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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1950
US, Russian Policies Compared In Lecture
The ideas that America had no foreign policy for 150 years, that our diplomacy was inept, and that the American policy was isolationist until World War II were described as myths by Dr. George Anderson, professor of history, when he spoke Tuesday at the eighth "World In Crisis" lecture.
"We never were isolated from Europe," he said. "We never had a chance to be."
chance to be Dr. Oswald P. Backus, assistant professor in history, described the development of Russian foreign policy. This history is significant, he said, because "the Soviet Union today tends to follow a policy which indicates the consciousness of Russia's mission as outlined by 19th century thinkers."
Dr. Anderson said that the expansionism that characterized our first foreign policy was not imperialistic. "Every portion of acquired territory was admitted to the Union on an equal basis," he asserted.
He emphasized the importance of arbitration in our history. "The United States in the early part of the 20th century demonstrated its settled policy to explore every possible means for the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations."
"It is difficult to believe that we would be an independent nation today if the opportunistic, fragmentary, case approach that seems to be so much in vogue today had beer utilized when we were a much weaker nation," Dr. Anderson said.
Dr. Backus believes that Russia has been extremely concerned about her vulnerability to attack. "She has generally tended to avoid large-scale war, confining herself to minor attacks against weak neighbors," he said.
"To carry out her foreign policy Russia has made use of instruments which are remarkably similar to those used in Tsarist times."
Dr. Backus described these instruments as "diplomacy, military, and economic pressure, and the support of peoples and ideologies similar to her own." He said, however, that now the Russians are trying hard to appear on the side of the right, and to make use of the "big lie."
Corbin-Trojan Meeting Changed
Hours for the dinner-dance today between the Trojan club, Independent Students Association ward for men in unorganized houses, and Corbin hall have been changed from those listed in the Kansan Tuesday.
Twelve men and 12 Corbin women will meet for dinner from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. today in the English room of the Union. Twelve men who will dine at Corbin hall will meet there at 6 p.m.
These men and women will then meet at Corbin hall for an hour dance from 7 to 8 p.m.
Dresden To Speak On 'The Uncertainty Principle'
Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics fraternity, will hold a meeting Thursday at 7:45 p.m. in the Pine room at the Union at which Max Dresden, associate professor of physics, will speak on "The Uncertainty Principle."
The uncertainty principle is widely accepted by leading physicists throughout the country. According to it, if you know where a given body is at a given moment, you have no way of knowing what its velocity is. If you know the velocity you don't know where the body is.
Norman Baumann, president of Sigma Pi Sigma, said that anyone interested in this principle is welcome to attend the meeting.
Varied Lots Brings Jail Term
Varied Loots Brings Jail Term Jennings, La. (U)P—J. Roy Bergerson was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary for theft. His loot: 69 chickens, a sewing machine, $7 in cash and a pistol.
After All, It Was A Fast One
Detroit (U.P.) - Judge John D. Watts
rejected Reuben Willis' excuse that
he was doing 40 miles in a 20-mile
zone so he could get to a garage for
a brake repair job quicker. Willis
was forbidden to drive for one year.
Hobson Conducts Education Seminar
A seminar on high school general education subjects is being conducted by Cloy S. Hobson, director of the curriculum laboratory.
Visits to Chanute, Wichita, and Atchison schools to study core curricula are on the seminar program. Chanute will be visited on Monday, Nov. 13.
The members of the seminar are Kenneth E. Anderson and James Nickerson, associate professors of music education; Karl Edwards, instructor in education; and Melvin Zack, graduate student.
Conferences will be held with students as well as with principals and teachers. Discussions will cover social studies and English.
Geology Fraternity Elects Members
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national honorary fraternity devoted to the earth sciences, elected 10 men to membership in the Alpha chapter at a recent meeting.
Formal initiation of the new members will be held Friday evening.
Sanborn Partridge, instructor in geology, was elected an associate member of the fraternity.
New members elected are: Fred C. Myers, Jr., Don E. Mettler, graduate students in geology; Robert E. Wellborn, Jr., engineering junior; Robert D. Reiswig, engineering senior; Don D. Allen, Kenneth B Carey, Willard L. Curtis, and James D. Griffith, all petroleum engineering seniors, and Harold A. Vagtborg, graduate student in petroleum engineering.
Paul Nye, '50 Law Graduate Is Practicing In Texas
Paul Nye, who finished his study in the University School of Law the past summer, has passed the examination for the bar in Texas and is practicing in Kingsville, Tex. Mr. Nye was president of the law class of 1950.
Although he is a native of Newton, where his father and brother are attorneys, he became a Texan by adoption as an army trainee during the war. Kingsville is near the famous King ranch, one of the largest in the world.
US Asks UN To Censure Chinese Reds
Lake Success, N.Y., Nov. 8—(U.P.)
