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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 19. 1953
Wilson to Promise 'Hands Off' Policy
Washington—(U.P.)—Charles E. Wilson will try to overcome Senate opposition to his appointment as defense secretary by promising to keep hands off all government contracts with General Motors corp., it was learned today.
Authoritative Republican sources said Mr. Wilson, former GM president who still holds $2,500,000 worth of the company's stock, will offer the pledge Wednesday when he goes before the Senate Armed Services committee to "clarify" earlier testimony that set off a storm of controversy.
Senate GOP leaders saw no chance that Mr. Wilson could be confirmed in time to be sworn in with the rest of President - elect Eisenhower's cabinet tomorrow. But they were still hopeful he would be approved later this week without the necessity of changing the law which forbids federal officers to transact business with firms in which they have a private financial interest.
Some were confident, that his pledge to disqualify himself from passing on GM contracts would be enough to turn the trick.
"If he does something like that, he'll have no trouble," said Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.).
Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Leverett S. Saltonstall (R-Mass.) said the pledge would be "very helpful."
Senate Majority Leader Robert A. Taft of Ohio said it was up to President-elect Eisenhower's advisers to propose a change in federal law to permit Mr. Wilson to take office without giving up his stock.
But other GOP senators shied away from the idea of starting the long-promised Republican "house-cleaning" by weakening a law designed to combat corruption. As one senator expressed it, "It would put us in the position of advocating sin."
The Senate GOP Policy committee called a strategy huddle (at 11 a.m. CST) to thresh out the various alternatives in what amounted to Mr. Eisenhower's first bout with Congress.
At the same time, Senate committees called confirmation hearings on incoming Federal Security Administrator Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby and three prospective cabinet officers—Treasury Secretary George M Humphrey, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, and Attorney General Herbert Brownell, jr.
GOP Works On 1954 Campaign
Washington — (U.P.)—Republican National Chairman C. Wesley Roberts has already gone to work on campaign plans for the 1954 Congressional elections.
Roberts was elected GOP chairman Saturday, succeeding Arthur E. Summerfield, who resigned to become postmaster general in the Eisenhower cabinet.
His salary was fixed at $32,000 a year. Other GOP chairmen in the recent past have served without pay.
Roberts' first official act was to designate the 19-member executive committee of the GOP national committee as the top "plans group" for the 1954 off-year elections. McIntyre Faires, GOP committeeman from California, was elected chairman of the group and called its first meeting for Feb. 28.
Roberts, a native of Oksalokoa, Kan., and former newspaperman, said Republicans must lose no time preparing their drive to increase their present thin Senate and House majorities.
Indo-China Rebels Hit French Posts
Saigon, Indo-China—(U.P.)—Communist led Vietnamesh rebel launched a massive assault on French outposts in central Annam, the French high command announced today.
The French said they were rushing reinforcements to aid the beleaguered French and Vietnam defenders of Na-Khe, a vital road head in the Annam mountains.
The high command said elements of the rebel 803rd and 108th regiments were reported to have linked up with "several" regional battalions and to be sweeping down the Song Ba river valley.
All other incoming cabinet members, except Mr. Wilson, have got committee clearance and will be confirmed and sworn in after the inauguration tomorrow.
The widow of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, however, that she voted last November for Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson.
Eleanor OK's GOP Victory
Madison, Wis.,—(U.P.)—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said of Dwight D. Eisenhower's inauguration today that "it is a good thing for an occasional change."
She appeared here last night for a speech on foreign affairs.
Before the speech, Mrs. Roosevelt commented that the nation's twoparty system makes changes in administration desirable from time to time.
The widow of the late President, who resigned last week as a UN delegate, contradicted charges that there are spies in the world organization.
Later, in her speech, the former first lady criticized John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's secretary of state-designate.
"Mr. Dulles calls the United Nations the town meeting of the world," Mrs. Rosevelt said. "The United Nations' problems are far larger than those of a town meeting."
"The FBI has a complete record of all persons associated with the UN and that is more than they might have of people of subversive intent elsewhere in the country," she said.
