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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1950
AROTCTraining Helps Chances In Aviation Jobs
Successful completion of the air force R.O.T.C. program greatly increases a college graduate's chances for employment in the field of aviation, a recent survey of United States aircraft industries disclosed.
The survey was made by Lt. Col. Jerome Tarter, professor of air science and tactics at Butler university, Indianapolis, Ind. He outlined the scope and content of the administrative course only and asked, "Will completion of the air R.O.T.C. course offered at Butler university enhance a college graduates chances for employment in the field of aviation?"
Replies received from executives in the nation's leading aircraft industries were favorable to the A.R. O.T.C. program.
Donald W. Douglas, president of Douglas Aircraft company, Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., said the training in leadership, responsibilities of command, and the importance of administrative planning and control taught in the program merit the student's careful consideration in selecting elective courses.
J. H. Baldridge, director of employment and training for American Airline system, New York, N.Y., said that this type of training is an asset to young men in building character, stability and judgment.
J. E. Isaacs, director of education for Beech Aircraft corporation, Wichita, commended the leadership training because the industry is in need of trained leaders "Men who have the technical training, the leadership training and an interest in the work should have a definite advantage in promotion on the job." he said.
D. W. Siemon, industrial relations manager of the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company, Baltimore, Md., said, "The major portion of the aviation manufacturing business today is centered in the production of planes for the armed services. For those in the aviation business whose duty it is to work with members of the regular armed forces, membership in the reserve is an invaluable asset."
R. S. Damon, Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., Kansas City, Mo, an ex-member of a R.O.T.C. program during the early part of World War I, said, "I found the R.O.T.C. course very beneficial both during my active duty and in later civilian life."
Roscoe Turner, president of the Roscoe Turner Aeronautical corporation, Indianapolis, Ind., said, "The aviation part of the program is naturally very important, because any aircraft must maintain very highly technical. Without good training there is no place in aviation."
IVCF Secretary Speaks To Group
Robert Finley, Inter - Varsity Christian fellowship secretary to the Far East, told members Sunday that Christ is our control of the Hydrogen bomb.
Christians, must teach brotherly love to men and nations, Mr. Finley said. He believes Christian love is the most real tie binding man to man and nation to nation. Spreading the gospel is everyman's job. Christ alone offers hope to nations at war with God, said Mr. Finley.
Spiritual unity leading to peace may be achieved through prayer. In prayer, men of different language may talk comprehensively together.
That men, accepting Christ and a spiritual rebirth, spread the gospel is the hope of the world, he pointed out.
Mr. Finley, who has visited universities in Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, will next be in Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.
James B. "Scotty" Reston, diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, is shown listening to a report on University student publications. Five students and an alumna of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information met with Mr. Reston following a journalism convocation Feb. 10. Mr. Reston spoke at the convocation on the conflict between reporters and government officials.
Shown around a copy desk from left to right: Edward J. Chapin and Emlin North, Jr., juniors; Miss Nora L. Temple, '49; Ruth L. Keller, Harrison E. Madden, and Richard L. Dilsaver, seniors; and Mr. Reston.
Murphy Says Leaders Needed
Dynamic young leaders are needed if the United States is to expand its economy and industry, Dr. Franklin F. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine, said at a junior chamber of commerce luncheon in Kansas City Thursday.
The 33-year-old dean was recently selected by the United States junior chamber of commerce as one of the nation's ten outstanding young men. The luncheon was in recognition of this national honor.
Dr. Murphy said that Americans must learn to assume responsible leadership as they enter the second half of this century.
Drawing a comparison between the leaders during the founding of the United States and those today, he said, "The Tories of their day had good farms and rising business conditions. Those conservatives felt there was no need for revolution." This same attitude is found at the mid-century, the doctor continued.
Society must go forward or backward, he said. It cannot remain at status quo.
William E. Kemp, mayor of Kansas City, Mo., said: "Fortunately, you cannot build a wall on the state line; what Dr. Murphy has done has benefited the entire metropolitan area."
