University Daily Kansan 45th Year No.89 Monday, Feb.16, 1948
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Lenten Services For Afternoons Begin Tuesday
The first of a series of Tuesday afternoon Lenten services will begin in Danforth chapel at 4 p. m. with Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, as the guest speaker.
Lee H. Reiff, College freshman, will conduct the worship service. Gwendolynne S. Jones, College senior, will play the organ for the service. Donna Rumsey, fine arts sophomore, will sing a solo.
The services are being arranged by a committee from the Student Religious council of Donald K. Parnell, College sophomore, chairman, and Bonnie M. Brown, College junior. The Rev. C. Fosberg Hughes of the Plymouth Congregational church is sponsoring the committee.
The service is an additional program of the Student Religious council for the Lenten season. Morning devotions are also being held from 8:30 to 8:50 a. m. Monday through Friday in Danforth chapel.
The morning devotional services are entirely student-led. The Tuesday afternoon vespers will be student-led, but faculty members will deliver short talks appropriate to the season.
German Film To Be Shown
The German sound film, "Singende Jugend," ("The Orphan Boy of Vienna") will be shown at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater. The film will have English sub-titles.
In the picture Toni, a young orphan who loves to sing, enters the school of the Vienna choir boys with the help of a street musician. His adventure with the choir concerns popular and classic music, J. A. Burzle, associate professor of German, said.
No admission will be charged.
Highlighting the story are excerpts from Mozart, Schubert, Handel, and Strauss played by the Vienna philharmonic orchestra. Passages of the Kyrie are sung by the famous choir in the cathedral in Vienna.
Peterson To Serve On Committees
Capt. John V. Peterson, U.S.N. professor of naval science, left Sunday for Alameda, Calif. to serve on a five-man board planning the operations and policies of a three week summer training cruise for contract N.R.O.T.C. students.
The committee consists of naval officers from various naval establishments. The conference will end Feb. 22.
Immediately after this meeting the captain will attend a conference in Pensacola, Fla. The navy department has invited leading educators from all parts of the country to acquaint them with the naval aviation flight training program offered in connection with the N.R.O.T.C. program being given in 52 colleges and universities.
Captain Peterson will return to the University Feb. 28.
Freshman Hurt In Accident
William A. Childs, College freshman, received a fractured nose in an accident one mile west of Tonganoxie Feb. 14. He is in Watkins hospital.
Bookstore Funds Provide Radios
Funds from rebate slips swept up off the floor in the Union bookstore enabled L. E. Woolley, manager, to present six table model radios and one RCA Victor phonograph to Watkins hospital and the University nursery school, respectively. The equipment was delivered Friday.
The phonograph plays plastic records which an older phonogaph in the nursery school does not. The radios will be used by bed patients in the hospital.
Truman Urges Inflation Curbs
New York, Feb. 16.—(UP)—President Truman warned again today that without new inflationary curbs "the living standard of millions of families will be critically endangered."
The president, in a letter to the United States Conference of Mayors, which opened a three-day meeting today at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, did not mention the recent slump in the commodity markets. He asked the mayors to assist him in obtaining inflation controls from congress.
Mr. Truman pointed out that he had made specific recommendations for economic controls in his state of the Union message, in his budget message, and in his economic report to congress.
"These recommendations directly affect the continued progress and welfare of our great municipalities," the president said, "and the millions of our citizens who now live in urban areas.
"Of basic importance is our duty and obligation to establish our economy on a sound basis. The sharp rise in the cost of living index points to the undermining of our whole economy. If this rise is not permanently checked, the living standard of millions of families will be critically endangered.
"Moreover, you and your colleagues know from first-hand experience that the financial stability of our city governments is being threatened by increased costs resulting from inflation.
First Buehler Speech Contest To Be March 18
The first annual Lorraine Buehler oratorical contest will be held March 18 in Fraser theater, Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, instructor in English and chairman of the contest committee, announced today.
A special meeting of students interested in entering the contest will be held in the Little Theater of Green hall at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. Prof. E. C. Buehler of the department of speech and drama will answer any questions as to the details of the contest and will lecture on how to organize and work an oration.
Any undergraduate student, man or woman, is eligible to compete. Orations will be limited to 1,350 words, or approximately 10 minutes long. Any subject may be used as long as the work is original.
The event will be offered for five years as a memorial to the late Lorraine Buehler, who was the wife of Prof. E. C. Buehler of the speech and drama department. Following the death of Mrs. Buehler last year, many former students of both Professor and Mrs. Buehler asked to contribute to an appropriate memorial.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott appointed a Lorraine Buehler memorial committee of Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College; Prof. Allen Crafton, Prof. Margaret Anderson, Mr. Kenneth Johnson, and Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, chairman. The committee decided that an oratorical contest would be the most appropriate memorial.
The contest, sponsored by Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary debate fraternity, will be the largest all-school speaking event ever held at the University. First prize will be a set of the Encyclopedia Americana. Second prize will be a cash award.
Kansas-Fair today, tonight and tomorrow. A little warmer today east and central. Continued mild tomorrow. High today in 50's. Low tonight in 30's.
Equalization Of Rail Rates Won't Cause Business Boom
WEATHER
The industrial boom so many persons expect to result from the equalization of railroad freight rates will not materialize.
That is the conclusion of a report prepared by Mignon Mortor, instructor in economics, and released by the bureau of business research.
