University Daily Kansan
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
2,100 Degrees To Be Awarded Hitt Announces
More than 2,100 graduates will be listed in the 1949 commencement programs, James K. Hitt, registrar, predicted today. This number will break the record set at the 1948 commencement when 1,600 degrees and 130 certificates were awarded.
Since the University has but one commencement each year, graduates of the 1948 summer session, the past fall semester and this spring semester will be listed in the 1949 programs.
This year the business office is taking no chances on running out of caps and gowns. Frank Owen, business office purchasing clerk, said arrangements have been made to rent enough gowns that, when added to the University's supply, will give an inventory of 2,400.
Last June there were not enough gowns for all graduates to participate in the baccalaureate services. However, the University borrowed enough gowns from the Kansas State teachers college at Emporia to enable all seniors to attend the senior breakfast in proper attire.
Baccalureaure services will be in Memorial stadium Sunday, June 5, and commencement will be in the stadium Monday, June 6.
Movie Conference Scheduled Friday
The University's bureau of visual instruction has been selected to be host to a regional conference of audio-visual educators. Fred S. Montgomery, director of the bureau, disclosed today.
The conference will be held tomorrow and Saturday, at the Eldridge hotel.
The main topic to be discussed at the conference is the types and kinds of films that should be produced by Hollywood to satisfy demands of visual educational departments of various offices, schools, and colleges.
Roger Albright, director of the Educational service of the Motion Pictures association, otherwise known as the Eric Johnston office, will be one of the leaders of the conference. Attending the conference with Mr. Albright will be Mark A. May, chairman of the board of directors of the Teaching Film Custodians and director of the Institute of Human Relations at Yale university; Carl E. Milliken, managing trustee of Teaching Film Custodians, and John E. Braslin, film editing chief of the Motion Pictures association.
The state superintendents of schools from Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas will attend the conference as well as representatives from eight universities. The deans of the Schools of Education and the directors of the Visual education departments of the following universities will be present: Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas. Also present will be teachers in social science, music, and English from the public schools in Kansas City, Kansas, Topeka, Ottawa, Leavenworth, Lawrence, and the University. Approximately 80 people are expected to attend the last day of the meeting. Mr. Montgomery said.
WEATHER
Kansas—Mostly cloudy, windy and cooler today with showers northwest and extreme North. High today 90-45 Northwest, 60-70 Southeast and extreme East. Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Malott To Speak In Fraser Friday
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will discuss "Student Approach to the Job" at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater. The speech is second of a series being sponsored by the Associated Student Council. The series is dedicated to junior and senior students.
Moreau Has Knee Fracture
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, will probably recover complete usage of his right leg, Watkins Memorial hospital authorities said today. Dean Moreau suffered a fracture of the right knee cap Tuesday night in an auto accident at the corner of 20th and Louisiana streets. The report on the Wednesday issue of the University Daily Kansan that Dean Moreau did not have a fracture was an error.
Marion R. Cox and Richard R. Champ, business seniors, also injured in the accident are scheduled to be released today, hospital authorities said. Donald F. Powell, College freshman, who received a sprained right knee, will be released from the hospital as soon as the cast put on today has dried enough for use.
AWS Elects Gwinner President
Grace J. Gwinner, education junior, was elected president of the Associated Women Students in the senate elections, Betty van der Smissen, retiring president, announced today.
Other officers elected are: vicepresident, Bernice L. Brady, education junior; secretary, Beverly J. Jennings. College freshman; treasurer, Carolyn Weigand, College sophomore; All Student Council representatives, Janice E. Horn, College freshman; and Mabel Conderman; business junior.
Veteran Bonus May Be Placed On 1950 Ballots
Topeka. March 24—(U.P.)—A 100 million dollar bonus proposal for Kansas' World War II veterans needed only senate approval in the legislature today before becoming part of the ballot in the 1950 general election.
Favorable action in the upper chamber would present the controversial measure to the voters next year in a statewide referendum.
The bonus, which would provide cash payments of up to $425 to state veterans who served between the dates of Pearl Harbor and V-J day, passed the house of representatives in night session. Wednesday, 94 votes to 20. Friendly action was expected in the upper chamber, also.
The proposed bonus would pay $10 per month of domestic service, $15 per month spent overseas between the specified dates. It would be financed through a statewide property tax hike.
Short, jaunty Rep. Henry Marcotte expressed legislator's opinions about the measure shortly before the house vote last night when he said:
"We're voting on a hell of a lot of money, and I don't want to be on the spot. Let the people make the decision."
Honors Convocation Speaker Chosen
Dr. R. G. Gustavson, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, will speak at the 26th annual Honors convocation Tuesday, April 19. Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
The upper 10 per cent of the senior class in the College and in each of the special schools will be honored, and the most outstanding students in the three lower classes will be named.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Well, they don't wear 'hearing aids' in my classes, and they insist on sitting at the back of the room."
