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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1951
500 Delegates To Be At NISA Convention
Five hundred delegates from 125 universities will attend the National Independent Students association convention at the University from Thursday, March 29, through Saturday, March 31.
Walter J. Brown, Jr., co-chairman of the N.L.S.A. convention, said that 39 entries for the National Sweetheart contest have been received from all parts of the country.
The contestants' pictures will be sent to John Robert Powers, head of a New York model agency. He will select a queen and six princesses from the group. The identity of the queen and her princesses will be revealed at the coronation ball Friday. March 30. Gene Hall's orchestra will play for the dance.
Guest speakers will include Darold L. Shutt, dean of students at Marshall college, Boyce Timmons, executive secretary, of LS.A. and director of registration at Oklahoma university, and Morton Walker, dean of students at University of Louisville.
A national hog-calling contest will be one of the highlights of the convention.
Illinois Wesleyan university will send a male choir of 40 voices to sing their entry into the National Sweetheart song contest. Prizes will be given for the best N.I.S.A. publication. Each university is invited to set up a display on their years activities for which prizes will be given.
Women attending the convention will be housed at Miller, Templin, and Foster halls Battenfeld. Jollife, McCook and Oread halls will be open to men. Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women, will be the faculty hostess.
A prize will be given for the most distinctive costume worn by a delegation during the convention.
N. I.S.A. needs stenographers to take notes at the meetings. Short hand is not required. Twenty are needed for Friday, March 30, and 10 for Saturday, March 31. For information call Ann Eylar, education junior, Miller hall.
There will be a convention committee meeting Monday, March 5 at 7:15 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union. It is open to all students. Refreshments will be served.
Stove Overheats And Burns Wall
A kitchen wall was damaged at the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house, 1121 Ohio, when the stove overheated and caught the wall on fire.
The fire department put out the fire before much damage was done. The wall was blackened and will have to be redecorated.
Red China Plans New Offensive
Korea (U.P.)—Red China will throw 250,000 troops, including the long-missing 3rd field army, into its most powerful Korean offensive of the war this month, a high-ranking Chinese prisoner has told U.S. officers.
The Chinese will support the attack for the first time with Russian-built jet fighters, heretofore seen only over northwest Korea far behind the fighting front, he said.
The prisoner said the Communist objective will be to smash U.N. forces while they are in attack formations, break through their lines into southern Korea and force one or more "Dunkerque" evacuations.
He said the rested and presumably re-equipped and reinforced 3rd field army will join the battered 4th field army already fighting south of the 38th parallel in the offensive.
The 3rd field army has been out of action since it forced the outnumbered U.S. 10th corps to evacuate northeast Korea by sea last December.
The army surrounded the U.S. 1st marine division and elements of the U.S. 7th infantry division around the Chosin reservoir and took extremely heavy losses trying in vain to prevent them from escaping to the coast.
Chinese nationalist intelligence reports more than a month ago said that the 3rd army had withdrawn to Manchuria to rest and regroup after the northeastern battle.
The high-ranking Chinese Communist prisoner, whose name and position cannot be disclosed, said the Chinese command has been waiting patiently to build up its supplies for the new offensive.
The recent Chinese-North Korean attack through the central mountains toward Wonju was not a major offensive, but designed only to discourage an allied crossing of the Han river into Seoul and force the 8th army to realign its divisions, he said.
Bridge Club To Meet Friday
The Four-No Bridge club will meet at 7:45 p.m. Friday in the Union ballrooom. The club has changed its regular meeting night from Wednesday to Friday.
Tradition To Be Originated At Midshipmen's Ring Dance
By DICK MARSHALL
Establishing a tradition within a tradition will be the aim of the midshipmen of the University's navy R.O.T.C. unit at their ring dance Friday.
The middies are adding significance to part of the ring ceremony, which they hope will be adopted by units at other schools and eventually become a tradition. The dance will be in the drill hall of the Military Science building from 9 p.m. to midnight. The ring ceremony will take place during intermission.
In the ceremony, the midshipmen and their dates pass through a giant replica of the navy class ring. The manner in which the couples leave the ring bears the significance.
in the woman leaves the ring first, it means the couple is engaged. If the midshipman leaves the ring first, it's just another date. But if the couple backs out of the ring, it means they are married, and the boy will be kicked out of the corps the following day.
