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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1948
Union Functions To Be Published For Students
Bv GERALD FETTEROLF
BY GERALD FETTEROLF The Union operating committee is gathering material to publish a booklet to explain the organization, membership, and functions of the committee and the Union building.
"The booklet will be ready to give to the students at enrollment time next fall at the latest, but if possible, it will be ready by the Spring semester." Ogden S. Jones, chairman of the committee, said today.
A report explaining the purpose and function of the student-fee fund was given to the committee Wednesday by Karl Klooz, University bursar. Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, talked on the history of the Union, and discussed the building of the Palm room.
"The student members of the operating committee took a greater part in discussions at this meeting than formerly." Mr. Jones said. "It was very gratifying to the faculty members, because the students have a definite reason for being on the committee. It is their responsibility as much as that of the faculty members, to see that the group functions as it should."
Mr. Jones said that the entire committee endorsed the plan of beginning new additions to the Union as soon as possible. Facilities should be increased to alleviate overcrowded conditions and to give better service to the students, he added.
ter service to the students, he committee Dean Woodruff told the committee that the income from the Navy training program during the war gave about $40,000 toward the cost of new kitchen equipment. The students in the college training program of the navy had their meals paid for at the Union, and after the program was over the navy helped to redecorate the building.
He also explained that the high cost of the Palm room addition was caused by the high cost of building material and structural steel. The Palm room was built on a priority basis during the war, Dean Woodruff said. It could be built only as a dining room space. Another factor in the high cost of the addition was the need to dig deeply for footings and to build the walls so that additional stories may be added, he said.
In explaining the method in which the student fee fund was kept, Mr. Klooz said that a legislative act allows the University to collect $5 a semester from each student. The fees are deposited in the state treasury. In the event that operating costs exceed the income from rentals, and food service, the fee fund may be used.
"The operating committee hopes that the fee fund may be allowed to increase as rapidly as possible so that it will be in a better position for any bond issue that will be required when another building program gets under way," Mr. Jones said.
The operating committee is composed of three members appointed by the alumni association, five faculty members appointed by the chancellor, a student president of the Union activities board, and eight students appointed by the All Student Council. The president, the secretary of the All Student Council and the Union director are members but do not have a vote, he said.
Present faculty members are Dean Woodruff, George M. Beal, professor of architecture; Mr. Klooz, Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; Howard F. Stettler, assistant professor of accounting; the Rev. Edwin F. Price, director of the Wesley foundation; Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association; Miss Hermina Zipple, Union director, and Mr. Jones.
Student members are Dorothy Scroggy, Pat Theissen, Wilbur Noble, College seniors; Bernard Nagle, engineering senior; Benjamin D. Craig, Don T. Helm, business juniors, and Evans J. Francis, Lorraine Ross, and Alan K. Shearer, College sophomores.
Talent Show Will Hold Tryouts
If you can dance, sing, play a musical instrument, or present a comical skit, you may join the talent show. The show will travel to Wadsworth, Kan., to perform for the veterans at the hospital.
Tryouts for the show will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 1, Frank Strong auditorium. Chris Alexander, College freshman, who was master of ceremonies at the Homecoming dance Oct. 23, is organizer of the show.
Of the twelve acts planned, six have been arranged. There will be one main show at the hospital and smaller shows for the various wards.
The date of the show has not been announced.
Recording Ban May Be Lifted
New York, Oct. 28—(UP)—A five-year agreement was reported today to have been reached between the American Federation of Musicians (A.F.L.) and the major record companies to end the 10-month ban on the manufacture of new disks.
Attorneys for the companies were said to have drawn up a new five-year contract with James C. Petrillo, A.F.M. president, that will be submitted within a few days to the justice department for final approval under the Taft-Hartley labor law.
The companies, RCA-Victor, Decca, Columbia, Mercury, Capitol, M-G-M, and King, were understood to be ready to begin making new popular and classical records the moment the contract has been approved and signed.
The controversial part of the agreement to be submitted to Washington concerned the royalty fund into which the companies will pay a fee from the sale of every record. Under the plan it will be administered by an "impartial" trustee.
Faculty Will Hold Forums
Six faculty members will conduct a series of informal forums sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. during November and December.
The general theme of the discussions is "Freedom and Order." The talkls are at noon Wednesdays in the English room of the Union.
