Lecturer to Talk On Oriental Art
The mysteries of Oriental art will be explained in the first Humanities lecture of the 1958-59 series. Tuesday, Oct. 21.
The illustrated lecture on "Chinese Art and the Western Humanist" will be given by Laurence C. S. Sickman, director of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts in Kansas City, Mo. He will speak at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
"This is the first lecture on Oriental art we have had during the 11 years of the Humanities series," Prof. Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the Humanities committee, said.
"Mr. Sickman is an outstanding authority and is much in demand as lecturer on Chinese painting, sculpture, and ceramics. The Oriental collection in Nelson Gallery is one of the richest in the country."
Mr. Sickman is the first of six Humanities lecturers scheduled this year. The others, and the date of their lectures, are; Nov. 4—Dr. William D. Paden, University of Kansas; Jan. 8—Father de Bertier de Sauvigny, French historian of Paris; Feb. 17—Dr. Walter Blair, University of Chicago, specialist on Mark Twain and history of humor; Mar. 24—Dr. William Foxwell Albright, Johns Hopkins University, scholar in Semitic languages and archaeology of Arabia, Israel, and Palestine; April 21—Dr. William Irvine, Stanford University, who will lecture on the influence of Darwin upon literature.
Mr. Sickman has been at the Nelson Gallery since 1935 and has been director since 1953. In 1937-39, he was resident fellow and lecturer on Oriental art at Fogg Art Museum, Harvard. He is co-author of "The Art and Architecture of China" published in London in 1956, and since 1948 has been editor of the archives of the Chinese Art Society and a member of the society's board of governors.
LAURENCE SICKMAN
He has also been on the board of governors of the Far Eastern Assn. He is active in the Assn. for Asian Studies, the American Oriental Society, and the Japan Society.
He was born in Denver, Colo., in 1907, and he received the A.B. degree from Harvard. He did graduate work in China, 1930-35, as a Harvard-Yenching Fellow. In World War II, he was a major in the Air Corps combat intelligence, and served in England, India, China, and Japan.
Free Flu Serum Available; Students Urged to Get Shots
Student response to free flu shots offered by the Student Health Center is not enthusiastic, a spokesman for the Student Health Center said today.
Mrs. Erma Morgan, secretary of Dr. Ralph Canuteson, who is director of student health, said, "Some students have come in every day for shots, but they do not come in large numbers."
Mrs. Morgan encouraged students to get their shots immediately. "The time for the normal flu season is here," she said.
Last year at this time, the campus was confronted with the worst flu epidemic in recent years. Mrs. Morgan said the Student Health Center did not expect an epidemic this year, but students should be protected in any case.
Last year's epidemic began with the opening of school and lasted until the early part of December.
A student will build up immunity 14 days after receiving the first shot, Mrs. Morgan said. A second shot is required one month later.
These shots will protect a student until late spring.
Students may get their shots at any time during clinic hours. Morning hours are from 8 o'clock until noon, and afternoon hours are from 2 until 5 o'clock.
Students eligible to vote in the general elections Nov. 4 may register in their home towns by mail this year.
Student Voters Can Register by Mail
Forms for registration are available at the information desk of the Kansas Union or the University Daily Kansan news room.
A bill was passed in the 1957 State Legislature allowing persons absent from their home cities to register by mail and vote an absentee ballot in another city. Harold Fisher, Lawrence city clerk, and the Collegiate Young Republicans and Democrats were responsible for originating the idea of the new absentee ballot procedure.
Forms for registration should be mailed to the city clerk of the student's home town as soon as possible, Mr. Fisher said. There is an Oct. 24 deadline on the mailing of these forms.
When voting in Lawrence, "absentee" voters
will receive a ballot with the names of state and national candidates on it. Blank spaces will be provide for write-in votes for local positions.
The Douglas county clerk will mail the forms to the county clerk in the home town of the person voting.
To be eligible to vote Kansas requires residence in the state for 6 months and in the township or ward 30 days. Persons who voted in the 1956 elections and have not moved are not required to register.
Students who have established permanent residence in Lawrence and have lived here 30 days may register at Lawrence City Hall. The city clerk's office will be open for registration until 10 p.m. every night beginning Oct. 15. Registration must be completed by Oct.24.
Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 23
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1958
Bomb Threat Hits Temples, Schools, Homes Over Nation
By United Press International
A wave of bombings spread over the U.S. today when a homemade bomb exploded in a Jewish temple in Peoria, Ill. An anonymous telephone call said an Atlanta, Ga., school would be bombed and the homes of two Negro families in Chicago were shattered in an explosion.
