Daily hansan
Thursday, Sept. 24, 1959
of voyage
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
57th Year, No. 5
OPIATE OF THE PEOPLE? — Debating pros and cons of religion in last night's English style debate are, left to right. Rev. Albert L. Bramble, pastor of the First Methodist Church; E. C.
Buehler, prof. of speech; Charles Warriner, associate prof. of sociology; Franklyn C. Nelick, associate prof. of English and M. Erik Wright, prof. of clinical psychology.
Opinions on Religion Vary At English Style Debate
Three University professors and a Lawrence minister matched wits last night on a topic as old as Christianity: "Resolved: That religion is based on superstition—the opiate of the people."
An overflowing crowd was moved from the Jayhawk Room to the ballroom of the Kansas Union because of the lack of space.
"It is to relieve pain," M. Erik Wright, professor of clinical psychology, began in defense of the affirmative.
"It is used to put one to sleep. It depresses breathing. It makes one constipated. And it makes one vomit. I am not speaking of religion. I am speaking medically of opium. The
inferences to religion are your own,' he said.
Franklyn C. Nelick, associate professor of English, supported the negative by saying:
"What follows is somewhat of a confession of an opium-eater. I can't shake it and I'll steal to get it."
"Religion is an order of understanding and is concerned with being, not at all with behaving, sanctity and morality."
The affirmative's second speaker; Charles Warriner, associate professor of sociology, contended:
"One man's faith is another's superstition."
The Rev. Albert L. Bramble, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Lawrence took the viewpoint:
Democrat Says Ike Speaks for United U.S.
The Russian leader chatted easily and shook hands with workers in the plants, dozens of whom left their machines to meet him. One man gave Khrushchev a cigar. Khrushchev promptly took off his wrist watch and handed it to the workman.
"If religion is the opiate of the people, then I say let us get out our pipes."
It was the second statement by a top Democrat today. Adlai Stevenson, who talked with Khrushchev at Coon Rapids, Iowa, yesterday, said in a Chicago statement he believed Khrushchev was serious in his sweeping disarmament proposals and was ready to negotiate on inspection and control.
A vote taken at the end of the debate showed that more persons had changed their way of thinking to the negative side than to the affirmative, the vote being 104 to 31.
Lawrence's reminder that both major parties are behind the President in his dealings with Russia came in an address given at the Pittsburgh University lunch.
PITTSBURGH —(UPI)— Gov. David L. Lawrence, one of the top Democrats iff the East, told Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev today that President Eisenhower speaks for a united country in the field of foreign relations.
Religion, he said, is based on a "leap of faith."
Khrushchev was a guest at the student union building at the University of Pittsburgh after a tour through one of the few steel mills in the nation not shut down by the 72-day steel strike.
"In America, politics stop at the water's edge," the Pennsylvania chief executive said.
Khrushchev drove around Pittsburgh in an open convertible. In the downtown area people hung from office buildings and waved There were some cheers.
Khrushchev appeared to be in the most jovial mood of his tour. He acknowledged that the U.S. has fine machines, but needed accompanying officials about restrictions or trade which he said made it impossible for the Soviet Union to buy more machine tools.
The White House announced today that Khrushev has cancelled plans to tour the National Institutes of Heliah in Washington tomorrow so he can devote that time to preparing for his weekend meeting with President Eisenhower.
There seemed to be increasing evidence that the President might report to the American people on his talks with Khrushchev at Camp David, Md., shortly after their conclusion Sunday.
Khrushchev jokingly told his guide the Russians were "trying to invent a machine to kill flies with atomic energy."
But the remainder of the crowd numbering close to 450, was unchanged in its opinion.
Khrushchev will make two major public appearances in Washington Sunday—an afternoon news conference and an evening nation-wide television speech.
"Then I will invent a machine that will turn those who favor the cold war into opponents of the cold war," he said.
Prof. Nelick said that good was not always meant to win and so the "turn of the other cheek" scripture was not from a limpid Jesus, but rather a way of saying:
"What did you expect madam chimes?"
He said the "question of dealing with men has never been answered by science."
Amid boos, cheers and a few "thumbs down," he sat down.
Prof. Warriner was the next to bat.
"Each religious group has different ideas. One man's faith is another's heresy," he said.
"Religious beliefs are based on collective experiences of a particular group or community," he said.
This statement reminded him of a joke about an American and a Chinese who were both visiting a cemetery.
The American put flowers on a grave and then turned to watch the Chinese as he put a bowl of rice on a grave.
"When," asked the American, "do you think that whoever is in that grave will eat that rice?"
"The same time whoever is in that grave smells those flowers," the Chinese replied.
"You can understand the predicament I find myself in being on a panel of such keen minds, who can so easily avoid the subject," the Rev. Bramble noted.
