University Daily Kansan 47th Year No.96 Friday Feb.24.1950 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWS PAPER.
Lawrence, Kansas
Balloting Close As England Counts Votes
London, Feb. 24—(U.P).The two-party opposition to the British Labor government pulled up even today in the closing hours of the election counting.
The laborites had 262 seats. The conservatives had 256. The liberals had six. Thus, the combined conservative-liberal strength was 262 seats, the same as labor's.
A few minutes later, labor forged ahead of the conservative-liberal total by one seat.
The popular vote with returns from 456 constituencies counted:
Labor 9,875,351.
Conservatives and affiliates 9.-309,048.
Liberals 1.917.000
Communists 59,000.
Others 64,482.
Total 21.226.730.
Laborite Prime Minister Clement R. Atlee and conservative leader Winston Churchill were re-elected to parliament in the general election. One of them will be the new Prime minister.
Today's returns cut steadily into the 60-seat lead labor when tabulating ended before dawn today. Then the silence of surprise and disappointment settled over labor headouarters.
As the laborite lead slumped below 20 seats, Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister, called off a scheduled press conference.
The party standings at 5:30 p.m.
(12:30 p.m. E.S.T.) was;
Labor, 290.
Consersatives. 274.
Liberals, 6.
Other parties. one.
The neck and neck race between the conservatives and laborites overshadowed two other standout factors in the election:
1. The British voters gave the Communists and left wing fellow travelers a thorough shellacking.
2. The liberal party of Gladstone and Lloyd George apparently had been wrecked beyond repair.
The liberal party proposed on election eve a coalition government with labor if the socialists failed to get a working majority. The liberals had 10 seats in the old parliament. After getting only one seat in the first hours of the counting they were creeping up in the late returns this afternoon.
Prices on the stock market had fallen off sharply at the market opening when a labor victory seemed assured. They rallied notably during the afternoon when the returns showed the labor lead dwindling.
Brubaker To Speak To Presbyterians
"College Education, Menace or Blessing" will be discussed by the Rev. Charles Edward Brubaker, Presbyterian speaker for Religious Emphasis week at the Westminster fellowship meeting Sunday, Feb. 26. The meeting will follow a supper at 5:30 p.m. in Westminster hall.
The Rev. Mr. Brubaker, a former United States marine chaplain, is the Presbyterian student pastor at the University of Arkansas and pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
A discussion period will follow the meeting.
WEATHER
KANSAS — Partly cloudy to
cloudy tonight and Saturday. Not so
cold extreme southwest tonight;
warmer Saturday. Lows tonight 24-
22; highs Saturday 45-50 east, 55-60
west.
Few Fraternities Make Plans For Safeguarding Houses
No definite action is being taken by University fraternity houses to safeguard against future robberies, although $222 was taken in raids early Thursday morning from Delta Upsilon, Sigma Nu and Phi Kappa fraternities.
KU Sends Four To NU Debate
The University is one of 40 schools being represented in the eighth Midwest Intercollegiate Debate tournament held at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, today and Saturday
Four K.U. students will debate the national college question: "Resolved that the United States should nationalize the basic non-agricultural industries."
Win Kopeer and Heywood Davis, College sophomores, will debate the affirmative side. J. Eugene Balloun, business junior, and Jack Stewart, College sophomore, will speak on the negative.
Appearing in the original oration rounds is Koerper, who will speak on "Fact and Fancy." Balloun is to participate in the extemporaneous division. Stewart is entered in the radio speaking division.
At a luncheon to be held at the University of Nebraska Saturday, Koerper and Davis will entertain with an accordion and guitar duet.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, has accompanied the debators to the tournament.
Ottawa U. President To Address Students
Dr. Andrew Martin, president of Ottawa University, Ottawa Kan., will speak at a joint meeting of Baptist and Christain church students at 5:30 p. m. Sunday, Feb. 26, in Myers hall. His subject will be "The Christian Distinctive In Education". Dr. Martin is the Baptist leader for religious emphasis week which will start Sunday.
A Daily Kansan reporter who called fraternity houses Thursday night to find out if any action had been taken found concrete plans made only by Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Members will lock all outside doors during the night.
Richard Conroy, College senior and president of Phi Kappa, which lost $70 in the robbery, said that the "key" system will be discussed at the next chapter meeting. This system allows all fraternity members a key to the doors, which would be locked at all times.
In most houses, there is nothing to stop robbers from entering. All doors are left unlocked except at Sigma Chi fraternity which has locks on individual rooms.
Officers of other fraternities said all they could do was to warn members to hide their money at night instead of leaving it on desks and dressers.
Art Meeting Begins Today
Registration for these attending the Art Education conference started at 9 a.m. today in Strong auditorium. Advance registrations totalled 52.
The two-day conference will include round table discussions and addresses by Professor Viktor Lowenfeld of Pennsylvania State college. Although the conference is being conducted primarily for the art students of the University, elementary art teachers from over Kansas have been invited.
E. J. McFarland, manager of the bureau of instruction, said most of the teachers who have made advance registrations will come from towns in the surrounding area.
Meeting times of the Monday morning classes have been changed to conform with the all-student convocation to be held at 9:20 a.m. in Hoch auditorium.
Class Schedule For Convocation
Class schedules for Monday will be:
8:00 classes meet at 8:00—8:30.
9:00 classes meet at 8:40—9:10.
11:00 classes meet at 11:20—11:50
10:00 classes meet at 10:40—
11:10.
11:00 classes meet at 11:20—11:50
12:00 classes meet at 12:00—
12:50.
Proficiency Test To Be March 4
English proficiency examinations will be given at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 4. All juniors and seniors in the School of Education, the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, and the College who have not yet taken the examination, are eligible.
