Daily hansan
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
51st Year, No. 53
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday. Dec. 2, 1953
—Kansan photo by Dean Evans
REDS OR NO REDS—Letty Lemon, journalism junior, led off for the negative side of the date on "Should Red China Continue to Be Excluded from the United Nations," sponsored by the Collegiate Council for the United Nations. Debating with her were John Ise, professor of political science, and Kent Shearer, third law William Cowboy, instructor in speech, was chairman.
Kansas Traffic Deaths at 534
Topeka — (U.P.)— The number of motor vehicle deaths today in Kansas stands at 534 for 1953—with most of December remaining.
In 1950 Kansas traffic fatalities reached 534. It was the first time in state history the toll ever had climbed above 500 in one year.
The State Accident Records bureau said the 534th victim of Kansas traffic died Monday of injuries suffered in two car collision last July.
This year's traffic stream ove Kansas streets and highways has been less hazardous than the record year of 1951 but more dangerous than last year. On this date in 1951 the toll was 543 lives lost; last year 524.
Foreign Students To Tour Kansas City
About 70 foreign students will make a field trip to Kansas City Tuesday.
A highlight will be a visit with former President Harry S. Truman at his office in the Federal Reserve building. Other parts of the tour will be visits to the Owens-Corning Fiberglas plant in the Fairfax district, the Federal Reserve bank, the Liberty memorial, and an after-dark tour to see the famous Christmas lights of the Plaza district.
The trip will be made in buses, which will load at 11:30 a.m. at the information booth. Reservations must be made at the office of the dean of men not later than Friday.
2 Opinions: Deny Reds Allow Them UN Seat
"The U.S. should not be too squeamish about its friends,"John Ise, professor of economics, said.
KU Calendar Sales Begin Tomorrow
Recognizing Red China "will give that nation national respectability," Kent Shearer, third year law, conten
University Symphony to Give Full Concert Monday in Hoch
The KU calendar, featuring Anna Marie DeMelfy, college senior, as 1954 calendar girl, will go on sale tomorrow at the information booth, Nathan Harris, college junior and calendar editor, said today.
The calendar has all University events for 1954 listed and costs $1. Twenty-two pictures of students and buildings are scattered throughout the publication, and the cover is a winter scene of the Watson library.
Jane Megafaff, journalism senior, is business manager, and Dick Brummet, college sophomore, is circulation manager.
ID cards may be presented at the box office in Green hall basement for reserved seats to "Caesar and Cleopatra," University Theatre production, which begins today. Hours are 10 a.m. to 12 noon and 2 to 5 p.m. daily, and 10 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday.
Tickets Available Now for 'Caesar'
The production will be given at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
The University Symphony orchestra, directed by Prof. Russell L. Wiley, will present its annual fall concert at 8 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium.
Except for the concerto, the pro-
Featured soloists will be Allan Hall, pianist, and Harriet King, fine arts senior, mezzo soprano. Hall will play the "Concerto No. 2 in C Minor" by Rachmaninoff, for piano and orchestra. Miss King will sing the aria, "Adieu Forets" from the opera, "Jeanne d'Arce" by Teichalkovsky.
day.
The difference in opinion arose two faculty members and two students last night debated the question: "Should We Continue to Exclude University from Membership of the UN?" Sponsor of the debate was the University chapter of the Collegeate Council for the United Nations.
gram will be all Tchaikovsky selections. The popular "Romeo and Juliet Overture — Fantasy" will be the opening number, and concluding the program will be one of Tchaikovsky's last and greatest works, his "Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)".
The concert is open to the public without charge.
Prof. Ise and Letty Lemon, journalism junior, argued in favor of admitting Red China. Shearer and Walter Sandelius, professor of political science, took the opposite view.
"Spray Communist China with perfume and DDT and let her in." Prof. Ise concluded.
Since Juan Peron of Argentina and Francisco Franco of Spain are friends of the U.S., even though they have the "support of about five per cent of the people." Prof. Ise said there was no moral reason to oppose Red China's admission into the UN.
Before Red China can be admitted to the UN, that country should have a free election, as required by the UN charter, Shearer said.
It is "easy to get a majority if you kill those who vote against you." Shearer said.
Miss Lemon said the best way to separate Red China from Russian domination would be to admit that nation into the UN. She added that our opposition to Red China weakens our relations with our allies, most of whom favor admission.
Prof. Sandellus said the best policy was a "temporizing policy" which follows the reasoning that the "situation hasn't crystallized," but he said he expects that at some time in the future Red China will be admitted.
Three to Attend Conference
Three University faculty members will be group leaders at a conference at the University of Missouri Dec. 9-10. They are Dr. Gordon Colliser, director, and Dr. William Cottle and Dr. Richard M. Rundquist, counselors, of the Guidance Bureau.
Ike Reaffirms Stand on Reds
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower said today he is in "full accord" with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' answer yesterday to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's attack on administration foreign policy.
Mr. Eisenhower also flatly disputed at a news conference the Wisconsin Republican's statement that communism-in-government will be an issue in next year's congressional campaign.
