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Daily Hansan
57th Year, No. 89
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1960
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Ise Expounds On Capitalism
The capitalist system relies on a selfish motive of doing the best work for the highest monetary achievement.
This is the description of capitalism which John Ise, professor emeritus in economics, gave to the Kansas Clergy this morning. His topic was the role of Christianity in a capitalist society.
Prof. Ise said capitalism is paradoxical.
Capitalism Brings Kindness
"The object of capitalism is to work all the harder to make more money."
Capitalism Brings Kindness The period of development of human kindness coincides with the development of capitalism, he said.
"Seventy years ago people were a lot more brutal. They used to beat their children and even their wives when they had the chance. It was quite an indoor sport." he mused.
"If we ever get away from capitalism, we'll go back to the same brutality as before."
He explained that under a capitalistic society there is more dishonesty in business.
He said that now there seems to be a development of humanity in the capitalistic stage due to great wealth and education.
Monopoly Kills
"There is monopoly in the advertising world where thousands of people are killed every year due to too much falseness."
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Andrews Wants Books
Lowell Lee Andrews, condemned to die for the fatal shooting of his father, mother, and sister, waits at the state penitentiary. As he waits, he reads.
now he is requesting books and novels from friends.
A letter from his former landlady on page 2 makes a compassionate plea for help for the condemned man.
Spanish Soprano To Sing Tomorrow
Victoria de Los Angeles, noted Spanish soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, will appear at a concert at 8:20 p.m. tomorrow in the University Theatre.
The program is the third in the series of the KU Concert course.
Last summer Miss de los Angeles represented Spain at the Brussels World Fair, sang at the Granada and Edinburgh festivals and recorded three operas. In January, Barcelona her native city, honored her with its coveted Gold Medal and renamed one of the principal streets in her honor.
She made her American debut in Carnegie Hall seven seasons ago and is now recognized as one of the world's ranking concert and opera solosts.
Her program Thursday will include works by Scarlate, Handel Schubert, Brahms, Rossini, Granados, Niu and Vives.
Tickets are now on sale at the Fine Arts ticket office, the Student Union, and the Bell Music Company.
Bree Sees French Art,History Conflict
Modern man belongs to a world of violence and chaos. He must struggle to bring order to it or risk losing his humanity.
This is the message conveyed by contemporary French novelists, said Germaine Bree, professor of Romance languages at New York University. She delivered a humanities Lecture in Fraser Hall last night.
Crowd Braves Snow
A near-capacity crowd braved a swirling snowstorm to hear Prof. Bree explain the conflict between art and history in recent French novels.
"In the 19th century, history was considered a careful reconstruction of past events from which some wisdom could be drawn. After the World Wars, the lessons of the past hardly seemed applicable to the present," she said.
"Novelists of that period thought the historic process had somehow backfired. They considered the wars horrible mistakes, negations of all the traditional human values."
Reactions Varied
With the discovery that civilizations were mortal the novelists reacted in different ways, said Prof. Bree. Some, like Andre Malraux, were driven to bitter denunciation of man and his folly.
"Malraux called mankind 'a mass of filthy little animals reproducing all too rapidly.' Faced with the disorderliness of history, Malraux thought that something outside history itself should give meaning to the flow of events," she said.
Art was the force that Malraux thought would make history meaningful, she added.
Order Sought
The search for order in history continued in the writings of Jean Paul Sartre, who set up standards that art must meet to be meaningful. Prof. Bree continued.
Sartre saw art as a "perpetual argument with history." an argument which must represent that faction of the people moving from beneath oppression — the proletariat.
"Sartre thought that the writer should write for the future. He should make people conscious of what the future will be," said Prof Bree.
Albert Camus rejected the idea that there is a predictable flow of history and maintained that no man could hope to write for the future with any degree of accuracy, said the French scholar.
Germaine Bree
"Camus said that 'history has no eyes.' He considered the novel a revolt, the refusal of the artist to admit the disorder of the world," she declared.
Prof. Bree said modern French novelists are now leaving the struggle with history and are beginning to pursue their own private interests once more.
ASC to Query Faculty On Evaluation Sheets
All Student Council academic division representatives will ask school deans and department chairmen how they feel the teacher evaluation sheets may be improved.
This was the result of a resolution proposed by Ronald Dalby, Joplin, Mo., junior, and passed by the ASC at their meeting last night. The representatives will prepare a report to give to the ASC at their next meeting.
At the meeting, Jerry Palmer, El Dorado sophomore and chairman of the Curriculum Committee, said that no one tampered with the sheets and to his knowledge the seals on the packages had not been broken. Palmer said about one-third of the sheets passed out by the ASC were returned.
