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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1953
Big Three Set Parley Dec. 4-8 in Bermuda
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and French Premier Joseph Laniel will meet in Bermuda December 4 to map western plans to cope with Soviet opposition to the European Defense community and the Russian position on Communist China.
Benson Charts Policy Meetings
Washington — (U.R.)— The administration today took another step towards drawing up its new farm program plans as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson launched conferences with industry leaders representing six major farm crops.
Benson arranged for the meetings to be held before the next session of the National Agricultural Advisory commission Nov. 23. Invited are representatives of the corn, cotton, rice, peanuts, wool, and dairy industries.
The move prompted speculation that along with wheat, these crops may be the ones most affected by proposals the administration presents to Congress in January. If so, it could mean the administration does not plan to bow to demands for not changing the present law which guarantees mandatory high supports on six basic farm crops.
The basic farm crops are cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco, peanuts, and corn. Secretary Benson-already has said the current program seems to be working "satisfactorily" on tobacco.
Of the six groups meeting, only wool and dairy representatives are not concerned with a basic crop.
A department spokesman said the groups will not be asked to "pass" on programs the commission has "firmly decided on."
But he indicated they will be asked to give their views on suggestions that have come up for discussion by the administration's top farm advisory team.
The corn group will meet in Chicago Nov. 17 and 18. In Washington, the cotton group will meet Nov. 12 and 13; rice, peanuts, and dairy Nov. 17 and 18; and wool, Nov. 19 and 20.
Western Civ Signup Told
Western Civilization students may still sign up in the Western Civilization office for the discussion of Units 2 and 3 to be held Nov. 16 and 17 in 9 Strong at 7:30 p.m. Material to be covered is not the same as that covered in previous discussion groups.
The White House formally announced today the three-power conference. It was originally scheduled for early July, but had to be put off because of the illness of Mr. Churchill.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden will accompany the three principals.
"It is hoped," the White House said, "to meet from Dec. 4 to Dec. 8 and the various matters of common concern to the three powers will be discussed.
Authoritative sources here reported that the primary reason for the meeting was that Russia had virtually "slammed the door" on four-power conferences on the foreign minister level.
Leaders of the western Big Three want to explore possible moves to meet this Russian attitude.
Reports from London said Mr Churchill would use the Bermuda meeting to renew his recommendation for a Big Four meeting to include the Soviet Premier, Georgi Malenkov.
Law Banquet To Hear Arn
Gov. Edward F. Arn will be the guest speaker at the Alumni day banquet of Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. The banquet is sponsored by Brewer Senate (University of Kansas) at 6 p.m., today at the Union.
Accompanying Gov. Arn will be two justices of the Kansas Supreme court, Jay S. Parker and William J. Wertz. All three are members of Delta Theta Phi. Governor Arn was initiated at the University of Kansas City Law school, while Justices Parker and Wertz became members here.
Besides local members and their wives and guests, those in attendance will include Edward L. Scheuffer, national chancellor of Delta Theta Phi, and U.S. District Attorney for the Western District of Missouri; Newell George, district chancellor; Frederick J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law; Jack Heysinger, acting dean of the School of Business; and Dennar Cope, instructor in economics.
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Research Reports Ancients Sipped Beer(Ugh!) Via Straws
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington—(U.P.) I've heard of such awful things as an egg or a spray of sugar in your beer. But never until now did I learn that the ancients used to draw suds through a straw.
This intelligence is contained in a booklet put out by the United States Brewers foundation, which knows a thing or two about suds. It's an interesting document called "barley, hops and history."
In the olden days, beer drinkers divided into classes like the very rich, the want-to-be-rich and poor people. Poor people drew the amber through reeds. The middle class could afford tubes, but the rich used a "straw of gold." One such golden "straw" was unearthed recently and now is in the University of Pensylvania museum.
The little pamphlet is a review of brewing history. Everybody should know, if he follows the legends of the ages, that Columbus wouldn't have discovered America if he had not run out of beer. (Legend, I say.)
