unamrs State Historical Society
Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Tuesday, March 29, 1955
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No.118
POGO Platform Vows Aid to Student Welfare
The committee for political action of the Party of Greek Organizations has submitted its POGO platform for the student elections Wednesday, April 20. The platform follows :
Play to be Given After Vacation
The Studio theater production,
"Rivals in the School for Scandal," originally scheduled for tomorrow night has been postponed until the second week after spring vacation. The show, though, will go on tour April 12-18 to six Kansas towns.
Topeka — (U.P.)— A Republican controlled Kansas House of Representatives was to vote today on the issue of overriding the veto of GOP Governor Fred Hall.
At stake was the controversial right-to-work bill which the chief executive rejected yesterday with a stinging, eight-page message.
House to Vote On Hall's Veto
The House needed 84 votes—the necessary two-thirds constitutional majority—to move the bill alo
Storms of protest and praise followed Gov. Hall's veto action. The
Bulletin
Topeka—(U.P.)-The K an s a s House of Representatives today failed to override Gov. Fred Hall's veto of the controversial right-to-work bill.
The vote was 78 to override, 44 against. Thus the Chamber's attempt to write into law a ban against the closed shop in Kansas failed by six votes of achieving the required two-thirds constitutional majority of the House, 84 votes.
secretary of the Kansas Federation of Labor hailed the veto of "this obnoxious legislation, the 'right-to-work' labor unions."
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell in Washington said the Kansas governor had "demonstrated commendable courage."
in his veto message. Hall said the right-to-work bill "has only one real purpose—to ultimately destroy both the right of labor to organize and the principle of collective bargaining."
Hall called for enactment of pending labor relations measures which would ban secondary boycotts and jurisdictional strikes. It would also require notice of intent to strike and place any strike vote under supervision of the state labor commissioner.
Passed by the House, 66-45 and the Senate, 27-12, the bill would outlaw the union shop in Kansas by prohibiting any labor-management contract in which all the workers affected were required to belong to a union.
Gov. Hall said if this could not be done this session he would be willing to call a special session immediately following the budget session next year "for that purpose"
The governor said thousands of communications poured into his office regarding the controversial measure. But he said they showed "the people against this bill, two to one."
Of 27,328 communications received, the governor said 9,760 favored the bill while 17,570 were opposed.
I. Academic affairs;
1. To seek an improved University advisory system for all students, with emphasis to be placed on an investigation of the feasibility of a supplementary program using the services of qualified students as advisors.
II. Student welfare:
1. To initiate a positive campaign for the improvement of all housing involving married and unorganized students, placing emphasis on a system of strict inspection and approval of quarters by the University according to a reasonable standard of livability.
2. To begin a policy of action for a minimum wage for the students of this University. To work unceasingly with existing means and to formulate new approaches if necessary to carry this program through.
4. To recommend and work toward the establishment of a floating holiday during each semester.
3. To investigate the charge for the transfer of ID cards for football games made by the University and to strive vigorously for the discontinuance of this practice.
5. To redouble present efforts to secure the better seating at athletic facilities.
6. To investigate fully the disposition of funds received from fines assessed for campus parking violations, and zealously work to channel such fines into a fund for the construction of free student parking facilities.
III. Student Government:
1. To assure and insure not only the continued attendance at ASC meetings of members elected from this party, but also the continued efforts of these members to enact legislation beneficial to the student body collectively.
2. To propose that the legislation be provided requiring a compulsory report of finances and progress by all student publications managers to the ASC at regular intervals.
3. To recommend that there be an attendance fine for ASC meetings to be assessed from the party of the offender.
2. To support, and continue to practice, a party primary in which any member has the indisputable right to seek office and vote as he chooses.
1. To allow no legislation to be passed that would require affiliation to any campus political party in order to participate in elections, and to support wholeheartedly each students' right to freedom of political expression in elections and in the ASC.
IV. Student Rules:
VICTOR LANGE
Bomb Test Called 'Mightiest Blast'
Las Vegas, Nev.—(U.P.)T w o atomic bombs were exploded in a single day today for the first time in Nevada test history—one a whopper so powerful it split a ceiling 75 miles away, the other a "baby" air-burst of an undisclosed secret weapon in America's expanding nuclear arsenal.
