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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 15, 1957
Religion: A 'Must' For All
In our helter skelter life on the Hill, there are "weeks" for this and "weeks" for that. So it only seems natural and proper that we also take one week out during the school year for emphasizing religion. Next week is that week—Religious Emphasis Week.
"Is Religion the Answer?" is the theme of the annual Religious Emphasis Week, which this year is featuring 16 speakers who are being brought to the campus by 14 religious groups.
Each year one keynote speaker is featured at an all-University convocation. This year, Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman of St. Louis, will give the keynote address at 9:20 a.m. Monday in Hoch Auditorium.
Each speaker is given the opportunity to talk at faculty forums, at scheduled talks, and also to organized houses and in classrooms.
Such speakers give the students a chance to hear religious leaders who are or have been working with religion throughout the country and the world.
"It's an opportunity students on our campus should take advantage of," Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion says.
The purpose of Religious Emphasis Week is "to promote in the University community the understanding of the vital place of religion and spiritual values in personal life and in society."
If such a goal is to be attained this year and in the coming years, it will take the complete backing and cooperation of the student body.
Religion is one theme which in the general sense of the word should be supported without qualification. While everyone does not agree on exactly the same religion, most people do agree religion is a necessary part of our democratic and University way of life.
Students should note that an opportunity such as Religious Emphasis Week is not provided for people in the Communist countries. However, our forefathers placed freedom of religion as one of the "musts" in our Constitution. Since then, it has become one of the basic characteristics of our democratic way of life.
The true importance of religion has been increasingly emphasized since we have come in closer contact with communism and the view it has taken towards religion.
This then is an appropriate time for the University to back a really worthwhile project. This is a chance for the University to show it still realizes the values of "all" of these characteristics that are necessary for a successful democracy.
—Leroy Zimmerman
Industry?—Not Without Water
(Editor's note: This is the second of a series of three editorials on one of Kansas' water problems.)
If Kansas is to get its share of a future industrial development and thereby increase or even maintain its present level of prosperity, a revolutionary state water plan will be needed.
This is not a new consciousness. As early as 1917 the Kansas Legislature was interested in the development of the state's water resources and passed an act for that purpose. However, funds were not made available until 1941. By then the nation was at war and memories of the dust bowl of the 1930's had aged and faded. After the war there was a shortage of engineers. Finally, in 1955, the State Water Resources Board was created. It is in the hands of this board that the future of Kansas rests.
The board has undertaken the tremendous task of developing a state plan of water conservation, distribution, and control. The task will include an accurate determination of the water supply available, its relative quantity and quality, present and future needs, and finally, a state and federal backed plan to satisfy those needs. What kind of water resources projects and what legislation will be recommended they do not know yet.
In the past, the state of Kansas has had no part in the financing of water resources projects. The state constitution prohibits it. The development of the projects has been left to private or local interests or to the federal government. The larger projects have been done by the Bureau of Reclamation, the Corps of Engineers, and the Department of Agriculture.
To date the federal government has proposed an expenditure of some 593 million dollars for water resources development, excluding projects immediately over the state lines. For these out-of-state projects the federal government has appropriated some 80 million dollars. New construction appropriations amount to 25 million. Federal aid helps, but it is not the panacea. It is too gradual, and the dust drifts are getting deeper.
Report Of Royal 'Rift' Comes As Shock To Britain, World
—Dale Morsch
The report last week of a rift between Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, came as a shock to Great Britain as well as to the world.
The validity of the rumor was universally questioned over the weekend, and after three days of silence, three London newspapers came out with stories that the rumors were "quite untrue."
World opinion hopes this denial is true. An unjust smear on the royal family is not only base, but an abuse of the freedom of the press.
The rumors began when a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun reported London cafe society was "talking openly" of a rift and whispering that the Duke had a "more than passing interest" in an anonymous woman whom he had been meeting for some time.
It was said he had been sent on the 4-month Commonwealth tour to "cool off," and his plans to return to London to be with the Queen for a week before she started her state visit to Portugal were changed.
The accusation against the Duke of Edinburgh is indeed hard to believe. Since his marriage to Queen Elizabeth II in November 1947, he has been the sparkling element in the sedate British royal family.
His easy manner and sense of humor often have helped the stiff but shy Queen in awkward situations. And it was at his insistence
The Duke is now sitting idly in Gibraltar waiting to sail to Lisbon next Monday to meet his wife.
that Prince Charles was enrolled in a "public school," breaking the tradition of palace-educated heir-apparent.
The British royal family is the most revered family in the Isles. Entire magazines are devoted to the activities of the Queen, Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and the Duke of Edinburgh, and school children as well as adults read the stories eagerly.
Dinkelsbuhl, in German Bavaria, holds an annual pageant honoring the children who saved their town in 1632 from destruction by a Swedish conqueror. Tradition says one of the youngsters in the market place reminded the conqueror that his own son had died shortly before. The conqueror ordered his soldiers not to loot and burn.
Through government and international crises, the British have looked to the royal family as a symbol of inspiration. True, royalty is merely a figurehead, but it is the cord which binds and holds together the Commonwealth. Will the press now attempt to destroy this cord of hope?
Felecia Anne Fenberg
Ancient Byzantium, called Istanbul by the moderns, sits astride two continents. It was long the center of the Roman Empire of the East from A. D. 330 until 1453, when the Turks seized control from Emperor Constantine.
Roman women athletes in the fourth and fifth centuries wore garments like the "Bikini" bathing suit while playing games.
Twenty-One'And VanDoren Are Synonymous To Viewers
Friend Or Enemy?
Your vocabulary is the middle man between you and the world. It is your representative in the congress of human and business relations, a representative that casts its vote in your interests or against them, according to its quality.
Television's own health-restoring antidote to Elvis Presley has done it again!
Charles Van Doren, 31-year-old English instructor at Columbia University, showed young and old that it is desirable to be intelligent, when he boosted his winnings to $138,000 on the television quiz program,
"Twenty One."
In only 11 weeks Mr. Van Doren, who has made a powerful impression on television viewers, has probably raised the level of public respect for the teaching profession more than all testimonials of recent years.
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Mr. Van Doren, clamped in a vise of earphones and isolated in a glass-walled booth, has become a Monday night "must" for thousands of television viewers who eagerly anticipate his weekly visits to their living rooms.
The public has been impressed
Unlike contestants on the popular television quiz program, "The $64,000 Question," Mr. Van Doren is no narrow specialist. He must be able to answer questions in any of the 108 categories of information that scan all types of knowledge.
by this intelligent, courteous and modest young man. Fans have deluged this wizard of quiz with 2,000 letters including 20 marriage proposals.
So far, he has won over 12 opponents, including lawyers, writers, teachers and an ex-college president. He has become TV's top single show money winner.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Mr. Van Doren has "made" the program "Twenty One," which has realized the importance of obtaining contestants of what is probably now known as the "Van Doren" type.
Kent Thomas ... Managing Editor
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Mary Beth Noyes, Delbert Haley, Assistant Telegraph Editors; Dick Brown, Sports Editor; George Anthan, Assistant Sports Editor; Marilyn Mermis, Society Editor; Pat Swanson, Assistant Society Editor; John Eaton, Picture Editor
The week-to-week suspense on whether Van Doren will keep plunging or quit while he is far ahead continues to mount.
Marilyn Mermis
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Editorial Editor
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