Lieutenant Governor F. L. Hagaman added, "We are aware that he is a product of a system of living well worth preserving. We in Kan- convinced that socialized medicine could never have produced such a man."
The national honor was awarded to Dr. Murphy in recognition of his three point rural health program. He has urged that the rural areas finance local clinics and hospitals in order to provide first-class treatment. As dean of the K. U. School of Medicine, he has encouraged graduating physicians to practice in rural communities.
Dr. Baker took the pictures the past summer while on a field trip in Wyoming with University students. They studied various phase of actual preparation of museum specimens in the field was made.
Dr. R. H. Baker, assistant professor of zoology, showed color slides and movies entitled, "Collecting Mammals in Wyoming," to 30 Zoology club members.
Zoology Club Sees Movie On Mammals
The pictures showed bear and other wild game in Yellowstone park. Big Horn mountains, and in the Laramie mountain range. While in these regions, a competent considerable time studying the animals in their natural habitat
The club's next regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 23.
Geologist To Talk In Lindley Tonight
Dr. A. N. Sayre, chief of the groundwater division of the U. S. geological survey, will speak on "Water Supply in the National Economy," 426 Lindley, 8 p.m. today.
Dr. Sayre was graduated from Denison university, Granville, O., and did graduate work at K.U. He took his doctorate at the University of Chicago. He has been with the U.S. geological survey since 1926, and has been chief of the groundwater division for the past two years.
Dr. Hankins Will Lecture
Dr. John E. Hankins, professor of English, will deliver the first humanities lecture of the spring semester in Fraser theater at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Dr. Hankins will speak on "Scholarship and the Humanities."
Dr. Hankins graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1924, and received his master's degree there in 1925. He took his doctorate at Yale university in 1929.
From 1924 to 1928 Dr. Hankins was instructor and adjunct professor of English at the University of South Carolina. During 1929 he was assistant professor of English in Indiana. He came to Kansas as assistant professor of English in 1930.
Dr. Hankins took a year of sabbatical leave in 1947, and at the end of that year was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, which enabled him to continue his work during a second year of absence from the University. A sabbatical leave is one which is granted every seventh year to professors for rest, travel, or research.
He has written several books, including "The Characters of Hamlet," "The Life and Works of George Tuberville," and "Selected Nineteenth Century Essays," which is a work in the University literature courses.
He devoted these two years to work on a book concerning the philosophical back ground of Shakespeare and Spencer
Dr. Hankins is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is chairman of the Shakespeare group of the Modern Language association for this year.
Slide Rule Class To Start Tuesday
A non-credit slide rule class will begin at 5 p.m. tuesday in 101 Snow hall under the sponsorship of the School of Engineering.
The class is primarily for engineering students deficient in slide rule technique but will be open to all students.
Charles J. Baer, instructor of engineering drawing, will teach the course.
Reporters And Government Are Hostile, Reston Says
People have to be adequately informed in a democracy, and the government is not doing what it could to keep informing them, James B. "Scotty" Reston, New York Times diplomatic correspondent, told listeners at the first William Allen White foundation lecture Friday afternoon.
K-State Show To Be Tonight
"The Miser," a fast moving comedy by Moliere, will be presented at 8:15 p.m. tonight, at Fraser theater by the Kansas State Players. The production, which is the first of the Players' major shows to be booked for out-of-town engagements, is under the direction of Thomas Trenkle, assistant professor of dramatics at Kansas State College.
Persons presenting student identification cards or University Players' season tickets will be admitted free. Others may purchase tickets at the door for 50 cents a person.
"Everyone's anxious to see how the show goes over with audiences other than the local college crowd, who probably know most of the players too well to be able to evaluate the performance impartially," Professor Trenkle said. Professor Trenkle, who is directing at Kansas State for the first time this year, manages the Boothbay Playhouse, a summer theater. He took his graduate work at Catholic university, Washington, D.C., under the playwright Walter Kerr.
Following its presentation here, "The Miser" will go to Topeka and Fort Riley for one-night stands on Feb. 14 and 15.
