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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 8, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
National CORE Officer To Speak
Race relations and civil rights will be discussed in a series of lectures Jan. 15 and 18 by George M. Houser, national executive secretary of the Congress on Racial Equality and co-chairman of racial-industrial section of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
The lectures will be sponsored by the Negro Student association and the Lawrence C.O.R.E. Mr. Houser will also talk before other campus organizations.
Mr. Houser attended school in China and was graduated from the University of California. He was a member of the Journey of Reconciliation last April which toured several Southern states to promote inter-racial harmony.
Mr. Houser was one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality which is committed to promotion of racial equality through direct non-violent action. The Fellowship of Reconciliation is a national organization for the prevention of war through passive resistance.
Service Group Set For Dimes Drive
Committee reports on the March of Dimes campaign will be given at the meeting of Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, at 7 tonight in the Pine room of the Union.
The reports will include arrangements for campaign publicity, and for tickets and ballroom decorations for the March of Dime dance Feb. 6. Assignments of various duties connected with the drive and dance will be given members.
be given the final committee reports must be made not later than Jan. 15. The campaign will last from Feb. 2 to 9.
WEATHER
Kansas - Fair today, a little warmer extreme east. High temperatures upper 50's cast to 60's west. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, a little colder. Low temperatures tonight 25 to 30 north, 35 to 40 south.
O U Senate Asks Negro Ban Lifted
Norman, Okla.—(UP)—President George L. Cross of the University of Oklahoma received without comment today a student senate resolution asking that Negro athletes of other schools be permitted to meet Sooner players here.
The measure asking abolition of Jim Crow restrictions on local athletic courts was passed by the student government members last night. It had been introduced by Harold Price and Gerald McCulloch, freshmen from Bartlesville. Cross was expected to refer the petition to the University athletic
Cross was expected to refer the petition to the University athletic council.
"Aproximately 600 tickets have been sold to date to the Duke Ellington concert," Mr. Russell H. Barrett, instructor political science, said today.
Jazz Sales Reach 600
"the reserved seats are selling pretty fast," Barrett said, "and any-one intending to reserve a seat should do so now."
This is about one-third of the intended sales and includes only sales on the campus. There is no report yet on downtown sales.
Tickets are on sale at the Union, Marvin hall, the rotunda in Frank Strong, Bell Music co., Lawrence, the Gould Music co. in Topeka and are being distributed to high school students here in Lawrence.
Congress Ready To Go Part Way With Truman
Feuerborn New Head Of Pre-Nursing Club
New officers for the Pre-Nursing club were elected before the Christmas vacation. They are Jean W. Feuerborn, College freshman, president; Phyllis M. Walsen, junior, secretary - treasurer, Eleanor A. Brown, junior, program chairman, and Williamina G. D. Rose, junior, publicity chairman. They will take office at the beginning of the spring semester.
Washington—(UP) The Republican-controlled congress was ready today to go part of the way with President Truman on his requests for social legislation but the Republicans themselves were divided over some of them.
some or more was a fairly high degree of unanimity among Republican on one of Mr. Truman's proposals—his request for a national health insurance program. They saw no chance for its approval.
The recommendation with the best chance of approval was that for an increased minimum wage. Minimum Wage Up
Minimum wage
Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn.
choice of a senate labor subcommittee considering chances in the wage-hour law, said he was thinking in terms of a 50-cent minimum.
Many Republicans favor an increase to 60 or 65 cents. The President recommended 75 cents.
Chairman Robert A. Taft, of the senate Republican policy committee withheld comment on Mr. Truman's specific recommendations, but he favors increasing the minimum wage and federal aid to states for education and health.
Taft and most other Republicans are bitterly opposed to the administration's health insurance plan on grounds that it would "socialize" the medical profession. Approve Education Aid
go along.
It appeared likely that senate leaders might try to sell those two measures to house leaders, who have seemed cool toward them thus far. House labor committee members indicated that the education bill would not be approved without leadership pressure.
Approve Education Aid
A bill authorizing federal aid for education has been approved by Taft's labor committee and a Taff-sponsored health bill is expected to win approval. Ball said he believed the senate would approve the health and education bills but that he did not know whether the house would go along.
pressure
Sen James E. Murray, D., Mont.
spirit of health insurance legislation,
said Mr. Truman's health proposal showed that the President had accepted Taft's "challenge" to make health insurance a political issue.
UP Unable To Verify Stalin Death Rumor
Reports were circulating in the United States today that Premier Josef Stalin of Russia had died. Checks made by the United Press in Moscow and other European cities have resulted in no official verification of the facts.
The rumors apparently originated in Bern, Switzerland, where the Swiss papers asked the United Press to investigate. That investigation so far has failed to confirm the rumor, but the United Press is still trying to track down the story.
Ed Abels, local publisher, today made good predictions that he would oppose Carl Friend in the Douglas-Jefferson counties race for state senator.
Abels Opposes Carl Friend
Abels, who was graduated from the University in 1914, has published the Lawrence Outlook for the past 21 years.
