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54th Year, No. 68
ALFRED LANDON—talked to newspaper reporters Thursday in the Student Union before he spoke at the Collegiate Council for the United Nations. Mr. Landon owns radio station WREN, Topeka, and KSCB, Liberal. He is an oil producer in Kansas. Mr. Landon graduated from the School of Law in 1908, and is still a member of the bar, although he is retired from law. He lives
200 Voices In Annual Winter Concert Sunday
Soloists who will appear with the approximately 200-voice choir are Barbara Blount Jones, Larned special student, soprano; Beverly Runkle, Pittsburg junior, contralto; William Oldham, Kansas City, Kan. graduate student, tenor; and Maurice Casey, Lawrence senior, bass. Marva Lou Powell, Topeka sophomore, is accompanist for the group.
The University Chorus, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education. will present Mozart's "Requiem Mass in D Minor" in the annual winter concert Sunday. The program will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
Composed Just Before Death
The "muddled and tragic circumstances" of Mozart's composition are well-known in the music world. Five months before his death, the 17th century composer was approached by an anonymous stranger who commissioned the composition of a requiem mass under condition of absolute secrecy.
The night he died, Mozart gave the score to his friend and pupil, Sussmayer, who completed the work, filled in the gaps, and delivered it to the stranger.
Another Claims Credit
The stranger was agent and employee of Count Franz von Walseng of Ruppach, who recopied the work personally and presented it as his own composition. Nearly ten years elapsed before the truth became known and Sussmayer credited Mozart with the major portions of the score.
in Topeka.
Kansan Board Member To Meet With Regents
A representative of the Kansan Board, governing body of the University Daily Kansan, will meet with the Board of Regents in Topeka Jan. 18 to discuss the issue of Daily Kansan editors taking sides in politics "both on and off the campus."
The meeting is a result of a discussion between Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and the Kansan Board Dec. 18. In that meeting Chancellor Murphy said editors could take sides in campus politics, but he refused to approve political partisanship at the state and national levels.
Vote Amendment
Members of the Kansan Board voted 16-4 Dec. 4 to amend the neutrality clause in their constitution. The amendment was voted to take effect Jan. 17.
Dick Walt, Girard senior and chairman of the board, said he' glad a student representative will discuss the situation with the Boar of Regents.
"I'm definitely glad we reached the agreement on campus politics," Walt said. "I hope that if the rest is blocked, we can get this section through."
Earlier, Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information said Political partisanship "would not be permitted." He later said that in his statement he did not distinguish between campus politics and state and national politics.
Weather
Cloudy and colder with occasional snow east and south portions this afternoon. Mostly cloudy tonight. Light snow southeast and chance of freezing drizzle west portion. Partly cloudy and continued cold Saturday. Low tonight 15-20 north to 25 south portion. High Saturday 30s.
"Certainly any decision by any group at KU which would, in the eyes of people outside the University, indicate that the University was taking a partisan political position, is contrary to the whole concept of the University," Chancellor Murphy said.
Kent Pelz, Des Planes, Ill., junior asked if there might be a compromise at the campus level.
"The basic question." Chancellor Murphy said, "is whether the University Daily Kansan could take a partisan position in state or national politics without it being construed as a partisan position on the part of the University itself.
No one desires to restrict freedom of expression, but responsibility for a political position must fall on him who takes it. Chancellor Murphy said, and added:
Campus Policy Open
He said the Kansan Board should safeguard its own best interests in taking sides in campus politics, but partisan positions in state and national politics poses very different problems.
"Dean Marvin and I see no reason why the University Daily Kansan can't take a partisan position in campus politics."
"I have been unable to see how the support of a candidate by the Kansas would not be construed by many people as tacit support, by the University, of that candidate," Chancellor Murphy said.
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Odd Williams, state legislator for the 11th district and co-chairman for Douglas County, said no tickets will be sold from Allen Field House. He said other Big 7 players will play too.
Phillips, Vickers To Play At KU
A National Industrial Basketball League game will be played Feb. 5 in Allen Field House between Phillips 66 and Vickers Oil Co. teams.
Dick Docking, 3rd year law student, Lawrence, will handle the sale of tickets on campus. He plans to go to organized houses. Tickets will cost $1,2, and $2.25.
All proceeds will go to the Kaw Valley Heart Assn. All seats are reserved, except the north and south bleacher sections.
Bob Kenney, 1954 KU alumnus and a member of the 1952 Olympic team, will play for Vickers. Dallas Dobbys, 1956 alumnus, and Bill Hougland, 1952 alumnus, will play for Phillips 66.
Western Civ. Test Deadline Saturday
World Government Mid-East Policy Upheld
Students who plan to take the Western Civilization examination Saturday, Jan. 12, must register in the registrar's office by noon Saturday, Jan. 5.
