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Friday, Nov. 20, 1953 Zaibatsu Reign Ended
AWS Had Beginning In Small Drugstore
Bv TOM SHANNON
"I'll always remember the way Associated Women Students began," Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, said. "Miss Habein and I met with the president of Panhellenic and Inter-dorm council for breakfast in a little drugstore to plan an organization for all women in the fall of 1946."
Miss Peterson feels that college women are capable of managing the affairs which concern them in University life, and that through the combination of ideas which is made through AWS, wise decisions can be made. "This opportunity for cooperative, open-minded discussions is more important, really, than any single rule or policy finally established," she said.
The lasting value of AWS is in its education for citizenship. A woman must realize her right and obligation to educate and express herself, she said. "Then she can see the actual results of an intelligent approach to problems and of the action based on sound opinions. Whether it's in formal politics or as a mother securing gamma globulin for her children, a woman has an important part which she must be able to play," Miss Peterson believes.
The result was the establishment of the United Women's council. "It had no power at all at first." Miss Peterson continued, "but through much hard work on the part of everyone, it was recognized in the following spring by the All Student Council as the official representative of KU women. Then it also became a part of the Intercollegiate AWS."
Plans already are being made for the national IAWS meeting to be held here in the spring of 1955. The four-day convention will be during spring vacation and conference United Union Peterson said. Miss Peterson automatically becomes IAWS adviser for the next two years.
National student officers will be chosen from Kansas women students. The local AWS will accept responsibility for planning the convention program, which will include addresses by several national women leaders, as well as arrangements.
In this area six of the Big Seven schools are IAWS members although KU and Wichita are the only Kansas schools. A membership campaign will be held before the convention.
Activities already held this year include a picnic for freshman women students with their counselors, publication of a newsletter, a housemother's party, organization of independent women living in private homes, and a skit held in North College hall designed to acquaint freshman women with AWS rules.
The AWS formulates and enforces regulations for all University women which include rules on closing hours, quiet hours, hours for callers, dances, parties, serenades, late permissions, and out-of-town permissions.
Senate officers are Norema Lou Falletta, college senior, president; Marjorie Mackey, college sophomore, secretary; Margaret Black, college senior, treasurer, and Nancy Landon, college senior, and Barbara Swisher, education junior, both ASC representatives.
The AWS is divided into the Senate, consisting of 18 members elected by women students, and the House of Representatives, consisting of one member from each organized house on the Hill and one from independent women living in private homes.
House of Representatives officers are Betty Lou Gard, education junior, president; Althea Rexroad, education junior, vice president; Jann Duchossois, education junior, officer;尔莱尔 officer, sophomore, treasurer, and Diana Foltz, pharmacy senior, Senate representative.
Ex-Teacher Runs Actors' Agency
Chicago —U.P.) Tall, blonde Mary Dooling, who once taught social subjects to Jesuit mission priests, now runs one of the midwest's biggest actors' agencies.
She believes her success in both undertakings is due to her interest in people.
Now as manager of Talent, Inc., she has 3,000 clients.
Five years ago, nine Chicago radio actors asked her to manage their business affairs and she accepted.
At Webster College, Mo., Mary Dooling studied to become a teacher, but after graduation she got a job in a department store.
Later she worked for an association of Catholic high school and college students, and for six years she edited a religious newspaper. She also lectured nationally and during the summers taught social subjects to Jesuit mission priests at St. Louis, Mo. She opened her theatrical agency June 30, 1948, with 10 clients. In a month she had 100 more.
Her clients include six-month-old infants and 75-year-old actors. Among them are off-duty policemen, wrestlers, even dogs. She gets them 700 jobs each month in television, radio and commercial films.
Watkins Health service will maintain a first aid station under Section 2 of the stadium during the football game Saturday. One doctor in the stands and two senior medics and a nurse will be at the station.
First Aid Station Planned
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Japan Starts Anti-Monopoly Law
Tokyo — (U.P.) The Japanese government has revised and weakened the occupation-inspired anti-monopoly law designed to break up the "Zaibatsu" firms which dominated the nation's business.
The measure, which will have a tremendous impact on the Japanese economy, was approved by the Diet in 1987 and began event through almost, without notice.
The anti-monopoly law was put into effect as one of the key occupation reforms in a move to break up the "Zaibatsu" and to insure fair and equal competition in both the domestic and international fields.
At the time, many top Japanese businessmen felt the main purpose of the law was to smash Japan's competitive position abroad.
However, at the same time, many of Japan's "little businessmen" were very pleased with the law. It gave them an opportunity to exist and compete with the former giants.
Some experts say this will be a good thing; they say Japan is suffering from the lack of capital. others take a less optimistic view.
in common and have joint officials.
Firms in competition with each other now legally may hold stocks
One of the effects of the revision of the law, according to Japanese experts, is that it will lead to a concentration of capital.
Banks now are permitted to purchase up to 10 per cent of the stocks of any company. As a result, Japanese newspapers already are warning that affiliated banks are now in a position to become the "New Zaibatsu."
The revision of the law in some respects merely legalizes what has been going on since the end of the occupation. For some months the smaller firms created by breaking up the "Zaiatsu" have been reuniting. Now they have an official "green light."
The Nippon Times, an important English-language daily published in Tokyo, predicted the revival of monopolies and government aid to some of the large companies.
Revision of the anti-monopoly law comes as Japanese business looks to the future with little hope. The end of the Korean war means a tremendous loss of sales. While the government repeatedly points out the benefits Japan will receive from Korean rehabilitation, most businessmen are not so confident
However, it also is agreed that many of the smaller Japanese firms are poorly operated and should go out of business if they insist on following "sentimental rather than practical" business methods.
Cartels also may come into being, the paper said, and warned that they can be expensive to the common people of Japan.
Japanese experts generally agree that the revision of the antimonopoly law will benefit the big businessmen and work to the disadvantage of the smaller.
The Japanese government also is urging the nation's businessmen to increase their trade with southeast Asia. Some progress is being made but prospects are not too bright.
"The government points to many happy breezes," said one Japanese businessman discussing the immediate prospects for trade, "but we are afraid they aren't strong enough to sail our ship."
There are indications the government hopes revision of the antimonopoly law will provide the extra "breeze" needed by Japan's business world.
Metzler Elected
To Health Group
Dwight F. Metzler, professor of civil engineering and director of the Division of Sanitation of the State Board of Health, has been elected director of the Harvard Public Health association. The announcement was made last week in New York at a dinner meeting of the Harvard Public Health Alumni.
While in New York, Prof. Metzler also was elected chairman of the engineering section of the American Public Health Association. He also presented a paper on "The Engineer Looks at Water Fluoridation."
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