UNIVERSITY DAILY
Hawaii State historical society
Topeka, Ks.
48th Year No.136 Monday, April 30, 1951
US To Stick To Course In Korea, Acheson Answers Mac Supporters
Washington—(U.P.)—Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today the United States must "meet and repel the enemy" in Korea, but at the same time avoid committing America's major forces in a war against Soviet satellites.
Rejecting more aggressive measures proposed by supporters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Acheson said:
"We are going to hold to our course in Korea with firm determination."
The secretary spoke before the 39th annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Sen. Robert A. Taft, (R-Ohio), a major foe of Acheson on Far Eastern policy, was to answer the secretary of state later today from the same platform.
Acheson said United Nations intervention in Korea already had achieved major accomplishments and there now are two ways in which the Korean situation may develop:
"One is that the fighting may spread despite our efforts to limit it," he said. "Further acts of the aggressor could touch off world war.
"If this happens, the responsibility for it will rest squarely on the Kremlin and its agents in Peiping."
He said the other outcome is that "the fighting may be brought to an end in Korea."
"The best way to do this is for us to continue firm in our determination to meet and repel the enemy until it becomes clear to him that his aggression cannot pay," the secretary went on. "There must be an end to the fighting, there must be concrete measures against the renewal of the attack, and there must be an abandonment by the enemy of his attempt to conquer the republic of Korea."
This reiteration of U.S. terms for ending the Korean war left the way open for creation of a 20-mile wide demilitarized zone just above the 38th parallel with continued Communist domination of north Korea.
Acheson said it is "important to our security that this attack in Korea be stopped in its tracks." But he cautioned that it is not "the only Soviet thrust we must bear in mind."
"The Soviets are using satellite troops for this aggression, keeping their own forces in reserve," he said. "It would further their strategy if we were to expend our major strength against the forces and the territory of their satellites, or if we were to neglect other vital interests in meeting this thrust."
He appealed for firmness and steadiness and asked Americans not to "flinch or get rattled" in the present crisis.
He noted that Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has been repeating arguments heard in the United States and has questioned whether "we are going to hold to our course in Korea with firm determination."
"Well," Acheson said, "we are."
Acheson listed these four accomplishments in Korea:
1. This plan of aggression has not succeeded according to the Soviet plan, and whatever actions were planned have been interfered with.
2. The defense against this aggression has served to arouse free men all over the world, and has stimulated them to speed up their efforts to build a strong defense system.
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3. New vitality has pulsed through the whole idea of collective security against aggression.
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4. This device of satellite aggression has been thoroughly exposed and its usefulness in other situations has been reduced."
Polio Scientist To Speak Friday
Dr. David Bodian, professor of neuro-anatomy at Johns Hopkins university, will lecture on "The Biology of Polio Virus" at 8 p.m. Friday in Fraser theater.
The address, which is open to the public, is part of the annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science. More than 150 doctors, teachers, and research personnel from Kansas will attend the meeting and banquet, which begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Union.
Dr. Bodian and his colleague, Dr. Howard Howe of Johns Hopkins university, have spent almost 15 years in polio research. They discovered that nerve fibers, regardless of where they are located in the body, carry polio virus to the central nervous system.
The two doctors also proved that polio virus will not harm a person unless it gets into the central nervous system, and that the virus is not carried to the central nervous system by blood. The virus has to enter the nerve endings either internally or externally.
Dr. Bodian will be introduced at the lecture by Dr. Paul Roofe, chairman of the K.U. atomy department.
Winds At Pratt Cause Damage
Pratt (U.R)—A cyclonic wind, accompanied by torrential rain, struck Pratt today. Nobody was injured.
The heart of the storm moved in from the southwest, hit a block and a half of the main business district and moved out to the northeast.
Damage was expected to run into thousands of dollars to replace broken windows and a number of home roofs. The storm lasted for about half an hour. Heaviest damage was in a three-block-wide path.
Jay Nixon Recital Is at 8 Tonight
The School of Fine Arts will present Jay Nixon, baritone, in his senior recital today at 8 p.m. in Strong auditorium The public is invited.
Included in the program will be two of his own compositions, a modern song cycle by Griffes, and groups of songs in French, Italian, and German.
The case method is a "new mouse-trap to teach students better," according to Hilden Gibson, chairman of the department of human relations, and Marston McCluggage, associate professor of sociology.
Sociologists Laud Case Method
This method is used by several departments in the University of Kansas and a few other schools in the country, the two professors said Sunday in the eighth broadcast of the Sociology on the Air series.
