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University Dailu Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 3, 1949
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OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
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Congress Due To Act On US Deficit Spending
Washington, Nov. 3—(U.P.)-Sen.
Olin D. Johnston, (D-S.C.) said
today that Congress would have to
slash European aid funds next year.
To help balance the United States
budget.
Most other legislators lingering here after the congressional recess were far less specific although they were against the administration's deficient spending. But they could not say where spending should be cut—if at all. Neither were they specific on tax hikes—if any.
"The President's deficit statements shows the need for cutting European Cooperation Administration funds as I have urged Congress to do," Johnston told the United Press. "How can we afford to give to other countries while we go into debt ourselves?"
Their comment followed President Truman's report that the United States was going into the red this year for $5 \frac{1}{2}$ billion dollars with every indication that only a record increase could prevent a greater impact in the following year.
"I am in favor of reducing expenditures where possible and to the extent possible. After that has been done, I am in favor of providing the necessary income."
the neces. Republican leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Mass., said the administration had put forward a package of "schemes to socialize agriculture, medicine, food, housing and power."
Sen. Robert S. Kerr, (D.-Okla.) said:
and power.
"For most of them the administration has offered no cost estimate, but if enacted they would eventually cost 84 billion dollars a year," he said.
"Mr. Truman's socialistic program must be stopped in the months ahead when congress reconvenes."
(Sen. Harry F, Byrd (D.-Va.) said that if the administration continues to spend beyond income after next July 1, the nation's position will be "critically close to the breaking point."
He said federal bonds already are coming due at a rate averaging one billion dollars a month for the next years.
"Unless we begin retiring some of this indebtedness," he said, "we shall be in the silly position of trying to feed the cow her own milk." Byrd wants to cut government costs in all categories.
Rally Will Be Held For Team Friday
Baby Sitter Overhears Call For Help During Fire
A football rally for the Nebraska game will be held at 12:50 p.m. Friday in front of Strong hall.
One o'clock classes will be delayed five minutes so that students can attend the rally and still be on time for their classes, said Leslie Roenigk, head cheerleader.
Dean Other.
Parents of freshman and sophomore students enrolled in the College will be notified when the student's grades are unsatisfactory unless special arrangements are made in the College office. Parents of non-veteran students in the School of Engineering and Architecture will be notified of the student's unsatisfactory standing.
Members of all pep organizations and a portion of the University band will help send the team off to Lincoln. Members of the football team will speak at the rally.
A baby sitter at Sunnyside was bewildered by the telephone conversation that she overheard during the fire in the buildings and grounds department Wednesday night.
Fraternities, sororites, and other organizations may obtain student grades of freshman and sophomore students by asking the student to furnish a memorandum from his adviser. An alphabetized list should be presented to the College office by the organization desiring grades of juniors and seniors.
All freshman and sophomore students in the College should meet with their advisers between Tuesday, Nov. 15 and Friday, Nov. 18, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, announced today.
The advising period is designed to give students an opportunity to talk with their advisers, not only about their current work and standing, but also about meeting future requirements in various schools, Dean Ulmer explained.
Underclassmen To See Advisers
Names of advisers and their office hours will be posted on the College bulletin board in the hall oppose 229 Strong hall. The list will be posted Tuesday, Nov. 8. Junior and senior students with unsatisfactory grades at mid-semester will receive notification by mail.
Betty Jeanne Sneary, College匠ior, was taking care of Tatiana, 3, and Lev, 15 months, children of Milton Horewitz, assistant professor of psychology and Mrs. Leola Horowitz, instructor in speech. Miss Sneydecided to telephone a friend at Watson library and, after giving her number to the Lawrence operator, was connected with the K.U.exchange. She heard this conversation:
Engineering students will also meet with their advisers between Nov. 15 and 18. The bulletin board in Marvin hall will give names of advisers and their office hours. T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
"Harry, there's a fire under me
Wait a minute. . . . . . Harry,
there's so much smoke I can hardly
see the switchboard."
