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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1950
Kansas Library Group Elects KU Library Officer Chairman
DeLafayette Reid, assistant director of libraries, at the University, was elected chairman of the college and university division, at the Kansas Library association meeting held at Pratt on Sept. 28, 29, and 30.
Charles M. Baker, director of li- braries, Morton Coburn, stack supervisor, and Frances DeArmond, head of the circulation department, also attended the meeting.
Mr. Reid led a college and university roundtable discussion on "Library Orientation Courses for Freshmen."
A Kansas State Library commission of which Mr. Baker is a member presented a survey report after a preliminary investigation of library facilities. Andre Nielsen, chairman of the commission and public librarian at Evanston, Illinois, presented the report.
Phyllis Fenner addressed the 235 librarians on the subject: "In the World of Books for Children." Miss Fenner is a librarian at Manhasset, N. Y., and author of children's books.
Dr. Ethan P. Allen, director of the Bureau of Governmental Research at the University, spoke on "The State Laws and Kansas Libraries."
Bill Martin of the Tell-Well Press, spoke on "Better Readers Through Storytelling."
120 Students From Abroad
More than 120 foreign students are enrolled in the University this semester and more are expected to arrive, Donald K. Alderson, assistant dean of men, announced today. Forty-six of these are exchange students.
Dr. J. A. Burzle, associate professor of German, is advisor to the foreign students. He assists them in choosing programs that will meet their major requirements.
Cooperating with the dean of men's office, Dr. Burzle maintains contact with the Institute of International Education in New York. This organization supervises the selection of students and provides transportation and scholarship to universities throughout the United States.
Actors Will Keep Record
A scrapbook of all the plays given at the University this year and in the future will be kept by the University Players.
The scrapbook will contain pictures of each cast, as well as scenes from plays. Brief accounts of how each play was received by its audience will be included with the pictures.
Patricia Elliot and Joan Turner, College freshmen and candidates for the University Players, will be in charge of the scrapbook this semester.
Art Groups Loaned By Nelson Gallery
Three groups of oriental and Middle-Eastern art loaned by the Nelson art gallery in Kansas City, Mo., are on display at the Spooner-Thayer museum of art.
Tomb figures from the Tang dynasty of China and a large painted storage jar of the Han dynasty are in one group.
A group of stuccoes which were made in Hadda, in what is now Afghanistan, in the fourth century A. D. and given to the Nelson gallery by the government of France are included.
Also loaned for display, in the gallery of Roman provincial art, is a group of sculptured figures from the northwest frontier of India. They are carved in grey slate and are known as Gandharan figures.
Commissions Meet Today For YWCA
Three. Y.W.C.A. commissions, campus affairs, political effectiveness, and a freshman group, will meet at 4 p.m. today at Henley house. All women who signed for these groups and any others who are interested should attend these first meetings.
Freshman women will begin their discussion of problems of interest to freshmen, the campus, and the world. They will also consider their work projects for the year, the first of which will be making pompons for Homecoming sales.
Campus affairs, an upperclass commission, will include discussion of affairs on the campus as well as in carrying on old K.U. traditions.
Political effectiveness, also an upperclass group, is designed to inform members about the community, state, and national government; promote a study of legislation; and encourage informing representatives in the government of its views
The all-school pentathlon scheduled to begin today has been postponed because of the rain and wet grounds, Coach Jim McConnell said this morning.
Rain Postpones
McConnell would like all interested persons to come to the track office in Robinson gymnasium to be briefed on pentathlon procedure.
Russian View Of Surrender May Come Today
Lake Success, N.Y., Oct. 2. (U.P.)-Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinskyi was expected to give the first Communist reaction today to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's surrender call to the North Koreans.
Like the rest of the world, the United Nations awaited North Korea's reply to the surrender demand broadcast Sunday.
Battlefront developments—including Pyongyang's announcement that its troops had withdrawn to new positions and the fact that Allied planes were meeting the heaviest anti-aircraft fire of the war—indicated that the Red Koreans were not ready to quit.
But in the U.N. General Assembly's 60-nation political committee, now debating the entire Korean question on the basis of an eighnation blueprint for its future, Vishinsky was expected to give the first tip-off on the Communist attitude toward MacArthur's terms when he speaks today.
