7. 30, 1949
University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 1, 1949 No.52
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STUDENT NEWS PAPER.
Lewis Calls Mine Workers Off Job Again
New York, Dec. 1. (U.P.) John L. Lewis today put his 400,000 soft coal miners back on a three-day work week, effective Dec. 5.
Mr. Lewis issued a brief announcement after meeting with his top Union Policy committee. He said the coal strike which began at midnight will be in full effect until Monday when the miners will resume work on a three-day week basis.
The three days the miners will work each week are Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. This was almost the same way by which Lewis put his miners on a three-day week earlier this year.
He said that when the contracts were signed the three-day week schedule would end and the miners would work as many hours per week as the new contracts called for.
At the same time, Mr. Lewis authorized all union officers to negotiate new contracts "with any or all individual coal companies."
At that time Mr. Lewis said a shorter work week would stabilize the coal industry and provide jobs for all the miners. Mr. Lewis outlined his plans for a shorter work week at the past year's convention of the United Mine Workers. He told the convention this year that if there are only three days' work in this industry we will all have three days' work . . . if we are going to starve in this industry at any time we will just all starve together.
The miners went on strike at midnight after Mr. Lewis failed to get any kind of a new contract commitment from any of the coal operators. He had been reluctant to call his men out on strike again because of the Christmas season and because his men already have lost about $1,200 in wages each so far this year.
Entries should be left at the pharmacy office, 215 Bailey Chemical laboratories before 4 p. m. Friday,
Dec. 16.
Steel company officials said the coal stoppage will not affect their operations. Most of the big companies had as much as two-months supply of coal on hand.
As the "cat eye" shifts reported by the big Pennsylvania mines for work last night, the miners waited for word that the truce that ended a 52-day strike last Nov. 9 had been extended.
The beginning of a new walkout opened the way for government intervention. President Truman, now on vacation at Key West, Fla., indicated reluctance to use the injunction provisions of the Taft-Hartley labor law, that could impose an 80-day peace period. But he said he will act if a national emergency develops.
Anyone in the University is
eligible to enter the contest. Students may see Jarecke for ideas.
Pharmacy Group To Give $10 Prize
A $10 prize will be given the student who submits the best design for a key which will be awarded the graduating senior who has done the most during the school year to advance pharmacy as a profession.
The contest is sponsored by the American Pharmaceutical association, said Wesley R. Jarecke, president.
The design should be in black and white and may be any size. It should be symbolic of pharmacy and K. U. symbols such as the Rx or the mortar and pestle have been suggested.
Student Recital Will Be Today
String ensemble, voice, and piano numbers will be presented at the student recital of the School of Fine Arts at 3 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
"Ces Airs Joyeux" (Debussy), by Colin Campbell, tenor; "Waltzes, Op. 39" (Brahms), by Dorothy Shoup, piano; the "Allegro Moderato" of "Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25" (Brahms), by Isabel Gaddis, violin; Donald Stewart, viola; Shirley Foster, cello; and Frank White, piano.
The program will be as follows:
KU Orchestra Plans Concert
The University of Kansas Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, will present its annual fall concert at 8 p.m., Dec. 5, in Hoch auditorium.
A feature of the program will be the Third symphony of Johann Brahms, completing a four-year plan by Professor Wiley to perform the four great symphonies of Brahms. The First, Second, and Fourth symphonies by the 19th century German composer have been presented in the last three years.
Two soloists will appear on the program. Willard Straight, fine arts junior, will play Cesar Franke's "Variations Symphoniques" for piano and orchestra. James Selley educates children in "Codis" for Trumpet and Orchestral by Joseph Haydn. Sellards plays first trumpet in the orchestra.
Opening the program will be a group of waltzes from "Der Rosen-kavalier" by the late Richard Strauss. Strauss, prominent in the musical world for 60 years, died last month.
300 Students Take Exam
More than 300 students took the preliminary Western Civilization examination Wednesday night, Mrs Louise Cochran, Western Civilization instructor, said today.
