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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1951
Values Indicated In Usual Choices, Realey Says
In the everyday choices of movies, books, newspaper items, records, topics of conversation, magazines and brand of tobacco, the standards of value of a person are indicated, Charles B. Realey, professor of history, said Tuesday night in the third humanities lecture.
Professor Realey is the 22nd lecturer to appear in the series which was stared in 1947.
Everyone is a humanist, he said. Approaching the subject from the historical angle, he went back to the Middle Ages, the time when universities were first being founded.
The humanities were practical and philosophic then. Professor Realey said.
"Now they seem to be regarded as strictly classical." he complained.
"so strictly classical," he complained. Students went to school to enable them to hold a good job, and a study of the humanities was essential, he said.
He said that the philosophic may be defined as the love of wisdom which is knowledge with perception to use it. Philosophy is not merely a three hour course to be entered on a transcript, nor is it a monopoly of the philosophy department, he said.
Two sides of the humanities were described by Professor Realey: the practical side, which enables a student to better understand the world about him, and the philosophic side.
The philosophic approach was common in most subjects, he explained. Music was not a subject strictly for playing, it was more of a philosophy of life.
"Practice of music was allocated to performers, not musicians," he added.
During the Italian renaissance a study of the humanities was very desirable from a practical stand-point, Professor Realey said. Law secretaries who had studied Latin and Greek could go far in the field of diplomacy. With pressure from those who were educated in the humanities, the nobility blocked to the Universities to study Latin in order to compete for government jobs, he explained.
When college administrators try to establish a humanities course today, they group the physical and social sciences. But other courses are thrown into a pot and all come out as the humanities, he said.
Thus humanities must possess a standard of value, a personal experience and do not necessarily lead to objective answers. They apply to literature, philosophy, fine arts, journalism and the philosophic side of history.
Professor Realey said the humanities are concerned with intellectual virtues and not mechanical skills.
Sees Crime Curb In Draft Tests
Chicago (U.P.)—The government's plan to give college students draft deferment tests may drive the boys out of the beer halls and curb a campus wave of cheating and stealing, according to a prominent educator.
Clifford Houston, dean of students at the University of Colorado, said college boys are so anxious about being drafted they've taken to "taverns and beer halls to try to drown their sorrows."
The same type of worries has led to "stealing, cheating and other anti-social manifestations," he said. "The recent clarification of the administration's draft deferment policy might improve morale greatly," he told the National Conference On Higher Education yesterday.
The Truth At Last
Provo, Utah (U.P.)—A sign in the window of a beauty salon in Provo reads: "We can give you the new look if you have the old parts."
ROGER P. BUTTS
Butts To Give Senior Recital
Roger Butts will present his senior piano recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. The public is invited to attend.
Butts is a student of Jan Chianpuso, professor of piano. Butts began his piano study at the age of seven, with Mrs. Wayne Nicholas. At the University he has appeared as soloist with the University orchestra, the University band, and the Men's Glee Club. He has been the accompanist for the glee club the past four years. He has given recitals in several cities in Kansas and Missouri, his home state.
Tonight's program will include "Variations on a Theme of Handel" by Brahms; "Sonatine" by Ravel; "Ballade in G minor" and "Nocturne in D flat major" by Chopin; "Three Etudes" by Casadesus, and "Polonaise in E maior" by Liszt.
Butts is a member of Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity Phi Kappa Tau, social fartternity, the Drum and Bugle corps, the Apero club and the A.R.O.T.C. After graduation he will receive a commission as a second lieutenant and be sent to navigation school.
Quack Club Has 22 New Members
Twenty-two women have been pledged to the Quack club, women's swimming group, Judith Veath, president, has announced.
A meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Robinson gymnasium swimming pool for the new pledges.
Saturday is the picture deadline for seniors in the Schools of Education, Fine Arts, and Journalism, persons receiving degrees from the Graduate School, and those who have not been pictured in previous issues of the 1951 Jayhawker.
They are Beverly Siemon, College junior; JoAnne Wellman, education junior; Marilyn Kendall and Nancy Glenn, College sophomores; Darlene Schindler, Elizabeth Egensperger, and Jerre Mueller, education sophomores; Kay Lambert and Nancy Lichty, fine arts sophomores.
Millecant Morris, Patricia Gillespie, Sally Duke, and Martha Lawrence, College freshmen; Nancy Gilchrist, Jean Denny, Jean Squires, and Pat Schrader, education freshmen; Nina Newman, Penelope Hoover, Nan Mosby, and Mary Gayle Loveless, fine arts freshmen; and Carolyn Wakefield, College freshman.
