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University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence. Kansas
ASC To Hear $900 Request Of Four Groups
Appropriation of $900 to be divided among four campus organizations will be recommended by the finance committee of the All Student Council at its next meeting.
At a three-hour meeting Oct. 8, the committee heard requests for funds from seven organizations, three of which will not receive recommendations. The committee was cutting as many corners as possible in order to keep within its budget of $3,000, which is $1,000 less than last year's. No organization request will be recommended to the council for the entire amount asked. The main suggestion which the committee will make in each case to remedy this fund cut will be that the group earn more of its money.
Sachem, senior men's honor society, asked for $250, will be recommended for $200; Y.M.C.A. asked for $400, will be recommended for $225; Independent Students association asked for $600, will be recommended for $225; Y.W.C.A. asked for $300, will be recommended for $250.
Organizations refused were Student Religious council, Jewish Student union, and Gamma Alpha Chi, organization for women in advertising. The first two were refused on the grounds that the A.S.C. makes a practice of not subsidizing any purely religious groups. The latter was refused on the grounds that to grant funds to an honorary organization in any particular field would set a dangerous precedent.
The finance committee consists of Steve Mills, chairman, Mary Helen Baker, fine arts senior; Carolyn Weigand, College junior; Margaret Dickinson, College junior; and Charles Penny, engineering senior Robert Bennett, College senior and first year law, is acting as fact-finder in a non-voting capacity.
Music Season To Open Soon
Reinhold Schmidt, associate professor of voice and acting head of the voice department of the school of Fine Arts, will officially open the music season at the University at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch auditorium. He will present a bass-barritone recital.
Before joining the University faculty, Mr. Schmidt appeared as guest soloist at K.U. In such oratorios as "Elijah," the Brahms "Requiem," and the Verdi "Requiem." His operatic career includes seasons as principal bass-baritone with the Philadelphia Civic Opera company and the Chicago Opera company. He has also appeared with the Kansas City Philharmonic and the Detroit Symphony orchestras and as soloist with many oratorio societies.
Mr. Schmidt has sung on radio programs, including the Carnation Contented hour, Hymns of All Churches, an Evening with Romberg, and the Chicago Theater of the Air.
WEATHER By United Press
Kansas-Partly cloudy and colder today and tonight with occasional light rain or snow northwest. Strong gusty winds mostly west to southwest and occasionally over 50 miles per hour today diminishing tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy, colder east. High today 50 northwest, 70 southeast. Low tonight 35 northwest to 50 southeast.
Play Tryouts In Green Today
Tryouts for the first of two plays to be given in actor's laboratory will be held at 5 p. m. today in the Little theater of Green hall.
The play is "Soap Opera" by John Kirkpatrick and will be directed by Patricia Dixon, college sophomore.
Tryouts for the second play, "Portrait of a Madonna," by Tennessee Williams, will be at 4 p. m. and 7 p. m. Tuesday in the Little theater. Wilson O'Connell, College junior, will direct the play.
Violence Flares In US Strikes
Bv UNITED PRESS
Violence erupted in the coal strike again today while a threatening situation developed in the nationwide steel strike at Inland Steel company's plant at East Chicago, Ind.
The brightest spot in the labor picture was the 32-day-old Missouri Pacific railroad strike, in which negotiations were resumed with "high hope of settlement soon."
In a third big labor dispute, a state senator asked the nation's 150 major railroads
In the coal strike, pickets raided the non-union A. and M. Coal Co. in Clarion County, Pa., setting fire to the $40,000 mine truce. State police patrolled non-union fields in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania as non-union mines re-opened after a weeklong truce.
In the steel strike, pickets at Inland's East Chicago plant were ordered to stand shoulder to shoulder to prevent management officials from entering or leaving the plant. But company spokesman said they would continue to enter or leave as the occasion required.
Ralph Ellis 'Foremost Expert' On Bird Lore Literature
Political Leaders Must Be Wise,Tactful, Carlson Says
By EDWARD J. CHAPIN
Public business is bound to suffer unless it has wise and tactful political leadership, Gov. Frank Carlson told members of Phi Alpha Delta, honorary law fraternity, Oct. 7.
The late Ralph Ellis, son of fabulously wealthy parents, was termed "America's foremost expert on ornithological literature," by Dr. E. R. Hall, professor of zoology, today as he recalled the unusual circumstances that led to the University's acquisition of the valuable 65.000-volume Ellis library.
Ellis grew up in Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. As a young man, he moved to Berkley, Calif. It was there that he began to develop an interest in biology. Even his earliest collections of birds were considered outstanding. The young scientist received advice from Professor Hall, at that time connected with the University of California, in his biological studies.
"Much of Ralph Ellis' life was un- happy, but the result of his devotion and service to science is more than ample reward for any man's lifetime," Professor Hall said.
The library, which is estimated to be worth between $100,000 and $400,000, was stored in a basement vault of Strong hall while the University and Mrs. Irene Ellis fought to gain legal possession of it. The Kansas supreme court's decision Oct. 8 in favor of the University means that the University of Kansas has the best collection of ornithological literature west of Chicago, Professor Hall explained.
After carrying out extensive studies of mammals, birds in little known parts of the United States, Mr. Ellis wrote and published "The Mammalia of the Ruby Mountain Region of Nevada." He also studied birds of the Seven Devils mountain region of west central Idaho.
