MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Missionary Returns To US After 'Reds' Disrupt Work
An emergency furlough made it possible for Miss Lea Edgar, missionary in China, to return home after the spread of Communism uprooted her work in China. She returned to the United States in January and is now visiting friends and relatives in Lawrence.
Miss Edgar believes that the majority of China does not want Com
would be better than what they have now," she said. "The educated class seems to feel that the government is corrupt, and its inability to satisfy the people is causing unrest. Communism has a large following among Chinese college students. They are well taught and have strong methods of subversive work," she continued.
Miss Edgar began teaching English Bible classes in China 28 years ago under the auspices of the American Baptist Foreign Mission society. She was sponsored by the First Baptist church of ElDorado.
The missionary explained that it is difficult to know just what happens in the Red-occupied territories because "the curtain" is dropped around them. Chinese say, however, that the 'bamboo' curtain has a few crevices.
When war broke out between the United States and Japan, Miss Edgar was imprisoned in a Jap concentration camp in Shanghai. The 1500 British and American prisoners lived in a small community which even included schools, churches, and officials. After seven months Miss Edgar was sent back to the United States with a group of exchange war prisoners.
Miss Edgar also taught in a high school for Chinese boys in Hang-chow. The school's enrollment was 1,000, and she had about 250 students in her Bible classes. She used only English in her teaching, for Chinese students study the language several years before they enter high school.
"I count it one of my best experiences," commented the missionary in regard to her stay in the concentration camp. "All prisoners were on an equal footing, rich and poor alike. We learned to live in a community with everyone on a common ground."
Co-educational schools are now becoming common in China, but formerly it was the custom to separate boys and girls, she explained. The mission schools have not yet rearranged their institutions to comply with the more liberal plan
Miss Edgar is a former University student. She decided upon her career while she was in high school and went to China soon after she was graduated from Colorado college, Colorado Springs. In 1928 and '29 she took graduate work in education at the University during one of her four trips back to the U.S.
Spanish Club Elects
El Ateneo, Spanish club, recently elected officers.
They are: president, Ellen Patterson, College senior; Philip E. Smith, College junior; executive assistant, Bautista Murillo; co-secretaries, Robert L. Fickel, College sophomore and James P. O'Brien, College junior; co-treasurers, Rita J. Swearing, College sophomore, and Rodrigo Solera, special student; refreshments chairman, Arthea North, College junior; assistants, Marian Graham, College junior, and Paco Valderramma, senior at University high school.
The area around the Diomede Islands in Bering Strait is referred to as the "land of two," because it is a dividing line for two hemispheres, two continents, two countries and two time zones.
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Beauties on the campus will enable the "Sour Owl", official campus humor magazine, to hail the coming of summer in the May issue. Organized houses on the campus have submitted names of candidates to compete for the "Sour Owl's" summer princess. W. J. Turney, mayor of Lawrence, will select the princess.
The princess will receive $25.
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Candidates are: Ann Hogue, Alpha Chi Omega; Jean Rankin, Briar Manor; Karen York, Chi Omega; Barbara Bruffat, Carruth Hall; Bobbie Dow, Delta Gamma; Shirley Yost, Corbin hall; Marilyn Hardin, Delta Deltaelta.
Jean Pearson, Foster hall; Betty Martin, Gamma Phi Beta; Rosemary Masterson, Monchonsia; Sally Steper, Kappa Alpha Theta; Marilyn Jamison, Templin hall; Yvonne Josserand, Kappa Kappa Gamma;
Dagmar Hasalova, Watkins hall; Connie Kendall, Pi Beta Phi; Patricia Watson, Sigma Kappa, JeanEcord, Theta Phi Alpha; Jean Ecord, Jolliffe hall.
Wednesday Deadline For Announcements
Orders for senior announcements will be accepted at the business office not later than Wednesday, Harold Schwartz, auditor of student organizations, said today.
Leather covered booklets are 60 cents each, those with cardboard covers 40 cents, and plain folders 15 cents. Name cards will be $1.50 a hundred. Orders for less than 100 will not be accepted. The deadline was advanced to accommodate students.
Dr. D. G. Barnhouse To Speak Wednesday In Frank Strong
Dr. Donald G. Barnhouse, editor of "Revelation" magazine and religious lecturer, will speak at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Frank Strong auditorium. His subject will be "How Spiritual Truth May Be Known."
He is the minister of the 10th Presbyterian church in Philadelphia.
Fifty-eight Kansas high schools have submitted 386 entries in 11 divisions for the 29th annual University of Kansas journalism contest before the April 16 deadline.
58 High Schools Enter Contest
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The program is sponsored by the K. U. Intervarsity Christian fellowship. All students are invited.
The divisions are: news, editorial feature, human interest, interview, sports, news and feature pictures, retail advertisements, service to school, business management, and miscellaneous (include cartoons, columns, and art work).
Winners will be rated in each division by the judges. The judges are members of the faculty of the School of Journalism.
Announcements of the winners will be mailed to the schools by Saturday, May 7.
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