A new 5-hour course in college algebra and statistics designed for the student who wishes to take a minimum of mathematics as part of a liberal education will be offered for the spring semester.
Staff positions for the Kansas Engineer magazine, the student publication of the School of Engineering, are now open for the May 1953 issue.
5-Hour Math Course Set for Spring Term
Positions Open For Magazine
"The new course is considered more significant for a liberal education than trigonometry, according to Dr. G. Baley Price, chairman of the mathematics department. "Furthermore, statistics is a highly important tool in the social and biological sciences."
Each Engineer staff has charge of four issues of the magazine over a period of a year. The new staff will be chosen ready to begin work immediately after the March issue is out. All applications for positions are due by February 1, 1953.
Elective positions of editor, associate editor, business manager, advertising manager, and circulation manager are filled by vote of the Engineering Student council. Applications for these positions should be addressed to Engineering council, 111 Marvin.
Other staff positions, such as feature writer, joke writer, copy-reader, layout and art, are appointive positions and may be created by the editor. The number and nature of these positions vary from issue to issue. Applications for these positions should be addressed to Editor, 201A Marvin.
Ike's Speech 15 Minutes Long Washington —(U,P) — Dwight D. Eisenhower's inaguration speech will be about 2,300 words long, and will take about 15 minutes to deliver. The President-elect completed work on the speech just before leaving New York Sunday to come to Washington.
Students seeking further information may obtain it by contacting Ron Wigington, present editor of the Kansas Engineer magazine.
THE BUS (Adv.)
Ike's Speech 15 Minutes Long
by Bibler
"It isn't little Willie's Bubble Gum, Reginald, you left the the emergency brake on."
Fine Arts Junior Skirts Jibes; Carves First Stone Jayhawk
Although the Kansas Jayhawk has been displayed in many ways, shapes, and forms at the University not one has ever been carved from stone.
George Knotts, a junior in art education, put an end to this situation by carving the Jayhawk as his first piece of sculptural work.
"At first I was kidded quite a bit for choosing what everyone considered a juvenile and unoriginal subject," he said. "But now some of the same people are saying they like it."
The Jayhawk was begun three months ago as a project for a class in sculpture. The piece is cut from Louisiana limestone and stands about 18 inches high. The mythical bird has its wings folded at its sides and the head is tilted back.
Elden Teft, instructor of design, said many of the students doubted if a serious piece of sculpture could result from such a worked-over theme. He added that Knotts had convinced all doubters of the possibilities of the subject.
To make his piece of work truly different, Knotts spent many hours reading about the Jayhawk legend, studying other artist's conceptions and studying other birds in the
Engineers Elect Page Conference Head for 1954
The advisory committee for the annual sanitary engineering conference last week elected Richard T. Page, assistant professor of civil engineering, as chairman of preparations for the 1954 conference.
Prof. Tefft said he believes the Jayhawk probably will be displayed on a pedestal in the Student Union as soon as it is completed.
About 80 persons heard Eric Eweson, a soil bacteriologist from New York, explain a profitable method for disposal of city garbage at the third annual conference yesterday.
Museum of Natural History.
Debators Win 2nd at Pittsburg
The team of Margaret Smith, college freshman, and Letty Lemon, college sophomore, won three of five preliminary rounds also in the junior division.
Edith Sorter, college freshman,
and Marjorie Heard, engineering
freshman, won four of five pre-
liminary rounds, beat St. Benedict's
Ofatchon in the semi-finals, and
then lost to Central State Teachers
college at Edmond, Okla., to take
second place in the junior division.
One team of the University debate squad copped a second place in the junior division of a tournament held Saturday at Kansas State Teachers college at Pittsburg.
In the senior division, the team of William Arnold and Hubert Bell, college sophomores, won four of five preliminary rounds and were then beaten by Southwest Missouri State Teachers college at Springfield, who went on to take first place in the division.
In other events, Arnold received an "excellent" rating in oratory, and Miss Sorter also received an "excellent" rating in after dinner speaking.
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