Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ka.
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1953
—Photo by Clarke Keys
BOOKS ON DISPLAY—A collection of books in connection with the late William Allen White is on display in the main entrance of Watson library. On the left is Willis Kerr, former librarian at Emporia State Teachers college and former friend of Mr. White, who gave a lecture last night. On the right is Robert Vosper, director of libraries.
Success Isn't Always Based on Scholarship
Maybe William Allen White didn't always study the way a good scholar should. At least that is what is indicated by several of the textbooks he used while attending the University.
Most of his books, now on display at Watson library, show the wear and tear of hours of study, but several history texts lack the marks and smears of midnight toll.
The books originally were given to the School of Journalism by his son, William Allen White Jr., and are now a part of the Kansas Historical collection in the Library.
Also featured in the exhibit are a number of first editions of Mr. White's books, which were given to the School of Journalism by George Matthew Adams, New York syndicated columnist, in memory of his sister.
In addition, the exhibit contains biographies and letters of Mr. White, a scrapbook of his career, and an edition of the "Emporia Weekly Gazette," which tells of the Kansas journalist's death.
In another display case, a collection of letters by Mr. White reveal various facets of his career. There are also a number of photographs of his trips to Estes park in the summers of 1889 an 1891. These trips were conducted by Francis H. Snow, then chancellor of the University. The vacationers were a group of University students, including Mr. White.
The exhibit is in connection with the speech on Mr. White given by Willis H. Kerr, former librarian of Kansas State Teachers' College, Emporia.
Weather
The Kansas weather forecast call for scattered light showers southwest and extreme south central portions tonight and Thursday. Skies will be partly cloudy with little change in temperature, Tom Arnold, state weatherman, said. Lows tonight will be in
Daily hansan
the 40s northwest, near 60 southeast.
High Thursday 80-95. Yesterday
Liberal received 22 inches of rain;
Garden City 07; Goodland 04, and
Dodge City came up with only a
trace. Highs yesterday varied from
76 at Dodge City to 88 at Salina and
lows this morning ranged between
45 degrees at Leavenworth and 65 at
Wichita. The low in Lawrence was
52. The noon reading today was 80.
NSA Learns Plans For Boulder Parley
Plans for the Rocky Mountain Regional convention Nov. 19-21 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, were discussed at a meeting of the Independent Student association Monday night.
Kerr Gives Lecture On White's Books
--supporting actively any candidate for the class officer posts, but a candidate for one of the ASC seats is offered a choice between PachFOR, FACTS, or no political affiliation.
A lecture on books written by William Allen White was given last night in the Journalism building by Willis H. Kerr, former librarian at Kansas State Teachers' College, Emporia.
A number of slides showing some of the inscriptions written by White the fly leaves of books were shown in conjunction with the lecture.
Textbooks used by William Allen White while a student here and a collection of first editions by him are being displayed in the lobby showcases of Watson library.
--supporting actively any candidate for the class officer posts, but a candidate for one of the ASC seats is offered a choice between PachFOR, FACTS, or no political affiliation.
AWS Blanks Due Monday
Pettitions will be available tomorrow for all freshman women interested in running for the Associated Women Students Senate.
The petitions will be handed to AWS House of Representatives members who will deliver them to their respective houses, or they may be picked up at the dean of women's office.
A quiz will be given Wednesday over the material discussed at the meeting. Those receiving the highest scores will be invited to a coffee for a personal interview with the AWS Senate and election committee.
Seven candidates will be selected by the Senate and committee, and the names placed on the election ballot. The final election, naming two of the seven women to the freshman Senate positions, will be held in conjunction with ASC elections early in November.
The petitions are due at the dean of Women's office at 5 p.m. Monday. An instruction period will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Oread room, Student Union, for all petitioning women. The constitution and functions of AWS will be reviewed.
Moore Recital Tonight
Pat Aylward, college senior, is chairman of the election committee. Committee members are Jan Gradinger, Beverly Churchill, Marjorie Mackey, and Kay Vetterick, college sophomores.
Dale Moore, fine arts senior, will be presented in a lieder recital in Strong auditorium tonight at 8 pm. Moore will be accompanied by James York, fine arts senior. The recital is open to the public.
51st Year, No.21
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Twelve Teams To Debate at KU In Tournament
Twelve teams have tentatively entered the debate squad tournament and pairings will be announced Friday. Dr. Kim Giffin, debate coach, said today.
The winning team in the squad tournament will compete here against debaters from the University of Missouri Oct. 29 to open the intercollegiate season for varsity debaters.
The first round of the double elimination tournament will start Monday. Dr. Giffin said that it would probably take a week before the tournament will be completed.
Debating teams have to be ready to debate either side of the college question, says Dr. Giffin.
"Changes in plans, dates, illness, or sudden death will not excuse a team from a debate, once it has been scheduled," Dr. Giffin said.
Teams tentatively entered are William Arnold, college junior, and John Ball, college freshman; William Crews, business senior, and Richard Sheldon, college senior; Letty Lemon, journalism junior, and Margaret Jean Smith, college sophomore.
Howard Payne, college senior, am Kenneth Dam, business senior; Larry Tretbair, college junior, and N. Richard Smith, college junior; John Eland, and Gary Sick, college freshmen; Marjorie Heard, engineering sophomore, and Mary Ann Curtis fine arts sophomore.
Lloyd Breckenridge, engineering sophomore, and Charles Sparks, college junior; Dennis Knight, and Robert Kimball, college freshmen; John Fields, college junior, and William Means, business senior; Donald Gaumer and Robert Bush, college freshmen; R. Lee Speer, college sophomore, and Robert Ferguson, engineering sophomore.