—The United States asked the United Nations security council today to "require the Chinese Communist regime to withdraw its forces from Korea and to refrain from further unlawful assistance, direct or indirect, to the North Korean aggressor."
But Ambassador Warren R. Austin, chief of the U.S. delegation, told the 11-nation council that reassurance should be given that "the legitimate interests of states which border on Korea will be respected and that the U.N. through its agencies will hold itself in readiness to assist in the settlement of problems relating to that frontier."
"In offering assurance," Austin said, "the Security Council must see to it that the authorities in Peking are under no illusion that their conduct is condoned by the U.N. or that the organized world can accept this thinly disguised invasion of Korea."
Defeat in his effort to prevent a debate on the report, Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik then proposed that the Peking Communist regime be invited to send a delegation to participate in the council's discussion.
Austin's demand came after the council had voted down a Russian objection to considering Gen. Douglas MacArthur's report that Chinese Communist forces are fighting in Korea.
SAM Members Visit GM Plant
Members of the Society for the Advancement of Management visited the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant in Kansas City, Mo., recently.
They toured the giant plant which turns out a car a minute. The setup was synchronized so that parts would go on the right cars at the right time.
right time.
The next meeting of the club will be Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union.
Two representatives of General Electric Supply corporation of Kansas City, Mo., will speak on the opportunities and future of television.
Jacksonville Beach, Fla. (U.P.)-Jenny made her mind up. She didn't want to become an opera star. The thespian burro balked just before she was to appear in the operetta "Naughty Marietta." She was sent back to the Jacksonville municipal zoo.
This Opera Star Is Stubborn
Good And Mediocre Casts Put On Saroyan Plays
Teachers Will Hear Smith
Henry P. Smith, director of the reading library, will address two sessions of the Missouri State Teachers association on Thursday, Nov. 16, and Friday, Nov. 17, in Kansas City, Mo.
At the Kansas-Missouri regional meeting of the national association of remedial teachers which is part of the teachers meeting, he will speak on the 1550 University summer session program of remedial reading. About 30 teachers studied the reading problems of 70 students.
He will also speak on the 1950 remedial reading and study program for K.U. students.
Two excellent one-act dramas by William Saroyan were presented by one good cast, and one mediocre cast, in the Little theater of Green hall by the University Players' Laboratory theater last night.
Librarian Compiles Catalog Of Theses
Through 1947, a total of 3,581 University students have submitted theses in partial fulfillment of the requirements for advanced degrees from the graduate school.
This information is contained in the first complete catalog of K.U. graduate theses compiled by Miss Bessie Wilder, documents librarian at K.U.; and published by the graduate school.
The first thesis listed is for 1888, eight years before the graduate school was formally established. Since then through 1947, 236 students have received the doctorate degree, and 3,345 earned the several masters' degrees.
Dean J. H. praised the of the graduate school praised Miss Wilder's work as being "long needed" and as "detailed and comprehensive."
Miss Wilder prepared four sections. In the first, authors are listed alphabetically with name of dissertation, degree and date. The second is a departmental list with the names, degree and year for all persons completing graduate work in each department. The third is a chronological index and the fourth is a subject index of theses.
BY RICHARD HUNTER
The book has 305 pages.
Life Saved When Thrown
Deland. Fla. (U.P.)-Joel Strawn, 12,
escaped death, but his pony was
killed when he rode into a dangling
electrical wire downed by a hurricane.
Apparently Joel was thrown
from the pony before the animal was
killed.
Eighty-Eight Get Graduate Degrees; Ten PhD's Set University Record
Eighty-eight persons have been awarded graduate degrees by the University following action by the Graduate faculty at its fall meeting.
These persons have fulfilled the final requirements for the advanced degrees since the June Commencement, Dean J. H. Nelson said.
The following received degrees:
Doctor of philosophy by Boston College; Doctor of Science by Neil Hazzell, chemistry; Theodore G. Metella, bacteriology; John T. Minor, chemistry; Wayne L. Reeve, zoology; Edgar J. Seyb, jr. chemistry; Joseph K. Thompson, chemistry; Odid. odd. entomology; G. Wiseman, physics; and Ralph A. Zintzeau, chemistry.
The total of 88 degrees is not a record for a fall faculty meeting but the granting of 10 doctor of philosophy degrees at this time is a new high. Of the 78 masters' degrees, 39 were the master of arts.
Master of arts: Kenneth E. Beall, Jr;
history; Frances M. Bishop, Sociology;
Laurence B. Bishop, Sociology;
English, Robert C. Brown,
English, Peggy J. Craven, English; Clyde C.
