University Daily Kansan
46th Year No. 92
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
REV. HOOVER RUPERT
DR. PAUL S. WEAVER
Two speakers currently appearing on the University campus in connection with Religious Emphasis week are Dr. Paul S. Weaver, dean of Religious Life, Stephens college, Columbia, Mo., and the Rev. Hoover Rupert, director of the Youth Department, Board of Education of the Methodist church, Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Weaver will be one of three speakers on the Town Meeting of the Air at 7:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. With Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, Congregation B'nal Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo., and the Rev. Alfred C. Longly, Catholic chaplain of Staff Command school, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., he will discuss "How Can the Church Deal with Communism?"
The Rev. Mr. Rupert will conduct a fire-side chat at the Alpha Tau Omega house today, and at Miller hall tomorrow.
Take A Chance On Faith Minister Tells Skeptics
How one attains religious certainty and methods of accepting Christianity through faith were discussed by Dr. R. Park Johnson, minister of the Second Presbyterian church, Kansas City, Mo., at the Skeptic hour at Henley house Tuesday night.
house Tuesday night to the question "How can we be sure the Christian faith is
In answer to the question, "true," Dr. Johnson said, "Religious certainty is not in the same category as scientific certainty, and it is harder to demonstrate. This is because religious certainty has an individual aspect. One has to experience it before certainty is there."
Another question asked, "Should we look for evidence of faith or of a diety?" Faith is found in its application. Dr. Johnson said. Unless you are willing to take a chance on faith, you will never find it. He cited his experience with Moslems that converted to Christianity while he was teaching at Alborz college, the American Presbyterian Mission in Teheran, Iran.
The education of Moslems has caused some of them to look around for another religion, Dr. Johnson said. But they looked for evidences before making this "jump" to the Christian faith. Christianity has a higher moral code, for example. Educated Moslems often preferred Christian conduct. Perhaps we should go through this process of looking for evidence before making this jump of faith, he added.
When one student expressed some doubt as to the immortality of the soul, Dr. Johnson countered with the question, "Is it more reasonable to just live, without an end or purpose, or is it more reasonable to believe that man is existing for a purpose and an end realization?"
This requires the exercising or "reasonable faith" which is relying on the experience of others and having faith in others. Again, one must make this leap of faith, and to believe in a God who will test and judge our action, Dr. Johnson said.
Six Will Attend Convention
Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Union, and five student members of Union activities will attend the national convention of United States student unions. The meeting will be held in the Broadmoor hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo., from April 27 to April 30.
Templin Fire Fund Hits $285 Mark
The Templin hall fire fund, sponsored by the University Daily Kansas, was boosted to $285.90 today with three $10 gifts and several smaller contributions. Delta Gamma, Foster hall, and Edward H. Taylor were the largest donors.
The fund will be used to help Templein residents replace the reported $1200 loss of personal effects destroyed or damaged by the fire.
Other new contributors include Harold G. Barr, $5; Marie Schreiber, $5; Mrs. Carl Slough, $2; "Ark City's Gang-Green," $2; a friend, $1; and anonymous persons, $9.50.
Ten members of the International club will hold a round table discussion on social life in their home countries Thursday in the Pine room of the Union. The discussion, sponsored by U.N.E.S.C.O., will begin at 7:30 p.m. with dating as the principle subject.
Foreign Students To Discuss Dating
Contribution boxes will be placed in the Union building, Frank Strong hall, and other campus points to tomorrow. The University Daily Kansas business office is still receiving money for the drive, which closes Wednesday, March 2.
Foreign students who will take part in the program are: Aldo Alotti, Italy; Alien Mutman, Turkey; Italy; Dabbagh, Iraq; Dagmar Horna, Czechoslovakia; Patricia Siebert, Argentina; Bernardo Weitznem, Mexico; Tapeshwar Zutshi, India; Kuo Chic Hsu, China; Bautista Murillo, Costa Rica; and Onorato E. Chavez, Philippines.
The meeting is open to all interested students.
Cheating One Of Subjects Of Conference
Cheating will be one of the major subjects of discussion at the Student-Faculty conference to be held Saturday, March 5 at the Union. This subject will be included in a discussion of the University's honor system. The conference is being sponsored by Mortar board and Sachem.
The illegal practice of lending student activity books will be one of the topics under consideration.
Plans for a new Union annex and how money is spent in the Union will also be discussed.
A discussion of student grips concerning the Union will be included. If students have specific questions or grips they will have an opportunity to be heard at the conference. Lorraine Ross, College sophomore, will lead the discussion
Joan Williams, College senior, will lead the discussion in the morning session.
Israeli-Egyptian Truce Tomorrow
Rhodes, Feb. 23 —(U.R.)— Israel and Egypt will sign tomorrow an armistice formally allowing their hostilities in Palestine, United Nations officials announced today. The agreement may lead to a settlement of the long strife in the holy land.
An announcement confirming the success of Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting U.N. mediator, in directing negotiations which produced an Israeli-Egyptian agreement, said the document would be signed at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. C.S.T.).
The text of the armistice, a compromise proposal submitted by Dr Bunche to the Israeli and Egyptian delegations, will be made public one-half hour after the formal signing ceremony in the presence of Dr Bunche.
The 5,000-word armistice agreement comprised 12 chapters and three annexes. The chapters deal with military agreements for demilitarization and withdrawal of forces in the various areas of South Palestine, where Israeli-Egyptian fighting flared sporadically from the expiration of the British mandate last May until early this year.
The armistice was the most encouraging development in Palestinian affairs since violence erupted when the U.N. assembly approved a partition plan on Nov. 29, 1947. The frequent flareups developed into full scale warfare last May when the British withdrew, the state of Israel was proclaimed, and the neighboring Arab states moved against it.