"People learn better by experience, and the use of the case method in the classroom is the closest substitute for real experience," the professors said. "All cases are descriptions of situations that have really occurred."
Using a short case called "Hank Eberstadt," the speakers pointed out four results accomplished by the case method:
"Students get a point of view of a problem and not a set of rules to handle things; become sensitive to the significance of feeling and sentiment; acquire an individual skill in listening and communicating; and see that most situations have many variables interacting to produce the situation and not a single cause."
Class Reunions Are Planned
Alumni committees will meet this week to plan reunions for the class of 1901 and the Gold Medal club. The reunions are to be held Sunday, June 3.
The Gold Medal club is composed of persons graduated more than 50 years ago.
Tokyo (U.P.)—Chinese Communist troops tightened a 30-mile siege ring around Seoul today and began moving up massive reinforcements to assault the city.
Red Troops Massed For Seoul Assault
They reported the Reds had become "less aggressive" during the last 24 hours. One patrol counted 1,000 enemy dead, killed by a roaring Sunday night artillery barrage from more than 400 allied guns set up in Seoul.
Air reconnaissance reported, however, that 3,000 enemy trucks were rolling south across the Manchurian border, bringing reinforcements for the Red assault on Seoul.
Night-flying planes blasted the convoys, easily found because they were rushing south with headlights on in defiance of allied air strikes.
Fliers said they destroyed 250 trucks. They said the vehicles apparently were loaded with troops, for they did not burn or explode as they would have if carrying gasoline and ammunition.
United Nations tank and infantry patrols struck out from the fortified capital, fighting brief skirmishes with the Communists in the no-man's-land between the lines.
10 School Girls Get Athletic Awards
During the day, however, other allied planes smashed trains and supply trucks, leaving large sections of Communist-held territory obscured by the smoke of blazing supplies.
The Red siege are around Seoul stretched from the Han river north-west of the city to the Han's junction with the Pukhan river east of Seoul. At one point the Chinese were within four miles of Seoul.
One patrol striking out from the allied-held city brought back 50 prisoners and another took 35 prisoners. All were North Koreans. They were hungry and ragged. They told allied officers a critical shortage of food was hindering the Red offensive.
The eight-inch batteries of the U.S. heavy cruiser Toledo off the west coast near Inchon joined allied planes and guns in blasting Communist preparations for attack.
Ten high school girls received awards of merit Saturday for out-standing participation in athletic events at the annual high school play day sponsored by the Women's Athletic association.
About 150 girls from 13 Kansas high schools participated. Awards were made on an individual competitive basis.
Winners were Selma Denholm,
Tonganoxie; Patsy Sullivan, Russell;
Velda Reichart, Valley Falls;
Dorothy Ann Smith, El Dorado;
Harriet Gibler, Lawrence; Shirley
Ellyson, Atchison; Mary McNosth,
Kansas City, Kan.; Janie Peachey,
Shawnee Mission; Charlotte Dale,
Kansas City, Kan.; Mary Dowell,
Atchison; and Wilma Denholm,
Tonganoxie.
269 Pass English Proficiency Test
Two hundred and sixty-nine students passed the English pro-
ficiency examination given March 17. |
In the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, 18 students passed. They are: Nancy Anderson, Elizabeth Bull, Helen Fry, Charlotte Gesey, Richard Hale, Dorothy Kolb, Joseph Lastelin, Frank Lisec, Alan Marshall, Richard Marshall, Robert Nelson, Dorothy Oglesbee, Jack Page, Ray Soldan, Robert Sydney, James Van Valkenburg, Richard L. Walker, and William Douglas White.
Eloise Ann Eylar, Betty Frazier, Robert Freech, Gary Goodwin, Patricia Harris, Donald Hickman, Joyce Horalek, Jewel Huckaby, Millicent Hunt, Virginia Keeney, Maxine Le-
Fifty-three students in the School of Education passed. They are: Ruth Abercrombie, Violet Aki, Marcia Alley, Betty Barton, Norma Birzer, Gay Bonney, Archie Brown, Emma Lou Burbank, George J. Burnett, Dolores Commons, Beverly Cope, Kathryn E. Crawford, Nancy Depew, Robert DeVinney, Jane Dumire.