While reports that two South Korean divisions were driving into North Korea brought mixed reaction among U.N. delegates, there were some at the world organization who thought that their advance outlined MacArthur's approach to the disquieting problem the U.N. was dodging—should the Allied troops cross the 38th parallel?
Col. Bent C. Limb, foreign minister of South Korea, expressed confidence in an interview that his government's troops could do the job, "if they are well supplied by the U.S."
Limb's contended that since Korea was one ethnic and geographic entity until Russia converted the military line on the 38th parallel into a political barrier, the South Koreans were more "foreigners" if they crossed a line that pre-war Koreans never heard about.
Indonesian Student Regards Education As Investment
An education is costing Soey Bow Bong of Indonesia seven times as much as it would cost an American student. However, Bong regards his education as the safest investment he can make during these uncertain times.
The Kansas weatherman told today of soaking rains, overflowing streams and of approaching subfreezing temperatures.
"The cold air being shoved this way," said Garrett, "will give Kansas its first sure-enough frost in the west and central sectors. The mercury should dip to 30 or a little below tonight in the extreme north-west." He added that there is a possibility of light frost in favorable locations of the northeast.
As a result of the torrential rains, many small streams in the area were mushrooming out of their banks.
Fall's first rough-weather storm is heading for northwest Kansas out of the Rockies, said U.S. meteorologist Richard Garrett. Preceding it to give October a sopping start were rains over nearly all the state, except the southeast.
Ise Had Close Call In Salzburg
Colder Weather On The Way
Barnard led the list of big rains with 4.48 inches. Natoma had 4.23 with Paradise creek surging to banktop. Hanover measured 3.92, Concordia 3.49, Hayes 2.64, Horton 2.30, Topeka 2.05, Hutchinson 1.09, and Garden City 1.13.
Among the larger rivers, the Big Blue was overflowing from the Nebraska line to below Blue Rapids, where a flood stage 7.2 feet above banks was recorded this morning. The Little Blue was four feet out at Hanover.
In north central and northeast portions two, three, and four inch downpours were common.
Dr. John Ise, professor of economics, was stranded in Soviet-occupied Austria this summer and forced to return to the American zone by train, contrary to Russian regulations. The incident, which occurred while Dr. Ise was teaching at a seminar in Salzburg, Austria, highlighted his three months in Europe.
The tour began June 12 when Dr; and Mrs. Ise flew to Paris. There they spent two weeks visiting John Ise, Jr., who has been doing cosmic energy research in the Pyrenees for a year.
Dr. Ise then spent a week in Aarhus, Denmark, where he taught at a seminar. At the end of the week he went to Salzburg, which is in the part of Austria occupied by the United States.
On the way back to Salzburg there were six people in the car, including an Austrian woman, Frau Krupp. The highway on which they were travelling runs through Soachsberg and approaches Linz and Americans using the highway are not allowed to stop or leave the road.
Dr. Ise had planned to spend two days in Vienna between sessions of the Salzburg seminar. Vienna, although governed jointly by the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia, is 100 miles inside Soviet Austria.
The car, belonging to Dr. Ise's son, stalled in St. Polten, a small town west of Vienna. In spite of the regulation forbidding them to leave the highway, the group took the car to a garage a block away. About an hour later they were back on the highway.
Americans may move freely in all four zones of Vienna if they have the proper papers. They are not allowed to take pictures in the Russian zone. Dr. Ise's son, however, took several pictures while they were in the Soviet sector.
The car stalled again in front of the Russian headquarters. John Ise,
Jr., found an Austrian policeman, who took him to the Austrian police station.
An hour later John Ise, Jr., returned. He and his wife were told to go to the Russian police headquarters. The other four were to go to the railway station and take a train back to Salzburg. They were strongly advised not to speak to anyone in the depot. They were to be especially careful not to give themselves away by speaking English.
Dr. Ise found in Austria that Marshall Plan money was being spent in the Russian zone. Ironically enough, said Dr. Ise, the railway station in which it was considered too dangerous for us to speak English was built with the help of Marshall Plan money.
Dr. and Mrs. Ise were extremely worried about their son's safety, having heard that 1,600 people had "disappeared" in the Soviet sector. They were afraid that the forbiddleness of lies in the camera, and the fact that J.D. jr., was a physicist, might cause the Russians to become suspicious.
