UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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MARCH 3,1947
Kansas Debaters Rated Superior At Tournament
With 11 ratings of superior, highest award, the University scored the best record among 40 schools entered in the annual University of Nebraska invitational debate tournament.
The University team of Herbert Cole and Wallace Foster won five debates without a defeat, and were rated superior. The same rating was won by the three other KU. teams - Hal and Erwin Jones, Deson Hschmeyer, Beth Thayne and Willie Conn and Edward Stollenwever. Each won four of five debates.
Conboy also received a superior rating in extemporaneous speaking and an excellent, (second highest), in original oratory.
Friesen and Cole each ranked superior in the discussion groups on the topic "The National Labor Policy." Cole also won a place on the committee for resolutions to be submitted to Congress, and Friesen was picked to take part in a radio broadcast over KFAB which will be rebroadcast at 13:30 tonight over that station.
Defecated by the K.U. teams were Minnesota, Notre Dame, Colorado, Marquette, Wisconsin, Iowa State, Nebraska, Midland, Bethany, Southeastern, Norfolk Junior college, Kearney, South Dakota, Augustana, and Morningside.
Individual awards of superior in debate went to Friesen, Conboy, Stolenwerck, Miss Heschmeyer, and Miss Bell.
The K.U. teams were coached by Kenneth L. Johnson, instructor in speech and drama. Mr. Johnson and Orville Roberts, instructor, accompanied the debators.
The debate question was, "Resolved: that labor should be given a direct share in the management of industry."
Is President Again
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This is Dean D. M. Swarthout, of the School of Fine Arts, who has been elected president of the National Association of Schools of Music for the third consecutive term. He returned today from the 22nd annual convention of the association, held in St. Louis, where directors of over 170 schools and departments of music were present.
Wife of Kansas Student,
2 Others Injured in Crash
Three persons were injured in a head-on crash of two cars near Sunflower village Saturday night, the highway patrol reported today.
Mrs. Lowell Van Tassel, wife of a College junior, suffered cuts on the face and legs; Mrs. Catherine Rothberger, nurse, suffered a fractured pelvis; and Dr. L. C. Blackburn, Eudora, was slightly injured.
The car driven by Dr. Blackburn skidded on the ice and collided with a car driven by Van Tassel, the highway patrol said. Both cars were badly damaged and were towed to a Lawrence garage.
Weekend Snow Aids Stunt Travel
No serious accidents had been reported to Lawrence police or to the state patrol early this morning. Streets in Lawrence were generally clear, and highways throughout the state were said to be clear but still slick.
You Can Shut It Off If You Want To Union Public Address System To Be Installed
Ranging from 2 to 6 inches in Kansas, the snow came as a relief to near-drought conditions in the state's wheat land, and caused little serious stoppage of transportation.
On the campus automotive transportation was slowed by the storm, and pedestrian travel was hazardous and often amusing to onlookers.
One ingenious individual, after carefully surveying the condition of the 14th street hill, calmly set his backs on the snow-covered street and sent them downhill with a quick push. He then placed his posterior on the tail of his overcoat and showed off on a slightly dizzy slide. His experiment came to an end half-way down the hill, when he slid slowly and gracefully into a parked car.
With much shoveling and scraping, Mt. Oread was still being cleared this morning of the winter's second major snowfall.
Another student demonstrated the technique of a whirling dervish. He started to edge his way down the incline by holding to the iron fence surrounding Templin hall. Gaining momentum, he grabbed with one hand, spun, and grabbed with the other. He came to an inglorius end in a snowdrift.
Going up the hill was equally difficult. A gain of 10 feet might be completely wiped out with the next step. If one slipped, he was gone. Flailing arms and legs were seen everywhere.
Climbers of the hill faced an added hazard. They could never tell when a descending person would suddenly start a wild slide in their direction. Frantic efforts to avoid a collision usually failed. Amid screams and faying books, two figures would meet and collage on the snow.
The peak of stunt attempts was reached when one man asserted that he was in a hurry to get home. He bent over, gave a shove, and slid to the bottom of the hill on his hands and feet. At the bottom, he stood and shouted, "See, it's easy."
Newscasts at mealtime, dinner music in the banquet rooms, and announcements throughout the building will be made possible by the new apparatus. It will extend into the addition when it is built.
A microphone and radio hook-up will be located in the Unoin activities office, according to Joan Woodward, chairman of Union activities.
A $1,250 public address system will be installed in the Union in about and other associated organizations.
With speakers in every room of the Union, except the music room, the new system will enable organizations, at a slight charge, to publicize coming events throughout the noon hour.
Four speakers will be located in the ballroom and two in the fountain They can be shut off in any room.
Washington. (UP)—President Truman asked congress today to let the draft die on March 31.
President Seeks Early Draft Halt
Mr. Truman also disclosed that to reduce its strength to authorized levels by July 1, the army shortly will discharge all non-volunteers. Mr. Truman said, however, that he will continue to enforce the law if the army and navy find they cannot maintain necessary strength by voluntary enlistment.
Although he did not mention it in today's message, Mr. Truman will recommend universal military training for young men. Such training as planned would not involve actual military service in the active armed forces.
Troops Search Cities For Jewish Underground
Jerusalem—(UP) — A searching force of 9,000 British troops combed Tel Aviv and the Mea Shearin Orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem today hunting the "brains" of the Jewish underground. Both communities are under martial law.
British intelligence officers said they were convinced the leaders of Irgun Zvial Leumi and the stern group were operating in the areas placed under rigid martial rule and an indefinite curfew. More than 350,000 of Palestine's 600,000 Jewish inhabitants were confined to their homes in the restricted areas.
