University Daily Kansan Fridav. Feb. 4. 1949
Friday. Feb. 4. 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Moral Forces Is Theme Of Religious Week
"Dynamics for Living" is the theme for Religious Emphasis week, Feb. 20 to 27.
Dr. Paul Weaver will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers are Harold Kuebler, Y.M.C.A.; R. Park Johnson, Presbyterian; the Rev. F. W. Litchman, Episcopalian; the Rev. Alfred C. Longly, Catholic; Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, Jewish; Hoover Rupert, Methodist.
Publicity; Dale Theobald, chairman;
Ned Linegar, Y.M.C.A. chairman,
advisor; Ray Boardman; Barbara Paul.
Speakers: Laura Mason, chairman; Dr. Edwin F. Price, Methodist student pastor, advisor; Martha Oatman; Garv Straley.
Committees chosen to organize the week are:
Sponsored by the Student Religious council, the speakers will address faculty luncheons, seminars, organized houses, classrooms and will have private consultations with students.
Organized houses: Loren B. Corliss, chairman; the Rev. Charles W Thomas, Baptist student pastor, advisor; Richard Childs; Carol Donovan.
Classrooms: Mary Lou Redmond chairman; Dr. Harold G. Barr, dear of the School of Religion, advisor; James Cunningham; Robert Crum
Worship: Albert Goodpasture, chairman; Miss Helen Currier, assistant to Dr. Price, advisor; Catherine Barber; Norman Hoover;
Seminar: Robert Boese, chairman; Dr. John Patton, Presbyterian student pastor, advisor; Nancy Blew; Nita Brewster.
Finance: Henry Bradshaw, chairman; the Rev. R. W. Albert, Trinity Lutheran church, advisor; Charles Cory; June Joslyn.
Faculty luncheon; Jack Hollingsworth chairman; the Rev. Robert C. Swift, Trinity Episcopal church, advisor; Wayne Love; Phyllis Curtis.
KU Host To DebateTeams
The University will be host to Kansas high school debate squads on two successive weekends. Regional finals of the Kansas high school debate tournament will be held tomorrow. The winner of this tournament, plus the winners of three other regional tournaments, will compete in the state finals Friday and Saturday. Feb. 11 and 12.
Nine class AA and A high schools will compete in the regional finals. Class AA schools are Wyandotte Shawnee-Mission, Topeka, Atchison and Emporia. Class A schools are Chapman, Fredonia, Olathe, and Washington Rural at Bethel.
Dr. Nickerson To Speak Before Music Association
Teams competing in the regional finals have won previous elimination contests. Hobart Hanson, director of institutes and conferences of University Extension, is director of the tournament.
Dr. James Nickerson, associate professor of music education, will discuss and demonstrate audiovisual aids for music teaching at the Kansas workshop of the National Catholic Music Educators association to be held Feb. 10 to 12 in Wichita
Dr. Nickerson is chairman of the audio-visual aids committee of the Music Teachers National association.
College Enrollment Closes Tomorrow
No changes in enrollment will be made after tomorrow, James K. Hitt, registrar, warned today.
Late enrollees and students requesting changes in enrollment in the College will follow this procedure:
Those wishing to make changes in class schedules should enter the east door of Robinson gymnastium and go directly to the second floor, between 9 and 11 am. tomorrow.
Freshmen, former students, new advanced standing students presenting grade cards, and students presenting transfers who want to enroll late should enter the north door of the gymnasium, at the same time as those who are changing enrollment.
"All College students are urged, without fail, to make necessary changes in enrollment Saturday between 9 and 11 a.m." Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College said.
Dimes Dance Is Tomorrow
No pictures of candidates for the title of King of Dimes have been received yet by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, sponsors of the campus March of Dimes drive. The king will reign over the King of Dimes dance in the Union ballroom tomorrow from 9 p.m. to midnight
Pictures of the candidates will be accepted from all organized houses, Harold E. Shigley, chairman of the drive, said. They will be placed in the Union lounge together with contribution boxes marked with the name of each candidate. Voting will be by contributions to the March of Dimes. The candidate receiving the largest amount of money will be elected king.
Habein Explains Qualifications For Leadership
Music for the dance will be furnished by Charlie O'Connor and his orchestra. Admission is $1.25 a couple. Tickets are on sale now in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall.
Self-reliance, initiative, impartiality, and courage are the first qualification members of the Associated Women garet Habein, dean of women, told memebres of the Associated Women Students, at the A.W.S. workshop meeting Thursday night.
The workshop was attended by 130 women campus leaders of the University. The meeting was the first of a series to be held each Tuesday and Thursday until Thursday Feb.17.
The subject of Miss Habein's speech was "Why Leadership is Important." She listed other qualifications for leadership as a sincere regard for and belief in people, a sincere desire to help others, a sense of humor, a knowledge of current affairs, a belief in what one is doing, mental stability, and an ability to subordinate personal loyalties to a higher cause.
Miss Habein explained to the group some of the ways in which a good leader gives a unity of action and thought to people with whom he works. She presented a case illustration for points in her speech, and led group discussions after the lecture.
Everyone cannot be a leader. Miss Habein warned. She said that a group of critical followers were just as important as the leader. She suggested that a leader should examine his motives to see that his leadership is unselfish so that the greatest good or we group may be accomplished.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy today and tonight except occasional light snow extreme west. Tomorrow mostly cloudy, light snow west. Somewhat colder central and east today and east tonight. A little warmer tomorrow. High today 20-30. Low tonight near 15 west border to near five above northeast and 10-15 southeast.