"Long before then this administration will have made such progress in routing them out under the security program developed by Attorney General (Herbert) Brownell that this can no longer be considered a serious menace."
"I repeat my previously expressed conviction that fear of Communists actively undermining our government will not be an issue in the 1954 elections," Mr. Elsenhower said in a statement read at the opening of the news conference.
Mr. Eisenhower had expressed the hope two weeks ago that communism-in-government would not be a live issue in the 1954 congressional elections. But Sen. McCarthy last Tuesday night, in a speech replying to former President Truman, said "the raw, harsh unpleasant fact is that communism is an issue and will be an issue in 1954."
At the end, Mr. Eisenhower said that's what he is going to say, and not another word.
The President prefaced his reading of the prepared statement with the comment that he was doing it for two reasons — because they were the only words he would have to say on the subject and that he could be quoted directly.
Mr. Eisenhower's statement said:
"I am in full accord with the statements made yesterday by Secretary Dulles in his press conference.
"I would like to add this comment to what he said; the easiest thing to do with great power is to abuse it — to use it to excess. This most powerful of the free nations must not permit itself to grow weary of the processes of negotiation and adjustment that are fundamental to freedom. If it should turn impatiently to coercion of other free nations, our brand of coercion, so far as our friends are concerned, would be a mark of the imperialist rather that of the leader."
Dulles said McCarthy's attack hit at the very "heart of United States foreign policy."
Mr. Eisenhower pledged that any cuts in American troop strength made possible through economies would not affect units closest to hostile positions. He said such a reduction of American troops could only be attained when political considerations make them possible.
President Eisenhower, on the eve of the Big Three conference in Bermuda, also said today the question of admitting Red China to the United Nations is not a question open to negotiation with anybody at the present time.
Mr. Eisenhower likewise refused to make any commitment on whether the United States regards the latest Russian note as a suitable basis for Big Four meeting with the Soviets.
Parts of Kansas To Have Snow
At mid-morning the weather bureau said it was snowing at La Junta. Colo., about 60 miles from the southwest corner of Kansas.
Topeka—(U.P.)—Snow advanced on Kansas today from southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
State weatherman Tom Arnold said rain should change to snow in the southwest and north-central Kansas, with falls up to four inches in those areas. He said there likely will be lighter snows elsewhere in the state, with probably only rain in the southeast.
Considerable wind is expected to whip the wet snow, Arnold said, and temperatures tonight are due to drop into the 20's in northwest Kansas, ranging upward to 40 degrees in the southeast corner. Readings of 30 to 40 degrees are predicted for tomorrow.
Already the eastern half of Kansas has received fairly generous rainfall, measuring up to an inch and three quarters at dawn.
Some representative amounts, by sections:
Eastern Kansas: McFarland 1.71,
Holton 1.13, Alta Vista 1.05, Horton
9.0, Marysville .83, Blue Rapids .58,
Onaga .62, Wamego .47, Hoyt .50,
and Topake .20.
Western Kansas: Dodge City .21 and Hill City a trace.
Central Kansas: Clay Center .97,
Sun City .80, Burdick .79, Brook-
ville .83, Tescott .65, Salina .71,
Manchester .65, Miltonvale .55, Claffin
.59, Lincoln .52, Russell .15, Inman
.54, Hutchinson .37, Concordia .04,
Wichita a trace.
Temperatures ahead of the cold air mass were extremely mild for December in Kansas. The highs yesterday ranged from 50 degrees at Goodland to 68 at Garden City. The state lows this morning varied from 30 at Goodland to 55 at Olathe.
Weather
Showers and thunderstorms east and rain or snow west portion this afternoon and tonight. Snow west
and rain east portion Thurs day with heavy s snow indicated in a band from south-western to north central counties. Snow accumulating to four inches in the band by Increasing winds
and more locally in, band by
Thursday night. Increasing winds
becoming strong northerly with
drifting snow west portion Thursday.
Colder southwest and central
tonight and turning colder south
and east Thursday. Low tonight 20s
northwest, 50s extreme southeast,
High Thursday 20s northwest, 50s
extreme southeast.
Four KU Teams to Debate At Iowa, Arkansas, Winfield
Two University debate teams will compete in a tournament at the University of Iowa Friday and Saturday, and two other teams will compete at the University of Arkansas and at Southwestern college on Dec. 11-12.
Larry Tretbar and Richard Smith, college juniors, Letty Lemon, journalism junior, and Kenneth Dam, business senior, will enter the Iowa tournament.
In addition to the debate, all four students will participate in discussion. Trebar will enter a public speaking contest, and Dam will enter an extemporaneous speaking contest.
William Arnold and Hubert Bell, college juniors will debate in the senior division at Southwestern. Either John Fields, college junior, and William Means, business senior, or William Crews, business senior, and Dick Sheldon, college senior, will compete in the senior division at Arkansas.
Debaters in the junior division, freshmen and sophomores, will also enter the Southwestern and Arkansas tournaments.
Practice debates are being held this week in preparation for the tournaments.