University Daily Kansan
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STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Student Fund Worth $12,000 Set Up At KU
The Ida M. Stocking Student fund, consisting of $12,000 in cash and securities, has been set up at the University by a woman who never attended college.
The announcement was made Monday by Irvin Youngberg, secretary of the University endowment association. The fund is the residue of Miss Stocking's estate. Ms. Stocking, a resident of Saketha, died in 1987.
Frank Stocking, a brother, and Mrs. Stocking, who died the past March 28, held a life interest in the cash and securities.
R. M. Emery, Jr., an attorney who advised and assisted in the preparation of Miss Stocking's will, said that although she had not attended college, she had a life-long interest in young people and wished to help them educationally.
The University Endowment association is instructed by the will to invest the principal of the estate and use the income for assisting students desiring to attend or attending the University. Preference is to be given students from Sabeth or the Sabeth area.
A scholarship committee will be formed to determine the amount of the Stocking scholarships. This is the second such fund established by a resident of Nemaha county. Four years ago the Josephine Fuller student fund was set up with an estate of approximately $20,000.
Lawrence Has Labor Survey
A survey of labor and job openings in Lawrence will be conducted during the next two weeks. E.K Zook, Chamber of Commerce secretary, said today.
"The survey will be conducted by the business research bureau of the University," said Mr. Zook. The Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence school board are sponsoring the survey which is designed to find out what types and how much labor is available in the Lawrence area, he said.
"When manufacturers think of opening a new factory they consider there are four general things," Mr. Zook continued. They are: the market for their product, the availability of raw materials to manufacture the product, transportation and the kind and quantity of the raw materials. The Chamber of Commerce already has information concerning the first three of these factors. This survey will provide the fourth." he said.
Mr. Zook said the board of education is interested in finding what type of job openings are available in the Lawrence area so they can plan vocational training in the new high school.
The survey will consist of four phases. The first phase begins today with the mailing of 5,000 post cards to owners of water meters. The meter owner will fill out the card and return it. The second phase will be a newspaper advertisement Wednesday. It will contain a form which the reader may clip, in, and return.
The third and fourth phases of the survey will be conducted by 12 University students. The third phase will find the students interviewing people in selected sections of the city. In the fourth phase the students will call on more than 190 business houses and professional offices.
Tryouts For Play Will Be Wednesday
Tryouts for "The Long Christmas Dinner," a one-act play by Thornton Wilder, will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Little theater of Green hall. Any University student may try out.
The play is one in a series of three to be presented by the University Players before Christmas. It is a Christmas fantasy featuring three generations of a family for more than 90 years.
Circus Theme In 1949 Follies
The 1949 Jayhawk Follies will have a circus theme featuring a singing and dancing chorus of Jay Janes and Red Peppers, short novelty, black face and balancing acts, two girl clowns, and a 30-piece orchestra directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and music.
The Follies will be presented in Hoch auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday. M.S. Slough, associate professor of law and director of the show, said today.
A rehearsal of the song, dance, and black face numbers will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
A basketball game between the Varsity and freshmen will follow the Follies.
Music for the Follies will be arranged by Prof. Russell L. Wiley. Stage settings will be handled by Don Dixon, associate professor of speech. A dress rehearsal will be held Wednesday night.
There is no charge to the Follies but admission to the basketball game which follows is 50 cents. A 30 minute intermission will follow the Follies so that those who wish to attend the game may purchase tickets.
Physiologist Will Lecture
The first of the Logan Clendening lectures on the history of medicine will be today.
Dr. John F. Fulton, who has been professor of physiology at Yale university since 1930, will speak on both K.U. campuses. He will speak at 11 a.m. in Strong auditorium, and at 4 p.m. at the University Medical center, Kansas City, Kan.
Mrs. Logan Clendening, now of San Marino, Calif., gave $10,000 to endow the lectures honoring her late husband, a Kansas City physician. Dr. Clendening, '07, was a faculty member of the School of Medicine for 35 years. He died in 1945.
