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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Unification
No congressional law did it, nor did any coalition of generals and admirals perform the miracle. It was the governing body of the military district of Washington, D.C., which did it, and in one quick move.
Unification is here.
This common enemy will cause the forces to gradually blend together, to unify, and to realize that there truly is strength in numbers. This new police force is the point about which the separate forces will merge into one.
At the first of next year, the army's M.P.'s, the navy's shore patrol, and the air force's patrolmen in Washington will be combined into one unit, the Armed Services Police department. With this grouping will come the combining of the "respect for military police" formerly held by each of the armed services for its respective police. No longer will army men gripe about M.P.'s or sailors disparage the shore patrol. Now the services must direct their ill will toward a common enemy—the new A.S.P.D.
Thus, the creation of the A.S.P.D. has done more toward unification than all the words and feverish arguments used by the Big Brass in Washington. In one quick move, the government has set forth the objective.
This will cause the sailors, the soldiers, and the fliers to combine to have a more forceful effect. They will unite to blast the military police, and in so doing, will become completely unified.
—John S. Hill
At last, unification is here.
We've heard a lot about the American trend toward a welfare state in the past six months. And most of it has been in a sort of alarmed tone, as though it were an irresistible plague. There have been solemn warnings of the approach of communism and socialism from Washington to Florida. The big debate over whether or not we should have socialized medicine and socialized insurance has loosed a barrage of protest from strongholds of private enterprise. Alarmists all over the country have climbed on their soap boxes and predicted complete ruin of both the capitalistic system and the democratic form of government.
Don't Panic
Perhaps the U.S. is tending toward a more paternal government with all its implications. But it may not be as alarming as it seems. A system of government is created to give the best possible service and opportunities to its citizens. Thus, some trends toward more socialization are not alarming, and are even desirable, if they are viewed as improvements to our present system rather than as drastic revolutionary upheavals.
It has already been proven in the fields of public utilities and the banking system that there are several things which the government can supervise more cheaply and efficiently than can private enterprise. This has not necessarily meant dictatorship or government ownership. It has been regulation imposed in the public interest.
It is granted that there is much inefficiency in governmental organization. But how much more is lost every year in profit, advertising, and competitive maneuvers of private business? An outstanding example of this is the way the miners' union so dissipated its pension funds that it had to stop making payments to its retired members.
The increasing tendency for governmental supervision and coordination is really more of a safeguard against the threats of communism than a strict maintenance of private enterprise would be. By serving to make more people secure, and to raise the standard of living for those millions of citizens below the middle class, these trends toward what President Truman describes as a "fair deal" are not only practical but imperative. Only by giving our people a better life can we keep communism on the defensive. Imperialism is vanishing and socialization$^{2}$ is taking its place. We can at least give it a fair trial.
—Norma Hunsinger
Life Of Young Actresses Portrayed In'Stage Door' At Lawrence High School
A teen-age version of Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's play, "Stage Door," was presented Nov. 19 by 25 members of the junior class of Lawrence Memorial High school.
"Stage Door" is the story of 179 young actresses living in a boarding house. They are waiting for their big "break" into the theater. The cast did a commendable job in showing actresses in their-day-to-day disappointments and finally the ios of success.
The leading feminine role of Terry Randall, the actress who forgets her disappointments to comfort others or rejoice with them in their success, was played by Sally Sixi. Martha Green did a commendable performance in temperamental Russia with concert ambitions. She was forced to play "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey." in cheap night clubs to eat.
Edward Reuse played as Terry's father. Jack Elvig lost Terry's love and Harry Elliott found it.
The play was directed by Mrs. Marjorie Rix, dramatics instructor. The Lawrence Memorial high school orchestra, under the direction of Jack R. Stephenson, second-year law, played before curtain time and between the acts.
Marysville, Calif. —(U.P.)— In the case of G. E. Forester vs. Alfred Montna Judge Arthur Coats, Sr., surveyed a list of 60 prospective jurors. Topping the list was the name of Alfred Montna. The judge promptly excused the defendant from sitting in judgment on himself.
Defendant Couldn't Judge
William Jennings Bryan ran for president four times.
The Winner
Sigma Tau, Engineering Fraternity Sets New Record With 74 Initiates
The Lambda chapter of Sigma Tau, national honorary engineering fraternity, recently initiated 74 students. This is a record, according to the chapter's figures.
