University Daily Kansav Friday, Jan. 16, 1953
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"My dad says we're lucky we don't have to listen 'overtime' to Proff. Snarf's lectures—His class of '32 bought a clock for th' room."
New Budget Needs Students' Attention
The governor's budget committee's action in slashing more than $1 million from the requested 1953-54 operating budget for KU shows a high regard for lightening the load of state taxpayers, but a grave disregard for the extension of the University's services and prestige.
Although approval of the final budget figure is in the hands of the Legislature, indications are that the committee's recommended figure will closely approximate the one finally approved.
In dollars and cents, if the University will have to operate on such a reduced biennial budget, it will mean a cutdown in expansion, and similar cuts in current services.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy admits that KU's requested figure was not "padded." It provided for a modest increase in the University's services—more modest than he would prefer.
The University's appropriation request admittedly was higher than the figure approved by the Legislature two years ago. But, Dr. Murphy says, much of this increase was to take up the slack created by the loss of GI bill compensation.
Similar slashes by the committee to the requested budgets of most other state institutions of higher learning arouse the question: "Are the budget committee members interested in appealing to the taxpayer-voters at the sake of the extension of higher learning to more Kansans?
Today's KU student, especially the one who is a junior or below, should do more than just sit back and watch for the final action by the Legislature.
The University's growth and reputation are at stake. Money is the lifeblood of the growth of any University, the practical means to any expansion of services and reputation.
It is to the benefit of KU students to fight for a higher state appropriation. And the best way that any of us can fight at present is to acquaint the right people with this situation.
Words or letters to parents, representatives, or the governor himself, might make the difference between a healthy growing University for the next two years, or an unhealthy static institution.
Bob Stewart.
Could Texas glamour be fading? A proud son of Michigan, Korean jet ace Foster, doesn't appreciate the inaccurate publicity tagging him with Lone Star citizenship. He's bravely spreading the word too—at the risk of a diplomatic incident with Texas.
New CIO President Supports Broad Views
Recently elected CIO President Walter Reuther, labor's idea man, is expected to bring his interpretations of labor into play and to switch the organization's attitude toward broader social, economic, and political thoughts.
Called a radical by his admirers and enemies alike, Mr. Reuther believes that labor should be more actively engaged in the problems confronting the nation and the world. He always has tended to make a specific union issue a springboard on which to jump to a more philosophical attitude.
At 45, he is the spokesman for the younger, intellectual—even radical—wing of the CIO. Even though he is a dominant personality and a man with great leadership capabilities, Mr. Reuther is not expected to wield the Congress of Industrial Organizations into the united machine that it was under the direction of John L. Lewis and Philip Murray.
If the ambitious Mr. Reuther should picture himself as the president of the combined AFL and CIO unions, a reunification might come about. Martin Durkin, secretary of labor-designate, favors a reunification. One of the first acts which George Meany accomplished after becoming AFL president was to announce he was reviving an AFL committee to discuss reunification of the two organizations.
An aggressive and articulate person, Mr. Reuther knows how to get what he wants. His rise to the top of the CIO has been swift and seemingly without effort.
Should Mr. Reuther be convinced that he was to become president of the new organization, the reunification would become a virtual certainty.
Mr. Reuther began in labor as an apprentice tool and die maker in the Wheeling (W.Va.) Steep corporation when he was 15 years old. Fired from that job, he ventured to Detroit and rose to foreman of the tool and die room of the Ford Motor company. He was fired from that job in 1932.
For the next three years he traveled by bicycle through Europe and the Orient, observing auto plants and machine shops. He returned to the United States in 1935 to organize auto workers. He was elected president of Local 174 of the United Auto Workers, and the union grew from 78 members to 30,000 in one year.
During the war, Mr. Reuther served on many labor boards in an advisory capacity. He was connected with the War Manpower commission and the War Production board.
Leading the 113-day strike of the General Motors workers from Nov. 21, 1945, to March 13, 1946, and winning a wage increase and improved working conditions was one of his great victories. The strike focused national attention on the union demands of "wage increases without price increases."
It was during this strike and the negotiations preceding it that Mr. Reuther showed his tendency toward broader social, economic and political questions. He based his arguments on the contention that the U.S. economy needed higher wages to prevent a depression
Flashbacks
—Bob Longstaff.
JANUARY 10
5 Years Ago
A budget of $670.50 was submitted today to the ASC by the sophomore class chairman for the Sophomore Leap Year Hop.
The Hob Nail hop queen candidate will be in no danger of being kidnapped because this year the queen will be picked from the girls present at the dance to be held Mar. 13.
At present veterans at the University need not worry about President Truman's request to Congress for "an end to frivolities in the GI educational program," said Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans bureau.
Charles Kettering, engineer, scientist, banker, author, and businessman, will speak Tuesday at an all-student convocation.
10 Years Ago
A farewell for University servicemen and a housewarming for the renovated Union building are but two of the elements combined in the "Goodbye, KU! Hello, Guadalcanal" get-together which will be held Feb. 5.
25 Years Ago
Navy Gives KU Four Jet Engines
The commencement committee at a meeting this noon decided that it would purchase sufficient caps and gowns for the senior class, that these would remain the property of the University, and would be rented to the members of the senior class at a rate to be determined later.
Four jet engines donated by the Navy to the department of aeronautical engineering have been received, Prof. Ammon Andes, acting chairman of the department, said today.
The last of the engines, two XJ-31-5 turbo-jets, built by General Electric company, were delivered to the Lawrence airport installation of the department during the Christmas vacation.
The other engines, two eight inch pulse jets, were received in December.
Prof. Andes said one of the pulse jets has been set up and will be operated in the near future. One of the XJ-31-5's will also be set up and put in operation as soon as possible, Prof. Andes said.
Under these circumstances, if there is any rise of isolationism in America, the fault does not lie with Americans but with those people in foreign countries who take advantage of American help and then not only fail to appreciate it, instead, charge that they are subjected to a hidden form of American imperialism. That is indeed too much.
I don't think isolationism is increasing in America. On the other hand, there are millions of people (excluding Communists) in Western Europe and Asia, who believe and say that billions of dollars given by America to foreign countries and young Americans fighting and dying in Korea merely constitute a new kind of American imperialism.
Letters
Coming back to the danger of Communism in general, we must realize that it has an international character, and that is one of its greatest strengths. Those who belong to the so-called "free world" are bitterly divided. Democracy and freedom, as we know it today, are very recent in the history of mankind and are not necessarily permanent.
The waves of darkness, which have already swallowed a large part of humanity, are now dashing against the very house of Liberty and it is yet to be seen whether that house is built on rock or sand.
Indian Disagrees On Isolationism
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan,
In the letter published in the Daily Kansan of Jan. 13, the student from Austria says that he is expressing the opinions of the majority of foreign students. Being myself a foreign student, I must say that I don't agree with him.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
This unity can be achieved only when we begin to realize a sense of continuity with other peoples of the world and a kind of love for the whole humanity whose gathering warmth begins to melt the fingering prejudices.
All free nations must put all their resources together and unite for the common cause. Only then our friend from Austria would not feel like belonging to a "begger nation."
However, in our common endeavor we must not merely oppose Communism, which is a negative approach, but strive to establish a New Order to create a New Faith and to make a New World. And that New World should not be limited to today but should extend itself until it embraces whole humanity and provides solace and comfort even to the slaves toiling in the coldest parts of Siberia or in the deepest mines of South Africa. Then alone Peace shall be on
Then alone Peace Earth
Tapsi Autshi engineering student
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