Dr. Fulton was a Rhodes scholar and later a fellow at Oxford university in England. He is the author of many scientific papers and has been editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology.
There will be no humor contest for the next issue of the Sour Owl, official campus humor magazine. it was announced today. Instead of the usual contest, all manuscripts and cartoons submitted and used will be paid for at a regular rate of half cent a word for manuscripts and $1 each for cartoons, Richard Barton, editor, said.
Sour Owl To Pay Cash For Stories
Anyone wishing to submit material for the next issue may do so now by leaving it at room 5, Journalism building. The deadline for turning in material is Nov. 28.
Marine Strike May Threaten US Shipping
Washington, Nov. 15—(U.R.)—Government mediators were set to make a last minute effort today to head off a twice-postponed strike that threatens to tie up half the nation's shipping.
shipping. A strike of 2,000 East and Gulf Coast deck officers of the A.F.L. masters, mates and pilots union is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m., E.S.T. Wednesday.
William N. Margolis, assistant federal mediation director, said the strike looks like a sure thing unless the government can get a settlement at conferences during the day.
Chances appeared slim for another extension of the strike deadline, and the union's insistence upon a "rotary hiring hall" system seemed to be going down while a presidential fact-finding board looked into the issues.
Frank J. Taylor, president of the Merchant Marine institute and chief operators' spokesman, said a strike would keep some 100 ships now in East and Gulf Coast ports from going to sea. He said 38 companies, operating a large portion of the country's merchant marine, are directly involved in the dispute.
A long strike, Taylor said, would tie up 500 American ships. This would have a serious effect on Marshall plan shipments and other international trade commitments.
The only point at issue, it was brought out during a fruitless two-hour meeting Monday, is the hiring system demanded by the union.
Under the union's demand, all deck officers ranking below captain and chief officer would go to the bottom of the hire list when they complete a cruise. Operators would be required to hire the officers at the top of the list for the next trip.
West Coast deck and engineering officers won their demand for the "rotary hiring" principle in contract negotiations earlier this year. The East and Gulf Coast operators have turned down all demands for a similar hiring system for their ships.
String Quartet Pleases Audience
Chamber music devotees were thrilled Monday by the performance of the Hungarian String quartet. The quartet, opening the 1949-50 series, played to a capacity audience in Strong auditorium.
Authorities say that good chamber music sometimes approaches technical perfection. If that is so, Monday night's concert was no exception. Mastery of technique, balance, and melting tone quality characterized the performance.
By FAYE WILKINSON
The major work of the program was the Franck "Quartet in D Major," the only quartet he composed and one of only three Franck pieces written in the chamber music form. The composer gave the listener a chance to hear each instrument alone as he repeated the melody each voice. The muted effect of the "Scherzo" and the melodic finale aroused enthusiasm for this number.
“Quartet in A Major” (de Arragia) was played with a restraint beffiting its Spanish composer of the classical 17th century. The Beethoven “Quartet in F Minor” was Beetoven “Quartet in F Minor” pattern. After four curtain calls the group responded with “Italian Serenade” (Huo Wolf).
Malott Explains Lack of Holidays
To the Students:
Through the years, the question is occasionally raised as to why we do not have football holidays.
In company with the major large universities of the country, K.U. does not have holidays after football victories. We are a complex University, not a college or a high school. We have a wide range of professional and graduate departments; work must be carefully planned, and materials, often perishable, procured long in advance, for many of the 1,000 courses in the curricula. We cannot justify the waste of time or of facilities involved in an unplanned closing of the University plant.
Deane W. Malott Chancellor
The action that we should not have such holidays has been taken formally by the faculty through the University senate, which is in charge of the calendar. It was concurred in by action of the Student Council, with full approval of the coaching staff.
Four members of the University debate squad will attend Purdue university's forensic conference Thursday and Friday at Lafayette Ind.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, will accompany the squad and act as the leader of a panel discussion on the "Interpretation of the National Question."
