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University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
O F THE U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
Truman Threatens Reds With A-Bomb
Washington, Nov. 30—(U.P.) President Truman grimly warned the communist aggressors today that the United States is considering using the atomic bomb in the Korean war and pledged a large build up of U.S. armed forces.
Mr. Truman charged that the Chinese communist assault in Korea is Russian-inspired and threatens "all human hopes of peace and justice." But he expressed hope that it can be stopped without using the Abomb.
He vowed that the United Nations forces will not abandon Korea because "if aggression is successful in Korea, we can expect it to spread through Asia, and Europe to this hemisphere."
Emphasizing the gravity of the crisis, Mr. Truman said in a press conference statement that:
Calling for national unity and determination, he laid down a three-point program to meet the challenge of the new communist aggression.
"We are fighting in Korea for our own national security and survival."
1. "We shall continue to work in the United Nations for concerted action to halt this aggression in Korea."
2. "We shall intensify our efforts to help other free nations strengthen their defenses in order to meet the threat of aggression elsewhere."
3. "We shall rapidly increase our own military strength."
Mr. Truman he soon will ask congress for "large amounts" of money to increase the size and effectiveness of this country's armed forces and a "substantial" amount for the Atomic Energy commission.
He said he will confer Friday with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and ask them to give "urgent consideration" to these appropriations.
Charging that the Chinese communist drive into Korea is Soviet-inspired, Mr. Truman said:
"We hope that the Chinese people will not continue to be forced or deceived into serving the ends of Russian colonial policy in Asia."
Mr. Truman laid down the basic U.S. policy to meet the crisis in a formal statement. His disclosure about the A-bomb was made verbally in response to news conference questions.
The tempo of draft inductions will be increased. The armed forces now total about two million men. The defense department has been talking about a 2,500,000-man force by next June. President Truman himself has mentioned a three million man force, but no date to reach that goal.
Chairman Carl Vinson, (D.-Ga.), has said the house armed services committee will consider revising the law to permit induction of World War II veterans. Draft director Lewis B. Hershey wants the length of service of draffees extended from 21 months to 30.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in a radio address Wednesday night, blamed the Chinese Communists and their Moscow sponsors for creating "a new crisis," a situation unparalleled danger, and armies in Korea at the very moment an end of the war was in sight.
Mr. Acheson branded the intervention as "immoral" and "brazen aggression" which holds "grave danger for the peace of the world." He implied that the Soviet leaders were using the Chinese Reds as cloaks for Russia's aims for world conquest.
K-State Commits Offense Against Pact, ASC Says
Bv BOB SANFORD
Kansas State students committed an offense against the existing peace pact between Kansas State and the University, the All Student Council decided Wednesday night.
The action followed a similar charge made against the University by the Kansas State student council.
"Our complaint is in regard to the south post on our football field which was completely destroyed and to the north goat post which was partially torn down.
The charge against Kansas State concerned damages done on the K.U. campus. Preceding the football game between the two schools the north goal post in Memorial stadium was torn down, Jimmy Green received a coat of paint, a door on the east side of the stadium was painted, and a flag bearing the letters "KS" was flown on the pole south of the stadium. The offenders greased the bottom of the pole.
"We feel that this was the result of pre-meditated action on the part of some Kansas University students. Illustrating this point is the fact that a smoke bomb was exploded at the north end of the gridiron while the south uprights were torn down."
The charge against the University given in a letter from the Kansas State council, reads:
The pact states that it the treaty is broken, "the student council of the offended school whether he has committed against this pact has been committed." The pact carries no provision in the case that both councils have been offended.
A joint committee from the two schools will meet soon to decide on
Mr. Lonborg said that students could gain admission to the games not included in the set punched on their I.D. card by borrowing an I.D. card that corresponds with the game. The student should present his own I.D. card with the borrowed I.D. card.
An appropriation of $00 was given to Richard C. Harris, Wallace B. Foster, and Evan F. Wilson, third year law students, to help pay for his trip to St. Louis on which they represented the University at a moot court competition recently.
The question of whether graduate students should abide by social rules of the constitution was considered. The council decided that graduate students are included in the jurisdiction of the constitution because they are regularly enrolled students and are members of the Associated Student body. The council ruled that social events of the Graduate club should be registered.
Three Men's Halls To Fill Vacancies
Men wishing to live in any one of the three men's residence halls, Battenfield, Jolliffe, or Sterling-Oliver, should apply at the dean of men's office, 228 Strong hall, before Wednesday, Dec. 20.
A few vacancies will open at the end of the first semester and men who apply will have their applications considered by the residence hall committee before the spring semester opens. Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, is chairman of the committee.
Approximately 150 students now live in the three halls.
Panel Talks On Education
The question of the transferability of student basketball tickets was raised at the council meeting. This was answered by A. C. Lonborg; director of athletics, today.
The possible introduction of general education at K.U, was discussed Wednesday night at the annual Upstream dinner by a four-man panel.
payment of the damages. L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, Melvin Clingan, Roger Davis, and Pat Gardenhire, council representatives, will meet a similar Kansas State faction.
Buildings and grounds employees have cleared the ground south of the Union building in preparation for the construction of the new addition.
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday,
becoming cloudy west and north-central Frida with possibly a little snow in the extreme northwest late Friday. Not so cold west and south
tonight, warmer east and south-central Frida, turning colder extreme northwest Friday afternoon.
Low tonight 28-32; high Friday 55-
60 east and south, 45-50 north.
WEATHER
Dr. Ise said that general education "would not teach anyone how to make money, so why try it? The students would quit if they couldn't see any money in it." The idea of general education is increasingly vague he pointed out, but that this was all right because "there's no place in America now for an educated man. It's too late."
