University Daily Kansan Friday, April 7, 1950
STUDENT NEWSAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Speech Festival Begins Today For 300 Students
Three hundred students from approximately 75 Kansas high schools are expected to participate in the state Speech and Drama Festival at the University today and Saturday.
The students won the right to participate in the festival by place in division contests held throughout the state recently. At K.U. no awards will be made, but students will be given speaker ratings.
One-act plays will be presented by 120 high schools in Fraser theater and Liberty Memorial High school.
The festival will open with a general assembly in Fraser theater at 1 p.m. today. Dramatic readings will be presented by 20 students Friday and by 17 students Saturday in the Pine room of the Union and at University High school. Thirty participants will give humorous readings today and Saturday in the Kansas room of the Union and at University High school.
Eleven students will give extemporaneous speeches Saturday in Lindley auditorium. Subjects from "The Constitution" to "Euthanasia Is Murder" will be discussed by 17 students in the original oration division in Strong auditorium Saturday morning.
Sixteen standard orations will be given in Green theater and 15 informative speeches in the English room of the Union on Saturday.
Judges at the festival will be: ex-emporaneous speeches — Richard Christfelbusch, assistant professor of speech; original orations — William Conboy, instructor in speech; standard orations—Don Jalmquist, instructor in speech; informative speeches—Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech; dramatic readings—Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech and Mrs. Leola Horowitz, instructor in speech; humorous readings—Tom Rea, instructor in speech; and Mrs. Frances Feist, instructor in speech; one-act plays—Thomas Trenkle, professor of speech at Kansas State college, and Mrs. Thomas Trenkle.
The speech and drama festival is being co-sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities association and the University Extension.
El Ateneo Election To Be Held Soon
Election of officers of the El Ateneo club will be held Thursday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. in 113 Strong hall.
Rita Swearingen, College junior for the candidate for the presidency Other nominations include Bautista Murillo, business junior, for executive assistant; Verna Edwards, and James Benefiel, College juniors, for secretary; James Irby, College sophomore, and William Patterson, College freshman for treasurer; Veda Russell, and Dorothy Pearson, College sophomores, and Carl Tongier, College junior, for the refreshments committee.
Additional nominations will be accepted from the floor at the time of the election.
Student Religious Council Elects Bradshow President
The newly-elected Student Religious council officers will take up their duties at the next regular meeting. Thursday, April 20.
They are Henry H. Bradshaw, president; Walter J. Brown, vice-president; Kathryn Conrad, secretary; and Andrew Berry, treasurer. Mary Louise Fischer, education junior, was chosen chairman of Religious Emphasis week activities for incoming year.
Spring Jayhawker Issued Today
The 1950 spring issue of the Jayhawker magazine is now available at the student union book store.
Featured in this issue is an unusual sketch written by John E. Hankins, professor of English and noted author on Chaucer. Satirizing the administration by using characters from the Canterbury Tales, the sketch pokes polite fun at such personalities as Chancellor Malott, John Ise, Raymond Nichols, Miss Veta Lear, Dean E. B. Stouffer, Dean Paul B. Lawson, and Dr. Herbert Hungerford.
Claim 246 Lives Easter Mishaps
At least 246 persons were counted dead or missing today in Holy week train, ferryboot, bus, and flood disasters in Europe and South America, the United Press reported today.
The biggest disaster was in Brazil where a passenger train crowded with Easter holiday vacationers plunged from a broken bridge into the Indica river. Thirty-eight bodies were recovered and 70 more persons were feared dead.
At least 60 persons were believed drowned in Portugal when a ferry-boat capsized. Another 50 persons were reported missing in Southern Ecuador.
In Spain, 19 persons died when a train broke in two while rounding a curve and three cars plunged into a 20-foot gorge.
The Brazilian wreck occurred yesterday when a 22-car train started to cross the rain-weakened bridge over the river 55 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. The train, carrying an estimated 200 sleeping passengers, plunged into the stream.
Rescue workers recovered 38 bodies but it was feared the bodies of at least 70 more were trapped in the submerged cars or had washed downstream. Thirty-three other passengers were seriously injured.
In Ecuador, the Tomebamba river spread death and destruction over a wide area, causing damage that was at more than two million dollars.
