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AND I SAY—Bob Elliott, business junior, argues his point of view before the ASC senate on Bill 19. The Senate passed the law which gives the ASC the benefit of the Rock Chalk Revue, by a vote of 11 to 9, with two abstaining.
Melodrama Cast Starts Work on 'My Partner'
Rehearsals for the University Players' melodrama, "My Partner," are in full swing this week as the group readies the production for presentation Wednesday, Jan. 13 through Friday, Jan. 16.
Art Collector To Give Talk
An art collector and author will peek at a fine arts convocation in Strong auditorium at 3 p.m. tomorrow.
He is Richard Gump, third of his family to manage an art shop in San Francisco, author of the book, "Good Taste Costs No More."
In his book Mr. Gump advises against a policy of "keeping up with the Joneses in art collection and states that the question, "Is it good looking?" is a more important standard.
His art shop, Gump's of San Francisco, specializes in oriental art objects, particularly jade. The shop includes the work of contemporary American artists and craftsmen. An interior design service also is provided.
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1954
355 Students Pass English Proficiency
The department of English today announced the names of 355 students who passed the English proficiency examination given Dec. 6. Names of the students are on page 3. Passing the test is required for graduation in the College, the Schools of Education, Fine Arts, Journalism, and Medicine (Nursing).
Weather
--row. Little change in temperature tonight.
Warmer northeast and extreme east tomorrow. Low tomorrow. L owing Tomorrow. R h tomorrow. R h tomorrow. 45-50 northwest.
The Kansas weather will be bain this afternoon, tonight and toor-
around 60 southwest. Kansas' comfortable winter weather continued today despite a weak cold front which dipped into eastern and northern sections during the night. Afternoon temperatures, likely will climb into the upper 50s again today and will return there tomorrow.
Late 19th century costumes, stage settings, and acting will highlight the play, according to Jo Anna March, college senior and director of the presentation.
Playing leading parts are Janet Gabrielson, college junior, the heroine, and William Means, business senior, the hero. Other actors in the all-student cast are Mary Patton, college freshman; Sam Bowler, college senior; John Daze, special student; Marjorie Smith, college senior; Robert Wilson, engineering junior, and William West, college senior. Old-fashioned mood music will be played by Sherm Timmons, education sophomore, throughout the performance.
The play, first produced in 1879, is set in a mining camp on the top of Mt. Shasta in California. Two mining partners vie for the attention of the heroine. One is killed, and the other is blamed for the murder—but at the last moment the true culprit is apprehended. Wilson and Means are the two partners.
'Hurry Up' Given On Senior Pictures
Senior pictures for the Jayhawkwer now are being taken by Estes studio by appointment. No deadline has been set yet, but seniors are urged to contact the studio early because of the time needed to process the prints, to make engravings, and to organize the student section.
Those who wish only to have their picture in the Jayhawker can obtain two proofs for $2.81. Those who want portraits may get four proofs for $3.58 or six proofs for $4.34.
As in previous years, only those senior pictures taken by the official photographer can appear in the Jayhawker. Both men and women are requested to wear light clothing for best results.
Roger Hartman, college, and Ramon Criss, engineering, were manufacturing an explosive and were using plastic capsules when it exploded.
Two freshmen men suffered minor injuries in an explosion in their room at a boarding house, 1037 Tennessee st.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Frosh Suffer Burns In Explosion at Home
Both suffered minor burns on the face and slight injury to the eyes. They were reported in good condition this morning at Watkins Memorial hospital.
ASC Takes Control Of Rock Chalk Revue
Bohlen, Molotov Confer on A-Plan
Moscow — (U.P.)—United States Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen visited Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov today in a new move toward negotiations on President Eisenhower's proposal for an atomic energy pool.
The meeting was held at Molotov's request.
The United States embassy announced that Mr. Bohlen visited Molotov "in connection with the ambassador's last visit to Molotov Dec. 31."
Mr. Bohlen had last gone to see Molotov in the skyscraper Soviet Foreign office on New Year's eve, the State department said in Washington Monday, to discuss "certain procedures" for starting "substantive talks or negotiations on the President's proposal.
After the New Year's eve meeting, Mr. Bohlen said he told Molotov that the United States was prepared to begin discussions on the procedure for negotiations.
An American embassy spokesman said he was unable to give any details of today's meeting between Mr. Bohlen and Molotov.
The meeting today lasted less than half an hour.
it is expected here that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Molotov will discuss the atomic energy pool during the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference which is to open Jan. 25 in Berlin.
Le Cercle Francais, University French club, will hold its annual celebration dinner at 6 p.m. tomorrow in the Oread room of the Union.
Dinner to be Held By French Club
Only University students and faculty members and members of their immediate families can be admitted, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said.
A cake with a china or porcelain figure baked into it, according to the French custom, will be served at the dinner. The one who gets the figure becomes either king or queen and chooses a partner to reign over the festivities.
The next regularly scheduled film, "Marriage of Figaro," will be shown next Friday night.
The zany Marx brothers—Groucho, Harpo, and Chico—bring their slapstick comedy to the campus Friday night in a film series extra.
On the program after the dinner are songs by Joseph Meyers, college senior. Meyers will sing "Romance," "Mandolin," "Beau Soir," and "Le Charme."
