1947
University DAILY KANSAN
Monday, Feb. 24, 1947
44th Year No. 87
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
By Bibler
little Man On Campus
L.U.-U.N. Delegates answer Opinion Poll
A student opinion poll was made using the mock delegates to the empus United Nations conference ib. 22. The results:
If Russia surrenders its veto wer on the Atomic Energy Commission's report urging United Nations inspection and sanctions with all nations, should the United ates destroy its atomic stockpile?"
Yes—42. No—46.
Yes----47. No----39.
"Should political and economic functions be imposed on Franco bain?"
"Should world disarmament pro- posed on the basis of a troop count report by each nation to the United Nations?"
Yes----80. No----8.
Yes-80. No.
*Students* polled were asked for opinions, not for the probable opinion of the nation they presented.
U. Debate Teams to Speak At Lincoln
Four K.U. debate teams will compete in the annual Nebraska Invitational Forensic Tournament to be held at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Friday and Saturday.
The question for debate is "Resolved: that labor should have a direct are in the management of industry." Affirmative team members are erotically Heschmeyer and Beth Bell, William Conboy and Edward tollenwerck. On the negative will be al and Ernest Friesen, and Herbert ole and Wallace Foster.
"Our National Labor Policy" will be the subject for a series of discussions which Foster, Cole, Heschmeyer, Collenwerck, and the Friesen will participate with students from the other universities entered in the amputation.
Contestants from the group will enter contests in radio newscasting, oratory, and extemporaneous making.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech,
ad Kenneth Johnson, speech instructor,
will accompany the students.
Topics Selected For Conference
Five basic topics for discussion at the Student-Faculty conference to be held March 8 at the Country club, were chosen at a recent joint meeting of Mortar Board and Sachem.
Topics are:
ONE. More student participation in University activities.
TWO. More benefits to students through the Union program; publication of an activities booklet for new students; cheaper meals.
THREE. Advisability of the honor system.
FIVE. Difficulties of transferring from one school to another; new courses.
FOUR. Present emergency situation as reflected in large classes discussion of standards for University instructors.
Letters were sent today to the 52 students and 20 members of the faculty and staff chosen to participate in the conference. They will be asked to suggest further topics to promote better student-faculty relations.
Members of the ways and means committee of the state legislature will inspect the campus this afternoon.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said that the committee members will be taken around the campus in University buses. The tour will include emergency building projects, as well as any department which the legislators desire to inspect. University staff members will be available to accompany the visitors.
Legislators Inspect University Today
The tour is to end at Danforth chapel at 4 p. m., where Chancellor Deane W. Malott will meet with the committee.
The committee members will attent a dinner tonight at the Kansas room of the Union, and be guests at the K. U.-Oklahoma Aggie basketball game.
Radio Club Meets Tomorrow
Plans for constructing an amateur radio station will be discussed by the Amateur Radio club at a special meeting at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the electrical engineering laboratory.
Convocation, Seminars, Class Sessions Highlight Religious Emphasis Program
'Religion Is Answer To Problems,' Green
In a clipped British accent, the Reverend Bryon S. W. Green, Vicar of Holy Trinity church London, England, and speaker of this morning convocation, offered no illusions as to the chances for "one world" Jamming his hands into his pockets he said, "It seems as if the very devil had gotten into the warp on the world. We are simply not all there, the entire planet has gone mad." Anyone, he said, who has studied the problem is a bit cynica and frustrated about our chances for one world.
'Our world,' he said, "is quite rational, but it's not the mechanics that matter, but the men. When men and women no longer are sensitive to right and wrong the final decay of human nature takes place." Two principles, stemming from human conduct, that affected national relations, he continued, are a lack of confidence in each other and a lack of truth and straightforward speaking. Present troubles in Palestine are due in part, he claimed, to the 'baldface lying" of the British Empire in a time of stress.
Religion is not studied with the same intellectual integrity as other subjects. Christianity carries a message for the solving of present problems, as well as an after death philosophy, he added.
Referring to the frustration experienced by students of our international problems, he asked if religion didn't offer the answer. Students, he said, don't have any religion. They aren't Christians of Jews, or Buddists. "A student's religion," or Buddists, "is said, 'confusionism.'" "We don't like too much religion, but we kind of like to have God on tap. He is good for matching, hatching, and dispatching."
'Skeptic's Hour' Will Be Held At 4 p.m. Tomorrow In Green Hall
Church leaders from all parts of the world have been brought to KU, for Religious Emphasis week, and their counsel is open to all students through seminars, discussions, and private conferences.
5 p. m. Mr. Murray Branch will conduct a seminar at Henley house on "New World A Comin'."
12 noon. Prof. Samuel Dean, professor of mechanical engineering and architecture at National Teachers college, Peking, China, will speak at a faculty luncheon on "China Out of chaos."
