Page 3
Lectures, Conferences Beneficial, Poll Shows
When posed with the question, "What value are the myriads of conferences, lectures, and programs sponsored by various departments on the Hill to the average student?" ten students in a Daily Kansan spot survey were in agreement that they were beneficial.
University Daily Kansan
The survey was taken this morning to find student opinion on whether the credits of these extra-curricular activities balanced the debits.
Foreign student Manuel S. Reyes graduate in chemistry, was in agreement with the majority of Americans in emphasizing that the average student just didn't have time to attend the myriad activities.
Other student's statements were:
Gary Grose, college freshman,
"We should strike a happy medium.
To many would certainly not be good."
Edward Bartlett, journalism senior,
"Any meeting that is called and in which something is accomplished—the more the better."
Steve Schmidt, college freshman,
"If everyone is working for a common goal, then they are valuable. A student gets out of them exactly what he puts into them, but unless they affect him directly, they are of little benefit to the average student."
Jody Hamilton, college sophomore, "I imagine they would be of benefit if students had time to attend any of them."
James Hoffman engineering sophomore, "Most conferences fold little interest for the general body of students—like convocations."
Carol Marshall, college junior. "There hasn't been much interest brought out through organized houses."
Bill Nesbitt, college freshman, "I am not too interested personally, but I do think they are of some benefit."
John Fields, college junior, "I have never been too aware of them, so I don't see that they have done anything personally."
Carol Ketcham, college junior,
"They are certainly of value, but
I don't know about the student
participation. There tends to be so
much interest in these extra-curricular activities that the student doesn't have time to take advantage of the better conferences."
Murphy Attends Meetings
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy attended meetings in Washington, D.C., this week of the Committee on Problems and Policies of the American Council on Education. Dr. Murphy will speak tonight at an alumni dinner in Boston. He will return to the University tomorrow.
The Poinsettia flower is named for Joel Poinsett, a South Carolinian who introduced it into this country from Mexico.
AUFS Speaker Concludes Talks
Albert Ravenholt, American Universities Field Staff specialist on the Far East, will conclude his lectures to University classes next week. Mr. Ravenholt's schedule will be as follows:
Sunday: 5 p.m., Faculty club, informal talk on the Philippines and the Far East.
Monday: 8 a.m., World Geography, 426 Lindley, "Philippine Agriculture"; 10 a.m., Geography of the Far East, 403 Lindley, "Populations Growth in the Western Pacific"; noon, luncheon with the geography faculty; 2 p.m., Communications in Society, 205 Journalism building, "The Job of a Foreign Correspondent."
3 p.m., Social Science survey, 106 Strong, "Where Are the Chinese Communists Heading?"; 6 p.m. graduate seminar, geography department, dinner at the Studen Union.
Tuesday; 8 and 10 a.m. Marriage and Family Relationships, 110 Fraser, "Where Are the Chinese Communists Heading?"; 11:45 a.m. luncheon with the sociology faculty: 1 p.m., The U.S. in East Asia, 106 Strong, "Nationalist China and the U.S."
Wednesday: 9 a.m., International Relations, 204 Strong, "Where Are the Chinese Communists Heading?"
William Gremley, executive secretary for the Kansas City commission on Human Relations, will speak before the Jayhawk Braithood at 8 p.m. today in Lindley auditorium.
Color Bar Drop Is Meeting Topic
He will discuss dropping the color bar at Kansas City's largest swimming pool and a review of some of the problems that "will have to be resolved in the eventuality that the Supreme court declares segregation in public schools unconstitutional," he said.
Mr. Gremley, formerly a director of the Public Information for the Chicago Commission on Human relations, received his education at Roosevelt college, Chicago.
Circulation managers from seven midwestern states are attending the second annual Newspaper Circulation Conference in the Union today and tomorrow.
The school is co-sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, the University Extension, and an educational committee of circulation managers.
Managers Meet In Discussion Of Circulation
Circulation executives of nine newspapers in Kansas and Missouri will participate in panel discussions of topics of current interest in their field, Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism said today in announcing detailed plans for the school.
