University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Proficiency Exam Registration Is Monday, Feb. 28
By Bibler
Registration for the proficiency examination in English composition will be conducted Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Feb. 28, March 1, and March 2. The date of the examination is 2 p.m., Saturday, March 5. Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, chairman of the committee administering the test, announced today.
Passing the test is a pre-graduation requirement of all students in the College, School of Education, and William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information. Juniors and seniors are eligible to take the test. Registration will take place in the College office, education office, and journalism office for students in the respective schools.
The examination is a test of students' ability to express their thoughts in simple expository writing. It is given once each semester, and those students who fail are allowed to try a second time. Two failures require enrollment in a course in composition.
The committee administering the proficiency examination includes Mrs. Calderwood and William Howie, instructors in English; James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history; and J. Eldon Fields, assistant professor of political science.
Russia Resigns From UN Unit
Geneva, Feb. 16—(U.R.)-Russia, the Ukraine and White Russia withdrew today from the World Health organization, contending that the United Nations organization's set-up incurs expenses too heavy for member states to bear.
U. N. officials regarded with serious concern withdrawal from W.H.O. of the Soviet Union and the two Soviet republics.
(U.N. leaders at Lake Success appeared to feel that the withdrawal did not portent a Soviet walkout from the U. N. itself.)
The Soviets said they were dissatisfied with the work of W.H.O. They claimed that "the organization's swollen administrative machinery involves expenses which are too heavy for member states to bear."
U. N. officials made no secret of their concern over this first Russian resignation from a U.N. agency. Even in the bitterest U.N. debates Soviet officials, when the idea of withdrawal was broached, always have brushed it aside as unworthy of comment.
The health organization was established formally last year after two years of informal activity. It was regarded generally as one of the more effective branches of the U.N. setup.
Dr. Chisholm, director general of the W.H.O., said he had cabled the Soviet government suggesting that he visit Moscow for "fuller discussions" of the withdrawal.
At a press conference where he announced the Soviet decision, Dr. Chisholm said he had cabled word to Moscow that he could not accept the withdrawal, as the organization's constitution "makes no such provision."
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy today and tomorrow: colder extreme northwest today and tonight. Warmer west tomorrow. High to 50 to 45.
Little Man On Campus
"Okay, okay, enough of the preliminaries, Worthal—let's get started with your speech."
Cardinal's Trial A Purge Religion Professors Say
Three University professors of religion agree that the conviction of Cardinal Mindszenty is a sign of religious persecution by the communistic form of government.
John H. Patton, professor of religion, said, "The type of so-called 'justice' met out to Cardinal Mindszenty is illustrative of a deeper problem than his personal conviction. That is the problem of freedom of thought and expression in all areas: politics and economics as well as religion.
"If the Christian clergyman is to check his thoughts and utterances with any power other than the will of God as he interprets it, then he had better check 'in' the symbols of his vocation and cease entirely his attempt to be a prophetic preacher.
"The time has come when we of the clergy must be ready to bear the stigma of our faith and the responsibility for our utterances. We must decry this perversion of justice in a foreign country but we must also recognize the presence of the same demon within our midst."
The General Semantics club will hold the first meeting of the semester at 7:45 p.m. today. Orville Roberts, instructor in speech will talk on "A non-Aristotelian Examination of Multidiurnal Phraseology in Selected Political Addresses."
EAWN F. Price, professor of religion:
"Religious persecution is the price a religious group sometimes has to pay for upholding its ideals."
Professor Price believes that we should accept the persecution in a pacifistic manner and not smear religion with violence.
Harold G. Barr, Dean of the School of Religion, commented: "Communists liquidate any opposition to their form of maneuvering, and it seems that this is true in the case of Cardinal Mindszenty."
"I disagree with the apparent persecution but the groups must be willing to accept it without hatred and without drawing expecting governments to protect it."
"Everyone interested is cordially invited to attend," Phillip Persky president of the club, said.
Semantics Club Tonight
Three Lead ReligionPanel
Three leaders in religion will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23 in Hoch auditorium on the Religious Town Meeting of the Air, Howard W. Hallman, college junior and student chairman, said today. It will be one of the programs of Religious Emphasis week.
Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, vigorous opponent of the Pendergast machine in Kansas City; Dr. Paul Weaver, lecturer, traveler, and author from Columbia, Mo.; and the Rev. Alfred Longley, psychologist on the Staff Command school, will discuss "dynamics for living," or "How can the church deal with Communism?"
A $25 contribution by William M. Rowlands, owner of Rowlands Book store, helped boost the Temple-l hall fire fund to $74.
The Rev. R. V. Albert, minister of the Trinity Lutheran church, will be the moderator for the discussion.
