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Pulitzer Winner To Address Editors
Louis LaCoss, editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat editorial page and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1951, will be Kansas Editors' day speaker at the University Saturday, Oct.4.
He will talk on issues of the 1952 presidential campaign, particularly corruption in public office, a subject which he discussed at length in the prize-winning editorial entitled "The Low Estate of Public Morals."
All editors of the nearly 400 Kansas daily and weekly newspapers have been invited to hear Mr. LaCoss and to be guests of the University at the Colorado-Kansas football game, it was announced today by Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism, which is sponsor of Editors' day.
Mr. LaCoss, a University of Kansas graduate in 1912 and editor of the University Kansan as an under-graduate, has had a long and varied career in newspaper work.
By UNITED PRESS
GOP Expected To Keep Nixon On Party Ticket
Senator Richard M. Nixon appeared almost certain today of staying on the Republican ticket as Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate.
Tens of thousands of voters sent telegrams to the Republican National committee supporting Sen. Nixon after the young vice presidential candidate appeared on television last night and denied any wrongdoing in accepting an $18,235 personal expense fund.
A formal announcement of the decision was due tonight when Sen. Nixon meets Eisenhower at Wheeling, W. Va.
At Cleveland, Ohio, Arthur Summerfield, Republican National Committee chairman, announced that Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Nixon would meet tonight at Wheeling, where the General is scheduled to speak.
A joint news conference for Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Nixon was being arranged. Mr. Summerfield said Nixon is due to land at Wheeling at 7:30 p.m. Gen. Eisenhower is to speak at Wheeling stadium at 7 p.m., and officials said the news conference would be held later.
At Detroit, Mich., Sen. Robert ATAft said he saw "no reason why"Sen. Nixon should be asked to quit. He said Sen. Nixon's television and radio explanation last night was "most effective."
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1952
But the controversy had caused some dissension in the GOP. At Madison, Wis., Henry Ringling, GOP national committeeman from Wisconsin, pulled the rug of Republican support out from under Wilbur Renk, chairman of the Wisconsin Citizens Committee for Eisenhower-Nixon.
He began as a reporter in San Diego, Calif., in 1912, joined the staff of the Kansas City Star in 1913 and was with the Parsons Sun in 1914. From 1915 to 1923 he was on the staff of the Associated Press, serving from 1920 to 1923 as its correspondent in Mexico City.
In 1923 Mr. LaCoss joined the Globe-Democrat staff. After a short period as a copyreader and reporter, he became a special writer, traveling extensively in gathering material and writing approximately 1,500 special and feature stories on a variety of subjects.
In addition to hearing Mr. LaCoss,
at 11:30 a.m. in Fraser theater, the editors will discuss newspaper
problems in the traditional Wrangle Session at 10 a.m. in the lecture
room of the new Journalism building.
Leonard McCalla of Garnett,
publisher of the Anderson Countian
and president of the Kansas
Press association, will be moderator.
In 1936 Mr. LaCoss became an editorial writer, and in 1941 he was named editor of the editorial page of the Globe-Democrat. Last spring he was elected a vice president of that newspaper.
His Pulitzer prize-winning editorial was written in August, 1951, at the time some 90 West Point cadets were discharged from the military academy for examination cheating.
The editorial not only dealt with that subject, but it broadened into a criticism of corruption and what LaCoss termed a "distorted attitude toward old-fashioned honesty and integrity that pertains not only in our schools but in America's social and political life."
At 12:45 p.m. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will be the editors at luncheon in the cafeteria of the Union building, and at 2 p.m. they will be guests of the University Athletic association at the Colorado-Kansas game.
Daily hansan
Fall on Blake Steps Hospitalizes Foreman
There will be a meeting of FACTS political party at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 206 Fraser. Chester Lewis, third year law student, will preside. Interested persons are invited to attend.
Henry Firner, electrical foreman for the buildings and grounds department, was hospitalized with a severely injured shoulder as the result of a fall on the stairs of Blake hall Saturday morning.
FACTS Meeting Tomorrow
A Watkins hospital spokesman said today that Mr. Firner received a ligament injury to the left shoulder in addition to a back injury.
SMALL BUT ACTIVE—The lemming, small mammal of the rodent tribe, will weigh about one-quarter of a pound when full grown. In natural habitat they will grow in large numbers. Six lemmings are under observation at the Museum of Art by an artist who is doing illustrations for a book. Kansan photo by Dave Arhurs.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No.6
Musicians from 50 Kansas high school bands will be on the campus Saturday to perform in the annual Band Day, Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director of band and orchestra, announced today.
Gov. Stevenson explained also that he, who governor, had "adopted a practice of making gifts around Christmas time to a small number of state employees" whom he regarded as underpaid.
Gov. Stevenson Rejects Demand To Tell Names
But at the same time Gov. Stevenson defended the practice as one necessary to obtain and hold the services of men of "outstanding ability" in government.
Baltimore—(U.P.)Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson flatly rejected today Sen. Richard M. Nixon's demand that he disclose the name of Illinois state officials whose salaries he augmented with cash gifts.
