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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
57th Year, No.142
Friday. May 13, 1960
Truman Endorses Symington, Scoffs at Kennedy's Drive
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Former President Harry S. Truman today endorsed Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri for the Democratic Presidential nomination and scaffold at suggestions that Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts was making an unstoppable drive for the top spot on the ticket.
Truman chose a city where sentiment among some top Democratic leaders has seemed to be increasing for Kennedy to make his announcement.
Before his statement, made at a news conference, the former President conferred with Mayor Richard J. Daley, Democratic boss of Illinois, with National Committee Jacob L. Arvey, and other party leaders.
Truman Confers With Leaders
After making the Symington statement, Truman was asked if he had objections to Kennedy.
No Objections to Kennedy "None whatsoever," said Truman. "He is a fine young man and I like him. The only thing is, he lives in Massachusetts."
Truman said he believed the religious issue in the campaign was dead and "it never belonged in there in the first place."
"I expect to support the honorable Stuart Symington." Truman told the news conference. "I am sure as I can be, if the Democrats nominate him, he will have no difficulty in carrying a tremendous majority of the electoral votes in the election in November.
Symington has some Illinois support, mainly in Southern Illinois. Daley has not said who he favors for the presidential nomination, although Kennedy has conferred with him several times.
But in commenting on Kennedy's chances as seen in the light of recent primaries, Truman repeated what he has said before—that such presidential preferential primaries "aren't worth anything."
Truman Will Help
"I shall do everything I possibly
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can to contribute what help I can to his nomination."
Truman, who came here today to address the Executive's Club of Chicago, thus confirmed repeated reports that he eventually would come out openly for Symington in an effort to stop the growing power of the move toward nomination of Sen John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Truman named his choice in a formal statement which he read to newsmen. He pointed out that Symington "has been unanimously endorsed by the Missouri delegation of which I am a member.
"I have been very careful not to make an announcement that would embarrass Senator Symington," he said. "The only reason I have waited until now to make the announcement is because I want to help him and not hurt him."
Truman praised Symington's record with the government during World War II, and the Missouri Senator's work in liquidating war surplus property after the war. He also said that Symington "did an outstanding performance as secretary for air in the reorganized Defense Department."
He said that during World War II he investigated the Emerson Electric Company of St. Louis, headed by Symington, at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the people of St. Louis.
Endorsement Labeled Timely, but Undecisive
Truman Praises Stu's Record
"I found nothing wrong with his work for the war effort. I gave him a clean bill of health."
Former President Harry S. Truman's endorsement of Sen. Stuart Symington was a timely but not a decisive development, say three KU political scientists.
Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science, said he thought that Truman's endorsement of Sen. Sym-
Concert Will Cite Murphy
The University Concert Band will dedicate its annual spring concert Sunday to Chancellor and Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy.
The concert will begin at 3:00 p.m. in the University Theatre, Chancellor and Mrs. Murphy will be made honorary members of the band during a presentation ceremony. The final selection on the program. Anderson's "Irish Suite" will be dedicated to the Chancellor.
Key's "The Star Spangled Banner," Frescobald's "Toccata;" Verdi's "Overture to the Opera 'Nabucc.'" Bennett's "Rose Variations;" and Tschaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimi."
Also on the program will be:
Reed's "Mass, from the Symphony 'La Fiesta Mexicana;'" Guillaud's "Concertino;" Gould's "St. Lawrence Suite;" and Granger's "Harkstow Grange, from 'Lincolnshire Posey.'"
ington would give support to the Symington campaign.
"It has been expected for a long time, and is one of the things Symington was relying on. But if Stevenson supports Kennedy, Kennedy's chances would probably be enchined.
"It (the significance of the announcement) depends on Johnson, too. There are many variables."
James W. Drury, associate professor of political science, called the endorsement "a small straw in the wind."
"Harry is expressing himself as a Democratic leader, but relatively few delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be influenced by this endorsement by Truman. The delegates will not go by what any one man says. The timing is more interesting than the actual announcement. Harry must have decided 'If I am behind Stu, I'd better do something.'"
Earl J. Reeves Jr., Lawrence graduate student and assistant instructor of political science, agreed with Prof. Drury that Truman's announcement will not substantially help the Symington cause.
"If Kennedy swings New York, California, Michigan and Illinois, he will have things sewed up. I would not be surprised to see Stevenson come out in support of Kennedy. Symington has great concern for his chances, and others in the race realize that their ship is sinking. The endorsement may be too late."
Bach Reveals Joy-Chiapusso
By Bill Blundell
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach expresses the joy of a man who has discovered the hidden truths of God's universal plan for the world and mankind.
Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano, probed Bach's philosophy of music and the influences that shaped his work at this semester's final humanities lecture last night.
Truths Understood
In explaining his idea that Bach had somehow grasped the ultimate truths that man had struggled to understand for centuries before, Prof Chiapusso said:
"For Bach, music was not a museum of past styles, kept musically logically embalmed. It was a driving, dynamic thing. He believed that music deals with primary causes, and represents the divine mind itself."
