SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
46th Year, No. 11
Friday, July 18, 1958
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Chancellor Notes Russian Advances
By ROBERT LYNN (Of The Summer Kansan Staff)
The Soviet Union has made vast technological and educational advances in the last 40 years, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said in a press conference Wednesday. He went on to say his basic impression is we are in World War III now.
Chancellor Murphy returned Tuesday from a 6,000-mile trip in the Soviet Union. While there he and a group of top U.S. educators visited a group of Soviet universities including institutions in Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Samarkand, and Alma-Ata.
"The Soviets have made education their latter day religion. They believe training and education are the answer to the battle of the twentieth century."
"There is definite evidence that the Russians have set out to be the most articulate people in the world," he said "They have spent approximately 200 million dollars in the last nine years and construction is still under way. Only in the humanities and social studies does America still hold a clearcut and probably unassailable lead."
"The American people are not aware of the movement forward by the Russians in the field of literacy. Forty years ago most of the Soviet Union was illiterate. Today every child gets at least seven years of schooling. In 1965, they plan to give every youngster at least ten years of schooling." Chancellor Murphy said.
The chancellor said the teacher is a person of honor in the Soviet Union. He is as highly paid as anyone in the country. A top university professor may receive as much as $2,000 per month. Next to the Council of Ministers, which is the ruling body of the Soviet Union, the Academy of Sciences in the most influential body in the Soviet government.
When asked his impression of the Soviet Union, Chancellor Murphy said, "I get the feeling that the Soviet Union is a totally mobilized country heading in one direction. They are preparing to go into battle. However, this is not battle in the traditional sense. Their battle is being fought in the field of economics and education.
"They have convinced themselves that they are going to win the battle of the twentieth century. The people of the Soviet Union get the same kind of satisfaction out of a rise in steel production that the American college student gets when he hears that an All America quarterback is coming to his university."
"While I concur fully with Allen Dulles when he said, 'You can't take a country of 200,000 people and lift them up by their educational bootstraps without raising curiosity about the world in general,' I do not think there will be a violent revolution in Russia. After all, the people of the Soviet Union are better off than they ever have been before. I don't think they will destroy all they have achieved simply to gain more 'freedom' in the American sense of the word."
"My basic impression is that the United States is in World War III right now. One half the American people don't know we are in it and the other half don't know what ground it will be fought on.
FRANKLIN D. MURPHY
"Americans have a naive view of the world and insist on judging it from our own circumstances. It is my desperate hope that our nation can, within personal freedom, develop new fervor and capture the feeling that there are new frontiers to conquer.
"These frontiers lie in education and technological advances. The question of the twentieth century is whether or not we can catch such a fervor in a free state as Russia has in a totalitarian state. If we are to do so we certainly must be honest with ourselves."
New Voice Teacher Has Professional Experience
The appointment of Mrs. Miriam Stewart Hamilton as assistant professor of voice was announced Friday by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
A soprano, Mrs. Hamilton has had extensive professional experience, having sung with the New York City Center Opera Company throughout the United States and Canada.
Over the NBC, ARC and Mutual radio networks from New York, Chicago and San Francisco she has been heard on such programs as Operatic Revue, The Chicago Theater of the Air and Great Moments in Music.
Mrs. Hamilton appeared as the Countess in "Song of Norway" in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. She has been soloist on several
occasions in Chicago's Grant Park concerts. She has made recordings and performances with the Cleveland, St. Louis, Dallas, Kansas City, Chicago and Oklahoma City symphony orchestras.
Considerable cloudiness today. Scattered showers and thunderstorms west and north portions. Slow warming trend today. High today 80 north to 90 south.
She is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and has taught at the University of Illinois, the College of the Pacific and Albion College.
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Middle East Violence Involves U.S., Russia
Telfel Memorial Fund Announced
Creation of the Emil L. Telfel Memorial Student Loan Fund in journalism was announced today by Charles G. Pearson, Sunday editor of the Topeka Daily Capital and chairman of the committee.
Initial contributions, mostly from students taught by the late journalism teacher in his 12 years here, total nearly $500. The Greater University Fund is receiving gifts, which will be maintained as a separate trust by the Endowment Assn.