Dr. Walter E. Sandellus, professor of political science, spoke on "Christianity and Communism" at the first forum Wednesday.
Subjects and moderators of future meetings, all on Wednesdays, are "Free Enterprise and Economic Planning," by Russell H. Barrett, political science instructor, Nov. 3; "Political Freedom and Social Responsibility," E. Jackson Bauer, assistant professor of sociology, Nev. 10; "Individual and Propaganda," Rhoten Smith, research assistant in the bureau of governmental research, Nov. 17; "Man and the Atom," William Argersinger, assistant chemistry professor, Dec. 1; "Morality and Human Drives," Parke H. Woodard, associate professor of physiology, Wednesday, Dec. 8; "Freedom and Discipline in the Church," D. Ned Linegar, Y.M.C.A. secretary, Dec. 15.
Members of the committee who planned the series of forums are Mr. Smith, Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Linegar.
Dances of other lands will be featured at a meeting of the International club at 7:30 p.m. today in the ballroom of the Union.
International Club To Meet Tonight
Also on the program are talks by J. Vaughn Grimm, College senior, whose subject is "The Importance of Foreign Students to the University," and by Marjorie Lee Crane, College sophomore.
Refreshments will be served and membership cards distributed.
KU Democrats Hear Candidate For Governor
Randolph Carpenter, Democratic candidate for governor of Kansas, told an audience Wednesday at a Democratic rally at the Community building that prohibition repeal is necessary if we are to control liquor violations.
The rally was sponsored in part by the University Young Democrats.
Mr. Carpenter then said, "I am speaking primarily to the younger people and K.U. students on this subject, since younger people are going to take over the government."
"I am dry, but I am for repeal." Mr. Carpenter said. "If I were a wet, I would want Kansas to remain just as it is now," he said.
He then emphasized this statement by saying that while he was district attorney, he found it impossible to get many convictions on bootleggers. "After waiting for weeks to catch bootleggers crossing the border, defendants went to trial only to be released by a jury whose members were their customers."
"The only way to make prohibition work in Kansas would be to call out the national guard, the army, and navy," Mr. Carpenter said.
said.
He said, "The Democratic party's platform could be summarized in five words—we will do our best."
Other speakers introduced by Dr Harold W. Guest of Baker university were: Philip A. Dergance, candidate for congress from the second district; Bruce Wilder, College junior, candidate for state representative from the 12th district; and Glenn L. Kappelman, '48, candidate for county treasurer.
Mr. Dergance said that, if elected, he would support farm price parity; support an expanded soil conservation and flood control program; and support an expanded rural electrification program. He also said that the record of his opponent has shown that he voted against the Marshall plan and against appropriations for soil conservation and flood control. In this respect, Mr. Dergance said his opponent was a strong isolationist who wished to turn back to the policies of the early 1930's.
Two Pneumonia Patients Show Favorable Progress
Brien Patrick James, College freshman and Joseph R. Brooks, junior, pneumonia patients in Watkins hospital, are making satisfactory progress, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of University Health service, reported today.
Listeners Urged To Send Questions
Miss Mildred Seaman, program director of KFKU radio station said Wednesday that the K.U. Brainbusters program is running short of questions.
All listeners are invited to send in their favorite "brainbuster" question, Miss Seaman said. Questions may be about, philosophy, history, music, art, economics, the stage, literature, or current national or international affairs. Questions are documented by a board of faculty members, Miss Seaman said.
Seaman "sale"
The "Brain Trusts," for the show
Monday Nov. 1, will be Robert W.
Stallman, assistant professor of
English, Orville Robert, instructor
of speech, and Emil L. Telfel, assistant professor of journalism.
Professor Telfel is heard regularly on the program. The other two members change each week.
'US Britain Seeking War'
Moscow, Oct. 28—(By Telephone to London)—(UP)-Premier Josef Stalin today accused the United States and Great Britain of seeking a new war through a "policy of aggression."
Replying to a questionnaire from the Russian official newspaper Pravda, the Communist leader said the British and Americans declared "null and void" an agreement reached in the Kremlin conferences Aug. 30 which would have settled the Berlin crisis.
He charged that the Western powers put on a "display of aggression" in United Nations Security council debate on the Berlin question, and once again at that time rejected an agreement with Russia which would have resulted in lifting the Soviet blockade of Berlin.
Today's reply to the Pravda questions was Mr. Stalin's first important statement of Russian policy since May 17.
