UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951
Sociologist Tells Of Population, Age Problems
An increase in population is not always a blessing. Miss Esther Twente, professor of social work, said Sunday in a lecture over KLWN.
Miss Twente spoke on "Population Changes in Kansas" and also about old-age problems. She was the fourth lecturer in a series presented by the department of sociology,
The population of Kansas is at an all-time high, Miss Twente said. At present the population is 1,895,000 an increase of 5.2 per cent over 1940. In Douglas county the population has increased 35.1 per cent, while dwelling units have increased only 17.5 per cent. This means a housing shortage and strain on community facilities, she said.
"If population grows too rapidly, the country cannot keep pace with its facilities," Miss Twente pointed out.
Miss Twente indicated there has been a tremendous increase in the population of persons over 65. She said two results which come from not employing persons over 65 are greater strain on those who are employed and must take care of the old folks, and a robbing of the community of potential possibilities of citizens.
"Persons of 65, 75, and 85 are not really old." Miss Twente said, "because they are still young in spirit."
Carrall D. Clark, professor of sociology, will speak Sunday in the fifth lecture in the series.
Architects To Initiate
Three men will be initiated into the recently established University chapter of Tau Sigma Delta, honorary architecture fraternity, at a banquet at 6:30 tonight at the Castle Tea room.
The initiates are Theodore Arsenberg, engineering junior, and Dudley Wallace Benton and Richard Jordison, graduate students.
Prof. Paul Weigel, head of the department of architecture and applied arts, Kansas State college, will be the principal speaker. Twenty persons from the Kansas State chapter will attend the banquet. William Hayward, engineering senior, will be toastmaster.
The University chapter of Tau Sigma Delta was started in January by eight charter members. There are now 11 members, five honorary.
The purpose of the society is the encouragement and a award of achievement in architecture, land-scaping, and allied arts of design.
Present officers of the fraternity are William Hayward, president; Martin Kaufman, vice-president; John D. Miller, secretary; Prof. Joseph Kellogg, faculty adviser.
University Club To Hear Newsmen
Two prominent journalists and a University law professor will make up the panel for a University Club discussion at 8 p.m. Thursday. The audience will participate in discussing the topic, "Are We Headed Toward War, Peace, or Armed Stalemate?" Club members may bring guests.
The speakers will be Robert J. Blakely, editorial page editor of the St. Louis Star-Times; Joseph Lee, editorial writer on the Topeka State Journal; and Dr. Robert McNair Davis, professor of law. Richard B. Stevens, Lawrence attorney, will be moderator of the panel and the general discussion which will follow.
Mr. Blakely will be in Lawrence to deliver the Don R. Mellett Memorial lecture at 4 p.m. Friday in Strong auditorium.
THESE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS debaters are champions of the Missouri Valley Forensic league. From left to right are Eugene Balloun, Harold Lee Turner, Profs. Kim Giffin, and E. C. Buehler, coaches; Kent Shearer, and Steve Mills.
The large trophy in the center is the debate challenge trophy. Flanking it are the cups won by Shearer as he turned the tournament into a "Russell Achievement Day" by winning the oratory contest and taking second in extempore.
KU Debaters Take First In Missouri Valley Meet
Four University debaters won nine out of 12 debates to take first place in the annual Missouri Valley Forensic tournament at the University of Oklahoma during Easter vacation.
Representing the University were Eugene Balloun, business senior; Steve Mills, and Kent Shearer, College seniors, and Lee Turner, 2nd year law.
Turner and Balloun, the K.U. negative team, won five out of six debates. Mills and Shearer, on the affirmative, won four out of six contests. Turner was the highest ranking individual speaker among the four Kansas speakers.
The question debated concerned the adoption of the Point-Four program proposed by President Truman.
Shearer won first place in the oratorial event with his presentation of "Recipe for Suicide." This speech, which also won the Lorraine Buehler oratorial contest, concerned the attitude of the United States toward other countries in the present crisis. Shearer also placed second in the extemporaneous speaking event at the tournament.