The initiates were unanimously elected by the active members on the bases of scholarship, practicability, and sociability they were:
Ralph E. Andrea, Glenn L. Arbuckle, William P. Barnett, Fred H. Brinkman, Dean E. Broderson, George A. Brown Jr., Wayne I. Burnet, George E. Butler, David F. Carpenter, Clifford H. Carver, Bruce R. Chadwick, William W. Corman, James B. Coulter, Jack R. Delaime, Oliver D. Droege, Dennis L. Dunlap, Edwin A. Fritz Jr.
Jack D. Gillum, Emmett G. Green,
Lewis F. Hanes, George C. Hopkins,
William P. Horton, Arnold Hunhall,
Dean L. Hutchinson, Gene E. Lefebyre,
Herman Lindsey, Ralph L.
Lundberg, Howard F. Mercer, John
E. Merriam, Robert G. Murrell,
Raymond E. Olson, Charles N
Penny, Edwin B. Bores, Francis W.
Prosser, and Frank I. Reynolds.
James E. Rodgers, Jack H. Ronsick, George E. Saller, Aaron L. Lauder, Elmer L. Schultz, Stanley M. Smith, James A. Street, Robert E. Stroup, Charles E. Sturgeon, Richard G. Stutz, Eugene Sylvester, Robert K. Thayer, Rex E. Thomas,
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Eugene L. Utter, Harry G. Wampler, Earl F. Winn Jr., and John S. Young, all engineering seniors.
Norman P. Baumann, Maurice L. Bloxom, Robert V. Bowersock, Davis H. Crawford, Dwane M. Crowl, Harold E. Edmondson, Arthur B. Francis, James D. Griffith, Oliver B. Hammers, Don B. Jones, Robert A. Kleist, Thomas E. Kobett, A. McKinley, George R. McNeish, William A. McQuary, Lawrence P. Morgan, Carl G. Nelson, Maxwell B. Ravndal, Robert D. Reiswig, Robert E. Seeer, Robert F. Smith, and Donald E. Trull, engineering juniors.
Plans for raising money to build a library addition to Green hall were discussed by members of the Burdick Memorial corporation recently.
The fireproof addition will be built on the north side of Green hall. It will be 35 by 40 feet in area and will be the same height as the rest of the building.
The library will be in memory of William L. Burdick, dean of the School of Law from 1898 to 1946. It will house approximately 40,000 law books.
Library Addition Planned For Green
To date $6,651 of the necessary $35,000 have been collected by the memorial corporation.
The memorial corporation was organized by 30 graduates of the school on Homecoming morning, 1947.
Maine is bordered by only one other state.
Don Heath Wins Quill Club Award
Don Heath, College junior, has been named winner in the short story division of the Quill club literary contest. Heath will be awarded $10 for his story "Mabel."
Jane Schmidt, College junior, was chosen president following the resignation of Connie Kendall. Critically in the club also named 7 new members.
members. No winner was announced in the poetry division contest. "There were not enough poems from which to select," was the explanation of Edward Chapin, journalism junior, member of the editorial board which judged the manuscripts.
Howard E. Wyrick, College junior,
was runner-up with his story "Tom
and Me." Honorable mention was
given Robert R. Schnorr, assistant
instructor of German, and Francis
Kelley, journalism junior.
Mr Schnorr's poem was entitled "Golga-
tha" by the Lynching.
Mr. Schnorr; John Arnold, graduate student; Catherine Barber, Robert Sanford, Philip Smith, and Hope Wadsworth, College seniors; Frankie Waits, journalism senior; Wilson O'Connell and Wyrick, College juniors; John Bannigan and Kelley, journalism juniors; Marilyn Hardin, Lee Shepard, and Vernon Sutton, College sophomores; Virginia Mackey, College freshman; and Charlotte Shidler, special student in the College.
Members will submit manuscripts for Trend, Quill club publication, to Miss Schmidt immediately after Thanksgiving vacation.
Manuscripts that were submitted for the contest can be picked up by the writers in the office of John E. Hankins, professor of English.
At 94 He Wants To Fight
Denver—(U.P.)—Everett Stanchfield, fresh from a physical check-up, announced that he was in perfect condition and would challenge any man to a prize fight. The only condition was that his opponent be his same age, which is 94 years.
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