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Cosmos IN THIS ISSUE: Are Coe students intellectually lazy? Page 2. Eeader objects to closing of grill and library during chapel in letter to editor. Page 2. Delta Phi's win intramural title. Page 3.

VOL. LXIL No. IS COE COLLEGE, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA Thursday, February 28, 1952 Five Vie for 'Most Eligible Bachelor Title Coe's Town Meeting To Be Aired Tuesday Socialist Leadei Norman Thomas Will Participate By Win Watson Norman Thomas, presidential candidate on the Socialist ticket since 1928, has been selected as one of the speakers on "America's Town Meeting of the Air" to be held at Sinclair Memorial chapel Tuesday at 8 p.m. Thomas and another speaker, not announced at press time, will discuss the topic, "American Aid to Asia Strengthened Communism." Quincy Howe, noted editor, author and radio commentator, will serve as moderator for the forum. Broadcast Nationally Sponsored by Coe and the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, the "Town Meeting" is being held here in connection with Coe's Centennial celebration.

The broadcast will be carried nationally by the American Broadcasting company network whose regional affiliate is station KXEL in Waterloo. The program Mill broadcast from 8 to 8:45 p.m. The pre-broadcast warmup will begin at 7:15 p.m. Widely known as a keen and economic thinker, Thomas appeared in Cedar Rapids a few years ago and was popularly rerrived at his lecture here. Receiving his A.

B. degree from I Princeton in 1905, Thomas was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian church in 1911. Following years devoted to the rlonry, Thomas' interest turned to politics. Twice a candidate for mayor of New York City on the Socialist ticket, he was candidate for governor of New York in 1924. Noted Author Co-editor of numerous publications, Thomas has written many books including: "Human Explor- tatimv' "What Is Our Destiny," and "Socialism on the Defensive." Howe, author of several books and editor of several magazines, 'Mikado 1 To Be First Production On Chapel Stage "The Mikado," a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, directed by Prof.

Keith Broman, will be presented in the Sinclair Memorial chapel March 7 and 8. New stage equipment in the chapel will be used for the first time for operetta production. The final stage construction is scheduled to be completed by that time. The cast stars Jasper King as the Mikado, Ted Kasner as Nanki- Poo, Don Elfstrom as Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner), Wilford Taylor as Pooh-Bah, Bill Raitt as Pish- Tush, Ann Brooks (March 7) and Kay Paine (March 8) as Yum- Yum, Shirley Brooks as Pitti-Sing, Margaret Mach as Peep-Bo, and Sally Carringer (March 7) and Joe Anne Kubik (March 8) as Katisha. A chorus of school girls and nobles will be played by the college choir.

The original D'Oyly Carte Opera company version will be used throughout the production. Costumes, stage guide, and scenery will be obtained from the Tracey Music Library in Boston, who are agents for the opera company. The Coe orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Joseph Kitchin, will furnish accompaniment. Miss Edna Dieman will be in charge of the dances and Miss Jeanette Ringland will assist with book and recently became of the school of guest professor journalism and communications at the University of Illinois.

Town Meeting" is currently completing its seventeenth year of regular broadcasting, having aired over 600 programs during thai period. All tickets for the broadcast been distributed since Tuesday. Film Industry To Be Of Chapel Talk Prof. Stephen Joseph, lecturer on the British film, wiU use Britain's moving picture industry as his topic in a speech Thursday, March 6 at 10 a.m. in Sinclair Memorial chapel.

Prof. Joseph was graduated with honors, in English literature at the University of Cambridge, and is at present studying for his doctorate in dramatics at the State University of Iowa. Mr. Joseph has lectured on the I British film at summer schools for American and foreign students at the University of London, and has spent some time directing theatre productions in the smaller towns of Great Britain. He directed at the Fine Arts Festival in Edinburgh last summer.

"MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR" candidates look their best for AWS members who will vote for their favorite Saturday night at the Leap Year Hop. Left to right they are: Jim Galvin, Tau Kappa Epsilon; Wayne Fisher, Delta Phi Epsilon; Chuck Metcalf, Esquire; Jack Peters, Lambda Chi Alpha; and Bill Raitt, Phi Kappa Tau. (Photo by George Henry) Non-Conformity Is Road To Ideal Society: Walsh An ideal society can only be established through non-conformity, Dr. Chad Walsh, associate professor of English literature at Beloit college, told Coe students in chapel Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Sinclair Memorial chapel.

Speaking on "The Importance of Being Maladjusted," Dr. Walsh appeared as guest speaker during Religion in Life week. A person must be an individualist and a non-conformist instead of "living like the Jones family in order to accomplish something during his Dr. Walsh said if social adjustment means fitting ourselves into society as it is today, "square pegs must change into round ones and people will have to live like the Jones' to be socially adjusted." This idea, he said, is foolish and dangerous. People are not born human beings, but become human during their life, Dr.

Walsh said. He urged his audience to become human beings by being socially maladjusted and not by conforming with society as it is now. "If you decide to become socially maladjusted, you will get into trouble with the Jones' but A Life of Science Is Compton's By Mart Gates A sharp disagreement with natural history at the age of eight set Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, chancellor of Washington university and a slated participant in Coe's Human Freedom Symposium, on tnc rocky road to research. that age he set out to dis- PrcK the theory that African ele- Pta.iis have three toes and Indian i-lephants have five.

