UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1948
PAGE EIGHT
NROTC Members Not Subject To Draft Call
Men in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps are not subject to draft into the armed forces as long as they are a part of the college training program, Capt. William R. Terrell, USN, commanding officer of the N.R.O.T.C. at the University said in an interview Wednesday.
Men in the N.R.O.T.C. are in two classifications, Captain Terrell continued. Those in the first group are men attending college on a scholarship basis and those in the second group are contract students. Their college curriculum is essentially the same as that of civilian students. They may major in the field of their choosing, but they must take 24 hours of naval science.
The scholarship students are chosen by competitive examinations on a quota system from each of the states according to population, Captain Terrell said. When they are graduated from college, they will be enrolled in the regular Navy. Their uniforms, tuition, fees, books, and $20, a month are furnished
The second group, added Captain Terrell, will be commissioned as reserve officers after they finish college. These students are furnished uniforms and books but they receive a subsistence allowance only during the last two years of college.
This new N.R.O.T.C. is designed to supplement the ranks of junior officers in the regular navy, as well as to provide enough reserve officers for adequate security. There are 180 men in N.R.O.T.C. at the University of Kansas; 103 of them are scholarship students.
Labor Scene Quiets Down
(By United Press)
A strike, which idled 100,000 workers in the automobile industry was settled today, and the government took preliminary steps to avert a possible walkout on the nation's railroads.
At Detroit, a state labor mediator announced the settlement of a strike of 170 plant guards at the Briggs Manufacturing company. The strike, which began Sept. 8, had led to the invoices of 100,000 workers, after Briggs C.I.O. auto workers refused to cross guards' picket lines, and other plants stopped production because they could not get auto bodies from Briggs.
The guards had sought increased overtime payment for time spent daily in changing into uniforms, and asked premium pay for Saturday and Sunday work. Briggs filed charges with the National Labor Relations board charging the United Plant guards, an independent group, with an illegal wildcat strike.
At Chicago, the national mediation board met in preliminary session with leaders of 16 unions representing one million non-operating employees of the nation's railroads. Negotiations between unions and management over union proposals for higher wages and shorter hours collapsed the past week, and the unions have ordered a strike vote. Such a walkout would not become effective for at least 90 days.
Make up examinations for placement tests I and II will be held on October 9 and 16, D. F. Harder, guidance counselor, said today. All students who failed to take the examinations on September 13 and 14, must take the tests on the announced dates.
Placement Tests To Be Repeated
Both examinations will be given at 2 p.m. on the stated Saturday afternoons in Frank Strong auditorium. Although no fee will be assessed for the first make up examinations, a fee of $1 will be assessed for each test taken after October 16, Mr. Harder said.
Asks If Dewey Will Show Files
Washington, Sept. 23—(UP)A house spy investigator today publicly challenged Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to say whether he will open the government's loyalty files to congressional inspection if he is elected president.
Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D.-La. said it is "only fair and proper that those of us who have been so critical of President Truman on these matters should know what position he (Dewey) will take."
At the same time, Mr. Hebert revealed a sharp split within the house un-American activities committee when he accused fellow members of putting politics ahead of national security in their current espionage investigation.
In perhaps the most bitter criticism ever directed at the committee by one of its members, Representative Hebert said, "it is a tragedy that politics has played such a large part in the committee's activities. Democrats and Republicans together have contributed. The Republicans want to keep in the headlines. They lose sight of the fact that the security of this nation is threatened."
Newman Club Plans Mixer
The Newman club, Catholic student group, will hold an open house party for all Catholic students in the basement of St. John's church, 1224 Kentucky, at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
The monthly breakfast meeting will be in the church basement immediately following the 10 o'clock Mass Sunday. Ellen Joyce Spurney, College junior, in charge of breakfasts and coffee clubs, said that all Catholic students will be welcome.
Another event will be a picnic at Holcomb's grove Sunday afternoon. Transportation will be furnished, said Leroy Steinke, social chairman, and students are to meet at the church at 3 p.m.
AAUW Membership Tea Will Be Given Saturday
A membership tea for wives of faculty members and graduate women students will be given by the Lawrence branch of the American Association of University women from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Corbin hall.
30,000,000 Horses Grazing At Ease; Place: KU Of The Future, Says Dr. Ise
During a lecture to his 11 a.m. economics class, Professor Ise said that the Sunflower state, along with four others, may be used for pasture land for horses someday.
Kansas may be facing a gloomy future in a few years, if the prediction of John Ise, veteran professor of economics, proves to be correct.
His reasoning went something like this:
"With our national supply of oil running low, oil may be manufactured synthetically from coal in a few years. This would force up the price of gasoline. Farmers then could not afford to buy gasoline for tractors They would revert to the use of horses for plowing fields, using 30 million horses."
Result: Five states the size of Kansas needed to produce feed for the 30 million additional horses.
Who-o-o, Who-o-o, Here Comes The Old Peters Lee
Each boat was a personality to the men who followed the river or just loafed along its shore.
Memphis—(UP)Most of the famous old Mississippi river boats have been scrapped, but to old-timers their memories linger on.
