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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. MAY 3, 1948
Draft Bill OK'd By House Group; Veterans Exempt
Washington, May 3—(UP)—The house armed services committee today voted 28 to 5 to draft men 19 through 25 for two years of military duty. Veterans generally would be exempt.
Enough men would be called to boost the army, navy, and air force from their present strength of 1,384,500 to 2,005,882 by 1950.
1,384,500 to 2,020,800. The draft would be increased to 592,000 men—enough to support 70 groups. The draft would get under way automatically 90 days after approval by congress and signed by the president.
He urged rallies. The committee's okay gives the measure a good boost toward passage. But it does not assure that it will become law. It must pass the house and senate and be signed by the president before it can become effective. However, the house Republican leadership hinted today it will give the bill a green light.
The committee acted after defense Secretary James Forrestal called the draft bill an "excellent" measure. He urged fast approval.
Rep. Leslie Arends (R-III.), house majority whip and a member of the armed services committee, announced that he will support the draft in the house. He warned, however, he will change his mind if any effort is made to couple the bill with universal military training.
Here are the main features of the draft bill:
1. Registration: All men 18 through
30.
2. Induction: Men 19 through 25.
3. How long: Two years.
4. When: Draft starts automatically 90 days after bill's enactment.
5. Exempt: Veterans who served more than a year in World War II; those who served 90 days or more, provided they join an organized reserve unit; conscientious objectors, ministers, and ministerial students.
The final examination for Western Civilization will be given at 2 p.m. May 15. The place of the examination will be assigned at the time of registration.
Western Civ Exam May 15
All students who plan to take the examination are expected to register at the registrar's office beginning today through Friday. They will be given a card which will admit them to the examination.
Any student may take the examination except first semester freshmen. All students who entered in September 1945 or after are required to take the examination before the end of their sophomore year. It is a requirement for graduation from the College.
The annual Young American Artist program at 8:20 p.m. today in Fraser theater will present Evelyn Swarthowr, concert pianist, in a program featuring novelties from Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, and Robert Palmer. There is no admission charged.
Swarthout To Play In Recital Today
Miss Swarthout, daughter of Dean D. M. Swarthout, graduated from the University in 1832. She continued her study both in the United States and Europe. In London she was a pupil of Tobias Matthey and won the three-year Geoffrey Reynolds scholarship. In America she won the Kate Kinley Memorial scholarship. She has appeared five times as soloist with the National Symphony orchestra in Washington, D.C.
Miss Swarthout will present for the first time at the University "Sonata in D Minor" (Bach)
25 Tickets Left For Engineers
Twenty-five tickets are still available for the annual engineering students banquet. T. De Witt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering, said today. Students can buy tickets in the rotunda of Marvin hall.
The banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
William H. Milton, Jr., commercial vice-president of the General Electric company, will speak on "Engineering Futures."
The annual Kansan Board dinner will be given at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Kansas room of the Union. Recognition awards will be presented to outstanding students in the William Allen White School of Journalism.
Top Journalists Will Be Honored
Gideon Seymour, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, will be the guest speaker at the banquet. His topic will be "Kilroy Was Here."
Mr. Seymour is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Sigma Delta Chi. In 1923, as an associated Press sports-writer, he immortalized Red Grange as "The Galloping Ghost."
He visited the campus in November when he was a member of the visitation committee which inspected the William Allen White School of Journalism for possible accreditation as a professional school. Some 0 schools were inspected; announcement of results will be made in June.
He won the Sigma Delta Chi award last year for distinguished editorial writing. He was graduated from Drake university in 1923, and has been executive editor of the Star and Tribune since 1944.
An award for the outstanding journalism senior man will be given by Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity. The best senior man and woman in news, editorial, and advertising will be cited.
Awards will be given for the best news story, feature story, headline, editorial, and retail advertisement.
Sigma Delta Chi will also give certificates to senior journalists in the upper 10 per cent of the class.
The Henry Schott memorial prize will be given to the junior man who was a member of the Knights.
Charles Roos, reporter on the Denver Post, won last year's award or outstanding senior man, and the outstanding man award given by Sigma Delta Chi. He was also joked as the best senior man in the news and editorial department.
william T. Smith, Jr., College senior, won the Henry Schott memorial prize last year.
