University Daily Kansan
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Monday, Feb. 15, 1954
On Capitol Hill—
Showdown Coming On Bricker Bill
Washington — (U.P.)— Republican leaders pressed for a "please everybody" compromise today as the Senate headed for a showdown on the Bricker amendment.
The controversial amendment to limit the President's treaty-making powers came up for priority discussion at President Eisenhower's weekly meeting with his congressional lieutenants today.
Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) said he expects a final vote on the amendment by Thursday. And Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Cal.) hopes debate will end at least by the end of the week.
So far nothing in the way of a compromise that would please all Senate factions in the long dispute appeared promising.
Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) said he is concerned about the possibility that George's proposed substitute for the Bricker amendment would give executive agreements the same constitutional standing as treaties.
The George plan, backed by some Democrats, would require Congress to pass special legislation before executive agreements other than treaties could become domestic law.
Other Congressional Healers Appointee Indo-China; Sen H. Alexander and Kate Brown will vote about $1 billion this year to aid the French in their fight against Communism in Indo-China, Meanwhile Democrats warned that this country would get involved in an all-out war with Red China if the administration ever decides to send combat troops to Indo-China.
Beeson—The White House has been telephoning Senators urging them to support Albert C. Beeson's nomination for the National Labor Relations board, it was reported. Labor committee Democrats are trying to line up all their colleagues to oppose the nomination on the Senate floor.
Farm—Chairman George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) of the Senate Agriculture committee predicted President Eisenhower's controversial farm program will pass the Senate "substantially as proposed." He said hearings will begin on the administration's flexible farm price support plan next week.
Taxes—Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R-Mass.) said Congress should raise individual income tax exemptions from $500 to $1,000 so millions of Americans can "buy the butter and eggs now being accumulated in government warehouses." The CIO has also urged the same hike.
Strike vote-Chairman H. Alexander Smith of the Senate Labor committee said he may ask President Eisenhower today to modify his controversial recommendation for a government supervised strike vote. Two committee Republicans and most of the Democrats oppose the plan as it now stands.
47 Million Families Own TV Sets in U.S.
New York — (U.P.) - More than half of the nation's 47 million families own television sets, a survey showed today.
A country-wide study by the A. C. Nielson company pegged the exact figure at 27,506,500 TV families which is 58 percent of the total.
Families possessing UHF sets came to 1,774.690.
New Jersey has the highest rate of ownership with 88 per cent, while Montana—with only 5 per cent—stands at the bottom of the list.
In total number of families owning sets. New York state came first in 2,629 and was powered by California with 2,809,640 and Pennsylvania with 2,276,640.
The Middle Atlantic states—New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—reported the highest rate with 78 per cent. Lowest were the Mountain states which had 32 per cent.
Six states have more than one million families with TV sets: Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Texas.
Although it is an inland city, Chicago handles more water-borne traffic than the Panama Canal.
Lowenfeld Leads Art Conference
A good teacher of children art education makes the children want to do better work, Viktor Lowenfeld, professor and chairman of the art education department at Pennsylvania State college, said at the fifth annual education conference held Friday and Saturday in the Student Union.
Dr. Lowenfeld, conference leader, gave three talks during the two days. He stressed that a child's viewpoint, not the teacher's, should be expressed in paintings. The teacher should guide and help the child portray his feelings honestly, he added.
An awareness of what is around the child and the needs and feelings of other persons effect creative expression by the child, he said. A child develops emotionally, physically, mentally, and aesthetically through his art.
There is no art in copying and tracing, for some comment by the artist should be put in the painting, Dr. Lownfeld said.
The international children's art exhibit in the Student Union lounge, and the German exhibit in 332 Strong added to the conference activities. Many correspondence cards, containing reproductions of the foreign children's paintings were bought by the visitors.
At the conference were art supervisors and directors from Kansas City, University City, Mo., Liberal, Hutchinson, and Prairie Village.
Saturday 12 students from a school near Wellsville, visited the children's art exhibit in* the Student Union. That afternoon, the students worked in the children's room of the Spooner-Thayer Museum of Art.
The conference was organized by art education students. Eleanor Snyder, fine arts sophomore and president of the Art Education club, was chairman, and Miss Maud Ellsworth, associate professor and head of the Art Education department, was adviser. The conference was sponsored jointly by the School of Education and the University Extension.
History Train Starts Today
"Old Sacramento" was used by both pro- and anti-slave forces in the 1850. It got its name because it first was captured by a troop of men from Missouri fighting in the Mexican War. It usually is kept in the Lawrence room of the Watson Memorial library.
The University has loaned the cannon, "Old Sacramento," to an historical exhibit which will tour the state. The Santa Fe railway car carrying historical documents and other mementos of a century ago will leave Topeka tonight.
The idea of the train is to take the territorial history of Kansas to the residents of Kansas. The itinerary has not been completed, but the car will be on tour for nearly a year.
The railway will pull it behind its regular trains from one point to another on its system. To get the car to points not touched by the Santa Fe it will be transported to other lines. None of the railroads will make a charge for the transportation.
One exhibit is of a full page editorial published in the Kansas Tribune of Lawrence, September 15, 1855. In letters an inch high it proclaims, "Persons Have Not The Right To Hold Slaves In This Territory."
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Tradition Says Shift Likely In'55 Congress
Washington, —(U.P.)—The odds established by political experience strongly favor the Democratic party winning control of both the Senate and House in this year's general election.
