Page 2 University Daily Kansav Wednesday. Jan. 14, 1953
"Act indifferent and nonchalent as you trace over my old drawings an' no one will know yer no art student."
Union Preview Dazzles Writer
We had a sneak preview of the new Student Union the other day, and to say the effect was dazzling would be putting it lightly.
We have seen a great many Student Unions in various parts of the country, but none of them can compare with ours as to facilities, beauty, and comfort.
The only question in our minds is how many students will make use of our Union. We hope all of them.
With the program that Frank Burge, Union director, and the Student Union Activities board has planned for the opening and the coming year, the new building should have close to 100 per cent student usage.
If the proposed plans for weekly dances in the new ballroom and Kansas room are followed, many students should be relieved of the rather tedious job of trying to get on the jammed floors in the various "dance palaces" on the outskirts of town.
All organizations should, and will, be proud to hold their affairs and dances in the modern rooms of the Union. There isn't a ballroom in Lawrence or Kansas City that can compare with our new one. We hope that all the students who aren't working Feb. 27, will be at the opening to utilize it, and see why we, who have seen it, can't stop talking about it.
Rather than the drab affair it used to be, the Union is now an ideal place to drop into with a date. Instead of driving around town trying to find something to do, students can now spend the night at the Union either at the nightly dance in the Trail room, or browsing in the reading or music room, or just being comfortable and meeting friends in the Lounge.
Feb. 27 will be your time to see what the University has given you. Let's all try to make it a 100 per cent turn out to show our appreciation for the effort put into the building. —Don Moser.
Maybe there's hope yet for those holiday cheerers who insist on gambling with statistics. We've heard a lot lately about the "one for the road" that's served up in things that look suspiciously like coffee cups. Seems the modern Carry Nation buried the hatchet—but she's still percolating.
The Old Soldiers didn't fade away much in '52. Ike got drafted for a different tour of duty and Mac is still teaching his aide dramatics and Korean strategy.
Flashbacks
The University will not follow the example set by the University of Missouri yesterday in raising fees for out of state students.
JANUARY 14
5 Years Ago
The question of just what to do about the University Daily Kansan now that it has been investigated by the ASC was left unsolved at the council meeting Tuesday.
A leap year king will be elected at the March of Dimes dance sponsored by Alpha Omega Feb. 16, Robert Petitty, committee chairman announced today.
10 Years Ago
Scholarship standings have been averaged for the various schools by the registrar for the school year of 1941-42.
Dr. Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics, has been commissioned a captain in the Army and reports to Ft. Warren, Wyo., where he will serve as a labor relations officer in the Quartermaster corps.
The offering of mathematics, basic subject for all war specialized training, has increased more than 250 per cent at the University since the outbreak of the war it was announced today.
In a mighty comeback, after losing to the University of Oklahoma the night before 45 to 19, the Jayhawkers nosed out the Oklahoma Aggies last night at Stillwater 34 to 31.
25 Years Ago
The "King's Henchman" has been booked to play at the University Wednesday, Jan. 25, Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts announced today. He said this play promises to be one of the best musical attractions in connection with the University concert course.
Campus Events This Week
WEDNESDAY
University band: Annual winter con cert, p.m., Hoch auditorium.
THURSDAY
Basketball game: KU and Kansas State,
1:30 p.m. Hoch auditorium.
Opera workshop: Two excerpts: Act II, Scene 1 of "Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart and parts of Scenes 2 and 3 of "Piazza," Leoncavallo. At 3 o'clock in Fraser theater.
SATURDAY
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Ike Seen as 'Umpire' In Taft-Dewey Dispute
Upon incoming President Eisenhower will very much depend whether there is to be serious friction between the Taft and Dewey elements of the Republican party after it assumes administration responsibilities.
If there is serious friction, it is more likely to come on foreign policy than on domestic policy. Developments in the first week of the new 83rd Congress indicate that all of this is in the minds of Sen. Robert A. Taft and some of his fellow Republican senators.
Senator Taft and his Senate allies are maneuvering to obtain more control over United States foreign policy, just in case they need a little more punch to impress their views upon the administration.
That is the reason Sen. Homer Ferguson (R.-Mich) is resigning from membership on the Senate judiciary committee, a spot which any Senate lawyer would value almost beyond any other. Senator Ferguson will use his seniority privileges to claim membership on the Senate foreign relations committee.
Senator Taft, also, is expected to swap his valued membership on the Senate finance committee for foreign relations. Both Senator Ferguson and Senator Taft, thereby, will sacrifice committee seniority and postpone by years any claim they might have on a major committee chairmanship.
To Senator Taft has been attributed a remark that he could leave the finance committee without anxiety because of its fixed conservative tendencies. It is fair to believe that Senator Taft had in mind partly the membership of the finance committee but, more especially, the fact that its new Republican chairman will be Sen. Eugene D. Millikin of Colorado.
On finance committee matters, Senator Taft and Senator Millikin never are far apart. Sen. Alexander Wiley (R.-Wis.) will be new chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee. On that committee's business, Senator Taft and Senator Wiley are not likely often to be close together.
The Taft-Ferguson combination could be a quick brake on Senator Wiley's tendency to march with the Republican forces led by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. President-elect Eisenhower could create serious friction by all-out support of either of the conflicting party elements.
His best chance to avoid it would be to become the moderator or umpire in the argument which almost surely must arise between them on how much money shall be sent abroad, where and for what. —United Press.
Book Review
New C. S. Lewis Book States Ideas Concisely
Case for Christianity, by Olive Staples Lewis. New York: the Macmillan company, 87 pages.
"Case for Christianity" was first published in England under the title of "Broadcast Talks." C. S. Lewis gave these talks over the radio under the titles of "Right and Wrong" and "What Christians Believe." ___
He has written numerous other books concerning religious subjects. Best known are "Out of the Silent Planet," "The Screwtape Letters," and "The Problem of Pain."
He has begun with a basic discussion of right and wrong. Unless right is recognized and understood, Dr. Lewis believes there is no meaning in religion.
In "Case for Christianity" Dr. Lewis maintains that Christianity either has to be a myth or it is a matter of life and death—that Christ either had to be the Son of God or else a madman or something worse. There is no halfway mark of belief or disbelief.
"All men have some rule of fair play or decent behavior or morality or whatever you like to call it, about which they really are agreed," according to Dr. Lewis. If they didn't, men would fight like animals, he says.
Yet, he maintains, man cannot discover which view, religious or materialistic, is right by mere science. This is because science works by
experiments and how things behave not with factors beyond the material universe.
Dr. Lewis believes that humanity is on the wrong road, and going back is the quickest way on. His definition of progress is simply getting nearer the place desired.
The second part of the book reemphasizes the idea of right and wrong to give the essentials of belief shared by all churches at the present time.
Dr. Lewis says there is no simple religion, for real things are not simple. Reality is always something you couldn't have guessed, and Christianity is a religion you couldn't have guessed.
His entire case for Christianity is presented in a logical manner. This technique of writing, plus the fact that C. S. Lewis is a layman and was a non-Christian for many years, adds a touch of sincerity, honesty, and understanding to an extremely interesting handling of a much discussed question.
The book is fast moving, and its simple and concise wording for radio broadcast has made it an appealing book to those who do not care for flowery and long-winded paragraphs of technical explanation and reasoning. This book says in almost 90 pages what most other contemporary authors discuss the same topic would take 200 to 350 pages to explain.
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Mary Cooper
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