Thompson Wants Global Federation
A new federalized world government formed by the Western powers is the only way to checkmate Russia and stop the decline of the West, Miss Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist and lecturer, said Wednesday night. She spoke at a convocation in Hoch auditorium.
Nickel Beers Still On Sale
"The logic of the situation calls for measures more imaginative than
Sam's Bar and Grill, Lower Manhattan, N.Y., March 24—(U.P.)-Sam Atkins, retired fireman, won the battle today to sell a seven-ounce glass of beer to the working man for five cents instead of a dime.
Only trouble was, the working men stopped working as far away as the Bronx and came trooping down to Sam's half-basement, 10-chair place on St. Mark's street to sample his beer.
sample his seet.
Three were waiting when the doors opened at 8 a.m. They were three-deep around the bar at noon.
Six breweries were begging Atkins to sell their beer when he quit answering the telephone.
"It's good beer," said James Barry, who was once a Bronx druggist. "This was bound to happen some time. It just took a brave man to start it."
Atkins cut the price of beer from 10 cents to a nickel on the first day of spring. But he didn't take into account the reaction of brewers. Two brewers gave him the run-around when he sought to replenish his fast-deplenished stocks. A third hiked the price for an emergency delivery to wipe out two-thirds of Atkins' calculated profits.
Arkins calculated But the price cut brought him so much business and publicity that other brewers rushed in. A big-time lawyer called up and offered his services to uphold Sam's contention that free men had a right to nickel beer.
Helen Johnson, his barmalde, -was so rushed that she kept forgetting the price cut. She kept 30 cents for three nickel beers.
The idea came to Sam, the patriotic pub keeper, with the approach of warm weather. Ninety per cent of his customers were hard liquor drinkers, who slack off in the summer time.
So Sam opened the spigot, and in poured the beer drinkers.
"I sell three kegs where I sold one before," he said.
Stanford Men Killed In Fall
Yosemite. Calif., March 24—(U.P.) The mangled bodies of two Stanford university students were found at the base of lower Yosemite falls Wednesday after they had apparently fallen to their death from the sheer rock cliff beside the falls.
The two youths were identified as Peter B. Yeazzell, 18, and Kenneth A. Haines, 19, both of Fresno, Calif.
Rangers said the boys were tied together with a 100-foot length of climbing rope. It was probable that one of them slipped on wet surface and pulled the other down with him, the Rangers added. Doctors said the boys had been dead from 24 to 36 hours.
Both bodies were taken to a Merced, Calif., mortuary.
The bodies were discovered by two other Stanford students, Gerson H. Coplan and Herbert B. Osborn, both 19 of Palo Alto, Calif.
"Up to 1919 Russia had been held in check by the Austrian-Hungarian powers. When that power was destroyed, Russia was freed from its control," she said.
those of the Noffi Atuare security pact," she said. "We must go farther and bring out new countries to define aggression in this new government to include aid to any guerrilla forces within another country."
She listed four additional points to the proposed pact:
The theme of the Nuremberg trials should be brought up and preparations for armaments forbidden; all countries should abolish military conscription, all standing armies for all countries should be reduced, and an international constabulary of soldiers, armed with modern weapons, should be established.
"The defense pact should be open at all times to any nation desiring to join it," she added.
Miss Thompson told the audience of 2,000 that "the outstanding characteristics of this age are the disintegration in relationships of all the classes, the decline of the West in terms of territorial power and influence, and the failure in two wars to find a basis for peace.
The failure of the Treaty of Versailles was the reason for World War II, she continued.
"The West has slipped as never before in its history," she said. A situation has developed between the East and West in which the West is at bay for the first time in 2,000 years."
"The statesmen at Versailles needed a lesson from the Congress of Vienna following the Napoleonic wars. This Congress realized that whenever one state is eliminated as a power, a vacuum is created into which another power will move. To prevent this, France had to be restored as a power."
Miss Thompson added that at Versailles the nations did not realize Austria and Hungary had to be left as powers to prevent this vacuum.
Europe is split into two hostile groups, she said, with Russia and the United States forming alliances and arming. Neither side can retreat, and each tries to prevent the other from obtaining positions incompatible to their own beliefs, she explained.
"We are badly educated about Russia," she continued. "Russia did not gets its present size by peaceful means; it is a country that has never been able to settle down and develop its own civilization. The idea of Russia ruling the world has been creeping into Russian literature for the past two centuries."
She added that confusion reigns as to statements by scientists concerning Russia's atomic resources. Miss Thompson declared that "there are not more than 50 people in the world who know enough about atomic bombs to create them. All of these men know each other personally.
"There is no reason why they couldn't have gotten together and formed a pact not to make the bomb," she pointed out.
"If we must have another war, it will be fought to strike the arms from all nations," she added. "And if this next war is to be for peace, then let's make peace the object of our present conflicts."
Alumnus In South America
Carl E. Volger, '40, now has his own contracting company in Caracas, Venezuela.