University Dailu Kansan
Tuesday. Sept. 27, 1949
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Police Assigned To Protect Working Miners
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Police were assigned to protect 30 non-union shaft and strip mines in western Pennsylvania where non-union miners voted to return to work today despite efforts by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers to keep them idle during the current U.M.W strike.
A group of U.M.W. men staged a sitdown strike in the Gilmer county courthouse in West Virginia in an attempt to force authorities to release two men arrested Monday when 1,200 roving U.M.W. pickets beat three non-union men and forced them to cut down operations.
six hutes to and down. GOW operations.
About 1,500 C.I.O. longshoremen in Oregon were reported converging on The Dalles to prevent unloading of $800,000 worth of pineapple from a barge that slipped away from docks struck by the longshore union in Hawaii.
Firemen were reported unlumbering high-pressure water hoses for use in breaking up possible rioting if officials went ahead with plans for unloading with non-union help.
Meanwhile, the C.I.O. Electrical Workers union authorized a strike among 200,000 employees of General Electric and Westinghouse if the companies fail to give way in negotiations scheduled to resume beginning Oct. 4.
With the steel strike deadline less than 100 hours away, government officials looked to Pittsburgh in hope of a major break in the deadlock between the C.I.O. Steelworkers union and U.S. Steel, the company that usually sets the pattern for the industry.
It appeared that each side would have to give in on their stands regarding the fact-finding board's recommendation that the union abandon demands for a wage increase and the companies should finance a pension and welfare program.
The union was adamant on its contention that the companies should accept the recommendation in total. The industry insisted that the workers should contribute to the program
About 4,200 steelworkers had already jumped the gun by staging wildcat walkouts in resentment to the industry's refusal to accept the board's report.
Power Failure Causes Black-out
The power failure on the campus Monday night for 20 to 30 minutes was the result of power line difficulties of the Kansas Power and Light company.
W. C. Sanderson, chief engineer of the University power plant, said the K.P. and L. blamed the failure on a line in an outlying district.
The lights went out all over the campus and in the western part of Lawrence at 7:10 p.m., and were not restored until 7:40 p.m. Some lights were placed in service after 20 minutes of darkness with power from the University turbine.
Crafton To Give Lectures
Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will address the American Association of University Women at Atchison tonight on "How Culture Came to Kansas." Wednesday night Professor Crafton will discuss community theaters before the St. Joseph, Mo., community theater group.
KU Post Office Lists Open Hours
The University post office, located in the basement of Strong hall, will be open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, according to R. C. Abraham, post office employee. No collection of mail will be made after noon on Saturdays, Mr. Abraham said. The post office will be closed on Sundays and holidays during the school year.
Six Campanile Bids Opened
Six bids for the construction o. the Memorial companion were opened at 11 a.m. today, Fred Ellsworth Memorial association secretary said,
The executive committee of the University of Kansas Memorial association will study the bids and let a contract at the end of 30 days.
Members of the committee to study the bids are Hugo T. Wedell, president of the association and member of Kansas supreme court; Carl V. Rice, vice-president; Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the association; C. B. Holmes, treasurer; J. Wayne McCoy, past president; John G. Somers, Newton attorney; and Edward W. Tanner, Kansas City architect.
Archery Club Will Have Open Meeting
The Archery club held its first meeting this semester on Monday in Robinson annex.
Alice Myers, education senior and publicity chairman of the club, said there will be another meeting from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Robinson annex. She urges all interested students to attend this meeting.
The officers of the club are president, Doyle W. Erkenbeck, College senior; vice-president, Marvin Kimsey, College senior; secretary-treasurer, David Schrader, engineering junior; and publicity chairman, Miss Myers. Joie L. Stapleton, associate professor of physical education, is faculty adviser to the club.
Cripps Freezes Wages To Curb Inflation Spiral
London, Sept. 27—(U,P).The Labor government announced today a boost in profits taxes and a freeze for the time being on all wages in an effort to control the inflationary spiral set loose by devaluation.
Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the exchequer, called for the new austerity measures at a special session of parliament called to debate the devaluation crisis.
