friday. Nov. 20, 1953
University Daily Kansan
Page 13 Long Arm of the Law
Fraser, Strong Stages Have Eventful Histories
By STAN HAMILTON
If the stages in Fraser and Strong halls could talk they probably would reminisce about the many notable personages who have given speeches and talks at student convocations.
In its early days Fraser played host to such notables as Woodrow Wilson and scores of other famous persons, while Strong, since it took over the convocation chores from outmoded Fraser in the '20s, has borne many others, to rank KU high in any circle when famous guests are considered.
One of the first economic leaders to speak in Strong was Dr. Cameron Beek, then personnel director of the New York Stock exchange, who spoke soon after school commenced for the 1924-25 year. Later in that year the U.S. ambassador to Chile, William S. Culbertson, spoke on "South American Relations."
"American Authors I Have Known" was the well-chosen topic in 1928 of Hamlin Garland, whose name speaks for itself.
Also in that year Maj. Gen. Harry A. Smith said from Strong's stage, "I call the Army a profession because I am proud of it, and because it fits into the definition of a profession."
The year 1926-27 saw the most prolific influx of outside speakers. Appearing here during those two semesfers were Sinclair Lewis, famous author; Sam Higginbottom, agricultural missionary to India; William Allen White, famed editor of the Emporia Gazette; Dr. Hubert Work, secretary of the interior, and D. J. Richards, who at the time was believed to be the only person alive who was in Ford's theater the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Walter O. Woods, U.S. treasurer, was here in 1323, and told the student audience that Kansans were better informed about most events than residents of Washington, D.C., because those who lived in that city had no vote and therefore took less interest in what was happening.
Two well-known architects gave talks here in the early '30s. One was J. C. Nichols, city planner who laid out much of southern Kansas City, and Frank Lloyd Wright, who later gained further recognition as a philanthropist.
Another 1832 guest speaker was
Mary Catherine of Queen of
Mary of Great Britain.
In 1940 Walter C. Alvarez, head of the division of medicine at the Mayo clinic, spoke, and Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., assistant secretary of state, was here the following year. The Chinese ambassador of the U.S., Dr. Hu Shih, talked on relations with his country in 1942.
Just 10 years ago a trio of Ameri cans still well, well, well. Charles Franklin Kettering, and Erskine Caldwell—packed in the crowds with interesting talks.
Stassen, then governor of Minnesota and currently Mutual Security administrator, was followed by Kettering, general manager of the research department division of Genentech Motors, Caldwell, who has just returned from a tour of Russia, told of his experiences in the war in the USSR.
Lord Halifax, British ambassador to this country, said here in 1946 that the "greatest insurance for future world peace is the partnership of Great Britain and America."
Another 1946 Mt. Oread convoction speaker was Dr. Harold C. Urey, one of the nation's pioneer atomic scientists, who gave a talk and demonstration on atomic energy.
energy.
A year before these two, Lt. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead, a KU alumnus and World War II hero, made a short address here before, as the Kansas reported, "one of the most enthusiastic audiences ever seen on the Hill."
A mixup developed early in 1947 when a scheduled speech by Richard C. Patterson Jr., then ambassador to Yugoslavia, was canceled just hours before he was to take the rostrum. Disappointed students who filed into Strong were told that Marshal Tito of that Balkan nation requested that Mr. Patterson not speak on problems in his country.
country. Another U. S. ambassador, Mrs
Ruth Bryan Rohde, emissary to Denmark in President Truman's cabinet, spoke here in 1947, and two years after that Arthur Bliss Lane, a former American ambassador to Poland, appeared at Strong hall.
Other 1949 speakers were Miss Dorothy Thompson, newspaper columnist, and John Mason Brown, author and associate editor of the Saturday Review.
Sen. Estes Kefauver, Tennessee Democrat, spoke on "Which Way America?," and Alexander Kerensky, former prime minister of Russia, discussed this country's chances of keeping at peace with his former native land. Both were here in 1950, as was Roy E. Larsen, president of Time magazine.
Last year Ratpil Bunche, United Nations mediator, was the chief "big name" speaker of the school year.
Many other speakers, enough to fill much more space than allows, have appeared before KU students. Such shows as the General Electric House of Magic have been here periodically, and scarcely a member of the administrative staff has not given at least one convocation speech.
Famous personalities will continue to grace the campus—a real opportunity literally to have the doorstep of the world at the University of Kansas.
Collegian Invents Problem Solver
Ithaca, N.Y., —(U.P.) A 25-year-old graduate student at Cornell university has built what he calls "an idiot brain"—an electronic computer that can solve only one type of problem.
The device was built by Frank Rosenblatt of New Rochelle, MY., to assist him on research for his Ph.D. thesis
Rosenblatt will he plans to give psychological tests to 200 persons and may have to solve 20,000 equations to get the data he wants.
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Mexico City (UP) — A quiet-talking grandfather is busy taking the 'bite' out of Mexico City's traffic problem and putting teeth in traffic laws.
Mexico's Cops Loose Traffic 'Bite'
Gen. Antonio Gomez Velasco has a big hand in President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines' effort to "moralize" the Mexican government. In fact, the president was one of the most-widely publicized victims of the campaign when a young traffic cop refused to let the executive's chauffeur made an illegal U-turn.
The general on detached service from the army, has reorganized the traffic department so thoroughly that there has been an 80 percent turnover in personnel in the past year.
"The bite" is Mexican slang for the small bribes with which minor traffic violations used to be settled out of court
Gomez Velasco admits that the 330 pesos ($37.80) a month the average traffic cop is paid is barely enough to keep a single man alive. He found that many married men, with large families, were practically forced to accept "bites" to keep body and soul together.
What with current efforts to hold down government expenditures there is no possibility of increasing the pay of the police for several years at least.
So, the general's traffic police department is concentrating on replacement of those men caught "biting" motorists with younger, unmarried men who can live on the police pay.
Actually, a point, most capital drivers don't know is that the cops directing traffic no longer have the power, or even the book of tickets, to tag a traffic violator. Only the force's 150 picked motorcycle police and inspectors carry books of tickets with them.
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The cop at an intersection is supposed to direct traffic and merely take down the license number of a law-breaking motorist and pass it on to his superiors. Several days later, the violator is visited at home by an investigator and gets his ticket. The plan allows the traffic-directing policeman to dedicate almost full time to his chief job. And it reduces temptation.
With less than 1,000 traffic cops to direct movement of the more than 180,000 licensed vehicles in this city of 3,000,000 inhabitants, Gomez Velasco scratched his head for a plan to obtain a measure of self-discipline from the public. And he found it.
Mandatory jail sentences for serious and repeat offenders, particularly speeders and drunken drivers, will instill respect for the law, the general believes. Up to now, light
to moderate fines, usually from 50 to 500 pesos ($5.80 to $58), have been levied for serious infractions.
"The average man who can afford an auto in Mexico can easily pay such fines, again and again," the General said. "But, after the first time he spends a week end in jail—never again."
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