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ASC Members Refuse To Support Anti-Discrimination Bill
The All Student Council Tuesday $ \textcircled{8} $tight, defeated by
night defeated by one vote a mea- to voice A.S.C. support of the law now in the state legislature to prohibit discriminatory employment practices.
Employment practices and policies based on race, color, religion, or ancestral background discriminations would be prevented by the bill.
It contains provisions for a commission to prevent such discrimination, defines this commission's functions, powers, and duties, and defines penalties and punishments for violations by employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, and applications for employment.
Richard Bradley, engineering junior, introduced the motion that the Council support the measure. He suggested that letters be sent to Gov. Edward Arn, the president of the state senate, the speaker of the
"The Fair Employment Practices commission is now functioning in eight states," said Bradley. "I feel that the bill affects those soon to graduate from the University. It is easy for majority groups to sit back and maintain the status quo on a matter of vital importance to minority groups."
house, and the chairman of the state affairs committee stating the Council's support.
Bradley said that the bill now in the legislature was not an attempt to legislate against prejudice, but "against undemocratic practices, a thing which is done by many laws."
It would also be wrong, Howard said, for the Council to endorse a measure in the name of the student body when it could only be the personal opinion of the Council members.
Jack Howard, business senior, said the bill is opposed by the majority in the state legislature and the voting on the cuts in K.U.'s budget is yet to come up. He said it would be ill-advised for the A.S.C. to endorse the measure at this time.
"If the Council members want to personally endorse the bill," Howard said, "I think it would be a fine thing."
On the first vote, the Council tied at nine to nine, and Melvin Clingan, A.S.C. president, broke the tie to defeat the measure. A roll call vote was called for and the measure was defeated 11 to 10.
satt, Patricia Gardenhire, and Richard Comstock.
In the roll call of Council members those who voted no were Warren Andreas, Ralph McClung, Patricia Cameron, Marcia Horn, Jack Howard, Damon Simpson, Gary Davis, William Wilson, and Joe Wim-
Those voting yes were Roger Davis, James Logan, Maxine Holsinger, Beverly Jennings, Arthur Kaaz, Janith Lewis, Natalie Logan, Richard Bradley, Donald Dirks, and Robert Becker.
The bill, known as the Fair Employment Practices commission bill, was introduced by Representative Stevens of Wyandotte county in the 1951 legislature. It is at present in the state affairs committee.
An appropriation of $100 was voted to the International Relations club from the Associated Student fund, the Council's reserve from the past years. The club wants to hold a conference at the University this spring, possibly featuring a "headline" speaker from the state department in Washington, D.C.
The engineering council was given $300 from the fund for their annual engineering exposition. Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the school of Engineering and Architecture stressed the importance of the exposition to the Council members.
Turning the Jayhawker into a one-issue annual and including the purchase price of the Jayhawker in activity fees will be placed as two separate issues on the ballot for the students to decide at the spring elections.
James Logan, business junior, and Richard I. Comstock, engineering freshman, were sworn in to fill A.S. C. vacancies.
Council members not present at the meeting were Max Whitson, College sophomore; Dean Wells, business junior; Sam Willcoxen, engineering junior; and Maureen Kelley, fine arts freshman.
Experts Discuss Age At Meeting
More than 175 delegates to the first Kansas Conference on Aging met in the Kansas room of the Union Tuesday to hear medical and social experts discuss the problems of an aging population.
Dr. R. M. Heilman, director of the hospital facilities division of the Kansas state board of health, reviewed a study of 40 Kansas homes for the aged.
The study was made to determine if any of the homes would qualify for a license from the Kansas Advisory Hospital council.
"Most of these homes did not meet the sanitary and physical requirements of our licensing law," he said. "Study indicates that a sub-standard type of medical care was being provided in most of the homes. There is a need for standards and regulations that will insure a minimum quality of care for the aged."
The 40 homes studied were in 27 counties and the number of patients died from three to 200. Dr. Heil-told of homes where medical and mental patients shared the same room.
