UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948
Regents Approve 1948-49 Budget Of $4,659,119
The state board of regents Saturday approved a budget of $4,659,119 for operating expenses and salaries for the University for 1948-49. This is an increase of $543,667 over last year.
The total budget allowed for Kansas colleges and schools is $15,144,047 This represents an increase of 8.2 per cent.
The University medical department was allowed $2,135,711. This is an increase of $161,696. New equipment, an expanded research program, plus rising salaries will take care of most of this increase.
Most of this increase will be used to meet salary boosts and the cost of hiring additional teachers. At the University, the salary increases average 3 per cent.
The largest salary increase will amount to an 8 per cent rise for the faculty members of Kansas State. Regents said that this increase would bring salaries there to a level with those over the state.
Truman Makes Cabinet Change
Washington, May 24—(UP)—Pres. ident Truman today nominated Charles F. Branman, assistant secretary of agriculture, to succeed Clinton P. Anderson as secretary.
Mr. Anderson left the cabinet early this month to seek the Democratic U.S. senatorial nomination from New Mexico.
Mr. Brannan, 44, has been assistant secretary since June, 1944. He is a native of Denver.
Others who had figured in speculation as to Mr. Anderson's successor included undersecretary Norris E Dodd and Rep. John W. Flannagan Jr. (D-Va). A congressional delegation recently had urged that Mr. Truman nominate Mr. Flannagan.
Rimalah Ismail
Mr. Dodd has been named to the World Food organization and will take over that job next fall.
This Door Stops All Fires, See
Washington-(UP)-You install this door, see.
Then maybe a bolt of lightning hits your house. Or mice get into the matches.
Anyway, a fire gets started. You're sound asleep, but everything's all right—you've got this door.
It has a cable hitched to it in a certain way. Hanging from the cable are some weights.
The fire burns through the cable. The weights fall. In so doing they release a plunger.
release a plunger.
The plunger opens the door. Simultaneously, it shoots off some blank cartridges. You wake up.
The fire-alarm door is the invention of Eugene Elsworth of Union Church, Miss.
The government gave him a patent on it.
Prices Go Up As Strike Ends
Chicago, May 24- (UP) - Partial settlement of the prolonged meat packing strike sent hog prices booming upward today.
CLO. packinghouse workers returned to their jobs this morning at three of the meat industry's big four packing firms after 67 days on strike.
Opening hag prices at Chicago were $1 a hundred pounds higher. At St. Louis they were up $1.50 to $3.
The big packers were buying more animals for slaughter in plants which previously had been struck.
Farmers sent the heaviest cattle shipment to market since March 8 eight days before the strike began.
eight days before the strike Hog ships today totaled 76,-600, compared with 77,000 last Monday. Favorable weather kept many farmers in the fields and prevented them from shipping hogs.
About 70,000 employees of the Swift, Armour, and Cudahy packing companies and 10,000 workers at independent firms were set to resume work in plants they struck March 16th.
Pickets continued to parade before Wilson and company plants, however. The union continued the strike against Wilson because the firm refused to arbitrate cases where strikers were fired for illegal acts.
14 Out Of 20 Want The 'Bird' But Louder And Funnier
The Bitter Bird should be continued next year according to 14 out of 20 students interviewed by the University Daily Kansan. Five students were opposed to its publication and one student was indifferent.
Darrel R. Worf, College freshman, suggested that the editors have more personality sketches on students features on styles, and a column about interesting alumni.
students who favored the Bitter Bird publication did not think with the Jayhawker. Several students offered suggestions the humor magazine.
Robert Lee Clore, business junior, said, "Make it crude. Everyone enjoys crude humor whether they like to admit it or not. Why don't the publishers dig up some jokes on
Ralph O. Winter, engineering junior,
James M. Handley, freshman,
Shirley Lindey, College junior,
Leo J. Tolle, business senior,
all favor publishing the Bitter Bird next
year in its present form.
Margerie Lee Hampton, College sophomore, admitted that she enjoyed reading the magazine. She suggested that the management try using Bibler's cartoons next year in the magazine.
Eugene Cooper, college freshman, and Lew V. Coats, sophomore, said, "As long as the management keeps the humor objective in mind the magazine will be successful."
Thomas Alexander, College senior,
said, "Why don't they make the Jay-
hawker a one-issue magazine and
modify the Bitter Bird?"
J. Philip Singer, and George Johnson, engineering seniors, and Robert Meacham, College freshman, believed that the jokes should be "toned down," but that the general ideal of the magazine was all right.
Beatrice Kasha, College senior, said, "It seems like our morals here at the University have fallen down if we have to print dirty jokes in our humor magazine in order to sell it Reform the Bitter Bird. There are lots of good clean jokes, that are funny."
faculty members?"
Joan Jay, graduate student, said, "It doesn't make any difference to me whether or not they publish the magazine again next year. I think the students could very well live without it."
Leon Lee, College freshman, thinks that the Jayhawker takes the place of a humor magazine and so the campus does not need the Bitter Bird.
Dale "Red" Beuthien, College junior, said that he thought the magazine ought to be "cleaned up" or banned from the campus.
US May Accuse Arab States Of Aggression
Christine Jean Mann, College junior, and Neal Bird, engineering junior, agreed that the magazine should not be published next year because there seemed to be no particular purpose for it on the campus.
Lake Success, N.Y., May 25—(UP) The United States was prepared today to press for branding the Arabs as international aggressors if the 11 a.m. deadline set by the United Nations security council passes without a ceasefire order from Arab leaders.
