University Daily Kansan Thursday. Feb. 24, 1949
Thursday, Feb. 24, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
Self Satisfaction Not Life Motive Mayerberg Says
Man's motive in life should not be self satisfaction, Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, Congregation B'nial Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo., told students at the skeptic's hour at Delta Upsilon fraternity house Wednesday.
Asked what he thought about mixed marriages Rabbi Mayerberg said, "I am opposed to them from the psychological standpoint. Marriage, at best, is a trying situation. The husband and wife may disagree on thousands of insignificant points and still live harmoniously, but if they disagree on a practice of life, they are bound to face a bitterness that cannot be overcome."
Rabbi Mayerberg answered, "I you can pray better away from church, then pray there. Real prayer requires environment. I can worship devoutly in any number of churches, because I go seeking something. If I went merely as an auditor or a curiosity-seeker, it would avail me nothing."
One student asked, "Why should I go to church?"
Rabbi Mayerberg and Harold J. Auebler, executive director of the Rocky mountain region of the student Y.M.C.A., collaborated to answer questions.
A student asked Mr. Kuebler,
"Why do college persons tend to
drift away from church?"
Mr. Kuebler said, "When religion is superimposed on a person when he is young, he will have the tendency to feel that he must become emancipated whenever he leaves home. Then, some students think that it is essential for them to profess to be non-religious."
In reply to a question about Joshua Loth Leibman's "Peace of Mind," Rabbi Mayerberg said that psychiatry points out the ills in man but religion is the therapy that corrects the fault.
Rabbi Mayerberg told students that he couldn't endure the man who wasn't skeptical. "Real doubting is the finest mode of sincere faith," he said.
Women's Club To Meet March 10
The March meeting of the University Women's club has been postponed from Thursday, March 3, to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 10 in Myers hall. Heirlooms and antiques owned by members will be displayed.
China, colored and patterned glass, old silver, jewelry, dolls, laces, coverlets and quilts, baby clothes, pewter, and buttons are among the items to be shown. Members who have such articles to lend for the display are asked to call a member of the committee between now and Monday, March 7, so that space may be planned and arranged in advance. The committee members are: Mrs. Fred Ellsworth, chairman; Mrs. C. F. Nelson, Mrs. Fred Moreau, Mrs. Gerald Carney, Mrs. J. W. Twente, and Mrs. Fred Montgomerv.
Articles are to be brought to Myers hall on the day of the show between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. or 12 and 2 p.m. and unpacked and arranged by the owners, who will also be expected to take charge of them during the show and repack them afterward to take away. Members of the committee will remain in the room throughout the day. The hostess committee for the anti-que show includes Mrs. George Baxley Smith, Mrs. E. C. Buehler, Mrs. Karl Kloez, Mrs. J. J. Biery, and Phillips.
Carl Kleoz, Mrs. J. J. Biery, and Mrs. Emory Phillips.
Funeral Today For Auto Victims
Funeral services for Gerald H. Chapin, College sophomore, Mrs. Chapin, and Daniel Webster Taylor, engineering sophomore, are scheduled for today. Services for the Chapins will be held in Arkansas City. Taylor's funeral will be in Norton.
Chapin, his wife, and Taylor were killed Sunday when the car in which they were riding collided with a truck near Ottawa.
Keeling Wins NROTC Honor
Ross C. Keeling, Jr., engineering sophomore, was selected today from a group of 43 outstanding N.R.O.T.C. freshman and sophomore contract students for "regular" midshipman standing. As a regular midshipman Keeling will get his tuition paid by the navy for the remaining years in college, plus $50 a month for other expenses.
"Since only outstanding students had been selected for contract status, the competition for transfer to regular status was keen," said Capt. W. R. Terrell, professor of naval science. "Midshipman Keeling was selected on the basis of scholastic standing in naval science and other academic subjects," he added.
Upon graduation, Keeling will be eligible for appointment as ensign in the civil engineer corps of the navy. He has stated that he intends to take up a career in the navy upon his graduation from the University.
His selection for the appointment was made by Capt. Terrell upon the advice of the N.R.O.T.C. staff. Authority for the appointment was delegated by the chief of bureau of naval personnel, Washington, D.C.
Fire Fund Goes Over $300 Mark
Contributions to the Templin hall fire fund pushed the total to $309.20 today. The University Daily Kansan business office received $10 from the Don Henry Co-op, $8.30 from Pi Beta Phi, and $5 from Ogden Jones.
dell sisters.
Nineteen of the 37 Templein hail residents will move back into the dormitory today. "Repairs are being made very rapidly in the fire damaged rooms, but eight rooms are still not in use," said Mrs. Vivian Christian, housemother.
The Independent Student association will hold an Inaugural ball from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday March 2, in the Kansas room of the Union.
With a goal of $1,200, the drive will close Wednesday, March 2. Donations will help replace personal effects damaged or destroyed in the Templin hall fire.
ISA Will Sponsor Inaugural Ball
Hank Black will furnish the music. Betty Brooker, I.S.A. social chairman is in charge of arrangements. Refreshments will be served.
Union.
The purpose of the dance is to introduce the new I.S.A. officers who will be elected Monday, Feb. 28.
Walter Kollmorgen, professor of geography, will discuss "Some Social Implications of the Present Trend Toward Secularization," at the Unitarian Liberal club meeting.
All I.S.A. members will be admitted free; there will be an admission charge of 25 cents to others.