First the Atomic Energy commission triggered in the pre-dawn darkness the mightiest blast of the 1955 testing, estimated as packing the punch of 25,000 tons of TNT, the kick of the bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This was from a 500-foot steel tower in the Nevada proving range at 4:35 a.m. Its shock wave, as though from a Vaselius eruption, roared 75 miles into Las Vegas and cracked a ceiling, the first report of A-bomb damage in the 1955 experiments.
Both experiments were labeled merely as "of primary interest" to the defense department, leading to speculation among veteran observers that the military either was testing new-type weapons or perfecting ones already past the prototype stage.
Six hours and five minutes later, an Air Force B-36 flying at 15,000 feet dropped a compact device in the "baby" A-bomb class. It burst at 10 a.m.
"Ma Pomme" a French language musical comedy starring Maurice Chevalier will be presented Wednesday, April 13 instead of tomorrow as reported in yesterday's Kansas. The movie will be shown in 426 Lindley.
We Goofed
German Poets Said To Be Preoccupied
Young German poets and writers are undergoing a period of literary absorption and therefore have not produced a great amount of modern prose and poetry, Victor Lange, head of the Cornell university department of German, said yesterday in the Student Union.
Dr. Lange, visiting Humanities lecturer, participated with Geoffrey Moore, visiting Rose Morgan professor, in an "open conversation" on contemporary American, German, and British literature. About 60 persons attended.
Dr. Lange said Germans who grew up in the Nazi interlude had not had the opportunity to read good German and European literature. Then after the war they were taken up with the absorption of what they had missed for 10 or 15 years, he added.
Dr. Moore said that when he was in Germany he was asked many times about T. S. Eliot and American novelists. He said he had expected new talent and an outburst of poetry in German as in America, but that it could not be found. Dr. Moore agreed that the lack apparently was due to an absorption.
Dr. Moore said he had expected a neo-romantic movement similar to that represented by the works of Dylan Thomas, but that for the most part, Germans had not heard of Mr. Thomas. Dr. Lange said the works of Mr. Thomas are just now being translated.
Discussing modern trends in literature, chiefly "neo-romanticism", Dr. Lange said there is an amazing difference in what is considered good or bad literature. What is good in one country is by no means what is always considered good in another country, he said. He said Guy de Maupassant, from the French point of view, is not considered a particularly great author, but he is generally thought of as great in other parts of the world.
Shooting the Rapids
Dr. Lange said the Germans probably would say that Upton Sinclair is the best American writer. He said the Germans seem to have an unwillingness to accept the straight-forward. To them, poetry must be metanhysical, he said.
Dr. Moore said, the Germans ask, "What is the philosophy behind poetry?" Writing poetry is not writing philosophy, he said. T. S. Eliot himself has said that there is no particular philosophy behind his poetry.
Dr. Lange described contemporary German literature as often bordering on the brutal. He gave the German poet, Berthold Brecht, as an example. He said Brecht, a Communist, uses ordinary speech in a satirical and savage manner. He writes a conversational type of poetry. Dr. Lange said.
About 29 minutes of the "open conversation" were tape-recorded for a later radio broadcast.
River Lures 'Frank Bucks'
Float down the Colorado? How does that sound for a different way to spend spring vacation?
Nine men students will spend eight days and seven nights on the turbulent Colorado river over the spring vacation.
By HOWARD STURDEVANT
Tom Ryther, college senior,
instigated the trip and has been the
chief organizer. Others making the
tripe are Harlan Parkinson, Don
Sifers, and Larry Trebair, college
seniors; Ed Miller and Les Wenger,
business seniors; Paul Enos, college
junior; Bruce Wenger, business
junior, and Jim Steerman, college
freshman.
The Colorado is one of the most dangerous rivers in the world, but, in the section from Hite to Lee's Ferry, the rapids are not too vicious.
The Glen canyon will provide interesting rock formations for the geologists in the party. In true Frank Buck fashion, the group is taking two movie cameras. Tretbar has been designated as the official photographer.
