Proposed Church Merger Brings Varied Reactions
The proposed merger of four of the nation's largest Protestant denominations has produced a variety of reactions on the KU campus.
Faculty and students have spoken about the recent proposal by the chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in terms ranging from "a wild shot" to a "fine idea." All admit, however, that any move must proceed with caution.
The proposal by Rev. Eugene Carson Blake of San Francisco would unite his church with the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ. Combined membership would total about 19 million.
WILLIAM J. MOORE, dean of the school of religion said:
This was a wild shot, and advanced as only a suggestion. It was not meant as a concrete proposal. Dr. Blake made it only to stimulate people's thinking, which I think it has, and for that reason is it good. However, I think it will be 50 to 100 years before such a move is actually possible."
On the other hand, Paul R. Davis, professor of religion said:
"I FEEL AS MANY DO, that in general the united church movement has great possibilities and should be cultivated. I do not think the diversity of religious heritage should be leveled out in such a merger, for the conformity would be too big a price to pay for unity of the proposal.
"With caution, it can be a wholesome, healthy suggestion, and might
take place sooner than we think in this fast moving world. People such as Blake have done the spade work, and now as we are becoming aware of the challenge, the pattern for unity may be accelerated.
JOHN GRABER, associate professor of religion, commented that although several organizations have seemed interested in the plan, it is debatable whether or not this particular proposal is meant to be serious.
Student opinions were just as varied.
"Mergers are a coming thing, and in recent years there have been several groups that have joined together," he said.
"Im a Presbyterian." Margaret Thrasher, Wichita senior, said. "I consider this a fine idea, but the religions will never be truly united until they share a common ritual. Words may be more of a problem than people, and the ideal may be difficult to make practical.
"These religions have a better chance of uniting than some of the others," Miss Thrasher added, "But there will always be fundamentalists who wouldn't join."
"We'll have to sacrifice the little things. They'll make the difference." Barbara Bacon, El Dorado junior, commented. "I'm an Episcopalian and the way which we worship will have to be dealt with carefully."
"Young people will resolve their differences easier than the old," Sandy Smith, Coffeyville sophomore said. "All I want is a place to worship."
Communist Threat Renewed in Korea
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
When student riots toppled the government of South Korean President Syngman Rhee last sping, there were several mixed results.
For one thing, the demonstrations brought about the downfall of a government often condemned for having grown old and corrupt.
But they also set a precedent of rule by riot, an instrument whereby a minority could make violence an arm of government.
This, in turn, opened a natural avenue for communist infiltration into a land whose people are proud of their independence and whose sentiments have a history of anti-Communism.
Dr. Dorothy Frost of the American-Korean Foundation is a trained American observer just back from a Korean tour sponsored jointly by the U.S.State Department and the United Nations.
The thing that gave her the most concern: "The new communist danger."
Dr. Frost witnessed a meeting of the UN and communist truce teams at Panmunjom and saw and felt the hatred flowing back and forth across the conference table.
In Seoul, she saw student rioters to the streets against the new government of Premier John M. Chang.
"The students regard themselves as the conscience of government," she said.
Helping the Red agitation is poverty and unemployment which leaves two million of Korea's 21 million population without jobs in a nation where practically everyone except infants work. Youths with idle hands are turned easily to destructive purposes.
Some of their leaders are not students, but professional agitators. Some, when arrested, proved to have "addresses unknown." They are the Communists.
South Korea's new budget calls for expenditure of around $500 million of which about half will come from the United States. Dr. Frost insists that the money is being well-spent.
In a valley devastated by war, she saw an earthen dam built painstakingly by hand by the Koreans. It lasted only until the first spring floods because the Koreans had no concrete.
She saw new buses in the streets of Seoul whose sides were built from pounded-out gasoline drums.
She saw a village where the people, with an old generator and waterwheel, built their own rice mill. With its proceeds, they built a brick kiln and then their own church and their own school.
Korea, she says, is an important piece of real estate. It also is filled with people who want to be friendly to the United States.
Kansas Low in Holiday Death Tolls
Kansas marked one of the lowest accidental death totals in the nation over the New Year's holiday, compared with 19 fatalities over the Christmas weekend.
United Press International
The Christmas total in Kansas was among the highest in the U.S.
The latest count showed that from 6 p.m. Friday through midnight Monday there were only 2 accidental deaths in Kansas.
Over the nation, the totals were:
Traffic ... 338
Fire ... 57
Miscellaneous ... 96
Total ... 491
California had the worst highway carriage with 42 deaths. Texas reported 28, Illinois 20, Wisconsin 18, Indiana 17, New York 16, Ohio 13, and Florida, Louisiana and Missouri 11 each.
Pastor's Fortitude Gets KU Backing
New Orleans' Rev. Lloyd Foreman, the minister who made headlines by leading his young daughter by the hand through picketing, screaming housewives to break the segregationists school boycott, has been sent a letter of moral support by KU's United Presbterian Center.
The letter commends the Rev. Mr. Foreman for his dedication to his Christian conviction and was signed by the Westminster Council.
The letter reads;
"So often in troubled times when a person with Christian convictions acts according to these convictions and opposes the active, vocal groups which surround him, he seems to be taking a lonely stand, a stand to which only those in opposition give comment.
"With this in mind we, the members and officers of the council of the Westminster Center, a Presbyterian student group at the University of Kansas, want you to know that our prayers and moral support are with you. We hope that you will continue your Christian witness by actively supporting school integration in your city."
