,1948
Q2
University Daily Kansan
More plant in a meat
William e writ-
artment
heat on
normal
April 1.
supplies
prices
mitted
length
OTS
Packe- big an 11th ruman. strike finding
morn-
hugher
one of
n seeks
n hour.
peace-
weaver,
ere in-
stop
n pack-
given of the April in 211
that e most would
operations
including
ones. It
the big,
Cud,
about
award
stu t
length
novel
award
manu-
ard de-
Lawrence. Kansas
Nixon they are week, tion as for the
munism is a poence P.
nworthan club
but that arenis are cause of onion and sitting at be said. see anions for vice, vicepron, was national clubs. junior, chair-
3. Put outright advance
Quoting from Andre Maurois' paper on ethics of biography, he explained that several forms of suppression are legitimate.
Biographers Get In A Rut, Says Biographer
Biographers get in a rut by presenting nothing but straight facts, Allan Nevins, professor of American history at Columbia university and two-time Pulitzer prize winner, said Tuesday. Professor Nevins' lecture was the fifth in the humanities series.
However interpretation offers great risks as well as rewards, and the biographer must beware of such dangers as bias, suppression of facts, Professor Nevins added.
Cleveland Facts Suppressed
Suppression of duplicate evidence is all right, he said. Facts about living persons may be suppressed for legal or ethical reasons. However, no biographer has the right to suppress a fact because it goes against his conceived idea of a hero. It is the biographer's duty to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
"The principal challenge and delight in biography ought to be the task of character analysis," he said. All characters are ever quite as simple as we sometimes believe, and the greater the interpretative power of the biographer the more aspects a personality will take on."
"While writing the life of Grover Cleveland, I found that the authorized biographer had suppressed the fact that Cleveland, while an attorney in Buffalo, acknowledged the paternity of an illegitimate son. It was suppressed because the biographer or Mrs. Cleveland, deemed the fact inconsistent with their ideas of Cleveland's character, or at any rate, the kind of character he should bear before the world."
Biography helps provide history with a same philosophy of affairs, Professor Nevins said.
The important and enduring work of the biographer is to be done in the field of interpretation, Professor Nevins said. Interpretative biography when well written is of far greater value to the historian than mere facultal biography, he added.
"We are not in any danger, in this age, of adopting the 'great man' theory of history. On the contrary, we may be in some danger of ascribing too potential a role to the masses, and crediting too little to the leaders."
He said that training in journalism can be a great help to a biographer or historical writer.
"The Terrible Meek," a one-act Easter play by C. R. Kennedy, will be given by members of the speech and drama department in the sanctuary of the First Methodist church at 7:45 p.m. on Palm Sunday, March 21.
Professor Nevins also spoke at a reception given in his honor by Phi Alpha Theta, honorary history society.
Interpretation Is Risky
W. T. Wilkoff, instructor of speech,
will produce and direct the play.
Darlene Van Biber will play Mary,
mother of Jesus, Herk Harvey will
play an army captain, and Tom Shay
will play the Roman soldier.
Wilkoff To Direct 'Terrible Meek'
"The journalist must write whether he feels like it or not; therefore, his training will make him less likely to waste time," he added.
The play is based upon the crucifixion of Christ. It was written for three voices and will be produced almost entirely in darkness.
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
"I see he's wearing her pin again."
Little Did St. Patrick Know He Was Starting A KU Feud
St. Patrick, the venerable old man whose memory the Irish will honor today, has stirred up more trouble at K. U. than a nest of snakes.
It is for this accomplishment that the Murphy's, O'Brien, and engineers bring out the old and rare for a celebration every March 17. Everyone's an Irishman on St Patrick's but the lawyers. So on with the green and "the top of the day to ye."
The fight between the engineers and the lawyers was "engineered" by the old rascal. Way back on St. Patrick's day in 1892 the lawyers decided to wear green ribbons. The engineers, considering the old boy their patron
According to legend, he drove them all out but one. This snake was very large and most uncooperative. Like a good Irishman, he wanted to stay. St. Pat, however couldn't see it that way. Accordingly, he took a little box and using his native Scotch wit induced the snake to crawl inside. The lid secured, he dropped the box into the ocean.
saint, attempted to remove saint ribbons from the coats of the lawyers. A slight brawl in Fraser hall ensued and a deathless feud was born.
Today, the lawyers carry on the feud by kidnapping the engineer's Hobnail Queen and, the engineers continue it by pouring buckets of paint on the venerable head of Uncle Jimmy Green. He'd Turn Over In His Grave
St. Patrick was born, history tells us, somewhere between 373 and 389 A.D. The date of his death is set as March 17, the year being either 461 or 493. He is believed to have reached the age of 106.
Escaping to France, he studied religion in a monastery until he became a bishop in the Catholic church. Prompted by a holy vision, the saint then took off or Ireland to study Islam. He had breads and snakes of Druidism, a religious sect then flourishing in Ireland.
One Snake Argued Back
Though much of his life history is mere conjecture handed down till it has become national legend, it is farily well established that the saint was not an Irishman but a Scot by birth. At the age of six he was supposedly stolen by the Irish and enslaved until he was 12.
