University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, March 12, 1947
44th Year No. 99
Lawrence, Kansas
Truman Asks $400 Million For Greece, Turkey
Washington — (UP) — President Truman today asked congress to provide $400,000,000 of financial and material aid, and military advisers, to bolster Greece and Turkey against threatened spread of Russian totalitarianism in the Middle East.
He directly charged that communists are trying to undermine the Greek government.
Mr. Truman said he was fully aware of the anti-Russian implications which would follow American assistance to Greece and Turkey. But he regarded it as more important to permit "free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way."
Most of the accent on need for assistance was placed on Greece. But Mr. Truman did not in his message divide between Greece and Turkey the $400,000,000 request. Congressional sources have spoken of $250,-000,000 for Greece and $150,000,000 for Turkey.
Union Library Drive Will Start Saturday
The Student Union activities committee will start a campus-wide drive Saturday to obtain books for the new library in the Union lounge.
The library, which is now being built net to the YMCA office, will provide light reading material for use in the lounge only.
use the Collection boxes will be placed in Watson library, Frank Strong hall, and the Union lounge. Contributors can also call KU 167, leaving their name and address.
Rainfall Totals .83 Inches
Rainfall on the campus had reached a total of 83 niches at 9 this morning, according to C. J. Posey, professor emeritus of geology.
Speakers Briefed On Memorial Talks
A briefing session for all Memorial Campaign speakers will be held at 5 pm in Little Theater of Cromer hall. The students will visit organized houses Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday during dinner hours and give talks on the Memorial parkway and campanile.
Speakers scheduled for tonight are;
Betty A. Boling, College sophomore, received a head injury in a fall from the running board of a car at noon today.
Jean Moore, first year law. Kappa Alpha Theta house; Jim Crook, business senior, Watkins hall.
College Sophomore Falls From Car
The car, driven by Laird S. Campbell, College junior, was turning the corner at Stratford and Emery road when Miss Boling, who was riding on the outside of the car, lost her footing and fell to the pavement, striking her head on the concrete.
'A Moral Boosting Force,' Judge Says Of Memorial
Tonight's Performance Of Play Is A Sell-Out
Fraser theater will put out the standing room only sign tonight when "Midsummer Nigh t's Dream" has its second performance.
The future of the University's World War II memorial was predicted this morning by Justice Hugo T. Wedell, of the Kansas supreme court at an all-student convocation this morning in darkened Hoch auditorium. The only lights were two spots, one focused on the speaker and the other on a University gold-star service flag.
Professor Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and drama, said that a complete sell-out was reached at 11:30 this morning.
Sunnyside Full; 186 Occupants
Opens Student Campaign For $25,000 In Hoch Convocation This Morning
Sunnyside apartments, University housing project, are now filled to capacity, Dormitory director Irvin Youngberg said this morning.
Of 186 people now living in Sunny side, 40 are married veteran-students with children, and the remaining are University staff members.
University staff in the All applications which have been filed for future vacancies will be retained, since there may be vacancies arising next summer and fall, Mr Youngberg said.
Youngberg said. "Work on the Sunnyside project is now complete, with the exception of the laying of sidewalks and other outside work. We will have to wait for dry weather, before we can work our way out of the mud and finish the job," Mr. Youngberg said.
No Snoring At'Dream', Even Bill Would Have Approved
By ALLAN CROMLEY
There was certainly no snoring among first nighters at "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Fraser theater Tuesday night. Even William Shakespeare should approve of the professional polish sometimes reached by the University players.
The performance of this fanciful comedy of love potions, fairies, jilted lovers, and country bumpkins brought applause for individual scenes throughout the play and three final curtain calls from an appreciative audience.
Bovine Brady as Helena, Tom Rea as Lysander, Hesk Harvey as Flate, and James Nelson as Snout were good in scenes that sometimes had the audience roaring.
the audience Miss Brady, a College freshman, was excellent in wringing a maximum of comedy from Helena, the Athenian girl whose man-chasing tactics on Demetrius were squeaked by Puck's love ointment. Miss Brady spoke her lines naturally, her timing was good, with a minimum arm-waving.
arm-waving times her performance seemed to stand out above all others. Fraser audience will probably see her again in future plays.
