University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vandals Damage Two Autos On Campus
Two more cases of vandalism occurred Feb. 18, campus police reported today.
Damage to a convertible totaling $180 occurred Friday noon when an unidentified person carved an obscene word into the transparent plastic top of a 1947 convertible owned by Miles B. Light, business senior.
Light said his brother, Robert S. Light, engineering senior, had parked the car on Jayhawk drive, opposite Bailey hall, at noon. He was gone 15 minutes and upon returning discovered the damage.
Damage was not covered by insurance. Light has offered a $10 reward for information concerning the person responsible.
The second case occurred at midnight, when a 1936 convertible, driven by Marvin D. Rausch, College freshman, had its windshield shattered by a pop bottle thrown from a passing car.
Police reported that Rausch was driving east on Jayhawk drive, in front of Frank Strong hall, when passed by a westbound car, from which the bottle was thrown. Glass was scattered over four occupants of the car. No one was injured.
University police are investigating the two cases.
Park College Holds Council
The second annual regional international relations conference will be held Friday and Saturday at Park college, Parkville, Mo., Robert Chesky, president of the Y.M.C.A., said today.
The conference, sponsored by Park college and the American Friends Service committee, is designed to give students an opportunity to hear new approaches and new techniques for thought and action about the problem, "Europe: Crucible of War or Peace."
The speakers will be: Kenneth Boulding, research professor at Iowa State university; John Scott Everton, dean of the Chapel at Grinnell college, Grinnell, Iowa; Jay William Hudson, visiting professor of philosophy at Stephens college, Columbia, Mo.; H. Cotton Minchin, British vice-consul in Kansas City, Mo.; and Sandoh Soloveitchik, professor of Russian Civilization at the University of Kansas City.
Students interested in attending this conference should see Robert Chesky in the Y.M.C.A. office in the Union before Wednesday.
moore Receives tigh Appointment
Dr. Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology and research director of the State Geological Survey, was appointed a vice-president of the largest scientific organization in the United States, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The association, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last fall, is divided into about 15 different sections. Each section is concerned with a particular branch of science and has a vice-president in charge of it. Dr. Moore is vice-president of the geology section.
'Chapel Stays Open,' Chancellor Says
When Danforth Chapel was dedicated, it was turned over to the students with the understanding that it would be lighted and open at all times. That policy continues; the chapel has not and will not be locked or darkened.
Danforth Chapel is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, as a retreat and place of prayer for all students. No act of malicious vandalism will change that policy, nor can such action deprive the students of K.U. of the privilege which the little chapel offers for personal meditation.
DEANE W. MALOTT,
Chancellor.
Town Meeting Set At Hoch
"How should the organized church deal with communism?" will be the subject of the Religious Town Meeting of the Air, George Sheldon, chairman of the Town Meeting said today.
The program will be given at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, in Hoch auditorium. The discussion will be recorded on KFKU equipment for rebroadcasting at 9:30 p.m. that evening.
The three speakers who will participate are: Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, rabbi of the Congregation B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. Paul S. Weaver, dean of religious life, Stephens college, who appeared on the Religious Town Meeting of the Air the past summer; and the Very Rev. F. W. Litchman, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Salina.
WEATHER
Kansas: Cloudy with intermittent light snow or freezing drizzle west and intermittent freezing drizzle east today with precipitation ending west late today and in east tonight.
Bold Tactics Pay Off, Editor Says
By FRANKIE WAITS
"Aggressiveness does pay," said Hodding Carter, Pulitzer prize winner editor and publisher of the Greenville, Miss., Delta-Democratic Times at the first convocation of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information today.
In a career emphasized by aggressiveness Hodding Carter did the thing caution said not to do, he took sides. For four years he and his paper in Greenville, Miss., opposed the Huey Long forces. Mr. Carter wrote editorials emphasizing his beliefs in the right of all people to be free under one American flag. The first editorials were taken by the general public as the whims of an aggressive editor of a small town daily.
When Mr. Carter moved his papo to Greenville, Miss. more editorials followed, this time starting the fight for racial tolerance in Mississippi. Because of these editorials he won the Neiman Fellowship Award at Harvard.
In spite of personal differences the small daily that was started with $367 in 1932 has grown from a circulation of 3,000 to 12,000 and is still growing. The paper is a thriving one, working on the basis that, "You can be honest and aggressive and take the unpopular side, yet you can still succeed.
Little Man On Campus
A summer baseball and softball league have been started and the first boxing tournament was started by the Delta-Democrat. At Christmas time townpeople took homeless children and gave them a Christmas to remember. Inter-faith groups work side by side for the Christian education of all of the people.
