University Dailu Kansan
4th Year 28.10.1949
Wednesday, Sept. 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Miss Lawrence To Be Selected On Thursday
Thirteen women from the University and one from Haskell Institute are competing for the title of Miss Lawrence and the opportunity to represent Lawrence in the contest for Queen of the American Royal.
Contestants will tour the campus in convertibles this afternoon. At 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Granada theater the number will be reduced to seven. Afterward a party will be given in the Eldridge hotel by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for its new members and all of the contestants.
The queen will spend three days beginning Thursday, Oct. 13 in Kansas City, Mo, competing with contestants from other towns for the title of Queen of the American Royal. During this time she will be entertained by Kansas City officials and will attend the American Royal.
A reception for the seven contestants and the judges will be held at 8:15 p.m. Thursday. The queen will be selected at 9 p.m. on the stage of the Jayhawker theater. Bill Yearout, WREN commentator, will act as master of ceremonies with Justice Hugo T. Wedell, state supreme court; George Docking, First National bank president, and Col. L. R. Moore, commanding officer of the University's R.O.T.C. unit, acting as judges
The contest is being sponsored by the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce with Sgt. R. V. Cloke University R.O.T.C., as chairman.
Contestants and the firms sponsoring them are as follows: Jo Ann Hudson. College senior, Lawrence Sanitary; Bernice Connor, Haskell institute, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Joan Bushey, journalism senior, Chateau Drive-in; Janee Bryan, College senior, Dine-A-Mite; Anna Murphy, College freshman, Mosser-Wolf; Jean Taylor, College freshman, Lawrence Surplus.
Ann Galloway, College sophomore, Hank Brown Photos and Loke Smith Appliance; Jo Anne Putney, College sophomore, Reeves Grocery; Ann Cowger, Fine Arts junior, General Appliance company; Lou Ann Lawrence, College sophomore, Johnny's Grill; Patricia Glennon, Fine Arts freshman, Acme Laundry; Arianne Hadley, Fine Arts freshman, Lions' Club; Elaine Modrell, College junior, Rankin's Drug store; and Carol Anthony, College junior, Marinello Beauty Salon.
U. S. meteorologist Richard Garrett said the sharply colder weather will be felt over virtually all the state.
Hilden Gibson, professor of political science and sociology, will address members of University cooperative houses at 7:30 p.m. today at an educational meeting being held at Harmon Co-op, $1537_{2}$ Tennessee.
KANSAS: A warning of heavy to killing frost in Kansas tonight was issued today by the U. S. weather service. Minimum temperatures under clear skies will be 32 to 35 degrees.
Gibson To Talk To Co-ops
The frost warning, for which widest distribution was requested by weather officials, was a revision of an earlier forecast calling for slightly cooler temperatures and perhaps a light frost in the north-west.
WEATHER
Elmer R. Rusco, College junior and coordinator of the Inter Co-op council, will direct the meeting.
ASC To Review Social Regulations
Social representatives of all student organizations on the campus are asked to meet at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29 in the Kansas room of the Union, it was announced today by Mary Helen Baker, chairman of the social committee of the All Student Council.
The purpose of the meeting is to acquaint all organizations with the new rules, regulations, fines, and penalties governing campus social activities during the 1949-50 school year.
Lecture Series To Begin Oct.11
The third annual series of Humanities lectures will present two University faculty members, Dr. George W. Kreye, associate professor of German and chairman of the sponsoring committee, said.
Dr. Clifford P. Osborne, professor of philosophy, and Dr. John E. Hankins, professor of English, will be the first K. U. faculty members to appear on the series. Dr. Osborne, came to the University in 1937. He will speak October 11 on "What Is Art?" Dr. Hankins, who last held a Guggenheim fellowship the past year, will conclude the series March 14. His topic will be "Scholarship and the Humanities."
Dr. Walter R. Agard, chairman of the classics department at the University of Wisconsin, will give his second humanities lecture here November 8. Dr. B. Quincy Morgan, professor of German at Stanford university, will lecture on "Goethe Today and Tomorrow" on December 13.
