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University Daily Kansan Friday, May 22,1953
Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK
Friday, May 22
CAMPUS
Don Dixon, associate professor of speech, will probably also become a member of the School of Journalism faculty and head of radio education on the campus. He is the man mainly responsible for the securing of the University wired wireless station.
NATION
Look for a possibly serious split in the GOP if the high-tariff Republicans in the House fight through the bill they introduced. Lowered tariff and freer trade are issues upon which Eisenhower has deep convictions, and any direct objections may bring forth a show of the so far well concealed Eisenhower temper.
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Looks as if Sen. McCarthy may be running out of U.S. organizations to investigate. He currently is planning to begin investigation of the U.S. High Commission in Germany.
President Eisenhower's five-point program for a future 10 per cent cut in taxes is another compromise. His personal feelings seem to indicate his disfavor for tax cuts, but pressure from the Reed bill and constant reminders of his election platform have been taken dutifully into consideration.
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Gov. Arn is getting out of the tax issue easier than Eisenhower. He appointed a commission to study the problem for two years—with the elections in Kansas coming up next year.
Release of AP newsman William Oatis from a Czech prison camp raises questions about John Hvasta, another American imprisoned by the Czechs. He was reported to have escaped from prison in January 1952, and since then nothing has been heard of his whereabouts.
--under act of March 3, 1879.
Look for a decline in the nation's marriage rate. The approaching end of the boom also indicates a prospective decline in demand for new houses—not on the Hill, anyway—and for household equipment. No apparent future event seems likely to incite a bigger boom.
SPORTS-MOVIES
Cancer, long, the most dreaded and feared of diseases, may in the near future be annihilated as the No. 2 killer of adult Americans.
Now that 3-D has won the fight between Marciano and Walcott, it shouldn't be long before audiences are treated to a full-length boxing film in which they are beaten to a pulp along with the fighters.
While many scientists through the years have searched unsuccessfully for possible causes and cures for cancer, the unshakable faith of the better-informed searchers of today is proof that their goal will ultimately be achieved.
Killer Cancer May Be On Way Out
While there is no evidence that any of the searchers have neared this goal, scientific energy is multiplying as scientific industry increases.
He adds, however, that the differences may be related to differences between certain life processes of plants and animals rather than to the causes of tumors.
No one has ever demonstrated conclusively that a virus has any part in human cancer, but Prof. L. M. Black, University of Illinois botanist, recently discovered that a virus has a part in the origin of tumors on sweet clover. For several years it has been known that there is a virus involvement in types of cancer in chickens, mice, rabbits, and frogs.
Prot. Black's virus is spread by a leafhopper, but this is not the sole cause. The branch roots of clover also can make wounds when they break through the overlying tissue, or an insect bite will cause a wound. From his studies it appears that such a wound must be present for the tumor to develop, and, in addition, the infested plant must have an inherited susceptibility.
Prof. Black doesn't suggest that his discovery will lead to a cancer cure. He points out that some plant and animal tumors have points of similarity, and that these similarities should not be ignored, since no one knows just why a normal cell suddenly will become a cancerous one.
Also in the East, Dr. Charles Breedis of the Department of Pathology of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, recently published the third report on his experiments with newsls, a type of salamander. During three years of studies, Dr. Breedis has discovered that among the vertebrates only the newsls have the power of growing new limbs.
Dr. Breedis' objective in his experiments is to understand fully the newts' ability to produce "new growth" which is controlled and perfectly organized. He has been
Letters Rap BMOC Decision, Reply
Foreign Students Clash on Facts
Editor, Daily Kansan:
I comply gladly with Al Traaldi's request to write to Time magazine about their article of April 13, 1953.
Careful reading of this article will reveal, however, that it gives the party mandates in the Austrian parliament correctly, in contrast to his editorial.
Furthermore, it criticizes Chancellor Raab for not having spent the war years in a concentration camp, like "other anti-Nazis," from which the correct conclusion can be drawn that he was an anti-Nazi leader.
It is true that other passages in the Time article are apt to mislead the reader about this fact.
Although I fail to see the connection between this and my having
Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn., Inland Daily Press Association, and National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City Mail Subcription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year, add $1 a semester in Kansas. In lieu of the standard fee, every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays and examination periods begin at 9:30 a.m. in 1910 at Lawrence Kau, Post Office
Egon Sohmen graduate student
hropped the Editorial course last fall. Traldi can be assured that I find American politics no less fascinating than those of other countries.
My reason for quitting was mainly that I felt not sufficiently acquainted with the subject at that time in order to write editorials about it, a feeling which, in my opinion, is not widespread enough.
2 Seniors Back B M O C Section
Certainly he fails to recognize the full purpose of a college year book. Not only can it be a "graphic record of the years' events" but also if characterized by the 'well-edited copy' and 'insightful essay' we have written, it can serve as University as an effective instrument of public relations.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
We found the article by our "neo- nephyte Jayhawker editor" most interesting but scarcely indicative of the "insight" which so concerns him.