Ranking behind Shearer in the oratorical contest were students from Texas university and Nebraska university, who placed second and third respectively.
Eleven schools participated in the tournament. Wichita university, and Colorado university tied for second
YWCA Elects President, Cabinet
Kathryn Conrad, College sophomore, was elected president of the Y.W.C.A. in the election held March 22. The new senior cabinet and junior cabinet were announced at the close of the barbershop quartet contest in Strong auditorium.
The other officers on the senior cabinet are: Jean Almon, vice-president; Virginia Mackey, secretary; Ann Wagner, treasurer; Jerry Hesse, district representative; Karolyn Bloom and Joanna Mitchell, student religious council; and Helen Maduros. All Student Council representatives.
The officers of the junior cabinet are: Barbara Allen, president; Mary Ream, vice-president; Norma Lou Falleta, secretary; Margaret Black, treasurer; Mary Lynn Updegraff, publicity; Janis Murphy, program; Susan Farney, projects; and Naney Gilcrest, social.
Campfire Chief Seeks Workers
Mrs, J. A. Noid, personnel director of Campfire girls, will interview women who are interested in working with that organization in the dean of women's office between 1:30 and 4 p.m. Wednesday.
with eight victories and four defeats. Washington university of St Louis placed third with a seven and five record.
Accompanying the debaters to Norman, Okla, for the tournament were Prof. E. C. Buehler, director of forensics, and Dr. Kim Giffin, director of debate. Next year's Missouri Valley tournament will be held at K.U.
Professor Buehler said that in the league's 18 years, K.U. has contributed eight champions in oratory and eight in extempore. However the debate title was the first in nearly a decade after several "almost."
Prof. E. C. Buehler, director of forensics, was again named executive secretary of the Missouri Valley Forensic league.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott was elected president of the Association of Naval R.O.T.C. Colleges and Universities at its annual meeting Monday in Chicago.
Malott To Head NROTC Group
Dances, Christmas caroling parties,
and many other functions were
sponsored by various student or-
ganizations, with proceeds going
into the chapel fund.
News Contest To Be Held
R. Q. Brewster, professor of chemistry, headed a faculty committee that presented $686 to the building fund.
Danforth chapel is officially almost five years old. Dedication ceremonies were held April 2, 1946, and the building was accepted on behalf of the state by the then governor Andrew Schoeppel at an all-student convocation. Actually, the chapel was in use before it was dedicated.
5-Year-Old Danforth Chapel Has Had Over 350 Weddings
Leonard H. Axe, dean of the School of Business, was largely responsible for finding and procuring the building material. Dean Axe found an old fence of native limestone two miles south of U.S. 40 between Topela and Lawrence. The
The Endowment association presented funds from the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins.
In the contest held last year, there were 647 entires from 65 Kansas high schools. Entries came from schools with enrollments of 23 to 2400 students. This was an all-time record in the number of entries.
Edward Tanner, head architect for the J. C. Nichols company of Kansas City, Mo, designed the structure as a memorial to his mother. Mr. Tanner was the first graduate of the University architecture department.
The chapel, which is open day and night, has been the setting for more than 350 weddings, the first of which was on March 20, 1946. That wedding took place even before the carpet was laid. The first baptism in the chapel was in April of 1947.
"This annual contest has stimulated friendly competition on many high school newspaper staffs, and we hope to get at least as many entries this year," Burton W. Marvin, Dean of the School of Journalism said.
William H. Danforth, chairman of the board of the Ralston Purina company in St. Louis, made the initial gift toward building the chapel. He and his wife also gave a marble baptismal font.
The William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information is conducting its 31st annual high school newspaper contest.
Presidents and representatives of 52 institutions met Monday with Rear Admiral Cary B. Jones, commandant of the ninth naval district, and officers from Washington. Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering and Architecture was the K.U. representative.
All entries submitted by Kansas high schools must be mailed to the School of Journalism by Saturday, April 7.
The building was made possible by the combined efforts of students, faculty members, and alumni.
