PARLONS FRANCAIS!—These are French speaking students conversing at one of the foreign tables at the Kansas Union Cafeteria. Other tables offer conversation in Spanish and German. From left are William Donoghue, associate professor of mathematics; Yvette Delbeke, Belgium graduate student; Colette Boyer, France special student; Birgitta Haglund, Sweden graduate student, and Pierre Bonnavau, France graduate student. (Daily Kansan photo)
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No. 90
Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1958
Leadership Day Set For Saturday
Ninety-five high school senior girls from Kansas and Kansas City, Mo. will invade the KU campus this weekend for the annual High School Leadership Day, Saturday, sponsored by AWS.
Martha A. Littrell, chairman of the AWS Steering Committee, said the purpose of the leadership day was "giving outstanding high school leaders a preview of the possibilities of university leadership and activities."
Ninety-five KU women will be hostess-guides.
This is the first year students outside Kansas have been invited. Representatives from 12 high schools in Kansas City, Mo. have been invited marking the beginning of a program of expansion.
Those arriving Friday night will be dinner guests in the freshman dormitories and will see the Big Eight talent show tryouts in Strong Auditorium.
Susan Frederick, AWS president, will welcome the students Saturday morning in the Kansas Union Kansas Room. Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women, will moderate a faculty panel on "Aspects of Leadership from a Faculty Viewpoint."
Other activities planned include a fashion show sponsored by the Jay Shop; a Mortar Board discussion moderated by Shirley Ann Stout, Lombard, Ill. senior; a discussion, "KU and I."
Apply Now For Photo Contest
If the KU entry wins the "Miss Kansas News Photographer" contest, she'll receive an expense-paid trip for herself and a chaperone to Minneapolis, Minn., to compete for the title of Miss National Press Photographer.
Candidates must be single and must never have been married. They must be between 18 and 25 on the day of the national competition, June 19, 1958.
Girls interested in learning more about the contest should meet in 207 Flint at 8 p.m. Thursday. Interviews and appointments for entry photographs will be made at this time.
Brad Sheafor, Topeka junior, has been named part-time administrative assistant to B. W. Tucker, executive director of the Kansas Council for Children and Youth with headquarters at the University of Kansas.
Student Named Council Aide
Murphy Involved In Kress Charge Of Interference
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, along with six other trustees of the Samuel K. Kress Foundation, a philanthropic institution, has been charged with an attempt to interfere in management affairs of S.H.Kress & Co.
The charges were made Friday at a meeting of the trustees in New York, which Dr. Murphy attended, by Rush H. Kress, chairman of the Kress store chain and president of the Kress Foundation.
Mr. Kress charged the trustees with "attacking and criticizing the policies" of the Kress board and "invited" them to resign.
The trustees, according to a Kress spokesman, had voted to solicit proxies for the Kress stockholders meeting in May and had decided upon four persons to be included in the list of seven directors to be elected at the meeting.
According to Mr. Kress, this action was in opposition to a "traditional concept" of non-interference by foundation trustees in company management.
ASC Discusses Big 8 Meeting
No Action On Conference; $500 Allotment Proposed
Further plans for a Big 8 National Affairs Conference were outlined to the All Student Council Tuesday night.
Ed Prelock, Cleveland, Ohio senior and member of the ASC committee to explore conference possibilities, asked members to consider a tentative $500 appropriation for KU's share of the conference expenses.
With this appropriation, the committee would write other Big 8 schools and ask them for contributions for the conference. The money would go for lecture fees for a nationally-known speaker and other conference expenses.
The council voiced approval of the appropriation idea, but no further action was taken.
Prelock said a tentative date of March, 1959 has been set for the conference. The central theme and guest speaker for the conference have not been decided.
New Committee Members
New Committee Members
In other action, the ASC approved appointed of three new disciplinary committee members. They are Creta Carter, Jennings, Steve Hill, Lawrence, and Douglas Scott, Ottawa, all juniors. They replace Ruth (Betsy) Shankland, Kansas City, Kan., junior, John Spainbauer, Kansas City, Mo., and Joy Yeo, Manhattan, seniors.
Jack Davis, Kansas City, Mo. junior announced panel members for the government week forum.
Miss Stout reported the curriculum committee would have a course evaluation after mid-semester exams. A branch of the committee has been formed for the College alone to act as an intermediary between the faculty and the ASC, she said.
Course Evaluation Planned
Religion-Mental Health Tie To Be Discussed
James McCain, president of Kan- State College, will be the featured speaker.
The panel will discuss "The Students' Role in Determining Their Educational Process."
