University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Research Helps Understanding Hankins Says
Research can enhance our understanding and appreciation of the humanities, Dr. John E. Hankins, professor of English, told listeners at the humanities lecture Tuesday. He delivered the fifth in a series eight lectures to be given this year and is the first faculty member to deliver a speech in the series.
Dr. Hankins used three principal points to answer his question.
"The attainment of a correct text is itself the result of scholarly research in humanities," Dr. Hankins told the audience. He cited several examples of great literary works which have been found long after the author was dead, or works which have been distorted by some person correcting the original copy.
The study of the lives of great artists and writers help us to understand their works, he said. "People will always be interested in the lives of their authors and artists. Admiring the creations, they desire to know the creators. For this purpose," he stated, "biographical research is highly valuable."
"The third way in which research can aid our knowledge of art and literature is through the discovery and study of sources."
An author's meanings must be judged in relation to the political and moral views of his day, Dr. Fankins believes. Failure to consider this factor has resulted in misunderstanding the author in many cases.
"To trace the progress of an idea or a tradition through the works of various authors, to note its gradual accretions and transmutations may enrich our own backgrounds and perhaps add something to cultural history," he concluded.
Foreign Students to Attend AWS Coffee At 4 p.m. Today
Foreign students and faculty members will be entertained at a coffee sponsored by Associated Womens students at 4 p.m. today in the dean of women's office. This is the fourth coffee given this year by the organization. Approximately 60 persons are expected to attend.
Senior pictures for the Jayhawker magazine are being taken at the O'Bryon studio for $3 which covers the cost of engraving, photography, and printing. Seniors or February graduates who already have pictures may turn in glossy prints to the Jayhawker office in the Union building. The prints must be 3 by 4 inches.
China, Russia Sign Aid Pact
Jayhawker Asks For Senior Photos
Tokyo, Feb. 15-(U.R)]-Russia and Communist China have signed a sweeping mutual assistance pact aimed at preventing revival of Japan as an "imperialistic power" or aggression by any foreign powers "directly or indirectly connected" with Japan, radio Feking announced today.
The Soviet-Sino alliance was signed by Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet foreign minister, and Chou En-Lai, foreign minister for Red China, according to a Chinese Communist radio broadcast.
Although the alliance specifically seeks to "prevent revival of Japan as an imperialistic power," its reference to any foreign power "directly or indirectly" connected with Japan was thought to be aimed at the United States.
In case of aggression, the pact stipulated, "parties to the new agreement will interchange military and all other necessary aid."
The pact also included economic and cultural "cooperation" and "mutual" consultations over major international problems.
1. A 30-year treaty of alliance pledging each country to render full military aid to the other should either country find itself at war with Japan "or any other state which directly or indirectly would unite with Japan in acts of aggression."
The pact was divided into three parts.
Constructive Homes Needed Architect Tells Students
2. Agreement by Russia to return the naval base of Port Arthur and the jointly-controlled Manchurian railroad to Communist China by 1952 or sooner if a peace treaty is concluded with Japan earlier.
a. A commercial agreement under which Russia would loan China $300 million over a five-year period, at 1 per cent interest, for the purchase of railway and industrial equipment.
Man must do all he can "to provide constructiveness in homes and communities if these are to be happy places," Alden B. Dow told more than 400 students Tuesday afternoon.
He explained that by contrast in forms, color, and texture, one can produce a stimulating effect while creating. An excess of any one of these features can upset the equilibrium of the entire system.
Speaking in Strong hall, Mr. Dow, $
There is constructive and destructive creativeness, he said. If man "can not be one, he will be the other." The same goes for nations. They will create but whether it is not creative or not damnens upon.
Speaking in Strong hair, Mr. president of the Society has said that nature has given us a strong desire to create and whether we use it prudently or not depends upon whether we are happy and satisfied.
“Our real purpose in architecture is to stimulate growth,” he explained. “Man differs from other animals. He has been given creative abilities. Man’s purpose of ability is to create, and, if we have it, then we must express it.”
Mr. Dow explained that one does not have to do great things to be creative. "To gaze at a beautiful sunset, raise a family, or prepare a special kind of meal," are all ways of exercising one's abilities, he said.
whether the nation as a whole is
hannv and satisfied.
As he completed his speech, the lights in the auditorium dimmed and a color movie was shown. The film which Mr. Dow narrated, emphasized many of the points in his speech.
Mr. Dow was invited here by the University as a visiting critic and lecturer. The purpose of the trip was to help stimulate better scholastic work among the students and staff members.
Examples of his completed works are now on exhibit in the Architectural library 309 Marvin hall, and at the Museum of Art.
Co-ops To Aid Czech Student Coming To KU
Through aid given by co-operative houses at the University, Frantisek Mikulik, 25, displaced person and student from Czechoslovakia, will be able to enter the United States and enroll in the University. Mikulik is expected to arrive in this country sometime in the spring, but will not enter school until September, Albert Roland, graduate student, said today.
FRANTISEK MIKULIK
After completing grade school and high school in Czechoslovakia, Mr. Mikulik worked on his parents' farm. In 1944 he was taken to Leipzig by the Germans and was forced to work as an electric welder in a factory. He returned home in 1945 and received a scholarship which allowed him to go to school until April, 1948.
