University Dailu Kansan
46th Year No.
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 1948
Lawrence. Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Debaters Argue: World Union Now Or Later
World government is a good idea, debating teams from the University and from England agreed in an international debate held Tuesday evening in Fraser theater.
World government is the only hope of peace because sovereignty is doing us no good, was the argument of Jean Moore, law student, and Kenneth Beasley, graduate in political science, in upholding the affirmative on the question of "Should a world government be established?"
Reginald Galer, University of Birmingham, and Anthony J. Cox, University of Bristol, who upheld the negative side of the debate, contended the establishment of a world government is highly impractical at this time.
Moore, on the affirmative, retaliated by saying, "Although there are differences between Americans, Britains, and Russians, they all want world government. The stable governments of the world should try to help the unstable ones."
"The United Nations is a good example of how long it might take to start an effective world governmental system. Because of political instability in Europe today, this is not the time to institute a world government."
The English debaters asserted that if world government is set up, it will be on a basis of population or geographic location. In either case, they argued, Russia and the large nations of the earth would be the most powerful.
The English debaters proposed regionalism instead of world government. They suggested a co-operation of the western powers, such as Great Britain and America. But the affirmative threw cold water on this suggestion by insisting that America and Great Britain could not solve the problems of the world.
powerful. In reply, the affirmative insisted that the set-up should be proportional representation, as in America.
The two men from England are making a two-month tour of the United States, and will debate at approximately 30 universities. They were selected to represent Great Britain from debators of 12 universities by the Institute of International Education.
WEATHER
Kansas—Considerable cloudiness today, tonight and Thursday, with a few snow flurries north tonight*
That Vacation Begins Nov. 23
Thanksgiving vacation will begin after the last class on Tuesday, Nov. 23. Classes will resume at 8 a.m. Monday, Nov. 29.
Cuts on the last class before a holiday will be treated as those from any other class, the office of the chancellor said.
Twenty-three days will elapse between the end of the Thanksgiving vacation and the start of Christmas vacation on Wednesday, Dec. 22. Christmas vacation ends Monday, Jan. 3.
University Senate Picks Secretary
Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, associate professor of chemistry, was elected secretary of the University senate Tuesday. Dr. George Anderson was named associate secretary.
Chairmen and members of the senate's standing committees were ratified.
Responsibility for examining applications for new courses for possible duplication with existing courses was transferred from the senate's advisory committee to the graduate administrative committee for courses carrying graduate credit.
The advisory committee, with Dr E. O. Stene as chairman, was also authorized to prepare a systematic compilation of the senate rules and regulations.
The senate approved a detailed schedule for the fall semester final examination week, Jan. 20 to 27. The schedule, submitted by James K. Hitt, registrar, follows the same pattern existing since the war. No examination period will be longer than two hours.
Secret Formula For Beating Parleys Requires Willing Subject And Hypnotist
Three Will Present Recital Tomorrow
Mr. Hitt said testing periods could not be lengthened until noon, 4 and 5 o'clock classes were eliminated or the final week lengthened.
Three fine arts students will appear in the weekly student recital at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium.
Florence Oberg, pianist, will play "Mazurka" by Hasselmann. Mary Lynn Lucas will sing the aria "Connais-ta le le-pays" from "Mignon" by Amboise Thomas, and Freeman Oglesby, pianist, will play three movements from "Sonata Op. 27, No 1" by Beethoven.
This statement can be verified by the personal experience of Calvin VanderWerf, associate professor of chemistry, who won WREN<sup>3</sup> weekly football forecast contest by predicting the final score of the game between KJL and Oklahoma A. and M.
Hypnosis has a practical application which would enable a person to make a sure thing of such an unpredictable gamble as football parley cards.
Professor VanderWerf was in Philadelphia to attend a conference called by Smith, Kline, French and Company, a pharmaceutical firm. The conference was attended by approximately 30 other chemists, Professor VanderWerf said.
"After the conference," he continued, "we attended the dedication ceremonies for a recently completed chemical research laboratory building erected by the company. At a banquet afterwards, a well-known hypnotist was brought in to entertain us. He called for volunteers, and stepped forward."
Thus benefited by the phenomenon of hypnosis, Mr. VanderWerf sent his prediction to WREN. That Saturday he was awarded two tickets for dinner at a well-known restaurant in Topeka after K.U. took a 13 to 7 victory.
While hypnotized, the professor was asked what the scores of several football games would be. This was Friday, October 22. The following Sunday he was sitting in the train station in St. Louis when he remembered his guess on the outcome of the K.U. game.
