Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
THESE THREE COLONELS were initiated into the Pershing Rifle society as honorary members Nov. 30. Tony Vandergrift, president of the society, is shown congratulating them at the Military Ball. From left to right in the foreground are Col. Edward F. Kumpe, professor of military science, Tony Vandergrift, president, Lt. Col. Lynn R. Moore, professor of air science, and Lt. Col. James J. Hausman, associate professor of air science.
The present economic system was described as "monopoly capitalism" by Dr. Leland J. Pritchard, professor of business, at the 11th "World in Crisis" lecture Tuesday night.
'Monopoly Control In US:Pritchard
"Our present system is neither a free nor a controlled economy," Mr. Pritchard said. "Classified by its dominant characteristics, it could be referred to as 'monopoly capitalism.'
"The United States' economy is no longer sufficiently competitive to be self-regulatory," he explained. "Adjustments are made by changing the volume of production rather than the price."
Dr. Pritchard said monopoly control is increasing in both management and labor. This leads to increased governmental intervention and eventual "state capitalism," he said.
United States' economy is no
"Artificial stimulants attributable to World War II lifted the economy out of the great depression and largely account for the high levels of production and employment
which have prevailed in the postwar period," Dr. Pritchard said.
He said the state of our economy would be dropping now if the country weren't preparing for war.
"Our economy would quickly mire itself in the slough of depression were it not for the presence of artificial stimulants," he said. "I say this with the full realization that the majority of the American people hold a contrary opinion."
Instead, we now face the danger of inflation, Dr. Pritchard explained. But he said inflation can be contained if we have the will to do so.
Low Bid For New J-School Is Within Appropriation
Bids were received Tuesday for the remodeling of Fowler shops as the new home of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information and the University of Kansas Press. Low bids totaled $264,565.55, well under the $300,000 appropriated by the legislature.
Constant Construction company.
Lawrence, was low bidder for the general contract with $227,368. Other low bidders were P. F. Gough, Lawrence, $19,201.55, for the plumbing and heating contract, and S. D. Thacher, Topeka, $17,996 for the electrical contract.
Remodeling plans include provisions for classrooms and laboratories for the. the. School of. Journalism, a bindery, a printshop, quarters for the University Press, and a memorial room to William Allen White.
School of Journalism, said no date has been set for starting the re-modeling project. Contracts are still to be let and problems of obtaining material may delay the construction.
First bids were taken last July, but they exceeded the appropriation by more than 50 per cent. Plans were then revised, and the state then advertised for the bids that were received Tuesday.
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the
Edith Sitwell, Eminent English Poet, Will Talk To English Students Dec. 7
One of England's most eminent and colorful poets, Dr. Edith Sittwell, will speak to University students at 4 p.m. Thursday in Fraser theater. Her topic will be "Good Poetry and Bad."
Dr. Stilwell is touring the United States with her brother, Sir Osbert Sitwell, who also is a literary artist. He has recently published a fifth volume of his autobiography, a best seller. A third member of the Sitwell family trio of prominent
writers is Sacheverell Sitwell, an authority on barque art.
Dr. Sitwell's appearance at the University is sponsored by the department of English and the Museum of Art.
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Lawrence, Kansas
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UN Halts Headlong Flight Just North Of 38th Parallel
Tokyo—(U.P). The U. S. 8th army halted its headlong flight just north of the 38th parallel today and began striking back at Chinese Communist troops who have eased at least temporarily their 10-day-old offensive.
Twenty thousand marine and army troops trapped in two pockets south of the Chosin reservoir reported that the fury of attacks by 65,000 Chinese Communists there had slacked to small arms fire.
Airlift planes roaring out of the big allied base of Hungnam in eastern Korea continued to land supplies and evacuate wounded from the Hagaru airstrip one mile south of the Chosin reservoir where 15,000 U. S. marines and infantrymen are trapped. Another 5,000 are surrounded at Kotori, seven miles south of Hagaru.
The interlude in the ground fighting was filled by United Nations planes, which blasted Red troops moving cautiously south from Pyongyang along secondary roads toward the 8th army's new positions south of the Communist capital.
run their two-day score of dead enemy troops to at least 4,100.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the 100,000-man 8th army, which abandoned Pyongyang to overwhelming Chinese Communist forces Monday night, now has stabilized its position between Pyongyang and the 38th parallel.
Six days of Communist attacks with heavy guns and mortars against the trapped Americans eased off at noon Wednesday. But Communist small arms fire still kept the Yanks from attempting to break out of the tran.
John Jefferson, correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System, reported today that U. S. marines and army troops trapped south of the Chosin reservoir in Korea, had started their drive to break out of the Chinese Communist encirclement.