Tom Rea as Lysander, the lover of Hermia, was smooth, spoke clearly, and gave an interesting interpretation of the man whose intentions were good until Puck and Oberon combined to make Helena the target of his affections.
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of his adfections.
The five fairies, subjects of Titania, were a little heavy-footed at times but made up for it in their decorative effect.
decorative effect
Act five was the funniest, and here the motley crew of oafs and
Abigail Bixby, as Titania, gazes on the handsome profile of James Gettys, as Bottom, ann says,
"Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful."
bumpkins was terrific. Their attempts at rehearsing and putting on a play for Theseus, Duke of Athens, offered diverting opportunities for comedy, and their hilarious antics often stopped the show.
One of them was James Nelson as Snout, the tinker. He got laughs before he had made a motion or uttered a sound. His wide-mouthed stupidity was amusing without dialogue, but belly laughs were loosed when he added his Mortimer Snerd voice.
Sniper voice.
Big bolsterous Bottom, played by James Gettys, hit a high in laugh decibels when he pulled his two-inch trusty sword from his two-foot seabard and stabbed himself dead, only to arise a moment later to explain the plot to Theseus.
Glenna Thompson as Hermia dia
a creditable job of loving Lysander
and spurning Demetrius. At times
she may have been unconvincingly
demure as Lysander's clinging vine,
The play's novel opening and method of shifting scenery provided a means of transition from scene to scene that has never been tried before.
fore.
Lines were usually spoken clearly and the stage deportment was good. Only occasionally did anyone fail to wait for laughs to subside before continuing his lines.
Backstage after the performance Prof. Allen Crofton, director, said. "There's a lot of ham in this comedy, but it's still good."
"The purpose of the memorial is to inspire us and those who follow," Judge Wedell said.
Judge Weder said. We are here only because of 257 men. These men died for us in the war. The least we can do is to provide to their memory a living memorial.
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"When you enter the bell-tower you will know what the memorial represents. It will supply a real moral boosting force for the campus."
"The driveway will encircle most of the Hill and will tie-in the expected new buildings with the old ones. It will also provide much-needed parking space."
The University band, directed by Prof. Russell Wiley, opened the program with "Caribbean Fantasy." Then K.U. cheerleaders led a group sing popular school songs. The University a cappella choir, directed by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, song "Thine Is the Glory" to a hushed and appreciative audience.
Bruce Bathurst, College sophomore and drive chairman, opened the speaking by announcing the $25,000 goal in the student campaign. Howard Engleman, K.U. basketball coach, introduced Judge Wedell. The address was transcribed and will be broadcast over KFKU at 2:30 p.m. today.
Judge Wedell went on to explain why the bell tower and parkway were chosen instead of a fieldhouse.
"Seventeen projects were considered at first. Many trustees were in favor of other plans, but they all got behind them and they all got behind it with full force. That illustrates the real caliber of fine men," he said.
"Irespective of what the students think of it, they are entitled to know why a field house was not selected. The main point against it is that it isn't a fitting memorial. Who enters the memorial stadium and is inspired? We want to erect a monument that will live. I will rely on our fine athletic department to get a field house out of the legislature. If the Aggies at K-State can get one, then surely we can do the same," he explained.
Rites Will Be Held For Hiram W. Stowits
Funeral services for Hiram W. Stowell, pharmacy junior, will be held at 2 p.m. today at the First Presbyterian church with the Rev, Theodore H. Aszman in charge, assisted by the Rev. John H. Pettion.
Stowits, 23, died at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Lawrence Memorial hospital after an illness of some weeks. He had entered the University after returning from the Navy, and intended to graduate in pharmacy and enter the drug business with his father.
Speaker Arrives Monday
Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, former congresswomen, economist, and editor and the principal speaker at the Careers Conference March 18 and 19, will arrive in Lawrence Monday afternoon.
WEATHER
Kansas—Drizzle and rain central and east, rain mixed with snow and colder extreme west. Tomorrow partly cloudy, somewhat colder central and east; high today in upper 40's extreme west to upper 40's extreme east.