University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
300 Expected To Discuss Home Ec Topics
Nearly 300 persons are expected to arrive today and tomorrow for the 3-day state-wide home economics conference at the University.
the conference opens at 6:30 p.m. today with a meeting of the council of the Kansas state home economics association in the Union.
In connection with the conference,
78 Kansas college home economics
club delegates will have special sessions.
The adult delegates of the conference will be home education teachers, dieticians, extension and public health workers, and home demonstration reports.
8:30 A.M.
Registration will be tomorrow at 8:30 a. m. in Fraser. Dr. Robert G. Foster, visiting professor of home economics and sociology, will open a general session at 9:20 p. m. with a talk on "Family Life in a Democracy." Dr. Robert Walker, chairman of the institute of citizenship, Kansas State Agriculture college, Manhattan, also will speak at the first general meeting. His subject is "The World in Which We Live."
Register At 8:30 A. M.
Developments in research and effect of new trends in home economics will be the subject of panel discussion tomorrow afternoon. At 1:30 p.m. m. the student delegates will hold a special meeting in the Union. Following the business meeting and election of state officers, Dr. Margaret Justin, Kansas State Agriculture college, Manhattan, will speak to students on "Student Clubs as a Force in Home Economics."
Three teas will be given at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow. University home economics students will entertain student delegates at the home management house. Margaret Habein, dean of women, will pour. Adult members of the conference will be guests of Haskell Institute and the department of home economics. Mrs. George Baxter Smith and Mrs. Paul B. Lawson will pour for the department of home economics in Fraser dining room.
Miss Edna Hill, professor of home economics, will preside at the association dinner tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. in the Union. Dr. Allen Crafton, professor of speech, will talk on "Kansas Culture." A group of Indian dancers from Haskell Institute will also appear on the program. Will Elect Officers
During the general session Saturday morning, Miss Maud Ellsworth, associate professor of education, will speak on "Creative Arts for Enriched Living." New officers of the association will be elected at this meeting.
Student delegates will hear Virginia Baroudejane, Egyptian exchange student from Sterling college Sterling, speak at the International Inclining, speak at the International luncheon Saturday noon. Miss Baroudejane's subject will be "Egyptian Women adn Their Customs." The newly elected state student officers will be introduced during the luncheon.
function. Mrs. C. C. Cunningham, El Dorado, will discuss her recent trip to western Europe.
State Civil Rights Upheld By Council
A constitution "to secure and maintain the civil rights of all the people of Kansas" was adopted recently by the Kansas Council on Civil Rights at a state-wide meeting of college students and leaders at Kansas State college.
Attending the meeting were Ralph W. Smith, education senior, Lorna E. Green, College senior, Thomas Fred Taylor, College sophomore. the Rev. G. E. E. Lindquist and Mr. Oscar White, Lawrence.
Dunninger Here At 8:20 Tonight
Joseph Dunninger, telepathist extraordinary, will appear at 8:20 tonight in Hoch auditorium. He will give a series of audience-participation demonstrations of his ability to read the human mind.
Activity books will admit holders. General admission tickets will be sold at the door for 70 cents.
Harold Swartz, in charge of ticket sales, said this morning that a few $1 reserved seats remained.
Band, Orchestra Honor Governor
The University concert band will play "Our Governor March" in honor of Gov. Frank H. Carlson at a joint concert with the University Symphony orchestra at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Topea Municipal auditorium.
"Our Governor March," recently written by Oakley Pittman, fine arts instructor, is in appreciation of Governor Carlson's efforts in leading the successful campaign to send the band to the Orange Bowl on New Year's day.
Governor Carlson will also be presented the band's gold key and shaka as a newly-elected honorary member of the K. U. band.
A joint concert of the symphony orchestra and band, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, will be held at 10 a.m. in the Topeka High school auditorium. At 2 p.m. the band will give a concert for the Junior High school students.
Bill Sears, graduate student and national baton twirling champion will also give an exhibition.
Junior Stage
The evening concert, sponsored by the Topeka Junior Chamber of Commerce, will feature Betty Lou Wells, violinist, who will play Wieniawsky's "Romance" from the D minor Concerto 0, 2, and James Sellards, trumpet solist, who will play the "Inflammatus" from Rossini's "Stabat Mater."
World Roundup Of Comment On Truman Talk
London, March 18—(UP)—President Truman's speech was hailed by western Europe today as a new Monroe doctrine which will put teeth into the European Recovery program.
It was acclaimed as nothing has been since the early days of the war, when Europe looked across the Atlantic for her survival.
Diplomatic sources in Paris said today that the United States might sign a limited military pact with the anti-Communist bloc of western Europe within three months.
Radio Moscow gave a summary of the Truman speech the top spot on its regular morning news bulletin beamed to Soviet listeners.
British observers considered the Moscow summary a move to draw the attention of the Russian public to the speech so it would know the situation when Soviet commentators began attacking it as a new example of "Western imperialism."
