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UNIVERSITY DAILY
Kansas State Historical Society
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1951
19th Year No. 14
Lawrence, Kansas
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Chakravarty Discusses Economic, Religious, Social Structure Of India
Dr. Amiya Chakravarty, in his third "Upsurge in Asia" lecture Tuesday night, told listeners that India has more continuity of social structure in spite of its sharp contrasts than many other countries which have greater economic and industrial strength.
He maintained that great civilization can be judge by its external economic lapses alone, but by the fruits and flowers of its spiritual achievement.
Chakravarty said that many outiders believe India to be divided and weak because of its caste system. He admitted that is partly true, but maintained that the thread which links the castes together is the fourfold concept of life practiced by the people of India.
India has a great wealth of spirit, noble architecture, and beautiful music which are continuities valuable to mankind, he said. However its economic system is crumbling
poem
An ancient Indian poet wrote,
"Though there be different kinds of
people, he who is a combination
of all will unite us."
Support Asia Malott Warns
Chicago—(U.P.) Deane W. Malot, president of Cornell university, told mission of the American Bankers' association convention today that Americans must turn their attention to Asia rather than to Europe to safeguard against the dangers of the future.
President Malott said that the problem of America's responsibility to the world "is not alone that of meeting Russian Communism."
"The outstanding problem in the world today is human misery," he said. "The downtrodden peoples in India, Asia and Africa constitute the greatest threat to world stability, the greatest challenge to our leadership.
leadership.
"Every Russian could die this morning, every Communist be obliterated, and this problem of underprivileged millions would still remain."
President Malott said that the United States "would go down to bankruptcy" if it attempted to solve the problems of underprivileged races merely by giving from the resources of the United States, nor could private enterprise alone do the job.
The nation must help through a "cooperative, friendly program, whereby capitalistic nations and newly-awakened peoples work together."
Mr. Malott said "I am convinced that the American way of life as we know it will not survive these brutal days of revolutionary change, without the militant and aggressive leadership of our bankers and financiers."
Here is where the four-fold concept of life enters in, Dr. Chakravarty said. This concept is designed for the man who wants to live the good, pure, life. It has no connection with the caste system and can cross its barriers easily. This concept is the thing which unites the people of India.
However, Dr. Chakravarty maintained that the cause for India's present chaotic condition is the caste system and the invasion of an agricultural land by mechanized foreign powers.
The importance of the mystical life has given the religious persons the highest rank. They are the true ruling class. This fact has caused the people to become too preoccupied with the religious life and nature to worry about economic and mechanical advancement.
The agricultural village was the norm, Dr. Chakravarty said. A person living in an Indian village was scrutinized by his neighbors every day of his life. Those who bore up under scrutiny and lived good lives and those who had particular spiritual advantages took responsibility and authority in the village. Consequently, the religious persons became the leaders.
Dr. Chakravarty asserted that the invasion of agricultural India by mechanized Great Britain caused Indian great hurt. It was a case of trying to merge to completely different civilizations. The British tried to make changes too quickly which
Seminar Thursday For Speech Workers
p. m. Thursday in Studio B All students interested in the field, including graduate students, are urged to attend, according to Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech.
The year's first seminar for those interested in speech correction work will be in the form of a coffee at 4 p.m. Thursday in Strong Annex
Those attending will have opportunity to confer with Miss Anderson, Richard Schiefelbusch, assistant professor of speech, and Miss Mriam Levitt of the Hearing clinic of the University of Kansas Medical center at Kansas City.
5 Chamber Music Concerts To Be In Strong Auditorium
Miss Anderson said a full program of speakers will be available at future meetings. ___
Forensic Review Discussed
view to be True is
Allen Crafton, professor of speech,
spoke on "How Culture Came to
Kansas." ___
The first concert will be Oct. 21 and will be given by Leslie Chabay, leading tenor of the Metropolitan
The Forensic league discussed plans Tuesday for their Forensic review to be Thursday, Oct. 18.
In contrast to the all-string offerings of past seasons, the program this year will provide a variety of instruments.
