TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Convocation--their submarines or the Germans to build air bases on their coasts, and who will resist with us air threats from the common enemy and create a world of decency and safety here in our western hemisphere."
'Be Frank with Latin America,' Says Herring
Advocating frank relations with the South American nations, Hubert Herring convocation lecturer who spoke in Hoch auditorium yesterday, believes we should answer the skepticism regarding our affection for the South Americans by a straight-forward reply.
"We should tell them," Herring said, "that it is not loans, or trade that we want, but that we need and must get good neighbors who will play with us and not the enemy, who will not allow the Japanese to refuel"
Herring, whom Chancellor Deane W. Malott introduced as "a Congregational minister gone wrong," has spent the past 20 years traveling and studying in the Latin American countries. Before that, he was 11 years a minister, preaching seven of those years in a Wichita church.
Formerly a Minister
Presenting points of danger in the Latin American scene, Herring mentioned first the great empty spaces in Latin America. In Chile, for example, two-thirds of the territory is unoccupied.
Latin America is rich in soil, minerals, and metals, but poor in standards of living. Farm hands in most parts of South America get wages of four cents a day. Infant mortality in Chile is 25 per cent, the highest rate of any civilized country.
Governments Dangerous
Herring thinks the pattern of government in South America in which some countries are democracies, others favor it, and still others have dictators, is a danger.
"Governments not based on the consent of the governed have an element of great danger in them because they are weak and corruptible." Herring emphasized.
His fifth and sixth points concerned South America's hangover of feudal fascism—land ownership in the hands of a few and the fact that the enemy is already there and operating.
On the brighter side of the South American scenes, Herring stressed the press and its reflection of the sentiment of the great middle class. "The press is a great element of democratic force in South America," he said.
Schools Teach Cooperation
Other highlights which Herring brought out in his address, "Highlights and Shadows of South America," are the fact that new schools were coming into being, and that a new willingness to cooperate with the United States was being shown in all South American countries.
"Those people want to go in with us," Herring said, "and I wish we could find a way to say to them, 'This is our war—not the United States' alone,' but Uruguay's, Argentina's, Brazils, and all the others. If this war is lost—then we all lose together.'"
In conclusion, Herring reiterated,
"This is our war. We don't like it,
but we have only one thing to do
—win, and win right!"
The sixth issue this year of the Graduate Magazine will come out Friday. It will announce candidates for alumni association offices.
Fine Arts Faculty To Hays Conference
Eleven faculty members of the School of Fine Arts will attend a conference of music teachers at the Kansas State Teachers College at Hays, Thursday and Friday.
During the conference faculty members will have the opportunity to attend the following classes: master class in violin, conducted by Samuel Thaviu, concert master of the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra; master class in piano, conducted by Mark Wessel, head of the piano department of Colorado University; and a voice class, conducted by Arthur Hackett, head of the voice department at Michigan University.
Miss Jeannette Cass, instructor of organ and theory here, will sing a group of songs by Alan Wells, a member of the music department at Hays.
Nebraska Takes Big Six Crown
Nebraska Cornhuskers coasted to their sixth Big Six indoor track crown in seven years as five new records were established Saturday night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
Diminutive Bobby Ginn, Nebraska's defending champion, scampered home in 4:21 to slash 7.4 seconds off John Munski's former mark. In the pole vault, Harold Hunt, Nebraska, bettered his own record in clearing the bar at 13 ft. 10 1-4 inches.
Don Walters of Missouri established a new record in the 60-yard dash in the preliminaries but could do no better than fourth in the finals, won by Red Littler of Nebraska. Walters' record time was 6.2 seconds. The old record of 6.3 was held by Littler and Walters.
Lanky Ken Ferris of Oklahoma eclipsed by an inch the record set by J. R. Jones of Kansas last year in the broad jump. Ferris' leap was 22 ft. 11-1-2 in. The Sooner's Bill Lyda blazed to a new record in the quarter mile in the time of 49.3 seconds. Littler had held the record in 50.1.
Lyda turned in the iron man performance of the meet. He ran both the 440 and 880 in the afternoon to qualify for the finals, then returned in the evening to win both events and anchor Oklahoma to a tie for first in the mile relay.
The Mineral Industries building now under construction will be completed in December of this year.
Bill Smutz, Cornhusker defending champion in both hurdie events, retained his crown in the lows, but faltered at the finish in the highs to bow to Ed Darden of Kansas State.
Comedy to Be Next Week
Cast members for the staged reading of Benn Levy's comedy, "Mrs. Moonlight," go into the final week of rehearsals this week before presenting the play next Monday and Tuesday in the little theater in Green hall.
Reading the role of Sarah Moonlight will be Reola Durand, college junior. Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, will read the part of Tom Moonlight, and James Barton, instructor in speech, will be the narrator for the play.