The spokesman said the positions could not be termed a new defense line but that the 8th army was in sufficiently good position to send patrols probing back north toward the pursuing Chinese.
An 8th army spokesman said the patrols made no contact with the enemy but that airmen had spotted a vanguard of 4,000 Chinese moving south and southeast along secondary roads four miles south of Pyongyang
The Allied air forces raked the Reds and killed another 1,500 to
Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was quoted as saying in Washington yesterday that United Nations forces in north-west Korea now were in position to be evacuated if necessary.
BULLETIN
Topeka — (U.P.) Higher two-year appropriation requests for the University of Kansas and the K.U. medical center were disclosed today by Gov. Frank L. Hagaman.
KU Requests $14,693,968
Lake Success, N.Y.—U.(P.)—A 13 nation appeal to the Chinese Communists not to drive into South Korea was sent to Peking with an implied assurance that the United Nations also would respect the 38th parallel, Indian sources said today.
The overall budget application for the Lawrence school is moderately greater than the request two years, he told reporters. The medical center request is sharply higher for the biennium starting next July 1.
The sizable increase asked for the Kansas City medical center is caused chiefly by the major expansion in that institution during the last two years.
Governor Hagaman said the University's combined operating and building construction request for the approaching two-year period is $14,693,968. Two years ago it was $13,806,000.
Kansas — Fair east, increasing cloudiness west. Not so cold tonight.
Low tonight 5 in east, 10 to 15 west.
Ise To Speak At YMCA Forum
The medical center request is $4,-
233,000. That compares with $2,830,-
500 two years ago.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will meet with the governor, gov.-elect Edward F. Arn, state budget director W. G. Hamilton and the chairmen of the senate and house ways and means committees, Sen. Wilfrid Cavaness and Rep. Chris Green, this afternoon to detail the University's budget needs.
Dr. John Ise, professor of economics, will begin a series of Y.M.C.A.-sponsored forums with an address on "Present Day Economic Trends" at 4 p.m. Thursday in Strong auditorium.
"The meeting will be the first of several which are expected to stimulate new thought on the campus" Louis Helmreich, Y.M. C.A. forum chairman, said today. "Truth, Trouble, and Temptation" has been chosen as the name for the series.
THE WEATHER
Thursday Is Black Anniversary For US
BY UNITED PRESS
This Dec. 7 finds us at another black moment. Defeat stares us in the face in Korea. The threat of World War III is real.
The man in Tokyo now, was the man in Manila then.
On Dec. 7, 1941—nine years ago—the Japanese made their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack launched us into the greatest war of all time.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur had been recalled to the army only a few weeks before the Dec. 7 blow fell. It was the beginning of many months when we stood at the brink of defeat.
General MacArthur led his outnumbered forces in a brilliant island-hopping campaign during the next three and a half years that carried them to the threshold of Tokyo. He became the nation's miracle man.
His handling of the occupation of Japan enhanced that reputation. While United Nations representatives wrangled in Berlin and Vienna,
General MacArthur restored Japan.
Then, without warning, came another sneak attack—the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean Communists. And with it, another assignment for General MacArthur.
His outnumbered forces held the Pusan beachhead and then struck back. Tacticians hailed the landing at Inchon as "brilliant." Then came the Chinese. A few at first—60,000, then 200,000 and finally, a million.
General MacArthur's forces on Bataan were defeated because they were outnumbered, had no room to maneuver, were vastly out-matched in fire-power and had no hope of reinforcement.
General MacArthur was warned that we no longer can count on miracles—which really weren't miracles in the first place, but were based on historical military axioms.
David killed the giant Goliath because he had greater maneuverability, an endless supply of rocks and his slingshot gave him greater firepower.
KU Freshman Attending White House Youth Meeting
Robert R. Ball, College freshman, is now attending a five-day Mid-Century White House Conference on Children and Youth in Washington, D.C. which began Sunday and will end Thursday.
The conference will include outstanding youth leaders from all over the nation who have gathered at the request of President Truman to discuss methods of securing better mental, physical and moral development for the young people of the nation. Meetings began Sunday afternoon and will continue through Thursday.
"I chose the last committee on the list to work on at the conference." Ball said before his departure, "because it is the one which will work on methods for practical application of the recommendations made by the other committees.
"This time I want to help develop practical applications for the conclusions which we reach. That's the only way the conference can be a real help toward guiding the development of the nation's young people."
In 1949 Ball was elected governor of Kansas Boy's State. The same
ROBERT BALL
year he went on to Boy's Nation, a similar national meeting in Washington, D.C., and was elected honorary president.