Isotopes Enable Science To Tell Age Of Earth
By DALE S. ROMIG
Radio-isotopes have helped scientists to formulate a plausible theory establishing the approximate time of the origin of the earth. The theory was explained Thursday night by Dr. Joseph W. Kennedy, chairman of the department of chemistry at Washington university, St. Louis, Mo.
This is the way Dr. Kennedy described it. Certain elements, such as uranium, will in time decay and change their chemical qualities. Uranium will change to lead. By determining how fast the element decays and then measuring the amount changed, the time that 'a specimen of the element has been in existence can be calculated.
Elements from all over the earth and meteorites that have fallen on earth have been tested and found to be approximately the same age, Dr. Kennedy said. These results agree with a theory proposed earlier which was based on another method of investigation.
Declining to comment on any political issues concerning atom control, and pointedly remarking that he had been instructed not to talk about the hydrogen bomb, the former chief or the chemistry and metallurgy division of the Los Alamos laboratory confined his talk to a purely scientific discourse.
Dr. Kennedy also explained the use of radio-isotope tracers in other fields of analytical and theoretical chemistry, and gave a resume of the most recent developments in the synthesis of new elements.
Alumnus To Direct Grand Canyon Choir
An annual Easter Sunrise service at the Grand Canyon will be conducted by Eldon A. Ardrey, head of the department of music at Arizona State college at Flagstaff and graduate of the University School of Fine Arts. The program was instituted 15 years ago by Mr. Ardrey.
He will direct the "Shrine of the Ages" concert choir in a program to be broadcast at 7 a.m.
Drive With Care Malott Warns
TO THE STUDENTS:
Many hundreds of you will be on the highways during the next few hours returning to your homes for the Spring vacation. May I caution each one of you who has the responsibility for driving a car to exercise every care that protects your life, helps the lives of other students who may be with you; and of other travelers on the highways—in order that the holidays may not be marred by accidents.
And as you go, we give you the best wishes of all of us on the campus for a pleasant break in the academic year.
DEANE W. MALOTT
Chancellor.
Design Changed For Campanile
A change in the design of the memorial campanile will make it possible for students to see the carillon in the tower and will improve the range of the bells.
Original plans called for a cut stone mullion or bar on each side to extend from the base of the structure to the top of the campanile tower. It was decided, however, that this would cut down the effective range of the bells. Architects have devised new plans that cut the mullions off at the 92-foot level, leaving a 23-foot opening extending upward to the top of the carillon section of the structure. Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, said.
The present long vertical openings will be retained and there will be no change in the basic structure of the campanile.
The change will allow spectators to see the carillon.
Construction of the campanile has progressed rapidly since the ground breaking ceremony reached one-half of its ultimate 120-foot height.
Progress has been reported on the casting of the 50-bell carillon. John Taylor and company, of Loughborough, England, informed the committee recently that 19 bells in the middle register have been cast. They expect to cast the rest within a year.
ASC Accepts Two Late Petitions
Bv JOHN CORPORON
A compromise was reached at a special All Student Council meeting Thursday that resulted in two late nominating petitions being accepted by the elections committee of the A.S.C.
The onlookers, out in greater
The onlookers, out in greater numbers than Council members, contributed frequent outbursts of laughter and one enthusiastic round of clapping to the sometimes heated proceedings.
Walter Brown, College junior, ended 40 minutes of sharp debate by asking the council if he could file a petition, even though late, in behalf of Edward Grandle, engineering sophomore, to run as a candidate for an A.S.C. post from district two. The Council accepted.
The meeting was called by Ernest Friesen, Council president, for the Council to decide whether a petition for Thomas White, College senior, to run for an A.S.C. position from district three was valid. The chain of events started when the secretary of Pachacamac, Thomas Alexander, drew up a petition for White to be filled with Wilma Shore, A.S.C. secretary. Alexander believed that the petition was to be filled with Melvin Clingan, chairman of the elections committee.
Friesen said he was bringing the issue before the Council to be considered on three points: (1) whether or not there was a violation of A.S.C. laws, (2) whether the petition was invalid; and (3) that a person is being deprived of a place on the ballot because of an individual's mistake.