Students who do not register will not be allowed to take the examination. The examination will be given again in May and July.
By JOHN BATTIN (Daily Kansas City Editor)
(Daily Kansan City Editor)
Two professors upheld world government through international agencies Thursday night at the CCUN meeting, and Alfred Landon, governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937, upheld President Eisenhower's Middle East doctrine.
Landon Discusses Kansas Politics
By BOB LYLE
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Alf Landon, former governor of Kansas and unsuccessful Republican candidate for president in 1936, said last night that Fred Hall's virtual self appointment to the state Supreme Court means the 40-year-old politician is through politically in Kansas.
Mr. Landon commented before he spoke to the Collegiate Council for the United Nations in the Student Union. He participated in a discussion commemorating the centennial of the birth of Woodrow Wilson.
"I think Hall has just taken up the cloisters." Mr. Landon said.
"It would be my assumption that Hall is planning to make a career of being a jurist. I think he will make a fine justice. He has a good legal mind and will do a good job in my opinion."
Commenting on the rapid fire progression of events Monday in which Hall accepted the resignation of William Smith as chief justice of the Supreme Court and then accepted the court job after his own resignation as governor, Mr. Landon said he did not consider the action unorthodox.
"Things like that happen in politics,' Mr. Landon said.
A Surprise
He said he was surprised by the action in the closing days of Hall's lame duck administration and commented that he did not think Justice Smith was planning on retiring.
Commenting on a statement by Frank Thies, state Democratic chairman, that Mr. Hall's maneuver was an attempt to throw his own faction back into power. Mr. Landon said he saw no such scheme.
The former governor said he did not believe Mr. Hall might be thinking of using the court post as a lever for a return to state office.
"We haven't been in the habit of taking candidates for high state office from the Supreme Court in Kansas," Mr. Landon said.
Commenting on the recent statement by Warren Shaw, Topeka attorney, that he was planning to abandon politics, Mr. Landon said that new leaders will have to appear in the GOP on the state level.
"I think at the grass roots there is a lot of desire for new leadership in the Republican party and this may be the time," Mr. Landon said.
Close Ranks
"If Mr. Hall has removed himself from politics and Mr. Shaw has apparently done the same thing, this might be an opportunity for the Republicans to close their ranks before the next state elections.
He said he had not learned enough public reaction to accurately crystallize voter opinion on the turn of events.
Mr. Landon said he did not know whether the series of events would improve George Docking's chances for an unprecedented second term as a Democratic governor.
"That will depend on what his administration does and issues that develop in the future," the former governor said.
Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science, said the U. N.'s prestige is higher than ever as a result of Middle East developments. John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, said world government in Woodrow Wilson's time was an extremely difficult job.
The men spoke on the centennial of Woodrow Wilson's birth, Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, showed a 20-minute documentary movie on Mr. Wilson's life.
Expansion Of Truman Policy
Mr. Landon said President Eisenhower's Middle East doctrine is an expansion of the Truman containment policy.
The doctrine entails tremendous sacrifices on the part of the American people. Landon said, and added:
"It puts us in the position of policing the entire world, militarily and economically. It is a momentous and colossal decision for Congress and the American people. The only thing Congress can do is go through with it," Mr. Landon said.
"If Congress satisfies the proposal, it strengthens leadership of this government in the free world. Stand-by power may create the international police force or Army of the United Nations."
Prof. Sandelius said an outstanding trait of Woodrow Wilson was his devotion to government by discussion.
"He was liked by people. He mixed with politicians, and represented perhaps something of Teddy Roosevelt." Prof. Sandelius said.
Prof. Ise said that in some ways Woodrow Wilson was our greatest president and "knew what was going on."
"Wilson tried to bring the American ideal to the world. Some people say that was wrong. If we had joined the League of Nations, it might have been longer." Prof. Sandelius said.
Wilson Greatest President
"In managing the war, he did a good job, and after the war, he tried to get peace," Prof. Ise said. "But he shouldn't have agreed to the Versailles Treaty."
Prof. Ise said Mr. Wilson was the only man talking sense in Paris while Lloyd George was talking nonsense.
Staff Choice Time Similar
The University Daily Kansan staff last month voted to the second spot the anonymous Hungarian youth rebel in a pop of top newsmakers for 1956. Time magazine has voted the youth Man of the Year. He is symbolized on the cover of the Jan. 7 issue.
The youth sowed the seeds of rebellion in the minds of his fellow students which led to the Budapest rioting against Russian dictators.
"This man was seen to have shaken history's greatest despotism to its foundations," Time magazine says.
"The Man of the Year had many faces, but he was not faceless; he had many names, but he was not nameless," the magazine says.
"The Kremlin's current irresolution owes much to him. So does Communism's great loss of prestige around the world."