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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 25,1947
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CORE Officers Want Improved Race Relations
Officers of the Congress of Racial equality told the University Daily Kansas Thursday that their organization had not planned any violence or had in any manner forced its speakers into organized houses at the University.
"House officials approve the plan and designate the time for the speech in all cases. Never have we sent a speaker into a house where he wasn't invited," he said.
Frank Stannard, chairman, and Wesley Elliott, secretary-treasurer, declared that C.O.R.E. had never used violent means in its campaign for better racial relations.
Elliott branded the rumors of CORE.E's plans for a demonstration as entirely unfounded. "We have tried to track down those rumors, but have not had much luck," he added.
Elliott said that at present C.O.R.E. is sending its representatives to explain to members of organized houses the principles and aims of C.O.R.E.
The Congress is working to improve racial relations. Elliott explained, and does not accept violence of any kind as a solution to the problem. He emphasized that the only way to settle the issue is through education.
"That is what we're trying to do," he added.
Elliott, who is also executive secretary of the Negro Student association, said that he knew of no movement among Negro students to use violence or force to gain their ends.
Novelist Will Speak In Fraser Next Week
Robert Penn Warren, novelist
editor, and critic, will speak in
Fraser theater at 8 p.m. Thursday
scanned by the English department
Mr. Warren's novel, "All the King's Men," is a recent book club selection. A dramatic version of this novel, which gives a fictional disease to the Huey Long regime in Louisiana, is being given a tryout this week at the University of Minnesota. If it is successful, the play will be produced on Broadway next season.
Mr. Warren has been editor of the Southern Review, and has served as poet-in-residence at the Congressional library. He is a Rhodes scholar.
Mr. William Bracke, instructor in English, said Mr. Warren is also noted for several volumes of poems. He recently published a book of criticism on Coleridge's "Ancient Euripus."
Members To Print Quill Club Booklet
The publication of a booklet of poems and short stories by members of the Quill club was announced by Raymond D. Posthite, College senior, chancellor of the club, at a special meeting Thursday night.
Grace Witt, College senior, Janice Cebble, sophomore, and Alverta Kennedy junior were appointed to the editing staff. Jean Moore, Colleen senior and first law year law student was appointed to arrange for printing.
Five professors in the School of Business are attending a midwest Economic association meeting at Conaha, Neb.
Five Professors Go To Omaha Meeting
Dr. John Ise, professor of economics will participate in a forum.
Others attending are Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, Leslie Waters, associate professor of economics, and F. B. Jensen, assistant professor of economics.
Seniors Must Pay Dues By May 20
Seniors must pay their $4.20 dues at the business office by May 20, Harold Swartz, auditor of student organizations, said today.
The $42.00 dues are split up as follows: 50 cents, for cap and gown; 45 cents for breakfast; and $3.25 for the class gift.
An optional sum of $2 may be paid for the Graduate magazine. The diploma fee of $7.50 may be paid at any time before graduation. The veterans administration will pay the diploma fee for all veterans and will also pay for the can and gown.
Class rings may be ordered at the business office.
Friesen, Conboy Talk To Forensic League
The UNESCO program to cement relations between nations and increase knowledge of democratic ideals will fail because of "conflicting principles," Hal Friesen, college freshman, told members of the Forensic league Thursday night.
"Regardless of the fine intentions of the UNESCO, the program willail because many nations do not desire the education of the commonman." Friesen said. "The peoples of war-torn Europe, in their presentstate of starvation and economicdespair, are more interested in the necessities of life than in freedomand equality."
William Conboy, College sophomore, declared that "trivialities" will be the downfall of the world, in a humorous talk on "Man's Infatuation With The Insignificant Things Of Life."
"The mastery of the human race has been the mastery of the trivialities of life," Conboy said. He criticized footnotes in books and statistical fill-ins in newspapers because of the amount of the doughnut instead of the doughnut, the frosting instead of the cake."
Kansas Engineers Must Be Licensed
The new Kansas law requiring compulsory registration and licensing of practicing engineers will go into effect when the Kansas registration board for professional engineers considers 50 applicants. Prof. G. W. Bradshaw, secretary, announced today.
Registration of engineers was optional before the passage of the law by the last legislature. Now all practicing engineers, with the exceptions of architects and a few others, must be licensed. Engineers registered at the time the law becomes effective will automatically be licensed by obtaining a new seal, Professor Bradshaw said.
Miss Fern Babcock. New York, national program chairman of the Y.W.C.A., is conducting a two day leadership training course Thursday and today for the new Y.W.-Y.M.C.A. cabinets.
'Y' Cabinets Attend Leadership Course
She will meet at 4 p.m. today at Henley house with the joint cabinets to discuss "Faith for Living in Troubled Times." She will be entertained tonight by the Y.W.-C.A. advisory board at the home of Mrs. Wilma Collins.
Miss Babcock, a graduate of Kansas State Teachers college, held personal interviews with members of the cabinets.
Counseling Program Will Be Part Of Orientation
A counseling program sponsored by the United Women's council will be a part of orientation week next week for old girls,ames,secretary,said Tuesday. The program is to acquaint new University women with campus life.
A training program for girls from each house interested in being counselors will start in May.
More than 150 persons have made reservations to attend Cervantes day activities here tomorrow. Formerly an annual affair begun by the Spanish department in 1922, the celebration is being resumed this year after a lapse during the war years.
150 Will Attend Cervantes Day Here Tomorrow
The day's activities will begin with a professional meeting in 103, Frank Strong hall at 2 p.m. Research and critical papers will be read.
Displays of rare editions of Cervantes' classic, "Don Quixote," and paintings and statues of the Don will be exhibited in 113, 117, and 119 Frank Strong hall. A demonstration of Spanish recordings used in the University Spanish laboratory system will be made.