The council discussed the meeting of the deans' advisory board and a report given to the guard by Registrar James K. Hitt, and approved a motion to recommend that the KU Film Series movie for Feb. 28 be rescheduled to avoid conflict with the Oklahoma University basketball game.
Panel members will be George Waggoner, dean of the College; Francis Heller, associate dean of the College, Sharon (Susie) Stout, Wichita junior, and John Zoellner, Tonganoxie senior.
The discussion will center on health and its psychological effect
"Man, His Mind, and God" will be discussed by a 3-man panel at 8 tonight in Bailey auditorium as part of Religious Emphasis Week. The discussion will center on the relation of religion with mental
Theatre Auditions Start Today
Twenty-six roles in three plays will be cast when the University Theatre holds its spring auditions from 7 to 10 p.m. today in the Green Room of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
Soviet leaders have not been
Prof. Laird, in an article he wrote for a governmental research publication, "Your Government," said although Soviet leaders are aiming for full time collectivized farming, they have lowered restrictions on private farming in hope of increasing production to meet the government quota. "Private farms" in Russia are the small landholdings of each peasant family in a collective farm village, he said.
It is speculated that as much as 10 per cent of Russia's food supply is produced on the two per cent of the land devoted to private enterprise, Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, said in a Daily Kansan interview Tuesday.
Students do not need previous acting experience to try out for University Theatre productions, said Gordon Beck, instructor of speech and drama.
The three plays and number of performers needed are "Robin Hood"—8 men, 2 women; "Don Juan in Hell"—3 men, 1 woman; and "Man and Superman"—8 men, 4 women.
'Russia Needs Capitalist Farming'
In the future, he said, even more of her food will come from this source.
He said the Soviet press complains that many peasants fail to do their
"Although 20 years have lapsed since materials have been available for making a direct judgment of the importance of private production, there is considerable evidence to indicate that peasant interest is still concentrated on the family enterprise." Prof. Laird said.
able to induce the peasants to get the most out of the collective fields." Prof. Laird said. "The peasants work harder on their own plots, because private farming offers a greater incentive."
share of work on the collective farms.
The original planners of collectivized farming had in mind a full-time farmer, he explained, but Stalin conceded one-half or one-fourth acre plots to each family.
In addition to their crop, families are allowed to keep a cow, two or three pigs, a few sheep and goats and an unlimited number of fowl and rabbits. Prof. Laird said.
"A large part of the nation's livestock, including most of the cows, are still privately owned," he said. "Free markets, the major outlet of private production, continue to thrive."
will also permit increased private production, which it is hoped will contribute more to the nation's supply of farm goods.
He said that Khrushchev proposed Jan. 22 reduce government machine tractor shops, around which collective farm operations have centered, making equipment available for individual, as well as collective, farming. He said recent tax revisions
"Unlike the United States, Russia is not plagued with an agricultural surplus. Restrictions were lowered with the obvious hope that private plots will contribute more to the nation's larder," he said.
"These new tactics have accompanied Khrushchev's attempts to catch up with the United States in per capita production of meat and milk." Prof. Laird said.
"Collective farm output has advanced, but not doubled, in the last 20 years. Despite the lowered restrictions, there are no grounds for predicting any reversal of full-time collective farming in the long run.
"In 1958, the Soviet leadership is perhaps as far as ever from finding the formula for ending private farming in Russia," Prof. Laird said.
On the panel are Dr. Paul W. Pruyser of the Menninger Foundation, Rev. Herbert P. Fritze, chaplain at Winter Veterans Hospital in Topeka, and Dr. M. Erik Wright, director of Clinical Psychological Services at KU.
Dr. Pruyser has special interests in neuro-psychological correlates, perception, thought, personality theory, and the relationships of psychiatry to theology and philosophy. He is a research associate to Dr. Karl Menninger.
Dr. M. Erik Wright, professor of clinical psychology, has research interests on the effect of hypnosis on time-space relations, psychosomatic behavior reactions, and the evaluation of psychotherapy. He has done work in mental health and guidance extension for children on the community level.
Rev. Fritze, a member of the Lutheran church, has had articles published on mental health and religion. He is a former Navy chapplain, and has been a chaplain in many hospitals.
John H. Patton, professor of religion, will be moderator.
"Skeptics Corner," self-explanatory discussion, will be the coffee hour topic to be led by Rev. Merton Rymph, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church in Wichita.
Weather
Freezing drizzle and light snow started in western Kansas today and was expected to spread as far eastward as central Kansas tonight. Eastern Kansas is expected to escape the drizzle, which will be confined to western and central Kansas tonight and into tomorrow.
Partly cloudy through Thursday. High yesterday near 30; low near 16; low this morning 9.