Bill Howell, editor, stressed the importance of having these pictures taken immediately, for Saturday is the last possible date on which pictures can be taken of those who wish to appear in the 1951 Jayhawker.
The studios of Graham, Hixon, or O'Bryon are taking the pictures, with or without appointment.
Saturday Is Deadline For Annual Pictures
Fleagle Gets Prison Term On Guilty Plea
David Keith Fleagle, former University student, pleaded guilty today to counts of second degree burglary and grand larceny and was sentenced to the Kansas Industrial Reform school at Hutchinson by Hugh B. Means, judge of the district court.
Fleagle was charged Feb. 24 with seven counts of grand larceny and one count of burglary in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house burglary between semesters.
Nervous and unshaven. Fleagle told Judge Means, "I don't know how I got into it—I met a person and they suggested it. I went along—it was all my fault, though."
"just a little juvenile stuff—having liquor one time when I was in the eighth grade," was the answer.
"Were you ever in any other trouble?" asked the judge.
Fleagle was arrested Feb. 23 in Lawrence carrying a suitcase containing loot from the Kappa Kappa Gamma burglary.
Fleagle was charged only with the Kappa house burglary. All but two of the eight counts of burglary and grand larceny were dropped at the request of A. B. Mitchell, Fleagle's court-appointed lawyer.
He subsequently confessed to robbing five other organized houses, the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house last Thanksgiving vacation, the Delta Gamma and Alpha Omicron Pi sorority houses, and Sigma Nu and Phi Beta Pi fraternity houses during Christmas vacation.
The former student was sentenced to from five to ten years on the burglary charge and not more than five years on the charge of grand larceny. The sentences are to run consecutively, which is unusual in a first offense.
All of Fleagle's thefts occurred before he enrolled at the University following his mid-term graduation from the University High school.
Sheriff Glass said that the stolen items can now be returned to their owners. Students may come to the sheriff's office in the county jail Thursday and pick up their articles.
Fleagle's mother was composed as she watched her son sentenced. No other relatives were at the trial.
Business Students Order Straws Today
Orders for straw hats for all business school students are being taken in the west end of the basement of Strong hall. Orders will be taken today, Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday. The price is $2 and the hats will be available tw oweeks after orders are placed.
Tryouts Today For Play Cast
Tryouts for the cast of a full-length original play by William J. Sollner will be at 3 p.m. today in the basement of Green hall. All University students are invited to tryout.
Logan To Head FACTS Slate
James Logan, business junior, is the F.A.C.T.S. candidate for All Student Council president. He was selected in the party primary Tuesday to head a slate o fthirty candidates.
Donovan Hull, College junior; Hal Cleavinger, College sophomore; and Phillip Hahn, College freshman; are the candidates for president of the senior, junior, and sophomore classes respectively.
Other candidates are as follows:
Other candidate fates as follows:
Division men Lyle Anderson, representative Lyle Anderson,
Dirks, Thomas Murphy, Madison Murray, and Thomas Reynolds.
Division I: women A.S.C. representatives, Christine Johnson and Shirley Piatt.
Division III: women A.S.C. representatives, Beverly Barnhardt and Sue Swartz.
Division II: A.S.C. representatives, Clayton Comfort, Frank Exter, and William Stinson.
Division III: men A.S.C. representatives, Robert Casad, Neil McNeil Otis Simmons, and Dean Werries.
Other senior class candidates are Helen Maduros, vice-president; Suzanne Plummer, secretary; and James Lovett, treasurer.
Other junior class candidates are Phyllis Fink, vice-president; Shirley Thomson, secretary; and Barbara Thompson, treasurer.
Division IV: A.S.C. representative,
Chester Lewis.
Other sophomore class candidates are Vicki Rosenwald, vice-president; Martha Thomson, secretary; and Norma Hollingsworth, treasurer.
Don Mellett's campaigns, which later became so bitter, began quietly enough.
James K. Hitt, registrar, who administered the tests, said three men passed all four sections of the examinations. They are Wallace Richard Keene, '48, Kansas City, Kan; Mearle M. Mickens, '48, Pittsburg; and Jack H. Matthews, '48. Fredonia.
Seven School of Business graduates passed the recent Certified Public Accountant examinations.
