Page 2 University Daily Kansan ... Friday. February 6. 1953 Religious Week Can Help Student This year Religious Emphasis week will be held Feb. 15 to 19. This event has been planned to meet the needs and interests of students, faculty members, and staff of the University. It's success and meaning can only be determined by the support and enthusiasm expressed by attendance at the various meetings. In the past, many such worthwhile projects have suffered and flopped because of the lack of interest on the part of students. Perhaps attendance has been low because of the lack of adequate or sufficient publicity and information concerning the events. But it is more probable that the reason is due to the "don't care" or "too busy" attitude of the students. Speakers have been selected and invited who will add a great deal to the message which can be derived simply from the theme. These men are experts in their area of endeavor. The theme for this year's Religious Emphasis week is "Faith: Intelligent and Imperative." This topic heading has meaning in the lives of individuals today. The subject is of definite concern to inhabitants of the uncertain and non-plannable world of today. College graduates too often bemoan the fact that they didn't take advantage of the numerous educational and cultural opportunities presented them while in school. Here is a splendid project, an event which, if given support, can be of tremendous individual and collective importance. Mary Cooper. Faculty Pick Queen; Unfair to Dog Lover Knock the faculty if you will, fellow students, but give 'em credit where credit is due. Have you ever seen anything to compare with the racket the old boys have cooked up in queen contests on the Hill? I can't recall a queen contest held in this school that the young loveliess of our school participated in—when their talenters weren't paraded before the eyes of, you guessed it, faculty members. It really isn't their fault either, because so many faculty members are married. At least this is how most of the students soften their criticism. Even in the rare instances when faculty members are not called upon to drool over the women, nature has chosen to endow with rare physical traits and band leaders and the like get the nod of sponsoring organizations. No matter. All of them turn in the same decisions. Always the girl the other girls will say is so "sweet, kind, and so much fun," when they're fixing you up with a blind date. What's the solution? I don't know—but a suggestion or two I'd love to make. First of all, knock out all the queen contests. For every winner there are more than a dozen who's ego gets a bad knock. Second, since the first isn't likely to be approved, make one or two queen contests a year real live projects. Let any two dozen guys who get together and put up a potential winner, receive recognition, if their taste turns out to agree with a majority in a subsequent vote contest—in which the entire school participates. Keep it a queen contest, not a sidelight for a dance. If you could take just a speck of the enthusiasm generated in these present farces, the queen contests would be the main attraction—not the dance. Recently a new low was hit. The Sigma Nu's entered a dog as a candidate, and won! (In all fairness it must be pointed out that the animal was selected over men vying for "Little Man on the Campus" honors.) You see, when there are so many someones, then no one is anyone! And now they're slapping this egg-head treatment on the animal kingdom. That's the reason for this treatise. I'm a dog lover.—Don Sarten. A regulation polo field is 300 yards long and 160 yards wide. A polo goal is 24 feet wide. Letters Red Label Threat Hinders Education To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: "I's our present educational policy of hands off the subject of communism beneficial to world understanding?" I am sure this question has been asked by many people better informed than I. There are questions that I would like to have answered, questions which are of importance to every American citizen. There are two great powers in the world today, America and Russia. I can learn, am required to learn, about the American form of government and the ideals represented in our Constitution; but what do I as a college student, know about Russia, its government and people? What class is offered that will teach me about these things? My professors would rather not discuss the subject either in class or in private and with good reasons, too. Look at the number of teachers and professors that have been laughed at or lost their jobs. American college students are having a vital part of their education purposefully ignored. Surely if communism is the threat to democracy that newspapers, radio commentators and magazine articles lead us to believe, it is important that we have an understanding of the problem with which we are faced; but everyone seems to be scared. Our government is certainly justified in worrying about communist infiltration of our schools; young minds are most impressionable, and also the most idealistic. Communism preached in theory sounds Utopian, and that is why I feel that young people today need practical knowledge of communism and how it works. POGO Here at my University, courses in