Templin Hall Fund Now $74
Other contributions received since Tuesday are as follows: Harwoods market, $5; Leslie B. Nelson, College junior, and Dean Anderson, business senior, $2; anonymous, $1.
Mr. Rowlands said he will give a 15 per cent discount on any textbook and a 25 per cent discount on supplies which must be replaced by victims of the fire. He also said he will give a free notebook to any Templein hall resident who lost one in the fire.
College Creates New Art Division
The College faculty approved recommendations Tuseday that creates a new curricular division in the College.
Western Kansas Seeks Bureau
It will be the Division of Music and Art and will be numbered four. The remainder of the present division four will be numbered five.
Goodland, Kan., Feb. 16—(U.P.)-Western Kansas had the backing of a United States senator today in its move to secure a full-time U. S. weather bureau for its 46 counties.
The drive is headed by the Western Kansas Development association and will take definite shape tomorrow at the Great Plains Weather conference to be held here.
Republican Sen. Andrew Schoeppel, himself a western Kansan, said he would do all he could to secure the improved service for the western counties, where stockmen and wheat growers have complained that insufficient weather service has cost them countless thousands of dollars in storm losses.
Heavy livestock losses in last November's blizzard touched off the campaign. Stockmen in western Kansas charged that while a blizzard swept their flocks and herds, the Kansas City, Mo., district forecast office was predicting "fair and warm" weather.
Representatives of the weather bureau from Kansas City, Denver and Washington are expected to attend the conference.
The proposal has led several communities to claim the best location for a forecasting service. But it was considered likely such a bureau would be set up at Goodland, Dodge City, Great Bend or Garden City, where weather stations already exist.
A few hours' warning, stock growers said, would have enabled them to get their livestock under shelter. Instead, they said, stock was caught in the open, where many cattle and sheep died.
Courtesy Vital In Procedure-Conard
The use of common sense and observance of the rules of courtesy is the most important factor in parliamentary law, John J. Conard, instructor in political science, told the A.W.S. leadership workshop yesterday.
He pointed out that the use of parliamentary law makes a meeting "orderly, saves time, and decisions will be reached by the will of the majority.
"The chairman of a group should be courteous and compel everybody else to be likewise," Mr. Conard continued. "The chairman 'has to maintain quiet in meetings, control the emotions of the group and allow no interruptions."
It was vital, Mr. Conard felt, that the chairman also "compel members to conform to set patterns of procedure. Motions must be made before discussion — compelling people to think before they are on their feel," he remarked.
The leadership workshop will conclude 7:15 p.m. Thursday when Mrs. Robert Calderwood, instructor in English, will speak on "The Role of Women in Leadership."
"Work in the new division five will not be required at the present time." Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, said today.
M. D. Clubb, professor of English, was chairman of the special committee, and faculty representatives from the College, Schools of Fine Arts, Engineering, and Education served on the committee.
Some of the recommendations were adopted:
1. That a new curricular division be instituted within the College, to be called the Division of Music and Art.
2. That a divisional committee, consisting of those instructors who give the courses now scheduled or hereafter to be recommended, be appointed to develop and supervise the program.
3. That as soon as is practicable, two new three-hour freshman-sophomore courses be offered, one in music, the other in the arts of form.
4. That as rapidly as student interest warrants, present advanced offerings in the two major fields be increased by courses in specific periods or supreme masters, in which, though historical background may be made to contribute richly, attention is centered primarily on the music and art themselves.
"This program is not intended for the student who is primarily interested in art," Dean Lawson commented, "but is intended for the general student who may be majoring in chemistry, English, or any other major to increase his interest in and understanding of those forms of art which should be a recognized part of his daily life."
A second part of the report, of which the faculty approved the general idea took no specific action, concerned moves which provide students and the faculty with facilities to study and appreciate the arts.
Frederick Otto "Fritz" Meyn, University student between 1912 and 1917, and a prominent citizen of Lawrence, died today of what is believed to have been a heart attack. Mr. Meyn was on a train traveling from Denver to Kansas City. His body was taken from the train at Kansas City, the sheriff's office said. He was 58.
Fritz Meyn Dies Of Heart Attack
Mr. Meyn had two daughters and both attended the University. Alice Marie, 39, now Mrs. Paul Smart, lives in Lawrence. Fritzie, who attended from 1939 to 1941, is now Mrs. Frank Dexter of Colorado.
E. L. Falkenstien, business manager of athletics, made this comment about the late Mr. Meyn:
"He was very much interested in K.U. athletics and he gave support to them in his time and efforts. When there was to a drive of some kind, Fritz Meyn was right there willing to go. But I think his interest was for the entire University rather than for athletics alone.
"For years he operated a service station at Eighth and New Hampshire. And back when times were hard, he often gave employment to three or four University students who actually needed employment rather than to hire one full-time employee."