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University DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 1, 1947
44th Year No.113
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
A Joyous Easter To All Students, Faculty
Easter comes again! More than a season of the year, vastly more than an institutional observance, Easter is a vital experience. It signifies more than a Palestinian tomb reported empty. The fact of the matchless personality and timeless spirit of Jesus is greater than any reported empty tomb. The character of events in Christendom for nineteen centuries points, not to something mythical, but to something creatively real at the basis of it all.
Easter is an affirmation of faith. Life is inescapably based upon faith, not contrary to fact, but venturing with reasoned confidence beyond "proof's boundary lines. To one who does not know in his own experience a measure of the life which Jesus lived, it is improbable that any logic of Easter's reported objective incidents has very convincing meaning. But life is greater than logic. And to one who in his own experience knows the meaning of true spirit-fellowship with this Master Spirit of the ages, what happened to the body of Jesus in the tomb outside Jerusalem matters little. The faith to which Easter invites still challenges our living.
God is not dead! Where God lives,—in His universe, in the spirit of Nazareth, in any human spirit,—there is no death! Existence dies; life endures where with utter commitment of self it ventures with faith in the reality of the Spirit Eternal. Easter's message to your life and mine is: "With Christ invest life in Enduring Reality!"
- EDWIN F. PRICE,
Dean of the School of Religion.
Easter Greetings From The Daily Kansan
The editor-in-chief, the managing editor, and the staff of the Daily Kansan take this opportunity to wish the students, faculty, and administration members of the University a joyous Easter. In these days of worldwide stride and unrest, it is wise for University students, in charting with courage their steps toward a better life for themselves and for the world, to remember the words of the Prince of Peace to his disciples before his crucification:
Easter is the great Christian festival of hope, when the forces of Christendom celebrate the immortality of man.
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled; neither let it be afraid.” (John 14)
It is the season of the year for serious thinking of man's responsibility on earth, of the supreme sacrifices which men have made for principles and ideals, in long succession and by countless thousands, since the beginning of the Christian era.
As the Easter season approaches this year, there is a challenge in the air,-the challenge for firm and clear thinking, for a broad understanding on a global scale. Peoples everywhere are staggered by the thrust and shock of war, by political conflict, by economic exhaustion, and by want and hunger and disease on an unprecedented scale.
We in the heart of America are living in one of the world's most favored places. We have more food, more luxuries, more freedom, and more security than any other of the world's peoples. We cannot, however, maintain our Christian status in this spring of 1947 without giving heed to the needs of other nations, to the anguished calls for help—calls not for sentimental and unthinking charity, but for tolerance, understanding, firmness and sacrifice, in order that each of us may lend a hand, both in substance and in thought, to the creation of an orderly world where other peoples, too, may gain a glimmering chance at some security and some nope for the years to come.
—DEANE W. MALOTT,
Chancellor.
State Colleges Assured Of Funds
Topeka.—(UP)—Gov. Frank Carlson said today a program to build at state colleges in Kansas next two years is a virtual certainty. He added he was "hopeful we can do some building at state institutions."
He said he was solidly behind a bill to issue dorsitory construction revenue bonds by the board of regents and that it tied in with "some $1,800,000 available in the mill tax for buildings and contemplated direct appropriations."
At a press conference, Governor Carlson said the chairmen of the house and senate ways and means committees would meet with him, probably today or tomorrow, to discuss what state money can be diverted to educational and institutional construction programs.
Sen. W. A. Barron, senate ways and means chairman, exhibited a budget yesterday showing a tentative one million dollar appropriation for dormitory building, and said the amount may be higher before the legislature adjourns. ___
Union Party Tonight For Business Students
Union building.
The entire top floor of the Union building has been reserved. One room will be used for dancing to recorded music, and another for playing cards.
An informal party for business students and their dates and faculty members of the School of Business will be held at 8 tonight in the Union building.
The event is being sponsored by the Associated Business students, new social organization. A similar event last fall was attended by almost 400 persons.
Norma Jean Pyke, business senior is chairman of the planning committee for the party. ___
Union Cafeteria, Fountain Close For Easter Recess
The Union cafeteria and fountain will be closed during the Easter vacation. The cafeteria will serve its last meal at noon April 3 and will be closed until 11:00 a.m. April 7.
11:30 a.m. April 2
The fountain will close at noon
April 2 and remain closed until
8:30 a.m. April 8.
Petition To Bar Oklahoma A. & M Greek King Dies; From Big Six Taken To Governor Crisis In Athens
Carlson Says He's Against Racial Discrimination But Has No Authority In Matter; To Give Malott His Views
"I'm opposed to racial intolerance, but I have no authority in the Big Six," Governor Frank Carlson told a group of students in the statehouse yesterday, who presented a petition to bar Oklahoma A. & M. from the Big Six conference.
"I'm from the country and don't know too much about the big cities, which may have much racial discrimination. But I believe that here in Kansas we are relatively free from intolerance," he said.
