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University Daily Kansan 45th Year No.100 Thursday March 2 1948 STUDENT NEWS PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSA
Tuesday, March 2, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Palestine Jews Move To Form Government
Jerusalem, March 2-(UF)—Approval of a Jewish provisional government for Palestine was announced today in the wake of a British ultimatum that violence will be crushed with overwhelming force if it does not stop immediately.
It has been agreed among Jewish leaders ever since partition was announced that David Ben Gurion, head of the Jewish agency, would be prime minister of any Jewish government.
A general meeting of the Council of Palestine Jews, meeting in Tel Aviv last night, approved a resolution to form a cabinet of 30 members as the core of a responsible Jewish government.
Other members of the cabinet will be drawn from the Jewish Agency executive, the group set up under the League of Nations mandate to represent the Jewish community, and the Council of Palestine Jews.
This move was announced only a few hours after the British strongly condemned the agency for failing to live up to its promises to assume responsibility for those areas of the proposed Jewish state evacuated by the British.
The British charged that the Cairo-Haifa express dynaming, in which 28 British soldiers were killed and 33 wounded, occurred in an area where Jewish militia was supposed to keep order.
ISA To Give Scholarship
Students interested in the I. S. A scholarship should apply now. The Independent Students council announced at its meeting Monday that applications are being accepted.
The grant will be made to an independent student. This student must have a "C" average, show definite financial need, and be active in student affairs. Preference will be given to freshman applicants.
Each applicant will be interviewed by the I. S. A. council. Final selection will be made by a joint student-faculty committee. Applications may be turned in until March 15 at 227 Frank Strong hall.
A motion by Margaret Van der Smissen that a committee be formed to contact students from organized independent houses to attend the council's next meeting was approved. The purpose is to acquaint the independent houses with the social program of the I. S. A. for this semester.
David Wilkie, dance manager, reported that final arrangements have been made for a mid-week dance to be given March 10.
'Red Aggression Follows Pattern'
The pattern of recent communist aggression through Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Albania and Czechoslovakia was traced by Frank E. Melvin, associate professor of history, for the Lawrence Rotary club Monday.
He warned that "further ruthless moves" may be expected in Finland, Sweden, France, Italy, Korea, China, Greece, Turkey, Norway, and Iran.
Professor Meivin said that a showdown with Russia is inevitable. "The Red Army, represented by Russia and the West, have been heading for a world-wide conflict for centuries," he added.
Will Interview Engineer Seniors
Job consultants from two corporations will be at the University March 8 and 9 to interview engineering seniors who will graduate in June. Arrangements for interviews can be made in the engineering office.
The Toledo Edison company is interested in electrical and mechanical engineers for public utility work.
General Motors will interview mechanical, electrical, metallurgical, chemical, and industrial engineers, and physics majors.
Western Powers May Sign Pact
London, March 2—(UP)—Diplomatic quarters predicted today that Great Britain, France and the Benelux countries would sign a military and economic alliance within two weeks.
Moves to consolidate the position of Western Europe against any further advances of communism were picking up in a number of fields.
Belgium and Holland were reported to have acted to keep firmly under control any Communist activity within their borders. The powerful Dutch Labor party termed the Netherlands Communists a "fifth column" and warned against further cooperation with them.
British observers believed the Communist maneuvers in Czechoslovakia and Finland had given the necessary impetus to the forging of a five-power alliance which Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin sees as the nucleus of a western European union.
Classic Play To Be Staged
Five-power treaty talks will open in Brussels Thursday. Reports from the Benelux countries — Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg—indicated that a general agreement in principle already had been reached.
"The Trojan Women," a classical tragedy by Euripedes, will be presented by the speech and drama department March 15, 16, and 17 in Fraser theater.
Helen of Troy, Betty Ann Hiltis; Menelaus, king of Sparta, Professor Crafton; Tathybius, a Greek herald, Robert Haney Scott; women of Troy, Joan Woodward, Donna Lee Harrison, Margaret Jane Gosney, Geraldine Lee Catlett, Phyllis Genevieve Mowery, Mary K. Booth, Imogene Frack, Joy Godbeher, Alice Louise Lambert, Abigail Lois Bixby; Greek soldiers, Harold Arnold Harvey, Loren Wilson Kennedy, Thomas Moore Shay, and Tom Pratt Rea.