Marvin Altman, an architecture major from New York City, will play the leading role of Harpagon, the miser. Altman has appeared with the Washington Square group of New York university. Others in the cast are Garth Grissom, Sally Sanderson, Beverly Tucker, Colleen Shepherd, Tony Ceranich, Gordon Hess, and David Meier. All have appeared in a number of Kansas State Player offerings.
Extension To Hold Mimeo School
A mimeograph school, conducted by specialists from the A. B. Dick Co., Chicago, Ill, and sponsored by the University extention division, will be held Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p. m. in the drill room of the Military Science building, E. A. McFarland, manager of the extension, announced today.
Invitations have been sent to employees of public schools, county and city offices, and Haskell institute as well as University personnel. The program is set in such two-hour time, enrollment will be limited to 25 persons in each section. No fee will be charged for the instruction.
The purpose of the school, which is being conducted primarily for secretaries and stenographers employed by the University, is to bring them up-to-date in the correct procedure for all types of mimeograph work. Some of the subjects to be covered in the school are stencil typing, making corrections, drawing ruled forms, and machine operation and instructions.
Extension To Solve Recreation Needs
Municipal recreation directors, who make up a large part of the membership of the association, will now be able to consult the University with any problems that may confront them in the field of recreation.
The University Extension has been designated as a consultation center by the Kansas Recreation association, Dean F. T. Stockton, head of the Extension division, announced Saturday.
This appointment is the first one of its kind to be given to the University Extension.
"An understanding between reporters and officials on the obligations and rights of the reporter is imperative," Mr. Reston said, "but no such understanding exists today."
"Responsible officials and responsible reporters, as distinguished from the old-fashioned scoop - artists, gossip - mongers and saloon - raid journalists are now playing cops and robbers with each other. The object of the robber is to disclose information. The cops seldom ask themselves why they want to conceal the information and the robbers don't analyze very often why they want to disclose the information."
"When it was decided to make a major statement on United States policy on Formosa, how was it made?" Mr. Reston asked. "It was made in an extemporaneous address to the National Press club because Mr. Acheson, wanting to be a good guy, had promised the retiring president that he would make a speech before the officer retired."
Mr. Reston illustrated the government's handling of its public relations by telling the story of our policy on Formosa.
In the recent controversy about the H-bomb, if President Truman had had his way there would have been no public discussion of the matter he explained. There has been an increasing trend for the president and secretary of state to decide issues in the secret stage of negotiations and then present them to congress.
Mr. Reston believes that an atmosphere of rivalry and even hostility has grown up between reporters and sources of official information. This has happened because the old points of contact and co-operation between reporters and officials are breaking down, and that an exclusive report of information is still regarded as a triumph.
As to who should decide what information should be published, Mr. Reston gave no opinion. He pointed out, however, that James B. Conant, president of Harvard university, publicly charged that not even the first approximation to a satisfactory procedure for evaluating technical judgments had been made on matters connected with the national defense.
Despite Mr. Reston's charge that no contemporary public official has contrived to do so little with so much in handling public information, he believes that Mr. Acheson is the ablest secretary of state since Henry L. Stimson.
Speaking with perfectly controlled diction, Mr. Reston, who was introduced by John P. "Jack" Harris, president of the William Allen White foundation, quoted Mr. White to emphasize his speech. The lecture was given on the anniversary of Mr. White's birthday, Feb. 10.
"Secretary of State Dean Acheson's attitude toward the reporters and his strategy in dealing with them is not unlike the attitude and strategy toward the Russians, Mr. Reston said. In both cases he follows an aloof policy of containment. He is determined to block the expansionist tendencies of reporters in fields where he thinks they have no rights. His reasoning follows that of a lawyer—the preliminaries to trials should not be public.
"However, he must be fair about this to the officials." Mr. Reston continued. "Their problems are varied and perplexing. The consequences of premature disclosure in certain negotiations can be serious."
Bridge Club Elects Francis
Terryl W. Francis, College junior, was elected president of the Four-No bridge club for the spring semester at the club's weekly meeting recently.