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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 7, 1952
VIEWING NEW DISPLAY "Mrs. Francis Balch" by John Smibert, is one of the pictures in the "Treasures of Northeast Kansas" exhibit now on display in the Museum of Art. Viewing the picture are Jim Tabor, college junior, and Charles Church, business junior. The display is being shown in the museum's new special exhibit gallery—Kansan photo by Jim Murrav.
Private Collections Display In Art Museum Gallery
"Treasures from Northeast Kansas," a display of art objects from private collections within a 50-mile radius of Lawrence, is now being shown in the new special exhibit gallery on the basement floor of the Museum of Art.
The display consists of pictures and objects of art representing about 20 artists. It is the first display to be shown in the new gallery.
Mentioned by Prof. John Maxon, director of the museum as being outstanding in the display are a pastel portrait by Degaf, a bronze from Benin and an Egyptian bronze cat. Also on view is a selection from the glass collection of Dean Edward Hashinger of the School of Medicine.
The new gallery is especially built for such displays. It is constructed so that both pictures and objects may be effectively displayed. The objects are exhibited under glass on shelves that are built into the wall.
The display will be shown through the month of March.
College Students Win Orals Honor
Robert Smith, college freshman, and Margaret Thompson, college sophomore, were the winners Thursday night in the informative speech section of the Intramural Speaking contest in Green hall.
Smith's topic was "Counterfeit-
ing," and Miss Thompson spoke on
"Sinus Trouble." Both won engraved
trophies.
In the men's division, John Barber, college sophomore, and Robert Elliott, college freshman, finished second and third. Barber's title was "Rocket Travel to Mars" and Elliott's title was "World Defense—U. S. Allies."
Dot Taylor, journalism junior, finished second and Julia Oliver, college freshman, finished third in the women's division. Miss Taylor spoke on "William Allen White" and Miss Oliver spoke on "Personality in the Voice."
The second and third place winners in both divisions received certificates.
The next section of the contest, demonstration speeches, will be held Thursday. March 20.
The contest is being sponsored by the Forensic league in cooperation with the department of speech and drama.
Varied Selections For Carillon Concert
A carillon concert will be presented from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon by Ronald M. Barnes, University carillonour.
The program includes: Morning Song (Mendelssohn), Minuet in G (Bach) Berceuse (Tanminin), English Folk Songs As I Was Going to Bastar O No John, and O No John; Cansona for carillon (Menotti); The Ash Grove, Welsh Folk Song, and Sarabande and Ronda for carillon (Loos).
Tool Engineers To Tour
Fifteen members of the American Society of Tool Engineers will tour the Brunson Instrument company in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday.
The trip will acquaint the members with practical applications of theories learned in the classroom.
The trip is the first of several planned for this semester.
Says Flare-Up Not Communistic
The general flare-up in the world today cannot be attributed to the communists, although symptoms have been exploited by them, said Dr. Amiya Chakravarty, visiting professor of humanities, in the first of six lectures entitled "The East-West Conflict: An Asian Viewpoint" last night.
Society has moved quickly in the last few decades, but oow there is a "general plunge toward change," Dr. Chakravarathy explained.
"Colonization, as such, is neither Eastern nor Western," he said.
Two types of colonization were stressed by Dr. Chakravarty. The earlier type stated that all human beings had to live in colonies, for it was the migration of human beings to areas of few human beings—the beginning of civilization, he said. The other type, specialized colonization, involves the coveting of someone else's land, he added.
"Words don't change facts," he said, "no matter what words have been said, certain powers have existed for nothing less, and nothing more, than domination."
Nationalism should not be compared to a vague metropolis society which loses its meaning, but to something richer, Dr. Chakravarty said.
Nationalism means fighting a double-edged battle, trying to throw off foreign powers which do not allow nations to blossom; and fighting against totalitarian creeds and concepts, he said.
"The Asian nationalism is in a very sore and desperate situation, for they have very little hope of seeing themselves as anything but a proving ground of powers."
Two Million Seek Jobs With U.S. Government
Washington—(U.P.)About 2,000,000 persons, ranging from typists to funeral directors, asked for jobs with Uncle Sam last year. They applied through the U.S. civil service commission.
