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—Kansan photo by Harry Elliott
A PAINTER AND HIS FRIENDS—Pictured is the Masterpiece of the Month on display at the Museum of Art. It is a work of the 17th century Flemish painter Gilles van Tilborgh.
Congressional Roundup
$20 Tax Cut Opposes Public, Humphrey Says
Washington —(U.P.)— Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey told the Senate Finance committee today that the Democrats' proposed $20 income tax cut for everybody, is contrary to public interest.
Mr. Humphrey said it is untrue that the administration has neglected "the little folks" as Democrats have charged.
There was strong belief that President Eisenhower will veto the overall tax bill if it goes to him with the taxcut provision in it.
The income tax reduction was tacked on as a rider to a bill to extend present corporation income tax rates and some excise tax rates scheduled to expire April 1.
Sen. George A. Smathers (D-Fla.) reported that Senate Democrats are seeking a compromise which would avoid a party split over the measure. Some Democrats have sided with the administration in opposing the income tax reduction.
Other Congressional developments:
Matusow—Two Congressional red hunters said they believed turn-about witness Harvey Matusow is lying to investigators as the Senate called Mr. Matusow back for more questioning. Sen. James O. East-and (D-Miss), chairman of the senate Internal subcommittee, and Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) of the house un-American Activities committee, said they are convinced Mr. Matusow told the truth when he first appeared before Congress and the courts linking a number of persons with communism.
Un-American—The House un-American Activities committee held its first public hearing of the year. It called John T. Gojack and Julia Jacobs, officials of the United Electrical Workers for questioning. The union was thrown out of the CIO in 1949 on charges it was controlled by the Communist party.
Atomic power—Rep. Carl T. Durham (D-N.C.) said that within the next five years atomic power plants will be developed to produce power as cheaply as any power produced by means of oil, coal, or even water power. Mr. Durham is chairman of the Senate-House Atomic Energy committee.
Recommendations—The Hoover commission came up with some more recommendations to cut government spending. It proposed that the government's vast medical program, particularly those for servicemen, be revised and curtailed; that some veterans hospitals be closed; and that new restrictions be placed on free hospital care for
KU Debaters Win Awards
Abraham Gorelick and Kenneth Irby, college freshmen, won four out of five rounds of debate. Gary Sick, college sophomore, and Don Ide, college junior, won three out of five rounds. No championships were awarded.
Gorelic and Irby debated the negative, and Sick and Ihde the affirmative on the question "Resolved: that the United States should extend diplomatic relations to the Communist government of Red China.
KU debate teams received superior awards at the Intercollegiate Debate and Discussion conference last Friday and Saturday at the University of Nebraska.
The three finalists in the ISA-sponsored "Sweetheart Swing" queen contest have been selected. They are Sheila Truell, fine arts sophomore, from Miller hall; Mara Hunt, senior vice president from Watkins hall, and Virginia Cross, college freshman, from Grace Pearson hall.
The winner will be announced during the internship of the dance Friday night in the Union. Names of the three finalists, who were selected from 19 candidates, were announced at a tea for the candidates yesterday afternoon at Sellards hall.
3 Finalists Chosen For "Swing" Queen
Gorelick and Sick also won superior ratings in discussion groups.
veterans whose alliments are not due to military service.
Schools—Informed sources said Senate Republicans were trying to work out a compromise with Democrats on President Eisenhower's $1,120,000,000 school program. Some Democrats have complained that Mr. Eisenhower's program doesn't meet the immediate needs for more school construction. Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.) has offered a bill of his own and predicts its passage.
Monday, February 28, 1955 University Daily Kansan
Bonn, Germany —(U.P.)— Vice Chancellor Franz Bluecher offered his resignation to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today in an open cabinet split over passage last night of the Paris arms treaties, a spokesman for Mr. Bluecher announced.
Adenauer Aide Resigns Post
The West German lower House (Bundestag) passed the arms treaties by resounding margins and thus put the future of Germany's promised new 12 division army squarely in the hands of the temperamental National Assembly of France.
But a related Franco-German agreement to put the coal-rich Saar under international control divided the nation and precipitated an open rebellion in Chancellor Adenauer's four-party coalition.
Mr. Bluecher is leader of the right wing of the Free Democrats (FDP) which voted against the Saar agreement. The tension between Chancellor Adenauer and the FDP reached a new high yesterday h e n e D P Charismat Daniel Dohn launched a personal attack against the Chancellor and accused him of "lying" on the Saar question.
