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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 5,1948
Keep Faith With Legal Principle Rutledge Asks
Climaxing the Stephens lecture- ship series, Wiley B. Rutledge, associate justice of the United States supreme court, told a near-capacity audience in Fraser theater Wednesday night, that "no man and no nation can afford to abandon faith in the federal principle which has evolved from the commerce clause."
"That principle," he said, "has kept the country democratic."
Justice D. Bowersock, Kansas City attorney, made the opening address. In the absence of Chief Justice W. W. Harvey of the Kansas supreme court, Justice Walter G. Thiele introduced the main speaker. Dean F. J. Moreau, of the School of Law, presided.
"We, of all people, from the force of our experience, should be the last to deny that principle's virtue or ethics," Justice Rattledge continued.
Justice Rutledge went on to point out the role of the commerce clause in contributing to that readjustment.
"Although the commerce clause has never been perfect in its application, it has, nevertheless, accomplished its great objective—that of welding a handful of disunified states into the present United States. No other clause in our constitution, perhaps, has contributed so much to that central unity," he declared.
Through its division of powers, the application of the commerce clause has created a defense against automatic action and paved the way for democratic action, Justice Rutledge asserted.
"This division, originally a 'mutually exclusive' proposition, wherein federal and state power of regulation or prohibition from regulation are concerned, has come down to the present as a more smoothly functioning unity of the two powers." he said.
Earlier in his speech, Justice Rutledge pointed out that the commerce clause ("Congress shall have the power to regulate . . . commerce . . among the several states. . . "), is inherently a federal device. But through the clause's interpretation by Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney prior to the Civil War, teh idea of joining federal and state power over interstate commerce has taken root.
'Western Review' Will Go On Sale Tomorrow
"Western Review", a literary quarterly edited and printed at the University, will go on sale tomorrow at Rowland's bookstore.
This magazine, formerly the "Rocky Mountain Review", is edited by Ray B. West, Jr., of the English department, and is printed by the University of Kansas press. "Western Review" features literary criticism, short stories, poetry, and book reviews.
The holiday season on the Hill always is marked by the playing of Christmas carols from the bell-tower the campus already has in the tower of the Dyche museum of natural history. One of the older buildings on the campus, the tower has been a landmark for the University for nearly a half century. (Daily Kansan Staff Photo)
Inter-House Sing To Be Held Sunday
Christmas Carols Come From Dyche
Thirteen women's choral groups will compete for a trophy on Sunday, when the annual women's interhouse singing contest is held in Hoch auditorium at 2:30 p.m. The choruses, from sororities and organized women's houses, will be judged by faculty members of the School of Fine Arts. Sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, men's music fraternity, the contest is open to the public.
A similar contest for voices from fraternities and organized men's houses will be announced soon.
Chi Omega Estimates Raid Damages At $9
Most Costly Student Directory Ready Soon
Chi Omega sorority has estimated the damages of the Nov. 22 raid on its house as $9. Kappa Alpha Theta set their damages at $75. At the Theta house the trapdoor on the roof was broken in and plastering knocked down in the upper hall.
3. 000 Pounds Of Paper Used
Increased printing costs and this year's record enrollment have pushed production costs to triple that of former years, Ann Alexander, directory business manager, reported today.
The K-Club meeting originally scheduled for 7:30 tonight in Robinson gymnasium, has been changed to 7 p.m., according to Harold McSpadden, president.
The damages will be paid by the nine students who have admitted "complicity" in the raid to Henry Werner, dean of student affairs.
In former years the appropriations from the University and the All
K-Club At 7 Tonight
About 3,000 pounds of printing paper and 30 pounds of ink have gone into the makeup of the largest and most costly student directory in the University's history, T. C. Rythe, superintendent of the University press, said today.
The directory, which will be ready by Dec. 16, will go on sale in the student book store.
Student Council, in addition to advertising revenue, made it possible to provide the free directories, Anne Scott, of the A.S.C. publications committee, explained.
Paper shortages have kept the ad- vertising to a minimum in the 1946- 47 directory.
Sporting a blue cover, the directory is composed of 148 pages of student and faculty names, addresses, classifications, and telephone numbers. The previous largest issue with 92 pages as produced in 1939.
University students numbering 8,738, not including faculty, will have to scramble for the 7,000 copies being printed for sale.
Seal Booths Going Up In Union, Frank Strong
Booths are being set up in the Union and Frank strong hall for the sale of Christmas seals, Eloise Hodgson, chairman, said today. The public relations committee of the All Student Council is sponsoring the sale.
A shortage of seals caused the delay in setting up booths, Miss Hodgson said.
W.E.C. Extends Telephone Hours
Telephone hours will be extended to midnight on Sundays effective immediately the Women's Executive committee voted at a meeting in the Pine room Tuesday night.
Telephones may be used one hour after closing hours Sunday through Thursday, and one half hour after closing hours Friday and Saturday.
Women who will head the programs are etiquette I, Anne Scott; etiquette II, Janet Rummer; speech, Lorraine Carpenter; and dress and good grooming, Joan Anderson.
A series of four lectures will be held for University women by the W.E.C. on manners, good grooming and dress, and speech in February, Shirley Wellborn, president announced.
The W.E.C. is planning a conference with University of Missouri women to be held at Columbia, Jan. 10-12.
PSGL Will Have Smoker
Party policies and campus politics of the Progressive Student Government league will be discussed at a party-sponsored smoker open to all independent men in Battenfeld hall at 5 p.m. today. Speakers will be George Caldwell, P. S. G. L. president, and Wilbur Noble, vice-president. Refreshments and smokes will be provided.
