Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 134
Friday. May 3. 1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Discussing the topic, "The Scholar, a Personal Nobleman." R. Q Brewster, professor of chemistry, said last night the problem confronting the nation today is how to get more scholars.
R. Q. Brewster
Brewster Calls For Scholars
By Dolores Orman
Speaking at the Chemistry Department's annual spring honors banquet he said some scholarship is passed on from generation to generation like the old nobility.
Money is not the sole answer in getting more scholars, he said. "Money enables you to develop scholarships, not produce it," said Prof. Brewster.
Brewster compared the ideal scholar to the group of eight elements in the Periodic Table.
He compared this group of elements with the less desirable "zero" group of elements which he described as lazy.
"THESE ELEMENTS are not tarnished by being combined with other groups. They are superb catalysts and activate everything they come in contact with," he explained.
"You must find a way to make them combine with other elements. A boy or girl who has inherited a good mind should develop
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The weather bureau predicted tonight's lows will be between 55 and 60 degrees.
Weather
Another east-west front is expected to anchor over northern Kansas tonight, bringing the possibility of additional moisture again early tomorrow.
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI) — Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma rushed back to the Plain of Jars today for another meeting with Communist leaders in the improving Laotian situation.
Laos Neutralist Talks With Reds
Souvanna arranged further talks with Prince Souphanouvong, head of the Communist Pathet Lao faction which has been fighting neutralist forces on the plain.
Reliable sources said the International Control Commission (ICC), which is charged with supervising the Laotian truce, established an inspection team at Pathet Lao military headquarters in Khang Khay to head off further fighting.
Diplomatic observers viewed this as an encouraging development. They attributed it to the efforts of ICC Chairman Avtar Singh of India, supported by Britain as one of the co-chairmen of the Geneva Conference on Laos. Russia is the other co-chairman.
NO FIGHTING HAS been reported for more than a week.
The Geneva Conference, which set up the ICC, agreed last summer to guarantee Laos' independence and neutrality and established Souvana's coalition government of rightists, neutralists and leftists.
THE ICC ALREADY had an inspection team at Muong Phanh, headquarters of Gen. Kong Le's neutralist army on the Plain of Jars. Yesterday's action was the first time the commission had been allowed by the Pathet Lao to set up a team in Communist-held territory.
Western diplomatic observers said the success of the team's operation would depend on the cooperation of the Pathet Lao. They expressed doubts that the team would be permitted to operate effectively.
The ICC established an inspection team at Xiang Khouang soon after the signing of the Geneva accords last year. This town is in the same general area but it was then under joint Pathet Lao and neutralist control. The team later was dissolved.
Bosch Wants OAS Action
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic —(UPI)— President Juan Bosch, threatening to invade Haiti if it commits any new aggression against the Dominican Republic, today sought collective Inter-American action against Haitian President François Duvalier.
Bosch called Duvalier "a mentally sick man" last night and cited a statement Wednesday by the Haitian President that only God could remove him from power.
A fact-finding team of the Organization of American States (OAS) flew to Santo Domingo from the Haitian capital of Port Au Prince yesterday, leaving behind a country gripped by fear that Duvalier would resume a violent campaign against his enemies.
BOSCH TOLD foreign correspondents in his presidential residence last night that the Dominican Republic would not wait for OAS action in the event of renewed Haitian aggression.
"The next time Haiti commits aggression against us, we will tell the OAS what our course of action has been, not from the Dominican capital but from the capital of a neighboring nation," he said.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
**BOSCIF'S STATEMENT** indicated Dominican forces would invade Haiti and try to crush Duvalier's autocratic regime.
The Dominican President said he would act if Haiti committed "any aggression against any Dominican citizen, interest or place, a plot against our government—any activity dedicated to prejudice the Dominican Republic, its interests or its nationals."
He said his government will ask the OAS for a collective break with Haiti under provisions of the RIO Treaty of Inter-American Defense which already has been invoked by the OAS in sending the fact-finding team to Haiti to study Dominican charges.
"We will make the request as soon as the investigative committee reports." Bosch said.
HE SAID he would like to see the OAS proclaim a state of Inter-American emergency over Haiti and promise support for a democratic Haitian government, thus helping the Haitians to get rid of Duvalier's regime.
The dispute erupted last weekend when Haitian troops hunting opponents of Duvalier were reported to have entered the Dominican embassy in Port Au Prince in violation of international norms.
Bosch said the OAS should act in Haiti for the same reason that it broke with the government of late Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo: "Because Duvalier is a threat to the peace of the continent."
WITH THE arrival of the OAS team in Port Au Prince Tuesday, Haitian authorities were believed to have made a special effort to conceal signs of repression. But newsmen coming here from Port Au Prince said the streets and highways in and around the capital were constantly patrolled by armed troops.
U. S. officials in Washington estimated that one-third of the Haitian officers corps had been purged by Duvalier in the last 10 days, indicating a severe blow to military groups opposing the President.
Drama Chorus Runs Literary Gamut
By Margaret Cathcart and Ken Lewis
and Kay Jarvis
The five-man Kansas University Drama Chorus performance at the Poetry Hour yesterday ran the gamut from nonsense rhyme to a frightening end-of-the-world prose selection.
Those participating in the program included Michael Fisher, Wichita freshman; Nikki Lewis, Overland Park sophomore; Stephen Butler, Cedar Rapids, Iowa freshman; Kaye Stevenson, Cape Girardeau, Mo., senior, and Allen Hazlett, Topeka freshman. Roxann Beihl, assistant instructor of speech and drama, directs the group.
The nonsense rhyme, "Parsnips" by Walt Kelly was a practice in pronunciation and diction executed with a carefree flair.
"A Casual Approach to Violence" bemoaned man's unconcern with the growing emphasis society places on violence today. The "Violence" piece, adapted from a Norman Cousin article, represented a smooth integration of dialogue, verse and song. The group enjoyed favorable audience response because of this smooth integration.
IN THE COUSIN adaption the choral group incorporated a civil defense song with their prose description of a kindergarten air-raid drill. There were a few rough spots in the violence
Photo by Gale Quinsey
SUPER SALESMAN——Michael Fisher, Wichita freshman, struggles with a gullible buyer, Allen Hazlett, Topeka freshman, in a reading of "The Hebub and the Grinch." That reading was part of a Kansas University Drama Chorus performance at the Poetry Hour yesterday.
selection when the group tried to contrast "America the Beautiful" and the "Star Spangled Banner." The audience became preoccupied with helping the singers over the rough spots.
In an earlier selection, "The Hebub and the Grinch," light dialogue was effectively used to depict the struggle between a gullible buyer, read by Hazlett, and a super salesman, read by Fisher.
"Dreams Deferred," by Langston Hughes, presented the trials and tribulations of a minority group.
Again the presentation was executed through dialogue, verse and rhythm, with excellent emphasis given by Allen Hazlett through repetition of the chorus.
THE PROGRAM ended on a morbid note with "Epistle to be Left in the Earth" by Archibald MacLeish. The reading concerned the contents of a letter to be left behind when the world comes to an end. This closing piece lacked the effectiveness of the earlier pieces. The individual performers lacked strong images and imparted little emotional impact with this last selection.
The group's next performance will be Saturday, May 11, at the Experimental Theatre. They will be sponsored by the National Collegiate Players.