31, 1947
45th Year No. 36
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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 3, 1947
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Foster Will Give Lecture Series On Marriage
Dr. Robert M. Foster, visiting professor of sociology and home economics, will give a series of three public lectures on marriage problems. The first lecture will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater.
The lectures are for students and other persons who were unable to enroll in a regular University course. Dr. Foster explained.
Dr. Foster is on leave from the Merrill-Falmer school in Detroit. He is a member of the board of education in the Michigan city.
"Some Factors to Consider in Mate Selection" will be the subject of the first lecture. Dating, courtship, and mating will be discussed.
On Nov. 12, Dr. Foster's topic will be "Breaking Away from Home Ties." It will include the problem of emancipation from the family, and the parent and in-law relationship as it concerns mate selection and successful marriage.
The final lecture on Nov. 19 will cover "The Personal and Social Significance of Sex in Life."
Besides teaching two courses at the University, Marriage and Family Relationships and The Family, Dr. Foster is studying part time at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
Alumni Praise Secretary
The University alumni board commanded K. E. Postlethwaite, newly appointed assistant secretary, on his Graduate magazine work at a meeting in the Alumni office Saturday.
The subject matter of the magazine's November cover, a K.U. graduate, will appear the same month in Look magazine.
The Community Chest drive among faculty members has reached a little over half of its goal of $2,000. Guy V. Keeler, chairman of the drive and director of the University Extension bureau of lectures, said today.
The board adopted the budget recommended by the executive and finance committee Sept. 12. Lloyd H, Ruppenthal, '25 was appointed membership chairman.
Members of the board are Mr. and Mrs. J. Wayne McCoy, Topea; Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Pierson, Burlington; Clarence McGuire, Kansas City; Mo.; Mrs. Richard Stevens, Lawrence; Mrs. Madeline Hurd, Topea; Charles B. Holmes, Lawrence; Mrs. Hazel Brooks, Wichita; Claude E. Chalfant, Hutchinson; Mr. and Mrs. Carl I. Winsor, Wichita; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ruppenthal, McPherson.
By Bibler
After the meeting, the K. U alumni board ate lunch with the Kansas State alumni board in the English room of the Union. The University Athletic board was also present though not a part of the Alumni board meeting.
Three spouses of Kansas State alumni board members are K. U. alumni. They are Mrs. J. A. Vogue, student in 1923, wife of Dr. J. A. Vogue, Wichita; David Browne, '24, whose wife, serves on the Kansas State board; and L. E. Zinn, '14, the husband of another Kansas State board member.
"Small donations have been coming in fine, but the persons who usually swell the total evidently have been too busy to respond." Mr. Keeler, said.
Faculty Chest Drive Over Halfway Mark
Little Man On Campus
"One of the best students I have."
Directories To Be Ready In About 5 Weeks
New student directories should be ready in about five weeks.
Students who presented the program are Wallace Abbey, moderator; Frank Rotman, Alan Stewart, Loren Kennedy, Joan Woodward, and Dan Palmquist, who give newspaper opinion of national or foreign affairs.
The second in the series "Roundups of Editorial Opinion," was presented over KFKU Friday night. The subject of the broadcast was "Communism in Hollywood."
$1,265 In For WSSF
The work is moving faster than we had expected, Harlan Lill, directory manager said. "All advertising has been sold for the directory and part of the copy has gone to the printers."
Four hundred twenty three dollars of this came from the faculty auction Wednesday, $65 from the mum sale on Saturday, and $23 came from a dance sponsored by the American Veterans Committee on Oct. 24. The rest was contributed by students and faculty.
It is expected to cost 5 cents a copy, Lill said.
Opinions are selected from the editorial pages of newspapers from the various sections of the country. The script is prepared each week by members of a journalism class in radio copy techniques.
Twelve hundred sixty-five dollars of the $9052 goal have been collected in the World Student Service fund drive, Ned Linegar, who is in charge of collections, announced today.
Contributions will be taken at booths in the University buildings after the drive ends, Wednesday, Robert Stewart and Hilda James, co-chairmen of W.S.S.F., said.
KFKU Presents Editorial Opinion
Lill estimated it would take two weeks to complete the editing of names and an additional three weeks for the directory to be printed.
AWS Picks 8 Candidates
Eight candidates for freshman representatives to Associated Women students were chosen from 40 nominations at two special meetings of the A. W. S. election committee, Friday and Sunday.
In division one are Patricia McClure, Jean Dressler, Mary Lou Lane, and Lorraine Ross.
Candidates in the second division are Phyllis Clegg, Ann Linnell, and Grace Vaniman.
Members of the A. W. S. election committee are Joan Anderson, Janet Rummer, Ann Scott, Betty van der Smissen, and Shirley Wellborn.
Watkins Patient Has A Busy Day
It was "hospital day" for the Thortons last week.
The candidates will be placed in two divisions. All freshman women students will vote for one candidate from each division.
James A. Thorsten, engineering junior, was taken to Watkins hospital after being injured Tuesday in a five-car smash-up near Sunflower Village. Wednesday morning he got out of bed and dashed—not to class—but to Lawrence Memorial hospital
His wife, Norma, was admitted to the hospital at 6:30 a.m. At 7:30 a.m. Thorton was the father of an 8 pound, 3 ounce son. At 8:45 a.m. he was back in his bed-happy, proud, but wined!
