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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947
League To Study Civil Rights And Discrimination
Over 100 Kansas organization concerned with civil rights and racial discrimination have been invited to send delegates to the first state conference on civil rights, which will be held Dec. 29 at the Plymouth Congregational church. The invitation comes from the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy.
The conference will make a study of the recommendations of President Truman's committee on civil rights as they apply to the civil rights problems in Kansas, Ned Linegar, Y.M.C.A. secretary and chairman of the conference committee, said. Will. Study. Kansas Law
Delegates will make a study of the present Kansas civil rights law and make recommendations to the state legislative council to bring Kansas in line with recommendations of the president's committee, Mr. Linegar said.
The Committee on Racial Equality recently began a program to collect evidence of racil discrimination for submission to the legislative council as part of a campaign to secure a new civil rights law for Kansas. Present Law Inadequate
The L.L.P.D., C.O.R.E., and other groups in the state have frequently complained that the present Kansas law is inadequate and allows violation by local ordinance. The conference will consider reports of violations from all parts of the state in preparing recommendations for the legislative council.
University organizations are expected to take part in the conference, along with delegates from other schools in the state. The conference will consider the possibility of establishing a permanent state conference to co-ordinate activities of local organizations, Mr. Linegar said.
Staffs To Discuss Magazine Problem
Kansas Engineer and K-State Engineer staffs will meet for the first time in the schools' histories at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, in the East room of the Union.
The two engineering staffs will discuss:
One. How Kansas State's Engineering exhibition plans can be adapted to the University engineering exhibition April 17.
Three. The editorial and printing problems and interchange of engineer-ing articles between the two magazines.
Two. The possibility of making the Kansas Engineer "Illustrative-Technical" writing contest a state-wide college engineering contest, and raising the present prize from $150 to $300.
Business Frat Is Reactivated
The Iota chapter, Delta Sigma Pi professional business fraternity again became active at the University with the initiation of 14 members Thursday.
Discontinued shortly before the war, the chapter was reactivated by Kansas City alumni.
The following faculty men, all members of the fraternity, were in c. a ge of initiation:
John Ise, Joseph Berry, Vernon Ferguson, Frank Pinet, and Richard Howey.
diates were Walter C. Emery, Richard Wahl, Charles Wardin, Donald Fulton, Raymond Moore, Robert
Boils, Duane James, Bill Johnson,
Edgar Johnson, Stuart Lambers,
St Land, James Swalwell, Gordon
Winter, and Robert Docking.
Officers are headmaster, Duane James; senior warden, Walter C. Emery; junior warden, Evert Land; treasurer, Robert Docking; scribe, Raymond Moore; historian, Charles Wardin; cancellor, Donald Fulton.
Beat the Heck out of Georgia Tech!
Vets Remember Pearl Harbor As Anniversary Approaches
Amazement, bewilderment, and anger describe the reactions of student veterans at the University of Kansas when they first heard that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Asked by a University Daily Kansan reporter to give their reaction to that attack and to compare Dec. 7 this year to that date of former years.
APO Schedules Benefit Dance
Alba Phi Omega will have a March of Dimes dance Feb. 6, 1948 William Palmer, A. P. O. dance chairman told members Thursday. Arrangements for installation of officers and initiation of 31 pledges Saturday was also announced.
Palmer said that the dance will be held after the national March of Dimes campaign (Jan. 15 to 30, 1948) because of conflicts with other dances and semester finals. No orchestra has been selected, but the dance will be in the Union ballroom.
Installation ceremonies for the new officers and initiation of new members will begin at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine room. A banquet will follow in the Kansas room starting at 6:30 p.m. James K. Hitt, registrar, will speak at the banquet, included among the 70 persons expected for the installation will be Sidney B. North, national secretary of A. P. O.
Samuel Wayner, national representative of the Boy Scouts of America, arrived here today to interview persons interested in a professional routing career. He will conduct he interviews in the school of business office starting at 2:15 p.m.
Women Give Scholars' Tea
A scholarship tea honoring Lockley hall and Kappa Alpha Theta was given at Corbin hall Thursday afternoon by the Interdorm and Pen-Hellenic councils.
Scholarship cups were presented by Elizabeth Evans, speaker of the women's house of representatives. to Lucile Ralston, president ofocks hall, and Jan Joseph, scholarship chairman of Kappa Alpha Theta.
In the receiving line were Mary Catherine Shatzell, Maxine Gunsolly, Virginia Winter, and Miss Bolston.