Prime minister Clement Attlee's cabinet staked its life on the outcome. A motion it presented, to be voted on at the end of three days of debate, will have the effect of a vote of confidence which could overthrow the government.
1. As from today an increase of five per cent, from 25 to 30 per cent, in the tax on distributed profits.
The highlights of Cripps' anti-inflation program:
2. First preference for exports to dollar areas, even at the cost of disappointing old customers.
3. Utmost efforts of by the government to keep general price increases to a minimum.
4. It is of "critical importance that nothing should be done, to increase personal incomes arising out of profits, wages or salaries" until the government can see whether devaluation is successful.
6. Continuation of subsidies of millions of pounds on food, and continuation without change of other social services.
5. Even if there are exceptional and genuine hardship cases for wage claims "we cannot accept the maintenance of differentials" for higher paid workers.
8. "We must look to capital expenditure and government expenditure to provide some easement of the inflationary pressure."
7. Reduction of the demand for goods in the home market, limitation of internal expenditures.
9. An immediate review of the entire investment program.
10. Reduction of government expenditure outside the defense and social service fields.
Driver's License Deadline Oct. 1
Kausa automobile drivers have until Oct. 1 to apply for the new driver's license, Don Hults, Doug las county license representative announced today.
"Drivers will be subject to arrest and will go before the county court if they cannot produce the new license," Mr. Hults stated.
"An out-state license is good for only 90 days in Kansas."
The license, which runs for two years, can be obtained in room 8. Jayhawker theater building or in the County Treasurer's office in the Courthouse. The fee is $1.
Although 15,000 applications have been received in his office, Mr. Hults believes that there are many persons who have not yet applied.
Drama Season Starts Scon
The University department of speech and drama will present "The Male Animal," a three-act comedy by Elliott Nugent and James Thurber. Oct. 25, 26, 27, and 28 in Frazer theater.
"The Male Animal" will be the first of four plays this season. Admission to plays will be by activity cards for students, and season tickets or individual admissions for faculty members and others.
The other productions will include a classic, a new Broadway play, and a play concerning some contemporary problem. "The Male Animal" centers about the intercollegiate football season in a Mid-Western university.
In addition to the four plays, the department of speech and drama is planning exchange performances with Kansas City university, Kansas State college, and the Topeka Civic theater.
WEATHER
Topeka, Sept. 27-(U.P)—Cooler air which pushed into the state from the northwest Monday had spread over all of Kansas' 80,000 square miles today.
It won't be dissipated for another 48 hours or longer, said weatherman Richard Garrett. Today's maximum temperatures in the 70's will be only a degree or so higher tomorrow.
A Cappella Choir Begins Rehearsals
One hundred and ten members of the 1948-49 University A Cappela choir met Monday for the first rehearsal of the semester under te direction of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts. Fifty singers appeared with the group for the first time. They were chosen from 105 students who tried out Sept. 12 to Sept. 21. The remaining places in the choir
Clayton H. Krehbiel, graduate student, will be assistant director of the group, Dean Swarthout said. Krehbiel is a former member of the Robert Shaw chorale, which will appear Monday, Oct. 24 on the University Concert series.
The K. U. choir will sing at the All-Musical vespers Sunday, Nov. 20 and will have a major part in the annual Christmas vespers. The group will appear March 20 on the concert series of the Kansas City, Mo., Junior College and will give its home concert March 28.
Verdi's "Requiem" will be presented by the choir and the Men's and Women's Glee clubs during Music week in May. The choir will also appear at the February and March vessels.
Members of the A Cappella choir are:
First sopranos: Jeanne Aldridge, Mary Geneva Buckner, Betty Lou Byam, Karmen Dee Edwards, Theodora Ericsson, Patricia Glotzbach,
Patricia Haas, Virginia Johnston,
Jane Lucas, Rhoda Lee Lucas, Anita
La Telle, Myrna Lynch, Mary Lou
Martin, Phillis McFarland.