APO Has Kite Contest
More than $75 in prizes were awarded to the 25 winners. Home-made kites of all sizes, ranging from one box kite 3 inches high to a French war kite 9 feet high, were entered. Chinese demonstration kites made by Scout troop 58 were flown and a special weather kite 6 feet high was made by Shigley with Alpha Phi Omega streamers attached to it.
Alpha Phi Omega, secuing service fraternity, under the direction of farold Shigley, contest committee chairman, sponsored their all scout kite flying contest Saturday.
The largest, smallest, and the most unusual kites were awarded first prizes and were made by Bernard Spence and Buster Carney of Scout troop 58 and Max Daniel of Scout troop 59.
Lawrence businessmen donated a portable radio and two cameras with flash equipment as first place prizes.
Return From Field Trip
Faculty members and students of the petroleum engineering department returned May 1 from a field trip to the Otis oil field near Great Bend.
Student UN Disagree On 2 Major Issues
Delegates to the student United Nations mock conference failed to agree on the Palestine issue or German peace settlement May 1. For the third straight year the Russian delegation walked out when their motives were questioned by member nations.
Saying that many college men and women of the Midwest lack interest in world affairs. Carl Slough, assistant professor of law, in the opening address complimented the audience and student delegates for their enthusiasm. He added that world peace would be maintained only through understanding among peoples of all nations. The mock conference is a step in the right direction.
Argument on Palestine centered around partition and trusteeship. After much preliminary debating between Russian, French, and Jewish delegations on one side, and the United States, Canada, and the Latin Americas on the other, the Canadian proposal for trusteeship was defeated.
Argument on the German peace settlement was clouded in a maze of crippling amendments proposed by the Eastern bloc against the Western bloc. During debate on the issue the Mexican delegate, Hal M. Friesen, business junior, attacked Russia's motives in the Communist's advocacy of German payment of reparations. The Red delegation, led by a Russian army officer in full dress uniform, stalked out of the conference, and their satellites followed.
Russia Backs Poland
Russia backed the Polish proposal that Germany be forced to pay 10 billion dollars in reparations to Russia, and that a trusteeship be established to govern Germany so that payment could be implemented. Britain, favored making Germany a federated state, except for the Canada, the United States, and Great Rhineland, which would be internationalized. When the Russians and their satellites walked out, a quorum could not be obtained to vote on any of the German resolutions.
Lee H. Reiff, College freshman, the United States delegate-in-chief, said that partition met with violent Arab reaction, and a trusteeship should be provided so that moderate elements of both sides could work out a solution. He added that Russia is always willing to send troops anywhere because as soon as they do their philosophy of government soon follows.
During the Palestine debate Russia accused the United States of letting their economic interests in Middle Eastern oil mean more than peace in Palestine. Russia advocated that partition should be enforced by an international police force, and added that they were willing to use their troops for that duty. US.Asks.For.Trusteeship
Jewish representatives, who had no vote, requested that Jewish troops be supplied with weapons for their self protection. Ira Gissen, College junior, who represented the Zionists maintained that the U.N. had already decided to partition Palestine, so the Jewish people there were members of a separate nation. This nation was being attacked, he said, and so had rights to protect itself.
During the German peace debate, the Western powers maintained that the well being of Europe depends upon a stable economy in Germany, Robert D. Judy, College senior representing Canada, said that excessive reparations demanded by Russia would make it impossible to reconstruct Germany as an economically strong nation.
Canada Opposes Reparations
The Eastern powers said that if Germany is made economically strong the country will again be a threat to peace. Russia should receive reparations to help repay the damages suffered at Germany's hands in World War II, Ralph C. Eacock, College junior and Russian delegate, said.
Maybe They Want Job 'Cause No One Ever Shouts At The Drug Store Clerk
Drug store and hospital jobs are preferred by the three women who are graduating this spring from the School of Pharmacy.
Frankie Sue Freeman said, "I'm getting married June 16 and intend to loaf all summer, but next winter I am going to try to get a job in the pharmacy department of some hospital or a professional prescription shop. I would prefer a job in a hos- pital though."
Edith Marie Schrieber likes small Kansas towns.
"Right now I'm just trying to decide which town that has offered me a job I like best. The job definitely will be in a drug store because I
like them,"she said.
Pollyanna Ensign is also undecided about her employment, but says that she is sure it will be retail work, "leaning toward the drug store type."
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