Roger T. Beth, Kenneth E. Bickford, Kernie W. Binyon, W. Frederic Birner, Kenneth M. Boese, Phillip Clark Boley, Virginia Boley, Orville Willis Boicourt, Bernard V. Borst, Maellen Bossie, Wayne D Bradley, Henry Bradshaw, Robert C. Brandmeyer, Marilyn Braun, Patricia Agnes Brown, Virgil Brinch, Christine I. Buchholtz, W. B. Buechel.
Bruce Buie, Charles Donald Christian, Chapin D. Clark, Ina Claire Claymore, Anson Dean Cole, Cathleen Ann Collins, Paul P. Cook, Jr., Joseph L. Cooney, Arlie Belle Creagar, Roy E. Crouch, LaVone A. Daily, Jack Ewalt Dalton, Thomas M. Dougherty, Dorothy Louise Davidson, Lyle E. Deniston, John H. Denman, Elizabeth Ann Dennis, Alexander Dewey, Thomas B. DeWitt, Albert F. Dobson, James H. Duffy, Howard D. Dunnington.
Row, Edward Lind, Doris Lyons, Dolores Martin, Mary McCune Lucille M. Michael, Donna Miller, Pat Oden兰, Althea Wein, Joyce Polland, Jo Anne Putney, James Ralston, Virgine Rawline, Donald Richter
Patricia Ann Salyer, Marjorie Seeley, Gloria Simpson, Helen Smith, James Sommerville, Rita Speckin, Raymond Steimel, Norma Strobel, Sue Swartz, Jean Trantum, Caroline Traynor, Patricia Vetter, Beverly Wilson, and Grace Wyoff.
In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 198 students passed the exam. They are: Francis L. Abel, Raymond J. Ackermann, Neal R. Alleman, John Allen, Tom E. Allen, Ann Arlene Altringer, Claudia Louise Anderson, Glenna Anderson, F. R. Applegate, Jr., Charles H. Apt, Frederick G. Apt, Jr., Charles A. Arnold, Charles D. Babcock, Eldon E. Baker, Joanne Banks, Gene L. Bennett.
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Rex Leland Ehling, Myron J,
Enns, Jack Faerber, Richard A. Field,
Robert Lewis Flinner, George P.
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Baccalaureate Address To Be By Omaha Minister
The Rev, Walter H. Traub of Omaha, Neb., will deliver the sermon at Baccalaureate services at the University Sunday, June 3, it was announced today by Guy V. Keeler, Commencement chairman.
The Rev. Mr. Traub has been pastor of the Kountz Memorial Evangelical Lutheran church in Omaha since 1931. The Omaha church is the largest Lutheran church in the nation. He previously held pastorates at State college, Pa. Huebessville, Pa. and at York, Ne
A native of Pennsylvania, the Rev, Mr. Traub is a graduate of Susquehanna university at Selima grove, Lutheran Theological seminary at Gettysburg, and Pennsylvania State college, from which he earned the M.A. degree in literature and history.
For three terms the Rev. Mr. Traub was a member of the board of education of the United Lutheran church in America. In that capacity he was a colleague of Dr. George L. Anderson, chairman of the University history department
An invitation for a preaching mission in Germany this summer has been extended the Rev. Mr. Traub by the Air Force, for which he is a preacher-at-large for the mission for chaplains and men.
Cervantes Day Election Held
Miss Judith Stapleton, a teacher at Wyandotte high school, Kansas City, Kan., was elected president of the Kansas chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese April 28.
Other officers chosen at the annual meeting held with the observance of Cervantes day at the University were Prof. Eugene Savaiano, Wichita university, vice president; and Harley Oberhelman, assistant instructor in Romance languages, secretary-treasurer.
More than 200 persons attended the Cervantes day luncheon at the Union and saw a Spanish language variety program. Grade school children from Parkville, Mo., and Lawrence; and high school students from Nortonville, Wichita East High and Wyandotte of Kansas City presented variety acts. Dramatic playlets in Spanish were given by students from Ottawa, Wichita, and Kansas universities.
Lt. Col. F. E. Judson, an instructor in the Command and General Staff college, Fort Leavenworth, urged the teachers to emphasize the oral phase in their teaching. All military services have a great need for men trained in foreign languages, he said. Quiltitatively the need is for persons who can speak foreign tongues.
Miss Irene Smith of Liberty Memorial High school, Lawrence, left the secretary-treasurership of the A.A.T.S.P. after holding the position three years. She asked that she not be considered for the office again. Dr. Chalmers Herman, assistant professor of Romance languages, was the retiring president.
Malott To Chicago Meeting
Chancellor Deane W. Malott is in Chicago today and Tuesday presiding at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities of which he is president.