Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University
48th Year No.110
Daily Kansan
Friday, March 16, 1951
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
Lawrence, Kansas
Photo by Jack Corporon
German Editor To Address Regional Group
Eric Brost, editor of the second largest newspaper in Western Germany, "West deutsch Allemein Zeitung" will discuss "German Views on the Defense of Western Europe" at 4 p.m. today in Fraser theater.
The address will be given before the regional conference of International Relations clubs meeting at the University. It is open to the public.
Brost has been editor of the German newspaper for three years. He was a correspondent in Warsaw for Swedish newspapers from 1925 to 1839 and had assignments in Stockholm, Helsinki, and London, before returning to Germany in 1945.
In 1947 and 1948 he was chairman of the Berlin office of the Social Democrat party. He is in the United States under the sponsorship of the state department.
Eight discussion groups on international affairs met this morning from 10 to 11:30 after the 9 a.m. opening session. Members from about 40 of the 58 clubs in the southern Missouri valley region attended the discussions. The discussion groups reconvened at 1:15 this afternoon.
banquet and delegates ball are scheduled for 7 p.m. today. Eric brost will be the after-dinner speaker at the banquet in the Union building.
Members of the K.U. club presented two or more papers on each subject of the groups.
The discussion groups will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday to summarize arguments and conclusions. At 10 a.m. a general assembly will be held in the west end of the ballroom in the Union building and reports of the findings will be given.
The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will sponsor a forum on human rights at 3 p.m. Sunday in Strong auditorium. The forum is a local project in connection with the sorority's national affiliation with the American Council on Human Rights.
Topics discussed today were "Should We Adopt Senator Fulbright's Recent Resolution on an Atlantic Union?" "How Should We Meet Our Atlantic Treaty Obligations?" "The Role of Franco Spain in Western Defense."
Human Rights Forum Sunday
"One-Worldness vs. a Balance of Power As An Effective Road to World Peace." "What Should Be Our Policy Toward China?" "The Strategic Importance of the Middle East," and "What Should Be Our Policy with Regard to Southeastern Asia?"
Four speakers from the four Negro fraternal groups on the campus will participate in the forum. Chester Lewis, first year law student and representative of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, will discuss what is being done on the international level in the field of human rights; Gladys Harrison, education consultant of Delta
**a** and representative of beliefs
Theta state will discuss
work on national level.
Edward Boswell, College junior and representative of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, will discuss the local situation. Virginia Ferguson, College junior and representative of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will talk about the functions of the A.C. H.R. Janith Lewis, College sophomore, will serve as moderator.
PICTURED ABOVE is Uncle Jimmy Green statue in front of Green hall, robed in a tarpaulin held by rope, chain and padlock. The statue was veiled in hopes that paint brushes of the engineering students will be avoided on St. Patrick's day. Deane F. J. Moreau of the Law school is shown inspecting the protective cover with Anne Snyder, journalism junior.
Rep. Cox Speaks To Campus Politicians On Vote Question
The Republicans and Democrats got together Thursday night, but Truman still came out on top.
Sociologists Edit Journal
The cabinet of the Sociology club voted for the publication to keep sociology students and faculty informed on department activities.
The Four-no Bridge club will meet at 7:45 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union. Winners of the March 9 meeting were, Jack Gillmore, engineering senior, and Terry Francis, College senior; second, A. H. Doshi, and G. K. Marharte, graduate students; and third, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Scott.
Four-No Club Meets Tonight
Included in the publication will be job opportunities, personal experience stories, and other phases of sociology.
Included in the first issue were articles by Carroll D. Clark, professor of sociology; E. Gordon Ericksen, assistant professor of sociology; Agnes Husband, College senior, and Miss Coughenour.
Studnts in the department of sociology and anthropology issued their first edition of "Sociology Newsletter" this week. The newspaper is edited by Phyllis Coughenour, College senior, and James Crabtree, College junior.
On Thursday the University Young Democrats and Young Republicans each submitted notices for the official bulletin that they would both meet in the same room at the same time. When the error was discovered, two rooms were reserved for them in Green hall—each opposite the other.
Speaking of the vote on the amendment to lower the voting age in Kansas to 18, Representative Cox predicted "it would be close. Any man absent," he said," will be the same as a no vote."
After the session, the two separated and the Democrats elected Truman as their next president.
The two clubs decided to meet together to hear Marvin Cox, Republican Kansas representative, speak on the 18-year-old vote.
Mr. Cox rejected the old enough to fight, old enough to vote logic as "too much of the flag-waving type."
"Because of technological advancement and enlightenment, young people are in a better position than their parents or grandparents."
Martha Ann Truman, that is—niece of President Truman.