Student Court Meets Tonight In Green Hall
Robert G. Kurtz, freshman engineer, charged with destruction of University property, and Lawrence W. Brown, Jr., College sophomore, charged with breaking library rules, will be arraigned by the student court at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Green hall court room.
Kurtz is charged with driving a jeep over University intramural fields.
Brown is charged with obtaining two reserve books from Watson Memorial library under false names and holding them out for a period of several days. He was traced down by his handwriting, library officials said.
The University guidance bureau has distributed 8,015 college aptitude tests to 255 Kansas high schools this year. About 50% of the high school seniors have taken the tests.
transfer student to Ralph Dunn and George Cozad, College freshmen, will receive sentence for the same charge. Both pleaded guilty to the charge in a previous court session. ___
Ivan Moody and Edwin T. Mahood, both business seniors, will be tried at 8 p. m. on charges of illegally transferring parking tickets.
Guidance Bureau Distributes Tests
The tests consist of two parts. The first part measures scholastic aptitude and often indicates the likelihood of the student's success in college. The second part deals with vocabulary, and the level and speed of comprehension.
About 6,863 tests were distributed last year.
9 The petition, which urges that no school be admitted which discriminate against Negroes in sports, had already been signed by representatives from 16 campus organizations and presented to the chancellor.
As he rose, the governor said that he was glad to receive anyone from the University. He concluded with, "Till call Chancellor Malott and give him my views on the matter. Thank you for dropping in."
The students who spoke to the governor were Frank Stamard, College sophomore; George Caldwell College junior; William m Scheinman College freshman; William Michener second year law; Roy Harmon graduate student.
playing basketball Representative William Towers, Negro, Wyandotte county was sitting in on the conference He said, "You may not have final say in the matter, Governor, but you can use your position to lend a potent word of assistance."
Governor Carlson asked if the University of Kansas had discriminated against Negro athletes.
Stannard answered that two Negroes had been dissuaded from playing basketball last fall.
Library To Be Open During Easter Vacation
The library will remain open during vacation at the following hours:
Wednesday, 8 a.m. through 5 p.m.
Thursday, 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.
Friday, 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m. through 12 noon.
Sunday, closed.
Monday, 9 a.m. through 10 p.m.
Monday, 9 a.m. through 10 p.m.
All departments will follow the schedule, except during the full day periods when they will close from 12 to 1 o'clock.
Racial Equality Group To Meet April 9
The Temporary Committee on Racial Equality will meet at 7:30 p. m., April 9, in Green hall, Frank Standard said today. A permanent committee to attack the problems of racial discrimination will be set up at the meeting.
Play Rehearsals To Begin April 8
The present committee, with Stannard, College sophomore, and William Scheinman, College freshman, as acting co-chairman, is composed of representatives of the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Negro Student association, Unitarian Liberal group, Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the "Dove," and the American Veterans Committee.
Committee. The meeting is open to all persons.
Rehearsals for the play, "Thy Kingdom Come" written by James Gunn, College senior, will start Tuesday night, April 8, in Green theater Ivan Sparling, graduate student and director, said today. All phases of the production are being handled by students.
Members of the cast are Georgann Eyler, Douglas Jennings, Alan Gordon, Richard Brining, Bill Ogg, Adriane Aller, and David Brown, Colleague freshmen; Robert Bathurst, Dean Frazier, and David Davidson, College sophomores; Loren Kennedy, William Roberts, and Deane Tack, graduate students; Jack Labowitz, Fine Arts sophomore; James Nelson, College junior; and Merlyn Norris, Engineering junior.
London—(UP)—King George II of Greece died in Athens today a scent six months after resuming his uncertain throne, and his troubled homeland immediately was plunged into a first class crisis. Exchange Telegraph reported from Athens today.
The 56-year-old monarch died suddenly of heart disease. He had three times mounted the throne of Greece and twice had been forced to flee the country.
Blow To Monarchists
The King's death was a blow to the strongly monarchist government. Immediate fears were expressed that the strong leftist forces operating in the mountains of northern Greece might begin a renewed effort to overthrow the monarchist regime.
His death headed the unsettled country into a fresh crisis. As he had no children, his brother Prince Paul will be called to succeed him. It was believed that Paul's political views generally were in line with those of George.
George first reached the throne of Greece in 1922 when his brother Constantine abdicated. He was driven from Greece by Greek republicans in 1923, and he spent the next 11 years in exile. He returned in 1935 after a plebiscite.
George died on the very day which Britain had fixed for the theoretical ending of her financial assistance which had been the bulwark of the monarchist government.
Had Hectic Career
Prime minister Gen. John Metaxas put Greece under an iron dictatorship nine months later and, although George remained in Athens until driven out by the Germans in 1941, he had little voice in his country's affairs.
George spent the war years in London and until after the end of the war there appeared little chance he ever would see his throne again. However, his claims were strongly supported by Winston Churchill and with the institution of a strong monarchist government a new plebiscite was held last September and George again was called back to Athens.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy, scattered showers, and thunderstorms south-east. Cooler central and east today. Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Cooler east tonight. Low tonight 36 to 40 north to 45 to 50 south. Warmer central and east Wednesday.
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