The average off-year election loss of Senate seats by the party in power over the past 40 years has been between five and six. In the House it has been 44. If the 1954 election conformed to the averages of the past, the new Congress would line up in 1955 about like this:
House: Democrats 259, Republicans 175, Independent 1.
Senate: Democrats 54, Republicans 41, Independent 1.
No such shift as that is likely, however. The present House and Senate are so evenly balanced that neither party is likely to add 44 House and five or six Senate seats this year.
In the present Congress Republicans are in control as much by courtesy as anything else. They have only 47 Senate seats, two shy of a bare majority. The Democrats have 48 and there is one Independent—Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon.
The House is now divided among 219 Republicans, 215 Democrats, and an independent. A majority of 25 to 30 seats is the minimum with which a political party can establish working control of the House. Four or five seats is the minimum advantage needed to control in the Senate.
It is an American political tradition that the party in power shall lose some Senate and House seats in an off-year election when the Presidency is not at stake. It is likewise in the tradition that a party in power which loses control of Congress in an off-year election shall lose the White House two years later.
The Democrats upset both traditions within the past 29 years—an era of tradition-bursting which included FDR's third and fourth term elections also FDR's third and fourth term elections. They actually gained nine House seats in 1934, two years after Mr. Roosevelt's first election to the Presidency.
In 1946 the Republicans won both the Senate and the House. That was two years after Mr. Roosevelt's election to a fourth term. The Republican House gain was 55 seats. The party seemed to be on the comeback trail.
But in the 1948 presidential election, Harry T. Truman went whistlestopping in a "Give Em Hell" campaign which not only defeated Thomas Hewey bid for the White House but restored Congress to Democratic control.
American election can be either unpredictable or traditional. Republican bets are down this year on the unpredictable and on the hope that President Eisenhower's personal popularity can be traded for votes for Senator and Representative.
The President is unrivalled as a vote getter. He got nearly 34 million in 1952.
11 to Query About Junior Red Cross
Eleven education students will travel to Leavenworth Tuesday to survey educators and students about the American Junior Red Cross.
The students will interview personnel of Fort Leavenworth and elementary, junior high, and high school students. Questions will concern how much is known about the Junior Red Cross programs.
Leavenworth was picked as typical or a town in which the activities of the local white people were.
Those going are Susan E. Baird, Barbara A. Bateman, Mary Eversull, Peggy A. Jones, Betty D. Knup, Patricia A. Lewis, Jeanie E. McDonald, Marilyn Miller, Janice Skaer, Carolyn B. Smith, and Alice J. Worthington. All are education students.
Guy V. Keeler, director of lectures and concerts at the University, has been elected vice president of the Lawrence Community Chest.
Guv Keeler Elected
In the opinion of these economists, the climbing sales will be accompanied by declining inventories—the backlog of goods in the hands of manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers.
1954 Sales Will Rise Economic Experts Say
Washington—(U.P.)Administration experts expect sales to jump enough this spring to pull the nation out of the current economic dip, informed sources said today.
dip, informed sources said today. They believe the big boost will come from Easter shopping and an upsure in the purchase of autos and home furnishings. Increased farm and construction activity is expected to help.
Eisenhowers Plan Florida Vacation
By mid-year they estimate that present inventories—totaling $79,-800,000,000 will fall off by $2 billion. They are counting on this and rising sales to produce a chain reaction: more orders for goods, a step-up in production, and more employment.
Washington, —(U,P)— President and Mrs. Eisenhower plan to fly to California Wednesday for a 10-day vacation at the Palm Springs ranch of Paul G. Hoffman, a source close to the President said today.
Only some new development or snag in the Senate's consideration of the Bricker amendment could delay the trip, the source said.
The President's present plans, according to the high administration source, call for a hard two days' work today and tomorrow to clear the decks for his stay in California.
He took up pending legislation problems at an early morning conference and had a crowded schedule including meetings with Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and his economic advisers, Arthur F. Burns and Gabriel Hague. The President also planned to discuss labor matters with Chairman H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.) of the Senate Labor committee.
The White House staff has been aware of the plans for the California trip for some time but has tried to keep them secret. However, secret service and signal corps men are reported already in Palm Springs laying groundwork for the visit.
Mr. Eisenhower returned to the capital last night after a relaxing weekend of quail hunting in Thomasville, Ga., at the plantation of Treasury Secretary George M. Humphev.
Officially the White House would say nothing about the proposed trip except that some final word on it may be forthcoming tomorrow.
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Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said in a television interview yesterday that if business does not improve by spring, "we'll have to take major steps." There is "room for genuine concern at the slow-down of economic activity," he said.
President Eisenhower and his economic advisers have tagged this pileup of stocks as the major cause of the economic dip. And they have said the dip should disappear when inventories are reduced enough.
Inventories accumulated all along the line from factory to retailer of sales fell short of expectations in the last half of 1952. They resulted in production slowdowns and layoffs or shorter work weeks.
Inventories have been falling for the past few months but sales have also. And retailers and wholesalers have not been placing as many orders for replacement goods as they would have if sales had been on the upgrade.
Total stocks of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, fell by $2% billion last December. However, all but $200 million of this was discounted when the figures were adjusted to take into account the usual large Christmas sales and other seasonal factors.
The delicate relationship between sales and inventories plays a vital role in deciding whether an economic dip becomes cumulative—that is, gets worse—or gradually disappears.
If sales fail to hold up long enough to reduce stocks to the point where production levels are sustained, then factories begin cutting back laying off workers. This further depresses sales.
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Representatives of the DETROIT EDISON COMPANY Will be on Campus TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
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