University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, May 13, 1947
44th Year No. 139
Lawrence. Kansas.
Americans Too Dumb For Atom Age, Ise Says
'We're Peace Loving, But We'd Pound Hell Out Of Those Disliking Our Peace'
Americans aren't smart enough to live in the atomic age, John Ise, professor of economics, told the American Veterans committee Monday night.
Speaking at the A.V.C. birthday banquet, he said, "rationality in ordinary life is nothing to be hilarious about, in this land of the brave and
fuddled. This is the land where thousands of young ladies swoon at the voice of Frank Sinatra; where the people pay taxes for medical schools and services, then permit the radio salesmen to sell carloads of injurious drugs and medicines.
"It's the land where farmers sell their good corn and wheat and buy back chicken feed at twice the price but guaranteed to cure all poultry diseases from croup to cholera.
"It is the land where students go without textbooks in order that there may be plenty of paper for the advertising of automobiles that are not for sale, and liver pills that should not be for sale.
We're War Mongering Dopes
"We have won, or at any rate ended, the second world war at a cost of a million casualties and several hundred billion dollars. Yet we have armies in many parts of the globe, and are planning for the third world war as soon as we can get the budget balanced and can find a new crop of boys to do the fighting.
It will be a defensive war, of course, to be fought only for the defense of American democracy wherever there is not too much of it.
We'll Always Be Dopes
"We are a peace-loving people," Professor Ise continued, "and we will be obliged to pound hell out of any other people who do not like our peace, particularly if that nation happens to be communistic."
Professor Ise questioned whether our people can ever develop enough intelligence to operate a vastly complicated economy. He answered those who say we have been operating successfully for 160 years by saying, "The history of the past 160 years proves nothing."
"During these calm ears the government did very little very badly and we didn't need much public intelligence. On the few government functions that were undertaken, the people voted wrong more often than right.
We've Always Been Dopes
"On the tariff the people were uniformly wrong, at least after the civil war. On monopoly regulation, uniformly ineffective. On the land policy, the people were as wrong as they could be, although there was evidence of a rise of public intelligence after the lands were gone and it was too late to do much about it. On railroad regulations, they were wrong or bumbling for 75 years."
Professor Ise said it is not a cheering picture of American democracy but perhaps it would improve when the college graduates got into action.
Had To Rout Out Spout, Baker Pouts
A clogged down-spout at Watson library was the cause of the three-story scaffold erected in front of the building Monday.
Workmen cleaned out the drain pipe which had been backing water into the building and spoiling the interior plaster. The job was completed by 5 p.m. and the scaffolding removed.
"I wish that architects had to do the maintenance on the buildings they design," C. M. Baker, director of libraries, said bitterly.
Italian Cabinet Resigns Under Red Pressure
Rome.—(UP)—Premier Alcide De Gasperi resigned today with his entire coalition cabinet. He yielded to the heavy pressure generated by his efforts to eliminate Communist influence in the government.
The cabinet resignation followed an expression of reserve by Pietro Nenni's Socialist party. The socialists favor fusion with the Communists.
The crisis came after 10 days of
troubled jockeying. De Gasperi's own Christian Democrat party
assailed his "weakness" and failure to
break with the communists.
Indications of American influence seemed unmistakable in the moves to weaken leftist power in Italy. The U. S. embassy, however, said that "we have never given any advice to De Gasperi, and he has not asked or any."
But on his January trip to the United States De Gasperi had decided to try to form a government without Communists. He had conferred with President Truman and top ranking American state department officials.
I. R. Club Postpones Meeting
The International Relations club has postponed its meeting scheduled for tonight. They will meet at 6 p.m. on May 20 in the Kansas room of the Union, Kenneth Beck, president, said today.
Student Play Will Be Given May 14,15
The first University all-student play in 25 years will be presented in Fraser theater on May 14 and 15 when the curtain goes up on "Thy Kingdom Come." Although there have been some all-student musicals since the '20s, this is the first legitimate production since that time. Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama said.
Tickets for the play may be purchased at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall. Student activity books do not cover this event.
A group of 20 students have been working on "Thy Kingdom Come" since the Easter recess. The play was written by James Gunn, College senior, as his main project in playwriting and represents his first effort in this field.
Ivan Sparling, graduate student, was chosen as producer-director of the play. He will use the experience in this work as the material for his master's thesis.
Members of the cast are Loren Kennedy, James Nelson, Georgann Eyler, Jack Labowitz, Bill Roberts, Herk Harvey, Douglas Jennings, Vivian Rogers, Bill Ogg, Alice McDonnell, Merlyn Norris, Dave Brown, Beane Tack, Richard Brining, Margaret Gosney, Dean Frazier, Harry Warden, Arnold Davidson, and Bruce Bathurst.