The majority of the opposition to passage of the amendment stems from older people, Mr. Cox reasoned. He said that they fear that the move would tend to shove political sway a little further to the literal side.
"It requires efforts on your parts, be you Democrats or Republicans, to convince older people of your rights," he told the joint gathering.
UN Advance Slows On Central Front
Tokyo U.P.)—Reinforced Chinese Communists opened up with a massive artillery barrage of white phosphorous shells on the central Korean front Thursday and slowed the four-day-old American advance to a walk. There was speculation that the enemy had decided to stand and fight.
BULLETIN
Topeka (U.R.) A move toward giving 18-year olds the right to vote in Kansas was beaten today by the house of representatives.
"American universities are creating in the college student a strong faith in the ultimate triumph of decency in the world," Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, told delegates from 22 schools this morning at the opening session of the International Relations club regional meeting.
Lawson Speaks At IRC Opening
A resolution which would have placed the proposition before the people in the 1952 general election failed to gain the required two-thirds support on a house roll call. The count was 69 to 50 in favor of the resolution but 84 "aye" votes were required.
Dean Lawson said the colleges and universities are creating an attitude in the students which guides him to look below the surface of a situation and find the truth.
At 9:30 a.m. 130 delegates from Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska had registered for the convention which will be in session today and Saturday.
"Discussion groups such as those sponsored by the I.R.C. convention are the hope of the world." he said. "These discussions bring about tremendous clashes of opinion from which will come ultimate light."
Bill Christensen, president of the American association of the I.R.C., told the group that their organization was as strong as the members made it.
He said the I.R.C. needs to be a strong organization which will carry on the work of international relations, but not become so strong as to dictate rather than direct its efforts.
Norman Wenger, president of the K.U. and regional I.R.C., was in charge of the meeting.
Bee Discusses Wedded Bliss
Companionship can hold a marriage when all else fails, Lawrence S. Bee, professor of home economics and sociology, said in a love and marriage discussion Wednesday afternoon.
"Married love blends together like the primary colors," and consists of companionship, basic sex orientation and care," he said. "The greater the measure of these three, the greater the marriage will be."
Professor Bee said that emotional maturity is needed to have a high level of companionship. Companionship, he said, is a mixture of genuine skills and interests.
In marriage there must be more caring about than caring for. The more a person knows about man in general, the more he can understand and care about someone. A person needs to be responsible toward others; he needs to respond to others.
The central front erupted into a thunderstaff artillery duel as American guns replied to the Chinese artillery and mortars. The Americans threw 50 shells for every one the Reds shot.
Allied warplanes joined the battle, blasting enemy - held bridges north of recaptured Hongchong from dawn until dark with rockets and flaming jetled gasoline.
The Chinese Communist stand was made in the mountains between Hongchong and the 38th parallel, 21 miles north. American troops inched ahead against the rain of phosphorous shells and took some high ground.
The Chinese resistance interrupted the American drive on Chunchon, only seven and a half miles south of the 38th parallel. Front dispatches said the phosphorous shells were of American manufacture, either captured by the Reds in previous engagements or taken from the Chinese Nationalists during the war in China.
Elements of two new Chinese army corps, the 39th and 40th, were identified in action on the central front for the first time since the battle of Chipyong in far North Korea in November.
Although the Reds fought back on the central front, they continued their withdrawal in the mountains to the east. American troops there moved ahead without resistance, occupying an important mountain pass northwest of Soksari. They also took high ground overlooking the highway center of Pungnam, 20 miles south of the 38th parallel. In recaptured Seoul, civilian police joined UN troops in routing out Communist stragglers and agents while armored spearheads fanned out to the northwest, north and northeast.
There were reports in Seoul that the Chinese Reds had moved their 26th army corps into position northeast of the capital to replace 5,000 Communist troops lost in the retreat. But so far, the advancing Allies have no met more than sporadic patrol resistance beyond Seoul.
East and northeast of Seoul, American and Turkish troops of the U.S. 25th division seized the western half of the highway to Chunchon and drove on to the north virtually unopposed.
Farther east, U.S.1 cavalry division troopers probed north of Hongchon toward Chunchon. American troops entered devastated Hongchon yesterday and found it abandoned. Only a week ago, it was an important Chinese army headquarters and supply center.
WEATHER
KANSAS: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Saturday, warmer east and south tonight; low 28-32 degrees northwest, 35-40 degrees east and south, except 45 southeast. Colder Saturday, much cooler central and west. High Saturday 32-35 degrees northwest to 50 or 55 degrees southeast. Strong southerly winds 30-35 miles per hour this afternoon, shifting to strong northerly winds west and northcentral tonight and over the state Saturday.