the ballroom. The floor show in the Kansas room will be 15 minutes every hour, while the show in the ballroom will be at 10:30, and will last about 30 minutes. There will be dancing, singing, readings, and humorous skits.
During and after his visit at the University, a photographic exhibition of Mr. Keck's work will be on display in the library of Marvin hall.
Mr. Keck will give an illustrated talk before the student chapter of the American Institute of Architects in the Museum of Art at 7 p.m. Thursday.
In addition to his public address, Mr. Keck will be guest speaker at a dinner for faculty members and practicing architects throughout the state at 6 p.m. Friday in the Sunflower room of the Union.
Mrs. Parke H. Woodard has accepted the chairmanship for the Lawrence residential canvass in the March Red Cross fund drive, Keith Hobson, chair of the chancellor and general campaign chairman, announced today.
Red Cross Canvass Chairman Named
Mrs. Woodard is the wife of Dr. Parke H. Woodard associate professor of physiology. She has previously been a block worker and district captain in Red Cross drives and chairman for the Community chest.
Noted Architect To Speak Friday
"We will need many volunteer workers." Mrs. Woodard said today, "but fortunately I've always found Lawrence people willing to pitch in and do the jobs they believe are worth doing."
Since 1930, Mr. Keck has pioneered in the field of solar and radiant heating. He has built many residences in addition to carrying on commercial projects of various types.
The architect will spend Thursday and Friday on the campus talking with various organizations and practicing architects who will be here to discuss various problems.
One of the nation's foremost architects, George F. Keck of Chicago, will give a public address on "Some Aspects of Contemporary European Architecture" at 3 p.m. Friday in Strong auditorium.
Mr. Keck is the former head of the department of architecture at the Institute of Design of Chicago. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and has worked with many of the nation's leading architects. At the present time he is associated with his brother, William Keck, in an architectural firm in Chicago.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday. Feb. 17, 1953
Seba Eldridge Dies; Cremation Today
SEBA ELDRIDGE
numerous volumes. His latest textbook, written in collaboration with five other sociologists, "Fundamentals of Sociology: A Situational Analysis," has been adopted by over 35 colleges and universities in America.
His most recent book, "Dynamics of Social Action," published in 1952, is being used in several courses on the Hill.
Dr. Eldridge was editor of Crowell's Social Science Series more than 25 years, and the author of
The body of Dr. Eldridge was found in his room yesterday afternoon by a colleague, E. Gordon Ericksen, assistant professor of sociology.
He was born July 22, 1858, near Dunn, N.C., and received a bachelor degree in civil engineering from North Carolina State college, an A.B. from Columbia university in 1911, and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1925.
From 1908 to 1916 Dr. Eldridge engaged in social and civic work in New York City. He was secretary of the department of social betterment of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities
Seba Eldridge, 68, professor of sociology and a member of the University faculty more than 30 years, died suddenly at the home Monday. Private services were to be held this afternoon followed by cremation.
Hall Asks for Probe in Roberts Case
"If selling influence and collecting 5 per cent is bad in Washington it is equally bad in Topeka," he said.
The Republican party must not be guilty of whitewash, Lt. Gov. Fred Hall said here last night as he called or immediate action to investigate the sale of the Norton, Kan., hospital building to the state.
In a talk to more than 600 persons at the seventh annual brotherhood dinner in the Community building, the lieutenant governor called "morally reprerehensible the $1,100 com-mission paid by the Republican national chairman, for negotiating the sale" the state in 1951.
The dinner was sponsored by the International club, the KU B'nai Brith and Hillel foundation, the Lawrence Council of Churchwomen, the Douglas County Men's Brotherhood, the Lawrence Law Academy, the Practice of Democracy, the Minisister Alliance, and the Douglas county UNESCO.
Lt. Gov. Hall said the attorney general should take immediate steps to prosecute any persons who have violated the state lobby registration or real estate laws.
The lieutenant governor also said there are many outside forces that are dangerous to us. He pointed out that we have a tendency to forget the dangers here at home as we look down on the political and administrative troubles of other countries.
our faith in God, ourselves, and this great and fertile land," Lt. Gov. Hall said.
He was introduced by Mayor Chris Kraft of Lawrence. The master of ceremonies was Clayton Crosier, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Douglas county chairman for, UNESCO.
"Wars have not secured freedom, neither have laws," he said. "Freedom of man can come only when the hearts and minds of the people."
"Let us go forward and reaffirm
three years. In 1913 he organized the Commission on the Federal Constitution, which he directed two years.
He joined the Columbia faculty in 1914 as an assistant in philosophy. He became an assistant professor of sociology and economics at Rochester in 1918 and in 1919 became a full professor at Rockford College, Illinois.
Dr. Eldridge became an associate professor of sociology at KU in 1921, and a full professor in 1928. He was active in research for many years and had laid out plans for a research project to be conducted during the fall '53 term on his sabbatical leave.
He was a member of the American Association of University Professors the university faculty and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Erdridge is survived by a son, Seba Eldridge Jr., of El Monte, Calif., and two daughters, Mrs. Roderick MacKinnon and Mrs. John A. Straub Jr., both of California.
Grad to Address City Clerks' School
Lee S. Greene, head of the department of political science at Tennessee University, will speak at the third annual City Clerks school tomorrow afternoon and at a general meeting in the evening.
Mr. Greene attended KU for his A.B. and M.A. degrees. As a KU German-American exchange student he studied in Leipzig from 1930-31. He has held technical posts with local governmental agencies and the federal government, and now is director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of Tennessee.
He will speak on "The Problem of the Municipal Fringe Area" before the city clerks at 2:30 p.m. in the Pine room, and on "Future Trends in American Public Administration" at 7 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union.
Weather
Temperatures dwindled in Kansas again last night but the raw winds of Sunday and early Monday
reported temperature over night was 11 degrees at L e a v e nworth. Olathe had 14, Topeka, Goodland and Emporia 15. Others w e r e slightly hi gher, ranging up to 23 at Dodge City. But skies will be
cloudy tonight and tomorrow. No moisture is predicted. Low temperatures tonight will be 20 to 30. The top Wednesday will be in the 50's in Southwestern Kansas, and in the 40's over the remainder of the state.