Colonel John Alfrey congratulates James E. Franklin, who has just received his commission as second lieutenant in army reserve, Col. Kenneth E. Rosebush looks on approvingly. Others who received their commissions Thursday evening at a ceremony and dinner in the English room of the Union were: Air Force, Engene C. Briach, Richard C. Beach, James G. Bowman, Arthur A. Clevenger, Larry L. Funk, James D. McBride, Richard N. Getty, Frank W. Korber, Walter J. Michaelis, Robert M. Riegle, Charles W. Spieth, Marshall R. Warner, Artillery, Herbert F. Bueholtz, Chester W. Spencer, Infantry, Edward M. Stryker.
Cultural Problem Is Our Biggest One
By JOHN RILEY
The biggest problem facing the world today is a cultural one, Archibald MacLeish, former assistant secretary of state, told an all student convocation today.
"The cold war is a war in the minds of men," he said. Mr. MacLeish advocated participation in U.N.E.S.C.O. as a means of solving the differences among nations.
UWF Petitions For Strong UN
A petition to the state legislature to pass a resolution calling for a strengthening of the powers of the United Nations got 1,408 signatures from University personnel during the past three days. The petition was circulated by members of the United World Federalists.
John Rix, business senior, an executive of the organization, said today the resolution will be introduced by Robert Bock, member of the house, and former student of the University. Bock will introduce the resolution later in the session, Rix said.
"We the undersigned, do believe that the United Nations lacks the necessary power in order to maintain the peace.
"Therefore we recommend: (1) Elimination of the veto power. (2) A more equitable means of representation; rather than one vote per person, large and small being equal in vote as they are now. Such a means of representation might consider population, resources, trade, wealth in determining the voting strength of nations. (3) A military police force to carry out the decisions of the United Nations."
Rix said that although the resolution will be introduced by Bock, the support of the measure will be on a non-partisan basis.
137 Killed By Weather
(By UNITED PRESS)
Seventeen Western states today reported a total of 137 persons dead as result of the bad weather since New Year's day. Three have died in Kansas.
Clear skies permitted the army, air force and navy to rush rescue work in areas isolated by the towering drifts of snow covering the range states from the Canadian border almost to old Mexico.
Texas had the greatest number of deaths attributable to the weather with 33. Nebraska had 22. Wyoming 13. and Missouri 12. Utah and Washington reported nine each, Colorado eight, and Oregon seven. New Mexico and Nevada had five each, South Dakota four, Montana and Oklahoma two each, and Arizona, California and Iowa one each.
The weather forced the Western Livestock Insurance company, Denver, out of business. Del Vanfilder, secretary-treasurer of the company, said the firm had paid out so many claims to ranchers who lost stock in the January blizzards that it was forced to the wall.
Mr. Vanfilfer said Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas ranchers filed claims totaling $375,000, almost equaling the $377,000 in assets the company had at the start of the winter. All policies were cancelled as of Jan. 30.
Ranchers believed the total of dead livestock when spring comes would be tremendous. One bulldozer crew in South Dakota told of finding 3,200 head of cattle dead in the snow.
Mr. MacLeish stressed that it is the issue, not the way the cold war is fought, that is important. Contrary to popular belief, the basic issues are not economic or political, he said. It is an issue of institutions, Countries regard the institutions of other countries as dangerous to their own.
Mr. MacLeish compared the United States and Russia to two trains rushing toward each other on a single track. Both were founded on different principles. The United States was committed by its founders to a society in which men were to be free.
Mr. MacLeish said that Russia created a cellular society in which the individual realized life through the accomplishments of the society.
"Neither country is now moving the direction in which it was originally committed," he said. "Consider our foreign policy and the attitude of the press. We are adopting a defense of the status quo. We have lost our initiative in foreign relations.
"Russia has become a frozen police state which gains its triumphs through the army, chicanery, and fraud. Its success has been by the threat or presence of her arm."
Mr. MacLeish believes that as long as people really want peace, a collision between the two countries is not imminent. The real problem is to find out how institutions can exist together without the fear and hate which causes war.
"Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed," he said. "If the American people are committed to the principles on which the republic was founded, we need not fear fifth columns. We have to believe in people fundamentally," said Mr. Mac-Leish.
The problem of the United States is to recreate the dignity of the individual in an economy that subjects many people to a machine-like life, he said.
"It is a problem we would have to solve even if there were no communists," he stressed.
The citizens of a country may meet the problem by participating in such organizations as U.N.E.S.C.O. he said. The United States has a U.N.E.S.C.O. commission which represents the people and advises the government on matters within the scope of U.N.E.S.C.O.
"In this way citizens of different countries are communicating with each other as individuals, not governments," said Mr. MacLeish. "It can mean the beginning of an international community."
Cities Service To Interview Feb. 7
Harold Jones, personnel representative for Cities Service Oil company, will interview chemical and mechanical engineering June graduates Monday, Feb. 7, in 111 Marvin hall.
T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering, said Mr. Jones is interested in ex-GL's and older men who are more mature. Engineers who have their degrees already may register for interviews too. The interview schedule is posted and may be signed immediately.
Mr. Jones had originally planned to be at K.U. on Friday, Feb. 11.