As the midshipman enters the hall, he receives his ring which is suspended from a blue ribbon. He then places the ribbon about the neck of his date, where it remains until the ceremony.
During the ceremony, the woman
Teachers' Local Endorses Fair Employment Bill
In a resolution adopted unanimously, the University Local 555 of the American Federation of Teachers (A.F. of L.) endorsed the proposed state Fair Employment Practice bill Tuesday.
removes the ring from about her neck, dips it into the waters from the seven seas and places it in the hand of the midshipman. This is official recognition of the scholastic standing entitling him to wear the ring.
The ceremony is one of the navy's oldest. The exact date of its origin is not known. But it has been enacted each year at the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., since the academy wa, founded in 1845.
The sea water for the ceremony was sent to the University by the commandants of the 17 naval districts throughout the world in answer to requests sent out in December.
In the resolution the organization urged citizens to support the bill by writing to representatives from their home counties.
According to tradition, bad luck will befall any midshipman who wears his ring prior to the ceremony.
Edward Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology who introduced the resolution, said that in passing the bill, Kansas would live up to its historical reputation for being on the right side. There were from 25-30 members at the meeting, Professor Baur said.
He said that the bill would benefit not only minority groups who may be discriminated against, but also business men who would have available an added working force. It would benefit the state as a whole, he said, in that the "manpower of the state would be used more efficiently."
Jim McCaig and his Varsity Crew orchestra will supply the music for the dance. The dance is sponsored by the Hawkwatch society, a social organization of the midshipmen.
The All Student Council by an 11 to 10 vote refused to support this bill Tuesday. Members opposing endorsement argued that such action could not be taken by the Council in behalf of the students.
"A further benefit of the bill," Professor Baur said, "Is that the vast majority of fair-minded business men and employers will be strengthened in their desire to hire people and will not have to fear the dissatisfaction of employees and customers."
The Fair Employment Practice commission bill is now in the house committee on state affairs. It must be passed by both the house and senate to become law.
Big Four Will Plan Conference
Moscow—(U.P.)—Russia agreed today to a western proposal for a meeting of British, French, American and Soviet representatives in Paris Monday to lay the ground work for a four-power foreign ministers' conference.
Deputy Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko formally accepted the invitations of the three western powers in notes handed to the ambassadors early today. Gromyko met with the three envoys separately at 20-minute intervals.
He summoned U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau and British Ambassador Sir David Kelly to the Kremlin and handed them Russia's reply to notes received from the three western powers Feb. 19.
(Russia originally proposed the foreign ministers' meeting on grounds that rearmament of Western Germany threatened world peace. The western powers denied the Soviet charge and suggested that the Big Four meet to discuss all east-west disputes.)
The notes had proposed that representatives of the four powers meet in Paris Monday to prepare an agenda for a conference of their foreign ministers.
The American delegation will hold up its departure for Paris pending receipt of the full text of Moscow's note agreeing to a Big Four deputies parley.
Sociology Club To Hear Speaker
Journalism Seniors Work On Dailies
Virginie Baroudjian. College senior, will discuss her work as a psychiatric aid at the Topeka State hospital, at the Sociology club meeting at 4 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union.
Six eastern Kansas daily newspapers are helping to break in 18 senior reporting students at the University. These papers are helping journalism seniors make the transition from "shack rats" to journalists.
Irving Levitas, director of religious studies at Jewish Community center in Kansas City, Mo., will speak to the club Thursday, March 15.
Three months of experience at working for daily newspapers prepare students for their first job after graduation.
As part of required work in Newspaper Reporting of Public Affairs, taught by Prof. Elmer F. Beth, of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, each student will work every week under direction of the city editor of one of the six co-ope-
1951 'Revue Rehearsals On
A full schedule of rehearsals is now underway for the "Rock Chalk Revue" to be given in Hoch auditorium at 7:45 p.m. Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10.
This second annual presentation of the revue is sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. and will consist of eight humorous skits written, directed, and staged by students.
Plots ranging from the draft to lawyers will be used in the presentation. Four sororites and four fraternities will be represented in the "eight shows in one" production.
"Dancing Through K.U." written and directed by Mary Agnes Leach, fine arts sophomore, will be presented by the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. It is a skit composed of a series of the popular dances of the 20th century.