Most famous of the early American brewers was Samuel Adams, "Father of the Revolution." The fact that old Sam kind of M.C.'d the Boston Tea Party didn't mean that he was anti-bee. He inherited a brewery from his Puritan daddy.
The brewers also report discovering, in ancient volumes in the Library of Congress, that an 18th
Actual proof of this now is enshrined in the Princeton University library. There is to be found the mathematics notebook of a 14-year-old New Jersey schoolboy named Stacy Beakes. In 1721, Master Beakes puzzled over this one:
century schoolbody, working on his copybook sums, used beer to illustrate his numberwork. Much as our modern kids start out with "if I had a half dozen apples, ."
"A certain man and his wife did usually drink out of a vessel of beer in 12 days and the husband found by often experience that his wife being absent it would last him 20 days.
The kid concluded that the wife would empty the vessel in 30 days and worked it out like this: together, the pair drank 1/12 of the beer in one day. The husband consumed 1/20 in a day; 1-12 minus 1-20 squalls 1-30. So if the wife consumes 1-30 in a day, it would take her 30 days to dump down the contents of the vessel.
"The question is how many days the wife would be drinking it alone."
Athletic Board Remains Silent On Sikes Case
Rumors of a football coaching change for the Kansas team are circulating since the athletic board of the University held two sessions over the weekend, one Saturday and the other Sunday.
The Saturday conference was reported to be the regular meeting of the group and the Sunday get-to-gather was said to have been called to discuss damage done on the campus during the weekend. Both meetings were closed so what actually happened behind the doors must remain speculation.
As a pure statement of fact, anti-J. V. Sikes sentiment has been mounting since the first couple of games, and the last-minute 5-yard delaying the game penalty Saturday when the Jayhawks were threatening to score, seems to have brought the matter to the boiling point.
Yesterday morning early risers saw a dummy labeled, "So long J. V." hanging from a tree in front of the library, but the group of students who constructed the dummy later apologized to the coach when a band of about 50 of Sikes' players ripped down the effigy, confronted the boys, and "requested" the apology be made.
Sikes, while he could not be reached yesterday for comment, reportedly told the boys to "forget it."
Bob Hantla, co-captain guard, said, "What gripes me is these guys who know little about and have nothing to do with athletics at the University who toss in their two bits worth when it comes to criticizing the coach.
"Speaking for the team as a captain, we are very much for Mr. Sikes. As far as we're concerned he has given us the dope on how to play the games but we just haven't been able to do it."
Athletic director A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg yesterday said he had "no comment to make at this time" concerning discussions at either of the two board meetings.
Asked if anything was said about the head grid coach, Lonborg said: "Let's not go into that yet. At least wait until the season is over."
Sikes was named head Jayhawk coach Feb. 19, 1948, and in February, 1951, was signed to a new 3-year contract with a pay raise from $8,000 to $9,500. The pact expires March 1 1954.
In five and a half seasons at Mt. Oread the coach has guided Jayhawk teams to 35 victories and 23 defeats. He has finished third, fifth, fourth, third, and fourth in the five full seasons, and can finish no worse than tied for fifth this campaign, and could move as high as third.
Sikes himself, members of his coaching staff, and other officials of the University and Alumni association. Mr. Mum on the subject of next season.
Among a score of those mentioned, all without any confirmation by officials, are Jack Mitchell, Wichita university coach; Volney Ashford, Missouri Valley; Gomer Jones, Oklahoma assistant, and Wayne McConnell, College of Emporia head man who was said to be a candidate for KU backfield coach last spring when Cliff Kimsey resigned to enter private business.
Rumors, all strictly unofficial, are making the rounds as to various persons who may be picked for the job if Sikes either resigns or is not retained.
Only 23 college football teams remain undefeated this week, of which, only Maryland, West Virginia, and Notre Dame are major teams. Baylor was the only other major team with a perfect record before it lost Saturday to Texas.
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Kansas' football story this year
was beset by deserts, coolly
frosty humidistakes, and an unbelievable amount of bad luck.