Dr. Henri Peyre, chairman of the French department at Yale university, will discuss present-day problems in French literature. His lecture will be January 17.
Non-Striking Miners Carry Guns To Work
By UNITED PRESS
Non-striking miners carried guns to work in the Pennsylvanian coal fields today amid growing reports of violence in the nationwide coal strike, most explosive of the nation's major labor dispute.
The threat of a nationwide rail strike added to the nation's labor woes. Observers, however, were hopeful that threatened strikes in the steel and automobile industries could be headed off.
In the steel companies' dispute with the C.I.O. auto workers over pensions, developments today may show whether a strike, scheduled to begin within a little more than 48 hours, may be avoided.
Detroit reported hope that negotiators might avert a walkout in the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers pension plan difficulties with the Ford Motor company.
At Washington, President D. B. Robertson of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen warned his men might strike against the nation's railroads to enforce their demand for employment of another fireman on deisel locomotive crews.
Flareups between striking members of John L. Lewis' mine workers and non-striking miners worried peace officers in at least four states.
Penn lvianan police feared bloodshed because non-union workers were reporting to their jobs at little western Pennsylvania strip mines with guns in defiance of roving bands of UMW pickets who tried to get them to stop mining coal.
Gun permits were issued to some non-striking miners in one Pennsylvania county.
West Virginia, Ohio and Utah reported incidents of violence or intimidation as strikers attempted to halt the mining or movement of coal
Organizations Must File Officer Lists
All organizations, including fraternities, sororities, and organized houses, who have not filed a list of their fall, 1949, officers with the dean of men's office should do so by 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29. It is important that addresses and phone numbers be included. Those who have previously filed a list of fall, 1949, officers should check to see that correct addresses and phone numbers are recorded. This information must be in on time in order to be printed in the student directory.
Ise To Address University Club
What John Ise, professor of economics, learned about post-war Europe this summer will be emphasized Thursday evening when he speaks to the University club at 8 p.m. in its clubrooms at $1007\frac{1}{2}$ Massachusetts street.
University club members may bring their wives and other guests, announced Elmer F. Beth, president of the club.
In his "Report From Denmark." Dr. Ise will analyze and comment upon information he acquired while he taught at the Midwest seminar near Copen-Hagen, Denmark, from June 29 to Aug. 13. He was one of three American professors on the faculty at the International institute which studied human needs in post-war society. Jackson Baur, assistant professor of sociology, was among the 20 American students who joined some 80 Europeans in the studies.
The lecture Thursday evening will be the first event on the club's 1949-50 social calendar. An invitational tea to which prospective members are invited will be Sunday, Oct. 9.
Ten Opinions Vary On Federal Aid
Faculty and students varied in their opinions on the controversial question of federal aid to education, a spot check revealed Tuesday. Staff members and students were interviewed following publication of a letter from Dean and Mrs. Paul B. Lawson to Sen. Andrew Schoeppel.
Dean Lawson, head of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, stated that federal aid to education would inevitably lead to government control, and strongly opposed any federal system set up for the purpose of administering such a program.
Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans bureau, said, "At the present time there are several types of federal aids in education, including the G. I. bill. There will always be federal aid in education. It's just a matter of how much aid and what kind, although I disagree with a complete federal program in education."
Dr. J. O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering, voiced agreement with Dean Lawson's statement. "It would appear that education would come under government control in event of federal aid, and this would be undesirable."
profitted greatly from aid to G. L.'s, and housing supplied at low cost by the government. Institutions are able to protect themselves from control by those endowing them, so why couldn't they protect themselves from federal control?
Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics, stated that the effect of federal aid, "depends on the KIND of aid. Universities already receive a certain amount of aid from the government—they have
Dr. Paul Roofe, professor of anatomy felt that a "certain amount of federal aid should be given to medical schools which are financially desperate at the present time. It is imperative that those in operation be kept intact."