The first general session was held at 2 p.m. today with C, R Stutzman, circulation manager of the Kansas City Kansan, presiding.
L. W. McFetridge, circulation director of the Tulsa World and Tribune and treasurer of the International Circulation Managers' association, spoke on the subject "Mail Subscription Selling Techniques" and a panel of three circulation managers then discussed methods used on methods used by their newspapers, Members of the panel were Harold Hult, of the Topeka Newspapers; G. E. Carvel of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and George Alden of the Hutchinson News-Herald.
The dinner speaker at 6 p.m. today will be Henry S. Blake, president, who will discuss the "Responsibilities of Circulation Management."
At 9 a.m. tomorrow Dale Kelly of the Topeka Newspapers; Mrs. Grace Farris of the Lawrence Journal-World, and David Beliles, of the Independence Examiner, will participate in a panel on "Getting, Holding, and Stimulating the Carrier."
Participants in a panel on "Simplifying Office Procedures in Circulation" at 10:45 am. will be Frank Long of the Wichita Eagle; B. G. Whorton of the Great Bend Tribune, and F. H. Mahoney of the Kansas City Star.
The course will end with luneheon tomorrow, at which Paul Allingham, publisher of the Atchison Globe will speak on the subject "What Are Your Costs?" He will describe the general economic picture in newspaper publishing today.
Construction of the 610-mile, eight inch fuel pipeline from Haines to Fairbanks, Alaska, now is under way, with completion scheduled for September. 1955.
Friday. May 7,1954
Washington—(U.R.)—Democrats hammered the administration today with their biggest assault on Republican foreign policy since President Eisenhower took office.
Democrats Blast At Foreign Policy
Kansas Schools Need Teachers
Party leaders signaled the switch to more aggressive opposition in a round of speeches at their $100-a-plate Jackson-Jefferson Day Dinner last night.
A serious lack of teachers is facing Kansas schools again this year, H. E. Chandler, associate professor of education and head of the Teachers Placement bureau, said today.
Approximately one-half of the students for which the Teachers Placement bureau secures jobs go to schools in Kansas, he said, and two-thirds of these students are placed in the northeastern part of the state.
He has had almost 3,500 calls for teachers since last September, he said, the majority coming from Kansas schools. He said he expects 1,300 to 1,500 more by Aug. 31. Only 125 seniors will be available to fill part of these vacancies, he said.
Prof. Chandler attributed the small number of students going into the teaching field is due partly to low salaries. He said that although salaries have been raised, Kansas has long been noted for its poorlypaid teachers. Salaries for beginning teachers with a bachelor degree vary from $2,800 to $3,100 in eastern Kansas to $3,200 to $3,400 in the western part of the state, he said.
New opportunities for women in fields such as physical and occupational therapy, engineering, and journalism is another factor that Prof. Chandler considers have defactored some from the teaching job. Another career that has delayed college men from teaching as soon as they leave school, he said.
The high birth rate since the war is the primary cause for the increasing need for teachers. Prof. Chandler said. Elementary schools have felt the shortage greatly in recent years, he said. High schools are calling for teachers in commerce, English, home economics, science, social studies, and mathematics being more than 100 vacancies in each of these fields, he said
This is only the third year that the University has graduated students eligible to teach in elementary schools, Prof. Chandler said.
It was clear as the two-day rally broke up that the Democrat strategy for the November congressional campaign will be to hit the Republicans from the foreign as well as every other angle.
Heretofore they have generally soft-pedaled foreign policy issues to concentrate on such domestic matters as farm and tax issues.
Significantly, the roughest attack at the fund-raising dinner came from Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the chief architects of the wait-aid-see course Democrats followed during Mr. Eisenhower's first year in office.
Sen. Johnson said the administration's handling of the Indochina crisis has "humiliated" the United States and brought on the most "stunning reversal" in U.S. diplomatic history.