The annexes consisted of definitions of various terms, and of an exchange of letters understood to relate to an exchange of war prisoners.
High hopes for an agreement had persisted here for several days since Dr. Bunche handed this compromise proposal to the delegates, Israel agreed to the terms conditional on Egypt accepting.
The agreement came after a month and 10 days of negotiations. It was a major victory for Dr. Bunche and the U.N.
Kansas: Fair north, partly cloudy south today. Warmer east. Partly cloudy and continued mild tonight and Thursday. High today 55-65. Low tonight in the 30's.
WEATHER
A proposal that a rating system be established to provide students with an opportunity to criticize teachers on lecture organization and personality was the question debated by the All Student council Tuesday. A mimeographed questionnaire would be given to each student during final exami-
ASC Debates Staff Rating Proposal
Estlack Heads Pharmacy Roll
Jamie L. Estlack, pharmacy junior, headed the School of Pharmacy fall honor roll of 17 students with a 3.0 grade average. Dean J. Allen Reese, said today.
san Judy.
Philip M. Preble and John E.
Purdy, pharmacy seniors, made 2.9
averages.
Other pharmacy juniors on the roll are Everett G. Baker, 2.8; Arthur A. Cleverenger, 2.3; Robert M. Dietrich, 2.4; John B. DuMars, 2.5; Darrell A. Hobson, 2.7; Geraldine B. Probst, 2.8; Homer S. Scarborough, 2.3.
Pharmacy sophomores on the roll are Eugene W. Brockemeyer, 22; Milton V. Rubottom, 2.4; Roy H. Muntzert, 2.4; Everett L. Willoughby, 2.2.
Winfred M. McElheny, 2.6; Mary Ann Trott, 2.6; and Donna Roberts, 2.1. pharmacy freshmen.
Freshman honor students must have a 2.1 grade point average; sophomore, 2.2; juniors, 2.3; and seniors, 2.4.
Writes Book For Fun
Miss Frances Grinstead, assistant professor of journalism, wrote her novel, "The High Road," with "the idea it would be fun." Speaking to members of Theta Sigma Phl, women's honorary journalism fraternity, Tuesday Miss Grinstead explained the methods she used in writing her novel.
Novelists have two ways of creating characters, she said. They may choose living people or unite several personalities into one person.
Miss Grinstand's novel concerns the conflicts of a young man in the Missouri Ozarks. "It has a romantic degree of reallism," the author said.
The hero becomes a preacher and tells his people the road of heaven is high and beautiful, Miss Grinstead said, to explain the title of her book.
Miss Grinstead moved to the Ozarks when she was nine years old and lived there until she was 16. She said she became well acquainted with the mannerisms and language of the people during that time.
Union Conference Set For March 5
How is money spent in the Union building? What are the plans for the new Union annex? What is the chain of command for the Union? These and other questions will be discussed at the coming Student-Faculty conference to be held Saturday, March 5. at the Union.
A discussion of student grips concerning the Union will also be included. If students have specific questions or grips they should bring them to the Student-Faculty conference, sponsored by Mortar board and Sachem. Reservations can be made with Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women or Lorraine Ross, College sophomore, who will lead the discussion.
nations for the rating process.
A plan whereby students could recommended methods for improvement of courses was given by the Council to William Conboy, chairman of an investigating committee, for further consideration.
Conboy reported on research by his committee concerning recommendations of the previous committee. The report included five conditions: the system should be used in all schools; ratings should be constructive rather than destructive; results of the polls must not be published; the final reports must not be used to expose instructors; and present rating systems should be replaced, not supplemented, by the new plan.
Mabel Conderman, district III, and Ralph Winter, district II, were sworn in as new delegates.
The K-Book staff was granted $456.72 and the American Institute of Chemical Engineering chapter was granted $70. A request from Truman Gore, president of A.I.C.E., for $125 was not approved. It was felt that the last two items of the request would not be of benefit to the students. The request was to pay for regional speakers, correspondence expenses, and printing costs for identification badges for the regional conference, April 22 and 23.
A report from the K.U. calendar committee reporting an asset of $19.99 was read to the council by Robert Bennett, chairman of the finance committee.
Helen Piller, College junior, and William Conboy, College senior, were appointed to prepare a summary of the duties of the A.S.C. committees.
The council approved a motion by Ernest Friesen, College junior, to send flowers to the funeral of any university student "whose academic career is ended by death." Flowers will be sent to the funerals of the two students killed Saturday.
Appointment of Joseph D. Lysa-
saught to chief justice of the stu-
dent court by faculty of the law
school was announced by Thiessen.
A suggestion by Robert Bennett that "some effort be made to get students out to meetings" was approved by the president. He requested that the University Daily Kansan print a list of those absent. They were Ann Ellis, fine arts sophomore; Donald Helm, business junior; James Hunsucker, third year law student; Ralph Kiene, Jr., education senior; Craig Hampton, fine arts freshman; Alan Shearer, College sophomore; Robert Thayer, education junior; Austin Turney, Jr., business senior; Roger Davis, College sophomore; James Martin, College freshman; and Robert Foster, business junior.
Bob Bock Heads State Vets Group
Robert Bock, 23, graduate student from Macksville was named president of the Kansas Democratic Veterans and Robert Freeman, 29, graduate of the School of Law, was named national committeeman 'or the Kansas Young Democrats Tuesday.
Elected to the state legislature in 1946 and 1948, Bock headed the nation-wide "Students for Eisenhower" movement the past year. He appeared on "We, The People" in October, 1947, and was sports editor of the University Daily Kansan in 1943-44.