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University Daily Kansas
Friday, Dec. 18, 1953
No Let-up Forecast In Apartment Shortage
If you're planning to get married between now and next semester, you and your prospective mate had better see Mrs. Ruth Nash, housing secretary.
"The apartment situation is tighter right now than it has been in three years—when veterans and their wives were up here after the war," Mrs. Nash said. "We are getting new apartment listings but they are grabbed up almost immediately."
"The availability of apartments depends on student population, of course, but Lawrence industry is increasing which affects the number of apartments in that townpeople need housing too," she said.
"I'm hopeful that right after Christmas that things will begin to open up and we'll have quite a few listings," she said. After the spring semester there were more than 60 available apartments while now there are fewer than 20, she said. More than half of the apartments are unfurnished this year, which is "unusual." She said rent prices are
"pretty high," ranging from $30 to $125 a month.
Another of Mrs. Nash's jobs is to find housing for parents and guests in private homes. Students may arrange weekend housing for guests, she said. One family, which will leave Lawrence for the coming holidays, has asked her to rent its home for the entire Christmas-New Year period, she said.
Mrs. Nash's work is centered on a list of homes in which rooms are available for graduate and undergraduate students and married couples. The lists include location of rooms, prices, and other description.
Unmarried students have had no difficulty in finding suitable rooms this year, Mrs. Nash said.
Mrs. Nash makes an inspection of student housing each year.
Group Discusses Job Applications
The necessity of having a blank on the job application cards for students to list their race was discussed yesterday at a meeting of the Student Labor committee.
The group decided that more investigation was necessary before any action could be taken. Myron M. Braden, director of the student employment service, said race identification was necessary on employment cards because "Lawrence employers often ask what race a prospective employee is."
The Student Labor committee was established by the All Student Council. The committee is divide into the Student Labor Relations board, with Roger Youmans, college junior; Ralph Jones, engineering sophomore, and Wilma Morton education junior, as members; Student Fair Employment Practices commission, with Youmans; Jack Byrd, business senior, and David Leslie, college freshman, as members, and the Student Labor Research divisions, headed by Lola Helm, college junior.
RedsHitFranceWithBarrage OfFears,Weaknesses,Hopes
By UNITED PRESS
Like a quack doctor who promises impossible cures, Russia pre ganda plays on human fears, weaknesses, and hopes.
For three weeks now every big gun in the Communist propaganda arsenal has been turned on France, playing on the hopes, fears and weaknesses of the French in an effort to split France from the United States and Britain and prevent formation of a European army.
Almost within hours, came the further suggestion that the Reds might be willing to negotiate a truce in the Indo-China war.
Thus the Russians struck at the two most sensitive points in French foreign policy.
It has been an impressive demonstration of the single-mindedness of the Communist program—which is the more effective because it suffers from no such distractions as are common among free nations which frequently may differ as to methods while agreed on the goal.
first step in the current Red campaigh was an outward switch in policy which saw the Reds suddenly agreeing to a four-power foreign ministers' conference on Germany.
Both moves came in the midst of a foreign policy debate in the French Chamber of Deputies. They were an attempt to undermine the government of Premier Joseph Laniel, which had supported both the war in Indo-China and the European army in which German divisions would participate.
The Laniel government survived, but was rendered impotent both at the Big Three Bermuda conference and at the Hague foreign ministers' conference called to consider unity of Western Europe.
The Reds are redoubling their efforts, aimed openly at wrecking the European defense community.
Keynote was sounded by Moscow's Communist party newspaper Pravda on the ninth anniversary the Franco-Russian mutual assnce treaty—a treaty which for year the Russians have ignored.
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