A banquet and tertulia (program) at 5:30 p.m. in the Kansas room in the Union will close the celebration. Dances, musical and dramatic pieces, and novelty numbers will be given by pupil of University or the Spanish department and by members of the department.
Tomorrow was chosen because it is the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of the date of Cervantes' death on April 23, 1616.
Visiting Army Team Inspects ROTC Unit
A Fifth army inspection team visited the campus Thursday and made a complete inspection of the ROTC unit. They made a personal inspection of the cadets and checked administration facilities.
"K U has a fine plant, but it is crowded as at all other universities. The interest seems to be high here and I'm well satisfied with the inspection." Col. W. B. Avera, officinal charge of the inspection "said.
The colonel also announced that the army will give an examination to all cadets in the nation, testing whether cadets at one school are learning as much as those at another.
The inspection team is covering a 12-state area. Other officers who made the inspection were Col. F. R. Crowley, and Maj. K. R. Sturman
Jayhawker Staff To Be Selected
Applicants for editor and business manager of the 1948 Jayhawker will be interviewed by the Jayhawker Advisory board at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Jayhawker office, Editor Dean Ostrum said today. The student chosen for each position will be announced after the meeting.
Little Man On Campus
Applicants for editor are William Conboy, James Mordy, and Keith Wilson. The four candidates for business manager are Larry Simmons, Arthur Myers, Judith Tihen, and Robert Williams.
Church Delegates Meet Here Saturday
A state-wide Westminster Foundation conference will convene here tomorrow with delegates from the University, Kansas State College, Manhattan, and Kansas State Teachers' College, Hays, attending. Conference meetings will be held at 1221 Oread.
Deane Postlethwaite, College senior, will be general chairman at all session.
The Rev. Dr. Harold Barr, dean of the School of Religion, will discuss "The Religious Need of University Students." The Rev. Dr. A. Walton Roth, Topeka, will discuss "The University Student and His Church."
A welcoming address by Chancellor Deane W. Malott, a tour of the campus, and a closing communion service conducted by the Rev. Dr. Mary M. Westminster of the University. Westminster, Foundation, complete the program.
Delegates from the University include James Luther, College sophomore; Mary Lois Rice, College junior; Mary Lynn Lucas, College freshman; Seldon Knudson, graduate student; Joseph K. Thompson, graduate student, and David Thomson, Engineering freshman.
YM-APO To Sponsor Counseling Program
All persons interested in camping may attend a camp counselors training course tomorrow in the Union building. The program is being sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. and Alpha Phi Omega.
The program will begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue until 4 a.m. Camping authorities and Boy Scout officials will speak. A certificate will be presented to all persons who complete the course.
By Bibler
"Eay, did you fellows see anything of a baseball that came over this way?"
Widow Tells Of Mate's Moods In Ellis Trial
Thursday was the fourth day in the court-battle between the University and Mrs. Ellis for the possession of her late husband's $200,000 natural history library. Wednesday Judge Means ruled that the document signed by Ralph Ellis was not a will. Mrs. Ellis hopes to show her husband was incompetent to make a contract.
Mrs. Irene Ellis broke down and wept in court Thursday, while testifying about her husband's strange behavior.
She was relating an event about Mr. Ellis throwing shotgun shells in the street. Mrs. Ellis had asked him to put them away so people would not stumble over them. She said he became enraged. At this point she cried. Judge Hugh Means granted a short recess.
Later they went to New York, where Mr. Ellis tried to make arrangements to give his library to some educational institution, she related. At one time he considered selling his books. Mrs. Ellis said his behavior in Lawrence was irrational. He threw anything he could get his hands on when he became excited.
In the fall of 1944, he went raging through the house about 3 a.m., she said. The police came and took him to the station. The next day the authorities sent him back to Livermore sanitarium. Mr. Ellis escaped from there, and Mrs. Ellis drove him to Reno, she said.
During the morning, testimony concerning Mr. Ellis' behavior was read into the record. Mrs. Joanna Merrill, of Berkeley, Calif., Ellis' secretary, said he threatened to take his life, and broke a window in her apartment. Sgt. Orville W. Rouse of the Berkeley police force, told about the night Mr. Ellis was arrested and how he was later sent to the sanitarium.
Miss Anne Murray, a former K. U. student and employee at Dyche museum, said Mr. Ellis wanted her to work for him. She said she was never sure what Ellis wanted her to do. He proposed to hire her at $300 a month, but would only pay her $30. The rest he said he would save and give her in a lump sum when she had finished the job, she testified.
Mrs. Ellis told of numerous occasions on which her husband had thrown bottles, telephones, keys, and even a fire axe through windows. In these moods "he was just sort of mad," she said, "not angry at anyone, just mad."
U.A.W. Accepts G.M.
15-Cent Wage Raise
Detroit—(UP)—Officials of the United Automobile Workers (CLO) were confident today that the 15-hour hourly wage increase agreed to by General Motors corporation behind the 1947 wage pattern in the entire automotive industry and would insure a year of full compensation unhampered by major strikes.
Savs He Threw Things
The agreement provides a liberalized vacation plan, an $11 \frac{1}{2}$-cent hourly increase if the contract is ratified by May 5, and wages for the paid holidays will account for the other $3 \frac{1}{2}$ cents increase.
Moscow—(UP)—Both Secretary of State George C. Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin predicted today that the Moscow conference will prove a greater contribution to peace than anyone now believes.
Marshall Comes Home
Rent Controls Extended
Washington—(UP)—The house, banking committee has approved a bill to extend federal rent control until at least Dec. 31 without a general rent increase. The committee previously had given tentative approval to a 10 per cent general rent increase.
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