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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1949
Britain Accuses Eastern Europe Of Arming Israel
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Israel made a round-about request for a United Nations Security council inquiry into British actions, but the council planned no immediate response. It wanted to await the outcome of Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations under U.N. auspices on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes
Britain returned to the attack in its war of words with Israel today. A British foreign office spokesman charged that a Czechoslovak-led eastern European bloc supplied 90 per cent of the arms reaching Israel in violation of the United Nations embargo on arms to the Middle East.
Shanghai-Telephone reports from Tientsin said that north China port city still was holding out against Communist assaults. A four-man truce mission from the Tientsin city council still had not returned from behind the communist lines after 23 hours.
The peace talks are scheduled to open tomorrow. Both Egyptian and Israeli delegates were expected to arrive at Rhodes today. At Tel Aviv, Premier David Ben-Gurion expressed hope that another Arab nation, presumably Lebanon, also would join the talks.
It was the first time that Britain has accused other eastern European nations, including possibly Russia itself, of joining Czechoslovakia in arming Israel.
He made the charge in denying Israel's contention that Britain's action in the Middle East created a situation which might endanger peace.
Other foreign news:
Batavia, Java—The Dutch army reported that republican guerillas caused some damage in an attack Sunday night at Jogjakarta, the former republican capital.
Navy Cadets To Have Club
A club for midshipmen of the N.R.O.T.C. will be formed immediately following the start of the second semester. Membership in the club will be open to all midshipmen.
An organizational committee will be elected Thursday Feb. 3 by all the N.R.O.T.C. midshipmen. The committee will draw up a charter for the new organization.
The club will hold its first meeting under its charter and officers during the last week of February. Time and date of the meeting will be announced later.
Miss Ruth Packard will speak to members of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet Friday about her work with the Y.W.C.A. in China from 1938 until the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941. She is the secretary of the rocky Mountain division of the Y.W.C.A.
YWCA Will Hear About Chinese 'Y'
The meeting will be held at 4 o.m. Friday in the English room of the Union. A dinner will follow Miss Packard's talk. Members of the freshman cabinet will be the guests.
Miss Packard was the secretary of the Y.W.C.A. national advisory committee of China during the years she worked there.
Minister To Speak Sunday
At Unitarian Club Session
The Rev. R. Lester Mondale will speak at a meeting of the Unitarian Liberal club Sunday. The meeting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the East room of the Union.
The Rev. Mondale is the minister of the All Souls Unitarian church in Kansas City. He will speak on the topic "Liberal Religion and the Art of Relaxation."
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
"Well, then, if you're not typing crib notes I've plenty of typing paper you're welcome to use."
Kansas' Fight For Statehood Recalled By Inauguration
By LYLE F. BOWEN
The inauguration of a new legislature and of the governor for Kansas is over. We took the matter rather lightly.
One January, 88 years ago, men thanked God for that process. That month the state of Kansas was born.
Less than eight years before, a Emigrant Aid society of Massachusetts to pick out a location for a permanent settlement.
Less than eight years before, a party of men had been sent by the
After a winter of privation, the first citizens of Lawrence began the task of building a city. Those first buildings were the Northern answer to the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The Free-staters were here to stay, but not without serious contest from the pro-slavery people of Missouri. "Ruffians" came across the Kansas border to vote in elections and then went back home. The territorial legislature became controlled by proslavery men, and an unsympathetic president appointed governors without much thought.
The menace had been overcome. The election stood as corrected. For the first time since its birth, Lawrence was able to celebrate the results of a fair election. The reign of terror was over.
More arrests resulted, among them that of Dr. Charles Robinson, leader of Lawrence and later first governor of the state. Disapproval turned to open rebellion against pro-slavery rule. Territorial militia from Missouri could not stop the tide.
The pro-slavery men were determined that the people of Lawrence should go back to Massachusetts. They resorted to any means to convince the settlers that they were not welcome. Instead more settlers swelled the town's population.
Frightened by the growing Free-state defiance, the proslavery men took more drastic measures. Lawrence was placed under martial law. Citizens were jailed on the slightest provocation. The town was cannonaded when it tried to defend itself from indignities. Still the city grew.
Those first people were not like the usual pioneers. They were doctors, lawyers, teachers, ministers.
With the passing of the "Cause" in Lawrence went the torch of government. Topeka was chosen over Lawrence for the capital site. The home of Kansas statehood lost the reward of its efforts.
In the election of 1858, fraudulent votes were thrown out by a responsible governor. As a reward, he was removed from office.
An engineering unit for the ROTC will be added during the summer. The courses will be available to all engineering students who are qualified for the R.O.T.C. program.
Col. John Alfrey, professor of military science, said the unit goes into effect July 1, but there probably will be no classes until the fall semester.
ROTC Adds Engineer Unit
Graduates of the new unit will be commissioned officers in the engineering corps of the army.
Students will be sent to a camp each summer. If the students have not had 90 days active duty during the war, or one year on active duty in peace time, they will be subject to one year on active duty upon graduation and will be deferred from the draft while they are in school.
Tickets for the "Hayseed Hop" will go on sale today in the lobby of Frank Strong hall and in the office of Student Union activities in the Union lobby. Tickets will also be sold at all organized houses.
Get Hayseed Hop Tickets Today
The dance will be from 9 p.m. until midnight Saturday in the Military Science building. Charles O'Connor and his all-student band will provide music. Dress will be informal.
Music Clinic Starts Tomorrow
Admission will be $1 a couple.