Virginia Davis, college freshman, will take the role of Edith. Kenneth Jackson, college senior, will read the part of Willie Ragg; and Donald Dixon, instructor of speech and drama, will take the part of Percy Middling. Jessica Crafton, wife of Professor Crafton, will read the role of Minnie.
Others taking part in the play are Constance Moses, college sophomore, as Jane Middling; and Daniel Bachman, college freshman, as Pet er Middling.
This new experiment of the department of speech and drama will resemble a radio version of the play, but the readers will appear before the audience. The play centers around a woman's desire to remain young and the complications that result when she obtains her wish.
Talks On 'Critical Thinking' At Pi Lambda Theta Tea
Speaking on methods of teaching critical thinking, Dr. Howard R. Anderson, associate professor at Cornell University, addressed the annual open meeting of the PiLambda Theta, honorary educational sorority, in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building yesterday afternoon.
After addressing the city teachers in Topeka yesterday morning, the former president of the National Council for Social Studies appeared before the local organization through the courtesy of the School of Education. Doctor Anderson joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1937 after he had obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa.
The annual meeting of Pi Lambda Theta was open to all students and faculty members of the School of Education. Faculty members of the department of social science were also invited to attend.
The teacher of social studies in the Ithaca, N.Y. High School is co-author of four bulletins published by the National Council for Social Studies and is author of several social studies text books. He is now a member of the board of directors of the National Council.
Following Doctor Anderson's address, the educational sorority served a tea. Melva Good, college senior, presented a group of vocal selections accompanied by Winifred Hill, fine arts senior.
Moreau Speaks At Atchison Law Meet
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, addressed the legal institute of the Atchison Bar association Friday afternoon on "Fraudulent Conveyances in Bankruptcy." The institute met in two sessions, afternoon and evening, at the Atchison hotel.
Spooner-Thayer to Show Bloch Oils This Month
A group of oil paintings by Prof. Albert Bloch, who has been head of the department of painting at the University since 1923, will be shown in the south gallery of Spooner-Thayer museum during the month of March. Nineteen pictures, painted between
44 States Will Take Part in Radio Debate
New York, N. Y.—(ACP)—Entries for the first nationwide intercollegiate radio debate include 184 universities and colleges, it is announced by Dr. William Peirce, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Economic foundation, which is conducting the educational experiment.
Debating the question, "Does Youth Have a Fair Opportunity Under Our American System of Competitive Enterprise?" are representatives from 44 states and the District of Columbia, including most of the nation's institutions of higher learning. The contest is to end May 10, when four finalists will be brought to New York for appearance on the "Wake Up, America!" forum broadcast over the Blue network. Judges representing both the studio and listening audiences will select the two best speakers who will receive prizes of $1,000 and $500, provided by the foundation.
Each university and college selected its own representatives through student competitions ending last week. Those chosen are to prepare and file 500-word briefs on either the affirmative or negative side of the debate question. Sixteen prizes of $50 each are to be awarded by the foundation for the eight best affirmative and eight best negative briefs, the authors of which then will compete in four semi-final regional debates to be held at selected stations of the Blue network.
Young Democrats Elect; Make Plans for Future
Plans were made to develop the organization for next fall's state election campaign.
The first meeting of the Young Democrats club was held Friday afternoon to elect officers. Bill Porter was chosen president; Florence Allen, secretary; and Sam Kneale, treasurer.
the years of 1931 and 1938,
make up the present collection.
All of these pictures have been exhibited before, and most of them have been on the walls of Sponer-Thayer at some time, although few of them have been shown in Lawrence since the years in which they were painted. One of them, "Shrouded Figures," a composition of one monumental group of draped figures, was included in the exhibition of American Art Today at the New York World's Fair of 1940. Several others were requested for the recent Coronado Quarto-Centennial exhibition in New Mexico.
Landscape is the predominating element in this group of pictures, and though the treatment never is naturalistic and the intention wholly pictorial, the point of departure for several of these compositions may be recognized as the countryside about Lawrence.
Senior Pharmacists Speak
Talks by senior pharmacy students featured the weekly meeting of the School of Pharmacy at 11.30 this morning. James Gillispie spoke on "Laws Pertaining to Drugs and Druggists," and Willis Fankhauser introduced a few pointers on "Drugstore Salesmanship."
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THRILLS TAKE----
Perhaps the women of the south come by this soft, frilliness naturally, but if that is what it takes, there should be no reason why the remainder of the women over the country can't give up their tennis for a while and don frills and feminine ways for the sake of national defense.
California fashion designers have already decreed flounces, flowers and frills for spring. "Only in business hours will the office girl wear such practical clothes as tailored suits. Elsewhere, from bathing beach to formal parties, the keynote is femininity plus," they foretell.
The veil, with its hint of mystery is to be in the spotlight for defense too, accompanied by hats decorated with everything from azaleas to giraffes.
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