The interpretation placed today on statements by President Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall by such men as former Secretary of State James F. Byrns and foreign diplomats in Washington was that the United States has in effect drawn a line across the middle of Europe and warned Russia to keep communism on the other side.
Both implied in their statements to congress that any attempt to duplicate the Communist grab of power in Czechoslovakia in the western European countries, especially Italy, would bring American action.
The major concern in the war-jittery United States capital today is the fear in high quarters that Soviet Premier Josef Stalin may no longer be able to put the brakes on his Communist parties in western Europe or on his satellites, even if he wanted to do so.
By Bibler
Little Man On Campus
3 Million Non-Vets Face Conscription
Gen. Hershey Says Induction Could Begin Within 60 Days
"Witch nothing.—That's our housemother."
COMPILED FROM DISPATCHES
By UNITED PRESS
War fears chilled Washington today and the shadow of a new draft hung over non-veterans aged from 18 to 25.
Coal Squabble Bad For Nation
Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal advised congress today that the administration is not at present planning to include World War II veterans in the limited draft asked by President Truman.
Washington. March 18—(UP)—
the government officials feared today
that the soft coal strike might weaken
this country's hand in the "cold war"
against Russia. They hinted at
government intervention by this
weekend unless John L. Lewis orders
his miners back to work.
These officials pointed out that a coal shortage would drastically curtail U. S. production of steel, machinery, and other items needed in the 16 Marshall plan countries of non-Communist Europe.
Continuation of the strike prompted the office of defense transportation to order a 25 per cent cut, effective midnight Sunday, of passenger service on all coal-burning railroad trains.
Industry and government representatives were to take steps today in an effort to end the four-day-old walkout over pensions which has spread to some 380,000 miners in 14 states.
states
Cyrus S. Ching, federal mediation director, scheduled a morning meeting with Ezra Van Horn, the operator's spokesman, and luncheon with Mr. Lewis "to explore the issues." Mr. Ching said the work stoppage is a serious matter of the country."
Soft coal operators from all branches of the industry called a meeting to plan their next step if Mr. Lewis ignores or refuses to meet their deadline. Mr. Van Horn has asked Mr. Lewis to join him by tomorrow in petitioning U. S. district court to appoint a third trustee of the union retirement fund. The third member would be empowered to break the Lewis-Van Horn deadlock over pensions for the miners.
Informed sources said President Truman is considering invoking the emergency strike provisions of the Taft-Hartley act. Under this law, the president can obtain an injunction to halt for about 80 days any
Buy Tickets Now For Frosh Frolic
Ticket booths have been set up in Frank Strong hall and the Union by the freshman class to sell tickets for the Freshman Frolic Saturday night. The ticket price is $1.75 a couple. Tickets may also be purchased from representatives in men's organized houses and at the business office of the University.
To Initiate Four Pledges
Committee chaimers for the dance will be Marie Schumacher, tickets; Betty Jo Bloomer, secretarial; Monte L. Fuller, publicity; Robert E. Berry, finance; Harold Spieler, entertainment; and Louise Warner, prizes.
Pledges are Alverta Niedens, Betty Bacon, Elizabeth Schindling, and Lois Lauer.
Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalism sorority, will initiate four pledges April 1.
He and Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall estimated for the senate armed forces committee that the draft would include a gross of three million men between the ages of 18 and 25 who did not serve in the last war. Secretary Royall said there has been "some discussion" of calling veterans who served "only one or two months," but no decision had been reached.
Could Set Up Draft Machinery
Top selective service officials said today they could start inducting men into the armed forces within 45 to 60 days if congress passed a new draft law.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the office of selective service records, estimated that new induction machinery could be set up within that time if President Truman's draft request is approved.
Col. Daniel O. Omer, General Hershey's assistant, said he believes selective service could, have the first draftees in uniform "in possibly 90 days" from the time the law is passed.
The army is now working on a bill to revive selective service in line with the president's request. It will be merged with navy and air force proposals and then submitted to the president for approval before going to congress.
Would Use Lottery System
Hershey, who is touring selective service depots throughout the country, said in Salem, Ore., that the lottery system of drawing draft numbers probably would have to be retained.
Secretary Forrestal told the senate armed forces committee today that the present authorized strength was based on assumptions, made two years ago, that had failed to materialize. He appeared before the committee to back up President Truman's request for universal training and a temporary revival of the draft.
M. W. Mayberry, assistant professor of botany, has resigned from the University to accept an associate professorship at the Central Washington College of Education at Elensburg, Wash. He will leave at the end of the summer school session.
Republican congressional leaders indicated continued coolness toward universal training, but were not closing the door on a reenactment of the draft.
Mayberry Has Resigned
Professor Mayberry received his A. B degree at Washburn university in 1926. He taught high school for two years at Fairview, Okla. In 1935 he received his Ph. D. degree from the University and joined the University staff that year.
WEATHER
Kansas—Increasing cloudiness today, mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Occasional light rain beginning in southwest late today or tonight spreading over most of state tonight and continuing in east tomorrow. High today 58-68. Low tonight 55-40, northwest and 55 southeast.