Kollmorgen To Speak
The meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Pine room of the Union. The public is invited.
Still missing is this picture which was stolen from the narthex of Danforth chapel recently. Whether the painting was taken purely as a prank is not known, but all evidence points in that direction due to a wave of vandellism that has swept Lawrence and the University recently. The frame for the picture has been found in back of the chapel, but still there is no trace of the painting.
35 Parking Permits Still Unclaimed
About 35 persons for whom parking permits have been issued have failed to claim them, R. H. Wagstaff, chairman of the parking committee, said today.
The deadline for claiming the permits is noon Saturday. Unclaimed permits will be taken up and issued again to other applicants with the next highest priority, Wagstaff said.
First semester pernurs are no longer recognized by campus police. Cars parked in restricted zones and bearing no second semester license will be tagged.
Engineers Plan Queen Contest
The council made plans for the selection of a queen at the annual engineering dance which will be held March 18. Each department in the School of Engineering will enter a candidate. The candidate does not have to be a student in the University. She will be named by the national society of each department. The council members will act as judges.
Ford N. Bohl, engineering senior,
was appointed by the Engineering
council as chairman of the exposition
committee. Ralph E. Andrea,
engineering junior, was appointed
assistant chairman.
Emory N. Kemler, '27, is co-author, with Carl Roger Freberg, of the new second edition of "Elements of Mechanical Vibration," published by John Wiley and Sons.
Kemler, '27, Is Co-Author Of Engineering Text
Dr. Kemler is research professor of mechanical engineering and assistant director of research of the College of Engineering at New York university.
350 Scouts To Visit KU
The annual Boy Scout Visitation day, sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, has been scheduled for Saturday, April 23. Harold Shigley, fine arts junior and vice-president of the organization, announced Wednesday.
Alpha Phi omega will be host to senior scout units from eastern Kansas for the Visitation day and the Kansas relays. Three hundred and fifty scouts attended the event the past year.
Saturday, May 7 was selected as the date for the second Boy Scout Kite-Flying contest for the local boy scout troops. The group decided Wednesday to hold a public auction soon of unclaimed articles now held by the Lost and Found department. Tentative plans were formulated to obtain guest speakers for the regular meetings.
Freshmen Sponsor 'Deep Sea' Dance
The freshman class will sponsor a semi formal "Deep Sea" dance at the Union ballroom Saturday.
Admission will be $1.25 a couple.
Tickets will be on sale this week in Frank Strong hall, Fraser hall, and Watson Library. They may be bought on the evening of the dance at the door.
The committees are: decorations,
Gretchen Freeburg; publicity, Alice
Ann Sellers; ticket sales, Thomas
Payne; entertainment, Donald
Guard; refreshments, James H. Martin;
and clean up, Jean Houssermann.
All are freshmen.
Harlan Livengood's orchestra will play.
WEATHER
Kansas: Occasional light rain and cooler today. High 50 to 55. Low tonight 40 to 45. Partly cloudy tomorrow. High near 50.
Minister Tells How To Meet Red Threat
Communism was described as "a philosophy of despair" by Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg of Congregation B'nai Jehuda, Kansas City, Mo., at the Religious Town Meeting, Wednesday night, in Hoch auditorium.
"It is a mass response to economic fear and social frustration and a complete denial of the very essence and practice of democracy," Rabbi Maverberg added.
"The prime defense against communism is found in the United States as a federal government. Our government is taking us in the right direction when it insists upon keeping our armed forces strong, our manpower trained, and our economic structure adaptable to peace time production ready for quick war time conversion to be used only if we are attacked."
"Third, American education should send streams of its professors into the universities of newly-free peoples, particularly Pakistan and India, to offer these intellectual leaders of tomorrow the counsel and experience of education in a free land," said Dr. Weaver.
Dr. Paul S. Weaver, dean of Religious Life, Stephens college, said, "There are several things which education must do and do rapidly and well. First, teach all American youth the positive faith upon which our democracy rests. Second, we should stop the witch hunt of congressional investigations of honest and liberal democrats who goad us into trying to overcome our interfections.
The Very Rev. F. W. Litchman, dean of the Christ Church cathedral, Salina, said, "The pessimism of the world today carries with it a unique challenge to the Church of God wherever it may be found, a challenge which must be faced up to and accepted without reservation if a happy solution of our present difficulties is to be found.
"In dealing with this problem of pessimism, we must find a way for a meeting of mind and spirit, not along the lines of the least common denominator, but in a largeness of concept commensurate with magnitude of the problem facing us.
"This should call for all the spiritual resources of the whole world. Only in this way can we hope in any degree to modify the degradation which will engulf the peoples of the world if communism in its present form is successful in carrying out its self-asserted purposes," concluded the Rev. Mr. Litchman.
Jewett To Head WWI Battery
J. M. Jewett, of the Geological survey, was recently elected to the honorary position of commander at the 30th annual reunion of battery "B" 130th field artillery battalion.
Mr. Jewett will plan and preside over the next reunion of the group. It is one of the few outfits in the Middle West which has held a reunion each year since World War I.
Worthie H. Horr, associate professor of botany, is also a member of the organization.
Student's Mother Dies
Mrs. Elizabeth Austin Shartel, Kansas City, Mo., mother of Mary E. Shartel, College sophomore, died Tuesday after a month's illness.
Funeral services for Mrs. Shartler will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic church, Kansas City, Mo.