University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
44th Year No. 143
Monday, May 19, 1947
Lawrence, Kansas
Work To Start On Bell Tower Director Says
The World War II Memorial association board voted Saturday to start work on the carillon tower soon, Kenneth Postlethwaite, organization director, said today.
Estimates of the costs of the bells will be released as soon as they are all received by the association.
"We are making a concerted effort to reach the $250,000 goal very shortly," he said.
More Bellringers Added
In the meantime, reports from on the campus and throughout the state show that two organized houses, Sigma Nu and Phi Kappa Psi, and 18 individuals have been added to the list of "Bellringers" by contributing $100 or more.
In the current downtown Lawrence campaign, the Memorial drive team directed by Simon Hurwitz has reported $200 in contributions.
Local Contributions
The total amount contributed by students in the 1946 and 1947 campaigns is $8,494.47, Mr. Postlethwaite said.
The goal set by the Chamber or Commerce last year was $50,000;$30,000 of this was collected in the 1946 campaign.
Individual "Bellringers" are Burger-Baird Engineering Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Sid Harris, Ottawa; George Bowlus, Jr. and W. S. Fees, Jr. Iola; Richard Shields, Lawrence; Levi Zimmerman and D. B. Joseph, Whitewater; F. R. Lobaugh, Washington, Kan.; Lloyd B. Ferrell, Clarence Coleman, W. P. and L. W. Buck, Robert C. Foulston, Samuel W Bartlett, Ellis D. Berer, Lloyd F. Cooper, Andrew Schooppel, Frank Carson, and Payne Ratner, Wichita; and W. E. Linbacker, Kirkwood, Mo.
Outdoor Art Exhibit Called Off Today
Threat of rain caused Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity, to call off their outdoor art exhibit in Fowler grove today.
The pictures, by fine arts students, were on display to determine the popular choice. Sightseeing students were given ballots and asked to vote for the one they liked best. Weather permitting, the exhibit will be put up again tomorrow, and the balloting will continue.
The paintings have already been judged by members of the fine arts faculty. Richard Anderson, sophomore, was awarded first prize for his oil painting "Cracking Plant." It is a somber canvas depicting a railroad siding in the foreground and the gasoline cracking plant in the background, all under a cloud-laden skvy.
LuAnne Powell, sophomore, won second place for her painting of a house in a forest clearing. Gordon Saunders, engineering freshman, won third prize for his water color drawing of squares and circles.
Stockton Elected To Executive Committee
Dean F. T. Stockton of the School of Business was elected to the executive committee of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, in St. Louis Saturday. He will serve a three-year term.
The organization consists of the heads of the country's 56 leading business schools in colleges and universities.
WEATHER
Kansas—Mostly cloudy today with intermittent showers in east and south. Partly cloudy tonight. Scattered showers in eastern one-third of state. Partly cloudy Tuesday.
"Just what constitutes a final in this course, professor?"
Oldest Grad Dies At 95
Miss Hannah Oliver, the University's oldest graduate and a member of the faculty from 1890 until she retired as a professor emerita in 1931, died at 10:15 a. m. today. She was 95 years old.
Miss Oliver was born in Cornwall, England and came to Kansas with her family in 1860, when the University was being built. She has lived in Lawrence since then.
She was one of the three members of the University's second graduating class in 1874, and received her master's degree in 1888.
The Hannah Oliver Latin prize for undergraduate students in Latin is an annual award originated in honor of her 80th birthday in 1932. The 1946-47 award will be made next month.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m.
Wednesday in the Methodist church.
Miss Oliver had been an active member
of that church for 80 years.
ISA Elects Dance Queen
Elizabeth Bradney, College junior, was crowned queen of the I.S.A. Sweetheart dance Saturday in the Union ballroom. Her attendents were Jane Tippin, College sophomore, and Patricia Graham, College junior.
Every woman attending the dance who was an I.S.A. member was eligible for the queenship, which was determined by the spinning of a numbered wheel. Prizes donated by Lawrence merchants were then presented to the three winners.
Norman Jennings, College freshman, was master of ceremonies at intermission, and sang a humorous version of "Night and Day." The Locksley hall trio of Violet Orloff, Loraine Mai, and Dessie Hunter, sang two numbers.
A trio composed of Marjorie Vogel, Bolivar Marquez, and Jack Rardin sang and played South American songs, and Rardin played two piano solos.
Quigley Did The Talking But Not For 'Phog' Allen
Coach Says He Made No Statement On Negro Participation In Basketball
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, basketball coach, told the University Daily Kansan today he had "made no definite statement concerning Negroes coming out for basketball next fall.
"I see no reason why there should be any restriction on their trying out for the team, but no specific policy has been set on the issue yet."
Normal Service Restored Today
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP) —Complete telephone service in western Missouri and Kansas, for the first time in 42 days, was restored today when Southwestern Bell Telephone company workers returned to their jobs as the Association of Communication Equipment Workers Union withdrew picket lines.