Former President Truman, in a typical off-the-cuff talk, also touched on the foreign policy issue, saying the United States cannot retain free world leadership "if we insult our allies and friends." He promised to have more to say in a speech here Monday.
House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn said the only change the administration has made in the foreign policy originated by the Democrats "is to administer it in a sorry fashion."
The 1,500 paying guests who dined on capon, broccoli, and candied yams gave one of their loudest ovations to the introduction of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a chief target of GOP attacks when the Democrats were in power.
Sen. Johnson and Rep. Rayburn threw some of their strongest punches at the Army-McCarthy hearings, describing them variously as "silly circus luxuries" and "TV spectacles."
Rep, Rayburn, recalling the GOP campaign promise to "clean up the mess in Washington," suggested that the Republicans have created the "biggest mess yet."
WASH YOUR OWN CAR For 50c
CHUCK MCBETH
CONOCO SERVICE
at 9th and Indiana
Mississippi-Rio Grande Canal Asked
Dallas — (U.P.)— A serious-minded Texas lawyer named Guy C. Jackson Jr., wants to connect the Mississippi river to the Rio Grande.
His idea might have been laughed off a generation ago, but today in drought-ravaged Texas it is getting serious attention.
Mr. Jackson, who is president of the Texas Water Conservation association, believes the project would take about $2 billion and some factual diplomacy with states in the Mississippi valley.
Many farmers and ranchers think such an ambitious project—involving an irrigation canal up to 1,500 miles long—is their only hope of escaping the scourge of periodic drought.
"They might howl about losing some of their water—even though their land is ruined every now and then by floods," he said.
He believes the Mississippi valley states would go along with the idea if they were assured the diversional canal could bleed off only the flood waters which are as much a problem in that region as the drought is in Texas.
That would leave the Mississippi Rio Grande canal a problem of engineering and money.
"I hate to make this guess, but I believe it could be done for less than $2 billion," Mr. Jackson said.
There would be 1,000 to 1,500
miles of canal and a series of pumping stations to raise the waters of the Mississippi 3,000 to 4,000 feet
The other route would tap the Mississippi farther south, just below its confluence with the Ohio at Cairo, Ill. This route would route northern Arkansas, the middle Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and west Texas, also connecting with the Rio Grande at El Paso.
Mr. Jackson has come up with two possible routes. One would tap the Mississippi just below its confluence with the Missouri river at St. Louis. This route would run across Missouri, the lower edge of Kansas, the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, and the southeastern corner of New Mexico, joining the Rio Grande at El Paso.
Along either of these routes, water would be turned from the canal into rivers and creeks where farmers could pump' it into irrigation systems. The same water would help recharge underground water supplies which are rapidly being exhausted by irrigation pumps.
He believes the first step would be to get the states that would be affected to sign an agreement, and to get the federal government interested. He is completely earnest about his idea.
New Orleans —(U.P.)— A Texas
lawyer's proposal to divert part of the Mississippi river to the water-starved Lone Star state via a canal was described in this river town today as impractical and "wild."
Those were the nicer expressions. Privately, the folks who live and work along the banks of "Old Man River" had more descriptive ideas about the lawyer, Guy C. Jackson Jr., of Dallas.
Mr. Jackson cushioned his proposal by saying he only meant to use the Mississippi's flood waters for the canal—just a little diversionary operation that would give Texas needed water and keep it out of the yards of river dwellers during flood time.
A spokesman for the U.S. District Engineers office here said that phase of the idea just wouldn't hold water. To get water to Texas would mean doing a major tap job on the river, he said.
The engineers agreed "there's a lot of water" in the Mississippi but said there "none to spare."
New Orleans has been watching anxiously the river's antics for some time. As the water level is lowered, salt water from the Gulf backs up in the river, leaving Orleanians drinking mild brine. The river is lower now than average, making Mr. Jackson's idea poorly-timed since his plan would lower the level even further.
Dairy Queen
DELICIOUS SUNDAES, MALTS,SHAKES, CONES
Special Of The Week Strawberry Sundae
Dairy Queen 1835 MASS.
TRY ONE