Mrs. Ise called Col. Cecil Bradley, a friend who was with the American occupation forces. In the morning two Army intelligence officers came to the castle where Dr. Ise was staying, to find out the details of the incident. Two days later, the couple returned to Salzburg.
The four took their luggage and waited about a block from the station while Frau Krupp bought the tickets. At 3 a.m., they were back in Salzburg.
Dr. Ise pointed out that the U. S. Army of Occupation, because of a change in the exchange rate, was buying its supplies at twice the market price. The Russians, Dr. Ise explained, force the Austrians to support them, so that in effect "the United States is building up the Russian Army."
The Russians were to occupy their zone in Austria only until a government was set up, Dr. Ise said. After the government was elected, however, the Reds gained complete control of it and refused to leave.
Russian soldiers are ordered not to fraternize with anyone from the capitalist nations, and are insulting and discourteous to Americans, said Dr. Ise. He believes this attitude is meant to impress their superiors with their hatred of the West. They also want S. soldiers are from the wealthy upper class in America, Dr. Ise said. Apparently this is explain the fact that the Yanks have so much more money than the Russian soldiers.
When the Salzburg seminar ended Aug. 23, Dr. Isew went to Switzerland for a week, and then to Western Germany. There he visited the towns where his father and grandmother were born.
Dr. Ise found Western Germany in a desperate condition. There is constant fear of a Russian invasion, and the country is flooded with nine million refugees from Eastern Germany and the Sudetenland. Supplying food for these displaced persons is a critical problem in a non-agricultural area which can barely feed its own population, he said.
After 10 days in Germany, Dr. Ise went to Luxemburg, from where he was to fly home. it took him a week to get a plane, and he was delayed again, for two days, in Gander, Newfoundland. He arrived in New York on Sept. 19.
> "My education is an investment; no one can take it away from me," he said.
Bong is not an exchange student. His education is financed with black market dollars—the only type of United States currency available to citizens of Indonesia in 1947 when he decided to come to the United States. It took almost a year for Bong to accumulate the necessary funds.
He first heard of the University of Kansas through Charlie F. Embree, '27. Mr. Embree urged Bong to come to the United States and to attend the university where Embree's friend Fred Ellsworth secretary of the Alumni association.
Before coming to Kansas Bong studied at the University of Melbourne. He describes that institution as typically English and more formal than American universities. However, there were no regulations at the University of Melbourne comparable to American closing hours or attendance requirements.
During World War II Bong worked for the Dutch government in Australia. His parents were in Indonesia which was occupied by the Japanese. "Life was a constant fear. My father's name was on the list of the Japanese," said Bong. The Bongs were not mistreated, but three times a week 60 Japanese soldiers took over their house as a rest home.
Bong is annoyed by the fact that American newspapers and magazines never print any pictures of the Far East that don't feature the extremes. Asia has a middle class, although at present it is far too small when compared with the number of extremely rich or poor.
"Chinese by race, Dutch by nationality." Bong is thirty years old and unmarried. When asked his opinion of American girls, he diplomatically replied, "You can't be beautiful, we wear, and an oriental beauty. They are different types. A Chinese girl strives to be delicate."
Bong is majoring in English literature. After graduation he will return to Indonesia and join his father in the pepper business.
He considers the American girl one of the world's best dressed women. Questioned about marriage, he said, "I've traveled; someday I'll settle down."
All members of the KuKu's, men's pep club, will be required to attend all of the home games and pep rallies this year.
By a point system devised at a meeting Thursday evening, new members will be required to accumulate 40 points before they can be initiated into the club. Points can be gained by attending games and rallies and by working on preparation for rallies.
There are 36 new members, making a total membership of 72 for the organization. Three members are taken from each organized house and 14 from among the independent students. The maximum membership is 114.
KuKu's To Attend All Home Games
Decorations for the club's new jackets will be a small Jayhawk on the left hand side of the jacket front and the word "Kansas" in script on the back.
World A 'Stage'
At a recent International club meeting a foreign student was asked by an American woman what he thought of the United States. Pointing at the innumerable cigarette butts on the floor, he replied, "Sometimes it seems to be nothing but a gigantic ask-tray.
"Smart boy," she said, "but you forgot you're at the International club now."