Debaters To Go To Indiana
"The Purdue conference should be one of the outstanding tournaments of the year," Kim Giffin, University director of debate, said "Purdue has made a definite effort to invite the 20 top teams in the country on the basis of the previous year's record."
Debate squad members who will attend are Robert F. Bennett, first year law; Ernest C. Friesen, College senior; and J. Steve Mills and Alan Kent Shearer, College juniors. Bennett and Frieden will take the negative side and films and Shearer the positive side. Debate topic is "Resolved, that the United States should nationalize all basic non-agricultural industries."
Gandhi's Assassin Hanged Today
Ambala, India, Nov. 15—(U.P.) The assassin of Mohandas K. Gandhi and a fellow conspirator were hanged in Ambala prison today, defending to the end their murder of the man millions of Hindus call a saint.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse, 25-
year-old high caste Brahmin, died
unrepentant in the gallows in the
central jail compound at 8:06 a.m.
for shooting Gandhi at Birla House
New Delhi, Jan. 30, 1948.
With him was hanged Narayan Dattatrya Apte, who was convicted of conspiring with Godse to assassinate the Hindu apostle of non-violence.
They said they decided to kih Gandhia because he consented to me carving out of a Moslem state—Pakistan—from India. Both extreme Nationalist, they advocated a Hindu India which would supress west Indian freedom, they wrote on Pakistan and subject India's Moslems to Hindu rule.
The government took extraordinary precautions to prevent any demonstrations resulting from the hanging. Newsmen were barred from the jail.
Phi Beta Kappa Elects Sixteen In Fall Election
Sixteen students, an all-time high for a fall election, were elected to membership in the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Monday. All are seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Only students who have made "A" grades in approximately 85 per cent of their work may be considered at this time. Others, up to 7 or 8 per cent of the senior class, may be chosen next spring. The K.U. chapter, the first Phi Beta Kappa group founded west of the Mississippi river, maintains a conservative membership policy.
Three students have 3.00 averages or "all A" work, for the credits counted for selection. They are John Eberhardt, Ralph Simmons, and Charles Staley. Doris Jane Then has only one hour of "B" for her first three years.
The large fall class is in part accounted for by the large senior class. The 16 honored and their major courses of study are:
Margaret Beltz (German), Mrs. Joan Gregory Bennett (social work), Dean Collins (chemistry), Robert L. Davis (law), John Eberhardt (political science), Lamont W. Gostan (medicine), Wallace Holderman (chemistry).
Edward Huycey (medicine), Jean Kirkham (English), Siddhyn Lidia (mathematics), Ralph Moon (physics) William A. Ruth (medicine), Ralph Simmons (mathematics), Charles Staley (economics), Elmer Stegman (medicine) and Doris Jane Tihen (bacteriology).
SAC Begins Clubs Today
A meeting of the temporary county club chairmen of the State-wide Activities Commission will be held at 5 p.m. today, Allyn Browne, county club committeeman and College junior, said. The meeting is to organize a county club for each county in Kansas.
A convocation period on Wednesday, Nov. 30, will be set aside, Browne said, for further organization of the clubs. During the period instead of having a regular convocation, students will go to 105 rooms, one for each county in Kansas, and another for each club. At that time a permanent county chairman will be elected by the groups.
The duties of the county clubs of the Statewide Activities Commission will be to spread good will for the University in their counties. The Department will respond to students of the benefits to be gained by coming to K. U.
The raising of the money with which to buy "Jayhawkers" for the respective high schools of the counties will be another duty of county clubs. The commission will equal the amount raised by the clubs, Browne said. The clubs will also conduct high school assemblies to inform high school students about the University.
WEATHER
KANSAS—More of the same generally fair, mild weather is in the mill for Kansas, the state meteorologist said today.
The night will be chilly, with readings a bit below freezing in the West to slightly above in the East.
Temperatures are anticipated to average near normal for the rest of the week, with a brief cold snap Thursday, but an outlook for fine football weather Saturday.