The 1951-52 Chamber Music series will include five concerts in the auditorium of Strong hall.
Unlike the Concert course, students must have season tickets to the Chamber Music series in order to be admitted, Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said. I.D. cards will not be honored. Special faculty rates are also available for season tickets, he said.
The second attraction, on Oct. 31, will be the Paganini quartet. Under the leadership of Henri Hemiana, the quartet performs on a set of matched Stradivarius instruments formerly owned by the violin virtuoso, Paganini.
Opera company, who will sing a program composed entirely of German lieder.
On Monday, Jan. 14, an evening of keyboard music written by Johann S. Bach will be presented by Rosalyn Tureck, pianist.
lyn Tureck, pianist The Albenari trio will be presented on successive Mondays, March 31 and April 7.
Even with all its present day problems, Dr. Chakravarty feels that India has managed to preserve the flame of spiritual insight.
weakened the structure of Indian civilization.
Forty-eight persons registered at campus booths Tuesday as volunteer donors for the October 10 visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile. Total registrations in the city this morning were 125 toward the goal of 200 this week.
Many students have indicated by post card report that they would be donors, Mrs. Chubb said. However, actual registration from which a Bloodmobile appointment can be made is effected only by completing a card at a campus boor or by phoning the downtown Red Cross office
48 Register To Give Blood
Mrs. H. B. Chubb, donor recruitment chairman, said the "response by K.U. students exceeded expectations."
Registration on the campus will be today. The Strong hall and information booth stations at 4 p.m. The booth in the Union lobby will be open 5 to 7 p.m. unless the quota is filled before that time.
quota is fixed. All blood received at this visitation of the Bloodmobile is for the armed forces, Mrs. Chubb emphasized. It has no connection with the local blood bank program. The department of defense has given the Red Cross the entire responsibility of providing whole blood and plagma for the armed forces.
Quill Offers $10 For Best Writina
A prize of $5 will be awarded for the best poem. All students entering manuscripts will be considered for membership in the Quill club. Submit entries to Mr. Sturgeon, 306 Fraser, before Monday, Nov. 26.
A $10 first prize will be awarded for the best short story or article submitted to the Quill club annual creative writing contest for undergraduates.
The recital of Reinhold Schmidt,
professor of voice, originally schedul
for Monday, Oct. 8, has been
postponed until Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Professor Schmidt will be assisten by Jan Chiapusso, pianist, and the University String quartet, composed of Raymond Cerf, first violin, Waldemar Geltch, second violin, Karel Blaas, viola, and Raymond Stuhl cello.
Stuh, ceno.
The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Strong hall auditorium. The public is invited. ___
Schmidt Recital Set For Oct.10
Business Senior Has Operation George Niles Warren, business senior, underwent an emergency operation at Watkins hospital Tuesday night. Hospital authorities report his condition as "good."
WEATHER
A cold edge knuffed slowly across Kansas, moving from west to east today, and temperature drops of from 10 to 15 degrees were expected in the areas the cold wave covers.
In extreme Western Kansas, during the night temperatures dropped to 44. The rest of the state had minimum readings in the 59's and 60's.
60' s.
The cool weather will be general over the state by Thursday, weathermen predict.
Topeka. Ks.
Foreign Reporter Here For Meetings
David M. Nichol, for 11 years a correspondent in Berlin and Moscow for the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, will speak at the University on Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27, at two meetings sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
At 2 p.m. Friday he will address a public convoitation in Strong hall auditorium and at 11 a.m. Saturday he will talk on the annual Kansas Editors' day program of the School of Journalism in Fraser theater.
Between 200 and 250 Kansas newspaper editors are expected to attend the annual Editors' day program.
Mr. Nichol will talk on world problems as he has seen them from both sides of the Iron Curtain. The sessions will be open to all who wish to attend.
DAVID M. NICHOL
Mr. Nichol, who is 39, has been regarded as one of the most authoritative foreign correspondents in Germany and Russia in recent years and last year was president of the foreign correspondents' association in Berlin.
Carillon Program Set For Tonight
The carillon program this evening wil include a group of French folk songs in addition to numbers written by Chopin, Mendelsohn, and Brahms.