Dr. Heilman said bad conditions in the homes were caused by a lack of funds and facilities rather than negligent operators.
In some homes, he said, mental patients are kept locked in their rooms at all times. Usually these rooms are on the second and third floors, but one home kept a mental patient in a basement room.
Dr. William Rottersman, director of the Menninger School of Psychiatry, told the delegates that the problems of age and childhood are much the same because they include dependency, rivalry, and a relationship to authority.
"the solutions, adjustments, and techniques an individual uses in childhood will determine the behavior of the individual at later crucival periods in his life history," he said.
The attitude of society toward age is illogical and inconsistent, he said. Industrial workers are retired shortly after middle age while much older men are efficiently running our government.
"Compulsory retirement on the basis of calendar years should be abandoned," he declared. "There is no relationship between chronological old age and mental old age."
Young people often rush their parents into a pseudo old age by coddling them and forcing a premature dependency upon them, Rottersman said.
She said that approximately 10 per cent of the Kansas population is 65 years of age or older.
The conference concluded at noon today. Frank T. Stockton, dean of University Extension, led a panel discussion on the economic aspects of aging at the morning session.
Kent Shearer Places First In Buehler Speech Contest
Miss Twente said that older persons had served ably during the last war and that employers who now face a labor shortage are again hiring older persons.
Miss Esther Twente, professor of sociology, presented a brief resume of the scope of the old age problem in Kansas.
Tuesday evening four persons presented a panel, "The Older People Speak for Themselves." Participants were Mrs. Charles Mahin, Wichita, Mrs.F. J Epps, Topeka, both housewives; Dr. E. E. Engel, professor emeritus of German, and Sam Elliott, retired University postal worker.
Kent Shearer, College senior, won the fourth annual Lorraine Buehler Oratorical contest with his oration "Recipe for Suicide" before an audience of 200 Tuesday night in Strong auditorium.
Three others tied for second. Heywood Davis, College junior, asked that all people today reject the current philosophy of pessimism and return to faith in themselves in his oration. "Bird of Passage."
"How to Win Friends and Influence Peoples" was the oration given by Mary Anne O'Neill, College freshman, in which she asked that the United States refrain from acting with arrogance toward the people Europe who are seeking and receiving our aid.
Otis Simmons, education junior, in his oration, "Urite Our People, America," asked that racial prejudice be eliminated from our nation by first eliminating it from our hearts.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and drama, presented the first prize, a set of Encyclopedia Americana, and three second prizes of $10.
Mary Lou Lane, education senior,
was mistress of ceremonies.
The other orations were given by J. Steve Mills, College senior, on "The Right to Live;" Robert Ball, College freshman, on "Conservation and Patriotism;" and William Van Almen, College sophomore, on "It's Your Move."
fate of the other peoples of he world, because such an attitude can lead only to our own destruction. If we are strong in our resolve to protect the free nations of the world, we will have devised a recipe for immortality."
Shearer said that America must not "stick its head in the sand, refusing to take responsibility for the
UNIVERSITY DAILY
48th Year No. 98
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1951
Lawrence, Kansas
kansan
Wage Formula Upped 10 Per Cent
Retail Profit Margin Limited
Economic Stabilizer Eric A. Johnston lifted the wage freeze with a "catch-up" order permitting wages to rise 10 per cent above the Jan. 15, 1950, level. Organized labor did not like his action.
Washington—(U.P.)The government today approved pay raises for 57 million workers and some price increases for the retail merchants who furnish their homes and clothing.
The wage order is effective now. The price boosts generally will not become effective until Thursday, March 29. In some cases, prices may go down a trifle; others will rise. The price controllers themselves are not betting on any widespread reductions.
Here's the way the price order will work and what it means to consumers:
The order covers about 200.000 specific articles, ranging from diapers to new furniture.
