AGE EIGHT
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950
Union Lounge To Have TV Show Tonight
Television sets will be demonstrated in the Union lounge tonight and Tuesday through Friday of next week to determine what type of TV unit will fit the needs of the Union best. The demonstrations, sponsored by local merchants, will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. each evening and are open to the public.
"We want to see what television suits suit our needs and location best before making any purchase," said Craig Hampton, president of Student Union Activities. "The equipment committee which will consider user vicibility, reception, and the general needs of the Union."
Hampton said he hoped those students who attend the exhibition would leave their opinions of the different cultures underlain in the Student Union office.
The TV committee is composed of Craig Hampton, fine arts senior; chairman; Robert Bennett, first year law; Howard Stettler, assistant professor of business; and J. J. Wilson, University business manager.
The television set tonight will be shown by the Bell Music company; Tuesday, Feb. 14, by the Miller Furniture company; Wednesday, Feb. 15, by the Wednesdays Television store; Thursday, Feb. 16, by Gravitt's Tire and Home Supply store; and Friday, Feb. 17, by the Oliver Service company.
UDK Executives To Inland Meeting
Kay Dver, managing editor, and Robert J. Day, business manager, will represent the University Daily Kansan at the mid-winter meeting of the Inland Daily Press association. Monday, Feb. 13 and Tuesday, Feb. 14 in Chicago.
The two Kansan executives will attend lectures and roundtable sessions on advertising and editorial problems. A report on the progress of the state department's "Voice of America" broadcasts to Russia will be made by Howland H. Sargeant, acting assistant secretary of state for public affairs.
Walter E. Ewert, assistant professor of journalism, will also attend the two-day meeting of the Inland Daily Press association of which the Kansan is a member.
No War With Russia Now New York Newsman Says
By EMLIN NORTH. JR.
James B. "Scotty" Reston, Pulitzer prize winner, does not believe that there will be war between Russia and the United States. That was the encouraging comment made this morning by Mr. Reston, diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, when he arrived at the University.
"War breaks out because one world power gets out of hand, as in 1914 and 1939," Mr. Reston said. "This situation is not evident today." During the afternoon he spoke at a journalism convocation in Fraser theater.
Lawyer Relates Rules Of Order
The proper type of chairman never lets his meeting get out of control, Blake A. Williamson, Kansas City, Kan. attorney, told the second Associated Women Students' leadership workshop meeting Thursday night.
He related the constitution, by laws, duties of a president, the secretary and his minutes, the treasurer and his report, the committees, and the committee of the whole, to parliamentary law.
Mr. Williamson explained the rules that a chairman could follow to preserve order among members.
The proper method for making a motion and the way to suppress a motion by reconsidering the motion, laying the motion on the table, or by moving to postpone indefinitely its consideration were discussed by Mr. Williamson, along with the use of the amendment.
"If you can't conduct a meeting after this discussion, then remember one thing: just move to suspend the rules," he said in closing.
Car Tag Deadline Scheduled Feb. 15
Students who have not purchased their 1950 car tags should do so before Wednesday, Feb. 15. After that time, a penalty of 50 cents a month will be added to the cost of the tags, said County Treasurer Melvin Miller.
Since Jan. 3, when 1950 tags went on sale, 6100 car and 1,500 truck license tags have been issued, Treasurer Miller said.
Last year at this time, 6,738 car and 1,629 truck tags had been issued by the Feb. 1 deadline. Mr. Miller expects an increase in this year's figure when last-minute purchases are made in the next few days.
"I doubt, however, that Russia and the United States will formulate closer relations in the near future," Reston said. He compared the problem to the racial situation in the United States and also to the labor-management disagreements.
"We will have to live with the problem for some time," he said, when asked if there was a possible solution.
Mr. Reston relaxed in his hotel room while being interviewed. Having attended a mid-west university, the University of Illinois, Mr. Reston was interested in student attitudes and social life at the University and asked almost as many questions as were asked him.
Mr. Reston is very enthusiastic about the aims and purpose of the William Allen White Foundation, especially in the proposed development of casebooks as a supplement to the usual texts.
"There is a practical problem of how to combine the theoretical with the practical," he said. He complimented the laboratory system of teaching in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information. He believes that the William Allen White lectures will do much in stimulating new thought and fresh ideas.
Mr. Reston classifies his work into three categories: writing explanatory articles concerning executive and legislative proposals, straight reporting of national and foreign affairs and in election years, interpreting campaigns and various political techniques.
Officers of the Social Work club were elected at a meeting Thursday in the East room of the Union
Social Work Club Elects Officers
The new officers are Helen Kittle, president; Mrs. R. Pendleton Camp, vice-president; and Ruby Henningsen, secretary-treasurer. All are College juniors majoring in social work.
Plans were discussed for a trip to Topeka to visit the social work department of Menninger Foundation. No date was set for the trip.
All the tickets for tonight's performance of "Sweethearts" have been sold, a box office report announced Thursday.