Research Chemist To Address Society
Dr. W. L. Faith, research chemist of the Corn Products Refining company, will speak to the American Chemical society at 7:30 p.m. Monday in 205 Bailey Chemical laboratory. His subject will be the corn refining industry.
The public is invited, and the talk should be of special interest to science and home economics members.
Disputes about freshmen election dates and the amendment barring freshman women from competition for homecoming and Jayhawker queen were debated at last night's combined senate and house All Student Council meeting.
Elections, Queens Debated by ASC
Elections chairman Dana Anderson, college sophomore, gave the voting date as decided by his committee as Oct. 28. Bill Arnold, college junior, challenged the date stating it would not fall within the seventh week of school, the time specified by ASC amendment.
The evening's second major issue, the question of freshman participation in queen contests, was brought from the table in order to hear opinion from the presidents of the four freshmen dorms.
The election was set for Nov. 4 primaries for Oct 28, and deadline for petitions Oct. 23.
North College, Hodder, and Foster halls were not in favor of the freshman limitations bill, but Corbin hall reported 80 per cent of its residents voting for it.
"We thought that when we were upperclasswomen we wouldn't want freshman girls to have the honor when they aren't as representative of the school," Karol Corsuch, college freshman and Corbin president said.
Both houses passed section one of the amendment which stated, "organizations must have their candidates considered by students and or faculty on the campus."
Pat Reynolds, senate representative, moved the houses adjourn to separate meetings. A similar motion was heard from the house of representatives and the meeting was split into houses over the objection of Gene Rogers, chairman.
Frosh Petitions for Offices Must Be Turned in Oct. 23
In final action in the house, the motion was tabled. At last week's meeting, the house had passed the motion but the senate had tabled it.
In other business, $50 was appropriated to the homecoming committee, and a fund of $275 was placed in the business office for use by the cheerleaders.
Instructors Leave For Iowa Meeting
Class officers are elected by a "non-partisan" ballot under a system inaugurated by last year's Council. Under this system, campus political groups are barred from
Four instructors in the School of Engineering and Architecture left this morning for Des Moines, Ia., where they will attend a joint meeting of the Regional Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architecture being held tomorrow through Saturday.
The petitions also must bear the signatures of at least 25 other freshmen before they can be accepted by the committee.
Petitions of freshman men and women who want to run for one of the all-freshman elective offices must be in the hands of the All Student Council's elections committee by Oct. 23, according to a ruling made last night by Dana Anderson, chairman.
Petitions, to be acceptable, must bear the name of the candidate, the position desired, and—if the candidate is entering the race with the backing of a political organization)—the name of the party backing him. There are no special application forms required although one can be supplied upon request by the election committee.
The offices to be filled are those of class president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and from four to six seats on the All Student
A runoff primary will be held Oct. 28 for the freshman general election No.4.
To be elected to the ASC are one man and one woman senator, one man representative and from one to three women representatives, depending upon how many freshmen women vote. A women's representative will be seated in the house for one year. 150 women voting. They will hold office until the first session of the 1954-55 ASC, which is elected in April.
To date, four petitions have been filed with the elections committee.
Other members of the ASC elections committee are Ronald Sammons, Jocelyn Dougherty and Fred Heath, members of the ASC house of representatives, and Robert Pope and Farrell Schell, members of the senate.
USAFI Contract Refused Again
The University of Kansas and 14 other colleges and universities have declined for the second time to sign new contracts with the U.S. Armed Forces institute, it was announced today by the defense department.
The USAFI conducts correspondence courses for servicemen. Universities participating in the program prepare the material for the courses and grade the students work under contracts with USAFI. The following clause is included in the contract offered to universities this year:
"The contractor (the university) will not retain for the performance of services under this contract such persons as are disapproved (for security reasons) by the government."
It is because of this clause that the 15 universities have refused to sign the agreement. Several months ago they rejected a contract with substantially the same phrasing, and the USAFI then submitted a revised contract with the words "for security reasons" inserted in an effort to meet objections.
A spokesman for the American Council on Education said today in Washington, however, that the universities feel the changed wording is "still inadequate" to protect the individual institution's control of its own faculty.
Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the University, said the University rejected the revised contract because "we feel this is federal control coming in. It would mean the government telling us whom we can hire and whom we can't. The basic issue as we see it is state control vs. federal control.
"So far as security protection is concerned, it must be remembered that the University of Kansas already has its own security protection in the form of the loyalty oath, which all faculty members are required to take."
Other institutions declining to sign the contract without further change are the Universities of California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin, Louisiana State university, Oregon State System of Education, and Western Kentucky State college. The University of New Mexico has rejected the ne wcontract outright, the defense department announced.
FOR Party Elects Doris Bonnell
Doris Bennell, College freshman, was elected president of FOR political party at a meeting last night in the Union Building.
Other officers elected were Diane Hawley, fine arts freshman, vice president; Eleanor Hawkinson, college freshman, secretary, and Laddie Martin, college freshman, treasurer.
Nominated for All Student Council senators and representatives from the freshman class were:
Joan Hereford, LaRue Sibley, Janis Johnson, Jeannette Roberts, Karen Andrews, and Kay Braden, senators and Janis Heyle, Nancy Darnell, Patricia Robinson, Janet Dodge, Barbara Beye, Shirley Hurd, Norma Carothers, Janet Martin, and Ann Weiderman, representatives.
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