Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Dailu Kansan 18th Year No.2 Topeka, Ks.
Monday, Sept. 18, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
Woodruff To Tell Firebasket Story
The late Dr. Frank E. Melvin, professor of history, will be replaced by Dr. L. C. Woodruff, dean of men in relating the "history of the firebasket" at the 25th annual induction of new students tonight.
Professor Melvin, who was instrumental in establishing the traditional induction, died of a cerebral hemorrhage March 17. The induction will begin with the singing of University songs, the Rock Chalk yell, the story of the "firebasket", and the enactment of the firebasket ceremony at 7:30 p.m. on North College Hill.
The new freshmen will then walk to Memorial stadium for the main part of the ceremony. Melvin Clingan, president of the All Student Council will open the service, and a Scripture reading by Chancellor Deane W. Malott will follow.
Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, will give the interpretation of the University Seal, and Chancellor Malott will talk on "The Symbolism of Fire." Members of Sachem, honorary senior men's society, will conduct the torch race, bringing a torch lighted from the North College Hill firebasket to the platform in front of the new students.
The torch will be received by Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, and handed down the line to the freshman representative who will light the altar fire.
Chancellor Malott will give the oath of allegiance to freshmen representatives and explain their obligations to the University. The male representative of the freshman class will be Alexander Adams McBurney, of Slater, Mo., and the female representative will be Kay Lambert, of Leavenworth.
The induction will end with the singing of the alma mater and the Rock Chalk yell. The University band will accompany the singing.
7,502 Students Enroll At KU
The University began its 85th year this morning with 7,502 students registered, James K. Hitt registrar announced today.
Attendance on the Lawrence campus for the first day of class-work is 7,013. There are 489 enrolled in the Kansas City division of the School of Medicine. The student body is 1,245 smaller than in the fall of 1949, a decline of 15 per cent.
Enrollment of non-veterans is at an all-time high, 4,773 on the Lawrence campus. The 2,240 veterans, of whom 475 are paying their own fees, is more than 1,400 below the 1949 total.
The ratio of 2.80 men to each women in the student body is the lowest of all the post-war years.
The Graduate school, with 801 students and the School of Education with 514 are the only divisions ahead of the comparable period a year ago. The School of Medicine in Kansas City with 489 shows an increase of 55. The College with 2,860 students is the largest school in the University. Engineering and Architecture is second with 1,242, and the Graduate School is third in enrollment.
THE WEATHER
Kansas—Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, cooler in northwest and north central tonight. Low tonight 50 northwest to 65 southeast; high Tuesday 80-85.
Malott Welcomes Fall Students
Confronted by an explosive international situation, this nation needs the maximum development of your mental and physical factions to fulfill its responsibilities either in uneasy peace or open war. You owe it to yourself and your country to make the most of the opportunities for progress that will be yours at the University of Kansas.
But life at K. U. will not always be so serious. The varied programs of recreation will supply much of your growth this year. One of the most important things you can learn is to balance your schedule properly between work and play.
We welcome you to K. U. Remember, the administrative officers and the faculty are here for the sole purpose of helping you advance your all-around education. Do not hesitate as an individual to seek the individual help and guidance to which you are entitled.
DEANE W. MALOTT Chancellor
US To Prepare For Atomic War
Washington, Sept. 18. (UPI)—The government today unwrapped its long-awaited "Master Blueprint" for building up the nation's civil defenses against a sneak atomic attack.
The 149-page document warned that Russia "Has the power to attack our cities in force" and added that any atomic blitz "would be partially successful."
To counteract the effects of such a blow, it called for a federal civil defense administration, state and local organizations, and "millions" of civilian volunteers to act as block wardens, rescue squad members, auxiliary police, fire guards, and shore patrollers.
Primary emphasis would be placed on defense of some 140 "critical target areas," including all major population and industrial centers of the nation. State governors soon will be given maps showing which areas are in their jurisdiction.