Telephone company officials said full service approaching normal would not be possible until the bulk of the operators returned to work at 9 a.m.
Office employees started returning to their jobs shortly after 8 a.m.
W. A. Bastian, area representative of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, said the back-to-work movement was made possible by an agreement with the Western Electric employees union, to recall pickets.
Bastian said that the 4,000 workers in the greater Kansas City area would return to their jobs today.
Union Activities Committees Open
The Union activities board is taking applications for the chairmanship of 12 committees to work through next fall and spring semesters.
The positions are open to anyone with a C average who is willing to give time every week to the committee work.
Applications will be received until Friday, and the selections will be announced Monday.
The positions are intra-murals, social, decorations, coffees and tertainment, publicity, service, public liasion, library, secretarial staff, forums, clubs and organizations, enand announcements.
- Allen's statement was caused by a letter from Frank Stannard, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, printed in the "Spotlight" column of the University Daily Kansan Friday.
Quotes E. C. Quigley
In the letter Stannard said that "Mr. E. C. Quigley recently announced to two representatives of the Congress on Racial Equality, Bill Scheinman and Frank Stannard, that Dr. F. C. Allen has stated that Negroes may try out for the basketball team on an equal basis with all new players reporting for the team."
Mr. Quigley told the University Daily Kansan that he had been misquoted by Stannard. When he made the statement concerning Negroes coming out for the team, he was speaking for himself, and not for Dr. Allen, the athletic director said.
Can Try For Any Team
"I think it is pretty evident that Negroes can come out for any sport they wish." Mr. Quigley added. "We've had some out for both baseball and football. There should be no doubt in anybody's mind about their being allowed to try out for any team."
Stannard said that all he knew was what Mr. Quigley had told him. "I do wish the issue would come to light so that we could get something definite on it," he declared.
"If Negroes are to be allowed to come out for basketball, fine. If not, why not?"
Four College Freshmen May Be Camp Counselors
Four College freshmen have been offered jobs as summer camp counselors at Camp Wood, Elmldale. Ned Linegar, YMCA secretary, said today.
They are, Robert Chesky, Orin
Wiley I., Ernest Friesen,
and Myron Enns.
Mr. Linegar said these students were counselers last year. If the offers are accepted, they will go to Camp Wood for the session beginning June 20.
1800UNESCO Delegates Discuss World Problems
By ALLAN W. CROMLEY
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural organization, was brought down to the level of the common man last week.
Nearly 1,800 persons from eight states in the mountain-plains area poured into Denver. They represented civic clubs, colleges, youth groups about every type of public organization.
UNESCO was born at the San Francisco United Nations conference in 1945. It was to be an international peace organization with headquarters in Paris.
On July 30, 1946, President Truman signed a bill authorizing United States membership. At that time the president said that the United States would work with UNESCO "to the end that the minds of all people may be freed from prejudice, suspicion, and fear, and that all men may be crucified for justice, liberty, and the problem to the grass roots level, and many skeptics were convinced that UNESCO may be worthwhile.
The session opened with Howard Wilson, an official on the preparatory commission for UNESCO, telling the delegates about the four immediate
aims of UNESCO. They are:
ONE. Relief of war ravaged areas. TWO. Interchange of persons for study between nations.
THREE. Education to stamp out world illiteracy.
FOUR. Scientific planning, such as a reclamation project in the upper Amazon valley.
But the problem that was hammered at throughout the conference was the exchange of information by all the peoples of the world. Nine Subject Forums
The conference was divided into nine subject matter forums. They were reconstruction, education, social sciences, creative arts, science, libraries, religion, exchange of persons. and mass media.
Mass media included radio, press, and films. These are the agencies that must put across the very purpose of UNESCO, international understanding and good will.
It was easy to see that the weakness of any organization such as UNESCO is its domination by the stratospheric intellectuals. They deal in $5 cliches and high flown platitudes that the common man dismisses as hopelessly idealistic. This failing was apparents in one of the speeches.
Let Newsmen Do Job
The mass media section proposed to the conference that UNESCO propaganda be handled by experienced newsmen who would deal in plain talk, not the "gobbledygook" of officialdom.
Conference leaders often cautioned not to expect too much from UNESCO that it is no cure-all. The voice of experience got ahead from the very start, and that seemed to be OK by the starry-eyed intellectuals themselves.
Several nationally known persons spoke to the conference. Paul Porter, President Truman's observer in Greece, told the delegates that the structure of the United Nations depends on the well-being of Greece.
He warned, "Failure to enforce the Truman doctrine would bring swift and certain collapse of Greece." Plugs For "Voice of America"
Howland Sargeant, a state department official in public affairs, plugged for the continuance of the "Voice of America," the United States foreign broadcasting system, "to cover the earth with truth."
Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State college, urged reduction by all nations of governmentally spread information. He hoped for the breakdown of barriers so that dissemination of information could be continued by private agencies.
And so it was a parade of speeches, meetings, and more of the same. At the end of the conference one delegate said, "Brother, I'm about UNESCO'd out."