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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 22, 1952
Stevenson Submits New Labor Plan
New York—(U.P.)—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson repeated today his demand for abandonment of the Taft-Hartley act in favor of a new federal labor law and submitted a new five-point program for streamlining the labor department.
In a speech delivered to the national convention of the American Federation of Labor, the Democratic presidential nominee made a scathing, direct reply to an address by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the GOP nominee, to the AFL last week. He said Eisenhower's statements on labor policy were "only blank cartridges."
He repeated his Labor day recommendation that the Taft-Hartley act should be replaced by a new law because the present act is "spiteful" and has become "a symbol of dissention and bitterness."
He sought to refute Eisenhower's contention that he, Stevenson, had "embraced" the principle of compulsion by recommending that the President be given power to "compel arbitration" of national emergency disputes.
Stevenson restated his proposal on this subject.
"If Congrees sees fit to direct the President to intervene in a labor dispute, it should give him the authority to try, among other things, to have that dispute referred to arbitration," he said. "I did not say that he should be given the power to 'compel' arbitration. I recommend a flexibility of procedures all built around the mediation process to replace the present requirement that in all of these cases the collective bargaining process be stopped dead by a court order."
1. Giving the Bureau of Labor Statistics "a much broader function" so it "could better perform its essential service as keeper of the people's budget.
Stevenson's program for strengthening the Department of Labor to make it a more effective service agency included these specific, as he put it, "possibilities:"
2. Establishment of "a labor counterpart of the agricultural extension service, to help train the men who make democracy work in the labor unions and around the bargaining tables."
3. "Retraining men who are replaced by machines and directing them to new jobs where now we simply pay them unemployment compensation." This, he said, could save "both manpower and money."
4. Increasing the staff of the National Labor Relations board so it could process cases in half the time it now takes. He acknowledged that the NLRB operates outside the labor department but included this recommendation because it involved the same broad field.
5. "Compassionate" attention for
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Math colloquium, 5 p.m., 203 Strong.
Tuesday
Student Religious council meeting 4 p.m., Room B, Myers hall. Very important.
Bailey Chemistry club, 7:30 p.m.
201 BCL. Anyone interested is welcome.
AROTC Rifle team. 7:30 p.m., 107 Military Science. Any cadet interested.
Physical Theraphy meeting, 7:30 p.m., Physical Theraphy office at hospital.
Wednesday
Chess club organizational meeting, 7:30 p.m., 20 Strong.
"the problem of migrant farm laborers, over 1,000,000 Americans who move with the sun and the seasons, 50,384 lives often bleak cycles of exploitation and rejection."
News Briefs
Bv United Press
Dallas, Tex., E. Bass Clay, an Amarillo, (Tex.) rancher, pleaded guilty here to income tax evasion. His lawyer told the court Clay's wife was sick and the judge said he would fine Clay only $50,000.
"But Mr. Clay has only $465 in the bank," said the lawyer,
"Shucks, that's all right," shouted Clay. "T'll pay the fine right now." He counted up $10,000 from his wallet. The judge had no comment.
Marlin,-Tex., After weeks of clear skies and parched crops in central Texas, something fell from the skies.
The Brazos Valey Times hastened to explain: "That strange-loking stuff was rain, brother."
Manchester, England. — David Gainsboro was taken off the "approved" list of dentists by the National Health service for pulling too many teeth.
It was charged he made $61,600 in the last two years by pulling out teeth to cover up bad dentistry. Three patients had no teeth left.
London,—A 42-year-old mechanic was charged with manslaughter because a home-made, shotgun booby-trap he rigged to protect his frequently burgled trunk worked so well it killed the thief.
The prosecution said British law states it is lawful to set such traps between sunset and sunrise, but not during daylight hours.
San Antonio, Tex—A civilian employee at Kelly Air Force base said today she swatted at pesky flies during a cattle auction at Cameron, Tex., and unwittingly bought a calf
Doris Lott said she didn't realize that each wave of her hand as she swatted the flies was being interpreted by the auctioneer as a bid. She got the calf for $35.
Cambridge, Mass.—Police had no doubt today that the latest case of theft could be pinned on someone.
Mrs. Ervin E. Underwood reported that he had been stolen off her clothingline.
Columbus, O. — Columbus residents were informed today that it soon won't be illegal to park a vehicle at the central market without first unhitching the horse. Nor will it be against the law to herd cattle through the streets.
City Attorney Richard W. Gordon said these and other outmoded city regulations are being stricken from the books in a revision of the city code.
--to be ready in 1954. Human endurance may be a crucial factor in its operations.
Watham, Mass.—It looked like the kids were getting the best of it yesterday in the annual mother-son baseball game of Waltham's little league.
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But the moms came up with 10 runs in the late innings to fight the game to a 16-16 tie.
Booketeria Passes Initial Test For Speed With Self-Service
BABY WITH A CIGAR—Lyle Armstrong, college freshman, represented Sig Ep of 1987 in the enthusiastic gathering making up the 50th Nightshirt parade Friday. However, Armstrong was only one of the crowd of about 1200 students who were cheering the Jayhawkers on to victory over TCU. The rally and parade began in front of the Union building. The students snake-danced down Massachusetts street and ended with a rally in South park.-Kansas photo by Phil Newman.
One week of service has shown that the temporary booketeria has, on the whole, been a success, Ray Verrey, bookstore manager said. There were some snags, but they were snags that come with a new enterprise.
Navy Needs Supermen for Atom Sub
Mr. Verrey said his main objection was the long waiting lines. He believed these lines were caused by students writing checks and the usual post-enrollment rush. These factors will be taken care of in the future, he said.
"All the errors we make now will help us when we return to our permanent quarters," Mr. Verrey said. He expects the new book-store, located in the sub-basement of the Union building, to be opened about Nov. 17.
