University Daily Kansan
46th Year No. 136
Tuesday, May 3, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Fine Arts Has Music, Speeches At Banquet
Two hundred persons were treated to an evening of fine music, interesting speeches, and good food at the annual Fine Arts banquet Monday.
"Belief in something can be more important than anything in hard times," said Dr. Paul Dengler, guest professor of art at the University of Kansas City, in his talk on "What Art Can Mean For People in Distress." Dr. Dengler told about the Russian occupation of Vienna and Austria in 1945.
All the musicians in Vienna came out of hiding when the Russians came. A group of artists was ordered to give an opera for a Russian officer. They prepared the entire production in 18 days and the "Marriage of Figaro" (Mozart) greatly pleased the Russians. From this first performance, three opera companies have been organized. The people are busy with art and do not think as much about their discomforts.
Miss Friedelinde Wagner told the audience of her new opera company. The group will probably go on tour in 1950 with "Tristan and Isolde" (Richard Wagner) as the first production.
Miss. Wagner wishes to carry on the tradition of Richard Wagner, her grandfather, and Franz Liszt, her great-grandfather.
Two solos were entertaining. Calvin, Glover, fine arts junior, sang the Scotch ballad "Lord Randall" Glover had a convincing Scotch accent. His portrayal of the sad Lord Randall and his agitated mother was extremely effective. Maxine Dukelberg, fine arts senior, was the accompanist.
John Ehrlich, graduate student, played two cello selections. "Spinning Song" (Popper) was the better of the two.
The School of Fine Arts awards were announced. Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting, gave the "Archie" award to Donna Greife, fine arts sophomore.
The "Archite" is awarded to the phombore in fine arts whom the seniors consider the best "all around student."
Charles Rice, fine arts sophomore, was given an award by Delta Phi Delta, national art fraternity, for being the outstanding art student this year. The award was made by James Cunningham, president of the fraternity."
J. F. Wilkins, professor of voice, awarded $5 each to Delores Wunsch, fine arts freshman; Willard Straight, fine arts sophomore; and Jack McCoy, fine arts junior from Pi Kappa Lambda, honorary music fraternity.
The Kansas room of the Union was decorated with spring and small intriguing instruments in tables. Figures of Fan with his pipes, covered the mirrors.
Atlantic Pact Discussion
At 4 p.m. In Union Today
The United World Federalists will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union, Lawrence Morgan, College senior, said today.
There will be a general discussion on "The Atlantic Pact and World Government." H. B. Chubb, professor of political science, will be present to take part in the discussion, Morgan said.
WEATHER
Kansas — Scattered showers or thunderstorms Northwest today and in East and South tonight; cooler Northwest. Tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler; showers extreme East. Highs today 75 Northwest, 85 to 90 Southeast.
Seniors To Have Barbecue Supper
Senior Class day activities Tuesday, May 10, will feature an old-fashioned hickory barbecue at 6 p.m. at Potter lake.
The menu includes smoked barbecue ribs prepared by a professional barbecue chef, potato salad, baked beans, and coffee.
Tickets are on sale to faculty members, seniors and their dates at the University business office. They will be sold at campus stands today through Thursday. They are 75 cents a person and will also admit the holder to a dance at 8 p.m. on the sundeck of the Union. Sales will close Thursday.
Kansan Board Dinner May 11
The annual Kansan board dinner will be held Wednesday, May 11, in the Grill room and Crystal room of the Eldridge hotel.
Tickets to the dinner will be given to Reporting II, Editing II, and Retail Advertising students, and to all those who are holding staff positions on the University Daily Kansan. The invitation to attend also includes students who took the above named courses or held staff positions the past semester. Other students may buy tickets if they wish to attend the dinner.
The annual affair is given to honor U.D.K. workers. Winners of awards and citations for outstanding achievement during the year will be announced at the dinner.
A dance will be held following the presentation of awards.
US Consul Asks People To Quit South China
Shanghai. May 3—(U.P.)—Communist forces struck 175 miles into central China as the American consul in Canton warned all Americans to quit South China while they could. The front around Shanghai and Hangchow was quiet. Travelers who reached Japan from Shanghai said the Communists could take the big Chinese city whenever they wished. But they believed the reds were hesitant to move in because they feared their arrival would create chaos.