Forensic league, an organization or persons interested in speech and dramatics, will meet in the Pine room of the Union at 7:30 tonight.
Forensic League Meets
Cage Tickets Available
Orville Roberts will be chairman of the meeting. Speakers will be Dorothv Heschmeyer, Ernest Freisen, Russell Mammell, Kenneth Beck, Joan Rettig, and Eldon Teft.
Basketball tickets are now available at the athletic business office in Robinson gymnasium for those students who have made reservations.
Organization of McCook and Oread halls into separate chapters of the Sunflower students organization was discussed at the Sunflower council meeting Wednesday night in the Pine room of the Union.
McCook, Oread Halls Discuss Organization Into Two Chapters
Plans for including all former members of Sunflower village in one of the organizations were also drawn up, and a reorganization of representation completed.
Representatives-at-large are Buel Schiltz, Anthony Dealy, Peter Koia, Ira Cox, Earl Spidel, Harry Walter, and Jack Prinkle.
Chapter representatives are James Overman, Sunflower village and James R. Baker, Oread hall. The representative for McCook hall has not yet been elected.
A secretarial staff made up of James Baker and Jack Pringle, and headed by Ralph Henley was appointed. Peter Koia was appointed activities chairman.
Paul Barker will head the committee for the organizing of McCook hall.
High School Teachers To Plan Drama Meet
Teachers from Kansas high schools who will take part in the Speech and Drama festival in March will meet in the Little theater of Green hall tomorrow and Saturday to discuss plans for the festival.
This conference is to give teachers an opportunity to discuss the plans and learn how to carry out their productions for the annual festival, Miss Margaret Anderson, instructor in the department of speech and drama, said.
Registration will begin in main lobby of the Union at 11 a.m. tomorrow. The delegates will witness the first dress rehearsal of Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycook," a play to be presented by the department Monday through Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Dates Will Be Provided For Newman Club Dance
Men students who will want dates for the all-University dance Friday, sponsored by the Newman club, may sign their name at the "date bureau", sometime today or tomorrow. James Scanlan, president, said today.
Charlie Steeper and his orchestra will play for the dance, starting at 9 p.m. in the Military Science building. The Modern Cloit has arranged a special intermission program.
The date bureau is located at the center of Frank Strong hall and date will be provided by the Newman club, Scanlon added.
Near Million Idle As Industry Slows
Pittsburgh. (UP)—Steel corporations announced new cutbacks today and scores of factories planned to close this week end as a result of the combined effect of the soft coal strike and the freight embargo, effective at midnight.
Total number of unemployed in the basic steel industry is 60,000 and this may be trebled within a week when finishing mills and fabricators begin curtailing production.
The number of persons already made idle by the mine strike approached the million mark, including the 400,000 coal diggers, and the number may be doubled next week.
With schedules reduced drastically the railroads were expected to furlough thousands of employees next week. Already 30,000 rail workers have been laid off.
The automobile industry, which employs 500,000 workers, will shut down as soon as existing supplies and storage space is consumed.
U.S. Delegates Will Call For Treaty Completion
Lake Success. (UP)—America's United Nations delegates heartened by Soviet Russia's renunciation of the right to veto disarmament enforcement, were expected to call today for swift completion of treaties outlawing atomic weapons and scrapping most of the world's armaments.
Miners Send Blank Checks
Informed sources said that Bernard M. Baruch would ask for a formal vote endorsing the major provisions of the American plan for controlling atomic energy under an international authority.
Pittsburgh. (UP)—The miners backed John L. Lewis to the limit today and many locals of the United Mine Workers (AFL) sent blank checks to union headquarters in Washington to help pay the fine of $3\frac{1}{2}$ million dollars.
Accompanying the checks were financial statements showing each local's treasury balance.
Wyatt Quits Housing Job
Washington. (UP)—Housing expedition Wilson W. Wyatt quit his post in apparent disgust today.
An early relaxation of many building controls was decided upon by President Truman, leading a national housing agency spokesman to say that the housing program had been "ditched."
New York. (UP)—The Big Four foreign ministers, leaders in disarmament debates, will sign peace treaties soon allowing Hitler's former satellites to keep armies almost as large, and in some cases larger, than they had in normal pre-World War II days.
Treaties Allow Big Armies
'No One Safe If Tuberculosis Case Exists'
"Tuberculosis is a general problem," Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the health service at Watkins hospital, said in a recent interview. "No person is safe so long as there is one case."
Death Rate Down; Controls Must Continue
"Since attempts have been made to control the disease, the death rate has lessened, but it is reaching a stage where more efforts must be expended to wipe out the remaining cases."
In Kansas, the death rate from tuberculosis has been reduced from 200 cases in 100,000 in 1915 to 20 in 100,000 in 1945. This means, said Dr. Canuteson, that there are one-tenth as many deaths from the disease today because of tuberculosis control.
"The best precaution against tuberculosis is to take advantage of tests and X-rays," Dr. Canuteson said.
A portable X-ray machine, financed by money spent in the state for Christmas seals, will be here in February to take chest photos of all students who were not examined when school started. Anyone wonting a check up is asked to report
"The fight against tuberculosis is a ceaseless one. It is folly to think of relaxing control for one second," Dr. Canuteson commented.
No student has died of the disease since 1920 when tuberculosis control was begun at K.U., but from one to three cases are discovered each year.