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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1947 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
45th Year No. 48
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Decorations Float Plans Announced
Homecoming will feature the largest parade Lawrence has ever seen, said Lester Morgan, chairman of the parade committee.
"Thirty-five floats will take part and they will be spaced at 100-foot intervals. We estimate the length of the parade to be 15 blocks," said Mr Morgan.
Haskell floats and band will make up the first third of the parade. They will follow the car in which the Homecoming queen is riding. She will be immediately behind the K.U. band, which will lead the parade.
In addition to the University organized house floats, there will also be a World War II memorial float and one sponsored by the Lawrence Memorial High school.
LMHS To Have Float
Others who will take part are R.O.T.C., Boy Scouts, National guard, American Legion, and Jay James.
Body Skinner, former sheriff of Douglas county, with two mounted assistants, will be parade marshal.
Trophies will be awarded for the most artistic, original, and appropriate float; there will be a division for footwear and for favors. Derriations Judged Two Ways
Homecoming house decorations will be judged on their appearance both day and night Dick Hawkinson, chairman of the decorations committee said today. The houses will be judged by a group consisting of faculty members and townspeople.
The house decorations will be judged mainly on novelty and appropriateness, he added. No more than $50.00 is to be spent by any one house.
The contest is to be split into four divisions: fraternity houses, sorority houses, independent men's dormitories, and independent women's dormitories. Awards will be made in each of these divisions, he said.
Winners of the contest will be announced either just before the game or during the half-time ceremonies, Hawkins said.
Reese Talks Over KFKU
By Bibler
There is still a great demand for trained pharmacists, said J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, on KFKU last night.
Dean Reese appeared on the "Calling the Deans on the Carpet" broadcast at 9:45 p.m., a weekly KFKU feature.
Drugs are a big business," he said. "Over 4 billion dollars worth of merchandise was sold in drug stores last year. One-half billion of that amount went for drugs alone."
"At present we are reviving a program which will eventually lead to a Doctor's degree in pharmacy." Dean Reese said. "The school has never before been able to offer such an opportunity to its students."
Because of this volume of business, trained pharmacists are in great demand. Graduates can make a beginning salary of as high as $400 a month. Dean Reese commented.
WEATHER
Kansas—Cloudy; light rain and snow extreme west, rain central. Spreading over remainder of state this afternoon and continuing tonight and extreme east Thursday. Little temperature change. High today 40 to 45. Low tonight 38 to 42.
Little Man On Campus
"I hope you won't mind—our housemother has to approve our dates."
"The crux of the issue is that aid be adequate and its supervision be so administered so as not to create a backwash of ill feeling toward the United States, based on notions that the autonomy of countries receiving aid has been in any way interfered with. There is no certainty that objectives can be fully realized, but the gamble of rehabilitating Europe is well worth taking. It would be stupid in the extreme to reduce our taxes now."
Faculty Men Give Reaction To Marshall Plan, Taxes
Three University professors agreed recently that a reduction of taxes at this time would be "stupid" but were equally divided on the question of whether or not they thought the Marshall plan would work.
Carroll D. Clark, professor of sociology;
Questioned by a University Daily Kansan reporter on their views toward these two issues facing the special session of Congress, the four professors made these answers:
"Europe should be fed and put on its feet and given a start to rebuild, but I'm afraid the United States will use the Marshall plan as a political device. The plan has already been explained to apply to China which is going to build up Kai Chek, a Fascist government of the worst type. It seems to me, in many places, that we are backing a Fascist regime the people don't want, and as a result we are earning the ill will of the common people in many parts of the world."
"Whether the Marshall plan will work is highly in doubt. This plan depends on whether or not Eastern and Western Germany will be integrated and I see no indication of Russia will move out. Furthermore, how many plans projected on Europe since the first World War have worked out? The score is zero! Why be an optimist now?"
"As for lowering taxes, when we refuse to tax ourselves heavily enough to keep a stable price level, we don't evade a penny of taxes that would have been needed to keep price levels down. If, in this time of roaring prosperity and full employment, we are unwilling to pay anything on the debt, when are we going to pay that debt, or any part of it?"
walter Kollmorgen, professor of Geography:
Don't Worry They're Safe
The Homecoming game will not catch us with out bleachers down. A crew directed by Dell Davidson, stadium custodian, is setting up a temporary stand to seat 2,000 persons.
"Our men have been setting up this type of bleacher for 20 years and know how to do it." Mr. Falkenstien said. "However we are taking every precaution possible to see that they stay in place and don't fall like those in St. Louis did recently. Those were about 30 rows high which made them more risky. Our equipment is 15 years old, but has been well taken care of. If any one doubts our stands, he is welcome to go down and inspect them."
Arranged in a straight line across the south end of the field, the stands will be 17 rows high.
Dial System Begins Midnight Saturday
E. L. Falkenstien, business manager of athletics, said that the bleachers were as safe as possible.
After this week, University telephones will do without the voice of the operator on the wire. The dial system will do the work.
The University telephone exchange will be switched over to the dial system at midnight Saturday, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today.
A staff directory of faculty members and administrative officers' new telephone numbers is being printed by the University press and will be distributed sometime this week before the new system goes into effect, Mr. Nichols added.