Officials Investigate Kansas Train Wreck
Muncie, Kan. (UP) — Railroad officials were attempting today to determine the cause of derailment of 29 freight cars of a Union Pacific train, most of them carrying wheat and barley.
The grain was scattered over the countryside as the cars left the track and piled up into a mass of wreckage. Triple trackage of the railroad's mainline was torn out. The derailment where a family of seven persons was killed a week ago in a train-automobile collision.
Republicans Propose Strike Legislation
Washington—(UP) — Republican plans for strike-control legislation were crystallizing today around the general goal of removing "one-sided inequities" from the Wagner act.
Chairman Robert A. Taft, of the Senate labor committee, and chairman Fred Hartley, Jr., of the house labor committee, both favor Wagner act amendments to establish union responsibility for living up to contracts and to outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts.
Mexico City — (UP) President Truman arrived this morning in his private airplane, the "Sacred Cow" on a neighborly visit of three days in Mexico.
Truman Arrives In Mexico
Searchers Find Third Victim After Chicago Explosion
Chicago. (UP) — Searchers today found the body of a third victim of a blast which shook the loop and shattered thousands of windows in the garment-making and financial districts.
Two other persons were killed instantly Sunday in the explosion which shattered a three-story building.
Teachers' Strike Ended
Buffalo, N.Y. (UP) — School children returned to classrooms through deep snow today as the city's 98 public schools reopened after the nation's biggest teachers' strike which was called last Monday.
Teachers were reporting for duty at all schools despite the fact that many were disappointed at salary terms of the city administration which the striking Buffalo teachers federation accepted last night.
Union Will Start New Free Library
A free library in the Union building will be started as soon as books can be collected.
Cards have been sent to organized houses asking them for any books or magazines, Robert Beiderwell, College freshman in charge of the library, asked today.
"The library is for use of students who want to read something for a few minutes while lounge in the Union," he said.
Beiderwell urged that anyone who has books to give to the Union to please call the Union activities office, and the books will be picked up.
Engineers Make Higher Grades
The more students, the better the grades. At least this is the case in the School of Engineering.
In 1939, the last full pre-selective service school year, the University had 648 students enrolled in engineering. Last semester the number totalled 2,190. Dean J. O. Jones made an analysis of the grades of the two groups and found that one third more students failed in 1939. Also, the students last semester made 2.3 per cent less D's and F's.
Only 16.2 per cent of the engineering students in 1939 made A's while 17.2 per cent of the engineers achieved a grade in the A bracket last semester. Since the B grade average this year was lower, the percentages of A's and B's for the periods are the same. The number of C's given last semester was 2.6 per cent more than in 1939.
Dean Jones feels that standards have changed little. He is positive that courses now are no easier than those given in 1939. The increase in number of young instructors, who are often inclined to be more strict than their older colleagues, may make present standards slightly higher, according to Dean Jones. He believes that the more serious and mature attitude of the veterans has caused all students to study harder than their pre-war predecessors.
Dr. Cannon To Speak On Foods At Fraser
Dr. Paul R. Cannon will fill the annual Porter Lectureship in Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine on Tuesday and Wednesday. Dr. Cannon, a doctor of philosophy as well as a doctor of medicine, is chairman of the department of pathology at the University of Chicago.
He will speak on "Some Recent Advances in Nutrition" at Fraser theater at 11 a. m. Wednesday.
The Porter Lectureship in Medicine was established in 1918 with funds left by the late Dr. J. L. Porter of Paola. A portion of the income from the fund provides a scholarship for a medical student. The remainder finances the lectureship.
Dr. Cannon has made a continuing study of the relationship between diet and resistance or immunity to disease.
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Red Cross Mails Over 1110 Letters As Drive Opens
Over 1,100 elitters were mailed to faculty and employees of the University today as the annual Red Cross drive got under way. Letters were also mailed to all organized houses on the campus.
Miss Adelaide Sondker, secretary to Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, will handle all University contributions in the absence of Dr. Smith.
Cardboard cartons have been placed in each building for the convenience of the students. These cartons will be found in conspicuous places each day during the drive. The drive will last through Saturday.
No special programs have been planned for the drive. "Contributions will be entirely on a voluntary basis and no special requests are being made this year," Miss Sonder said.
Mrs. W. T. Douce, executive secretary of the Douglas county chapter of the Red Cross, stated that the University has been given a minimum quota of $600. This is approximately half of the 1946 quota.
"Our only source of income is a voluntary contribution from everyone. We hope to go well above the quota," she said.
To Atlantic City
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney L. Dawson, 2311 Woodland avenue, Kansas City, Mo., are the parents of a son, Sidney L. Dawson III, born at 11 p.m. Thursday in the Bell Memorial hospital in Kansas City.
Son Born Thursday To Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Dawson
This is George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, who is on his way to Atlantic City, N. J., where he will participate in the national convention of the American Association of School Administrators. He also will meet with consultants of the American Council on Education next week. He will speak to University alumni Friday at the Town Hall club in New York City,
Even an Ozark "razerback" would complain about the climb up Mt. Oread, and if you don't think so, check with J. P. Eyrd or Robert Wilson, recent visitors from the University of Arkansas to study the University's student government.
University of Arkansas Students Plan Changes Razorbacks' Study K.U. Constitution
George Caldwell, president of the Progressive Student Government league, assisted the students and John P. Anderson, dean of students at the University of Arkansas, in their investigation of student government and other associated organizations.
Student government here is in advance of that at the University of Arkansas where plans are now being made to rewrite the student constitution, Byrd and Roberts said. Their constitution will have three main purposes; to gain partial student control of activity ticket expenditures; to work out a plan of discipline which will take power from the faculty; and to increase student selection of concerts and convocations.
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