The climax for the first eight games came Saturday against Kansas State, when the Jayhawkers got only two real scoring chances. One was ruined by a fumble, the other by a substitution at the wrong time. So it has gone most of the season.
But let us stop right here and say we are not inferring that any combination of bad breaks or hard luck whipped KU Saturday. K-State whipped the Jayhawkers soundly and convincingly. In fact, the 'Cats thrashed Kansas.
But KU's own mistakes made the pill of defeat a bitter one to take even though it had won the last eight K-State contests. It's likely that several hundred people will neither forget nor forgive the untimely substitution.
Anyone who says Kansas doesn't have a quarterback problem is completely out of his head. At one stage in the second period Saturday, three different quarterbacks lost the ball on as many plays. Two fumbled and one had a pass intercepted.
One Kansas lineman, who has been called at various times the "best fifth backfield man in the country" for his penetrations into enemy backfields, had the name misfire Saturday. Time after time he was lured into trap blocks which allowed the Wildcats to run wild up the middle. Some ingenious fan renamed him after the game as "the best fifth backfield man for K-State" on the field. . .
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Coach J. V. Sikes said after the game that tackling was shoddy. We'd have to agree wholeheartedly with this comment. Unless K-State backs Joe Switzerland and Corky Taylor were greased, Kansas tacklers looked as if they were grabbing at phantoms. Undoubtedly our Jayhawkers were outplayed and out tackled by our upriver brethren. To put in bluntly, we were lousy.
Which brings up another point, that of team spirit. One sportswriter
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called it "the worst spirited Kansas team ever to take the field since the war." We are inclined to agree although our spirit was supposed to have been high. But when you think of it, who would have any spirit after losing three in a row?
Which brings us to yet another point, who instills spirit? Is it the supporters? Is it the coach? Is it the pop clubs? Or is it the boys themselves?
First, we think the support for the team this year has been pretty good when you realize that a 2-6 record isn't anything to draw in the people. Yet, about 30,000 tickets were sold for the game Saturday. Sure, we realize that probably half of them were purchased by people who came just to see KU get beat. But there must have been a few there for KU.
The pep clubs should get a real pat on the back along with the KU band. Both outfits have really done good jobs this year. It's our belief, and it has always been the same, that, try though they may, pep clubs can do little to drag a losing team from the depths.
Football teams can't get overly enthused about themselves unless they are winning. They may try just a little harder, practice longer, but that shadow of losing games still remains.
That brings us to the point we've been trying to keep away from all season. It should, no doubt, be printed because it is the hottest topic on the campus today.
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Coach J. V. Sikes is in the frying pan. He may or may not have jumped into the fire with his last-period blunder. But if he did, no one will know about it for a long long time.
Student criticism, which was running plenty high before the game Saturday, hit a peak after the game. And yet, how many of the dissenters really know all the details?
We're saying that we don't. Yet, a bandwagon has begun rolling and it probably won't stop until a new football coach has been installed on Mt. Oread. We don't know whether that is good or bad.
But just wait and see. You can bet your last KU sweater that it won't happen until this season is finished.
The defeat of 12 undefeated and untied football teams over the weekend narrowed the list of unblemished eleveens to 23, including only three "major" powers, Notre Dame, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Nation's Unbeaten List Drops to 23
The undefeated and untied teams
EIGHT GAMES
Team Pts. Opp
Peru, Neb. State 201 75
Indiana Central 154 52
La Crossrode State 240 32
Olaf 369 58
Maryland 268 71
East Texas State 291 79
Iowa Wesleyan 313 53
College of Idaho 340 91
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Defiance 144 46
Eastern State 141 32
Westminster 130 77
College of Emporia 258 62
Northern Teachers, SD 292 79
Florida A&M 266 20
Florida West 295 19
Southern U., La. 295 19
Southern Poly 292 52
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Notre Dame 131 83
Northwestern, Wis. 152 24
Wis. 175 39
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Platteville, Wis. 90 14
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