Informed sources said Mr. Bluecheer's decision to quit was designed to touch off a showdown inside the FDP and result in Mr. Dehler's ouster as party chief.
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200 Hear Foreign Student Program
More than 200 persons heard the skits and band music presented by students from Germany, Austria, and the Saar at the International club dance Friday night.
Twelve students participated in the program, which caricatured student life both in Germany and the University.
Fisch, graduate. Pack also played an accordion solo.
The band played both during the program and for some of the dances which followed. Its members were e Rlisabeth Bennhold, graduate; Ludwig Pack, Thomas Treitel, graduate; Rudolf Hartmann, college special student, and Gerhard
A folk dance was performed by Brigitte Stolwitzer, graduate; Elizabeth Neubacher, graduate, and Hartmann.
Fisch organized the program and served as an entertaining master of ceremonies.
More than 53 years in the American league, the Athletics have finished in the first division 23 times while ending up in the second division 31 times, 18 of which were spent in the cellar.
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF BOOKS
You busy college people—you with your classes and your studying and your social activities and your three-legged races — it is no wonder that you have so little time for reading. I mean reading for the pure pleasure of it, not to cram for exams. It is a sad omission, and my heart goes out to you. I do, however, take comfort from the fact that the graduation season approaches. Many of you will soon leave the hurly-burly of college for the tranquility of the outside world. Oh, you'll love it on the outside! It is a quiet life, a gracious and contemplative life, a life of ease and relaxation, of plenty of time to enjoy the treasures of literature.
Sitting and rocking, my limpid brown eyes closed in reverie, a plume of white smoke curling lazily upward from my excellent Philip Morris cigarette. I remember a lovely and affecting book called Blood on the Grits by that most talented young Southerner, Richard Membrane Haw. It is a tender and poignant story of a sensitive Alabama boy who passes safely through puberty only to be devoured by boll weevils . . . A lovely and affecting book.
It is with you in mind that I sit now in my cane-bottomed rocker and close my kindly gray eyes and smoke a mellow Philip Morris cigarette and remember books that made me laugh and books that made me cry and, remembering, laugh and cry again. It is, I say, with you in mind that I sit thus and rock thus and close my kindly gray eyes thus and smoke a Philip Morris thus and laugh and cry thus, for I wish to recommend these lovely and affecting books to you so that you too may someday sit in your cane-bottomed rockers and close your kindly gray eyes and smoke a mellow Philip Morris and remember books that made you laugh and books that made you cry and, remembering, laugh and cry again.
I puff my splendid Philip Morris cigarette and close my dancing blue eyes and recall another book, a thrilling true adventure, lovely and affecting, called I Climbed Everest the Hard Way by Cliff Sherpa. Mr. Sherpa, as everyone knows, was the first man to reach the peak of Mt. Everest by tunneling from below. In his book he gives a lovely and affecting account of his trip, which was not as easy as it sounds, you may be sure.
I light another merry Philip Morris cigarette and close my lambent hazel eyes and recollect another book - Life on the Farm by Dick Woolly. This is a short book - only 55 words - and rather a dull one. It would not be worth mentioning here were it not for the fact that the author is a sheep.
I exhale a cloud of snowy white smoke from my bracing Philip Morris cigarette and shut my laughing green eyes and think of the vast, vast array of historical novels that have given me pleasure.
There is Blood on the Visor by Richard Membrane Haw (he who wrote the lovely and affecting Blood on the Grits). There is Cold Steel and Hot Flashes by Emmaline Prentiss Moulting. There is The Black Shield of Sigafoos by Wruth Wright. There is Four Quarts in a Galleon by William Makepiece Clambroth. There are many, many others, all lovely, all affecting.
But sitting here, drawing on my matchless Philip Morris cigarette, my saucy amber eyes closed tightly, I am thinking that the loveliest, most affecting of all historical novels is May Fuster's classic, I Was a Serf for the F.B.I. Mrs. Fuster, justly famed for her rich historical tapestries, has outdone herself in this tempestuous romance of Angela Bodice, fiery daughter of an entailedief, who after a great struggle rises to the lofty position of head-linesman to the Emperor of Bosnia and then throw it all away to lead the downtrodden peasants in a revolt against the mackerel tax. She later becomes Ferdinand Magellan.
But the list of fine books is endless, as you will soon discover who are about to leave the turmoil of the campus and enter into the serene world outside, where a man has time to read and rock and close his rakish taupe eyes and smoke good Philip Morris cigarettes.
$ \textcircled{c} $Max Shulman, 1955
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