The report, drafted by the National Security Resources board and forwarded to congress by President Truman, said such a defense setup would enable the nation to recover quickly from an A-bombing and "fight back."
Paul J. Larsen, head of NSRB's office of civil defense, called the blueprint a minimum program and said it should be undertaken immediately so it could begin operating as soon as possible.
Properly administered, it said, civil defense could cut casualties by 50 per cent and keep the nation's industrial power intact.
The overall program carried no price tag but was accompanied by a warning that it would be expensive.
Larsen, the chief planner, resigned his job today. He said he felt a a person with a "broader administrative background" should take over the operating phase.
Malott Stresses Education Value At Convocation
The belief of the American people in education and its vital relation to the perpetuation of our American concept of life was stressed today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott in the 85th annual opening convocation of the University.
"We must rely more and more upon education, he said. The Chancellor pointed out that this belief in the fundamental value, the veritable necessity for education has provided millions of dollars of tax-payers money for buildings, equipment and trained personnel in order that there may be a university here worthy to serve educational needs.
Chancellor Malot cited spiritual collapse and the "insidious poison of the idea that the government could do all things for its citizens" as the shadow which threatens free America.
"For each of you, education means more than being on the receiving end of academic materials," he warned. "Education must be purposeful, creative, backed by energy. It will avail us little," he said however, "unless we learn how organized society may solve its differences without the barbarism of war made more lethal by scientific achievement; unless we acquire a concept of freedom for which we are individually willing to pay a price."
"No other form of government demands such high intelligence, such public spirit, such virtue of its citizens," he said. My fear is, that absorbed in our economic and social usiatops, we are hurrying along to social ends which taken one by one may be desirable as tending to increase human welfare and happiness, but which added together may have sad consequences for human freedom."
"Man's survival depends both upon his intelligence and upon his faith", the Chancellor affirmed. "It is the challenge of your university years to grow in the power of your faith and in the vigor of that intelligence sharpened by your teachers, by your reading, by your discussion—but more than all by your own determination to do honest, hard, continuous work to develop the latent powers of leadership which reside in each of you."
Students interested in working on the secretarial staff of the Jayhawker magazine may apply at the Jayhawker office in the Union lounge from 8 a.m. until noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday only, John Eulich, business manager, said today.
The convocation opened with a faculty processional to the stage of Hoch auditorium accompanied on the organ by Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ. The responsive reading followed by the Lord's Prayer was led by Harold G. Barr, dean of School of Religion. A piano solo, Sarabande and Toccata played by Jan Chapuasso, professor of piano, preceded the address.
Jayhawker Needs Secretarial Help
A Cappella Tryouts Continue Today
Tryouts for positions in the University A Cappella choir will continue from 4 to 6 p.m. today, Tuesday, and Wednesday in room 8a Strong, D. M. Swarthout, director, announced. Members of the choir will be announced later this week and the first rehearsal will be held Monday, Sept. 28.
UN Forces Take Kimpo Airfield
Korean Battlefront, Sept. 18—(U.P.)—The United Nations offensive staggered the enemy in South Korea today as the Kimpo airfield near Seoul was put on the U.N. side of the war ledger and U.S. Marine planes started using it to fly sorties.
Atlantic Council Postpones Plan
New York, Sept. 18—(UP)—The 12 power North Atlantic Pact council decided today to postpone for about 10 days a decision on including Western German troops in the proposed unified defense force for Europe.
Deputies to the 12 foreign ministers representing the United States, Canada, and 10 Western European powers placed before the top council a communique for expected release before nightfall.
The historic announcement will declare that the 12 powers are agreed on the need for increased and combined forces under a single supreme commander. This would be a warning to Russia and European Communists against thoughts of aggression.
Details of the unified force would be worked out by military strategists and put up for discussion at next month's meeting in Washington of the 12 defense ministers.