Other foreign developments were: London: Reliable reports in London today said the Western powers have suggested that Russia lift its land blockade of Berlin Monday.
In return, these reports said, the United States, Britain and France simultaneously would lift their counter-blockade of the Soviet zone of Germany and agree to convening the four-power foreign minister's council to discuss Germany May 23.
Western diplomats in London said the critical stage has been reached in East-West negotiations to settle the Berlin crisis and other German problems.
Belgrade: Relikable sources said Yugoslavia already asked or soon will ask for an American loan with which to buy machinery to modernize her industry and agriculture. Yugoslavia is expected to ask for "tens of millions" of dollars.
Russia, however, was said to have suggested that it would be better to lift the blockades in early June and convene the foreign ministers' in mid-June.
By NINA JEAN JONES
Effects Of Repeal Shown In Crafton's New Play
Are Kansas drunkards on the increase due to repeal? What has repeal done to our college town?
These are a few of the questions asked and answered in the play "The Strength of Ten," written by Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, and his wife, Jessica.
Miss Mounsey sends for books on the treatment of alcoholism, including the Yale studies and the publications of Alcoholics Anonymous. In making her plans, she resolves to rent rooms to "addicts" in order to help them turn back into the "safe thoroughfare of total abstinence."
"The Strength of Ten" will be presented four nights beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in Fraser theater. Activity book tickets may be exchanged for reserved seats Thursday at the ticket office in Green hall.
since repeal has come to Kansas, she feels that the weak no longer have the protection of a bone dry law. She is also convinced that drunkenness is on the increase. With a kind heart and naive mind, she enters into the new problem of the open flow of liquor.
The Sir Galahad of "Strength of Ten" is Virginia Mounsey who succeeds in reforming Kansas drunkards with her bungling psychiatric methods. The play is a comedy set in a Kansas college town in the fall of 1949. It tells the story of Miss Mounsey, a civic-spirited and humanitarian-minded woman.
"The title of the comedy, 'The Strength of Ten.' is derived from Tennyson's poem, "Sir Galahad," Professor Crafton said. "In the poem Galahad remarks that his strength is as the strength of ten because his heart is pure."
The men who apply for the rooms are not of the calibre Virginia has anticipated. The roomers include an old soak who has no intention of reforming, a college student who feels keenly the housing shortage, and a Kansas bootleger who is thrown out of a job by repeal and is seeking a hideout from the Oklahoma bootleger upon whom he has encroached.
Miss Mounsey arouses the ire of her co-workers in the Total Temperance league who consider the new law an outrage. Her methods of reform are a slander on the methods of the great Carrie A. Nation.
Miss Mounsey, however, sails blithely along with her project, innocent of what is actually happening in her household. She reforms several persons who are in no need of reformation from the drink habit and she opens the eyes of the town to a new attitude toward the "addict" and his "disease."
"We trust that no great offense will be given the victorious wets, the uncomfortable medium dry, the depressed bone dry." Professor Crafton said. "The play is peopled with college students, die-hard prohibitionists, bootleggers, old soaks, and do-gooders, just such people as may be found in Lawrence next fall. Though we assure you, any likeness to any Lawrence citizen is purely coincidental."
Independent Men Dissolve Party
The Independent Men's political party threw in the political towel and dissolved Monday.
The reasons for the dissolution of the $2 \frac{1}{2}$ year old party may be seen in the resolution bringing it to an end.
Wagner Tells Of Nazi Rule
"Any day of my life I would rather go to a British jail than to a palace in Nazi Germany," said Miss Friedelinde Wagner, granddaughter of Richard Wagner, in her speech at Frank Strong auditorium Monday. "I felt safer behind barbed wire in London being bombed than a free person in Germany."
Miss Wagner left Germany in protest against the political order as her grandfather had done a century ago. She also said that the Nazi regime was particularly hard on the schools.