He com- Plcloiy reversed the "learned 0l ideas at that time. Compton is a member of a family. His father was a iriMtyterian clergyman and long- unu professor of philosophy and Psy-hoiogy at Wooster college, his Karl was president of the -achusetts Institute of Tech- for 18 years and today is TM a of the governmental and Development board, hls Bister Mary heads her own school and another rni her, Wilson, is a lawyer and at George Washington university. All three Compton sons grad- with Phi Bete Kappa hoa- Dr. Arthur Compton ors from Wooster, received Ph.

D's from Princeton and are listed In Who's Who in America. Teen-age preoccupation with building flying gliders and an as- tronomical clock, publishing articles on aeronautics, and photographing Halley's comet helped him invent a patented gyroscopic device for airplane control at Wooster. Dr. Compton received the Nobel prize in 1927 for his work on X- Rays. With an apparatus so sensitive it could have measured one ten millionth of the energy of a mosquito climbing an inch of screen, he brought forth the "Compton effect," which showed that X-rays act like solid particles when scattered by reflection from atoms.

He came Into the public eye between 1931 and 1934 when he directed a world-wide study of cosmic rays. Dr. Compton also discovered the method of determining the earth's rotation and he initiated and directed development of the first atomic chain reactor. He was also instrumental in the first quantity production of pluto- niurn. He also has served as director of the government's metal(See COMPTON, 4) you will live a fully human life.

And when you arrive at 60 years of age you won't regret the decision." The apparent profit gained inrongn maiaojusuneni, ne saia, will be the satisfaction of accomplishment in actual progress made towards developing an ideal society. "If you desire to be a socially adjusted round peg, the Jones family will like you and you won't be up for a congressional investigation, but you will ask yourself at the age of 60: Have I really lived?" An informal discussion with Dr. Walsh, held in the grill Tuesday evening, attracted many students. Questioned as to who would constitute a non-conformist at Coe, he said: "A book-worm and a scholar would be maladjusted because he does not conform with the average campus group." The discussion also covered the theory of evolution and various Biblical scriptures. Districts Named Foi Mock Vote Coe students, faculty and administration have been classified into five districts for the mock presidential election March 13, according to Dr.

Richard Spencer, professor of political science. Candidates have been assigned to the districts for single district voting. Town students living north of First avenue have been designated district one and will have Guy Gillette and Earl Warren as candidates. Students living south of First avenue will form district two and will vote upon Bonrke Hickenlooper and Eleanor Roosevelt Voorhees hall, district three, will have for candidates Margaret Chase Smith, and Adlai Stevenson, while Greene hall, district four, will vote upon three choices, Harold Stassen, Dwight Eisenhower and Estes Kefauver. West hall, Marquis court, commuting students and the faculty and administration have been combined into district five.

Candidates in this district will be Robert Taft, Harry Truman and Norman Thomas. Ballots will be counted and results analyzed publicly in Hickok hall the evening of the election. AWS To Hold Leap Yeai Hop Saturday Night Coe's most eligible bachelor will be crowned Saturday night at the AWS turnabout dance, the "Leap Year Hop," to be held in the women's field house from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Candidates for the title of king are representatives of the four fraternities and Esquire. They are: Wayne Delta Phi Epsilon; Jim Galvin, Tau Kappa Epsilon; Chuck Metcalf, Esquire; Jack Peters, Lambda Chi Alpha; and Bill Raitt, Phi Kappa Tau.

Girls will vote for their choice of king at the dance and the winner will be announced during He will be presented a trophy with "Coe's Most Eligible Bachelor of 1952" printed on it Also at intermission Myra Moj- dara will present a dance and a play will be enacted called "Behind the Walls of Voorhees," showing how a boy is asked to a turnabout dance. Scene I views a group of coeds planning the date. In Scene II the girls call for their dates and the final scene takes place after the date. Greene hall Resident Director John A. Wellington will portray "Marrying Sam" at the dance and sell fake marriage licenses priced according to the boy's weight.

The wedding ceremony will be read by Mr. Wellington too, if the couple wishes. Girls will call for their dates and present them with home made corsages. The dance is to be a dress up affair ana no aa- mission will be charred. Chaperones for the affair include Dr.

and Mrs. Robert V. Drexler, Dr. Alice Salter and Dr. and Mrs.

Alfred W. Meyer. in Planning To Reorganize Student Council Plans to reorganize the Student Council to make it more effective in carrying out the wishes of the student body are underway, President George Reinbacber said today. The addition of the president of the house councils, Alpha Phi Omega, AWS, Pan Hellenic and Interfraternity councils and the dining room committee chairman as Council members are being considered. These organizations are not at present directly represented on the Council and because they occupy vital campus positions, Reiribacher said, it was the general opinion that their addition to the Council would be beneficial.

The Council membership would be increased to 30 members by the proposed additions. Reinbacher said the Council would still be small enough to be effective, and at the same time more students would be represented and the efforts of all these groups would be co-ordinated. The Council could follow the work of these organizations and support them if they need assistance, he added. The Student Council must approve these additions first, and then the student body must vote on them as an amendment to the Council constitution. Sixty per cent of the student body must approve the amendment before it will go into effect.

'Reunion'Will Be Presented Tonight "Reunion," a one act play and the culmination of on-the-eam- pns Religion in Life week activities, will be presented tonight at 7 pjn. in the Little theater. No admission will be.