Another 300 students are expected to take the test today, which will be given a 7:30 p.m. in 426 Lindley hall. Students need to bring only pen or pencils to the examination
"The examination given last night went off very smoothly. Mrs. Cocken said, "he test will be made by the student" Western Civilization Patron. At the student's next meeting with his proctor the student will be told how his test compares with that of the other 600 students who took the examination.
Vishinsky Blasts At West Again On Peace Plans
Flushing, N.Y., Dec. 1—U(P.)—Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky prepared to fire another blast at the West today as the United Nations General Assembly reached a vote on rival Eastern and Western "peace plans."
western peace ideals.
The veteran of international word battles asked permission to take the speakers' stand once more to answer criticisms of Soviet policy hurled by diplomats during the unexpectedly verbose two-day debate on the plans for peace.
Mr. Vishinsky lectured the assembly for 85 minutes November 29 without evidence that he had succeeded in changing the position of one delegation among the countries which voted, 53 to 5, in the assembly's political committee, to approve the rival plan offered by the United States and Britain.
The Western measure calls for reaffirmation of 12 cardinal points of the U.N. charter, which it acclaims as "the most solitary pact of peace in history." In apporving it, the 59-country political committee voted down a Soviet resolution which condemns the United States and Britain as warmongers then asks them to join the rest of the Big Five in a peace pact.
Other U.N. developments included special political committee meeting at Lake Success, which was expected to give almost unanimous approval to a resolution co-sponsored by the United States, Britain, France and Turkey, which would set up the $55 million W.P.A. type work relief program recommended by the Near East economic survey mission for an estimated $62,000 Arab refugees from the Palestine war.
Also a 17-nation subcommittee was slated to continue its efforts at Lake Success to draft an overall proposal for the future of Jerusalem from divergent plans proposed in the special political committee.
Larry Funk Honored By AP In Contest
Larry Funk, '49, received honorable mention for a sports action picture in the annual Missouri-Kansas Associated Press news photography awards Monday at Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Funk is a reporter-photographer for the Salina Journal.
Malotts To Circle Globe
WEATHER
"We've been too busy to give it much thought," the chancellor said during the work-loaded hours preceding his departure. "Christmas seems a long way off."
Daytime temperatures held slightly under yesterday's highs, especially in the North and West. Minimums tonight are due to be below freezing throughout the state.
Flying from Kansas City, Mo
Chancellor Malott will spend Christmas eve in Lahore, Pakistan, as a representative of the Association of American Universities and the American Institute of Pacific Relations at a conference which will develop ways to strengthen Indian-American relations. Most of the conference will be held in New Delhi, India.
Kansas--Cooler air moved into Kansas today along with December.
In a land where Christmas is not widely observed Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott, who will begin a westward world circulaing trip to India today, hope to celebrate the holiday in the traditional manner.
After the New Delhi conference, which lasts from Monday Dec. 12 to Thursday Dec. 22, Chancellor and Mrs. Malott will return to New York on Friday, Dec. 30. The return trip will take them through the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
shortly after 11 p.m. today, the Malotts will stop for a two-day visit with friends in Honolulu, Hawaii. At a later stop in Tokyo, Japan, Chancellor Malott hopes to visit Col. John Alfrey, formerly a professor of military science at the University, who is now stationed near Tokyo.
Jayhawker Covers Available Friday
Jayhawker magazine covers may be picked up Friday in the Jayhawker office in the Union.
All subscribers who have not yet called for the first edition of the magazine are urged to do so when they get the cover.
Sunflower Has 180 Vacancies
The overcrowded housing situation around Lawrence has been partially relieved. Sunflower village has 180 vacant family units available for veterans, John LaMonica, village housing director, announced recently.
"We have vacant, 13 two-bedroom units, 32 one-bedroom units, and 135 no-bedroom units." Mr. LaMonica said. "The no-bedroom units have a couch in the living room which can be converted into a bed."
All of the three-bedroom units are filled in the 1391-unit federal housing project. Apartment are rented unfurnished and furnished. Furniture may be rented at a cost from $3.50 monthly in the smaller units to $8 monthly in the larger units.