Chi Omega sorority will present "Queen - fiend's Routine." Four styles of dancing: tap, ballet, modern and apache, will be used to show that beauty is only skin deep.
"One-A-Charlie," a satire of a college student who enlists in the navy to avoid the draft, will be presented by the Sigma Kappa sorority. This skit, written by Kathleen Cale and Carolyn Oliver, will be directed by Mary Beth Moore, all College sophomores.
The skit for the Pi Beta Phi sorority is a house project. The skit, which portrays the lawyer's tradition of recognizing women who pass in front of Green hall, will be directed by Marianne Gear, College senior, and Janet Maloney, education junior.
William Champion, producer of the revue, said that a unique type of staging will be used. While one half of the stage is in action, the other half will be in preparation, thus enabling the skits to be presented continuously without any time lapse between the acts.
rackets for the "Rock Chalk Revue" are now on sale in the Union building, Strong hall, Watson library and Fraser hall.
rating papers; the Lawrence Journal-World, the Kansas City Kansan, the Topeka Capital, the Ottawa Herald, the Topeka State Journal and the Leavenworth Daily Times
Students do all kinds of reporting while under the direction of the city editors. They cover city hall, courthouse, police, speeches, meetings, accidents, sports, and society. They also do office rewrite work and work on special feature article assignments. Copies of all stories they write are criticized and appraised by Professor Beth.
This practical laboratory experience, dovetailed with classroom work, has been a requirement since 1941 when the original group began work on the Journal-World. In the spring of 1942, the Topeka Capital co-operated; the arrangement was started again after the war. William Bailey, editor of the Kansas City Kansan offered to hitch his city room to the University classroom in 1947, and Syd Harris added his Ottawa Herald in 1948. The Leavenworth Daily Times and the Topeka State Journal are the most recent additions to the program.
Working on the Lawrence Journal-World this semester are: James Van Valkenberg, John S. Hill, Janet M. Ogan, Francis J. Kelley, and Edward F. Rodgers, journalism seniors.
The group reporting on the Ot- tawa Herald includes James H. Page and Raymond G. Soldan, journalism seniors.
Commuting weekly to Kansas City to work on the Kansan are Marilyn A. Marks and Emily C. Stewart, journalism seniors.
Traveling to Topeka for morning paper experience on the Capital are: Patricia A. Jansen, Marvin E. Arth, Edward J. Chapin, Marion Klewer and Dolph Simons, Jr., journalism seniors.
William R. Tatum and Emlin E. North are working on the Leavenworth Daily Times.
Faye H. Wilkinson and Lloyd T. Holbeck, journalism seniors are doing their laboratory work on the Topeka State Journal.
"Our students benefit greatly from this on-the-job experience," said Prof. Beth, "and we all deeply appreciate the co-operation we have been getting from these newspapers. It shows confidence in the training our school is giving and willingness to help us do a better job.
We are especially grateful to Dolph Simons, Joe Murray, and their associates on the Lawrence Journal-World who admitted our students to their city room in 1941 and have been helping us ever since," he said.
Six University men were picked up by campus and Lawrence police at 2 a.m. today while the students were burning tires in the circle at the west end of Jayhawk drive, said Police Chief John Ingalls.
Police Check Tire Blaze
16,500 Volumes Added To Watson Library Last Year
Counting both the campus library and the Kansas City library, there are around 420,000 volumes. Magazines are not counted until they are bound.
Funds for books are allocated by a committee from the University senate. This committee meets with C.M. Baker, director of libraries, and allocates the funds for the schools and departments.
About 16,500 volumes were catalogued and added to Watson library last year. A total of 5,850 titles were represented, deLafayette Reid, assistant director of libraries, said.
The amount is determined by three factors: 1. money the department has spent thus far for books; 2. the needs of the department which change from year to year; 3. amount the necessary books cost
The money is allocated to the University as a whole and the committee distributes the funds for the betterment of the entire institution.
The School of Law is allocated the most funds for books. Law books are expensive and since the school doesn't have laboratories, they use a great many books. The English department and the School of Engineering are next in line for funds. Other departments are broken down into groups and do not require as much money.
Art books are expensive to buy. Mr Reid said. Paying $25 for a book is considered normal. The high cost of these books is due to the heavy illustration.
The total number of 16,500 volumes does not include law books. The publishers of these books do the indexing which takes the place of cataloging.