Betty van der Smissen, sophomore in law, agreed with Dean Lawson's philosophy. "The American people must be educated to see the direct benefits of money put into education. At the present time they see more benefit from money invested in such things as cigarettes, liquor, and other luxury items," she stated.
Walter E. Ewert, assistant professor of journalism commented: "I have known many former students who have benefited through Federal aid during the depression era. I myself, attended college under government aid furnished through the National Youth administration to college students. I feel that this type of financial assistance to young men and women, who otherwise might not have been able to attend college, was helpful."
Dr. Cora Downs, professor, of bacteriology, stated"The G. I. bill and Navy grants for research have been excellent for scientific progress in the past, but excessive federal aids will lead to government control of education."
Ruth Keller, Independent Women's senate president, expressed approval for the proposed federal aid. "Schools can do so few things without ample funds," Miss Keller said. "They must be supported, and federal aid seems the most logical place to get the money. At the present time the K. U. Medical Center operates with the aid of federal grants, and other campus projects could not be carried on without federal aid."
Erne Friesen, president of the all Student Council said: "Many sources say the state can handle improvements where they are found necessary both from a financial and an administrative standpoint, so why take away one of the states' prerogatives? It should be left up to the states to tax and support the schools."
Louise Lambert, College senior agreed with Dean Lawson in his stand against federal aid to education. "If the government subsidizes the schools," she said, "it will naturally want to dictate what is to be taught. The additional funds needed by the school should come from the people themselves, not from the federal government."
Constant Bid On Campanile Being Studied
The new student identification cards issued this fall will do away with the old activity book and serve both purposes said Harold I. Swartz, business office accountant.
All bids for the construction of the Memorial campanile have been rejected except the one made by the Constant Construction company, Lawrence, Fred Ellsworth, Memorial secretary, said today.
The Constant Construction company's bid of $172,500 was the apparent low bid on both the base bid and alternates. The alternates involved use of local, cottonwood, or silverdale limestone in the bell tower.
The architects, Homer Neville and Edward B. Delk, both of Kansas City, Mo., have been instructed by the executive committee to tabulate the bids and study details of the Constant bid.
Edward W. Tanner, Kansas City, Mo., chairman of the campanile committee, is to confer with the architects and J. L. Constant, Lawrence, and issue a report and recommendation to the executive committee of the Memorial association within two weeks.
"The group will consider the type of stone to be used, and many other problems which will have to be worked out," said Mr. Ellsworth.
The other five base bids were B. A.
Green Construction company, Lawrence,
$184,000; Sharp Brothers Contracting company, Kansas City, $193,-
465; M. W. Watson Construction company, Topeka, $203,590; Martin Eby Construction company, Wichita,
$211,931; Universal Construction company, Kansas City, $224,000.
Also present at the Memorial association meeting Tuesday were Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Alton Thomas, University land architect; Joseph Wilson, University business manager; and Charles Marshall, state architect. They served in an advisory capacity.
CardReplaces Activity Book
"We are trying out this new system to cut down on paper work and make it easier for the student." Mr. Swartz said. The numbers one to 30 printed on the outer edges of the card correspond to certain activities and will be punched when the student is admitted.
"Numbers one through five will admit students to football games, six through 11 are for concerts, 12 and 13 for band, 14 and 15 for the orchestra, 16 through 19 admits the student to plays, 20 for the glee club, 21 through 28 are for basketball games (though the students can only use four of the numbers and, 29 and 30 are extras."
The new cards will be used all year. A "Paid" stamp will be placed on the face of the card for the spring semester. Nearly 4,500 students have already picked up their cards at the temporary desks in the rotunda of Strong hall. After Saturday, the desks will be removed, but students may call at the student organization window in Strong hall for their cards.
"Although 2,000 pictures were ruined because of bad film and had to be retaken, we have gone ahead and issued those cards so that the students will be admitted to Saturday's fooball game," Mr. Swartz said. "However, they are expected to pick up the new picture when it is available."