Passing the proficiency examination is a requirement for graduation in these two schools and the College.
Students planning to take the examination will register in the office of their respective schools from Monday, Feb. 27, through Wednesday, March 1. Students failing to register will not be admitted.
Students are asked to bring only pen and ink to the examination. Paper will be furnished.
KU Gavel Society To Get Constitution
The final constitution of the K. U. Gavel society will be adopted today at 7:30 p.m. in the Little theater of Green hall. Richard Schiefelbusch, assistant professor of speech, said today.
K. U. Gavel society is the parliamentary procedure practice group sponsored by the Forensic league, speech, and dramatic departments.
Mr. Schiefelbusch urges all old members and newcomers to attend.
British Want 'Free Teeth,Glasses'
By JOHN CORPORON and DEWAYNE OGLESBEE
The British people are not concerned with the "ethics of socialism so long as they get their "free teeth, free glasses, and free medicine," believes Philip John Butcher, graduate student in mechanical engineering, from England.
Butcher is in this country on an Economic Cooperation Administration fellowship provided by the United States government.
Butcher, who has been in the United States three weeks, described life under the Labor party. Unemployment is low, but so is production. Nationalism has cut incentive through income tax increases made of overtime pay. Workers have assumed a "what-the-hell" attitude toward getting ahead," Butcher said.
"Just remember," said Butcher, "that it took Australia and New Zealand 10 years to realize the bad and good parts of socialism before they chucked it out. Britain, being strongly conservative, cannot be expected to get rid of the Labor program, sooo will, the government eventually be removed if the government does not become totalitarian before that time."
"Compared to England, the United States has no tax at all. Why
PHILIP JOHN BUTCHER
Out of a salary of 540 pounds a year, the government takes in direct taxes approximately 140 pounds. In addition to this, a person must pay such taxes as a 20 per cent tax on cars and as much as a 100 per cent tax on jewelry, said Butcher.
a 66 per cent tax in England is not in the least uncommon," he explained.
"Personally, I'm a rock-bottom Conservative, and I don't believe a
farmer should be told how much land he should plow, nor what he should plant. But the bloke had bloody well follow orders or his land will be sold at the government's price."
The average workman in England receives $20 a week. With this salary, he is able to amply provide for a wife and children and even take a vacation once a year, Butcher said. However, items which are necessities to Americans are "God's own earth" to the British. Butcher pointed out that in England will stretch further than it America. Food prices are kept down by government subsidies, but the consumer eventually pays for it through taxes.
Religious Week Opens Monday At Convocation
"One reason for the defeat of the Conservatives party in the post-war election was that Winston Churchill represented the old Tory party blamed for the depression in England in 1926," Butcher said. "The industrial workers of that period are not allowed to forget, being constantly reminded by the Labor party leaders.
"Here's old Joe. He lays 300 bricks a day. He is capable of laying 400 bricks a day, but will he? No, because most of the added pay for the additional work would be drawn off by taxes. Incentive must be restored. It's the old snag of dangling a carrot in front of a bloke's nose to make him go."
Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, chancellor of Washington university, will open Religious Emphasis week with an address on "Power with Purpose" at 9:20 a.m., Monday, Feb. 27, in Hoch auditorium at an all-student convocation.
Dr. Compton, noted scientist and humanitarian, won a Nobel prize in physics in 1927 for work on X-ray. He initiated and directed the first atomic chain reaction research and aided in the first quantity production of plutonium.
In his address Dr. Compton will interpret man's concept of God. At the convocation, Martha Elizabeth Dawes, College senior, and chairman of Religious Emphasis week, will introduce the leaders who have come to the campus to participate in the week's schedule of seminars, organized house discussions, and classroom visitations.
The University Men's glee club, directed by Gerald M. Carney, assistant professor of music education, will sing "Forever Free" at the convocation.
Dr. Compton will lead a seminar at 4 p.m. Monday, in Fraser theater. Students, faculty, and townspeople are invited.
The Religious Emphasis week
sales for Monday, Feb. 27, is as follows:
7 a.m. K.U. Westminster Fellowship cabinet breakfast. Westminster house, 1221 Oread.
12 noon Student luncheon, School of Fine Arts. Westminster hall. Rev. Charles Edward Brubaker, speaker. 12:30 p.m. Worship service, "Religion is Reasonable." Danforth chapel.
9:20 a.m. All-Student convocation.
Hoch auditorium. Dr. Arthur Holly
Compton on "Power with Purpose."
4 p.m. Seminar. Fraser theater. Dr.
Arthur Holly Compton.
More than 100 students became better acquainted with members of Student Union activities at the party sponsored by the organization Wednesday.
6 p.m. Speakers at organized houses.
9 p.m. Informal smoker for men.
Westminster hall.
100 Attend Party Sponsored By Union
At the function, the officers and committee chairmen of Union activities were introduced by Craig Hampton, president of Persons in the organization, the organization were able to sign up for the committees of their choice.
Entertainment for the party was provided by the Vibra Tub Phis. This musical instrumental group was composed of: Richard Hamilton, Robert Danneberg, James Blocker, business seniors; Edward Denning, business seniors; Edward Clarke College junior; and Robert Fountain, engineering senior. Win Koeper, College sophomore, was entertainment chairman.
Music Teacher Discusses
Aaron Copeland's Music
Miss Katherine Mulky, instructor in musical theory, will discuss Aaron Copeland and his music at 8 p. m. today in 32 Strong hall.
Thomas Lewis Dies
Springfield, Ili., Feb. 24—(U.P.)—Thomas Lewis, 69, brother of United Mine Worker President John L. Lewis, shot and killed himself at his home here today, deputy coroner Catherine Rutherford reported.