When asked if he had any qualms about the possible danger of the trip, Harlan Parkinson said, "The trip isn't as rugged as we sound and it's more exciting, and will have a lot to tell about it. We're taking along a Geiger counter and we hope to get in a little prospecting."
The adventurers will leave Lawrence Friday and hope to be on the way down the river Sunday morning. Plans call for them to be off the river the following Sunday evening.
The point of embarkation will be at Hite, Utah, 250 rugged, river miles down Glen Canyon to Lee's Ferry, Ariz., the finish spot. Lee's Ferry is at the eastern end of the Grand Canyon and about 200 miles above Lake Mead, which is formed by Hoover Dam.
The men will travel in two, fivemen, flat-bottomed rowboats. The tenth man will be an experienced boatman on the Colorado who will point out places of interest and also act as chief cook.
AWS Lists 113 As Freshman Counselors
The AWS sophomore counseling committee has chosen 113 freshmen women to serve as counselors for new freshmen next year. The counselors will write to incoming freshmen women during the summer and counsel them during the school year.
The counseling position is the highest honor the AWS gives to freshmen women, who are chosen on a basis of personality. The new counselors were announced by skips at freshmen houses Monday night.
Shirley Andrish, Carolyn Bailey,
Delpha Battle, Joanne Beal, Carol
Bentrup, Shirley Bowman, Marv
Brown, Roxie Brown, Elizabeth
Burke, Judith Carr, Margaret Chelia-
lnna, Norma Coker, Jane Cornick,
Barbara Cranor, Virginia Cross,
Connie Curnut, Dorna Daise, Jane
Danielson, Betty Jo Davis, Sheryl
Davis, Connie Deal.
Mary Eckles, Carol Ekland, Marilyn Elledge, Sally Evans, Jo Ann Fish, Mary Flora, Barbara Frager, Susan Frederick, Virginia Fuller, Louvenia Fulbright, Janet Gaines, Mary Gallaher, Lynne Gerlach, Shirley Gerken, Phylis Graham, Ruth Guy, Diane Guyot, Virginia Hancock, Janet Hanneman, Barbara Hauck, Dianne Hays, Gayle Hoefener, Carol Hill, Susan House, Sharon Hudson.
Cynthia James, Sandra James,
Donna Jasper, Jane Johnson, Judith
Jones, Joyce Klemp, Betty Kogel,
Sara Lawrence, Harriet Latimore,
Mary Lauterbach, Megan Lloyd,
Nancy McDonald, Sammy Marble,
Maryalice McIntosh, Susan Mc-
Creaty, Marjorie Mahoney, Velda
Marcum, Margaret Mealing, Annette
Nelson, Marilyn Nelson, Laura
Noell, Gretchen Nordstrom.
Andrea Paul, Marilyn Perrin,
Polly Peppercorn, Anne Proctor,
Ellen Proudfit, Mary Pugh, Sue Ann
Reeder, Sally Rice, Elaine Schoop,
Anne Schowalter, Kay Shaughnessy, Nancy Shaver, Mollie Stemper,
Carole Stucky, Susanne Szgwick,
Vera Stough, aneth Schmalzried, Karmin Twigg, Jane Vaughn.
Sue Walling, Janice Wright,
Wanda Welliever, Beth Wright,
Karen Waser, Shirley Ward, and
Suzanna Wallingford, all college
freshmen.
Jeaneen Cook, Barbara Craig, Dee Ann Daniels, Kathryn Ehlers, Joan Gavin, Jane Harrison, Barbara Holt, Saundra Kellogg, Sheila Nation, Ellen Paulson, Marily Reeder, Pat Sterett, Sandra Steele and Barbara Teas, fine arts freshmen.
Mary Laird and Priscilla Schartz, engineering freshmen; Judith Berg and Karen Carlson, pharmacy freshmen, and Nancy Fujisaki, education freshman.
Gibson Undergoes Operation Today
Dr. Hilden R. Gibson, chairman of the University human relations department, is undergoing brain surgery todav at the University of Kansas Medical center. He is expected to be on the operating table until late this afternoon.