The United Nations, encouraged by the new state of Israel's acceptance of the security council true appeal in the Palestine conflict, waited anxiously for the Arabs' answer.
zThe Israeli government ordered a provisional ceasefire in the Palestine war for 10 a.m. today but Cairo dispatches indicated the Arabs were demanding complete Jewish surrender as their price to end the shooting.
suffoding. The Israeli government ordered on the provision that the Arabs do the same, was issued in response to Saturday's appeal by the United Nations security council for both sides to stop the fighting within 36 hours from midnight Saturday.
Reliable sources said today the seven nations of the Arab league would seek an extension of the deadline.
Arab forces continued to make important gains in the 12-day-old battle for Jerusalem while the ceasefire negotiations went on. The Arab high command in Amman said that Egyptian and Arab Legion troops, which linked up at Bethlehem last week, stormed and captured Ramat Rachel in the southern suburbs of Jerusalem.
Ramat Rachel, the site of Rachel's tomb, is about three miles south of Jerusalem on the road to Bethlehem. Jewish sources admitted there was heavy fighting there but claimed the Arabs had been repulsed.
The Jerusalem Jewish community of 100,000 was reported in serious plight, short of water, short of food, battered by shellfire and raked by snipers' bullets.
University Players Present 2 Plays
The University Players presented two one-act Saroyan plays in Fraser theater May 21.
The plot of "The Hungerers" centered on starvation. Each member of the cast represented a person who was very hungry and unable to secure food. Each tried to get food but failed and died of hunger.
"Comin' Through the Rye" involved metaphysical ramblings taking place in a waiting room where people were waiting to be born. Although unborn, each character was in the form he would be on the day he died. The dialogue was between people of different ages, discussing whether they wanted to be born.
The cast was Milton Commons, Gwendolyn Jones, Loren Orr, Mary K. Booth, and Dan Palmquist. The play was directed by Tom Rea.
The cast was Tom Shay; Harry Patterson, a student from Oread High school; Mary K. Booth, Milton Commons, and Tom Rea. The director was Dan Palmquist.
Both plays were presented with a minimum of scenery and lighting.
Davis Predicts World Government
A world government will someday rule this "little planet," Robert M. Davis, professor of law, told the American Society of Tool Engineers Friday.
"Technology has changed the whole world economically, culturally, socially, and politically. Engineering made it possible for peoples to become neighbors. We have no other choice."
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ward Osburn, chairman of the Kansas City A.S.T.E.; Prof. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mrs. Davis, Prof. and Mrs. Kenneth Rose, Prof. Arthur Paul, and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wheeler.
The senior announcements will not be ready until Thursday Harold Swartz, auditor of student affairs, said this morning.
Senior Announcements Delayed by Labor Trouble
Originally scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the announcement have been delayed by labor trouble, he said.
Delta Sigma Rho Elects Friesen
Hal M. Friesen, business junior,
was elected president and five men
were initiated at the annual Delta Sigma Rho banquet Saturday in green hall. Delta Sigma Rho is an honorary debate fraternity.
Other officers elected were Edward L. Stollenwerck, vice-president, and Keith E. Wilson, secretary-treasurer.
The new initiates are Stollwerck, Ernest C. Friesen, Ralph Peacock, Aldo G. Aliotti, and Richard L. Schiefelbusch, instructor in speech. Prof. E. C. Buehler, national president of the fraternity, said the new members were selected from the debate squad. Mr. Schiefelbusch is a member-at-large.
Professor Buehler said the freshman debate squad this year has won 44 debates and lost only one. The record for the 18-man University debate team, which has taken part in 11 tournaments, is 103 won and 21 lost.
Professor Buehler added that taking part in speech contests helps students develop
Father Asks For Information In Son's Death
An advertisement appears in today's University Daily Kansan offering a reward for information concerning the death of Clifford O. Kaarbo, University student, who lost his life in the Kaw river Jan. 19, 1947.
O. O. Kaarbo, 137 North Courtland street, Topeka, father of the student, is offering the reward for information that will put his mind at ease about his son's death.
Dr. R. A. Clark, county coroner, found no evidence of external injury or violence, and placed the cause of death as accidental. Clark said that Kaarbo evidently jumped off the bridge to commit suicide, but changed his mind.
There is a missing link between the time Kaarbo left the fraternity house and the time he was discovered in the river.
Early on the morning of Jan. 19, 1947, Kaarbo told his fraternity brothers at Triangle house that he was going downstairs to close the front door. He was not heard of again until he was found crying for help in the river near the Massachusetts street bridge.
Many of Kaarbo's friends cannot believe that his death was a suicide. Fraternity brothers had noticed no signs of despondency, and described Kaarbo as a "very good student."
The Spirit Of The 1800's Lives Again As The Square Dance Reigns Supreme
Long skirts, buttoned shoes, the square dance—they've all come back to plague or enchant us, depending upon personal tastes.
The University campus has been conscious of long skirts for some time. Button shoes should be appearing shortly. And a Square Dance club is reviving interest in the square dance.
From the Mall in New York's Central park or a village square in New England to the Rockies and western plains, Saturday night is once again becoming the time to swing your partner. Many a young man—who is likely to spurn the waltz and rumba—finds the lively boisterousness of a square dance right up his alley.
The square dance is whirling round the country, fast becoming one of the favorite teen-age pastimes.
The Square Dance club, which meets in the recreation room of the Union from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, has given instruction in fourleaf clover, grapine twist, birdie in cage, seven hands around, the Texas star, divide the ring, and cut away four. Instruction in the schottische and varsouvianna and the rye waltz, a round dance, has also been given, said William H. Love, Jr., chairman of the club.
Little Man On Campus
"Our instructor says this uniform is part of the course."