Included in the panel were William Righter, graduate student, William Howell, editor of the Jayhawker magazine, M.D. Clubb, professor of English, and John Ise, professor of economics. They discussed the problem of forwarding a liberal curricula at the University. Stanley Kelley, graduate student, Upstream politics editor, acted as moderator.
Workers Clear Ground For Addition To Union
Righter told of the progress made in general education at Harvard University where it served to improve and enliven the curriculum.
Kefauver Favors Atlantic Union
Dr. Clubb said that "faculties of American universities are composed of people whose mental growth toward general education has been arrested and that antagonism exists between departments. What we need, said Dr. Clubb, is not integration between departments, but cooperation."
"The general courses at Harvard," said Righter, "are divided into two groups: one for freshmen and sophomores and another for upper classmen." Professors form a symposium with the students in which ideas are exchanged in an effort to provoke awareness in the minds of the students, but of specific knowledge, but of what is going on about them.
"The University of Kansas," Howell said, "is departmentalized to too great an extent." The courses are over-specialized and not enough of the student's education is left to his own discretion.
Dr. Clubb said that the University's courses are designed for the undergraduate level and that the average student is not certain what he is after. He is motivated by a desire to prepare himself for a job and is not interested in subjects which have no connection with teaching him how to make a living.
An Atlantic Union resolution should be formed to supplement the United Nations, Sen. Estes Kefauver, (D.-Tenn.), told students at a convocation in Hoch auditorium this morning.
This resolution is currently being sponsored by 25 senators in Congress. It would be an organization in which all nations could associate.
The resolution provides that the president of the U.S. call a conference, of. the. seven-Atlantic pact nations, to a constitutional convention and invite any other nations interested to draw up a constitution or federation to bring peoples together and to unite economic policies.
"The situation today is as it was in 1787. Washington feared that it wouldn't be possible to unite the thirteen colonies, but the Philadelphia convention was successful."
"We face a federation of Russia in their aims, economy, and foreign policy, and they have a unified front." Sen. Kefauver said. "The democratic nations have been using time to settle disputes among themselves while Russia has presented a unified front."
"On the matter of common defense and common foreign policy we'll never be able to show the Soviet Union a unified front." he added.
It is a credit to the United States that they entered into the Bretor Woods plan, the United Nations, the San Francisco conference, the Marshall Plan, and the Atlantic Pact wholeheartedly. These are all steps in the right direction, but they have all been stopgap measures dealing with economic and military matters, the senator said.
The United States must get away from 19th century diplomacy in order to restore world peace.
"A military alliance has never worked over a long period of time. Nations can withdraw with the same ease they entered and nothing can be done about it." he said.
"We should join other nations and use our force and influence in the best way possible."
The U.N. is going to have very difficult going because of the veto power. The Atlantic Union resolution is not a substitute for the U.N. but should build up the United Nations. It should strengthen the purpose and techniques of the U.N.
"This plan may seem visionary
and far-fetched, but actually it is a very practical approach—we have been spending billions and billions of dollars without having any control under the present set-up." Senator Kefauver said.
"We have placed too much emphasis on material value and not enough on educational," he said.
"We must deal not only with the
same person, but also must also
win their spirit, and ideas."
In this conflict today we have so much more to offer than totalitarian countries. People want opportunity and freedom of worship and speech, and we should get across the idea that under our democracy these ideals are attainable.
Senator Kefauver said that he doesn't like the restrictions that have been placed on free speech in the United States, and that we should restrict only those who are guilty of espionage or sedition. We ought to enlarge the democratic process, not take it away, he said.
Psychologist To IU Meet
Alfred Baldwin, professor of psychology, will participate in a round table discussion of the family's impact upon individual personality. It will be held at the University of Illinois Thursday, Dec. 7.
The round table will be part of a four day meeting, Dec. 6 to 9, of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Problems, Methods, and Theory in Social Psychology.
Professor Baldwin will be one of 19 teachers, representing as many schools, participating in the conference. The meetings will be open to anyone interested in psychology, he said.
The aim of the conference is to show how disciplines assist in the solution of everyday problems.
Reds Advance To 25 Miles From North Korean Capital
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Chinese Communists linked up with an estimated two divisions of North Korean guerillas and the Red avalanche swept unopposed to within 25 miles of the former North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
An estimated 100,000 Chinese Communists hit Allied positions in Northeast Korea today, as 200,000 other Reds broke off the fierce battle in the northwest, apparently to rest and regroup for new attacks.
The Red drive in the northeast struck simultaneously at the front and the flank of Allied front-line units, encircling the entire U.S. 1st marine division and two U.S. army regiments.
On the northwestern front, the U. S. 2nd division was at least temporarily encircled, but large-scale fighting virtually ceased as Allied troops fell back to a new defense line 20 to 30 miles above Pyongyang, the liberated capital of Communist Korea.
The encircled American units were being supplied by air, and there seemed no reason to believe they were in serious danger. It was believed they could fight their way out of the Red trap whenever they chose.
The new Chinese attack was directed at American units holding
At the same time, a Communist flying column of 600 to 1,000 troops swept around the flank to cut the supply routes serving the marines and the 31st and 32nd infantry regiments.
the banks of the strategic Chosin reservoir. Heavy Red forces hit the marines on the west bank and 7th division units on the eastern shore.
On the northwest front, the 2nd division was surrounded in the Kumu area, where it earlier had rescued the regiment of trench from communist meitrelement.
Most of the Allied forces in northwest Korea fell back from the Chongchon river line to new defensive positions south of Sunchon, 27 miles north of Pyongyang and 20 miles below the Chongchon.
Air scouts reported that Chinese reinforcements were swarming south from Manchuria to the northwestern front.
In today's fighting, U. S. air and ground forces killed nearly 7,500 Communists.