In addition to the cast, eight other students have been working behind the scenes. Jack Morton, engineering sophomore, designed the set and arranged the lighting. Tom Shay, James Palmer, Dan Palmquist, and Philip Fee constructed the set.
Louise Lambert, Mable Cable, and Peggy Foster have been handling properties and prompting.
Parking Zone 9 Closed— You Can Park In Zone 10
Parking zone 9 has been closed because of construction work which is being done in the area, Robert Corwin, campus policeman said today. Zone 9 cars may now be parked in zone 10 on Mississippi, from McCook street to the bus stop west of the Union building.
Revolt Fails To Upset Dean Swarthout's Calm
Mutineers Flee Art Classes Early Today; Believed To Have Taken Bussés In Escape
A minor revolution brewed on the campus this morning, as a bevy of fine arts free souls mutinied against academic discipline and staged a walk-out to Lone Star lake.
Writer To Talk To KU Students At 4:30 Today
Doris Fleeson, Washington columnist, will speak at an opeh meeting in the lecture room of the Journalism building at 4:30 p. m. today. Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the journalism department, said that the meeting was not restricted to journalism students and that anyone interested in political affairs is invited to attend.
Miss Fleeson was the featured speaker at the Advertising and Sales Executives in Kansas-City, Monday.
Miss Fleeson is a columnist for Bell syndicate. Her articles are published in daily newspapers, including the Kansas City Star. During the war, she was correspondent in North Africa, England, France, and Italy for the Woman's Home Companion. For her work, she received an award for outstanding achievement in reporting. Previously she was on the staff of the New York Daily News, the largest daily in the United States.
She will be a guest this evening of Theta Sigma Phi, journalism honorary sorority, at a dinner in the English room at 6:30 o'clock. She is a house guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Dainss, 1224 Louisiana street.
The mass movement of drawing and painting students began at 10 a.m. when fine arts instructors glanced around their classrooms and found only empty seats.
They Wanna Be Beauty Queens, Too--
She received the bachelor of arts degree here in 1923 and was a major in journalism. Her home is Sterling, Kansas.
(University Daily Kansan photos by James Mason)
CANDIDATES FOR K. U.S COPPER CALHOUN, the name chosen for the Jayhawker queen contest, include (left to right) Edith Malott, College freshman from Lawrence, and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta; Beverly Fox, College senior from Kansas City, Mo., and a member of Gamma Phi Beta; and Sally Trembly, fine arts freshman from Kansas City, Mo., and member of Kappa Alpha Theta social sorority. The winner of the queen contest will be chosen by Milton Caniff, nationally known artist and creator of the Steve Canyon comic strip, and will be announced in the spring issue of the Jayhawker magazine.
A school tradition since 1922, the annual revolution was interrupted during the war, and today's walkout was the first since 1942.
Leaders of the mutineers had chartered two commercial buses to take the students to Lone Star, described by one instructor as "a beautiful lake with waving trees and soft grass, where the brush is within convenient walking distance."
The fine arts office was not greatly disturbed over the mutiny, and Dean D. M. Swarthout calmly dismissed the affair as an "inevitable reaction to the arrival of spring.
"The students work on a daily schedule in laboratory which can be made up at any time," Dean Swarthout explained. "I don't see anything to get excited about. What they miss today, they will do tomorrow."
Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting, summed up the position of the faculty this morning when he said, "Our attitude is, if you can't beat back the revolters, join them. And that's just what we're going to do."
Lakey Will Paint For Country Club
The commission to paint a mural depicting early days in Clay county for the Clay Center Country club has been awarded Billy J. Lakey, Fine Arts sophomore.
K. U. judges picked ten finalists who in their opinion would paint a good mural. These were submitted to a jury in Clay Center. Lakey's choice of subject and originality of presentation made his entry particularly appropriate.
Work on the panel will begin at once. It is expected to be ready for exhibition in the annual student show at commencement, after which it will be installed in the Country club.
The exhibit of the ten final sketches taken to Clay Center may be seen in the east hall of the third floor, Frank Strong hall.
Sunnyside Workers Can Get New Jobs
Men who worked as laborers on the Sunnies construction project last summer and any other men who want summer jobs as laborers should contact Clarence Strunk at Carpenter's hall 7311$^a$ Massachusetts.
"If the men will leave me their names and addresses within the next two or three weeks, we can place them," Mr. Strunk said. He is the local representative for the Building Trades Laborers Union.
This applies to both union and non-union members, he added. Dues have been taken care of for men who ousted the union last summer and stopped work to go back to school. They have also quarterly assessments June 1 if they wish to go to work under the union this summer.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair west, partly cloudy cast, cooler east and south today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Warmer extreme northwest and cooler extreme east tonight. Low tonight 56 to 62. Warmer Wednesday.