University Daily Kansan 45th Year No.63 Monday, Dec.15, 1947 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Cheerleaders Miami Bound If Band Goes
Dick Wintermote, head cheerleader, was asked for a statement on the prospects of the cheerleaders going to Miami for the Orange bowl game. It reads:
"The problem of the band going to Miami has been a question and a problem for the past few weeks. The question of how many cheerleaders
are going and how they are going depends on what the band does.
Paid Their Own Way Before
"The only chance for the cheerleaders is to go with the band. No other arangements have been made for us. We have paid our own expenses and found our own transportation to all out of state games this year. We are still expected to do so."
The following letter was sent by Winternote to the Miami cheerleaders in reply to the "greetings" sent by Kitty Collins, director of Miami cheerleaders:
"The yells we use most are included. A record of these yells will be sent soon so that you may hear the tempo.
"Dear Miss Collins.
The cheerleaders of Kansas University appreciate your recent letter very much. It is nice of the Miami cheerleaders to take an interest in K.U., especially since our student body will be so far from home at the time of the New Year's day game. We do hope to have several hundred Jayhawkers present, however. Two Cheerleaders May Go
"As far as I know at the present time there will possibly be two K.U. cheerleaders at the Orange bowl on Jan. 1. It is undecided here at present if transportation will be provided for us. Normally we have nine cheerleaders."
"Your letter was certainly appreciated Kitty, and I thank you very much. I look forward to meeting you in 'the land of sunshine' if I get to make the trip.
"Here's to K.U., a winning team with a great day coming up."
Sincerely,
Dick Wintermote
H. L. Miller Wins Rhodes Scholarship
Wintermute said that he was hoping the cheerleaders could make the Miami trip in a group. "If we do get to go we hope that the K.U. student body will not be too scattered for organized cheering," he said.
Henry Lawrence Miller, Graduate student and assistant instructor in economics, has been named the winner of a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford university starting in September, 1948. Miller was the only Kansas chosen from the 745 candidates from 214 institutions of higher learning.
WEATHER
Each Rhodes scholar receives 400 pounds annually during the three years granted plus a special annual allowance of 100 pounds. Miller, a married veteran, will continue to draw benefits under the G.I. Bill of Rights.
Kansas—Fair to partly cloudy today, tonight and Tuesday. Somewhat colder today and tonight. High today 35 to 45. Low tonight 20 to 30. Slightly warmer Tuesday afternoon.
At Oxford, Miller will study economics, philosophy and politics. He was active in student affairs as an underclassman participating in the Forums board and political science activities.
Ex-Student Killed When 'Chute Fails
William Cheatham, 25, Dallas,
Texas, was killed Sunday when
his parachute failed to open after
he had jumped from a low flying
plane. The plane had gone out
of control. Cheatham was a student
at the University in 1943,
1944, and 1945.
The pilot, who escaped with slight injuries, said he jumped when the plane was about 200 feet from the ground. Cheatham jumped next, but his chute did not have time to open.
Cheatham was a radio operator for Braniff airways. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Iona Smith of Lawrence, and a daughter, Teresa Ann, 2. Mrs. Cheatham was a student at the University in 1943 and 1944.
Bookstore Lines Get Death Blow
The old Army and Navy game of waiting in line, which has particularly plagued students in the bookstores, will receive a death blow next semester.
Each department of the University is preparing a list of all textbooks and supplies required for courses in the spring semester. As the students enroll they will be handed mimeographed lists of their books and supplies.
Thus, students will be able to buy their school supplies during the enrollment period. This will space the runs on the bookstores. It will also enable regular classwork to get underway several days earlier.
The plan was designed to ease the book-purchasing problems of student-veterans, who make up 60 per cent of enrollment at the University. The plan, however, will be used for all students.
Veterans will receive their requisition books as they finish enrolling. They then fill the requisition books from the mimeographed lists, take the books to the Veterans' bureau for approval, and wind up the process at one of the bookstores. Previously, the veterans had to wait until the first class meeting to fill out their books and get the instructor's approval.