Doesn't Owe Debt Herriott Tells ASC Claims $147.06 Left In 'Bird' Fund; Declares He Owns Magazine Stock
Declaring that he owned the Bitter Bird "lock, stock, and barrel," Terry Herriotti, former editor of the campus humor magazine, in a letter to the All Student Council refused to pay $325.31 in Council claims. The letter was read at the A.S.C. meeting Tuesday by George Pyle, chairman of the auditing committee.
The A.S.C. paid the $325.21 for Bitter Bird debts which, they said, were contracted by Herriott when he was editor of the magazine. The Council had expected to collect the money from Herriott.
I have taken on the responsibility of paying the debts I consider valid because I took on the responsibility of printing the Bitter Bird last year. I would like an explanation of why I should repay you for Bitter Bird money which you use."
in a telegram to the University Daily Kansan Sept. 25 Herriott said that the only Bitter Bird debt to his knowledge was to the Lawrence Journal World for $113.06, which he promised to pay. The telegram also stated, "I alone am responsible for the Bitter Bird."
herrnott's letter to the Council said in part:
The Council approved sending one delegate to the Big Six meeting on racial discrimination to be held at the University of Nebraska Nov. 29 and 30, and voted $25 for the delegate's expenses. A resolution was passed instructing the delegate to vote against any form of racial discrimination in the Big Six.
Delegate to UNESCO.
"Who in the hell do you think you are kidding when you ask me to repay this to you?... I know absolutely that there was at least $147.06 and probably more in the Bitter Bird fund from last year. Just what do you expect to do with that?...
May I inform you that I own the Bitter Bird lock, stock, and barrel. I have a copyright on the name and everything that ever appeared in it.
The council also decided to send a representative to the UNESCO convention Dec. 12 and 13 at Wichita, and voted $25 for expenses.
The Council floundered in a maze of sections and sub-sub sections of a proposed constitutional amendment presented by Betty van der Smissen, chairman of the social committee, to clarify the duties of the dance manager. The amendment was passed by the Council and referred to the chancellor for approval.
Louise Warner and Lee Reiff, newly elected freshman representatives, were sworn in by James Waugh, president. George Pyle resigned as Council member, and Theodore Utschen, College sophomore, was sworn in to replace him. Robert Wehe, was appointed chairman of the auditing committee in place of Pyle. Phillip Hill was also named to the auditing committee. Approve Appropriations
Appropriations to campus organizations approved by the Council include $350 for the forums board, $150 for the student statewide activities commission, and $75 to the traditions committee for refreshment expenses at the victory celebration Monday.
Betsey Sheidley, chairman of the publications committee, informed the Council that a $51.78 profit from the K-book had been divided among the editor, business manager, and their assistants.
Members at the meeting included Mary Jane Byers, Robert W. Campbell, Ruth Brown, George Robb, James Waugh, Hill, Miss van der Smissen, Pyle, Miss Sheidley, Wehe, William Cole, Harriett Harlow, Nancy Welker, Helen Heath, Sue Webster, John Margrave, Lynn Leigh, Arthur Ruppenthal, Duane
Postlethwaite, Richard Gunn, George Caldwell, Arnold Englund, George McCarthy, Shirley Wellborn, Keith Wilson, Edwin Kelley, Utschen, and Miss Warner.
Inspectors Visit Daily Kansan
The William Allen White School of Journalism is host today and tomorrow to an accrediting committee of four men who are inspecting the school for possible accreditation as a professional school. The program, the first of its kind, is being administered by the American Council on Education for Journalism-on which schools of journalism and five publishers' and editors' associations are represented.
Include Toneka Publisher
The committee visiting the campus includes Dr. Earl English, University of Missouri; executive secretary; Dr. Raymond Nixon, director of the school of journalism at Emory university, Georgia; Oscar Stauffer, Topeka, president of Stauffer publications, and Gideon D. Seymour, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.
They will be guests at 6:30 p.m. tonight at a dinner in the English room of the Union. The dinner was arranged by Sigma Delta Chi, Theta Sigma Phi, Gamma Alpha Chi, and Alpha Delta Sigma, professional societies in journalism and advertising. This noon, the visitors were guests at a luncheon given by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
To Visit Students, Classes
To Visit Students, Classes
During their visit, the committee members will visit classes, watch the operation of the University Daily Kansan, inspect library and laboratory facilities, confer with students, faculty members, and administrators. They visited the University of Missouri before coming to Kansas. On Friday they will inspect Kansas State college at Manhattan.
Student directories should be ready for distribution about December 17, Harlan Lill. editor, said today.
Directories Ready By December 17
This is the same date that last year's issue was distributed. Lill said that all copy has gone to the printer and that printing would be delayed due to a two-day holiday over Thanksgiving for the printers.
"The fact that this year's issue is larger than any former issue has delayed us," Lill said. "However we expect distribution to go much faster than last year."
Senate Committee OK's Emergency Bill
Washington—(UP) — The Senate foreign relations committee today unanimously approved the administration's emergency bill to authorize $597,000,000 of emergency relief for France, Italy and Austria.