Prof. Telfel, who died last March, was known as a "newspaperman's newspaperman" throughout Kansas and many parts of the nation.
"Because his first concern always was to instill in his students the rigidly high standards essential to good journalism, he will never be forgotten by those fortunate enough to have studied under him," said Mr. Pearson who was a former colleague on the journalism faculty.
Other members of the memorial committee are Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information; Alvin S. McCoy, The Kansas City Star; Dolph Simons, Lawrence Daily Journal-World; Stanley H. Stauffer, Topeka State Journal; Mary Turkington, Topeka, The Kansas Transporter; and Kent Pelz, Class of 1958 and former chairman of the Kansan Board.
Patton To Speak To Group
Dr. John Patton, professor of religion and director of Westminster Foundation, will speak to the Ecumenical Student Fellowship on "Zenn Buddhism—A Modern Revival of Ancient Religion" at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Westminster House.
Colodny Calls Marine Troop Landing 'Pure Folly'
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to order American troops into the strife-torn Middle East earlier this week has produced a chain reaction of military and political activity on both the West and Communist fronts including the maneuvering of Russian troops near the borders of Turkey and Iran.
French naval units and the U. S. sixth fleet arrived in Beirut Thursday.
Landing within 24 hours of the announcement of new violence in Iraq, the Marines were ordered ashore to protect the sovereignty and integrity of the Lebanese government from "indirect aggression" by external forces. President Eisenhower stated that the show of military force was justified under the United Nations charter and that the American Marines would occupy Lebanese soil only until the U.N. could take "effective measures" to insure a peaceful settlement of the civil dispute.
Summoned into emergency session, the Security Council of the U.N. treated the American military intervention coolly. Secretary-General Dag Hammerskjold responded to the appeal of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge for an armed world police force from the U.N. members with the report of a 100-man observer group in Lebanon. The observers, acting as watchdogs on the infiltration of the Lebanon-Syrian border by men and supplies for the reinforcement of rebel forces in Lebanon, announced that the border had been effectively sealed and therefore there was no need to send a police force.
Soviets Demand Withdrawal
Soviet Ambassador Arkady Sobolov, speaking in the U.N. as his foreign ministry in Moscow, was officially demanding the immediate withdrawal of Marines, said, "American troops have absolutely no right to be in Lebanon, whatever excuses may be invoked to justify their arrival there."
ON THE WAY OUT—FTC M. M. Martz leaves the Navy after 22 years. From left—Lt. Joseph Simmons, GMC Leslie Evans, FTC D. W. Darby, QM1 J. J. Quinlan, GM1 W. E. Peiffer, Martz, SK1 J. L. Tatum, M Sgt. Thomas Jones, YNC C. J. Haren, Lt. C. C. Swanke, LCDR M. C. Lee, and Capt. K. M. Krieger. (Photographic Bureau photo)
ROBERT G. COLODNY
Effects of the action of the United States were felt in other countries, also. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd reported that his government is solidly behind U.S. intervention in Lebanon. Thursday British paratroopers landed in Jordan to back King Hussein's campaign to crush the Iraq rebels.
Jordanian Ambassador A b d u l
Moneim Fifth announced Thursday that the United States had accepted Jordan's request for direct military aid but there were no plans to send U.S. troops into Jordan at that time.
Former President Harry S. Truman said that President Eisenhower "had no other choice" but to land troops in the Middle East. "The peace of the world is at stake," Mr. Truman said.
Professor Gives His View
In an interview with the Summer Kansan, Robert C. Colodny, visiting associate professor of history, said that the landing of troops in Lebanon to quell the disturbance in Iraq was "pure folly."
"To intervene in the Middle East is to run the risk of mobilizing Arab feeling against the United States, regardless of the geopolitical justification of the action," Prof. Colodny said.
"There is an alternative to military occupation in effecting a solution to Lebanese unrest. A political compromise between the government of President Chamoun and the rebel leaders in the selection of candidates for the September 23 Lebanese elections could satisfy both the nationalistic ambitions of the rebels and maintain a form of government," Prof. Colodny said.