The program, to start at 7 o'clock is as follows:
Gavotte and Double (De Fesch), Prelude, Opus 28, No. 7 (Chopin), Magali (Provençal), a Ma Main Droite J'ai un Rosier, Nous 'Mirons Plus au Bois, La Marion et le Bossu (Savoyard), Nocturne (Mendelssohn), Two Pieces for carillon (Nino Rota), Lullaby (Brahms), Variations for carillon on 'Diraije maman' (Lefevere), and Crimson and the Blue.
Pep Rally To Be 10:50 a.m. Thursday
A pep rally will be held in Fowler grove at 10:50 Thursday morning. Sponsored by the four pep clubs, the rally will be highlighted by short speeches by two of the varsity football players.
"We would like to see all of the student body turn out and really give the team a rousing sendoff to Colorado," said Dean Cole, president of the KuKu club. "The rally will be completed in time for students to get to class on time." Members of the pep clubs are required to wear their uniforms to the rally.
Fine Arts Senior's Design Wins $50
George Hixson, fine arts senior,
won a $50 honorable mention prize
in the 1951 Moss Rose competition for
woven fabric designs. His design was
chosen from more than 200 entries
submitted by students of 11 schools
in the United States.
A design entered by Jane Klooz, fine arts senior, was purchased for manufacture. Her design and that of Hixson will be featured in the 1951 fall line of decorator's fabrics by Rose.
After receiving his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1932 and his M.A. in political science from the same university in 1933, he edited the Iron River Reporter, a weekly newspaper in the upper peninsula of Michigan from 1933 to 1936. In the latter year he joined the Chicago Daily News reportorial staff.
when censorship was clamped upon correspondents in Germany, Nichol moved to Bern, Switzerland, from where he continued to report on nazi activities until his return to the United States in the spring of 1942.
In September, 1940, he flew to Berlin and landed there in the midst of an R.A.F. raid. His dispatches, until his departure the following June, pictured the Nazi world tightening its belt as the demands of the war increased.
1942. From the summer of 1942 until late in 1944 Mr. Nichol was stationed in Moscow, from where he made frequent excursions to various parts of the Russian front, including Stalingrad, and sent graphic eyewitness accounts of the war.
High School debate squads from cities and towns over Kansas will attend the debate institute to be held at the University on Saturday.
Mr. Nichol returned to Berlin in 1946. He has made a speciality of the questions connected with Allied occupation of Germany, of German recovery, and of the emerging governments in both the Soviet and Western zones.
He reported first-hand the breakup of Four-Power relationships, the Berlin blockade, the U.S. airlift, and the recent Communist Youth March in Berlin.
Teams of the Universities of Kansas and Nebraska will debate the question "Resolved: That all American citizens should be subject to conscription for essential service in time of war."
Mr. Nichol has made periodic trips into all zones of Germany and into surrounding countries for such varied assignments as a food congress in the Hague, spy trials in Szczecin, elections in Warsaw and the arrival of Mrs. Perle Mesta, U.S. minister, in Luxembourg.
The institute is designed to help high school debate teams in their tournaments. Different points of debate technique will be featured. There will be discussion and question and answer periods.
Debate Clinic Is Saturday
William A. Conboy, speech instructor, will be the general chairman. Other members of the University staff who will assist at the institute are Kim Giffin, Allan Crafton, Raton Smith, Kenneth Beasley and E. C. Buehler.
Young Democrats To Elect And Plan Picnic Thursday
Election of new officers and plans for a picnic will be made at the meeting of the Young Democrats club 7:45 p.m., Thursday, in 106 Green hall.
The Kansas High School Activities association, the University of Kansas, the University Extension and the department of speech will sponsor the institute.
A report will be given on the state convention of the Young Democrats recently held in Wichita.
Martha Ann Truman, 3rd year law, president invites all interested persons to attend.
No Free Coffee At Union
In Tuesday's issue of The Daily Kansan a story erroneously said that free coffee and cokes were available during television broadcasts in the student union. Cokes and coffee are available, but they are not free.