Probably the most distinguishing thing about each craft was its whistle.
no owner would think of sending a new packet to ply the Ohio or the Big Muddy without a beautifully-toned blaster.
Now, like the steamboats they once graced, the whistles and bells are gone from the scene, though many still are close to the river. They can be heard at cotton gins, lumber mills and steam powered plants, or calling hands to work on the big plantations.
Every man, woman and boy had a favorite whistle, and for Roscoe Coker of Caruthersville, Mo., it was the blaster on the old packet, the Peters Lee.
In a letter to Capt. Joe Curtis, veteran riverman and river columnist for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Coker said.
"We youngsters and many of the Negroes working on the plantation at my old home dubbed her "Hobo Pete. I first heard the big stern-wheeler called that one morning during cotton-pickling time.
"One morning I happened to hear the Peters Lee whistling down in a bend below the plantation. Half a dozen pickers also heard it, straightened up from their work to let out a sort of moaning yell. Most of those joining in were routers who had come to enjoy a few days picking cotton.
"Then, I heard a big fellow sing out in a sort of tune he just made up, 'Jes' keep singin' to me, Mistah Pete. When ah gits dis cotton pick', ah's gwine back to yo' an' stomp yo deck ag'in. Yo' is a hobo, Mistah Pete, an' a workhouse, but ah likes vo.'
The chief aim of the Associated Women students for the year will be to get women in unorganized houses to participate in campus activities.
Committees were organized in the various houses. They are: activities, counseling, house management, intramural, music, personnel, precinct, scholarship, and social committees.
This was stressed at the first meeting of the AWS Wednesday night. Brief talks by Margaret Habein, dean of women, Margaret Meeks, vice-president of AWS, and Hilda James, chairman of the president's council, highlighted the meeting.
Plans for the year include the freshman elections, a Halloween party, a careers conference, and a spring picnic.
Tot, an art student, was amazed at the survey among college and high school students in New York wherein 80 per cent of the girls voted for the flirt.
AWS To Urge Girls To Action
Winks And Whistles
A meeting for all students who have registered for Union Activities will be held at 7 p.m. today in Fraser hall. Plans for the Union carnival and "Homecoming" will be discussed and committees for the year organized.
Union Activities Meet Tonight In Fraser Hall
Washington. Sept. 23—(UP) -The man who called said four lovelies from George Washington university were willing to be interviewed on flirting.
"The other 20 per cent wish they had the nerve to say they do a little flirting, too. Even the wallflowers. And where would those poor souls be without flirting."
Dionne said she though the smile was the most important part of this flirting business. Billie and Janet both liked their definition of the perfect flirt;
"When you're out on a date and spot someone you'd like to dance with, be sweet to your boy friend," she said. "Make it look as if you think he's the most wonderful guy in the world. Wear that old smile—wax it if you have to. Others will notice your personality and you'll have all the dances you can handle. All because of the firt."
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Billie, a Spanish literature student, fingered her green earrings nervously in front of all those reporters and said sure, why not flirt? What's wrong with that?
Janet had her own ideas.
My tinter, it turned out, was reading the result of a survey made by United Artists in New York, among mothers and daughters, on the subject of flirting. It was the mothers who view the practice with alarm, not the girls.
The coeds were Billie Klapp, a 21-year-old senior, from Washington; Janet Glisson, also 21—a blonde—and also from Washington; Tot Weld, age 18, from Arlington, Va.; and Dionne Dalton, 19, of Arlington.
"Just so you show a little intelligence and don't overdo it. But to use the old-fashioned wink, or to whistle back at a whistle would be cheap," she said.
One that is cute, maybe even overdone—and just subtle enough
He whetted the appetite by saying he understood the gals thought such nonsense "dangerous." Turned out our man had misunderstood. The girls, from left to right, proved to be heartily in favor of a flirt here and there. to be constructive.
That doesn't stack up with Mr. Webster. He describes flirting· as "trifling amorously, etc."
to be sophisticated and still attract attention."
As for a good night kiss under the porch light—the girls varied a little in their opinion. One said her pappy always said never until the third date.
But all the rest eyed that young lady and said: "That all depends"
As for me, a lot depends on whether mama sees tonight's papers. One of those snoopy photographers caught me interviewing Tot Weld, cute in her red fall-new-looking-and-a half dress. The picture man had coached her to wink. flirtations-like
She did—right at me.
Newsmen Will Talk To Sigma Delta Chi
Bob Warner of International Press service and Kenneth Clark, '20 of the Associated Press, will speak at a Sigma Delta Chi professional meeting this evening at the Hearth.
The journalism fraternity held its first meeting of the year Wednesday. Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, was elected chapter advisor.
Newly appointed committee members are Wallace Abbey, Fred Kiewit and Jack Robinson, financial committee: Bill Barger, Bill Mayer, and Cooper Rollow, activities committee.
'Bubble Cap Tests' Shown At First AICE Meeting
A film on "Bubble Cap Tests" was shown at the first meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Wednesday.
Members of the chemical engineering staff and officers of the student chapter were introduced and a resume of the past year's activities was given. Iced tea and doughnuts were served to members and guests.
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