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UNIVERSITY DAILY
Photographic Bureau: Bob Rose
MARILYN SMITH, the University of Kansas' outstanding contribution to the golfing world, returned to Lawrence Friday before leaving for Florida to participate in several tournaments.
Marilyn attended the University two years and was elected president of her sophomore class. Had she not taken a job as promotional representative with A.G. Spaulding company, she would have graduated next spring.
48th Year No. 59
Monday, Dec. 11, 1950
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in the United States. He blamed the hard lot of the peasants in China on their ready acceptance of Communism.
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This is truly "the century of the common man." John Ise, professor of economics, said in an address Thursday.
Speaking before the Y.M.C.A.'s first "Truth, Trouble and Tempation" meeting, Dr. Ise said that on every continent except Africa the 20th century has seen the lot of the "little fellow" improve. He forecasted that the movement would grow, whether by force, as in Russia and China, or peaceful means, as in the United States.
Christmas Vespers To Feature Songs And Tableaux Sunday
This year the vespers will be an elaborate presentation of Christmas songs and tableaux. The program will be presented at 4 p.m. and again at 7:30 on Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
Fraser chapel, now Fraser theater, was decorated with small Christmas trees, holly, mistletoe, and lighted tapers for the 1924 program.
D. M. Swarthout, then dean of the School of Fine Arts, said of the program at that time: "This service should be one of the most interesting presented in several years. The
A 16 voice chorus sang in the first University Christmas vespers on Dec. 14, 1924. The 1950 yuletide presentation on Sunday will feature approximately 300 School of Fine Arts students and faculty members.
performances Mr. Swarthout retired as dean of the school this spring. He is now a professor of piano.
best talent of the faculty and students have been selected for the performance."
The vesper service has become more and more elaborate as the years pass with a Christmas nativity tableau being presented in 1926.
On December 11, 1927, the Christmas vests were held for the first
time in the new Hoch auditorium. The auditorium was completed in October, 1927. That year three tableaux were presented.
On December 17, 1939, 100 persons took part in the vespers and in 1949 almost 300 appeared in the traditional Christmas presentation.
An offering is taken at the vespers for the School of Fine Arts vespers scholarship fund. In 1949 nearly 7,000 persons donated $672.25 to the fund, which is used to provide scholarships in art and music. The record high offering was received in 1948 when $804.92 was donated.
Truman Begins Steps To Declare 'Emergency'
Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 12—(U.P.)—Twenty thousand U.S. marines and army troops rejoined United Nations forces in Korea Monday, prompting Gen. Douglas MacArthur to declare triumphantly that he still had in Korea an "undefeated command of high morale and marked battle efficiency."
The fighting column rolled safely into Allied lines near Hamhung after a 13-day battle described as one of the costliest in marine history. It was feared casualties may approach the record of 4,600 killed and 15,000 wounded on Iwo Jima.
The marines fought their way out of the death trap under the leadership of Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, who declared defiantly last week: "Retreat, Hell! We are just attacking in a different direction."
General MacArthur made a flying inspection tour of the Hamhung and U.S. 8th army fronts as the marine column reached safety. He reported on his return to Tokyo that U.N. forces in the past two weeks of retreat had inflicted "staggering" losses of 10 to one on the Reds.
In the west the bulk of the 100.- 000-man U.S. 8th army dug in on a new line south of the 38th parallel and prepared to defend Seoul if the Chinese Communists cross the frontier.
U. S. 10th corps troops holding the line around Hamhung began falling back with the marines for a possible Dunkerque evacuation in an Allied armada waiting offshore.
Closing in on Hamhung and its big port of Hungnam were 100,000 Chinese Reds. Prisoners said they were under orders to capture the two cities.
Man's Lot Improved Ise Tells YMCA
At last reports, the Chinese had penetrated as far south as Sohung, on the Pyongyang-Seoul highway 31 miles north of the 38th parallel. They also have massed supplies in a 110-square-mile area north of the parallel, and reinforcements are pouring toward the front.
Foreign Students And IIE Agent To Hold Meetings
WEATHER
Generally fair weather was expected to continue today and tomorrow over the entire state, with higher temperatures forecast for eastern Kansas.
Thevon Van Scoter, a representative of the Institute of International Education, New York, will visit the University Dec. 18-20 to confer with foreign students and to discuss foreign students with interested persons in this area.
About 40 or nearly a third of the foreign students at K.U., were placed here by the institute. The latter is a private, non-profit organization concerned with the two-way exchange of students, technicians, professors, and specialists between the United States and more than 60 countries abroad. This year the institute has more than 3,000 persons taking advanced study in countries other than their own.
Working through selection committees, the institute places foreign students in American schools, using money from a variety of sources, both government and private. It assists in arranging travel schedules and coordinates details so that students will be met and cared for when they reach their destinations.
Pianist To Give Concert Tonight
George Fielding Eliot, noted military analyst, will give the 11th "World in Crisis" lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser theater. He will discuss "The Military Resources of the Two World Powers."