Governor Carlson addressed members of the fraternity and their guests at a banquet held in the Kansas room of the Union. The
Mr. Ellis was soon recognized as an authority on literature dealing with vertebrata. He began building a library centering on ornithology and related subjects. Visiting book centers all over the world, Mr. Ellis searched for not only the rarest volumes but those with the best bindings. At the time of his death, his collection was considered the best private natural history library in North America, Professor Hall explained.
The work of both the lawmaker and lawyer was praised by the state's chief executive. "The labor of the lawmaker and the work of the lawyer and jurist are complementary," he said. "It is both by formulation and the administration of the law that the lives and fortunes of the people are regulated."
"Neither the legislature nor congress could get its work done without leadership. When that leadership is wise and tactful, the public business is benefitted. Otherwise business is bound to suffer."
Two former students. David Kelly Holmes, '41, and Ralph Wayne Parcel, 37, received their doctor of science degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., the past June.
In emphasizing the need for good political leadership, Gov. Carlson said:
Two Graduates Get Ph.D.'s
banquet was held in honor of the governor's initiation as an honorary member of Phi Alpha Delta.
Mr. Holmes majored in physics and Mr. Parcel majored in metallurgical engineering.
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Gov. Frank Carlson being initiated into Phi Alpha Delta, honorary law fraternity.
Ralph Ellis (center) is pictured above with Dr. E.R.Hall, (left) professor of zoology, and Mrs. Irene Ellis, widow of Mr. Ellis. The photograph was taken when Mr. and Mrs. Ellis appeared on the University campus in June, 1945.
"When he left California in 1945," he recalled, "Mr. Ellis wrote me a letter stating that he intended to set up a library at some university and asked for suggestions.
"I mentioned several, including the University of Kansas. Six months later he phoned and asked if that offer still stood. I asked him to what offer he referred. He explained about the library. At that time Cancellor Malott was in New York and arrangements were made for him to meet Mr. Ellis there."
The 40-year-old scientist and his young wife came to the campus several days following the library's arrival. Establishing residence in Lawrence, Mr. Ellis began unpacking the crates of books and afterwards loaned the library to the University for three years. In case of his death the title was to be given to the University. Seven months later, while duck hunting during a visit to California, Ellis contracted pneumonia and died.
More than 40 students and other interested persons have written to Professor Hall asking when the library would be available for study. Until disposition is granted by the court, Lawrence National bank trust administrators and legal representatives of the University are the only persons allowed to enter the vault.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis, mother of Ralph Ellis, is living in Borkley, Calif. Irene Ellis, the scientist's 27-year-old widow, also lives in California.
Students To Manage Advertising Drive
Two University students will participate in a nationwide advertising campaign this week. They are Jack Steele, graduate student, and Kenneth Stone, business junior.
The campaign is sponsored by the American Safety Razor corporation and is directed by the Student Marketing institute. These representatives will handle all merchandising, store auditing, advertising, and promotion of the campaign in Lawrence. Jack Wichert, assistant professor of economics, will supervise the representatives.
Besides being paid for participation in a national advertising campaign, these representations will receive a Student Marketing institute certificate of commendation.
Ellis Library Belongs To KU Court Decides
The University is expected to be given possession and use of the Ralph Ellis ornithological library in about a month, George K. Melvin, Lawrence attorney for the University in the Ellis case, said today.
The Kansas state supreme court ruled Saturday, four votes to two, that the 65,000-volume library belongs to the University of Kansas and the board of regents. One justice did not vote.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said that he was "very happy that the court decision is in our favor. There have never been any question on the part of the University as to the intent of both Mr. and Mrs. Ellis to leave the books to the University in case of his death."
Mr. Melvin explained that Mrs. Irene Ellis, Ellis' widow, has about 20 days in which to request a rehearing of the case in the state Supreme court. John Brand, Lawrence attorney representing Mrs. Ellis today said that he did not know whether or not Mrs. Ellis would seek a rehearing of the case.
The state supreme court held that the agreement and testamentary disposition prepared originally by Frederick J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, and approved by the attorney general was a valid contract, that Ellis was mentally competent, and that Mrs. Ellis had been fully informed of the property rights. The decision said that a lower court erred in holding Mrs. Ellis had an interest in the library.
The case first entered the courts in June. 1946. At that time Judge Frank Gray of Douglas county probate court ruled that Mr. Ellis was incompetent.
In April, 1947, both contestants appealed the decision of Judge Hugh Means of the Douglas county district court. The University objected to his findings that Mrs. Ellis had an interest in the library, and that the instrument was not a will or codicil to a will. Mrs. Ellis appealed the decision in favor of the University that the instrument was a valid contract to make a will.
The books, valued by some authorities at between $100,000 and $400,000, have been locked in a storage vault in Strong hall since 1945. They have been inaccessible both to the public and to the two contestants, Mrs. Irene S. Ellis, 27-year-old widow of Ellis, and the University.
Mr. Ellis, a scientist who main interest was the study of birds, died at the age of 40 in Colusa, Calif., in 1945.
K-Book Sales End Wednesday
K-Book datebooks will be sold at the Union and in Strong hall rotunda today through Wednesday by members of Red Pepper freshman women's pep club. The price of the book is 10 cents.
The datebooks, sponsored by the All Student Council, contain complete lists of all dramatic performances, athletic events, musical programs, and vacation dates. Presidents of nearly all student organizations and administration officials are listed.
Kansas songs and cheers, addresses of organized houses, a Lawrence street guide, and a map of the campus are also included.