the study of biology and Western Civilization are required for students in the College; and while such knowledge will undoubtedly be useful to me at a later date, I cannot help feeling that an understanding of community will be much more in making me whole while citizen, qualified to vote with intelligence and capable of being useful, working part of our democracy. The late President Roosevelt said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Those words have as much, if not more, meaning and application today than they did when he uttered them. Might it not be that education of American youth is the answer to the maze of political intrigue and misunderstanding that is cripping our efforts for peace? Margot Baker College freshman UNIT NORTH Daily Hansan University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 373 Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn. 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Dale Novotny Mail subscription rates; $3 a semester or $5 per quarter. Mail subscription rates in Lawn- ward, published in Lawnward, Kan. every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University weekends. Mail subscription rates in the second class matter. 17, 19, 101, at Lawrence, Kan., Post Office under act of March 3, 1879. Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler "New faculty member named Carter—beginning teacher, single—no dependents." single—no dependents. Summerfield Obtains Post Office Plum Arthur E. Summerfield upon being confirmed by the Senate has assumed the duties of postmaster general. This was an expected appointment. The plum that usually goes to successful national committee chairman. Mr. Summerfield earned his appointment, because the election campaign was a tough one. Perhaps he would rank will salve his political ambitions. As chairman of the Republican national committee, he did a superb job of fund raising and organizing a loose coalition of politicians into a united party. No doubt the campaign was a nightmare of strategy conferences, traveling, gladhanding, and general backslapping. Mr. Summerfield held a closed conference six or seven times a day. He apparently loved every minute of it. Mr. Summerfield is a businessman, perhaps fit to take a leading part in the new administration's plans for the post office. The Re-organization will increase in service and operating efficiency with a minimum of cost. Mr. Summermield was born in Pinconning, Michigan, on March 17, 1899, the son of a storekeeper. He quit school with an eighth grade education, and after World War I he and his father became real estate brokers. In 1929, he opened a Chevrolet agency in Flint, Mich., and by the start of World War II, he had made it into the biggest agency in Michigan, where car dealers don't come small. In 1938, he became president of Bryant Properties corporation, a holding company. In 1942, he be- come chairman of the Michigan Auto Dealers association. He first became interested in politics in 1940, when he organized a committee to support Wendell Wilkie. In 1943, he was a member of the postwar planning commission for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In 1944, he became a Republican national committeeman. By 1946, he was regional vice chairman of the committee, and executive vice chairman of the Republican national strategy committee. But Mr. Summerfield didn't come into his own until the Republican national convention last summer. He went to that convention in nominal control of the 46 delegates from Michigan. He gave no indications of his choice for the presidential nominee during the months leading up to the convention, despite a conference in Paris with President Eisenhower and several talks with Sen. Taft. But he and Gov. Fine of Pennsylvania carefully organized the convention in favor of President Eisenhower. When Ike was nominated, Mr. Summerfield grabbed the Michigan standard and led the demonstration. Some of the political observers on the scene thought that Mr. Summerfield would have preferred Sen. Taft, but did not think that he could win. He has succeeded in gathering enough money for the Republicans to enable them to run up a bill for $400 million on broadcasts during the campaign. Immediately after Ike's nomination, the General named Mr. Summerfield as his choice for Republican national chairman. Ike insisted on a midwestern because he wanted to avoid charges of Wall Street domination. At times, Mr. Summerfield has been almost too successful in the political arena. He once gathered so much money for the Republicians that a grand jury inquired into the matter, although nothing came of it. Mr. Summerfield's success has been limited to helping someone else. He ran for secretary of state, and again for governor in Michigan, and was beaten both times. Now that he has achieved his ambition of a political post, perhaps businessman Summerfield can contribute something to the efficiency of the post office department. Dean Evans. Short Ones The college cynic believes that Douglas county can stop worrying about the water situation as all the professors will soon be spouting again. - * * The recent floods in Holland have sent feature writers madly thumbing through their childhood books to paraphrase the old leak in the dike story.