The United States will be represented in the October meetings by Defense Secretary-Designate Gen. George C. Marshall.
The plan would mean that Ameri can troops would be assigned to an international force in Europe for the first time in peace. The concept is that they would be trained shoulder-to-shoulder with Canadians, British, French, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, Italian, Portuguese, and Luxembourg troops. Iceland, a treaty member, is not expected to provide manpower.
U. S. Marines clung to the best airfield in Korea and drove to within sight of Seoul, the Communist-occupied South Korean capital. They met only "disorganized resistance" in their plunge from the invasion port of Inchon eastward to Seoul.
The Marines were spearheading an estimated 40,000 allied troops threatening Seoul, including the U.S. 7th division, which went into action for the first time made up of half Americans and half South Koreans.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur visited the ruins of allied-occupied Inchon and expressed satisfaction with the entire invasion.
The American 2nd division burst out of the U.N. beachhead 150 miles to the south for the first time in more than a month and stabbed across the Nakton river to establish a bridgehead.
South Korean troops were on the offensive on the northern end of the beachhead, from a point north-west of Taegu to the Japan sea. They were making advances up to four miles.
B-29 superfortresses flew all around the beachhead, dropping "surrender-or-die" leaflets on the Communists. They followed up the "invitation" with the most concentrated bombing of the war, in which 800,000 pounds of explosives were dumped on a two-square-mile area near Waegwain.
For one hour and 10 minutes, the big bombers pounded the enemy territory in an effort to help stalled U.S. 1st cavalry troops break out of their sector of the beachhead.
The Communists were taking a lot of punishment. A 2nd division spokesman said about 14,000 North Koreans have been killed or wounded, and 400 taken prisoner on the Naktong front since Aug. 25.
57 New Faculty Members Selected For 1950-51
When classes began today, there were 55 new faces on the other side of the desk for students to contemplate as they awaited their first assignments. The University has a new dean, Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, and a new director of athletics, Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg, to complete the list of new faculty members released today.
Professors are as follows: Lawrence Bee, home economics and sociology; Orient Lee, visiting professor of history; Leslie Rice, visiting professor of journalism; and James L. Wortham, English.
The following new faculty members are associate professors: A. William Kuchler, geography; Quintin Johnstone, law; Ursula Lewis, social work; William P. Smith, electrical engineering; and Warren Snyder, mechanical engineering.
Assistant professors will be: O. P. Backus, history; Harold Barrett, biochemistry; Klaus Berger, drawing and painting; William A. Cass, psychology; Ruth Clark, social work; E. Gordon Colliser, education and director of guidance; Melville Dalton, human relations; Lt. Grant Gordon, naval science; Oscar M. Haugh, education; Louis Hatty, psychology.
Raymond Hoppomen, pharmacy;
Henry Horak, physics and astronomy;
S. W Lesher, anatomy; Phillip M. Mitchell, Germanic languages;
Harold Nicholas, biochemistry;
Charles Oldfather, law; Richard Page, civil engineering; Sanborn
Partridge, geology; Charles Peterson, pharmacy; Walter Robinson, history; Ambrose Saricks, history; Alvin Schild, education; Robert Stump, physics and astronomy; Edward Van Eck, bacteriology; F. R. Wake, psychology; John Weir, zoology.
The following instructors have been selected: John Armstrong, drawing and painting; David Boulton, English; Mary June Carter, home economics; Robert Cohlmeyer, architecture; Robert Doores, journalism; Robert Finley, zoology; Handy, Jr., English; Eleanor Hardcastle, home economics; Elaine Kutschinski, physical education; Nino LoBello, sociology.
Burton Meyers, journalism; Rupert Murrill, sociology; John Parks, design; John W. Pozdro, organ and theory; Hubert Risser, engineering; Charles Strieby, architecture; Harrison Tordoff, zoology; and John Wheatcroft, English.
Hubert Urich will serve as an assistant football coach starting this fall.