1950 U
University Daily Kansan
47th Year No. 134
Wednesday, April 26, 1950
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Notables Here For Saturday's Patriotic Event
His eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Gov. Frank Carlson, and other notables will celebrate "I Am An American Day" in Lawrence Saturday.
An address by Cardinal Spellman following a dinner for 750 persons in the Community building will be broadcast by WDAF and WREN. An afternoon parade and convocation in South park will highlight the celebration sponsored by the Lawrence Citizen's committee.
"I Am an American Day" is celebrated to show unity among all the faiths and groups that make up the United States said Nicholas F. Lopes, general chairman of the Citizen's committee. He added that it is necessary to show this unity in order that American citizens will be mindful of the dissension which communist organizations are promoting in this country.
Floats and bands representing civic, fraternal, military, labor and school groups will parade at 3:15 p.m. Saturday from sixth and Massachusetts north to South park. At the park, a convocation will be held for an expected crowd of 5,000 persons.
On the speaker's platform will be Cardinal Spellman, the Rev. Dale Turner, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, Perrin McEliray, labor leader from Kansas City, Mo. the Rev. George Towle, pastor of St John's Catholic church, and Rabbi Samuel Mayberberg, of the Congregation B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo.
Cardinal Spellman will talk or "Freedom by Right Divine" at the 6:30 p.m. banquet in the Community building, Toastmaster will be Harry Woodring, former Kansas governor and United States secretary of war Other speakers on the program include Governor Carlson, Senator Harry Darby, Mayor William J. B Turner of Lawrence, and Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Special guests at Saturday's ceremonies will be 23 foreign student officers representing 15 nations from the Command and General Staff college at Fort Leavenworth.
Walter Winchell spoke highly of Lawrence on his program Sunday evening, saying that "the world should take a hint from little Lawrence, Kansas."
He mentioned that Lawrence will demonstrate the principles of religious freedom on Saturday, when Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, will be flanked by a Protestant minister and a Jewish rabbi at the "I Am An American Day" celebration.
Two seniors, George Davidson and Richard Starr, and eleven juniors, Robert Capen, Carl Stenstrom, John Jameson, Neal Post, Robert Meiens, Harold White, Neal Collins, Edward Sell, James Porter, William Hayward and Stanley Staats, were initiated into the fraternity.
Scarab Initiates 13 Upperclassmen
Following the initiation a dinner was held at the Dynamite Inn. George M. Beal and Joseph Kellog, professors of architecture, and Var- Smith, associate professor of architecture represented the faculty.
Scarab, honorary architectural fraternity, held its annual spring initiation at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Marvin hall.
ISA To Sponsor Treasure Hunt
A treasure hunt will be sponsored by the Inner-ward council of Wards T and P-Z of the Independent Students association. It will start Thursday, and clues will appear in the Daily Kansan each day until Friday, May 5.
The object of the hunt is to find "Abigail." This name has been arbitrarily assigned to an object on the campus. For example, "Abigail" might be Jimmy Green's statue. Prizes for contest winners will be displayed in the Union Thursday.
Joint Engineer's Meeting Tonight
The annual joint meeting of the Kansas City section and University student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will be held today. C. Y. Thomas, vice president and general manager of the Spencer Chemical company, Pittsburgh, will be the speaker.
A dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Union will precede the formal meeting in Lindley auditorium at 8.
Mr. Thomas will speak on "The Professional Engineer," a subject of concern to all members of the profession and students of engineering. For the past four years he has been chairman of the Kansas Engineering council. He was also active in seeking enactment of the present Kansas engineering registration and license law.
He has been vice president and general manager of the Spencer Chemical company since 1941.
Mrs. Thomas is the former Dorothea Engel, daughter of Dr. E. F. Engel, professor emeritus of German and Mrs. Engel.
Open House Will Show Lice, Ants, Eating Chow
The largest insect collection of any university in the United States will be on display at the first open house of the entomology department. On the main floor of Snow hall from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Charles Michener, associate professor of entomology announced today.
Visitors will see how colonies of lice are fed and raised for research work at the University. Visitors may also inspect chiggers, ants, scorpions, termites, and other insects.
Professor Michener said the purpose of the exposition is to show the relationship and balance necessary between the world of humans and insects.
Movies will show the drama and tragedy of life in the insect world and the functions insects perform in maintaining life in the world.
The economic entomologists will show spray machinery, including a fog machine used in controlling mosquitoes. If the wind is right, they may smoke up the campus with the sprayer.
Medical entomologists will have living colonies of many disease-carrying insects.
Louis Lipovsky, a graduate student, who, Dr. Michener says, "probably knows more about chiggers than any other man," will have a battery of microscopes ready for examination of the "little beasties," both dead and alive. The live ones will be controlled.
Mortor Board Is Tops In Honors For Women
On display will be specimens of insects that actually have been the inspiration for designs of wallpaper and jewelry.
At the Honors Convocation today the names of the new members of Mortar Board, senior women's honor society, were announced by Chancellor Deane W. Malott. Since Mortar Board is the highest honor a University woman can achieve in her junior year, there is always a great deal of conjecture before the announcement, and often understandable puzzlement afterward. This is because the standards by which women for Mortar Board are chosen are not generally known.
When these lists are returned to the chapter, members consider every
By the Mortar Board national constitution it is necessary for the active chapter to obtain a campus opinion as to the work junior women have performed on the campus. To do this the chapter prepares a mimeographed list of all junior women which is sent to all department heads and all deans of schools. The letter accompanying this list cautions them to make their choice seriously and to consider a woman's activities as well as her grades. As a further check, this list is taken to the heads of campus organizations and to ministers actively working with students to obtain a broader cross-section of opinion.
