University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, January 6, 1947
44th Year No.62
Lawrence, Kansas
Returning Students Find Cold, Snow Face Bout With Books, Activities
10. Students returning to Lawrence after 16 days' vacation for a quick sound of concerts, books, and basketball games before finals begin Jan.
30. found a cold, snowy campus, complete with ski paths.
Lucky persons holding even-numbered basketball tickets will jam Hoch auditorium tomorrow night for K.U.'s opening Big Six basketball contest against Missouri.
Two nights later, author-lecturers Walter Duranty and H. R. Knickerbocker will debate the question, "Can Russia Be Part of One World," in the same building.
University offices, departments, and class rooms were getting back on schedule this morning after near-desertion for the two-week vacation.
K.U. Hangers-On Had Balmy Christmas Day
Hot and cold, wet and dry, but nearly always deserted was the K.U. campus during Christmas vacation.
Students and faculty members left behind in Lawrence found at least the weather was interesting.
Take Christmas Day. The sun was warm, the afternoon as balmy as spring. A Lawrence housewife picked yiolets on her lawn. On Dec. 27, the temperature reached a record 72.
Then two nights later it was a degree below zero. Plumbers and automobile mechanics got their usual calls for help. Part of the student families remaining at Sunflower Village found themselves without a gas supply most of one day. Water was heated and food cooked on coal heating stoves.
In Lawrence, collectors found garbage frozen tight in the cans. They left it there to thaw.
On New Year's night, snow began to call, and it didn't stop all the next day. Children gambled frosted cars against an afternoon on a sled.
Thermometers dipped even lower last week-end, with reports ranging from 14 to 25 below. Conservative estimates agreed it was "about 15 below." Some energetic persons swept -off Potter lake for skating and skiers made heringbone patterns on Mount Oread.
Of course, there were other vacation occupations besides sunbathing and sleighriding. Last-minute Christmas shopping (and shoplifting) for instance. Some light-fingered person or persons lifted a $400 Persian lamb coat from one store and a model airplane motor from another on the same day.
Several more families moved into Sunnyside apartments, and workmen at the Lawrence veterans-housing project (for non-student veterans) said they hoped to finish in three weeks.
The first building materials, including a shipment of bar steel, for the northward extension of the Memorial Union, arrived.
Hill musicians got some sizeable chunks of Uyletide cheer when Director Russell L. Wiley received eight new tubas and as many string passes for the K.U. band and symphony orchestra respectively.
Deans Paul B. Lawson of the College and J. O. Jones of the School of Engineering and Architecture came out with the prediction that your grades will average higher this semester than prewar students.
They based their forecast on an analysis of mid-term deficiency reports, which were 5 per cent under 1039
Dean Lawson pointed out, however, that grades probably won't be as high as last fall, when the proportion of women to men was greater. Somehow, women always get higher grades, he explained.
Some energetic "vacationers" put a lot of time in the library, trying boost B's into A's or F's into C's. And even if they were able to get
library chair anywhere they wanted or a hard-to-get book at the reserve desk at any hour of the day, they still welcome back all of the rest of you.
'Portal Pay,' Bilbo Made Biggest News
Happy New Year.
Labor problems, earthquake the atom bomb, and Senator Bilbo made the biggest news over the year-end holiday.
Congress convened for the 80th time with Republicans holding a majority for the first time in 14 years. The new congress is expected to cut appropriations and taxes, enact specific legislation to put a damper on portal-to-portal pay drives by labor unions, and work out a revision of the Wagner labor act.
Joseph Martin, Republican representative from Massachusetts, took over the Speaker's reins in the house of representatives and Arthur Vandenberg, veteran Republican senator became president pro tem of the senate.
The United Nations atomic energy commission after prolonged study on international controls, turned in a recommendation to the UN Security council, which was adopted by a 10 to 1 vote. Russia and Poland withheld ballots.
After seeing his atomic energy control plan adopted, Mr. Baruch resigned his membership to the commission, saying he saw "no reason why the United States should not continue to make atomic bombs."
Senator Theodore Bilbo, Mississippi Democrat, was denied his oath of office when congress convened Friday. Opening the fight to force his ouster were Senator Taylor, Idaho Democrat, and Republican members of the upper house. Southern Democrats threaten a filibuster.
Casualties ran high in Japan's Wakayama prefecture when an earthquake devastated the entire southern tip of the area, Dec. 21. A fishing village, Kushimoto, was reported to have been swept away by tidal waves.
Taking their cue from the Mt. Clemens, Mich., pottery company case, labor unions put in a bid for two billion dollars back pay in a "portal-to-portal" pay controversy. In Washington, the justice department moved to intervene and Atty. Gen. Tom Clark offered his services in "settling some of the legal problems involved in the Mt. Clemens case."
President Truman flew home to Independence, Mo., for Christmas and hurried back to Washington after a 24-hour holiday to finish preparations on his "State of the Nation" speech.
Harold Stassen announced he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the president in 1948.
Film comedian W. C. "never give a sucker an even break" Fields, whose propensity for strong snirls was almost as famous as his bulbous nose, died at the age of 67.
Film actress Gene Tiernay, her sister Pat, and her New Year's escort, Jimmy Costelle, mixed it up in a parking lot at Hollywood's swank Cro'o with M. Ternay's estranged husband, C. Cassini.