Class rates for Kansas are approximately 45 to 60 per cent higher than
The report emphasized the fact that equalization may be a two-edged sword. It will allow Eastern manufacturers to ship into the Midwest more cheaply, thus removing the "freight rate protection" that has allowed some local industries to thrive.
"Many years may pass before any visible signs of expansion and shifting of industry in the West and South present themselves. Freight rate changes alone will not cause the decentralization," the report said.
Class rates for Kansas are those in the industrial East. The equalization, ordered by the Interstate Commerce commission in 1945, will not go into effect for several years.
The report predicted that equalization will create industrial jobs for the surplus agricultural population of the South and West, and a better balanced economy.
The report said that equalization will allow each region to develop industrially along the lines its resources best suit it for.
Washington, Feb. 16—(UP)—The interstate commerce commission today authorized western and southern railroads to increase their passenger coach fares 13.63 per cent.
ICC Grants Boost In Railway Fares
The increase, which can be put into effect on five days notice, will boost the one-way coach fare from 2.2 to 2.5 cents a mile, with proportionate increases in round-trip fares.
The coach fare boost will give the 85 western carriers additional revenues estimated at 21 million dollars a year. The 11 southern roads will receive an estimated $4,200,000 additional income.
Similar increases were granted to eastern and other southern roads by the commission last year.
OTTOM OF AUSTRIA
State Expenses Totaled By Page
It is believed to be the most complete compilation of estimated Kansas receipts and expenditures ever made.
A report of the receipts and expenditures of the state government of Kansas has been made by Tom Page, instructor of political science. The report was released by the university bureau of government research.
Although the state government is now spending well over 100 million dollars a year, according to the report, no central point of responsibility accountable for its fiscal affairs exists in the state government.
Including grants to local governments, estimated state expenditures for the two years ending June 30, 1949 will be $239,348,000, the report said. Reappropriated base expenditures for the estimated dedicated revenues total $344,777,000. Estimated balances will be $105,429,000 at the end of the two-year period.
Grants to local government units and shared tax revenues were estimated at $95,050,000 for the biennium, or 40 per cent of state expenditures. Of this amount only 28 per cent was specifically appropriated by the legislature. The remainder will be dedicated revenue. Dedicated revenues are those received from a particular source and devoted to a specific purpose.
Library Is Open For Architects
A newly decorated architecture library is available to students according to Prof. George M. Beal of the architecture department. The library, which was closed for decorations is now open week days from 8 a.m. to noon, from 1 to 2 p.m., and from 3 to 5 p.m.
Professor Beal said that the library includes only general architectural reading and that books for current classes are still kept at the engineering library on the first floor of Marvin hall.
The architecture library includes many current architectural magazines and books, and also many of the older books on the various phases of architecture. The library is located on the third floor of Marvin hall in the right wing and is open to all students who wish to use it.
Seniors To Take Tests
The final will be given at the University April 9 to 10.
A select group of high school seniors will take the preliminary Summerfield scholarship test March 15. Not more than five percent of the men in each senior class in Kansas are eligible.
Otto Of Austria To Talk In Hoch At 8 Tonight
Otto of Austria, who will speak in Hoch auditorium at 8 p.m. today, has spent most of his life in the troubled spots of the world.
The subject of his lecture tonight,
"World Danger Zones," will deal with the result of his recent trip through North Africa and central Europe. He will stay on the campus for two days and visit several classes. The Forums board and International Relations club will sponsor an informal discussion at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Pine room of the Union.
He was born in 1912, the oldest son of Charles, last emperor of Austria-Hungary, and fled with his family to Switzerland when the Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved in 1918. From Switzerland, the family went to the Island of Madeira where Charles died in 1922. Otto then lived and studied in Spain and France, and, at the age of 21, received his doctor's degree in political science from the University of Louvain, Belgium.
"Two days are allowed by the administration to prevent the student body from taking unauthorized holidays." Dean Pugsley added.
As early as 1933, he openly opposed Hitler and became active in the underground movement. He was tried in absentia by the Nazis and condemned to death. He came to the United States in 1940 and lived in Washington until 1944, when he returned to Austria and took part in liberating Austria from the Nazis.
While in Washington, he worked with the leaders of central Europe and for the common cause of the United Nations.
A. L. Pugsley, dean of administration of Kansas State college, told the University Daily Kansan in a long distance telephone conversation today that a holiday for the K-State students if their basketball team defeats K. U. is "in line with our regular policy of reserving two moveable dates during the football and basketball seasons-for victory holidays."
K-State Plans Holiday-If
University students have protested that they would not have a holiday if K-State was defeated.
The student council requests in advance the holiday to follow an athletic event during each of the two seasons, he explained.
"If the dates are approved by the faculty council and the president of the college, they are declared legal holidays celebrating Kansas State victories," he added.
Sun Causes Wreck In Front Of Hoch
Early morning sunlight and an illegal U-turn caused an accident this morning in front of Hoch auditorium. A 1936 Ford driven by Burt A. Robson collided with a 1939 Oldsmobile driven by Victor M. Eddy. Both are College freshmen.
Eddy tries make a U-turn from the one-way drive west of Frank Strong hall, Robson, blinded by the sun, hit the right side of Eddy's car Traffic Officer Robert Corwin said. No one was injured.
Mr. Corwin estimated the damage to the cars being from $100 to $150.