An Atlanta Jewish Temple was bombed Sunday.
In Peoria, Ill., explosion of a homemade bomb damaged the windows and interior of a Jewish temple early today and police and FBI agents planned to question a youth involved in a bomb scare at another temple last year.
The explosive in the bomb, packed into a short iron pipe, was black powder, police determined. It went off in a stairwell leading to the basement of the Anshai Emeth Temple on the near north side of this city.
In Atlanta, more than 1,200 pupils in a big Atlanta high school were herded onto the athletic field today at school opening following an
anonymous telephone tip that a time bomb was set to go off there at 9:30 a.m. Lawrence time.
An anonymous caller telephoned United Press International at 8:45 a.m. advising that the bomb would explode 45 minutes later.
The UPI advised police and the FBI, then sat on the story to avoid spreading panic among the city's parents and school children.
Officers of the bomb squad went to the Brown High School in the west end section but found no evidence of explosives.
When pupils arrived for classes they were met by the school's ROTC unit which directed them to the athletic field. They were allowed to enter the building at 9:50 a.m.
In Chicago, two bombs, exploding alomst simultaneously, shattered the neighboring buildings housing two Negro families in a south side neighborhood early today.
Both were black powder bombs, police said, and were believed to be homemade. Officers did not have an immediate damage estimate, but believed it would total about $10,000 in the two blasts.
None was injured in either blast. The neighborhood was described
as a changing one, into which a few Negro families had moved in recent years.
Bomb Plot in Atlanta
Bomb Frot in Atlanta Atlanta police disclosed today they have corroborated a suspect's statement that a bomb plot against the Atlanta Jewish Temple was hatched at a meeting of an anti-semitic underground organization here last May 5.
Officers have the names of the five men who attended the meeting.
Authorities appeared to be on the verge of cracking wide open a terror attack on Jewish synagogues and temples in the South.
Local authorities, working hand in hand with the FIE, were confident they were on the right track of a solution. They have been working around the clock on the case since dynamite ripped a huge hole in the temple shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday, causing $200,000 damage.
Detective Sgt. M. W. Blackwell said a suspect had signed a statement, the details of which have been corroborated by police, about preliminary plans for the temple bombing.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy and mild this afternoon through tomorrow. Low tonight 40s northwest to around 60 southeast. High tomorrow 80 to 85.
YOU BET, WERE SENIORS—Don Elmore, Pearse, Nevada, Mo., and Dick Jones, McPherson Harper; Ann Underwood, Emporia; Martha are ready for senior coffee.
Invaders Conquer Wilds In Trip to Reservation
Up the narrow path march 25 young Americans. They push aside bushes and step over fallen trees. One slips on the muddy slope. The leader steps swiftly. Stragglers scramble forward to catch up.
The small army halts in a clearing. The leader points to a tree. Several followers approach the oak cautiously. They search the area.
The leader marches off down the other side of the hill. She is tall and moves with a long even stride. The others hurry. A few are
The others hurry. A few are tired. But they move swiftly.
Time is short. Much ground must be covered.
Down the winding path they go Everyone is running now. They trample the grass on the edge of the path as their momentum swings them wide on a bend.
Suddenly, a clearing appears. The leader calls a hait. They stop. The leader talks. The others are breathing heavily.
"No." the leader replies.
"Can we smoke," asks one of the men.
Some are girls. Young girls with strong legs. One writes something in a small notebook.
They move again. The leader approaches a lake. She motions for quiet.
An animal slides into the water and disappears. Ripples move across the water.
The group marches across an earth dam. The lake is muddy. The platoon crosses a small rise and comes upon another patrol.
The leaders speak. The other group is led by a young man.
The groups merge and walk across a field to a dirt road. There is a large vehicle waiting. Everyone gets aboard.
The engine starts. The vehicle winds down the narrow road out of the wooded area. The road leads to a secondary highway.
Later, the bus passes through a small city, then climbs a high bill covered with buildings. The bus stops in front of an old stone structure.
The leaders step down to the sidewalk. The others follow. The group gathers around the leaders.
The leaders go into the building
The tall woman says, "We will test you on what you have learned. "That will be all for today."
The leaders go into the building. The freshman girl with the small notebook turns to a page marked "Biology."
She writes:
"Test Tuesday on field trip to natural history reservation."