Prof. Wiley will conduct the massed band of 3,000, including the KU band, in the national anthem before the Santa Clara game. Shawnee Mission High school and Colby High school will perform during halftime.
Sen. Nixon, in explaining to the nation his own acceptance of an $18,235 expense allowance last night, challenged the Democratic nominee to make public the names of Illinois officials whose salaries have been augmented, a step Gov. Stevenson had admitted.
The bands, guests of the Kansas University Athletic association, will march in a parade beginning at 10 a.m. at Sixth street. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce will serve them refreshments at South park at the end of the parade.
The Democratic presidential nominee told a meeting of volunteer campaign workers that he saw "no purpose in disclosing the names of the persons or the amounts" involved.
To do so, he said, would give them "undeserved publicity" and would be a "breach of faith on my part."
The money for the "gifts" Stevenson said, came from campaign funds and from contributions made "from time to time."
The number of bands is smaller than the 1951 figure since the Kansas High School Activities association has limited KU to fifty guest bands.
50 Bands To Perform
MusicologistOpens Humanities Series
The only lecture to be given in the Midwest by Dr. Federico Ghisi, eminent musicologist of the University of Florence, Italy, will start the sixth year of the Humanities lectures at the University next Tuesday.
The address will begin at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater, and all students, faculty, and others interested in the history of music are invited.
Dr. Ghisi is in America on a Fulbright grant and has lectured at the University of California and at UCLA. He will be here Monday and Tuesday on his way to the University of North Carolina. His schedule includes lectures at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Michigan and the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y. He is middle-aged and speaks English well.
As a foremost European musicologist, he is a specialist in the history and literature of music, and his book, "Florentine Carnival Songs" is recognized as an outstanding work, Dr. Milton Steinhardt, associate professor of music history at KU said. His topic for the Tuesday evening lecture is in his specialty: "Festivities and Shows in Florence during the Renaissance." He will use both slides and recordings to illustrate the lecture.
Although his main field is musicology, Dr. Ghisi has composed opera and chamber, choral, and orchestral music. Besides having published articles on Renaissance music, he is author of a book, "Early Florentine Monody," dealing with compositions for single voice accompanied by lute—the equivalent of the English "lute songs."
He was born in China while his father was in the Italian diplomatic service and stationed at Shanghai. He was educated at the University of Turin, Italy.
During his visit to the Kansas campus, Dr. Ghisi will speak to classes in medieval history and history of music, will have luncheon with faculty members of the School of Fine Arts and with the Italian club, Circolo Italiano, and dinner with the Humanities committee. Prof. Donald M. Swarthout will introduce Dr. Ghisi at the lecture.
His Tuesday evening lecture will "kick off" the sixth year of the
DR. FEDERICO GHISI
Humanities lectures at the University. In the series 28 lectures have been given by 25 speakers, including such outstanding men as T. V. Smith, Alexander Meikeljohn, Virgil Thomson, Allan Nevins, Gilbert Highet, and Guissep Borges.
Four speakers are on the KU faculty; Dr. Clifford Osborne, philosophy; Dr. John Hankins, English; Dr. Charles Realey, history, and Dr. William Shoemaker, Romance languages. This year five lecturers will appear, one of them from the Kansas faculty.
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, is chairman of the committee which includes Dr. J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages; Dr. Murrel D. Clubb, professor of English; Dr. George W.Kreyne, associate professor of German; Dr. L. Robert Lind, associate professor of Latin and Greek; Dr. Charles B. Realey, professor of history; Dr. Edward S. Robinson, associate professor of philosophy, and Dr. Milton Steinhardt, associate professor of music history.
Lemmings Thrive in Museum As Artist Observes Actions
Six of the seven lemmings brought here last week from Point Barrow, Alaska, are still alive and thriving wonderfully, Dr. Raymond Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History, said today.
Richard Philip Grossneider, celebrated animal artist, has begun sketching the animals after observing their behavior and will be used to illustrate a book being prepared by staff members of the museum.
The lemmings, small mammals of the rodent tribe weighing about one quarter of a pound when full grown are being kept in a refrigerated room in the animal house. They are being fed cabbage, willow leaves, and other vegetables.
The lemmings have been observed to consume larger quantities of food than do their relatives, the prairie vole or meadow mouse, which are found around Lawrence.
Dr. R. H. Baker, assistant professor of zoology and assistant curator, said today that no plans have been made for the future of the Alaskan animals. The habits of the animals will continue to be observed. In case some of them die, the dead animals will be used for laboratory tests on blood and serum.
Dr. Baker said that in their natural habitat, the lemmings grow in large numbers and at an early age learn to swim. Some become extremely large and in their migration, swim too far away from land so that they become exhausted and drown.
The fact that the lemmings swim out of sight of land has led some authorities to believe that perhaps some sort of 'lost continent' lies in the North Alaskan vicinity.
Weather
More fair weather was predicted for Kansas through Thursday with temperatures running a little warmer.
WARM
No rain was reported in the last 24 hours. Kansas has gone rainless for the last three days.
Chances are for more fair weather through Thursday. Temperatures will be slightly warmer tomorrow with it
watches from 80 to 85. Lows tonight will be in the 50s generally.