University Dailu Kansan
Monday, Oct. 4, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
O F THE U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
Parade Dances Through Town In Night Shirts
Continuous yelling, cheering, whistling, and singing were heard by upperclassmen and Lawrence citizens who watched the Nightshirt parade Oct. 1. "Beat Colorado" and "Rock Chalk" were popular yells and the songs "Alma Mater" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad" were echoed repeatedly through the streets.
A large searchlight lighted the route followed by the paraders. The University band came first followed by the cheerleaders and the Jay Janes. The freshmen were next, the men wearing paiamas and night-shirts, the girls with jeans and rite-
quills. Members of the Ku Ku cuh banked the ranks of the mar hers.
Then the word was passed from one freshman to another to "sit down on Massachusetts street." When the parade reached Massachusetts at 8:10 p.m. the Ku Kul formed the freshman into a single line for the snake dance so quickly that the threatened sit down strike on Massachusetts was apparently forgotten.
Cider and doughnuts were then served. A free theater ticket was given to those in costume.
The weaving columns of the snake dance moved fast and many had trouble holding on. They danced to South park where the celebrators surrounded a large bonfire. Coach J. V. Sikes and co-captains Hush Johnson and Frank Pattie spoke briefly before the crowd. They expressed appreciation of the students' support and gave assurance of hard hitting team this year.
At 11:15 the Granada was open to everyone. Prizes for the most outstanding costumes were awarded in the theater. Phil Lyman who wore a knee length girl's night gown with blue ribbons on it won the prize. Marilyn Ward and Marilyn Barr wore the most outstanding girls costumes and each won a prize of a book of theater tickets.
Nine Groups Want $2,108
Appropriations totaling $2,108 were requested by nine University organizations at a meeting of the All Student Council finance committee Oct. 2.
Final action on the requests will be taken by the A.S.C. after finance committee recommendations have been made. Organizations will be notified of the results of their requests in approximately two weeks. Organizations and amount of their requests are:
Y.M.C.A. $500
Y.W.C.A. 250
Alpha Phi Omega 410
International club 250
Mortar board 225
United World Federalists 125
Ku Ku's 98
K.U. Amateur Radio club 150
UNFCO 200
Federal Union has asked for an A.S.C. appropriation, but did not appear before the committee to have it considered.
A. S.C. finance committee members are Robert F. Bonnell, College sophomore, chairman; Theodore M. Utsochen, College junior; Wilma Shore, College sophomore; Donald L. Helm, College junior, and Alan K. Shearer, College sophomore.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair to partly cloudy today, tonight and tomorrow. Slightly warmer central and east today and extreme cast tomorrow. High today 75 cast to 85 woot.
Hugh Johnson (47) Kansas captain, closes in on Malcolm Miller, Colorado left halffback, as he gains around Kansas' right end in the opening quarter of Saturday's 40-7 rout. Bryan Sperry (28) and Dick Tomlinson (48) are also coming up as is Buff Harry Narcissian.
(University Daily Kansan Photo by Sam Jones)
Rock Chalk Co-op Spends Only $35 Monthly For Each Of The 12 Members
Rock Chalk co-op members spend $35 a month for each member.
"We think that we have solved the high cost of living problem," said D. Robert Campbell, temporary president. There are 12 University students in the co-op which is situated at 721 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Massachusetts.
Campbell, business senior, and Luther Buchele, graduate student, rented the nine-room apartment this fall. Friends and interested students quickly increased the membership to 12. Expenses are kept down by buying food in bulk under the direction of a purchasing agent.
A commission for freshman women unable to attend the afternoon meetings will be at 7 p.m. each Thursday at Henley house,
At first expenditures in both money and work were heavy. Five of the present group came to Lawrence before school started. They painted, papered, sanded and waxed. However, they do not plan on doing that work over again for some time. Eight men prepare meals and wash dishes each day while the other four do the household chores.
The Y.M.C.A. and the W.Y.C.A. will sponsor a game night October 15, in the recreation room of the Union.
YWCA To Elect President Thursday
Hilda James, College Senior, was nominated for president of the Y.W.C.A. at the cabinet meeting Friday. A special election will be held Thursday at Henley house. Members of the Y.W.C.A. may vote between 7:45 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Gordon S. Cummins, senior in business, was appointed treasurer of Student Union Activities Thursday by the Union Operating Board at the monthly meeting.
Cummings Is Treasurer
The office of president became vacant when Dorothy James resigned Sept. 24. They are not related.
Other Student Union Activity officers were appointed at an earlier meeting of the board.
Four study rooms, two dormitories, a living room, dining room, and kitchen make up the second floor apartment. On the average there are three men in each study room.
Rob Home WhileAtClass
More than $47 in cash was stolen from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Downnell L. Wright, 937 Mississippi Friday morning between 8:30 and 11:30 while the couple were attending classes.
Forty-five dollars was taken from a jewelry box in a dresser drawer, and more than two dollars was removed from a piggy-bank. The thief left three green Missouri mills in the bank.
Mr. Wright is an education junior. Mrs. Wright is an education senior and is secretary at the political science office.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright returned from class to find the drawers in every room ransacked.