Dougherty, bacteriology; Marvin G. Dyck
bacteriology; Gerald E. Edgar, Journalism; Richard E. Edger, sociology; Frances Wilson Feist, speech and drama; Barbara J. Gibson, psychology; Egon G. Guba, education; Harold A. Harvey, speech and drama; William A. Hetzer, botany; Henry M. Heller, junking; bacteriology; Louis Kaplan, bacteriology; Maude L. Eoebeck, bacteriology; Julian D. Lynch, education; Tom J. McBride, bacteriology; Patricia M. McNaughton, A. Pleggu, bacteriology; Wesley J. Prieb, English; Herbert W. Ragsdale, Spanish; James L. Reavis, chemistry; John M. Reilly, economics; H. Scott, economics; John Siemens, Jr. education; Clarice Pearl Smiley, English; James O. Smith, bacteriology; Roland B. Stoddard, Stockade, English; Dorothy L. Taft, botany; Theodore R. Tate, education; John M. Wetmore, economics; Bill B Wiley, bacteriology; Johnnie H. Willett, and Amelia B Young, political science
The following received degrees.
MASTER OF SCIENCE
John C. Brizendine Jr., aeronautical engineering; Edward P. Hansen, mechanical engineering; Fred S. Hirsekorn, chemical engineering; George M. Engel, mechanical engineering; Chester W. Spencer, metallurgical engineering; Frank M. Sutton, mechanical engineering; Richard Eugene Thalmann, mechanical engineering. Theodore O. Wagge, mechanical engineering.
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION
Clyde Joseph Beer Causey Benson,
Boston, MA. Robert William Marson French Hanson, Robert William
Ridway, William G. Schnebel, Calvin
A. Schulz, Robert LeRoy Timmons. Alain
Dugger Winger, Eugene Wilson.
M
EDUCATION
Norman Robert Barber, Monroe Barber. Thomas Albert Barlow, Vineent J. Bowman, Sarah Ellen Campbell, Arthur E. Clausen, William Warren Holloway, James Alfred Jeffress, E. Kroesch, Thomas Fletcher Saffell.
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINIS-
TRATION
William Earl Baker, and Paul M McCollum.
John Henry Ehrlich, cello; and Robert
Jerald Hamilton, organ;
MASTER OF MUSIC EDUCATION
Robert Mason, Hallman, Waldo C Pankratz, Bueford T. Roper, and Marion Walter Sell.
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
Esther F. Black, design; and Eldon C.
Tefft, design.
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SURGERY
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SURGERY
Carl Holmes Guld, Jr.
The first play, "The Hungerers," has an intricate plot that deals with the attempts of a "struggling writer" to prove to an assorted group of "lost souls" that food, which they are all lacking, is not the only thing that can save them from starvation.
After a futile attempt by one of the "lost souls" to sell the writer's typewriter, his only possession, to purchase food, the writer falls in love with a starving girl, a Saturday Evening Post salesman finally sells a subscription, and a little old woman, who doesn't seem to have anything to do with the play comes and dies.
After she dies, the rest of the cast die of malnutrition, but not of starvation. The writer has proven that food is not the only thing in life.
Cast in the play are: William Dickinson, College sophomore, who plays the writer; Jack Pickering, College freshman, the Saturday Evening Post salesman; Patricia Elliott, College freshman, the girl; Louise Hamilton, education senior, the old woman; and William West, College sophomore, represents death. Except for West and Elliott, the cast was slow on picking up their cues, in the first performance, and failed to put many of the more difficult lines across to the audience. A fine job of lighting was done by John White, graduate student, who spotlighted Death, as he entered to carry off the bodies in an effective manner.
Director of "The Hungerers" is Dan Palmquist, speech instructor; and director of "Hello Out There" is Margaret Gosney. 47.
"Hello Out There," the second play, is the story of a suspected rapist who is about to be lynched by an angry small town mob. The scene takes place in a jail cell, where the young suspect falls in love with the jail's pitiful charwoman. He profess himself innocent to her, and as she is trying to help him escape, the victim's husband breaks into the jail and kills him.
Kathryn Peters, fine arts junior, does an appropriately emotional portrayal of the charwoman; James Clausen, College sophomore, gives an equally superior performance as the half-crazy suspect; William West does a convincing job as the victim's husband; and Phyllis Clegg, education senior, is excellent as the disreputable victim.
The plays will be presented each evening through Friday.
Dr. Edward Bartow, former president of the American Chemical society and associate professor of chemistry here from 1899-1905, visited Dr. R. Q. Brewster professor of chemistry, and other friends on the campus Tuesday.
In Kansas City Dr. Bartow spoke before 275 persons celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Kansas City chapter of the American Chemical society. He was one of the 20 charter members who founded the chapter and is one of the two still living.
Former Professor Returns To Visit
He was one of the planners of Bailey Chemical laboratory, present home of the chemistry department, when it was built in 1900.
Dr. Bartow is now professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.
Eastwood Painting Sold To Tulsa U
A painting by Raymond Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting, has recently been purchased for the office of the president of Tulsa University.
Titled "Agah Thlon" meant the sheep-shearing place, it was painted by Professor Eastwood in the summer of 1949 in Monument valley on a Navaho Indian reservation near the Utah-Arizona border.