144 Students Receive ROTC Appointments
One hundred forty-four students have earned cadet officer and noncommissioned officer appointments, Col. John Alfrery, commandant of the University Reserve Officers Training corps, announced Tuesday.
Platoon commanding officers are: Russell N. Barrett, John C. Monroe, and Edmond M. Strikyle, Company B; Chester L. Gillber, F. Buchholz, Company B; Platoon sergeants are: Thomas R. Franklin, Leland M. Srack, and Robert E. Krusch, Company B; L. Gibber and Edward J. McGillin, Company B. Platoon guides are: Thomas C. Sweet, Kenneth E. Carder, and Rob A. Krosch, Company A: Hugh A. Neidert and Tom P. Gallagher Jr., Company B.
Students commissioned in the ground forces battalion are: Grant H. Vonder-OBrian Jr., battalion executive; John Fencyk, commanding officer Company A; Robert E. Barnard, commanding officer Company A; Fred S. Jones, commanding officer Company B; James J. Jones, exECSTrom, commanding officer Company B; James E. Kestrom, first sergeant; Company B
Company A. squand leaders are: Homer M. Pinkard, Evan K. Wilson, Richard H. Lamb, James A., McKeen, Dannie E, Stueb William H. Edmonson, Guy R. Parkhurst, John C. Atherton, Joe Bailey, and Richier Robert D. Howard, Julian R. Robert, D. Howard, Julian R. Johnston, Clarence W. Gordon, Harley E. Webb, Jack D. Gillman, Myron M. Thomson, Thomas A. Lowe, Michael T. Thomas C. White III, William T. Skaggs, Wayne E. Beecher, and John C. Ward.
Company B squad leaders are: Addison D. Carr, Carl P. Trotter Jr., Roy E. Stephens, Theodore W. Clemens, and Max F. Mulek, Johnny J. Stang, and Max F. Pachl. Assistant squad leaders: Clinton E. Henderson, Rahb G. Henley, Howard A.ermi' 'ormi'
Johnson G. Gassmann, Robert C. Bransfield, Joseph W. Boyd III, and Theodore C. Finkeimer.
Students appointed to Air Force cadet commissions are: Hal D. Nelson, group commander, Arthur A. Clevergen, group executive, Clemeth M. Abercrombie, executive, A. Abercrombie, commander Squadron A, Walter J. Michaelis, executive, squadron A, Roy Twist Jr., first sergeant, squadron A, Julian F. Been, commander, Squadron B, Coldswain, executive, Squadron B and Walcock Y. Coakum, first sergeant, squadron B
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Flight leaders are: Larry L. Funk, Eugene Bribach, and Hubert E. Strecker, squadron A; James A. Seelbinder, Jack B. Prignon, David D. Poehler, B. Assistant flight leaders are: Richard N. Getty, Robert M. Reigle, Charles W. Soieth, Paul R. Goddard, Robert B. York, and Joe C. Schoenberg, are: Boby D. Collison, Frank W. Korber, Roland Brunelle, Robert S. Clark, Charles K. Hinshaw, and Dale S. Romig, Flight guides. Eugene P. Porrey, Robert J. Parrish, Robert A. Parrish, Lester J. Schulte, and Francis E. Jones.
Element leaders are: Richard C. Beach,
James L. Baskie, James D. McBride, James
J. Bowman, Robert P. Carr, Howard E. Wurk-
rich, Richard L. Black, Charles L. Duvall,
Philip G. Williams, and George B. Kroos-
nig, Squadrion A. Wendell, Wendell V. Showalter,
Gordon Offenbacker, Gareid Webb, William
L. Worford, Earnest L. Elliot, Frank A.
Laubrock, David O. Cochran, and James
L. Eatmore, Squadrion B.
Two-Piano Recital To Be At 8 Tonight
Miss Marian Jersild, instructor in piano, and Miss Katherine Mulky instructor in organ and theory, will present a two-piano recital at 8 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium.
Assistant element leaders are: Harry R. Hurry Jr., Keith D. Wimmer, George Knighton Jr., William Stringer, Philip H. Stearns, David D. Maul, Donald H. Gordon, James L. Beaton, Joseph B. Murphy, and August F. Strateemie. Squadron A; William V. Winstel, Leander C; R. Stoffer, Charles E. Dutton, James F. Hastings, R. G. Haskins, Virgil C. Pieper, E. Ellis III, Frank W. Martin, and Walter R. Stockbrand, Squadron B.
They will play "Sheep May Safear from 'Suite' (Mozart), arranged by Graze" (Bach); four movement Saar; "Piece for Two Virginals" (Farnaby); "Allemande" (Couperin); "Les Songes" (Milhaud); and four movements from "Suite No. 2" (Rachmaninoff).
New Directories Ready Tomorrow
The first edition of the new student directories will be available at 8 a.m. tomorrow at the Union book store.
Two thousand directories have arrived and will be given out on at first-come, first-served basis. Students must present their activity books for stamping. Only one book will be given a student.
Shipping difficulties delayed arrival of the directory about three days. Another shipment is expected by Wednesday, Nov. 17.
GI Insurance Rebate Planned
Washington, Nov. 10—(UP)—The Veterans administration will disclose soon, possibly within two weeks, plans to split a vast insurance "kitty" among 16 million veterans of World War II.
The agency meantime has pinned a top secret label on the size of the fund built up because national service life insurance premiums proved higher than necessary to offset actual deaths.
The veterans agency has determined after more than six months' exacting work how much of its seven billion dollar insurance reserve can safely be kicked back in dividends, it was learned.
Best guess was it will run close to two billion dollars. Every G.I. who bought government life insurance—and almost every one did—will his cut. Payments probably will be made late in 1949.
An agency spokesman said the decision probably will be made pub-lice within two weeks. However, the job of figuring each policy holder's cut is so complicated no checks will go out for a year.
A total of 19½ million policies have been written so far, and the number is still growing slowly. (Some veterans have held more than one policy). The rebate on each must be figured separately.
Men who went into service early and young, and who kept their policies, can look for the biggest cuts, experts reported. Some checks may run as high as $250. Others will be too small to matter.
Bacteriology Club Hears Immunology History Review
Dr. N, P. Sherwood, chairman of the department of bacteriology reviewed the history of immunology at the Bacteriology club meeting Tuesday.
He cited the work of various contributors and told about some of his own research projects. Slids were used to illustrate his points.
Student-Advisor Talks To Start Monday, Nov. 15
All College freshman and sopno-mores are expected to confer with their faculty advisors during the mid-semester advising period Monday, Nov. 15, through Thursday, Nov. 18, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College said today.
A list of advisors, their office numbers, and the hours they will be available for conferences will be posted on the bulletin board in the hall opposite the College office, 229 Frank Strong.
"If there is a conflict, the student should make an appointment with his advisor." Dean Ulmer said. "During this four-day period the advisors will have practically all the records which the College has on its students. This enables the student and the advisor to go over not only unsatisfactory reports, but also academic requirements, choice of subjects for next semester, and choice of majors."
Organizations that want reports on freshman and sophomore members who are doing unsatisfactory work must obtain those reports from the advisors, the dean said. For unsatisfactory reports on juniors and seniors the organization should submit an alphabetical list of members enrolled in the College to the College office.
"Copies of the unsatisfactory reports, D and F grades, will be sent to parents," Dean Ulmer added. "Some of the older, married students may want these reports withheld. If so, a request may be signed in the College office. These reports will not be sent to parents until after the advising period."
Dean Ulmer advised students to see their advisors early as there is always a rush near the end.
ISA Will Meet Dec.11
A state conference of independent student associations will be held at the University Saturday, Dec. 11. I.S.A. representatives from K-State, Emporia, Wichita, Baker and other schools are expected to attend.
It was decided at a council meeting Tuesday that discussion on the question whether or not I.S.A. should enter campus politics would begin at its next meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 16. If I.S.A. should enter politics, arrangement would be made for forums preceding All Student Council meetings. These forums will take up independent student matters to be placed before the A.S.C.
Two Former Students Now Working As Security Force Guards In France
Could Tallyrand, prime minister of Napoleon I revisit his favorite mansion today he might be challenged by two former K.U. students.
These guards, Wendell Gugler and Neal Ball were students here last year. They have been hired by the E.A.A. (Marshall plan) security force. They work at the main European headquarters which is the old palace of Tallyrand. Some of the fifty workmen remodeling the palace are Communists. Since they will do anything to retard the Marshall plan, Gugler and Ball have been stationed as guards to prevent incidents.
In describing the palace Gugler writes: "It's a magnificent place with a huge countyyard and rooms all done in gold gilt, paintings' and
tapestries. The rooms are filled with chandeliers and other antiques. There are hidden doors and stairways in abundance—about ten in all."
The hours of work are from 4 p.m. til midnight which leaves their days free. During this time the two go to U.N. conferences, and study French. Concerning their life there Gugler writes: "We live like kings. We have a two-room apartment with bath—all taken care of by a maid. we get our food and cigarettes from the army and the Embassy commissary for almost nothing (for example, cigarettes nine cents a pack.)"
Eventually the youth intend to return to K.U.