Colorado Prof Next Speaker
The second in the University's series of lectures on the humanities will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser theater. Joseph W. Cohen, professor from the University of Colorado, will speak on "Functions of Philosophy in Modern Life."
Professor Cohen teaches philosophy at Colorado, is an author, and is active in UNESCO regional conferences. He has been a leader in the Regional Conference on the Humanities, an organization of more than 40 universities and colleges, which studies the problems of the modern university.
Dr. Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology, will address the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists tonight at Denver. Dr. Moore will speak under the auspices of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Clarence Hill Will Address
Sigma Delta Chi Tonight
Raymond Moore Will Talk To Denver Geology Club
The lecture is open to the public.
Clarence Hill, magazine editor from Kansas City, Mo., will address members and prospective members of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, at a 6:30 dinner tonight at the Hearth tea room.
Russians Make Drastic Move In Currency Cut
London.—(UP)—Russian leaders, who have been predicting an American depression for two years, prepared today to abolish rationing and devalue their own currency as much as 90 percent to avoid the disaster of inflation.
Rationing will be abolished and the exchange of new money for old will start tomorrow. Russians will be given one week to trade in their old rubles at 10 to 1, and after Dec. 22 the old ruble will be worthless. The drastic devaluation program is less harsh on savings and investments.
Karl Mattern, associate professor of drawing and painting, has accepted a position as professor of art at Drake university. The appointment becomes effective in September.
Russians greeted the new program with general rejoicing. Their wages will remain the same, paid in new rubles with 10 times more purchasing power. Almost all consumer prices are fixed at the ration price level or lower, eliminating the double standard of ration prices and commercial, or free market, prices.
Premier Josef Stalin signed the order which said it was aimed at depriving war speculators of their hoarded cash gains and eliminating all counterfeit German rubles introduced into the country during the occupation.
No Change In Wages
Professor Mattern came to the University in 1925. His paintings have been shown at several exhibits at the University. In 1942 he had a one-man exhibit in New York.
9 Shopping Days Til Christmas
The Kansas City Art institute awarded Professor Mattern the gold medal for midwestern artists in 1928, 1932, and 1934. His paintings are in museums in Brooklyn, N.Y., Denver, Wichita, Lincoln, Colorado Springs, and at Nebraska university.
Mattern Accepts Position At Drake
Elimination of rationing tomorrow was expected to set off a buying rush for food and clothing, which have been scare under the controlled Russian economy. Russians in general believed that huge reserves must have been built up by the government to meet the expected demand.
International observers said the currency reform was connected with the struggle for power in Europe and was designed to reinforce Russia's internal economy for the forthcoming battle against the Marshall plan.
Governor Urges Aid For Band's Bowl Trip
There was some speculation that Russia may put the ruble on the international market in competition with the dollar. Only Saturday Russia announced a trade agreement with Czechoslovakia, specifying values in Czech crowns. This is the first time that dollars have not been used as a reference in a Soviet foreign agreement.
The international value of the ruble will remain at 5.3 to $1.
The citizens of Kansas accepted Governor Frank Carlson's challenge Saturday to send the University band to the Orange Bowl.
Christmas Nativity Play
Cancelled, Crafton Says
In less than two days $1,000 toward the Miami trip had been collected in Topeka. Contributions were being made today in many Kansas cities for funds, but no estimate can be made of this amount.
Left wing college political organizations were discussed by James E. Youngdahl, field secretary of the Student League for Industrial Democracy, at a Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. coffe and forums meeting Friday.
The Christmas Nativity play which was to be given Wednesday by the University players has been cancelled, Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, announced today.
Speaker Flails Legion, VFW
A few of the groups which are active at the University and which were discussed are the Students for Democratic Action, Federal Union, American Veterans Committee, and the Committee on Racial Equality.