"Get out of there," a man's voice
here, was no response from the operator who had apparently left Miss Sneary's line open during the
Mrs. Harry Cofer was the K.U. operator on duty when Louis A. Wulkhulek, night watchman, reported the carpenter shop was on fire.
"I have heard that windows and doors should not be opened during fires," the operator said. "I was excited because I did not know exactly where the fire was. I had to leave the switchboard several times because of the smoke."
excitement. The baby sitter's call was not put through. A few minutes later she heard sirens.
This was not Mrs. Cofer's first experience with a fire while on duty as a telephone operator. She recalls an even worse blaze in western Kansas a few years ago when fire fighters carried out "everything but the switchboard."
Men, Money, And Music Discussed By Mary Garden
Commenting lightly on men and money, Mary Garden, operatic singer of the past two decades, tackled the subject of music seriously in her convocation talk today.
The dynamic little woman, gesticulating wildly, showed a remarkable sense of humor as she revealed some of the behind the scenes incidents in her long, successful career in opera.
"The only way to know a man is to marry him," Miss Garden said. "The next best thing is friendship—a real friendship—and none of this nonsense. There is nothing more I can say about men. I never married."
"Money," she pointed out, "is a fearful thing, but it is so necessary. As long as one has enough, he can do what he pleases. I've always had everything I wanted. So much for money."
Miss Garden explained that there are only two careers possible for a woman, the work you are in and marriage. The greatest career in the world is marriage and the rearing of children.
"I chose my career and stuck with it," the 72-year-old actress said. "From the day I started, I put everything I had into music.
put everything
"Nothing has been interesting to me but the people. Everyone is in it and there are no boarders. Art will make everything beautiful and will give us something to talk about besides the atom bomb."
Radio, motion pictures, and television has momentarily overshadowed grand opera, Miss Garden believes.
"That dreadful television" the actress exclaimed. "I was tele- lined when landing from the boat in America. Never in the world would you have known me. I looked like some of those women who sell fish in Aberdeen. No more television for me."
more television.
Wearing a red feathered hat, a green plaid skirt, ruffled white blouse and a red jacket, Miss Garden appeared anything but a fish-seller today. The diminutive actress laughingly told students of how she was named.
was named.
"When I was born my father registered me as Mary Garden," she said. "I like that name. It's a simple, forthright name. What if my mother had named我 Violet or Rose? Wouldn't that have been disgusting? Think of it—Rose Garden Ugh!"
Miss Garden counseled students to choose their teachers wisely. After all, no one has money to throw away on flattery, she said. Many great singers are flops as teachers. They have their bag of tricks, but they cannot teach. The United States, she believes, has many young musicians with fine voices, but they do not know how to sing.
Miss Garden is touring the U.S. as a representative of the National Arts foundation. The foundation awards scholarships to promising students for study here or in Europe. Her home is in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Obenland Appoints Calendar Staff
Sixteen editorial and business staff members of the 1950 K. U. Calendar were named Tuesday by Frank Obenland, calendar editor.
Business assistants are Ray Fleming, business senior; Jack Gillum, engineering senior, Nancy Smith, journalism senior, and Sally Garland, Elaine Gilchrist, Sue Ihinger, James Samuel Moore, Jr., Thomas Murphy, Robert Standwick, Elizabeth C. Thomas, Marilyn Thompson, and John Wilhelmy, College sophomores.
They are Robert W. Powers, assistant editor; Kale Gentry, photographic editor; James Gurley, assistant business manager, and Charles Fisk, advertising manager.
Wood Box Fire Calls All Firemen
A fire, believed to have started from spontaneous combustion, caused nearly $100 worth of damage to the buildings and grounds carpenter shop Wednesday night. The blaze originated in a scrap box and did not reach any of the wood-working equipment in the room, C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said today. More than 100 University students and officials watched firemen put out the flames.
The alarm was turned in at 9:35 p.m. by Louis A. Wulffkuh, night watchman, who saw flames coming out of a second-story window of the carpenter shop as he was leaving Watson library. Four fire trucks carrying all the Lawrence fire fighting equipment arrived on the scene a few minutes later. By 9:40 p.m., a crowd of more than 100 students and University officials were watching 14 firemen as they shouted directions to one another and hastily set up ledgers to fight the blaze.