7 Speeches Slated Tuesday Afternoon
7:39 p. m. Professor Dean will address the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
4 p. m. Professor Dean will address members of the Y.M.C.A. at seminars in the Kansas and Pine rooms of the Union and in West-minster hall. An all-association meeting will be held in Green hall.
The schedule of speeches for Tuesday of Religious Emphasis week is:
4: 5 p. m. Mrs. Clarence Currency will speak over KFKU.
P.S.G.L. Meets Tomorrow
2. 45 p. m. Mr. Murray Branch will speak over KFKU.
A "Skeptic's hour" will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in 106 Green hall, Mrs. Mary Amelung, executive secretary for Religion. Emphasis week, announced. The Rev. Henry D. Jones of Detroit will be chairman.
8 p. m. Mr. Murray Branch will speak before the Freshman Y.M.C.A cabinet at 1245 New York street.
"The religion of so many students is nothing but conflusionism, and they want something more definite than this vague something-or-other they now have," he said.
Some Students Confused, Not Religious English Vicar Declares In Interview
The senate of the Progressive Student Government league will meet at 9 p.m., tomorrow, in 103 Green hall.
He feels that one reason totalitarianism and communism attract is because they have definite, rockhard
The Rev. Bryan Green, speaker at the convocation this morning, is a glutton for work.
Although he carries one of the heaviest schedules of any of the leaders here for Religious Emphasis week, he wants to handle another seminar on "Basic Christianity." The Rev. Mr. Green is already scheduled for a daily seminar on "Preparation For Family Life" at 4 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union.
THE REV. BRYAN GREEN
principles to which one must conform.
Activities similar to Religious Emphasis week are going on at universities in England.
In addition to being vicar of Holy Trinity church in Brompton, London, England, he was chaplain of the pastorate for more than three years at Oxford university.
More than 1300 couples have been married in Holy Trinity church during the last eight years. The Rev. Mr. Green compares his church with the famed "Little Church Around the Corner," in that it "is one of the four churches in London which have the greatest number of weddings."
To present news of happy marriages in contrast with the divorce news, letters were recently written to all of these couples, and a special service was held in honor of those who were able to attend, he recalled.
The way in which students have wanted to find out about the Christian faith has been very impressive, he said. He arrived in Lawrence late Saturday night from the University of Michigan.
"Over 400 couples came, although hundreds of others couldn't."
An energetic, impassioned speaker, the Rev. Mr. Green appears entirely capable of the schedule before him, which begins at 7 a.m. and carries him through to 10 or 11 p.m. every day.
"We want to attract everyone who has any questions or doubts about the validity of religion," Mrs. Amelung said. "This is one of the most important phases of ohr work; if response is adequate, we will have similar meetings all week."
Three seminars will be held daily at 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday. They are:
"Preparation for Family Life," conducted by the Rev. Bryan Green in the Kansas room of the Union. Rabbi Morton E. Fierman will be co-chairman on Wednesday.
"The Lawrence Memorial drive has reached $30,168 and the rest of the $50,000 goal will be cleaned up this spring" he predicted. Kansas City also expects to reach its goal of $100,000 by summer."
"Christianity and Race Relations," led by Dr. Gonzalo Baez-Camargo and Dr. L. L. Leftwich.
"Is it Possible to be a Christian and a Success in a Professional Field?"
Campaigns are now in progress urging alumni to give contributions through their class. The class of 1021 has donated $2,500 and solicitation of the class of '18, '22, and '25 is continuing.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott welcomed the team of religious leaders at a retreat ceremony Saturday afternoon in Myers hall.
Appointments for personal conferences with any leader are available to all students at the Mission room in Myers hall.
The Memorial association of World War II has received $115,000 in donations and is averaging $100 to $500 daily through the mail, Kenneth Postlethwaite, director, said today.
The latest books in the field of religion will be on sale all week in the Union.
"There are also funds in local committees which have not been turned in yet," Mr. Postlethwaite said. "New York City and Chicago are having their campaigns with goals of $20,000 and $10,000 respectively and will turn in their collections later."
"Living in a world in which we can never hope to awaken and find it the same place it was the day before, we all certainly need the anchor of religion," he said.
The response has been slower than originally expected, but a steady flow of donations continues to come in. he said.
Memorial Fund Hits $115,000 In Cash
There has been an increase of 200 in the number of "bellringers," those who have contributed from $100-$1,500 to the fund, since December bring the total to 359.
Union Activities Committees
Applications for all second semester Union Activities committees will be accepted today and tomorrow at the executive office or the hostess desk in the Union building, Ann Learned, publicity chairman, said today.
WEATHER
Kansas-Generally fair and continued cold today, tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight near five above west to 15 to 20 cast.