'Sweethearts' Is A Sellout Show
Tom Shay, one of the directors of the Light Opera Guild production, said about 24 chairs can be set up in Fraser theater in addition to the seats and tickets for these may be sold. There is also a possibility of late cancellations being made available at the box office.
24 Recitals In Fine Arts
Twenty-four senior and graduate recitals by fine arts students are scheduled for a spring semester. Last month, he had attest, has announced. School of Fine Arts, has announced.
A full-length recital is required for the bachelor of music and master of music degrees. Three of the composers presented for the master's degree.
Mrs. Pearl M. Campbell, contralto, opened the spring series with a recital Feb. 5. Shirley Foster, cellist, will present the second recital Sunday. All but the organ rehearsals were conducted by autorium. The starting time on Sundays is 4 p.m. and on weekdays, 8 p.m.
The remaining presentations on the schedule, dates subject to change: Monday, Feb. 13; Barbara Glover, pianist; Wednesday, Feb. 15, Billie George, pianist; Monday, Feb. 20, Gregory Simms, tenor, and Sunday, Feb. 26, Dorothy Shoup, pianist.
Wednesday, Mar. 1, Charles Smith, cellist; Monday Mar. 1, Merle Clayton, cellist; Wednesday, Mar. 8, Richard Gayhart, organist; Sunday, Mar. 12, Shirley Jousey, pianist; Wednesday, Mar. 15, Donna Humsey, soprano; Wednesday, Mar. 22, Jimmy Kimmel, soprano; Sunday, Mar. 24, Joyce Rosano, soprano, and Wednesday, Mar. 29, Dagmar Hasalova, soprano.
Sunday, May 7, Jeanne Peck, cornetist; Sunday, May 14, Thelma Mim, mezzo soprano, and Sunday, May 21, June Rose Durkin, soprano.
ADS Meetings Set For First and Third Thursdays
Alpha Delta Sigma, professional men's advertising fraternity, will hold regular meetings the first and third Thursday of each month the remainder of the year, it was decided at a meeting Thursday night
Pledging was discussed and Robert Day, journalism senior, president, appointed the following pledge com-
Treasury Writes Dividend Checks Before Deadline
Washington. — (U.P) - The U. S. treasury is beating its own time-table writing checks to veterans for G. I. life insurance dividends.
The check-writers ended business Wednesday by signing the 4,082,991st check against the national service life insurance $2,800,000,000 dividend fund. The total paid out so far is $725,208,516.29.
When the first of nearly 16 million dividend checks started going out Jan. 16, veterans administrator Carl R. Gray, Jr., said the program should be completed by June 30. But it now looks as if the whole job will be cleaned up by late April—two months ahead of schedule.
At the outset, the treasury hoped to write checks at the rate of 200,000 a day. Even that figure seemed optimistic. But the mass production operation is turning out of 229,000 a day for 250,000 a day. Wednesday for example, 243,337 checks were written and mailed out.
The veterans administration's carefully-worked out order of check-writing depends on the past experience of the ex-serviceman's serial number,
Right now the treasury is working on the "$300's" and "400's" (serial numbers ending in such figures as 365. 381. 423, or 430).
But V. A. says G. I.'s shouldn't be alarmed if they think they already should have received their checks but haven't. There have been some hitches. For instance, when an error appears on the voucher, you must be rechecked and that means delay in the dividend check.
The agency now expects 11,000,000 checks will go out in what it calls the first pay cycle." That means you go through the entire file of potential threats one on one. The first go-around probably will be completed at the end of March.
Without a break in check-writing the V. A. then will start sending to the treasury vouchers for the so-called "irregulars." Those are the policy-holders whose records were not fully in shape when the check-writing began. They include late applicants and cases where the government had to write the veteran for more information. It should take about a month to clean up this batch.
mitte for this semester; Donald Patterson, fine arts senior, chairman, James Lowther, journalism junior, and Cloyd Michel, journalism senior.
42 Accept Positions On William Allen White Foundation
Forty-two leaders in journalism, public affairs and industry throughout the United States have accepted invitations to serve as trustees of the William Allen White Foundation of the University of Kansas.
This was announced today by John P. Harris, president of the Foundation and editor and publisher of the Hutchinson News-Herald, at the first annual meeting of the Foundation on the University campus. The Foundation will meet every Feb. 10, the birthday of the world-famed Emporia editor in whose memory the organization was established.
The trustees are:
Dan Anthony III, publisher, The Leavenworth Times. Leavenworth.
Roy Bailey, former publisher of The Sinai Press and for years a leader in Kansas journalism.
W. A. Bailey, general manager. The Kansas City Kapsan, Kansas City, Kan
editor and publisher. The
Holtton Records, a local label,
and an active worker with the Founda-
tion of RTL.
Fred Brinkerhoff, publisher, Pittsburg Sun and Headlight, Pittsburg, Kan.