The film originally was not slated to be shown here this year, but because the purpose of the film series is to show the history and level of movies the committee has arranged for the film to be shown
Extra Movie to Be By Marx Brothers
Their first movie as a trio, "A Night at the Opera," will be by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and is regarded as one of the all-time American comedy classics.
By LETTY LEMON
The All Student Council last night took control of the formerly YMCA-sponsored Rock Chalk Revue.
ASC Bill 19, stating that profits of the annual show be taken by the student government, passed the senate 11-9 with two abstaining, and became law. It had been tabled in the Senate on motion of Pat Reynolds, graduate, at the last meeting, but was passed then in the House.
Majority Party Feuding in Italy
YMCA president Scott Hayden, engineering sophomore, began the discussion with a speech outlining the benefits of the Y. Reading a letter he had written to the Daily Kansan, Hayden emphasized that a vote by the ASC to remove the Revue from the Y would set a "dangerous campus precedent."
Rome, —(UP)— The dominant Christian Democrat party was torn today by a "family feud" that has created a cabinet crisis and intensified the threat of an Italian drift toward Communism.
Premier Giuseppe Pella and his "cabinet of experts" resigned last night after less than five months in office as a result of what amounted to a "vote of no confidence" from his own party.
President Luigi Finaudi refused immediately either to accept or reject the Pella resignation, but the premier is so unpopular in Christian Democrat ranks that it appeared unlikely he could form another cabinet.
Other possible premiers — all Christian Democrats—include Amintore Fanfani, a leader of the party's left wing, and Alcide de Gasperi and Attilio Piccioni, both moderates.
Leftwing Christian Democrats have been sniping at Pella for months because of his policy of cooperating with the rightwing monarchists to assure a parliamentary majority for measures favored by his government.
The leftists believe the party should collaborate with Pietro Nenni's pro-Communist Socialists to get its program across.
The quarrel came to a head yesterday, when a Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus vetoes the premier's nomination of Salvador Aldisio, a rightwing Christian Democrat, for agriculture minister. The issue never reached the floor of parliament, so there was no forma confidence vote.
Senate Minority Exceeds Majority
Sen. William F. Knowland (R.-Calif.) will commany only 47 votes. Lyndon B. Johnson (D.-Texas), the nominal minority leader, will have a party following of 48.
Washington — (U.P.)— For the first time in history, Congress will open a session today with a Senate majority leader who doesn't have a majority.
Senate records show no previous sessions which opened with the minority party in control of majority votes. The nearest precedent was in 1881 when the 47th Congress opened with the Senate evenly split, 37 to 37. The presiding vice president then gave the majority leader the vote he needed to break the deadlock.
"For intence, the editor of the Sour Owl called me about the bill. He was worried that the ASC could take the magazine from the sponsorship of a journalism fraternity if they could take the Revue away from us." Hayden said.
Hayden said that all 309 of the larger colleges and universities in the nation have full-time YMCA secretaries. There is no one in the Y who can serve as faculty adviser or who has professional interest in the organization, like in Statewide activities.
"Our program can't be a good one unless we have some one to arouse student interest," Hayden said.
The questioning began. Vern Lemon, graduate, asked Hayden what services had been performed by the Y last year to justify the $1,500 paid to the Y secretary.
Dana Anderson, college sophomore, said the ASC had no doubts as to the aims and ideals of the Y. "It has high ideals and aims which we admire, but just how much good does it do—that's the question," he said.
Insisting that aims should not be accepted in the place of benefits to the students, Anderson said that the 30 persons who attended the meetings—a figure set by Hayden in his earlier talk—represented only one half of one per cent of the student body.
After a series of questions by Anderson asking if there were a membership committee to contact students and if the paid secretary solicited members, Hayden replied that he did so personally, but less than he should. "The secretary did not solicit membership." he said.
Anderson asked the council to remember Dean Laurence Woodruff's statement made at the previous meeting: "The right to put on benefits should benefit those or all students." "We can see the YMCA doesn't benefit all the students," Anderson said.
Hayden said the program needs to be better—that it is not now at its full strength. This is another Rock Chalk Reuse money," he said.
Anderson then read last year's Y operating budget. "With a budget of $4,566, the Y spent $2,194 on secretary's wages. Remember that this employee was not successful in increasing membership. $239,57 was spent for conferences of some kind. $209,56 was spent for printing and advertising, although membership was only 60 and student interest was low, and $500 worth of stamps and postage was used. It becomes obvious, after studying these figures, what student interest is." Anderson continued. "If these funds don't benefit a great majority of the students then we should redirect them," he concluded.
In other business, meetings of the ASC were moved up to 8 p.m. on motion of Farrel Schell, engineering senior. The finance committee, after meeting with Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, announced that appropriations would be conferred on, and all organizations not appropriated money this year will receive the same amount given last year.
The action was taken on Chancellor Murphy's recommendation that organizations had been counting on ASC money, but would be served notice that next year the grants would be re-evaluated.
ASC president Dick Sheldon, college senior, announced that the ASC conference would be held on the campus Feb. 12 and 13. The bill to raise parking fines and the bill to limit queen selection were tabled.