Schools publishing a printed, lithographed, or mimeographed newspaper or conducting a page or department of school news in a local newspaper are invited to enter.
Eleven divisions covering news stories, editorialists, feature stories, human interest stories, interviews, sports stories, news and feature pictures, retail advertisement, service to school, business management, and a miscellaneous section will be judged.
discovery of the fence revealed a whole bed of the same kind of stone. The University bought the fence and the rock床 to use in the Chapel.
In April of 1947 Donald Kane, fine arts sophomore, won the contest for a design for the chapel hymnals. Mr. Kane, whose design was of a Gothic stained glass window, is now an instructor in design at the University.
Zoology Students Study Water Birds
Six students and H. B. Tordoff, instructor in zoology, observed birds for four days during Easter vacation on a field trip to central Kansas.
The group waded through Cheyenne Bottoms in Barton county and the salt marshes in Stafford county, and used boats to examine a wild life research area in Barber county. The trip was taken chiefly to observe the spring migration of water birds, but the group brought back research specimens of birds and small mammals, Mr. Tordoff said.
William Stallcup, graduate student, Robert Petitt, special student in the College, Thane Robinson, Warren Roberts, and Eugene Malone, College seniors, all students in Mr. Tordoff's ornithology class, and William Maben, College junior made the trip.
AWS Campaign Arouses Interest In ASC Election
A "Know your Candidate Week" is being sponsored by Associated Women Students. It will begin today and extend through Tuesday, April 10. All Student Council elections will be held Wednesday, April 11.
The purpose of the campaign is:
1. To urge students to vote in the coming All Student Council election.
2. To inform the student of the qualifications of the individual candidates.
The program will urge a wider student participation in campus elections, and a more informed voting body. The A.W.S. representatives feel that many students do not vote in A.S.C. elections because they do not know there is an election or who the candidates are.
The A.W.S. will place posters on the campus and, in the organized houses urging students to vote.
The poster committee includes Anne Lambert, fine arts sophomore, and Kay Roberts, College freshman. The A.W.S. house of representatives is publishing a newsletter which will give equal space and coverage to the candidates from each political party. Corena Belknap, College sophomore, is chairman of the newsletter committee, and Anna Jean Holfyield, College sophomore, is assistant chairman.
The committee for the "Know Your Candidate week" is; loretta Cooley, College sophomore; Arden Angst, Education junior; Mary Betz, College freshman; Emalene Gooch, College junior; Neda Butts, education junior; Beverly Jennings, College junior; Miss Belknap; Miss Holyfield.
Junior and senior majors in home economics should make appointments as soon as possible in the home economics office, 104 Fraser, for interview appointments with the Gas Service company Thursday.
Jobs Open In Home Ec
Interviews will also be conducted with junior majors interested in the summer apprenticeship course offered by the company.
Representatives of the home service department of the company will interview seniors interested in positions in that department.
The interviews will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in 108 Fraser.
Physics Group To Initiate Eight
Eight University students will be initiated into Sigma Pi Sigma, physics honor society, at a banquet early in May.
Those selected for membership in the society are Leo B. Conner, engineering senior; Walter C. Davis, College junior; Kenneth Hogman, education junior, and Gary Corman, Arthur Halliday, Lawrence Heinrich, Gerald Hollenbeck, and William McCormick, engineering juniors. Seniors: 10.2
The senior class needs a 10-
committee to work on publicity. Students
interested in writing, advertising,
layout work, or photography should
contact Bud Rodgers in the Daily
Kansas news room or phone 443.
KU Student Elected To Fraternity Post
Cornelius Reed, College sophomore, has been elected mid-west provincial strategus of Kappa Alpha Psi, social fraternity
Reed was elected at the provinci- a convention held in Muscogee Oklah- o, chapter 23 through 25. He was the K.U. chapter's delegate to the convention.
Lee Vertis Swinton, former student, and Earl Burton. College senior, both members of the K.U. chapter, received the fraternity's national achievement award.