"Religions, like men, cannot be based on their ancestors. Religion developed from idol worship. Doctors came from barbers. Professors began in the church." he said.
Tickets Anger Oread Students
"Religion may be the opiate of the people—enough of them so to sleep in church. But I have always said that it is the best place to sleep except for a professor's class."
Oread Hall, the converted-army-barracks dormitory, was a scene of puzzled anger last night, as residents discussed recent parking tickets.
"Every car in the parking lot received a ticket at 9:30 Monday night, and no one could possibly have gotten a parking permit by that time because of the necessary wait after application." Vernon L. Flanagin, resident director said.
"After they received a second
Truman Wants Strike Settlement
WICHITA—(UPI)—Former President Harry S. Truman said last night he wouldn't wait for the "country to go to pot" before intervening in a steel strike.
Truman, addressing some 500 Kansas Democrats at their annual $25-a-plate Roosevelt-Truman Memorial Dinner, departed from his prepared speech to comment on the 10-week old steel strike.
The former chief executive said there were steel strikes when he was president, "But I didn't sit around and wait for the country to go to pot. I settled them."
He said the first steel strike of his administration was settled by giving workers a raise of 15 cents an hour. It cost the steel men $2.37 an hour, he said, "and on the basis of that, they raised the price of steel $14 a ton."
Labor Trouble Deserved
Truman said he thought labor today was getting just what it deserved.
"I just read a speech this morning by one of the labor leaders who made the wild statement that he was not in any way committed to either the Democratic or Republican party," Mr. Truman said. He referred to a speech made by transport workers head Mike Quill at the San Francisco AFL-CIO convention.
"Obviously the gentleman had forgotten how labor was put on its feet by the Wagner Labor Relations Act and my vetoes of the Taft-Hartley Bill," he said.
A resolution passed at the AFLCIO convention proclaimed the union group was independent of any political party. Quill said the Democrats had hurt labor as much as the Republicans had.
ticket Tuesday night, most of the men have been parking their cars on the street instead of the parking lot," he continued.
"Tickets received during the period the students were unable to receive permits will not be charged to the students if they present their tickets for cancellation at the time they pick up their parking permits." Joe G. Skillman, chief of campus police, said today.
"I made application for a parking permit Friday, received a ticket (warning) on Tuesday and another ticket last night. I went to the office Tuesday and yesterday, and both times I was told my parking permit wasn't ready yet, and that I should come back," Dean O. Radcliffe, Lawrence freshman, said.
Oread old-timers, who have lived there in previous years, remember when tickets were issued at the Oread office. The change this year, as stated in the parking and traffic regulations, of receiving all parking permits at the traffic office in Hoch Auditorium, has provided an issue the "old-timers" love to expound upon.
"Why didn't they keep it the way it was? We liked it fine." they ask. Since there are only 42 residents in Oread this semester, they feel the old way of receiving parking permits would not have caused the hours of standing in line in front of the traffic office to receive permits this year.
Thomas Moll, Milwaukee, Wis,
graduate student, reported that he
he received his parking permit only by
a stroke of luck.
"I stood in line for an hour Monday afternoon. I finally got to the window at 4:28, and they closed the window in my face." Moll said.
"I was watching the clock very closely because they had announced they would close the traffic office at 4:30," he explained.
"Tuesday, I went back at lunch hour. There was no line. I received my permit," he said.
Kansas Grid Squad Leaves in Morning
The Kansas traveling football squad will leave Lawrence between 8 and 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning from Allen Field House by bus for Kansas City where they will catch a plane to Syracuse, N.Y. The Jayhawkers will meet the Orange of Syracuse in an inter-sectional grid battle Saturday afternoon.
3 Humanities Lectures During Fall Semester
Three Humanities Series lectures will be presented during the first semester of this, the thirteenth year of the series, said Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism and chairman of the Humanities committee.
On Tuesday, Oct. 13. Dr. Lynn T. White, professor of history at UCLA, will lecture on "The Dynamism of Western Medieval Technology." During his three-day visit, he will also address engineering faculty members and students. He was for 15 years the president of Mills College, Oakland, Calif.
On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the speaker will be Dr. Ronald Syme, professor of ancient history at Oxford, England. (The date of this lecture has been changed from Nov. 17, as listed in the K-Book.) He is at the
University of California at Berkeley this fall, giving the Sather lectures in history. He was Humanities lecturer here in January, 1957.
On Thursday, Jan. 7, a lecture on "Bach's Natural and Metaphysical World" will be given by Jan Chiapasso, professor of Piapo at KU.
Weather
KANSAS—Rainy with intermittent thunderstorms this afternoon through tomorrow. Rains locally heavy north central and northwest portions this afternoon and evening. A little warmer tomorrow. Low tonight 50s northwest to 60s elsewhere. High tomorrow lower 80s southwest to 60s and 70s elsewhere.