The first post-war Mid-western Music clinic for high school and elementary school music supervisors will be held tomorrow through Saturday.
The three-day program will include clinical periods for all or orchestral instruments and ranges of voice. There will be classes on the primary, intermediate, and high school levels in musical theory, and voice and instrumental groups.
Faculty from the University Schools of Fine Arts and Education will give most of the instruction. Supplementing them will be Lorrain H. Watters, supervisor of music for the Des Moines, Iowa public schools, as guest lender for elementary supervisors; and James P. Robertson, director of music, Springfield, Mo., public schools, guest leader for high school supervisors.
Other guest specialists will be Lawrence McLean, wind instruments, and Willy Hoffman, string instruments, both of Kansas City, Mo.; William F. Ludwig, percussion instruments, Chicago, Ill.; Milford Crabb, director of music, Kansas City public schools; C. J. McKee, director of music, Topeka High school; and Joyce Wentz, elementary school music supervisor, Atchison.
The enrollment opened with a devotional exercise led by Rev. R. W. Oliver, then chancellor of the University.
The 140-piece University concert band. 85-piece symphony orchestra and 110-voice a capella choir will give a joint concert in Hoch auditorium Friday evening.
Directors of the conference are Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, chairman of the music education department; and Prof. Russell L. Wiley, leader of the band and orchestra.
Eugene A. Stephenson, professor of petroleum engineering, is chairman of the committee for awards for the Kansas section of the American Institute of Mining and Metalurgical Engineers. He was elected at a meeting of that organization in Eureka Jan. 7.
Stephenson Is Chairman Of AIMME Committee
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When You Enroll You'll Wish You Were Your Own Grandma
The committee will make awards to a member of this section who presents the best technical paper each year. An award will also be made to an undergraduate attending a Kansas college or university for the best paper prepared in their field of engineering.
The premature death of K.U. was prevented when a few prospective students from Lawrence straggled in. Later, the feeling of gloom was somewhat dispelled by out-of-town arrivals who brought the total to 40.
If you have wished for a quiet and unhurried enrollment, you were born 80 years too late. Probably the closest that any enrollment has come to having a calm atmosphere was K.U.'s first in 1866. For the hopeful professors, though, it was almost too quiet.
When the doors of the University that September morning, no students were waiting in line to be admitted. In fact, no one came for several hours, except two or three carpenters who were repairing the building.
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classes. Instead, the students were examined for general intelligence to determine what classes would have a sufficient enrollment to permit their inclusion on the schedule.
When the task was completed, none of the students seemed qualified for any classification except as freshmen. According to reports of that first day in K.U.'s life, the student body resembled that of a "teater indifferent high school."
Despite the pessimism, it was a start—promising, but hardly indicative of today's enrollment turmoil in Robinson gymnasium.
Both Parties Want Improved Social Service
Washington, Jan. 12- (UP) -Powerful bi-partisan support was piling up in congress today behind President Truman's plea for a bigger and better social security program.
The president called on congress for higher social security taxes, increased benefits and expanded coverage. Members of both parties in the house responded with a flood of bills to carry out the recommendations. They've been referred to the ways and means committee, where tax bills must originate.
Besides raising the tax rate, congress is expected to boost amount of earnings which now are taxable. Only the first $3,000 now are subject to tax. There is talk of boosting that to $4,200.
The present ceiling on benefits under the old age and survivors insurance program is $85. Rep. Robert W. Kean, (R-N.J.), a member of the house ways and means committee, proposed raising it to $120. Another congressman suggested $127.50.
The president also advocated extending benefits to some workers not now covered. And he recommended lowing the retirement age for women from the present 65. Members of both parties favor dropping the age to 62 or 60.
Pay Raise — Democratic leaders were set to call up the proposed pay raise for President Truman and other top federal officials in the senate tomorrow. The deadline for congressional action is Jan. 20, when Mr. Trump will be inaugurated for a new term. The bill, approved by the senate civil service committee, would boost his salary from $75,000 to $100,000 and give him a tax-free $90,000 expense account instead of the $40,000 he now has.
The vice president and house speaker would get $30,000 salaries each, instead of their present $20,- 000. Other new salaries would range from $25,000 for cabinet officers to $17,500 for lesser officials. Washington government employees and foreign service officers would get a flat $330 raise.
Credit Controls—Rep. Wright Patman, (D-Texas), doesn't like the way the federal reserve board has administered control on consumer credit. He said that unless the board "demonstrates its sympathy for the masses of Americans of moderate income," he'll oppose extension of credit controls. He said the present 18-month payment period on automobiles should be extended to 24 or 30 months. Payments for an 18-month period are too high for moderate income groups and millions of Americans thus are being deprived of new cars. Representative Patman said.
Mr. Truman proposed a $1,700.- 000,000 increase in social security taxes to be raised by lifting the present 1 per cent payroll tax to 11% per cent by July 1.
Museum Staff H Wolf Specimen
The museum of natural history has received an animal which may be one which K.U. zoologists have been looking for—a Kansas specimen of the red wolf.
Dr. Raymond Hall, head of the museum, said the red wolf ranges in the south and into Missouri. The museum staff believe some may have migrated into southeastern Kansas.
The animal was shot in Franklin county. It has been skinned and the skeleton is being processed for study. The fur has a slight reddish tinge and the animal weighed 47 pounds.
Dr. Hall said the animal is probably a cross between a dog and a boyote,
The Russian club will meet at 2 p.m. Friday at the home of Sam Anderson, instructor of Russian Russian tea will be served. All Russian language students and former students are invited to attend.
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