The rent for each unit is adjusted to the veteran's income if it is below a certain level. As an example, a three-bedroom unit is rated at $39 a month. If a family of five is living on an income of $120 a month, the monthly rent of that unit will be lowered to the minimum of $25 a month. Mr. LaMonica explained.
Veterans with outside incomes usually must pay the "economic level" or maximum rent. It is $29 a month for the no-bedroom unit. All utilities, including coal, are furnished free. A monthly fee of $1 is made if the family has a refrigerator.
Mr. LaMonica said that checks totaling $50,128.13 will be mailed to state and local government agencies this year as payments "in lieu of taxes" by the housing project. Since federal property cannot be taxed, the payments are made voluntarily by the federal government to meet its share of local taxes and not be in unfair competition with private landlords.
Almost half of the money will go to the DeSoto Common school district in the amount of $22,796.67. The remaining will go to: Johnson county, $12,890.01; Lexington township, $6,581.67; state of Kansas, $2,-702.23; DeSoto Rural High School district No. 3, $4,491.31; and DeSoto Cemetery district, $666.24.
Greek Council Acts On Restrictions
A resolution recommending that serious thought be given to the possible removal of all racial or religious restrictions on fraternity membership from fraternity constitutions was passed recently by the graduate session of the National Inter-Fraternity conference. Robert Pettt, College senior, and Dale Hallett, College junior, K.U. representatives to the conference, announced this today.
The undergraduate session, Petitt said, was reluctant to discuss the problem. A motion was made for the ban but died for lack of a second.
The graduate session's recommendation passed with 38 in favor, 3 against, and 19 abstaining. The graduate session is composed of the alumni officers of national fraternities.
"We stayed away from the argument," Petitt said. "There is no problem of that sort at K.U. Everybody is happy as they are here, at least on the surface."
Students Meet With Former Principals Today
How best to correlate high school training and freshman university requirements was discussed today by 600 freshman students and their former high school principals from 77 Kansas high schools.
The one-day conferences were held in class rooms in various buildings on the campus. After talking with the freshman students, the principals will give recommendations to the University for improving school life and procedures. Only principals whose schools supplied three or more freshman students to the University attended the conference.
Walter Cooper, principal of East High school, Wichita, interviewed 47 of his former students. He said, "The conferences have a lot of possibilities. The students will give a lot more frank opinions to us than they would to University teachers, because they know us better."
Former Wichita high school student Keith A. Maclvor, engineering freshman, stated, "I enjoyed meeting the principal again and I definitely feel freer to make suggestions to him than I do to the professors."
Howard D. McEachen, principal of Shawnee Mission High school, Merriam, Kan. believes that "the suggestions will be worthwhile and the conferences are very interesting."
Anne Jackson, College freshman and Mr. McEachen's former student remarked, "I think they are very helpful, a lot of students may have serious gipses."
E. B. Weaver, principal of ropeka High school, Topeka, declared,
"From the high school point of view,
this is one of the best things the
University has done in a long time."
Students expressed the feeling that it was an advantage to enter the University from a large high school. Complaints were heard that not enough English theme writing instruction was offered in high school training. A need for training in better study habits was also noted by the students.
The conference is expected to benefit both the University and the high schools, Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, explained. The high school administrators will send evaluated reports of the conferences to the University after they return to their schools.
Chancellor Deane W. Malot welcomed the principals at a luncheon today in the Union. Guided tours of the campus and visits to various classrooms filled in the remainder of the principals' day.
Even in the best days of past county clubs, there was not as much enthusiasm shown as at Wednesday's meetings, Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, said today about the county club program. He added that this is the best and most promising organization set-up the clubs ever had.
Ellsworth Praises County Club Work
Otis "Bud" Hill, chairman of the Statewide Activities commission, said, "One of the things that impressed me most was the response to sending Jayhawkers to high schools. Of the 59 counties which have turned in reports, they have ordered 270 Jayhawkers. Judging from the enthusiasm所晨 Wednesday, I feel that the county club program will be a great success."