The fire, which at first seemed small, was reaching far out of the second-story doorway by time the first fireman reached the top of the ladder. After the outermost flames were squelched, a huge searchlight was used to help direct the firemen to the exact locality of the smoldering blaze.
Meanwhile, Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, R. H. Wagstaff, assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds, and other officials were investigating the premises and watching the fire department in operation.
Lawrence fire chief, Paul Ingels, reported the fire under control within 20 minutes after the trucks arrived. The crew then began shoveling out the charred wood, dropping it to the driveway below.
Lumber materials, but no tools, were destroyed by the blaze, Mr. Bayles said. Shop workmen had been off duty since 5 p.m.
Greeks Elect Complete Slate Of Freshman
The Pachacamac-N. O. W. ticket made a clean sweep in the freshman election Wednesday, easily electing the class officers and the All Student Council representatives.
Marcia E. Horn is the freshman class president. Other officers elected were Lloyd W. W. Bowle, Jr., vicepresident; Virginia Mackey, secretary; and Clay Roberts, Jr., treasurer. All were Greek candidates.
The Greek majority on the A.S.C. was increased to 15 to 5 by the election. The two freshman seats on the Council went to Patricia R. Gardenhyre and James E. Dawson. Miss Gardenhyre was unopposed.
Freshman women elected two representatives to the Associated Women Students' senate. They are Suzanne Foot, a Greek, and Ella L. Meridith, an independent.
Only 23 per cent of the freshman class voted as compared to 42 per cent in the election a year ago. The total vote cast was 443. There are 1,380 freshman students enrolled in the University. As a result of the low vote, the Greek candidates rolled margins of nearly seven to one.
Ballot counting finished in less than an hour. Members of the elections committee of the A. S. C. and representatives of the political organizations tabulated the vote. Dr. James W. Drury, assistant professor of political science, supervised ballot counting.
Melvin Clingen, business junior, Pachacamec campaign manager, in speaking for the victors said. "We appreciate the feelings of the student body as shown by the vote However, we were disappointed that the per cent of the voters was so low since student government and student politics provide opportunity for each student to build interest as a citizen in national politics."
Virginia Daugherty, College senior, N. O. W. campaign manager, said "I think it was fine, but I wish there were more opposition. We would like to encourage independent opposition in the spring election so everyone will have a chance."
Weather
KANSAS—Fair today. Warmer west and north. Tomorrow fair, warmer east. Highs today 65 west to 60 east. Minimum tonight about 40.
Three Boys In Front Row Please Vivacious Opera Star
"There were three of the sweetest young boys sitting down on the front row that just roared with laughter," vivacious little Mary Garden observed today, following her convocation talk in Hoch auditorium.
"I like to give happiness and make young people laugh. Such a charming audience!" she said. "I love young people. One of your music persons introduced me to a lovely young girl—dark and mysterious, the perfect Melisande type. I can't remember her name, but she's going to write me and I would love to
The famous diva of past years sat back in her chair and adjusted her velvet beret with its cascade of green feathers. Her slender fingers fluttered about, emphasizing each shade of expression as she recalled her operatic career, and association with many great names in the musical world.
"When Debusy heard me, he said, My dear, you are going to create my music." And I did create it. I have created 16 modern musical dramas in the United States. Only the modern school of music interests me," Miss Garden explained.
"Melisande is my favorite role. It has to be acted as well as sung. I would like to 'mold' a new singer into the hole of Melisande," she said Here Miss Garden suddenly sat erect in her chair and, recapturing the mystery and sweetness of the role, sang Melisande's opening notes. Although the T2-year-old diva took the grand manner of opera, she kept her voice in the middle register.
"Kirsten Flagstad is the greatest opera singer of today," she said. "Few people know the value of acting in opera. A moment's silence can be just as effective in opera as a high note."
After speaking at the University of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo., Miss Garden will go to Monmouth college, Monmouth, Ill., where she will be given an honorary doctorate of music.