Margaret Miller, Franc Oberg,
Patricia Plake, Joyce Rohrer, Donna
Rumsey, Pettv Bettewhe, Helen
Shively, Gloria Simpson, Jeanne
Scheer, Rose Stafford, Verla Stefey,
Kitty Walker, Nancy Watson,
Martha Weed
Second sopranos: Barbara Banta,
Suzanne Beringer, Betty Brown,
Shirley Esplund, Ariane Hadley,
Dagmar, Hasalova, Betty Hayward,
Natalie Logan, Shirley Jarrett, Marjorie Newell, Bernadine Read, Betty Richards, Kathryn Scott, Patricia Speer, Pat Spillman, Jacquelyn Stoops, Shila Wilder.
First altos: Marilyn Barr, Joan Baur, Margaret Sevely, Mozelle Davis, Joyce Friesen, Olive Hartshore, Donna Mae Hull, Lynn Lucas, Marian Miner, Janet Lull, Jeanne Neihart.
Carolyn Oliver, Althea Owen, Leah Ross, Helen Schenck, Evelyn Westoff, Faye Wilkinson, Patricia Young.
Second alos: Marese Ball, Carol Buhler, Nancy Davidson, Louise DeLay, Sally Garland, Barbara Glover, Rita Hartwell, Alberta James, Mary Scheller, Edith West.
First tenors: Colin Campbell,
Charles Day, Lowell Elliott, Archie
Klewer, Clayton Krebhiel, Edward
Lynn, William Wilcox.
Second tenors: Darrel Benne,
Hugh Eberle, Joseph Fogo, Frank
Heckendorn, Glenn Hunt, Donald
Little, George Peacock, Robert Pettjohn, Clifford Reusch.
First basses: Boyd Bainter, Dean Collins, Howard Dunnington, Robert Faris, Faylon Geist, Myron Curtis Glover, Charles Howard.
Barry McDaniel, Charles Pine,
Jack Robison, Robert Rogers, Erich
Ryll, Herbert Skillman, Willard
Straight, Ronald Dougres.
Second basses: Theron Brewer, Darrel Brown, Frederick Cooper, Edward Foster, Robert Hamilton Alfred Hanes, Robert Hein, Robert Kite, Robert Lindeman, Frank Moses, Ralph Strickler, Oyarma Tate, Guy Webb.
Lawsons Oppose Federal Aid To Education
Dean Lawson, head of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in a letter to Sen. Andrew Schoepel declared that federal aid to education would inevitably lead to government control.
Like a lot of other Americans, Dean and Mrs. Paul B. Lawson became irked by some of the stories they read in the newspapers, so they sat down and wrote to their congressman.
"As long as the people can afford to spend enormous sums for liquor, tobacco, soft drinks, cosmetics, gambling and other luxuries, they can afford to spend a lot more for education in every state in the union," Dean Lawson wrote. "Why should they go begging to the federal government for support of anything as essential as education, when no evidence has been presented to show its needs?"
Copies of the letter, which was read into the Congressional Record, also went to Senators Clyde Reed and Schoepel and representative Errett Scriner.
"If we school people do not have the ability to sell education to the people, we do not deserve additional support from any source," he asserted.
"Surely, the time has come for all at all.
Dean Lawson feels that educators in seeking support, for education.
"Why set up a system which must take from the states more money than it can possibly return?" Dean Lawson continued. "Under any such system millions of dollars collected obstensibly for education must go for administrative expenses and will not be used for educational purposes
Axe Says Industry Must Aid Employes
Americans to get their feet out of the public trough and we should like to see education and educators take the lead in getting off the gravity train."
In his office today, Dean Lawson stated that "the letter was an expression of our opinion and I believe that individuals, communities and states should do everything for themselves that they possibly can and only after they have failed should the federal government be called in."
"Management must realize that man is a social animal and that it needs greatly increased understanding of the lives of its workers." Dr. Leonard Axe, dean of the School of Business, told the Kansas City chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants Monday evening.
Dean Axe, speaking on the subject "Management in the changing economy," said that, "The problem of industry in the last 15 years has not been technology but the maladjustment of the workers." This maladjustment was due to assembly line production methods which take the pride of accomplishment from the worker, he said.
Dean Axe quoted from the report of the Federal Trade commission which pointed out the concentration of productive facilities in the hands of large corporations. This concentration of industry so far removes the worker from management as to make it impossible for him to receive any great degree of personal satisfaction from his work, Dean Ave said.