"When I came to America, the most puzzling thing to me was that the children liked school. In Germany education was a nightmare. The teachers were little dictators who tried to beat individuality out of you. In 99 out of 100 cases, they succeeded. The highest suicide rate among school children is found among the Germans," she said.
Miss Wagner said that the trouble with the German people was their passion for obedience and subservience. Hitler simply accumulated these traits and built upon them. Germans today consider American kindness a sign of weakness. A German is not accustomed to being on equal terms with people. They have always either been at someone's feet or throat and are not yet at ease with the eye-to-eye level.
In regard to Nazi glorification of Richard Wagner's music as being nationalistic, Miss Wagner denied that the composer had intended such an interpretation.
se the Nordic saga as a way to represent any cycle that Germany was going through," Miss Wagner said. "The 'Ring' or the atomic bomb can be used as a symbol of money or anything which brings evil into the hands of persons driven by a greed for power."
Union Heads To Choose 12
The deadline for making applications for the chairmanships of 12 Union activities committees is 5 p.m. tomorrow. The chairmen will be chosen from the applications Friday.
The following chairmanships are open: announcements, art, coffee and forums, decorations, entertainment, K-Union, publicity, public liaison, secretarial, social, special projects, and sports and organizations.
Applications should be turned in at the activities office in the Union. Selections will be made by the executive officers of Union activities who are: Craig Hampton, fine arts junior, president; Margaret Granger, College sophomore, vice-president; Marjorie Crane, College sophomore, secretary; Jack Howard, College freshman, treasurer; Paul Coker, finc arts sophomore, social vice-president; and Robert Hughes, College junior, public relations vice-president.
Students submitting applications should include such information as age, class standing, past Union experience, grade average, amount of time which they can donate, and suggestions for improving the operations of Union activities.
Whereas, it has been evident in the last election that an intense apathy on the part of independent students towards politics exists, and whereas, it would seem that this party can no longer serve the independent students in an effective manner, be it resolved: that from and after this May 2, 1949, the Independent Men's Political party be dissolved.
The resolution was passed unanimously.
Before dissolving the party passed a resolution to the effect that those independent men elected in the last election shall continue to serve those who voted for them and that they shall work for the accomplishment of the aims of the now deceased Independent Men's party.
The party was born Sept. 30, 1947 after the death of P.S.G.L., another independent men's party, following the 1947 spring election.
Among the originators of the party were Bruce Bathurst, now a business senior; and Robert Bennett and Ed Stollenwerck, now College juniors. It was Bennett who also drew up the resolution for dissolution.
If one of these two men would resign from A.S.C. there would be no assurance than that an independent student would be elected to fill the vacated position since the party is no longer active. A replacement would be nominated and elected by the members of A.S.C., which is controlled by the Greeks.
In the 1948 election the party ran a close race with Pachacamac, much closer than this year. In that year, Patrick H. Thiessen, Pachacamac candidate, won the All Student Council presidency by only 160 votes defeating Independent Arnold J. Englund. The Independents won seven of the 16 A.S.C. seats and all of the senior class offices.
This year the Independents won only 4 seats on the A.C.S., two being from the Independent Women's Political Senate, and won no class offices. Bennett, however, automatically became a representative at large to A.S.C. because of his defeat for A.S.C. president.
Besides Bennett, the Independent Men's representatives to A.S.C. are Don W. Griffen, District I, and Charles N. Penny, District II.
With the dissolution of the Independent Men's party the only independent political party left is the Independent Women's senate. Ruth Keller, president of the Independent Women, said she had "no comment" after hearing of the end of the men's party.
Band To Perform In St. Joseph
The University concert band will play a full length concert Thursday in the City auditorium at St. Joseph, Mo., as the featured musical event of that city's annual Apple Blossom festival. It will be the second time in three years that the K.U. band has been chosen for that honor.
Russell L. Wiley, director of the ward he would take 120 musicians for the Apre Blossom concert. Appearing in a solo role will be Roger Butts, fine arts sophomore from St. Joseph, who will play the piano part in the "Concerto in Jazz." The composer, Don Phillips, wrote the piece especially for piano and band. James Sellards, education senior, will also play two cornet solos.