Seven Graduates Pass CPA Exams
On November 8, 1925, the News launched what appeared to be
Four of the 11 who passed one or two remaining subjects are Herbert Cohen, '50, Kansas City, Kan.; Harry A. Wilber, '49, Kansas City, Kan.; Raymond H. Olinger, '50, Kansas City, Mo.; and Howard E. Meyer, '50, Kansas City, Kan.
Canton, Ohio, was referred to as "Little Chicago" when Don Ring Mellett was editor of the Canton News in 1925.
Lecture Friday To Honor Don Mellett, Crusading Ohio Editor Killed In 1926
Because of his vigorous newspaper campaign against social and civic corruption in Canton, Mellett was shot in the back and killed by assassins on July 16. 1923.
Each year since 1929, a U. S. university or college sponsors the Don R. Melllett Memorial lecture, and Friday, April 6, will mark the second time the lecture has been held at the University.
Canton had tong killings that were hooked up to Chicago and Pittsburgh tong wars. In the Jungle (the Canton slum district) Black Hand murders were common.
When Mellett was editor of the Canton News, Canton was a city of 107,000 persons. In the 1920's Canton was a raw, booming, workingman's factory city. There were few labor unions, and powerful industrialists and bankers controlled the town.
merely a circulation stunt: It hired the Marvel Man, who could read lips, to go about town and eavesdrop on conversations.
One week after this, the headline — "Traffic in Dope Uncovered," appeared. The Marvel Man had spotten an addict and peddler. Mellett ran a series of articles on vice conditions in Canton.
Before his struggle was over, he became entangled with an unsavvy lot of bootleggers, narcotics peddlers, gunmen, policemen and politicians. Mellett crushed for several months against public officials (especially the chief of police) who, he charged, were allied with the criminals of Canton.
A policeman testified, "The chief of police said that we would have to loosen up on the underworld in
Demonstration Contest To Open Speaking Series
The fourth annual Intramural speaking series will begin with try-outs for a demonstration speaking contest, at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in Green hall. Finals for the same contest will be at 7.30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in Green hall.
Sponsored by the Forensic league, with the co-operation of the department of speech and drama, the Intramural events are arranged into separate divisions for men and women. Women will speak in 103 Green, for both tryouts and finals. Men will speak in 104 Green.
The demonstration speaking event will be followed in successive weeks by an informative speaking contest and an after-dinner speaking contest. Tryouts for the informative speaking will be Tuesday, April 17, and the finals, Thursday, April 19. Tryouts for the after-dinner speaking will be Tuesday, April 24, and the finals, Thursday, April 26. All speaking programs will begin at 7:30 p.m. The same room assignments in Green will hold throughout the series.
The first event, demonstration speaking, may involve any subject matter which places primary emphasis on some visual performance, said William Conboy, faculty director of the contest. Pictures, charts, musical instruments, pantomime, blackboard drawings, or pieces of equipment may be used. The talks are to be five to eight minutes in length.
Engraved trophies will be awarded to the individual winners, both men and women, of each event. In addition, grand trophies will be given to the two organized houses or groups—one men's and one women's—which amass the most points in the three events.
Points for the grand trophies will be calculated on the following basis; participation, for each contest entered (maximum of three for any one event), 10 points; first place in any one contest, 50 points; second place, 35 points; third place, 25 points.
In last year's contests, Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi Kappa were the women's and men's organizational winners respectively. Delta Gamma and Phi Delta Theta were the runners-up.
All regularly enrolled students are eligible to participate except members of the Forensic league, varsity debate squad, Delta Sigma Rho, and any students who have won first, second, or third in any major campus speaking contests (excepting intramural events of previous years).
Rumors had it that policemen rode the bootleggers' beer trucks to protect them against hi-jackers. The exclusive gambling privileges in Cauton were said to be worth $30,000 a year.
order to swing the underworld votes. Everybody did it at election time."
Mellett was successful in having the chief of police and the mayor removed from office. He had evidence against two other officials which he was to present two days after he was shot in the back while putting his car in the garage.
After his murder, Canton gangsters continued unopposed, and the chief of police was reinstated. But regardless of the situation in Canton, Mellett's influence has been recognized in the field of journalism. Newspapers realized that his murder put the press itself on trial
Canton's only memorial to the crusading editor is the Mellett building, the old Canton News building, renamed by its owner and now occupied by a household appliance agency, and dentists' and other offices.
Senior Physical Exams Now
Seniors who want physical examinations before June for job placement or for routine check-up should make appointments now at Watkins hospital.