The store, greatly enlarged, will be located approximately in its old spot. It will be run as a partial booketeria.
"I don't think that a 100 per cent self-service store is the answer to the problem," Mr. Verrey said.
His object is to let the students make their purchases as rapidly as possible. Many items in the new store will be purchased through the self-service method. There will also be display cases for pens, pencils and precision instruments.
Mr. Verrey reminded new students to keep their patronage refund slips. All refund slips dated from July 1 to Dec. 31, 1952 will be refundable after Jan. 1, 1953. On Oct. 4, the bookstore will honor all refund slips in series 11. These are dated Jan. 1, to June 30, 1952. This year's refund rate will be 15 per cent.
At all times there will be clerks to help students select merchandise. Five cash registers will eliminate the line situation.
Washington—The Navy disclosed today it is recruiting "supermen" from the fleet to man the world's first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus.
Crew members already are being secretly prepared, with the most thorough training in naval history.
The Nautilus, with unheard of range, speeds and almost indefinite underwater capability, is expected
Cmdr. David B. Bell, in charge of submarine officer placement, said volunteers from among the Navy's 1,500 highly-selected submarine officer are being screened for "good, rugged healthy people."
Living conditions aboard the Nautilus will be about the same as "and certainly no worse" than on a range range submarines, the Navy, said.
"They must be supermen,be willing to stay at sea and under water indefinitely." Bell said.
Atomic crewmen will have all possible comforts to make life bearable—including specially developed color schemes to lessen tendencies of claustrophobia in the confined quarters and reduce fatigue on watch.
UN Recaptures Strategic Hill
The UN ground victory was matched in the air by Sabrejet pilots, who damaged four Communist MIG-15 jets to bring their September toll of MIGS to 102. The number equaled their record monthly score of the Korean war.
Seoul, Korea —(U.P.) United Nations soldiers recaptured a towering peak on the eastern front from North Korean Communists today in the third of three ferocious counter-attacks on the stubborn Red defenders.
The Reds captured the eastern front height early this morning. The Allies Counter-attacked at daybreak, using tanks, and had fought their way to within 300 yards of the crest by 8:30 a.m.
In another drive about noon the Allies were stopped by heavy Red artillery, mortar and machine gun fire.
Crawling and battling their way up the steep hill, they finally reached the top of the peak and drove the North Koreans down the slope.
At 4 p.m. they reported the hill was once more theirs
Today's air victory brought the Sabres' MIG victims for the month to 50 destroyed, four probably destroyed and 48 damaged. During the entire month of March, 102 MIGS also were destroyed, probably destroyed or damaged.
Allied jet pilots last week set a new destruction record by surpassing the mark of 41 MIGS shot down in April. With eight days left in September, the rampaging Sabres were certain to make it the worst month of the war for the Red Air force.
Auditions Set for Wednesday
Auditions will be held for KANU-FM and KFKU-AM radio announcers at 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the Engineering Experimental building.
Faculty Notes
Two associate professors of geography, A. W. Kuckler and Thomas Smith, and a graduate student, Stanley Moore, attended the Congress of International Geographers held in Washington recently.
Dr. Kuchler was present at the entire congress while the others attended part time.
Dr. Kuchler presented a paper on mapping the vegetation of this country. He spent the summer doing field work on mapping the vegetation on Mt. Desert island in Bar Harbor, Me.
Dr. Kuchler also was secretary of a section on biogeography and participated in conferences of the international committee for mapping the vegetation of the world, of which he is a member.
George F. Jenks, assistant professor of geography, was one of four men in the U.S. to receive citations for "Meritorious Contributions to the Field of Geography" at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Washington recently.
The work, "A Kansas Atlas," is a series of color-plate maps depicting economic data. It was published by the Kansas Industrial Development commission which is using the atlas to attract new industries to the state.
Dr. Jenks received the award, as the citation states, "For his conception and execution of an economic atlas of Kansas, designed to meet the needs of state officials."
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Dr. Gilbert Haight and Dr. David Chow will join the University this fall as assistant professors of analytical chemistry.
Dr. Haight was a Rhodes scholar to England and received the Ph.D. degree at Princeton. He has taught at George Washington university for the past five years.
Dr. Chow completed work on the Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry at Washington university in August. He is replacing Dr. C. A. Reynolds who is currently on leave of absence for special work with the Army's Chemical Research corps in Washington.
Several professors and graduate students of the chemistry department returned recently from attending the annual meeting of the American Chemical society held in Atlantic City.
Prof. Jacob Kleinberg was in charge of a symposium on the chemical reactions of liquid ammonia. Prof. W. E. McEwen and Prof. A. W. Davidson presented research papers.
The graduate students who attended were Ralph Birdwhistell, Justo Bravo, and Richard Fuchs.
Col. James J. Hausman, executive officer of the Air Force ROTC unit, has been placed on temporary duty for three months at the air university, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala. Col. Hausman, who has been at KU three years, will assist in the writing of textbooks for new air courses. Since the duty is temporary, no replacement will be sent here.
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Dr. Oonald Wilson, head of the electrical engineering department will be in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Saturday for a sectional meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers. He will be the official representative of the Kansas City, Mo., section of which he is the chairman.
A Cappella Choir To Hold Rehearsal
The first rehearsal of the A Cappella choir will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24. Regular rehearsals will be held at 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, D. M. Swarthout, director of the group, said.
Enrollments in the choir closed Thursday with 94 applicants trying out. The membership of the organization will be announced later. Additional good tenor or bass voices are still needed, Swarthout said.
The program of music chosen for study and performance during the year includes- lively Negro spirituals, majestic and rich Russia, liturgical music as well as numbers from modern day composers such as Roy Harris and others.