Working for equality of all races and informing the people of all the issues is the basic concept under which the Delta-Democrat is carried on.
By Bibler
Students And Wife Killed In Wreck
Two University students and the wife of one of them were killed and another student and his wife seriously injured Sunday when their car collided with a truck on U.S. highway 50 S., 14 miles southwest of Ottawa. Dead are: Gerald H. Chapin, College sophomore, and Mrs. Chapin;
Two Men Find Picture Frame
The frame for an oil painting taken last week from Danforth chapel was found early Saturday morning by two Pi Kappa Alpha pledges. The frame has been removed from the chapel for safe keeping, according to C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
Ted E. Barbera, College freshman,
and Bill J. Price, pharmacy freshman,
discovered the picture frame in
the shrubby back of Danforth
chapel about 3 a.m. The men were
looking for a small monument for a
scavenger hunt.
They reported the discovery to Ray Picht and B. M. Whitsett, campus nightwatchmen and put the frame in the chapel.
The picture, a copy of Hoffman's "Christ at Cethisemane," has not been found. It had hung in the narthex of the chapel for two years. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Poindexter of St. Louis, Mo. gave the picture and frame to the chapel.
The gift was insured for $500.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today, "Feeling in general is that the picture was not taken for its sale value, but merely as a prank."
$6,958 Payment Made To Templin
Insurance settlement has been made covering damages, a result of the fire at Templin hall two weeks ago, Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment association, announced today. A total of $6,958 will be paid by the insurance company.
Of this amount $5,891 is for the damages to the building proper, and $1,067 is for loss on furnishings. The insurance payment represents full coverage of the loss sustained by the University but excludes the personal losses suffered by the residents.
George L. Kapfer, Lawrence contractor, will do the major portion of repairs on the building. This work will be completed in two or three months. Youngberg said.
Templin Fire Fund Now At $231.40
Three gifts of $25 and several smaller contributions boosted the Templin fire fund to $231.40 today. Kappa Phi, Nannie Garvin, and the Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream company were the largest contributors.
Beta Theta Pi gave $10; John Ise, $5; students at 1218 Mississippi street, $3.49; "boys" at 1244 Tennessee street, $3; Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Longhofer, $1. Anonymous gifts totaled $7.
Contributions may be sent to the University Daily Kansan business office. The money will be used to help Templin residents replace personal effects destroyed or damaged in the fire.
The injured are: Robert L. Jones,
College junior, and his wife.
A sister, Margo A. Taylor, College freshman, and a brother Thomas F., College junior, are students at the University.
They were returning to Lawrence after spending the week-end at Arkansas City, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chapin and Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Taylor's home is in Norton. His father is director of the Norton State hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones are in Ransome Memorial hospital at Ottawa. Jones received multiple fractures of the right leg and a possible fractured pelvis. His wife received severe leg injuries. Both are suffering from shock and their condition was described as "very serious" this morning.
The accident occurred about 8:45 p.m. Sunday. Arthur Jensen, state highway patrolman who investigated the accident, said the students were going east in a five-passenger coupe and apparently slid into the truck which was going west. The car was pinned beneath the truck trailer and was dragged backward for approximately 100 feet.
Patrolman Jensen said that Mrs. Jones was thrown clear, but that the rest of the occupants were pinned in and they were escorted out. Was she the driver and owner of the car?
The co-ordination of student activities has been selected as a main discussion topic for the Student-Faculty conference to be held Saturday, March 5 at the Union.
The truck was driven by Raymond W. Rice, North Kansas City, Mo., and was loaded with 28,000 pounds of machinery and freight. Rice was not injured and no charges have been made against him, said the highway patrolman.
Seek Student Co-ordination
The discussion will center around the possibility of centralizing student activities under one system so they will not conflict with University functions. This central office would also issue information on officers, purposes and entrance requirements of all student organizations.
An analysis of the 215 campus organizations will also be discussed. Betty van der Smissen, first year law student, will lead the group in an afternoon session. Any student who wishes to express his opinion on the topic is urged to give his name to Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, or Miss van der Smissen.
Radio Club Plans Special Broadcasts
Proposals were made to set up a program for broadcasting student messages to friends or relatives in Kansas or out of state and possibly abroad by the K.U. Amateur Radio club at a meeting Thursday.
Under the proposals boxes would be placed at various points around the campus in which students could be trained. Students died by way of "ham" operators.
Jerry Kuehnle, president, was in charge of the first meeting of the club during the spring semester. The club is designed to give members an opportunity for practical radio experience and is sponsored by the electrical engineering department.