In the same session he was responsible for the bill giving the University a $500,000 appropriation for a dormitory.
the past 21. A representative in the state legislature for the past 11 years, Abels originated a bill in the 1947 session which gave the University authority to issue bonds for building campus dormitories.
By political precedent the senate post had alternated between Douglas and Jefferson counties at each election. James F. Swoyer of Oskaloosa is present senator.
One time lieutenant governor Friend announced his candidacy Wednesday. He is a Lawrence lumberman.
berman. During the 1947 session Abels was house cacus chairman and headed the state affairs committee.
Union Executive Board To Have Turkey Diinner
The Student Union Executive board will have a turkey dinner at 6 p.m. Jan.14 in the English room of the Union.
Guests invited are the heads of the University Daily Kansas, several members of the Student Council, Miss Veta Lear, and Miss Hermina Zipple.
2 College Women Sell Novel In First Attempt At Fiction
Biloline Whiting, College senior, and Josephine Skelton, College junior, have sold a 300-page novel to a Kansas City publishing house.
Miss Whiting confessed that neither she nor her partner have written as much as a short story in the fiction line before. However, Miss Whitening has sold feature stories and Miss Skelton has sold a few poems.
Miss Skelton is from London, Ontario. The two worked by correspondence. After eight months of research and 20 pages of outlines, the authors met in Minnesota and typed the manuscript in two summer months.
"A novel is easier to write than a short story. If you get yourself into difficulties, you have enough room to write yourself out of them. Miss Whiting said, in explaining why the two writers had tackled a novel for their first effort. Book Is Historical Novel
The book is a historical novel about Cutlerites, a religious sect Miss Whiting became acquainted with during a vacation in northern Minnesota.
What are their success secrets? According to Miss Whiting, an outline is essential. The collaborators outlined every incident and wrote character sketches for every figure in their book. Diligent research, especially about clothes and customs of the period, was also an important part of their work. Corrected Each Other's Work
"First we would discuss the chapters. Then we would select the incidents we had the most 'feel' for and write them. Then we would trade what we had written and correct each other's copy. Often we would rewrite what the other had written." Miss Whiting explained, "That takes two people who aren't too sensitive about what they have written," she added
written. Encouraged by the sale of their books but not yet titled, Miss Skelton enrolled at the University to work with her co-partner. With the profits they will make, the two women have rented a sea captain's home on an island off the coast of Maine where they plan to dust off the typewriter next summer and start off on novel number two.
Bowl Newsreels Will Be Shown Here Next Week
Next week University football fans will be able to see for themselves what happened at the Orange Bowl game in Miami New Year's day.
Stanley Schwahn, manager of the Lawrence theaters, said today that part of the newsreels are to be in technicolor, but he does not know if these will include the Orange Bowl pictures.
Complete newsreels of the four major bowl games will be shown at the Jayhawk and Granada theaters beginning Sunday. The pictures will run at the Jayhawk Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, and at the Granada Sunday through Wednesday.
The Society for Advancement of Management has elected Leo John Tolle, Business senior, president for the spring semester.
Sometimes next week color pictures of the game, the band, and halftime ceremonies taken by the Orange Bowl committee, will be shown by the Lawrence Quarterback club. Although no date has been set for the showing of these pictures, Coach George Sauer guesses they will arrive in Lawrence in about a week.
Tickets for these films, to run about an hour and a half, are on sale at the Eldridge pharmacy, the Round Corner, Rankin's, and Cordell's drug stores, Ober's, Carl's, Edmond's grocery, the Jayhawk cafe, and Brick's. It has not been announced where the movies will be shewn.
Funeral Held For Dr. Dains
Dr. Frank Burnett Dain, 78, professor emeritus of chemistry who died Monday, was buried Wednesday in Oak Hill cemetery in Lawrence. Funeral services were held in the Episcopal church Wednesday afternoon with the Rev. Donald O. Weatherbee officiating.
Pallbearers were members of the chemistry department. They are Prof. Arthur Davidson, Prof.G.W. Stratton, Prof. Robert Taft, Prof. Henry Werner, Prof. Ernest Griswold, and Clarence Grothaus, research associate.
Dr. Dains was one of the founders of the department of chemistry at the University and first served as assistant professor in 1893-4.
Tolle Elected SAM President
Other officers elected are Wayne Smith, Engineering sophomore, vicepresident; John Pickens, Business senior, secretary; and Carl Griswold, Engineering junior, treasurer.
A dinner-meeting will be held in the Kansas room of the Union at 7:30 p.m. j.月.20. Mr.E.R.Esch, personnel director of the City National Bank of Kansas City, will speak at the meeting. His subject will be "Personnel Work and Job Opportunity."
All interested students are invited to attend the dinner. Wives and dates are also welcome.
Dr. Mills To Speak Tuesday
Dr. R. C. Mills, assistant professor of biochemistry, will be guest speaker at the bacteriology club meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 13.
The group will meet in 501 Snow hall at 7:30 p. m. Refreshments will be served.