Following the Communist coup, he left his country and went to the United States zone in Germany and then to displaced person camps in Italy. He speaks Czech, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German.
The co-operative houses will furnish Mr. Mikulik board and room. The Congregational Youth club will handle the other expenses involved. The seven University co-ops are: Don Henry, Hill, Jayhawk, Rock Chalk, Henley, Harmon, and Graduate Girls.
NU To Select KU's Y-OrpheumScripts
Scripts for the Y-Orpheum have been mailed to the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where the dramatic department will select eight for presentation in Hoch auditorium Saturday, April 1.
William Champion, business junior and publicity chairman for the Y-Orpheum, said the number of scripts submitted indicated excellent representation from the organized houses. The staff were judged and returned by next week to allow the winners sufficient time for preparation.
Scripts will be judged on originality, possibility for attractive staging, the appropriate number of people involved in the presentation, and the time element.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Fair this afternoon, to-
night and Thursday. Little warmer
this afternoon. Warmer Thursday.
Low tonight 15 to 25 degrees; highs
Thursday 45 to 55 degrees.
Lincoln Described As 'Secular Saint'
Captain Leahy Visits University
Abraham Lincoln was described today by Dr. T. C. Smith, professor at Syracuse university, as a "secular saint" because Lincoln was a man who grew in stature spiritually in truth, goodness, and beauty as few men have.
Capt. William D. Leahy, assistant chief of the Office of Naval Research, Washington D.C., made an inspection tour of the University of Kansas Research Foundation Tuesday.
Captain Leahy, son of Adm. W. D. Leahy, made the rounds of all the projects being carried on at the University and talked with each project director.
K. U. is one of 250 institutions in the United States carrying on research work for the navy. Captain Leahy pointed out that projects are now being carried on at K.U. in physics, chemistry, bacteriology, biochemistry, and psychology.
The Van de Graaff atom smasher tests being conducted in the physics department are a part of the extensive program. During the war, Captain Leahy said, strep throat caused a great deal of trouble in the armed forces. Tests now are being conducted to determine the causes and cures of the disease, he explained.
Information gathered under the Office of Naval Research is not kept exclusively for navy use.
"Valuable information gathered under this program is shared with the army, airforce, and certain specialists in the field of medicine," explained Captain Leahy. "Three thousand scientists over the country are working with this naval program along with 2,500 graduate students."
Engineers To Elect Today
Election for an engineering physics representative to the engineering council will be held today. The election will be in Blake hall from 5 to 6 p.m. All engineering physics students are eligible to vote.
Dr. Smith spoke to students and faculty members in an all-student convocation in Hoch auditorium. He was introduced by Chancellor Deane W. Malott who described him as having done "almost everything and been almost everywhere."
"Truth, goodness and beauty are the three pinnacles of life which the human spirit strives to achieve," Dr. Smith said.
"Abraham Lincoln did not specialize in one of these concepts, but was a specialist in all three. He carried into human affairs and politics the scrupulosity of the scientist's laboratory."
Dr. Smith pointed out that Lincoln did not claim to have controlled events, rather he confessed plainly that events controlled him.
"Lincoln," he explained, "once said If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.
"The Church holds no holiness, yet if truth, goodness, and beauty don't add up to holiness then the believers in these three concepts are greater than the Church's God."
Lincoln's resolution, asserted Dr. Smith, not only enabled Lincoln, believing in cause and effect, to put himself in a proper place to be overtaken by victory, but it sent him beyond religion in quest of the spiritual life with all its values.
"Abraham Lincoln was a man crossed by ill huck in his domestic life and political life as a statesman," Dr. Smith commented. However, in his life we find embodied the "spiritual life." The two men in American life regarded as truly spiritual are Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, he declared.
"Jefferson believed that good and wise men could agree upon the most important beliefs in religion." Dr. Smith said, "After all religion is only one development in the building of a spiritual life."
Lincoln was a firm believer that arranging political compromise was the only way to maintain national peace and restore brotherhood of the nation.
'Work In Your Community,' Mrs.Woodring Tells AWS
I have always thought that everyone owes something to the community in which he lives, Mrs. Harry Woodring, wife of the former Kansas governor said Tuesday as she discussed the woman's role in the community. She spoke at the final Associated Womens students' workshop meeting.
"You can't help others without helping yourself," she explained. Mrs.Wooding feels that everyone should give part of himself to others besides giving material things, as it develops personality, character, and unselfishness. Such a role keeps one busy in a constructive way.
Before taking an active part in community work, Mrs. Woodring believes that one should know the community's industries, his neighbors, and local club members. With this knowledge, a newcomer can plan carefully which organizations he wishes to join. One should choose the club to which he is best fitted, or he may be cast into a club where he cannot do as well as he could have done in another, Mrs. Woodring stressed.
Mrs. Woodring believes that
married woman should not join clubs and help solve community problems if it means slighting her family.
Community organizations were classified by Mrs. Woodring as religious or spiritual, social or welfare, cultural, political, and commercial or business. She suggested several clubs under each division, and explained their functions.
Mrs. Woodring suggested that students should take college courses relating to the functions and ideas of a particular organization, that they hope to join later.
A question and answer discussion followed the speech. Two previous workshop speakers were Mrs. Stanley Ginn, national president of Morare Board, and Blake A. Williamson, attorney, Kansas City, Kan.