The letter was signed by the 17 members of the council and by the Rev. John H. Patton.
Kelly's Law Article Receives Publicity
Tuesday, Jan. 3. 1961 University Daily Kansan P
An article by William A. Kelly, associate professor of law, has been reprinted in several publications.
The article, "The Physician, the Patient and the Consent," published in the March, 1960, "University of Kansas Law Review" was reprinted in full in the "Insurance Law Journal" for April, 1960, and a condensed version was published in the "Personal Injury Commentator" for September, 1960.
The article says that for centuries the common law has protected persons against any manner of unwarranted physical contact. It is fundamental that the least touching of another without his consent is wrongful and that goes for physicians as well as for everybody else. There can be no touching of a patient without the patient's consent, so the matter of consent is very important in the law of personal injury.
Seven members of the speech and drama department took part in the national convention of the Speech Assn. of America, held in St. Louis Dec. 27 to 30.
7 Faculty Members Attend Convention
William A. Conboy, associate professor of speech and drama and department chairman; Wilmer Linkugel, assistant professor of speech; Frank E. X. Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama; Bruce A. Linton, professor of speech and journalism and chairman of radio and television; Kim Giffin, professor of speech and drama; Lynn R. Osborn, instructor of speech and drama, and Richard L. Schiefelbusch, professor of speech and director of child research attended the convention.
Religion-in-Life Week to Be Replaced by Invitation Plan
By Carrie Edwards
The return address on a letter to be sent this week to all Greek and University houses will read KU Student Religious Council. . .
And the letter will read something like this:
There will be no Religion-in-Life Week this year as there has been for more than 40 years.
To replace the traditional week of religious forums and a convocation, your Religious Council urges each organized house to invite a religious leader at least once or twice this semester to dinner and to speak after dinner. Lawrence has several outstanding ministers in local churches as well as at KU student religious centers.
The council feels that religion is too important to be emphasized for just one week during the school year. Many organized houses last year were hosts to religious leaders during the Religion-in-Life Week. But under this year's suggested plan groups are urged to host ministers at any time during the semester.
A postscript to the letter may read that the council is sending letters to local ministers asking them to list the topics on which they would like to speak with student living groups. The council will forward this information to the presidents of the houses soon.
A committee of council members is also working to schedule an outstanding religious speaker for an evening meeting in April or May. Jim Anderson, Lawrence junior, president of the council, in an interview yesterday said this leader's speech will replace the annual religious convocation in Hoch Auditorium but will take place in an auditorium large enough to seat all interested students attending it.
Another part of this year's proposed program includes letters to be mailed this week from the council to KU religious groups. It will read similarly to this:
Student religious groups are
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 231 Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin to the Kansan office. Only the Kansan office should include name, place, date, and time of function.
TODAY
Angel Flight Meeting. 7 p.m. Military Science. Building...
Episcopal Evening Prayer. 9:30 p.m.
Dunfroth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Catholic Daily Mass. 6:30 a.m. St John's, Church, 13th, & Kentucky.
Epispeic Morning Prayer and Holy Communion. Breakfast follows 6:45 a.m.
Geology Department Lecture. "Structure of the Continental Margin of Northeastern America," by Dr. Charles L. Drake, Distinguished lecturer. 426, Lidgley路。
Jane Janes. 5 p.m. Room 306. Kansas Union.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Students taking French Ph.D. Reading
Courses in the French Department at
Barbara Craig, 120 Fraser, by noon today.
Catholic Daily Mass. 6:30 a.m. St.
John's Church, 13th & Kentucky.
Episcopal Morning Prayer and Holy
Communion. Breakfast follows. 6:45 a.m.
(Closing time).
Humanities Lecture. "Preparation for
I Profession Changeless W. Clarke
J. m. M. Changeless
Episcopal Evening Prayer. 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
FRIDAY
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 7:30 p.m. 129 Mississippi Bible study and informal discussion. Refreshments. Call VI 2-0249 for more information or a ride.
SATURDAY
French Ph.D. Reading Examination.
9-11 a.m. 11 Fraser.
urged to work out a series of evening meeting exchanges and joint meetings with other religious organizations. The council believes such meetings will create better understanding between any denominational groups now assembling separately.
The council also encourages student religious groups to help emphasize religion to all students on campus. Whenever any group has a particularly outstanding guest speaker, it would be worthwhile to the entire campus if that group would make arrangements with the Kansas Union to sponsor that speaker at an open forum.
A postscript to this letter may include the statement that most members of the religious council are enthusiastic over its proposed program and are watching to see if the campus prefers and benefits more from all-semester religious emphasis rather than one week of religious speakers.
The council president said most members felt anything would be better than what had happened during the last few religious emphasis weeks. Last year as few as ten students attended a religious discussion meeting that had been open to the entire University.
Non-Resident Fees To Increase in Fall
Tuition for non-Kansas students at KU will increase $60, next fall.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said the increase from $165 to $225 puts KU at the average in the Big Eight Conference schools fees for out-of-state students.
The Board of Regents raised nonresident fees in the five state colleges from 10 to 35 per cent. This brings in an additional revenue of about $485,000.
Law School to Hear Speaker on Labor
John L. Holcombe, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Management Reports, United States Labor Department, Washington, D.C., will speak at a School of Law's convocation on Jan. 17, in the Court Room of Green Hall.
Commissioner Holcombe will speak on labor law today and discuss the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, known as the Landrom-Griffen Bill. All interested persons are invited to attend.
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