He quoted from Bach himself, whom he said saw only one possible way to interpret the use of music:
"The only possible use of music is for the glory of God. Any other use of it is merely the jingling of Satan."
Bach's View Reasonable
"Also, the teaching of mathematics in those schools did not amount to much more than learning to count to 1000 — in Latin, Greek and Hebrew," a'died Fri. Chiapusso.
He said that all the courses offered in the Lutheran schools of that time (about 1700) were aimed at wedding knowledge and religion, making of them a single unit. History, he said, was taught as merely the playing out of the story of Christianity.
There were many valid reasons for Bach's view that music was a divine exercise, said Prof. Chiapusso. He traced the composer's early history and showed that the education Bach received as a young man may have welded music and religion firmly together in his mind.
He also said that music was considered a vital and integral part of the study of theology; often the two subjects were taught by the same man.
But if Bach's early history led him to accept the then-prevalent idea that music and the divinity were inseparable, his methods in interpreting and creating music were anything but conformist, said Prof. Chiapusso.
He characterized Bach as a violator of style and an innovator in a cultural atmosphere that was hostile to innovation and invention of any kind.
This was the dark-ages atmosphere that prevailed in Germany during and after the exhausting Thirty Years War. He said Lutheranism and the strain of continual combat had combined to reduce the nation to economic ruin and cultural stagnation.
Prof. Chiapusso said the prevailing church pewers of the time were
alarmed at Bach's innovations, particularly the revolutionary use of counterpoint. Still Bach was able to compose much of his work for the church during this period.
In his lifetime, he composed 226 cantatas, several masses, oratorios, and many works for the organ for the Church.
Shortly after the Thirty Years War, said Prof. Chiapusso, Bach faced a challenge of a different kind — the challenge presented by Deism, which "rejected all miracles and put its faith in reason alone."
He explained that Deism and rationalism undermined the belief in theology as a primary study and put philosophy in its place. This position was opposed by Bach, whose work was termed "irrational" by the Deists.
Mr. Chiapusso will retire next month after having served on the KU music faculty since 1934.
In late December, 1959. Prof. Chiaapus suffered a coronary thrombosis.
His formal music education began in 1907 in Cologne, Germany, at the Conservatory. He also studied in Paris, Brussels, and The Hague.
In the United States, Prof. Chiapusso taught in a small college in Georgia and then at various private conservatories in Minneapolis, Detroit and Toledo. He was named head of the piano department at the Bush Conservatory in Chicago in 1921 and remained there 12 years.
Lawyers Pick Royalty-to-Be
Three finalist were selected this morning in the Law School "Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur" queen contest during the opening program of the 1960 Law School "Funday."
The finalists are Pat Hollings-
worth, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore,
Alpha Chi Omega; Linda Delfs, Overland Park sophomore,
Kappa Alpha Theta, and Susan Smith,
Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore,
Kappa Alpha Theta.
The day's festivities continued with a noon picnic at the farm of Charles Oldfather, professor of law.
The queen, named from the three finalists chosen this morning, will be crowned at an informal dance in Prof. Oldfathers barn.
The title, "Miss Res Ispa Loquitur," is Latin for "The thing speaks for itself."
The program this morning, held in Strong Hall auditorium, included speeches by the two candidates for president of the Student Bar Assn. and the annual "Funday" student skits.
McMullan Sings Ballads, Draws Overflow Audience
Ballad singer Jim McMullan, Long Beach, N.Y., senior, entertained an audience of approximately 75 students and faculty members at 4 p.m. yesterday in the Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
PEOPLE FILLED the room and sat in the available seats, and when there were no more seats left, they began sitting on the carpeted floor in a semi-circle around McMullan.
In his customary informal style, McMullan sat on a chair, propped his feet on a foot rest, and began talking to his audience as he strummed chords on his guitar.
Wearing light blue slacks and a dark blue pullover sports shirt, and with a lock of his brown hair hanging down on his forehead, McMullan gave his explanation of what ballad music is.
"BALLADS ARE merely an interpretation of the things that happen to people in their daily lives, put to music. They reflect the old and the new, but they never grow old," he said.
McMullan has a repertoire consisting of better than 40 ballads.
He prefers to appear before a group and sing his various songs spontaneously according to how responsive the group is. When Jim was asked beforehand what he would sing, he replied.
"IM NOT SURE. I have a card with a list of songs on it, and I'll discuss the songs as I sing them. I'll decide as I go."
McMullan seemed as natural and comfortable with his guitar in front of the group as most folks feel in their living room chairs.
HE HAD a way of instilling emotion in his audience, almost at will through his songs. He made them laugh with his song "The Kitchen Crew" and his "Sweetheart Song," about a mining mule who was the miner's sweetheart.
On the serious side Jim sang a plea to put an end to war, and to respect the equal rights of all men.
James McMullan