He placed the petition on Clingan's desk in the Sigma Nu fraternity house. Someone discovered it after 6 p.m., Wednesday the deadline set for the filing of petitions. It was called to Friesen's attention and he called Miss Shore at 11:30 p.m. asking if she would accept the petition. She refused, saying that she felt that she could not accept the responsibility of accepting it after 6 p.m.
Council members quizzed Brown as to the legality of his petition. Upon completion of the questioning period the Council carried a motion that would allow the elections committee to accept both petitions. It carried by a 15 to 2 vote.
Friesen said, "We took an unknown preoperative when we set the deadline at 6 p.m. when the constitution says that the petitions must be filed six days before the election; I would interpret that to mean that
the deadline would be Wednesday midnight."
Robert Bennett, first year law, said, "No doubt which ever side wins the issue tonight the other will take it to the student court."
Brown said he had a petition which had been refused on the same grounds as the Pachacamac one. He explained, "Well, we heard the situation was coming up and knew about it fairly early so we went in and had up another petition. I presume all the proper things are here."
Harold Edmondson, elections committee chairman, said, "I agree that ignorance of the law is no excuse. However, one of the signers on one of the petitions did not properly counterseign the petition. If we have to go by the constitution that petition is no good. I think, however, that it is an oversight and I don't think we should strive to keep to the letter of the law."
Friesen asked, "Was it prepared before the deadline?"
Brown replied, "Yes.
Questions continued in an attempt to establish when Brown's petition was drawn up and why it had not been filed properly.
Mabel Conderman, business senior, said, "Maybe he (Brown) laid it on his own desk."
Bishop Werner Will Deliver Baccalaureate
The escorts for the 1950 Relays queen and her court will be Allen Dagel and Paul Uhlig, College seniors; and Clay Roberts, Jr., and Joseph Wolfe. College freshmen.
The evening services will be in Memorial stadium.
Bishop Hazen G. Werner, resident bishop of the Ohio area of the Methodist church, will deliver the baccalaureate address to the graduating class Sunday June 4, Cabellor Dean W. Malott announced today.
Bishop Werner was elected to his present position in 1948 after three years as a professor at Drew Theological seminary. Previously he served 11 years as pastor at the Grace Methodist church in Dayton, Ohio.
After earning an A.B. degree at Albion college in 1920, Bishop Werner took graduate work at Columbia university and in 1923 received the bachelor of divinity degree from Drew university. The following year he was ordained and successively served churches in Detroit and Flint, Mich. While at a downtown church in Detroit he pioneered in developing a personal trouble clinic in collaboration with a psychiatrist and family visitor. The clinic had the close cooperation of the police, public health departments and other public agencies.
He has written articles on family and personal problems, and three books, "The pastor and the Pre-Marriage Conference," "And We Are Whole Again," and "Real Living Takes Time."
He has been awarded doctor of divinity degrees by Albion and Ohio Wesleyan universities. Last year he was awarded doctor of laws degrees by both Mount Union college and Ohio Northern university.
The past summer Bishop Werner filled a preaching itinerary in England under the direction of the British Council of Churches. He was also a long time WWII organ, and has also made a long study trip through Europe.
They were selected from 22 contestants by personal interviews before three judges Thursday. Marcia Horn, chairman of the contest, said they were chosen on "all the qualities that make a dateable male."
Four To Escort Queen And Court
He is a member of the Methodist board of education and the board of missions and church extension. He is on the commission on ministerial training of the Methodist church, and the commission on marriage and the home of the Federal Council of Churches.
The queen's escort, who will be chosen from the four, will be announced Tuesday, April 18.
Judges for the contest were: Mrs. Betty Broat, buyer for Weaver's; J. Getto, Lawrence civic leader; and Charles Radliffe, owner of Ober's.
Inter-Varsity Fellowship Holds A 'Brain Buster'
A "Brain Buster" question and answer program was conducted by the Inter-varsity Christian fellowship at its Thursday meeting. Previously submitted questions were answered by three members and panel discussion followed.
Acting as "question answerers" were Beril Peterson, graduate student; Alice Kitchen, medicine freshman; and Stanley Davis, graduate student.