Mr. Eliot attended Melbourne university in Australia and served with the Australian Imperial Force during world war I. From 1922 to 1930 he was an officer in the Military Intelligence reserve of the United States army.
Since 1947, Mr. Eliot has also been a columnist for the New York Post Home News.
His books include "If War Comes",
"The Ramparts We Watch," "Bombs
Bursting in Air," and "Hour of Triumph."
Leonard Shure, pianist, will give a concert at 8:20 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. The concert is the second in this year's University of Kansas Concert Course.
Mr. Eliot, as an author and journalist, has specialized in military affairs and national security since 1928. Formerly military analyst for the Columbia Broadcasting System, he is now military and naval correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.
"Fantasien, Op. 116 (Brahms),
"Sonata in A flat major, Op. 110)
(Beethoven), "Reflets dans 'Peau'
and "Feud-artifice" (Debussy),
and "Ballade No. 4 in F minor"
(Chopin).
Mr. Shure will play:
Military Analyst Is Crisis Speaker
Dr. Kenneth E. Anderson, associate professor of education and director of the bureau, will direct the project. He will be assisted in the administration by Gordon Collister, director of the Guidance bureau. Carl E. Ladd, a graduate student in education, has been engaged as research assistant.
Dr. Anderson said that L. Madison Coombs of the Haskell institute and George Dale, Indian service education specialist, would represent the Bureau of Indian affairs in the joint project.
KU To Help Plan Indian Testing Project
The Bureau of Indian affairs in the Department of the Interior has entered into a contract involving $6,500 for the first year with the K. U. Bureau of Educational Research and Service. The service work was previously handled by the University of Chicago.
Dr. Willard W. Beatty, national director of Indian education, will come to K.U. next Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 18 and 19 to plan conferences with the project personnel.
The School of Education has been engaged to furnish services in setting up a testing program and in planning research projects for the Indian schools throughout the United States, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
Washington,——(U.P.)President Truman got set today to proclaim a national emergencypossibly this week—by calling in top economic advisers and leaders of both parties in congress for advice.
204 Persons And One Dog At "Nativity Play"
By RICHARD HUNTER
One dog, and 204 persons saw the "Nativity Play" in the Little theater of Green hall Sunday afternoon. Seating capacity in the theater is 154, so Rover, a large brown and white collie, who apparently foresaw the capacity audience, arrived at the theater about two hours before the show began.
Thomas Shay, director of the lab- oratory theater, walked into the theater at 1:30 p.m. and saw Rover, sitting all alone in the second row, waiting for the show to begin. "He was just sitting patiently waiting,
tail wagging, and tongue panting," said Shay. "I told him that some persons in the audience might think it a little strange for a dog to be sitting in the second row watching
the show. So, I and three of the actors in the play coaxed him outside by whistling, and pushing." After the Little theater's seats were filled, 50 persons were given standing room and two minutes before the curtain was raised Rover sauntered in, looked for a seat, then disappeared among the standees. Shay said that 204 is the largest number of persons ever to attend a Laboratory theater production, and one is the largest number of dogs attending.
The White House indicated that only the final details remain to be worked out.
Mr. Truman asked Sen. Robert A. Taft, R.-Ohio) to attend the series of top-level conferences for the first time in what was described officially as a step to strengthen a bi-partisan approach to preparing the nation for more sacrifices.
In rapid-fire actions, Mr. Truman:
1. Summoned his top economic advisers to a 4 p.m. meeting today.
2. Invited both Democratic and Republican leaders of both house and senate for talks at 10 a.m. E.S.T. Wednesday.
3. Let it be known that he is considering a radio address to the nation sometime this week. No final decision has been reached on this.
4. Met this morning with his Democratic "big four" congressional leaders to go over the matter of national emergency methods of applying wage-price controls.
Besides giving the President extra powers to lead the nation toward a war crisis footing both economically and militarily, the proclamation was expected to be used to jar the nation from any business-as-usual outlook in fighting worldwide Communism.
The White House said Mr. Truman's call to the congressional leaders is to "discuss matters concerning the proclaiming of a national emergency and related matters." His talk with the Democratic "big four" from congress this morning concerned methods of applying wage-price controls as well as the emergency declaration.
Student Uninjured In Car Accident
The collision of a car driven by Daniel Larson, 19, College junior, and one driven by Ned H. Fleming, Jr. 26, *Toneka*, resulted in the death of Fleming. The accident took place Sunday morning a mile west of De Soto on Kansas highway No. 10.
NO. 10 Larson was driving to Kansas City after a rhi Kappa fraternity dance. Neither Larson nor his date, Miss Dorothy Perkins, 19, of Kansas City, Mo., were injured.
BULLETIN
Washington—(U.P.)The supreme court ruled today that when a witness is asked about his Communist connections he has a right to keep silent on grounds of possible self-incrimination.