Fiano music was played by Billie George, Norma Kennedy, Harriet Harlow, Iva Belle Flora, Karen York, and Anna Marie Siemens.
Joan Clough and Barbara Johnson poured.
Sophomores Plan Leap Year Dance
A leap year theme will be the basis for the Sophomore Hop to be held Feb. 28, Gene Allen, chairman of the decorations committee, said Thursday.
Stanley Englund, class president, has announced the names of committee chairmen named to assist with preparations for the dance. They are William Roehl, publicity; Allen, decorations; Paul Dillon, tickets; Phillip Carlson, program.
Newsprint Prices Rise; Kansas Costs Triple
Interviews Civil Engineers
The price of newsprint has risen $6 to $96 per ton, the Abilibi Co., Ltd., of Toronto announced today. Canada supplies the United States with about 80 per cent of its newsprint.
W. E. Gardner, representative of the Wabash railroad, visited the civil engineering office Thursday to interview civil engineering students who will graduate in February.
the veterans answered:
Thomas C. Rythe, supervisor of the University press, said today that newspaper price paid by the University Daily Kansan has risen from $50 a ton to about $120 in five years.
Lyle Martin, president of Armanav said, "I was attending a matinee in Little Rock and didn't hear the news until I called my girl that night. My first reaction was anger then I wondered what was going to happen next. On Dec. 7, 1944, I was in combat in the Philippines and exactly one year and a day later I received my discharge from the army."
Marko L. Haggard, president of American Veteran's committee said, 'I was at my home in Hastings, Neb., where I was attending college, when I heard the news over the radio. At first I didn't recognize the consequence. I had more or less expected it but I didn't feel the personal implication at that time. On Dec. 7, 1943, I was in Brooks General hospital at San Antonio.'$^{7}$
Emmet Greene, engineering sophomore, said, "I was just a sophomore in high school and I was playing sandlot football when I heard the news. Like most high school students, I was pretty much amazed. On Pearl Harbor day of 1945, I was in Shanghai on an LCT and there were rumors we were taking some marines up the Yangtze river to the interior."
The University Daily Kansan regrets that it was necessary to omit 200 inches of advertising from this issue. Included were a page from Weaver's, and advertisements by Morgan-Mack, and Hixon's. Watch for them Monday.
Lester Main, College junior, said, "I was in dad's service station listening to the radio when the news came. My first thought was whether the age limit would be low enough so I could get in the army. On Dec. 7, 1945, I was on the front in the Hurtgen forest in Belgium. Eleven days later the Battle of the Bulge started and I was taken prisoner."
Space Shortage Causes Omission Of Some Ads
Appointments of Prof. Ethan P. Allen as delegate and Prof. Hilden Gibson as observer to represent the University of Kansas at the first Kansas United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization conference at Wichita, Dec. 12 and 13, were announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malatt.
Five Will Attend UNESCO Meeting
Beat the Heck out of Georgia Tech!
'Germans Would Rebuild For War'
If the Allies pull out of Germany, intensely patriotic Germans will begin rebuilding for another war within a month, according to Judge Marion Beatty, '31, who visited the campus recently. Judge Beatty, a Topeka attorney, has just returned from Augsburg, where he was judge of the military government court.
"The food situation is critical because nothing has been raised for a long time, and the nation has no other countries to supply them as they did under Hitler." he said.
Judge Beatty said that there was no evidence in Germany of organized Nazi underground forces, despite information to the contrary in Collier's magazine.
Judge Beatty tried many persons for giving false information to the court. "One Nazi drew a 10 year's prison sentence for saying he was born and educated in Brooklyn," he said. "We found he had never left Germany."
Dr. W. H. Schoewe will be an official delegate for the State Geological Survey at the conference. Wallace Lee and Dr. J. M. Jewett will be observers from the survey. Plans are to establish a permanent state U. N. E. S. C, O. Kansas is the first state to take such a step. Professor Allen has been serving on the temporary executive committee.
Americans would be dopes if they allowed these organizations to flourish. All Germans are under strict military law, and all violators are quickly arrested."
Campus Briefs—
German boys who stole supplies from American trains were frequent visitors to Judge Beatty's court. They received two or three years in prison.
German Club Hears Songs
Twila Wagner, pianist, and Harry Spencer, French horn, played music written by German composers for German club Thursday. The next meeting will be Dec. 11.
They presented selections of Bach, Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn. Before each selection Spencer gave introductory remarks about the lives and works of each composer.