The first group analyzed was the American Youth for Democracy. It was founded in the same hall and at the same time the Commissary Youth League disbanded. The A.Y.D. even used the same officers. It has now been banned in six states.
Mr. Youngdahl explained that campus organizations are usually left wing because they are new and following radical plans.
"S.D.A. has done its best work in economic studies." Youngdahl stated.
Analyzes AYD Group
economic statutes," Youngdahl stated. "Federal Union defeats its own plan of world federalism, when it proposes one measure and forgets everything else. Its policy is good, but it can't be popular until it loses its self-centered proposition," said Mr. Youngdahl.
"The most hopeful veterans group is the A.V.C. which is growing fast nationally and doing excellent work on lowering prices. It carefully watches all veterans' legislation and has done a tremendous job in congress.
The opposite is the American Legion, a veteran's group that attracts most of its members through clubhouses and bars.
AVC Is Most Hopeful
"The right wing V.F.W. falls into the same pattern as the Legion. The AmVets has fallen apart during the past year and now has few active chapters," declared Mr. Youngdahl.
May Build On To Union South Wing
The Memorial corporation, owner of the Union and the stadium, authorized the Union-operating committee to gather information and estimates on an addition to the south wing of the Union.
At their Saturday meeting the Memorial corporation discussed the service the Union has given, and found that 1,300,000 meals have been served in the cafeteria.
Officers elected at the meeting were Irving Hill, president; Odgen S. Jones, 1st vice-president; and chairman of the Union operating committee; Dean L. C. Woodruff, and vice-president; James D. Waugh, 3rd vice-president; Karl Klooz, treasurer; and Fred Ellsworth, secretary.
The governor assumed full responsibility Saturday of raising the $15,000 necessary to take the 120-piece band, chaperons, and the cheerleaders to the game.
An answer Saturday by Chancellor Deane W. Malott to a telegram sent him Wednesday by Governor Carlson prompted the governor's "unusual action" to offer his office as a clearing house to receive funds for the band.
The governor met with Wayne McCoy, president of the University alumni association, this morning to set up goals of $150 for each Kansas county. A representative of the alumni association may be assigned to the governor's office to handle contributions coming there.
Set Up County Goals
A press conference this morning with Topeka papers and wire services showed full cooperation of the press in the drive for band funds. Radio station WIBW is making an appeal to all other radio stations in the state to support the fund-raising campaign.
Would Send Many
After the chancellor sent his telegram to the governor Saturday morning, he met with members of the band, the student council, the University Daily Kansan, and cheerleaders. The chancellor's decision not to send the band was based on the lack of performance time during half-times, the unadvisability of spending University money for the band, and the unwillingness of several alumni groups to take the lead in the drive.
The chancellor said that "under these circumstances, it seems equally desirable to send, for instance, the cheerleaders, the Jay James, the Ku Ku's, the K-Club, and the All Student Council, all of whom, among many other student organizations, have given time and whole-hearted support to our athletic program."
Immediately after the governor's statement to "send the band to the bowl," radio station WIBW in Topeka began broadcasting for the band fund. Newspapers, local organizations, and other radio stations in the state were asked by the governor to aid in the fund-raising drive.
In a telephone conversation with the governor's office, this morning, George Stafford, governor's secretary, told the University Daily Kansas that the governor had heard nothing from Chancellor Deane W. Malott since his telegram Saturday.
Baldwin Funeral To Be Arranged
London.—(UP)—Funeral services were being arranged today for Earl (Stanley) Baldwin, three-time prime minister of Britain whose last major act was to force the abdication of King Edward VIII, now the Duke of Windsor.
Baldwin died in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Worcestershire. He was 80. He had retired 10 years ago, shortly after the coronation of King George VI in 1937.
Baldwin generally is credited with the major role in the abdication crisis, which forced Edward and his duchess into a life of virtual exile from the British Isles.
Baldwin was a conservative but his eldest son, Viscount Corvedale, is a Socialist member of commons. He succeeds to the title and becomes a member of the house of lords, necessitating a by-election for his seat.