Kansas—Occasional freezing drizzle or light snow east, ending this afternoon. Becoming generally fair and a little colder tonight. Tomorrow far east. High today 30 to 35, low tonight 15 to 25.
It will be the fourth play on the activity ticket. Allen Crafton, professor of speech, is the director.
The cast includes the goddess Pallas Athene, Frances Feist, instructor in speech; the god Poseidon, Robert Calderwood, assistant professor of speech; Hecuba, queen of Troy, Mrs. Allen Crafton; Cassandra, the prophetess, Marjorie M. Shroryck; Andromache, wife of Hector, Darlene Van Biber; Astyanax, son of Hector and Andromache, Josephine Skelton.
WEATHER
City May Arrest Delinquent Traffic Violators
Student traffic violators who fail to show up in the Lawrence police court may be faced with a warrant for their arrest, Traffic Officer Robert Corwin said today.
Under the authority recently granted them by the city, the campus police are issuing city tickets for parking and traffic violations on Jayhawk drive and many other places near the campus. These tickets are colored red and are marked with the city name.
Students and faculty members who receive these tickets are required to appear before the police court on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday at 4:30 p.m., Corwin said.
He also said that someone had deliberately knocked down the no parking signs on the east side of Michigan avenue to the rear of Lindley hall. "However, tickets will be given for parking on the east side of that street, regardless."
Students and faculty members who appeared in court yesterday are: Robert D. Schaefer, College freshman; Edna A. Hill, professor of home economics; Calvin E. Markwell, College freshman; Robert J. Renn, business senior; Raymond E. Orcutt, education senior; William R. Jones, business senior; Vincent P. McWilliams, engineering junior
Zionist Movement Started On Hill
"Six million Jews were murdered in Europe during the war." Mie Lieberstein told a special Palestine meeting last night. Mr. Lieberstein is a part-time mathematics instructor and a graduate student.
"Of those left, 85 per cent want to go to Palestine," he continued. "Only under a Jewish state will it be possible to fulfill the ambitions of these people."
Robert T. Gray, College senior Fred B. Stoss, Jr., engineering sophomore; Robert J. Day, College freshman; Hoyt Baker, education senior; Ralph H. Morgan, engineering freshman; Albert E. Mulvany, engineering sophomore; Claude L. Pyle, engineering senior; Harwin M.Wright, College junior; Robert L. Rosenfield, engineering senior; James C. Shephard, engineering junior; John S. Haddock, College sophomore; Edgar J. Rickel, engineering senior; Ronald W. Strowig, graduate; Thomas A. Barlow, graduate; George A. Thomas, College sophomore; John S. Nichols, business clifford D. Clark, College senior; and Warren S. Palm, engineering sophomore.
The meeting was to organize the Intercollegiate Zionist Federation of America. This group is represented on campuses all over America. Its purpose is to further Zionist movement and to name Palestine as a Jewish national home.
Mr. Lieberstein's opinion is that the Jews and Arabs will never form a coalition government because "the Jews have raised the Arabs' level of living where the two have come in contact, and the Arab leaders are not in favor of this."
Dr. L. H. Leger, associate professor at the University Medical center, will speak to women students interested in becoming medical technicians at 7:30 p.m. today in 510 Snow hall.
May Still Apply For K-Book Posts
"Zionism has a purpose," he said. "It is to spread a Jewish culture among the Jews of the world."
Will Address Students
Deadline for applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the K-Book has been extended to March 8.
He concluded by extending an open invitation to persons interested in the movement.
The positions pay a salary. Applications must be in letter form, giving qualifications and experience, and be mailed to Betsey Sheidley, Gower place.
Book Store Sets 4 Scholarships
Four $100 scholarships have been established by the student book store for 1948-49, Dean J. H. Nelson, chairman of the committee on aid and awards, announced today.
L. E. Woolley, manager of the student book store, financed the awards by collecting discarded cash sales receipts. For each of the last two six-months period the book store has declared a 15 per cent rebate on cash sales.
Students in all schools of the University are eligible for the cash grants. Selections will be made on the basis of the student's need, academic achievement and future promise.