Saint Nicholas is known as Santa Claus in the United States. A legend concerning Saint Nicholas was told in song and pantomime by Tom Rea, Lucille Murray, Margaret Harness, and Arleen Feldkamp. J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages, was Saint Nicholas.
The annual festival of Saint Nicholas was celebrated by Le Cerulee Francais Thursday night in Frank Strong hall.
French Club Fetes Foreign Santa Claus
Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholarship organization, will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
Phyllis Seacat led the group in singing German songs. She was accompanied by Marilyn Lee.
Marilyn Franklin read the story of the Nativity in French and Loraine Mai sang two carols.
Latin And Greek Professor
To Speak To Phi Beta Kapp
New members will be initiated and Miss Mary Grant, associate professor of Latin and Greek will speak on "Impressions of Italy."
The officers will meet in the Union at 5 p. m. and from there tour the campus with guides furnished by the International club. A dinner at the Hearth at 7:30 p. m. will follow, with Marilyn Rust, president of the club, as mistress of ceremonies. Aldio Aliotto, engineering senior, will welcome the visiting officers.
The International club will be host Saturday to 32 foreign army officers from 12 nations now in training at the command and staff school at Ft. Leavenworth.
32 Foreign Officers To Visit Campus
They will also be special guests at the Independent Student association Christmas dance in the Union ballroom.
The officers are from Argentina, Bolivia, China, Ecuador, France, Iran, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Turkey.
Young Republicans To Meet
In Green Hall Tonight
The Young Republicans will mee at 7:30 tonight in 166 Green hall. The group will hold an open forum to discuss communism. All persons who are interested in attending the Young Republican state convention in Salina Saturday are asked to attend the meeting.
The University chapter will take the stand that the "wet vs. dry" issue is a moral and not a political issue in the coming campaign. At the convention K.U. members will attempt to remove the "gag-rule".
Chapman Asks Rationing Power For Fuel Reserves
Washington—(UP)—Acting Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman asked congress again today for standby presidential powers to ration and control the price of coal and oil to avert a possible "national economic catastrophe."
Voluntary Program Planned
Voluntary measures by the oil industry, the public and the government should ease the problems of shortages and rising prices, he said. But price control and rationing powers should be available as a last resort.
Meanwhile, government officials said that President Truman was expected to start the government's fuel and power conservation drive with an appeal for voluntary rationing by consumers.
Mr. Truman is expected to urge citizens to heat their homes only to minimum temperatures this winter, reduce use of electricity, and eliminate unessential automobile driving.
These officials said a sweep of bad weather might wipe out the nation's slender reserves of fuel and power.
Officials said there would be no effort to invoke any "driveless" days and that the question would be left up to the conscience of individuals. Fuel Supplies Are Short
New England is around 20 per cent short of petroleum supplies and the Midwest is due for the same condition around February or March, they said.
These officials said there are two main reasons for the current scarcities: the tremendous clip at which both the public and industry are consuming fuel and power of all kinds and the shortage of steel for transportation and producing equipment.
May Enroll Now For Reading Lab
Pre-enrollment is underway for next semester's reading and study laboratories. Any student may enroll now in these laboratories, which are open to all University classes, through the educational clinic in 13 Fraser hall.
Individual and group remedial work begins next term. Benefit of the student is the main goal of the course. $ \mathrm {N o} $ credit is offered for it and no outside study is required.The laboratories are designed to improve the student's reading habits, his general study habits, and his ability to study text-book material effectively.
Enrollment for all regular College classes will begin February 2, 1948, according to the spring registration, and enrollment schedule posted. Classes will begin Thursday, Feb. 5.
Official Bulletin
Dec. 6, 1947
Worship services sponsored by Student Religious council, 8:36-8:50 a.m. each morning at Danforth chapel.
Y. W.C.A. cabinet, 4 p.m. today, Myers, hall, upstairs, Dr. Winburn Thomas, guest speaker.
Anyone interested in attending Young Republican's State convention at Salina this Saturday, call 2222-M before Saturday noon.
Christmas dance, 9-12 Saturday,
Union ballroom. Semi - formal.
Charles O'Connor's orchestra and
special entertainment.
Union Library committee, 4 p.m.
Monday, Pine room, Union building.
Independent's executive committee, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Union lounge. All precinct captains.
Finance committee, A.S.C., 7:30 p.m. Monday, recreation room, Union building.
Checks Won't Be Early
The December checks for University faculty members will not be out "any earlier than usual," Karl Klooz, told a University Daily Kansan reporter today.
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