Palmer said that all the evaluation sheets were mailed out Monday. Due to the illness of Graham Moore, Houston, Tex., sophomore and distribution chairman, the sheets were not mailed out earlier, he said.
Sheets Sorted in the Union
The evaluation sheets were removed from the Business Office safe after the week of the final examinations, and taken to the Activities Office in the Kansas Union for sorting, he said.
"This was the only feasible place that was large enough. No one read the sheets. Students or faculty members did not see them." Falmer said.
Tonya Kurt, Pratt sophomore and coordinator for the KU National Student Association, reported that the NSA acts as a consultant for student governments. She said that some of the tangible benefits derived from membership in the NSA include:
- Sole representative of U.S. students in national and international affairs. This includes its work as a pressure group.
- Consultant on student problems.
- Sponsor of foreign exchange students.
- Educational Travel Inc., a subsidiary corporation which sponsors study and travel tours abroad.
- Sponsor of student seminars and congresses.
NSA Affiliation Ended
A resolution was then proposed by Frank Naylor, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and passed by the ASC that
Jerry Palmer "The evaluation sheets are..."
KU terminate its affiliation with NSA. The resolution will be sent to the Committee on Committees for discussion.
In further action taken, amendments concerning the tenure of ASC representatives and the Campus Chest organization were passed. These amendments were sent to the Committee on Committees and will be discussed at a meeting next Tuesday.
Spring and Fall Elections Sally Carnahan, Topeka senior
proposed an amendment that there be an annual spring and annual fall election.
According to her proposal representatives to the ASC from the academic divisions, student body president and vice president, and sophomore, junior and senior class officers would be elected at spring elections. At the annual fall election the ASC representatives from all school living districts and freshmen class officers would be elected.
Miss Carnahan said this type of an election system would enable the ASC to have a continuous running council. Not all of the ASC members would be elected at the same time, she added.
Mary Sue Childers, Merriam junior, presented a bill stating that all campus organizations applying for participation in the Campus Chest submit their respective applications to the Campus Chest steering committee not later than one month before the opening of the drive. The allocations shall be determined three weeks before the opening of the drive. The ASC shall have the power to approve or disapprove of organizations participating in Campus Chest.
Appointments Approved
The ASC also approved these appointments of new members to committees:
Disciplinary Committee — Carolyn Onties, Hutchinson sophomore; Don Logan, Prairie Village, and Robert Driscoll, Lawrence juniors.
Social Committee — Cheryl Payer. El Dorado, and Gary Dilley, Emporia, sophomores.
Student Court — Terry Fiske, Wendell Yockey, James Johnson, third year law students from Lawrence; Polly Peppercorn, Thomas Fulkerson, second year law students from Lawrence; William Reed, first year law student from Kansas City, Mo., and Gene Anderson, second year law student from Belleville.
Germaine Bree Gives American Education Unaccustomed Praise
By Bill Blundell
America's much-maligned system of higher education received some unaccustomed praise yesterday when Germaine Bree spoke out in defense of the American student and those who teach him.
Seated on a hard wooden bench in Mallot Hall, Prof. Bree watched the driving snow build drifts outside the window while she spoke of the inherent curiosity she found in many of her students.
"In a European school, you can assume that the students have about the same background when they enter a university. In America, this is not so," she said.
"While this raises an obvious problem in teaching them, it also accounts for a certain versatility and natural intellectual curiosity that is refreshing to see. Many European students think they know it all; Americans seldom do — they want to learn."
Prof. Bree warmly defended undergraduate teaching methods in this country.
Gesturing expressively, she said:
"I have found that undergraduate teaching here is often remarkable. American students don't work too hard in high school, but after four years in college it is amazing to see how far they've developed."
As the snowflakes hissed against the window, the discussion turned to Algeria, where the vivacious French scholar was an ambulance driver during World War II.
Minority Divides Algeria
"Actually, Algeria is torn between two minority groups," said Prof. Bree.
"On one side you have the colons, the emigres from the Mediterranean countries who made Algeria. On the far left, you have the F.L.N., a group of radical, nationalist Arabs.
De Gaulle Described
"The great majority of the people belong to neither group. They are indifferent to the situation."
Prof. Bree said that the conduct of free elections as proposed by President Charles de Gaulle is the only way to determine the will of the Algerian people. She said that De Gaulle is a true statesman, but so personally overpowering as to inspire awe.
"Some of us in France are even afraid of him. It's the I am France' thing, you know?" she said, pounding one fist to her chest and mimicing the French leader's now-famous pronouncement.
Weather
Occasional snow south portion, considerable cloudiness elsewhere and continued cold this afternoon. Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with snow southeast portion tonight and snow flurries northwest portion tonight. Low tonight 5 below north central to 15 southeast. High tomorrow 10 to 20.