Four Productions Planned For Year
Four major productions will be presented this year by the department of speech and drama, assisted by the University Players. Each play will run three or four nights in Fraser theater.
All of the productions appear on student activity tickets, which will have to be exchanged for reserved seats at the ticket office in the basement of Green Hall. The ticket office will be open four days before the first night's performance of each play.
Local Churches Fight Repeal
Three of Lawrence's Protestant clergymen are opposing this year's battle for the repeal of prohibition in Kansas. The wets have renewed their fight against the dry law for the first time since they were defeated in a similar test in 1934.
The Reverend H. M. Sippel, pastor of the First Christian church, definitely is opposed to repeal of the law. He used as his argument the fact, "Our present prohibition law has made Kansas a state with better workmanship and less absenteeism in its industries," he said. "Less liquor is consumed and you see fewer drunks on the streets than in the states with legalized liquor."
"I expect to vote, 'No,' because I am against more liquor in Kansas and I think that it what repeal will do," said the Reverend Theodore H. Aszman, of the First Presbyterian church.
The Reverend O. E. Allison, pastor of the Methodist church, feels that their prohibition law should not be repealed and said it is "absurd" to use as an argument the fact that repeal would bring more revenue to the state. He feels it is wrong to "undermine the morals of the people and public institutions for the sake of a few dollars revenue."
Reactivate Campus Fencing Club
The Fencing Club will arrange matches with other teams in the state, Raymond Garcia, assistant physical education instructor, said. The club has been reactivated for the first time since the war.
Beginning tomorrow, weekly meetings will be held in Robinson gymnasium with instruction in use of the foil, epee, and saber by members of the club. "We will' have a women's team if enough women join," Mr. Garcia said.
English Instructor Is Author Of Book On Wheat Country For Caldwell Series
William Bracke, instructor in English, is writing the 18th wook in a series entitled "American Folkways." Erskine Caldwell, novelist, is editing the series. The title of Mr. Bracke's forthcoming book is "Wheat Country."
During the Kansas Writers conference, recently sponsored by the University department of English, Mr. Caldwell interviewed Mr. Bracke and chose him to write the book.
Mr. Caldwell, author of the best-selling "Tobacco Road," "God's Little Acre," and other novels, became interested after reading Mr. Bracke's book reviews in the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Star-Times. He also read one of Mr. Bracke's short stories in "Sewanee Review."
After summer school, Mr. Bracke visited various communities in Kansas and obtained material for the book, which emphasizes folkways. The book will be finished in September. 1949
Three chapters of the book, which deal with Mennonites, prohibition, and a general description of the wheat country, have been completed. Subjects such as scandal, evaluation of schools, food, and the mores of the people will be covered.
Other books in the series include: Louis Bromfield's "Buckeye Country," Gertrude Atherton's "Golden Gate Country," and Stanley Vestal's "Short Grass Country."
Russia Threatens To Boycott UN Security Council
Paris Oct. 4—(UP)—Russia threatened to boycott the United Nations security council on the Berlin question today, but a United States delegate calmly replied that the Western powers would press their charges that Russian actions threaten the peace anyway.
Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky set the stage for a Russian boycott—rossobbly even another dramatic walkout such as that of 1946 over the Iranian issue—in a table pounding, arm-waving speech in which he asserted the security council has no right to intervene. American delegate Phillip Jessup quietly carried that:
"The Soviet government still refused to lift the blockade (of Berlin). The Berlin issue is still a threat to peace."
Vishinsky charged the Western powers with raising war fears, with trying to junk the Big Four foreign ministers council, with attempting "illegally" to bring the Berlin dispute before the council, with violating the U.N. charter and the Potsdam and Yalta agreements.
Jessup calmly answered that the latest note of the Soviet government suggesting a new meeting of the council of foreign ministers on the whole German question had not changed anything, in the security council.
In effect he rejected the Russian note, and he made clear that the Western powers had no intention of dropping their case against the Soviet Union.
Even as the two men spoke, secretary of State George C. Marshall was meeting with the British and French foreign ministers at the French foreign office to confirm their rejection of the Russian proposal, unless the Soviet blockade of Berlin is lifted unconditionally.
In two passages of his speech—a 22 minute tirade, eating all the now familiar Russian charges against the Western powers—Vishinsky made clear that he was warning the security council that Russia would boycott its consideration of the dispute.
"We shall not be a party to such violations."
Again, after explaining that he was not discussing the substance of the Berlin question, but merely procedural questions, he cried:
Asserting that inclusion of the issue on the agenda would violate international agreements, he shouted:
"And the Soviet government does not intend to deal with the substance of this matter because the security council does not have competence."
Extension Classes Break Records
Enrollment for extension courses offered by the University of Kansas is expected to exceed last year's total of 19,000. Classes have already started in several cities. The largest number of classes is in Kansas City which has 30 groups participating Wichita has 15 classes, Topeka, 14; and Leavenworth, 12. Both credit and non-credit courses are being held.
Gerald Pearson, director of extension courses, said interest is strongest among business and industrial groups. Courses are offered dealing with real estate, insurance, banking, industrial problems, supervision and personnel, safety problems, and classes for firemen, policemen, and other government agencies.