After a restful weekend all three Thortons are doing fine.
The National Repertory theater consists of professional stage players, most of whom are radio and theater veterans, according to Professor Dixson.
Tickets to the production cost $1.12.
They may be purchased from the ticket office in Green hall until 4 p.m. today. The office will be open tomorrow from 9 a.m. till noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. Student activity tickets do not admit.
"Tartuffe" is a comedy of manners. The target of Moliere's barbs in this play was the title character, Tartuffe, who almost succeeded in gaining a hugh fortune by his pretended love of heaven. Moliere turned to pretense and hypocracy to draw laughs in this instance.
"Tartuffe," the two-act comedy to be presented tomorrow by the National Repertory theater, was written by Moliere, the father of modern comedy.
French Play Starts Tuesday
Features of the government of France that had comic possibilities were often used by Moliere. He then proceeded to poke fun at the custom involved with a hypocritical turn of his pen.
Moliere wrote in the late 17th century. According to Donald Dixson, assistant professor of speech, this famous French writer was at his best in satires of customs, manners, and conventions of his country.
Granz Troupe Takes Stand Against Race Discrimination
After Norman Granz had sweated out a Cafeteria line and your reporter had spilled coffee on his trim cross-stripe suit, and he had discovered the roast beef was tough, chances for an interview were looking pretty slim.
But, as the lunch progressed and Mr. Granz warmed to his favorite subject—the jazz world—his grey eyes lit up and his bushy eyebrows rose and fell like riffs in Thursday night's concert.
"Our main purpose is to fight racial discrimination," he said.
Jazz attracts a lot of people—both white and Negro—and in mixing together they learn to know each other. Standing on this theory, we have managed to hit several southern cities which had always before used segregated seating plans, and the results have been very satisfactory. "Be-bop" The Thing
"We are the only orchestra in the country to include a non-segregation clause in our contracts," he continued. "Discrimination arises from segregation, and it cannot be destroyed until people get to know each other.
Mr. Granz believes that jazz, "the only American folk music," is stronger than ever in the form of "be-bop." He told about how jazz
started with two beats in New Orleans and Chicago, and took on two more in Kansas City, becoming 4-4 time or "eight-to-the-bar".
Answers Swarthout
"I have never heard of Dean Swarthout as an authority, but I can quote others as well or better known in the classical world who respect and admire jazz.
"Mr. Swarthout is one of those men who have moved to attack music not in their own fields." Granz stated. "This kind of critical dogmatism is certainly not in keeping with someone in the responsible position of educating students. Honest criticism can come only from one who is familiar with the thing he is criticising.
Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts, recently turned down the Norman Granz jazz troupe as a concert series program. Granz was sponsored by Union Activities.
British Laborites Ignore Demands For Elections
London—(UP)—The ruling Labor party refused today to accept its losses in Saturday's nationwide municipal elections as a swing away from Socialism and ignored the demand of Winston Churchill's Conservative party for new parliamentary elections.
The results showed that the Conservatives made a net gain of 618 municipal council seats. The Laborites, who won control of parliament in July, 1945, showed a net loss of 644.
Of 1,737 Conservative candidates,
1,269 were elected. Of 2,600 Labor-
ite candidates, only 824 won seats.
Independent candidates won 1,050
seats; the Liberals—who are included
in the opposition to the Labor party
—won 140. The Communist had 194
candidates entered, but not one
managed to win.
"A splendid victory over the inep and wrong-headed forces which already have led us far along the road to ruin at home and abroad. . . the best thing that has happened to our country since the electoral disaster of 1945" Churchill said.
The result is disappointing, but this is no political landslide," Morgan Phillips, Secretary of the Labor party, said. "All that has occurred is that Labor's unprecedented run of success in the local government elections in 1945 has been temporarily halted. It is fantastic, however, to suggest that a turnover of five per cent of borough council seats in England and Wales represents a great swing away from labor."
Cinderella found her slipper just two hours before the traditional midnight hour at the Pumpkin Prom Saturday night in the Union ballroom.
Cinderella, blue eyed blond Joan Dykeman of Kansas State, favored the kneeling Prince Charming, James Paden, with a smile as he deftly fitted the slipper, size 6 A, to her foot.
Paden Fits Prom Slipper
Six pages from Prince Charming's court conducted a search for Cinderella Friday afternoon. As the coach moved along Jayhawk drive girls were chosen at random for the slipper fitting while fanfares were sounded by two pages on black norses. The search proved fruitless except for two near-misses which almost ended the quest for Cinderella. The two University girls with the nearly-correct shoe size were Virginia Coppedge and LuAnne Powell.
Entertainment during intermission consisted of song and dance numbers by Donna Harrison; a skit by Ellis Redea and Margaret Dean; songs by Harriet Harlow; and a Buster Keaton routine by Henry McClure.
Laurence To Be Guest Of Chemistry Department
Mr. William Laurence, science editor of the New York Times, will be entertained at a luncheon tomorrow by the chemistry department.
The luncheon will be held in the English room of the Union.
WEATHER
Kansas—Cloudy today, Occasional light rain or drizzle beginning west and spreading over most of the state tonight. Continuing Tuesday. Continued cool, except becoming somewhat cooler northwest tonight and west portion Tuesday.