Secondly, Jerry Knudson has leveled his sights on "Big Wheel glorification," an "undemocratic" philosophy "alien to a University-level attitude." At the same time we are told to expect "a one year personality sketch of KU." Could this mean that the Big Wheel has no part in developing campus personality, or does Knudson see just the label and not the person?
Allegedly, "considerable student criticism" has dictated the proposed change in policy. Whether or not this criticism is representative is, in our opinion, doubtful, nor have we been told the motives behind any criticism which may exist.
In our opinion, the Big Wheel section has a genuine place in any portrayal of the personality of the University. And however meritorious may be the activities of the Modern Dance club and campus religious groups, we can scarcely agree that these activities are any more representative of the University, or that they would capture the interest of any great portion of the student body.
From the outline presented by Knudson, we gather that the 535-754 Jayhawker will be comparable to a four issue Sunday supplement.
The editorials in the national and international news preface may, as Knudson suggests, seem somewhat ridiculous in future years. Next year, apparently, we won't even have to wait.
engineering senior Editor's Note: For the benefit of the unsuspecting, Wilson and Swander have been Big Wheels.
Orval Swander business senior Bill Wilson
able to induce the growth of accessory limbs in newts by injecting them with chemical substances which would have caused cancers if injected into other animals.
After experimenting with 500 newts, he induced cancer in only two. He injected newts also with substances not believed to be cancer-causing, and these set accessory limbs to growing in some.
Using various fractions of coal tar, which is cancer inducing, he caused the growth of accessory limbs in 11
per cent to 63 per cent of the injected newts. But a few accessory limbs were produced with petroleum jelly!
jery.
The cancers he produced were malignantly invasive, and were able to be transplanted to other news. However, "the accessory limbs consist of well-organized, apparently normal limb tissues, and could not be transplanted," he reported in the technical journal, "Cancer Research."
Gladys Henry
POGO
Only the lack of supplies for the 40,000 invading Viet Minh troops has saved Laos, the most retarded of the Associated States of Indo-China, from complete Communist invasion.
Luang Prabang houses the statue of the Golden Buddha, upon which the Laotians have pinned their hopes. This 2]-foot statue stands in the white wooden palace of King Sisavang Vong on the banks of the swirling Mekong river. Here the 68-year-old monarch, bed-ridden with gout, has vowed to remain till death under his flag of three white elephant heads on a scarlet field.
Laung Prabang, the capital, is a city of 6000 inhabitants surrounded by misty river valleys and jungle-clad mountains where tigers and pythons lurk.
Laos itself includes an estimated 91,000 square miles, and boasts a large population. Its soil is fertile, and its main products are rice, cotton, tobacco, and fruits, Gold, tin lead, and precious stones are found in abundance here, and teak forests abound.
Fertile Laos Faces Crisis in Rainy Season
Laos has been a French protectorate since 1892, and has been the subject of four political agreements, the latest in 1927 when the territory on the west side of Nuking, another of the state's larger cities, was partly to Sinn.
News Briefs
Culver City, Calif—(U.P.) F r e d Monroe Peebles, 26-year-old mechanic and race driver, crossed the finish line in third place in a striped-down stock car race at Culver City Legion stadium.
He collected $40 prize money, and then went to jail on suspicion of stealing Mrs. Dorothy Frost's Plymouth sedan to enter it in the race.
Norman, Okla. (U.P.)-Dickie Smith,
an air force secretarial worker,
explained to her perplexed neighbors
today why she was planting ice
cubes in her front yard in 100-degree heat the other day.
Each ice cube, she said, contained a flowering cherry seed.
She had intended to plant them last fall, but when she failed to get them planted in time she froze them in an ice cube tray until spring.
Cleveland, Ohio—(U.P.)—S c r a p dealer Albert Fuldauer made a healthy profit when he bought a broken-down penny weight machine for 50 cents. Inside the scale he found $10 worth of pennies, a dime, two nickels, some buttons and several slugs.
Windsor, Maine (U.P.)-Police were looking for two young women today
While the invasion of Laos has been recognized as another serious step in the grand design for Communist domination of southeast Asia, top United Nations officials do not regard it as a forerunner to an invasion of neighboring Thailand or Burma.
They believe that such further conquests will come about through infiltration and political subversion rather than by direct attack, because of Viet Minh's lack of equipment or manpower for such a large-scale operation.
Nevertheless, the consensus is that there is real cause for immediate concern. By mid-June the rainy season will make airborne supplies for French union forces almost impossible, and Red forces will suffer less since they depend on ground supply forces.
The necessity for stopping further Communist conquests in Asia is great, and the fall of Luang Prabang would boost Communist prestige not only among the Laotians, but throughout all of southeast Asia.
who invaded the home of 82-year-old Fred Merrill and "hugged" him out of $220.
"They kept hugging me and I kept pushing them away," Merrill said. When the girls left he discovered his billfold was missing from a coat pocket.
Rev. Albert Smith. 85, a cemetery caretaker, lost his wallet and $20 when the same pair showered him with their embraces.
Ipoh, Malaya (U.P.)—Police officials, tipped that a nearby cave was concealing a large cache of Communist arms and ammunition, rushed to the spot to seize the contraband. They found 16 revolvers and a cannon-all toys.