WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Why, Louise, I do believe you're wearing a girdle tonight."
Watch 'em Or Next Year's Laws Will Be In Four Part Harmony
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington—(U.P.)-The discord around the capital is tempered by music these days.
If you listen, you can hear an "oompa," some four-part harmony and even a fiddle obbligato.
It's all in the background, as con-4
It's all in the background, as congress stews over the president's budget and debate over whether we ought to take the tax off olemargarine.
Rehearsals started today for one of the most unusual musical shows in history. It's for a two-hour program over the American Broadcasting company's network on Feb. 2 a kickoff to the American Heart association campaign for funds.
On the air will be members of the supreme court, cabinet members, senators, representatives, ambassadors, and top brass of the army, navy, and air force.
Representative Albert Arnold Gore of Tennessee is an old fiddler. He will play the violin in the accepted mountain fashion.
Mr. Paul J. Kilday, in addition to being a fine Texas Democrat, also is a fine imitator. He will give his impressions of Winston Churchill. The fellows say Paul is great.
Also on the program will be senatorial quartets and actors from the supreme court and cabinet.
It ought to be quite a show.
While the preliminaries for this big program are going on, the barbershop harmonizers are getting ready for a three-day international convention here Jan. 20-22.
The promoters call it the biggest harmony spree Washington ever has seen. It's sponsored by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.
Don't be surprised, either, if some congressional quartets show up at this one. The boys are practicing day and nights, with the party lines down. Republicans borrow a tenor from the other side and the Democrats sneak in a G. O. P.-er wherever he can do the most good.
Incidentally, the man in the white house, Mr. H. S. Truman, is a dues-paying card-carrier of the Kansas City chapter of S.P.E.B.S.Q,S.A. he probably won't lend his tenor to the "harmony gala," which climaxes the convention, but the president has been invited to listen in.
The barbershop foursomes have a tieup with National Wildlife Week, thanks to Mr. Ed Place, who is a barber-shop edper of note and also is connected with the National Wildlife Federation.
National Wildlife Restoration Week will be sponsored March 19-
25. Ed has dragged his quartets into the show. He points out that a great many song favorites of the barber shop singers wax sentimental about bees, birds, and flowers, mountains, rivers, and valleys—as well as romance.
Ohio Man Needs Longer Work-Day
If there's a sour note on capital hill during the day, more often than not it's tempered with close harmony someplace downtown in the cool of the evening. All that's healthy, no doubt.
Ashville, Ohio. — (U.P.) — Anyone who feels hard pressed by his daily routine might consider Paul J. Bozman.
At 45, he is an engineer for a public utility company. He is secretary of the Ashville vountee fire department and attends a class for the firemen for two hours every Tuesday night.
In his "spare" time he goes to high school, runs a welding shop at home and devotes time to his family, taking his wife to a movie once a week. There are six children, the youngest 12 years old.
He is a member of the Supervisors' club, the Elks and Knights of Pythias lodge, and the Community club.
Mr. Bozman and two of his daughters attend high school together. He is president of the sophomore class and an honor student.
National Security Council Pledged To Secure Nation
Editor's Note: The National Security council is tops among the top secret agencies of the federal government. Its chairman is President Truman. The man who set it up is returning to private life. In the following exclusive interview, he and his successor disclose how the council functions.
Washington—(U.P.)The National Security council will remain a closely co-ordinated group of top officials dedicated to making the United States secure against any possible aggressor, its present and future administrators said today.
It is the group charged by law to advise the President on the best ways to integrate the "domestic, foreign and military policies relating to national security."
Lay, a slender, blond man, will take over, but it means no change in administrative techniques.
N. S. C. is top secret. Its members are the President, who is chairman; Vice President Alben W. Barkley, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, and John R. Steelman, presidential adviser who is doubling as acting chairman of the National Security Resources board, the defense stockpiling agency.
Although the National Security council is an advisory group to the President, it has a most important job in directing the activities of the Central Intelligence agency. That is the group set up in 1947 to coordinate all of the intelligence activities of government "in the interest of national security."
"Lay and I started to build up the National Security council setup a full month before we were sworn in in 1947," Souwers said. "I asked him to help me. I was called over to the council job after helping the Atomic Energy commission to set up its intelligence group."
With no strings attached, Souers and Lay set up a compact operating unit that now is the National Security council. It has about 15 employees and its direct payroll. It has lots of top talent borrowed from the members. But its annual budget is only $175,000, a mere drop in the bucket among federal expenditures. It gets, Souers says, a lot for its money.
Sidney W. Souers, 57, who was commissioned a rear admiral during the war to help direct naval intelligence, resigned as of Jan. 15 as executive secretary of the council. He will be succeeded by James S. Lay, Jr., 38, assistant secretary, who was a colonel in Army intelligence during the past war.
Both have been with the National Security council since its start late in 1947. Souers, a gray-haired man with a gay moustache and a hearty laugh, is returning to private life.
Souers and Lay purposefully set up a small compact organization. They thought it would operate better that way. They assert they were right.
Presumably it was the C. I. A which advised Souers of Russia's atomic explosion last fall. Souers is said to have passed the information on to the White House, where it was announced by Mr. Truman last Sept. 23.
"At the start, we discussed two methods of operation," Souers said. "One was to set up an ivory tower staff that would call on various exteriors, but the other was to set up a small operating mechanism by the staff route.
These people would represent the department chiefs who are members of the council; they would know
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Lay pointed out that the National Security council operates on three levels.
Boston, (U.P.)—Seven legal holidays would be shifted to the Monday nearest their dates under a bill filed in the Massachusetts legislature.
The first is the members the President and the cabinet representation. In the second echelon are such as Dean Rusk, assistant secretary of state for United Nations affairs, with opposite numbers representing national defense and the N. S. R. B.
In the third level are N. S. C. staff members. They are designated by the council members to represent them at the working levels. They are selected by their respective council members on the basis of ability.
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