Rebates on discarded receipts have enabled Mr. Woolley to purchase portable voice amplifiers for the cheer leaders, six table model radios for the patients at Watkins hospital, and a phonograph for the University nursery school.
No Illiteracy In Norway
Illiteracy in Norway has been practically non-existent since 1750. Sigmund Hagen, graduate student from Norway told the German club, recently.
"Reformation of the church was probably responsible for the passage of a compulsory school of law in 1739." Hagen said. "Reading and interpretation of the Bible by individuals instead of the clergy made education a necessity," he explained.
"Universities in Norway have only five schools-historical philosophical, scientific, theological, medical and law," he said. "Other branches of learning are sponsored in separate institutions such as the University of Economics."
The two main Norwegian universities are located in Oslo and Bergen The University of Bergen has been established for only two years.
"College preparatory schools, which have five grades, are called 'gymnasiums' and stress foreign languages," Hagen stated. "Five years of German, three years of French, and five years of English are required."
"Real-skolers" are the general education institutions which can be attended in place of the first three years of the gymnasiums. These schools have three grades and require three years of English and German.
"Present elementary schools are comparable in subject matter to those of the United States," the graduate student stated. Norwegian grade schools differ from those of the United States in their two year English requirement, and in having only seven grades."
"Real - skoler," "gymnasium schools", and elementary schools are supported by the cities and state, but the universities are maintained by the state alone.
Two Swedish films will be shown in 15 Fraser hall at 5 p. m. today. "Sweden, the Country and the People" and "Swedish Industry" are the films to be shown by Goefan Karlberg, instructor in German. There will be no charge.
Swedish Films Are Today
Loyalty Board Clears Condon Of Espionage
Washington, March 2—(UP)—Dr. Edward U. Condon's government superiors today cleared the prominent atomic scientist of charges of consorting with Soviet spies. But he still faced the prospect of a congressional investigation.
Two congressional committees showed interest in the accusations made against Condon by a house unAmerican activities subcommittee last night. The three-man group urged that he be fired from his job as director of the national bureau of standards.
The joint congressional atomic energy committee was to take up the charges at a meeting this morning, and the full unAmerican activities committee planned to consider them later this week. Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R—N.J.), chairman of the latter group, was a member of the subcommittee that assailed Condon last night.
No Grounds For Charges
The Commerce department, which has jurisdiction over the bureau of standards, issued a statement declaring that its loyalty board had given Condon a clean bill of health. Undersecretary of commerce William C. Foster said the board, in a report last Tuesday, stated "no reasonable grounds exist for believing that Dr. Condon is disloyal to the government of the United States."
Status Still Pending
At the same time, a spokesman for the atomic energy commission apparently cleared up one of the major points raised by congressional investigators. They had noted that the commission had not established Condon's loyalty status. Status Still Pending
The commission spokesman said, however, that Condon's status is listed as "pending" only because the group is awaiting results of the commerce department's inquiry. Prefumably when last week's report is sent to the commission, he will be okaved.
Condon, a former Princeton professor who observes his 46th birthday today, said his entire career has demonstrated that he is "completely reliable, loyal, conscientious, and devoted to the interest of my country."
21 Enroll For Nurses Class
Twenty-one women have enrolled in the spring nurses training class in the University Medical center in Kansas City.
Miss Avis Van Lew, director of nursing, announced that 12 of these have completed college work to qualify them for a bachelor of science degree in nursing after completion of the three-year course. The others will receive certificates.
The number of degree candidates is the largest in three years. Upon graduation, they normally will fill teaching and supervisory positions.
Members of the new class are: Betty Bervert, Topeka; Clara Betz, Enterprise; Mary Bienhoff, Kansas City, Mo.; Carolyn Bishop, Gymsum; Michael Boyle, Kansas City, Mo.; Donis Clary, St. George; Theora Dinga, Pleasanton; Ellen Dufford, Marshall, Mo.; Mary Fuller, Columbus.
Eunice. Goehring, Alma; Emma Hain, Golden City, Mo.; Phyllis Hall, Belleville; Marie Jackson, Parker; Lillian Lacy, Onaga; Dorothy Long, Stow, Ohio; Lou Anna Schlup, Stewartville, Mo.; Georganna Sells, Kansas City; Ellen Taylor, Chapman; Marile Woodruff, Ada; and Joan Bigelow, Attichon.