The commission is the world's largest employment agency — the hiring hall for the federal government. It is a gigantic job because the government employs more than 2,500,000 people in civil service, including almost every type of worker used by private industry.
In 1951 the commission gave more than 25,000 examinations for hundreds of types of federal positions and placed 578,539 workers who qualified — the largest number since World War II — new employees. Some were long-time government workers who got promotions or transfers.
The names of applicants who rate 70 or above in an examination are
Responsible since 1883 for putting the best workers available into government jobs, the commission today selects 93 per cent of the employees hired by the executive branch of the government through competitive examinations or for "merit and high qualification" plugging to get postmasters and internal revenue collectors under its jurisdiction.
When government personnel is needed announcements of examinations are sent to all first and second grades to be posted on bulletin boards.
Government employees are recruited and employed throughout the country. There are more federal workers in California — 10.1 per cent of the total — than there are in Washington, D.C., where 10 per cent are located.
Since outbreak of the Korean War, the commission has had a shortage of typists, scientists and skilled technicians.
filed in order of their scores in a CSC "eligible register." When an agency needs a new worker the commission sends the names of the three top scoreers listed in the register and the agency chooses one.
The commission gives a special examination once a year to "select the cream of the crop from among young men and women . . ." who aim for top administrative positions in law enforcement. The legal training or the equivalent is needed to qualify for the examination.
When workers are hard to find and the registers are empty, the CSC give government agencies special permission to hire directly.
Contrary to popular belief, the government fires unsatisfactory workers. More than 15,000 — excluding loyalty cases—were asked to leave during a recent year. The commission urges the agencies to make better use of their right to discharge poor workers without hearings or appeal during their first year with the government.
Those who survive the written quiz are re-examined at a personal interview. Less than one out of seven of the 14,000 who took the test passed even the written part in 1950 and not one in 20 made the grade in 1949.
Students Cross Oregon Trail Daily
The circle at the intersection of West Campus road and Oread drive was driven over by wagon trains going to the Oregon territory.
University students and faculty members travel the Oregon trail every day.
"When the University was first established at Lawrence, students and faculty members were supposedly able to see the wagon ruts," said Mrs. Ruby LeNeva Motta, script writer-producer for University radio station KFKU.
On the Prairie Footprints program Wednesday, March 12, Mrs. Motta traces the journey of an immigrant train led by Dr. Marcus Whitman through Kansas along the Oregon trail. The title is Wheels to the Coast.
The wagon trains started from Independence, Mo., and later from Westport, Mo.-now Kansas City—and journeyed along the Kaw river to Topeka. Mrs. Motta said Topeka became the traditional place for wagon trains to organize.
News Roundup Truman Calls '52 Critical Year In Security Report
Washington—(U.P.)—President Truman told Congress today 1952 may be the "critical" year in Western Europe's buildup ag Communism.
In his first report to Congress on the Mutual Security program, the president said Europe has made "marked" and "steady" progress in building "positions of strength" against the threat of Communism. But he added:
"For the nations of Western Europe, the year 1952 may well be the critical time in the defense buildup, bridging the period between extreme vulnerability to Soviet attack and effective preparedness."
Mr. Truman, in a letter sending the report to Congress, described mutual security as a "program for peace" despite the large amounts spent on troops and arms.
Committee To Capitol To Chastise Senator
Honolulu, T.H.—(U.P.)—Two World War II veterans, a National Guard commander, and a Gold Star mother planned to leave here tonight for Washington, D.C., to demand an apology from Sen. Tom Connally, (D-Texas) for making "derogatory" remarks, about Hawaiian islanders.
Connally antagonized the Islanders last Monday when he spoke on the issue of Hawaiian statehood and appeared to suggest that there were better Americans on the mainland who needed the Senate's attention on other legislation.
Reds Say U.N. Planes Extend Germ War
The Hawaiian delegation, travelling by plane, plans to make a stopover in Connally's home state of Texas and pick up a member of that state's "lost battalion" which was aided in battle by Hawaii's 442nd regimental combat team during World War II.