Law Banquet Is Saturday
The Law School's annual Burdick Day banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas room of the Union. The principal speaker will be Arthur J. Mellott, U. S. district judge from Kansas City, Mo.
Edward Boddington, Jr., president of the third year class, will be the toastmaster. Nona E. Snyder, '29, a lawyer in Kansas City, Mo., will speak on the Burdick Memorial association.
The banquet is named in honor of the late William L. Burdick, former dean of the School of Law. It is held every year as near as possible to March 22, the birthday of the late Mr. Burdick.
Attending the banquet will be all law students and their wives, the law faculty, the justices of the Kansas supreme court, and University law alumni.
Mrs. Patton To Talk In Pine Room Today
Mrs. John Patton, wife of the director of Wesley foundation, will speak on the topic "Is Christianity a Handicap to Leadership" at 4 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union.
Mrs. Patton will emphasize that "Christianity does not keep us from being leaders but gives us Christian ideas and the fundamental drive to spread a good influence."
This is the third in a series of talks sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
Truman Asks Draft ToAidWorldPeace
Also Urges Action On ERP, UMT To Help Curb Russian Expansion
Washington, March 17—(UP)—President Truman today asked congress for "temporary reenactment of selective service legislation" to help this country prevent war and to aid in curbing the "growing menace" of Russian expansion in Europe.
In an historic appearance before a joint session of congress, Mr. Truman
Student Court Hears Appeals
Appeals in four parking cases were heard and one new case opened by the student court Tuesday.
In giving the decision of the court, Bernard Nordling, chief justice, reminded Learned that he had testified under oath and admonished him to co-operate with the court and the parking office to prevent a recurrence of the situation.
George Learned, with 20 violations, was dismissed without penalty; Wallace Nicholson, five violations, all reversed, no penalty; Nancy Love, five violations, form affirmed, fined The Rev. Verle Van Camp, charged with two violations, was set over to the next session to permit the defendant to introduce new evidence.
Learned testified that the 20 tickets charged to him had been received by a younger brother who is not a student at the University and beyond the jurisdiction of the co... A letter from the brother accepting the responsibility was introduced as evidence.
James P. Chisholm, charged with fraudulently securing a parking permit for the spring semester, pleaded not guilty and the case was set over to the next session. A similar charge applying to the fall semester of 1947 was dismissed.
K Club Plans May Football
University football fans may have a chance to see a real football game right in the middle of May.
The K club may sponsor a football game between two evenly matched teams chosen from the men who take part in the spring practice.
Head football coach Jules Sikes, who talked informally at the meeting of the K club Tuesday, said that he would co-operate with the club to stage the game.
The club plans to show football, basketball, and track movies to the athletes in the Kansas Relays at the Union April 16. A banquet will be held for the visiting track men and their coaches April 17. The club expects 500 to 800 guests.
WEATHER
A Crimson and Blue day will be staged by the letter winners May 15. The day's activities will include a baseball game, a track meet, and a tournment match. The program will end with a dance in the Union ballroom.
Kansas--Generally fair today and tonight. Tuesday increasing cloudiness, followed by light rain west late Thursday. Somewhat warmer today and east Thursday, becoming a little colder extreme west late Thursday. High today in 50's. Low tonight in 30's.
1. "I recommend that the congress speedily complete its action on the European Recovery program."
called for this three-point program to bolster the nation's efforts for world peace:
2. "I recommend prompt enactment of universal military training legislation."
3. "I recommend the temporary enactment of selective service legislation in order to maintain our armed forces at their authorized strength."
"We must be prepared to pay the price of peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war," he said. 'Democracy Threatened'
He deplored Communist activities aimed at control of Greece and Italy.
The president said the spread of communism threatens "the very existence of democracy."
He insisted that this country must remain strong enough to support the free nations of Europe "which are not under communist control and police-state rule."
A situation has developed, Mr. Truman said, which forces the United States to act immediately on "fundamental issues of vital importance."
Draft. Then UMT
"I believe that we have reached a point at which the position of the United States should be made unmistakeably clear," the president said.
The president proposed that the temporary draft be set up and operated until "the solid foundation of universal training can be established."
"Selective service can then be terminated and the regular forces may then be maintained on a voluntary basis," he added.
After setting the stage with a generalized picture of the critical foreign situation, Mr. Truman delivered a blistering denunciation of Russia.
"Since the close of hostilities, the Soviet union and its agents have destroyed the independence and democratic character of a whole series of nations in eastern and central Europe," he said.
"It is this ruthless course of action and the clear design to extend it to be remaining free nations of Europe, that have brought about the critical situation in Europe today."
Then he jumped on Russia for rejecting invitations to cooperate with ER.P. and later "aggressively attempting to wreck it."
"They do not want the United States to help Europe. They do not want the 16 co-operating countries to help themselves."
Praise For UN
The president was full of praise for the work of the United Nations. But he said the time has come for supplemental help for the U.N. by this country.
"For if we act wisely now, we shall strengthen the powerful forces for freedom, justice and peace which are represented by the United Nations and the free nations of the world.
This was by far the toughest public attitude toward Russia ever taken by Mr. Truman or any other top official of the government.
His call for renewal of the draft came only hours after the Russians had announced that their army is being reduced to only the 21 and 22 year old classifications.