In the past years Mortar Boards was a secret organization and the names of members were not announced until the end of their senior year. It is no longer a secret group and the standards by which its members are chosen can be revealed.
In choosing new members the active chapter considers three things: scholarship, leadership, and service to the University. All junior women are considered and all their grade averages are figured for the past five semesters. The grade standard is set by the national organization at three-tenths of a point above the all-University average. The grade standard for this year is 1.77.
After this meeting the active chapter discusses the suggestions of the advisory board and takes a final vote. The final list is submitted to the national organization for approval.
Save Resources Naturalist Urges
The completed list is then submitted to the advisory board. This board is composed of persons actively interested in l.Mortar Board who watch the progress of University women through their first five semesters. This board prepares a suggestive list that prepares the active chapter. Women whose names appear on both lists are automatically members of Mortar Board. Those whose names are on one list only are discussed.
By JOHN R. CORPORON
A unanimous vote is necessary for a woman to be chosen for Mortar Board. By national standards the chapter must have five members and no more than twenty.
junior woman who meets the required grade average, regardless of the number of times her name has been checked by faculty or student members. However, this check list gives a basic idea of the work the women have performed and is used as one point in consideration. Transfer students are considered on the basis of their academic and extracurricular activities at their previous school as well as their work on the K.U. campus.
If Americans continue their irresponsible use of natural resources "we will be just as guilty of genocide as were the Nazis when they set up their concentration camps," William Vogt, author and naturalist, told students and faculty at the 27th annual Honors convocation today.
West Point Is Contest Scene
Stolenwerck and Shearer will debate the affirmative and negative on all four questions Thursday and Friday. The 16 top ranking teams will enter the elimination rounds Saturday.
L. Edward Stolenwerck, College senior, and Kent Shearer, College junior, left by plane this morning to take part in the national West Point Invitational Debate tournament, West Point, N.Y., Thursday through Saturday.
This is the third consecutive year that the University has been invited to participate. K.U. debaters will compete with the nation's 34 top debate teams in the tourney.
The main subject of discussion will be the nationalization of basic non-agricultural industries. Three sub-divisions will also be debated. They concern the nationalization of steel, the control of the business cycle, and national defense.
Both men are members of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity. They have debated at the University since their freshman years. At the 1949 West Point tournament Stollenwerck tied for highest honors.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, who is accompanying the two-man team will serve as a judge.
K. U. was the first school selected from District IV to compete at West Point. Other schools chosen from the district are: Central State Teachers college, Stevens Point, Wis.; Luthet college, Decorah, Iowa; and the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn. They were chosen by a district selection committee on the basis of their debate records for the entire year.
1,000 Foreigners Leave Red China
Washington. April 26 —(U.P.)
About 1,000 foreigners, including 300 Americans, left Shanghai by rail today for Tientsin and will be evacuated from there and by sea, the state department announced today. This marked the start of the long planned western evacuation of Communist China. The United States on Jan. 14 ordered all official American personnel out of red held China and invited American business men and missionaries to leave if they wished.
Scholarships Available Now
Any woman student in the School of Education who wishes to apply for scholarship funds for next year is asked to report to 103 Fraser hall immediately.
Several scholarships have recently been made available but applications must be filed by Friday. The announcement was made today by George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education.
"In our reckless destruction of natural resources today, we are faced with a greater danger than the atom bomb. There is a chance that the A-bomb won't be used. Our depletion of resources is a situation that is going on 24 hours a day," Mr. Vogt warned.
Honor Students
The names of students honored for scholastic standing at the Honors convocation are listed on pages 2 and 3. The names of 127 elected to the honor societies are on page 8.
Unless the people of the United States educate themselves and start preserving the natural resources our standard of living will drop and the whole world will suffer as a result, he said.
"Each person needs from one to 2,000 pounds of food a year. He also needs clothes and housing. Before any of these can be made available water is needed. It is needed for sanitation, agriculture, and industry."
"When the Marshall plan started operation in Europe they needed boxes for factory products and ties for railroads. The timber for these products was not available in Europe and the wood had to be found in other parts of the world."
We need timber for the protection of watersheds and we need water-sheds to insure grass for our grazing animals. Grass maintains a good soil structure by preventing water erosion.
"All the resources which we possess in the U.S. combine to give us a high standard of living." Mr. Vorg explained. "It is from our surplus wealth that we are able to have such fine school buildings. Democracy cannot survive without a reasonably educated electorate. The things we have to offer the rest of the world depend on our surplus wealth and standard of living."
He described ways in which lack of control of water, soil, and timber affects the average person. When persons buy a house they run into high prices due to the lumber shortage. The conditions of grazing ranges show up in high meat bills. Henry Thoreau built his little house on Walden pond for $29.
"Europe and Japan are overpopulated. Italy is desperate. Her population is growing by half a million every year. Great Britain depends on one-half of her food supply now from overseas. If we were to have another depression and felt that we could not spend all this money for aid what would these countries do who don't have the money?"
We have aided the Japanese now to the extent that their death rate has fallen greatly. They may double their population in the next 35 years. General MacArthur has said that the Japanese could barely feed themselves if left alone, Vogt pointed out.
"People who are opposed to birth control have no substitute for it. Population pressures are going up and famine may break out in India and China this year. It is the most elementary common sense to head it off," he argued. "We need to hold down birth rates and raise production, but we don't know how to get it across to the people."
Realey Is Topeka Speaker
Charles B. Realey, professor of history, will speak Saturday, at the 24th annual meeting of the Kansas Association of Teachers of History and Related Fields in Topeka.