Robert U. Brown, editor, Editor and Publisher magazine, New York City
Herbert Brucker, editor, Hartford Court, Hartford, Conn., and author in 1949 of the book "Freedom of Informa- tion" and defend of the American newspaper.
Erwin D. Canham, editor, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass., and 1948 president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Arthur Capper, president and publisher of Publication Inc.; Roger United States
Senator from Kansas.
Hodding Carter, editor and publisher
The Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville.
Miss.: Pultizer Prize winner, Nieman Fellow and author.
R. A. Clymer, editor, The Eldorado Times; one of William Allen White's magazine and a leader in Foundation work since the Foundation's inception in 1944.
Marvin Creager, editor emeritus, The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisc.
Arthur L. Crookham, editorial editor,
The Oregon Journal, Portland, Ore.
Doris Fleeson, Washington, D.C. syndicated political columnist.
Harry Darby, United States Senator from Kansas, industrialist and civil engineer.
Lacey Haynes, veteran newspaperman
and reporter, Kansas bureau of the
Kansas City Star.
publisher of The Gannett Newspaper.
n.×. author, honor, the Kansas City
Star, Kansas City, KS.
Alfred G. Hill, publisher, The Chester
Times and the Oak Ridge Oak Ridger.
David Hinshaw, public relations executive, New York City, director of the Foundation's nationwide campaign in 1945-46.
Benn Hibbs, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, Pa.
Arthur Holman of Arthur Holman, Inc., 50 West 40th Street, New York City, and a leading supporter in the Foundation's nationwide campaign in 1945-46.
Karl Koerper, vice-president and gen-
manager, station KMBC Kansas
City. Mo
David Lawrence, veteran political reporter and columnist in Washington, D.C. and editor and publisher of U.S. News and World Report.
Gene A. Howe, president and publisher,
Marrillo Globe and News, Amarillo,
Texas.
Ernest K. Lindley, Newsweek bureau chief and columnist in Washington, D.C.
Eugene Lowther, general manager. The Emporia Gazette, Emporia. William Allen Teele, vice president.
Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief, Time magazine
William R. Mathews, publisher, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Ariz.
Melville Minton, president, G. P. Putman,
Dwight Payton, editor and publisher of
Dwight Payton, editor and publisher of
csm Brook Pemberton, playwright, at time a reporter on the Emporia Gazette and a co-chairman in the 1945-46 Foundation campaign.
John Redmond, editor and publisher,
The Burlington Republican, Burlington,
and one of William Allen White's early
reporters in Emporia.
James B. Reston, diplomatic correspondent, washington, D.C. for The New York Times.
Roy A. Roberts, president of The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo.
Harry Scherman, president, Book of
Thought. Harry Scherman and Allen White was a judge on the editorial board of the club, and Mr. Scherman
foundation in the 1945-6 campaign.
Andrew F. Schopeppel, U.S. Senator from Iowa, former governor of Kansas. Wichita state.
Chester Shaw, executive editor of Newsweek magazine.
W. C. Simons, president of The Lawrence Journal-World, Lawrence.
Paul C. Smith, editor and general man-
agement for Francisco Chronicle, San
Francisco, Calif.
Roger W. Straus, chairman of the board, American Smelting and Refining Company, New York City, Member of Foundation sponsors national institutes 1945-46 campaign for nationwide support
Basil L. Walters, executive editor of The Knight News papers (The Chicago News, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald and the Akon Beacon- Journal).
The trustees will guide activities of the Foundation along with 1950 officers and executive committee members elected at an organizational meeting last Nov. 7. Officers are Mr. Harris, president; Alvin McCoy, Kantacress executive of the Kansas City Star, vice-president; Karl Klooz, University bursar, secretary-treasurer; and Dean Burton W. Martin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, director. The executive committee consists of Harris; McCoy, Marvin; Chancellor Deane W Malott of the University; Oscar S Stauffer, publisher of the Topes State Journal and the other Stauffer Newspapers; Clyde Reed Jr., publisher of the Parsons Sun; and Martin Fruhman, Dallas businessman who has been active in work of the
Foundation since its inception in 1944.
The Foundation was set up at the University as a memorial to Mr. White shortly after his death in 1944, at the same time the School of Journalism Public Information was authorized by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Work of the Foundation is to be closely related with that of the School and is planned chiefly in two areas:
1. Providing realistic teaching material for this and other schools and departments, you should be in book form and will consist of case histories of actual problems that are the grist of the operations of a newspaper or magazine editor. These volumes will be called William Allen White Problem Books and will be designed to support the use of the book general. On which falls to take the student to the heart of typical problems and therefore is useful to study general. Work on these of the books under way. It has to do with reporting.
2. Bringing to the University leaders of thought in fields exemplified by the work of Mr. White. These leaders will make pronouncements of more than passing and these addresses will be published for distribution throughout the country.
The first of these lectures was delivered at a convocation today by James B. Reston, New York Times diplomatic correspondent. His subject was "Reporters and Officials—Allies or Enemies?"