Little Man On Campus
The American Davis Cup tennis team mad a clean sweep of its matches with the Australian team and brought the cup back to the U. S. for the first time since 1938.
JUST BEFORE NEW YEARS...
—Bv Bibler
The University will have to wait until after Jan. 13 to find out whether Georgia's governor, Ellis Arnall, will be a convocation speaker here Feb. 14, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today.
K.U. Awaits Answer On Arnall Lecture
The Georgia legislature will meet next Monday to straighten out the mix-up caused by the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge.
Supporters of Talmadge's son, Herman, say the legislature will designate him as his father's successor. Arnall says that while he legally could remain in office for another four years under the constitution, he will resign in favor of the lieutenant-governor elect, M. E. Thompson.
President Asks Legislation On 'Unjustified Strikes'
'State Of Union' Message To Congress Also Requests Business Monopoly Curb
Washington. (UP)—President Truman asked congress today to impose compulsory arbitration against unjustified strikes and to join him in protecting the nation against restrictive business monopoly.
'U.S. Won't Disarm Without Security'
Washington. (UP) — President Truman told congress today that achievement of a system of collective security under the United Nations must precede this country's participation in disarmament.
On American policy with the Soviet Union, the president promised that it was guided by the same principles which determine policies toward all countries.
Whatever differences exist between the United States and Russia, he said, must not obscure the fact that the basic interests of both lie in establishment of an early peace.
He did not elaborate the point, but left unsaid his belief that the United Nations has not yet developed sufficiently to maintain world peace and security.
He warned that the armed services already were encountering serious difficulties in maintaining the army at 1,070,000 mme and the navy at 571,000 men; that "occupation troops are barely sufficient to carry out the duties which our foreign policies require."
He rejected Republican proposals for personal income tax reductions
K.U. Medical School To Sponsor 'Refresher'
A four-day post-graduate course in fracture treatment will be presented for the orthopedic surgeons of America by the University School of Medicine Jan. 30-Feb. 2.
The school will be held at the Palmer house in Chicago, H. G. Ingham, director of the University extension division has announced.
Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, internationally known orthopedic specialist of London, England, will be the principal instructor.
The post-graduate course will be held immediately following the annual meeting of the National Accreditation Board, which also will be held in Chicago.
Dr. Rex L. Diveley, member of the faculty in Kansas City, is president-elect of the national academy.
"The University of Kansas is proud that it will have the opportunity of sponsoring instruction by so eminent a bone-specialist as Sir Reginald Watson-Jones," Mr. Ingham said.
Mr. Ingham explained that the facilities of the School of Medicine at the University hospitals in Kansas City are in full use for normal instruction, leaving no adequate facilities for further instruction.
Directory Committee Holds First Session
A student-faculty committee to decide on what method will be recommended for paying for the student directory was to hold an organization meeting at 3 p.m. today in the office of the dean of women.
Members of the committee are Dean J. H. Nelson; Miss Martha Peterson, Pan-Hellenic secretary; Clifford E. Reynolds, business senior; Anne Scott, College junior; and Eloise Hodgson, College sophomore
He said he had prepared a balanced budget for the next fiscal year providing for a small surplus, and he will make suggestions to increase that surplus. But he told congress that good fiscal practice requires that the excess of revenue be applied to debt reduction.
Mr. Truman made these recommendations in his annual message on the state of the Union. The president delivered it personally before a joint session of the new Republican congress in the chamber of the house of representatives.
Mr. Truman's tax policies promised to cause a sharp fight with congress. Not only did he oppose income tax cuts, but he recommended that congress immediately extend beyond June 30 the $1\%$ billion dollars of war time excise taxes which would expire at that time under terms of his proclamation ending the state of hostilities. Republican congressional leaders are planning, on the contrary, to pass a quickie bill ending those levies this month.
Other major points which he made with a plea for mutual cooperation for the national welfare:
TWO. Unification of the armed services would effect economies and enhance our national security.
ONE. Universal (military) training is the best method of developing a trained citizen reserve. It may be necessary to continue the draft.
THREE. We have not done our part in absorbing Europe's displaced persons. Congress should relax immigration laws to permit thousands of them to come here.
FOUR. Congress should create a cabinet rank department of welfare.
Legislation should be enacted to provide machinery whereby unsettled disputes concerning the interpretation of an existing agreement may be referred by either party to final and binding arbitration."
the rank department of welfare. "Collective bargaining agreements," the president said, "like other contracts, should be faithfully adhered to by both parties. In the most enlightened union-management relationships, disputes over the interpretation of contract terms are settled peacefully by negotiation or arbitration.
A telegraph pole guy wire saved Frederick Amelung, College sophomore, and his wife from a 95-foot plunge over Calhoun bluffs east of Topeka Friday.
Wire Saves Student From 95-Foot Drop
The Amelungs were driving along U.S. highway 24 when they were forced off the road by a car going in the opposite direction. Their car skidded, overturned, and rolled off the bluff that borders the highway
The front bumper of the car caught in the guy wire and prevented the car from falling to the tracks at the foot of the bluff.
Amelung was stunned and his wife suffered minor nose and eye injuries. They were taken to a Topeka hospital where they were reported not seriously hurt.
WEATHER
Kansas—Clear to partly cloudy and warmer today. Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday.