University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, Dec. 16, 1946
44th Year No. 57
Lawrence, Kansas
C.I.O. Planning 'Wage War' On Industry In 1947
Pittsburgh. (UP)—The Big Three of the Congress of Industrial Organizations start conferences today on plans to open a 1947 "wage war" against industry on behalf of 2,350,-000 workers.
Their plight is the high cost of living, and CIO president Philip Murray, Walter Reuther, U.A.W., and Albert Fitzgerald, head of electrical, radio and machine workers, want no price rises.
The "wage war" strategy will start off with informal discussions among union officials, who probably will be seen for earnest demands on industry.
A possible pattern may have been set up in New York by the United Automobile Workers who demanded a 23.5 cent per hour pay hike as a starter and other fringe concessions that would boost the total to 30 cents an hour.
Mr. Murray, who asked President Truman's new council of economic advisers to levy heavy taxes "on the loot of postwar profiteers and speculators," kept in close touch with the week long wage discussion of the auto workers in New York.
In January, after the union has determined its demands, Mr. Murray and his associates will meet with steel industry leaders to discuss a new contract to replace the present one which expires on Feb. 15. Contract talks started with the Aluminum company of America more than a week ago, but were suspended until Friday.
Table Tennis Team
Defeats K.C.U., 7-2
The Kansas table tennis team chalked up its second victory of the season Friday by downing the Kan- ain at Kansas City, 7 to 4, in a match at Kansas City.
Wade Duncan, Ernest Warnken,
and David Cowley played for the
Jayhawkers, opposing Fred Adzar,
David Crandall, and Bill Guilfoil.
This was the third match of the year for Kansas. The next match will be a return engagement with K.CU., Dec. 27.
Student Checks Available At Business Office
Checks for students and building and grounds workers who are paid on an hourly basis were ready at the business office at 10:30 Saturday
The checks, totaling almost $40,000,
are not for as soon as possible.
authorities
Displays Show It's Christmas Time At K.U.
The Union lobby has branches and wreaths of evergreen sturge about the walls, and a large tree hung with glittering balls, bells, and lights. At the fountain, the waitresses have glistened their eyes like bright chimneys, and have hung gay strips of colored cellophane at the windows.
The Christmas season has come to the campus. Buildings on and about the Hill are decorated with evergreen, evergreen, and colored lights.
the decorating in Frank Strong hall is the work of buildings and grounds, but the decorated 12-foot tree and canopy were put up by the
Money tossed into the canopy will go to make Christmas better for the ten neediest families that the Y.M.-C.A. can find in Lawrence. Also, in the Union lobby, there is a big red dress on every place clothes, toys or food you wish to give to help make someone happy at Christmas.
The best outside display of lights and evergreen is at Hoch auditorium. Four big trees and the surrounding shrubbery are hung about 40 feet from the columns at the entrance are evergreen wreaths with pine-cones and lights.
The arrangements of lights at some of the organized houses are bright and original. The chancellor's home is beautiful, decorated, a walk around the edge of campus was dark to observe the displays would be well worth your while.
Voting For Queen Ends Wednesday
But, By Golly, It's Sure
Last minute-votes in the Miss Student Union Contest may be cast at Wednesday noon, Keith Willis State activities vice-president, said today.
Votes cost a penny, and all process the nationwide tuberculosis drive.
The winner, chosen from 13 candidates nominated by K.U. organized houses, will be presented at a Mid-week celebration Wednesday night in Union. Jimmy Holfield's band will furnish music for the dance.
Fambrough leaves Tonight To Join W ___ad
Dam Bambrough, All-Big Six guard recently named the outstanding K.U. lineman of the year, will leave tonight for San Francisco to join the West squad for the East-West game Jan. 1.
Fambrough is the first Jayhawker to play in the annual all-star contest since Fullback Clarence Douglass was named in 1937.
By Bibler
These signs in front of the Sunnyside housing developments tell the story. Although the first units were promised by the summer session, none were ready until last Saturday, when six University families moved in, almost exactly six months behind schedule.
Little Man On Campus
Potter Lake No Longer Is Haven For Couples Alone; Biologists Invade
Couples, beware! If your nightly sojourn takes you around Potter lake, you will not be alone. For when the moon comes out and the stars reflect on the lake you'll find K.U. coeds on bended knees—not proposing, not shooting craps—but looking for meadow mouse runways!
This latest oddity of University life is project assignment which has sent approx over the campus observing every- thing from the feeding activity of the redheaded woodpecker to the personal life of the fly.
This latest oddity of University life is the result of a biology field project assignment which has sent approximately 700 students scurrying
Observations of the meadow mouse, its nests, runways, foodstores, and activities is one of the more interesting of the 20 possible project choices and, surprisingly enough, it was a popular choice among girls. The object of these nighttime trips to "Cupid's hunting ground" is to trace the paths of these mice, which are very noticeable around the lake, until you find the nest. The rest is mere observation.
While the meadow mouse project looks like a lot of work there is one on the list which seems at first glance to require only a rubber neck and a good comfortable yard chair. How about observing the flocking habits of the crow? The only "hitch" in the arrangement is meeting the crow at a certain time; otherwise, even a rubber neck would get stiff.
Each class hns a designated deadline and most of them must be met this week. So, please, students, don't step on insects, threaks or any birds. It's the least we can do toward helping our biology mates pass!
While you're reading this article on your way to class, glance up in a nearby tree! If there's someone swinging on the branches it's probably another biology student trying to be delicate. Picketing leaves for identification or observing the nest building habits of a bird.
And so it goes—from tree to lake, from sky to earth, the biology student goes collecting and observing. Not one stone is left unturned, for under that stone may be another project choice, the actual and relative number of beetles and bugs found under fallen loes or rocks.
Jayhawkers To St. Louis
Thirteen members of the Jayhawk basketball team will leave at 6:50 tonight for St. Louis where they will meet St. Louis. They will be led by Dr. F. C. Allen and Dean Neesmith will accompany the team.
Second Jayhawker Out Tomorrow
Football, K.U.'s social heirarchy, hayrack rides, and prize-winning poetry will be featured in the Christmas number of the Jayhawker, to be distributed at the Student book store beginning tomorrow.
Don Pierce, sports publicist, is author of the football roundup. Dr. John Ise wrote the campus on social life, and Billie Hamilton, College senior, contributed "Hayrack from the House" and "Christmas Pageant" second-place winner in last year's Carruth poetry contest, is included.
Covers for the entire 1947 annual will also be issued.
Adele Ringstrom, Lois Croxier
Will Visit Campus This Week
Two United States representatives to the World Student Christian Federation conference at Geneva, Switzerland, last summer will be on the campus of the University of Kansas, today and tomorrow.
Adele Ringstrom, a sophomore at the University of Washington, and Leis Crozier, regional secretary of the University of California, teaches to campus religious groups on trends in education and religion among European students.
Holiday Vespers Draw Crowds To Hoch Sunday
The chiming of carols from the tower of Dyche museum echoed over town as crowds filled Hoch auditorium for the afternoon performance of the annual Christmas Vespers with tableaux yesterday.
Gov. and Mrs. Andrew F. Schoeppel were among those who attended the afternoon service, one hour of which was broadcast.
Four detailed tableaux, "Carol Singers," "Peace on Earth," "The Prophecy of Isaiah," and "The Nativity" were presented by the departments of design and of drawing and painting. A vocal quartet in the balcony furnished the musical background.
Highlights of the vespers presented by the School of Fne Arts under the direction of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, were the colorful processional and recessional. The University A Cappella choir, wearing blue robes with white stoles, carrying candles and hymns, came down the two center aisles singing, "O Come All Ye Faithful." The recessional was "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing."
Banks of Christmas trees and candelabra were at each side of the stage. Candle lighting followed an organ number, "Carillon," by Vierne, by Prof. L. E. Anderson, University organist.
Four choir numbers were directed by Dean Swarthout. Music by the lead symphonist, orchestra was directed by William Wiley. Three string ensemble played.
The audience, led by Dean Swar-
ford, reacts to the nightly clear" and "Silent Night."
A brass quartet played carols from the auditorium, before each seery.
An offering for a Fine Arts Scholarship fund was taken by the Jay Janus
James Plummer, engineering freshman, father of the blue-eyed, blond baby explained that his wife was in the hospital and that he had no one to leave the baby with during class periods.
Little Junior Plummer, 10-month-old boy, who caused so much excitement Friday noon, when he was found alone in a parked car on the campus, was reunited with his father at 2:30 that afternoon.
Baby Reunited With Father
"Ive left him there before and he was always all right," he said. "He usually sleeps. I check him between classes."
Junior was found by four students shortly before noon Friday by four students who brought him into Lindley hall where he was taken care of by Mrs. Ethel Owen and Mrs. Carrie Thurber, geological survey laboratory assistants. A note was left on the steering wheel of the car informing the father of the whereabouts of the child.
An extra diaper and bottle of milk found in the car were put, to immediate use by Junior, who unaware of the competition he was having, had a cunning time of it.
WEATHER
Kansas—Considerable cloudiness today. Light drizzle east this morning. Scattered snow furries and colder west and north this afternoon. Much colder west. Partly cloudy and much colder tonight and Tuesday. Strong northwesterly winds west and north this afternoon, and entire state tonight and Tuesday.