The office of price stabilization's order affects about 233,000 retail merchants who do a yearly business of about 33 billion dollars in clothing and house furnishings.
Food, drug, hardware and appliance stores are not covered by the
order. Similar regulations for them will be issued soon.
The order sets flexible price ceilings, based on the margin between what the retailer pays and what he receives for his goods.
Prices may go down a little on some items, but many price increases are sure to result.
Johnston's wage order created more labor discontent. Although he asked the splintered wage stabilization board for immediate action to permit workers to collect cost-of-living raises and some "fringe" benefits in addition to the 10 per cent, there was no indication the three labor members would return to the board. The three industry and three public members of the board
may not like the Johnston request either.
Most of the automobile union contracts provide for cost-of-living boosts payable tomorrow, so the board has just one day to act.
Only about three million of the country's 60 million wage-earners have had pay raises of 10 per cent above last year's levels. Most of the others have had some increase, and they may now get the rest of that 10 per cent—if their employers will give it.
Meanwhile, Price Controller Michael V. DiSalle took what he confidently hoped was the first step toward getting firm control on retail prices.
DiSilea issued his long-awaited retail mark-up order covering the prices of more than 230,000 retail storekeepers who sell nearly 31 billion dollars worth of clothing and other non-food items annually. He said it would mean higher prices for some things, lower for others.
Heaviest Red Barrage Of The War Stalls United Nations Offensive
Tokyo—(U.P).—The U. S. 1st cavalry division smashed one mile deeper into the new Chinese Communist defense line in central Korea Tuesday but were stalled there by one of the heaviest Red artillery barrages of the war.
The cavalrymen's drive carried one 1,000-foot ridge south of Yong-du, key Communist anchorpoint 37 miles east of Seoul. From there the troopers dodged across a valley to hill 318 without opposition.
Then the Reds' big guns and mortars opened up. The cavalrymen were held to a standstill despite four heavy air strikes and an American artillery barrage. At
nightfall, the hill still was not taken
nightfall, the hill still was not taken. Front dispatches said the Red barrage was the heaviest of the war Some shells were identified as 155 millimeter, largest the Americans have met in Korea. The Soviet-made 122-millimeter gun is the heaviest cannon used previously by the Reds.
The strategic hill the Chinese fought to hold overlooks two key highway junctions, one on a road leading east of Hoengsong and another on a road leading northeast of Hongchon.
A few miles east of the Americans, however. Canadian infantry
The Canadians seized two hills in a cautious advance which carried them within two miles of the Yong-tau-Hoengsong road. They met only scattered resistance. The Chinese had abandoned the hills after Tuesday's advance by Australian troops exposed their flank.
of the British Commonwealth 27th brigade began forging the eastern jaw of a pincers which may rip Yongdu loose from Communist hands.
Only one more series of ridges stand between the Canadian-Australian forces and the key Yongdu-Hoengsong highway.
AWS Candidates To Attend Tea
Candidates for the Associated Women Students election who passed the A.W.S. examination must attend a tea in the Women's lounge in Strong hall from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
The women chosen will be introduced at an election buffet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 6. All University women are urged to attend this informal buffet. Reservations may be made with Ann Wagoner at 718.
Student Delegate To Washington
Howard Baumgartle, graduate student, is in Washington, D.C., representing the Oread Meeting of the Society of Friends.
Baumgartle was one of six representatives from this area.
Interviews with congressmen have been arranged for delegates to express the views of the Quakers on universal military training, drafting 18-year-olds, increased military expenditures, and the need to keep peace negotiations open.
BULLETIN
Washington (U.P.)—Ambassador John Foster Dulles said today that Russia has seized a group of small islands just off the northeast coast of Japan and that the United States will refuse to recognize the grab.
THE WEATHER
KANSAS: Partly cloudy and colder tonight with diminishing winds; Thursday fair, colder east portion, warmer extreme west. Low tonight 15 northwest to 25 southeast. High Thursday 45-50 northeast to 55 southwest.