Tokyo—(U.P.)—The Chinese Communists charged today that U.S. planes have extended their germ warfare from North Korea to Manchuria
Radio Peiping, voice of the Chinese government, claimed that American airmen dropped germ-carrying insects into Manchuria on 98 occasions between Feb. 29 and March 5.
Both the United Nations command and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson have denied early Communist charges of germ warfare. Allied observers believed the Reds were trying to shift the blame for epidemics sweeping Communist territory.
Seek Court Martial Against Army General
Washington—(U.P.)—A congressman demanded today that Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow, whose diary fell when he was killed, “be given a general court martial.”
The demand came from Rep. Pat Sutton (D.-Tenn.), a frequent critic of the military. He said that Grow's diary, proposing that the United States attack Russia "as soon as possible" and "by hitting below the belt," should not have been kept. Especially, he said, it should not have been allowed to fall into Russian hands.
The army meanwhile refused to discuss whether any action would be taken against Grow because of his diary, which he kept while serving as U.S. military attache in Mos# cow last year. The diary fell into Communist hands and the Reds are now widely advertising its contents, particularly that part which advocates an attack against Russia.
Watch Primary Results In New Hampshire
Concord, N.H.—(U.P.)-It's not true that as Maine goes so goes the nation in an election. But in every election since 1892 it's been true of Strauff county, New Hampshire.
That's why the eyes of the nation will be on Stratford county on Tuesday when the New Hampshire primary will be held, President Truman Eisenhower, Taft, Kefauver and the other persons entered in the primary may get a pretty good idea how they stand with the voters at this moment.
Strafford county, with a population of 51,000 lies in the southeastern section of the state. It contains three cities, Rochester normally is Republican. Somersworth is Democratic. Dover, the county seat, goes through the city and the rural population apparently are the closest thing you can find to a cross-section of how American voters are thinking.
Use Masks Again
In $100,000 Robbery
The bandits seized the cash from Credit Union Manager Gerald Lynch outside the building and fled in a green Oldsmobile sedan—past armed sentries at the main gate two and a half blocks away from the holdup scene.
Quonset Point, R.I.—U.P.)—T w o halloween-masked men staged a $100,000 cash holdup of a credit union at this U.S. Naval Air station today—the biggest New England robbery since $1,219,000 was stolen from Brink's, Inc., in Boston two years ago.
Washington—(U.P.) —The United States is prodding non-Communist nations of Asia to abandon their "neutralism" and join a proposed Pacific defense pact, a survey disclosed today.
U.S. Asks Asians 'Forget Neutrality'
The American policy is not bearing fruit and probably won't for some time. But the prompts are being repeated more frequently in an effort to convince reluctant Asian nations to move over to the American side in the East-West conflict.
India, Indonesia and Burma—the three main Asian neutrals—are regarded as important members of any defense pact in the area that also includes Indo - China, Pakistan, Malaya, Siam and Japan. This government believes it is impractical to plan a broad treaty unless all major non-Red Asian powers will join.
It was believed the Reds have probably been alarmed by recent press reports from Washington that the United States was considering military action against the mainland of China if the truce talks fail or if the Reds violate the armistice agreement.
Allied staff officers wrote off the Communist proposal as having no significance other than to stall the truce talks still further.
Chinese Staff Officer Col. Pu Shan proposed in truce supervision talks that all references to Korea be dropped from the already-approved armistice clause forbidding block-ides.
Red Maneuvering Against Blockade
Panmunjom, Korea—(U.P.) —The Communists moved today to place Red China beyond the possibility of a naval blockade or invasion from Formosa by proposing to ban naval blockades the world over between the powers now fighting in Korea.
Topeka, Kan.—(U.P.)C. M. Henderson of Farwell, Texas, wanted in Kansas on charges of obtaining a $45,000 bank loan under false pretenses, has requested an extradition hearing before Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas, Atty. Gen. Harold R. Fatzer of Kansas said here to lay.
Requests Hearing
Henderson was charged with obtaining the loan from the Fidelity State bank of Garden City, Kan, under false pretenses.
A 6 pound 10 ounce girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Doores today in Lawrence Memorial hospital. Mr. Doores, instructor in journalism, is Daily Kansan business adviser.
It's A Girl . . .