At that time, he endorsed a program outlined by third party presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace as a "good and fruitful basis" for discussion and settlement of differences between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Sunflower VFW To Have Mixer Friday Night
The Sunflower V.F.W. will have an informal "mixer" for members and wives Friday night from 8 to 10 at the clubhouse.
Free refreshments will be served, David Dailey, post commander, said Wednesday. The party is to give new members a chance to become acquainted.
'Gunpowder Women The Dangerous Kind,' Says Mrs. Calderwood
Women can be divided into three classes, Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, English instructor, said Wednesday at the all-membership meeting of the Y.W.C.A. The three classes are the strong women with talent, the domestic women, and the "gun powder" women, she said.
The women with talent want to be scientists, artists, and musicians. The domestic women are satisfied to stay in the home and pay little attention to public affairs. The "gun powder" women are dissatisfied, lonely and restless. Because of this, they are the dangerous women, Mrs. Calderwood said.
"Most of the women of today fall into the 'gun powder' group. They are the unhappy women," she said.
These women are well protected. They do not have to earn money. They have a normal interest in their homes and read just enough to keep on the fringe of public affairs. All their husbands ask of them is that they look pretty on a small amount of money and that they run the home smoothly, Mrs. Calderwood said.
"Insecurity would be a wonderful tonic for these women, for they would have to fight for their places in the world," she said. "Today there is no challenge of competition for women. Few women have become great in any field—science, art, music, or literature.
"The woman of today has reached college. But after graduation there is little for her to do but go back into the home," she said. "The curriculum is set up for men and the women can either take it or leave it."
"The women must change their attitude toward men," she said. "They must fight for their place in the arts. A college curriculum set up for women would help greatly," Mrs. Calderwood said.
6 Nations Ask Action Against Israel War Gains
By UNITED PRESS
Britain and China asked the Security council today to consider economic and diplomatic sanctions against Israel unless she gives up Beersheba and other newly-captured territory in Southern Palestine.
The United States, Canada, France and Belgium announced their support of the proposal at the Security council meeting in Paris. Russia asked more time to consider it.
Jacob Malik of Russia said he thought it might be premature to take such drastic steps because quiet has already been restored in the dis-puted Negev area of Southern Palestine.
The Anglo - Chinese proposal would require both Arabs and Jews to return to the positions they held Oct. 14. Only the Jews have improved their positions since then, taking Beersheba, capital of the Negev, and opening a supply corridor to their isolated settlements farther south.
south.
In Tel Aviv, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok invited Egypt to peace talks designed to settle all outstanding differences between the countries. Israeli authorities also reported that Egyptian troops in the Negev are surrendering in wholesale lots.
Other Foreign News
Paris—French troops and security guards moved into the important Pas de Calais coal basin at dawn and took over seven large coal mines without opposition. The government has expelled from the country 50 foreign miners who have been participating in the three-week-old strike of 350,000 miners.
Berlin—The official Soviet army newspaper indicated Russia will reject the Western offer to settle the Berlin blockade crisis outside the United Nations on the basis of the same formula vetod by the Soviets in the Security council. The newspaper said the formula was dictated by the United States and was "completely unacceptable" to Russia. The Soviet blockade of Berlin will continue until the Russian mark is made the sole currency in Berlin, it said.
Nuerberg, Germany—An American military court convicted eight German generals of carrying out Hitler's orders for murder and illtreatment of prisoners and the civilian population of countries over run by the Germans. They will sentenced later today.
Paris—Talks on the North Atlantic Security pact are sufficiently advanced so that it may be signed by next spring. It would link the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in an unprecedented peace-time alliance.
Republicans Rally Today In Green
Congressman incumbent Errett Scrivner and three other local Republican candidates will speak before the Young Republican club in 106 Green hall at 4:30 p.m. today. Dolph Simons, president of the group, said.
The other candidates to speak include Melvin Miller, for county treasurer; George Melvin, for state senator from Douglas and Jefferson counties; and Charles D. Stough, running for state representative from this district.
Committees to aid in the election will also be formed, Simons said.
No Questions Asked
Idaho City, Idaho—(UP)—A back issue of the Idaho World printed in the old gun-toting days of the West shows this ad written by Editor Jud Boyakin: "Stolen from this office—one revolver. Whoever returns it will be given its content and no questions asked."
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