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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 22,1946
K.U. To Be Host To 1,000 Delegates To N.I.U.N. Convention Next Year
K. U. will play host to delegations from an anticipated 200 American universities and colleges next year at a National Intercollegiate United Nations convention, Jean Moore, College senior and the convention's national chairman, said today.
Invitations to the convention will be sent not only to schools within the country but to those in American territories outside the continental U.S. including Puerto Rico and Hawaii, Moore said.
"We will be expecting as many as 1,000 delegates for next year's meeting." Moore estimated.
Purpose of the N.I.U.N. is to explain and popularize the idea of the United Nations organization, its problems and functions, Moore explained.
"Already we are considering the idea of expanding the national convention into an international affair to include universities and colleges all over the world," he said.
Moore's election as convention chairman took place at a regional mock intercollegiate conference of the U.N. at Columbia, Mo., Saturday. He headed the five-man delegation from K.U. which represented the United States.
A first year law student, Moore has been active in University forensics for the past three years. He won the Missouri alley extemporaneous speaking contest in 1945 and the oratorial contest in 1946. He is a member of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensics fraternity.
As head of the still-unformed intercollegiate organization, 21-year-old Moore will have the task of setting up the framework of the group's first national convention to be held at KU, next year.
Moore was also named as a speaker for the American Association of the United Nations by Miss Lorine Pickert, A.A.U.N. secretary, who was present at the Columbia conference. His first speaking date is scheduled for Dec. 12 at St. Louis.
As one of A.A. U.N.'s speakers, Moore will discuss such subjects as "The Organization of U.N." "How U.N. Differs from the League of Nations." "What U.N. is Working For and Against."
Date and locale of next year's convention have not been named, but Moore said today he believed it would be held in Hoch auditorium in November.
Sponsor of the K.U. delegation at the Columbia conference Saturday was the International Relations club.
U.S. Court Justice To Speak Dec. 2,3,4
Associate justice Wiley Blount Rutledge, United States supreme court, will discuss the obligations of the legal profession and the commerce clause of the constitution when he fills the Judge Stephens lectureship of the School of Law, Dec. 2. 3. and 4.
Justice Rutledge will speak Monday, Dec. 2, on "A Declaration of Legal Faith." He will discuss the part lawyers must play in the preservation of a democratic system of law.
All lectures will be in Fraser theater at 8 p.m. and will be open to the public, Dean Frederick J. Moreau, School of Law, said today.
The remaining two lectures will be devoted to "The Commerce Clause: A Chapter in Federal Living." The commerce clause of the United States constitution says that Congress shall have the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes."
Justice Rutledge was appointed to the Supreme court in 1943. He was appointed associate justice of the United States court of appeals for the District of Columbia in 1939 after a tenure as dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa.
Sugar Ration Will Be Upped
Washington. (UP)—Reliable government sources said today the basic sugar ration for consumers will be boosted by one-third early next spring, probably in April.
Here's Defense Against A-Bomb
The atomic bomb's uniqueness as a military weapon "lies in the biological effects of high energy-radiation of the explosion's by-products." Dr. Frank E. Hoecker, K.U. physicist who observed effects of the underwater test at Bikini atoll in July, told members of the Chemistry club Thursday.
In the underwater explosion of July 25, the gigantic column of water which followed the explosion hurled so much radioactive material onto the decks of target vessels that radiation from them would have produced death. Dr. Hoecker declared.
Lead and water will protect man or animal against the assault of the gamma rays and neutrons emitted with high intensity by the bomb, he continued. If allowed to reach man, the rays produce effects in human tissues the same as X-rays and the gamma rays of radium in that they destroy tissue. The immediate effect of breathing radioactive particles is imperceptible, but after a few days, it is like a painful burn and the victim soon dies. Dr. Hoecker said.
Much of the radiation in the underwater test was absorbed by the water, he said, and the usual high temperature attending an atomic bomb blast was absent because of the shield made by the water. However, the large amount of radioactive material on the decks of the ships made it impossible for observers to approach the outer-rim of target vessels soon after the blast, he added.
Dr. Hoecker discounted the idea of atomic-powered automobiles, explaining that protection against the powerful by-products of atomic fission, which are radioactive and fatal to humans, would be difficult to provide.
Thompson Elected ISA Vice-President
The Independent Student association council, at their meeting yesterday, elected the following officers:
Lois Thompson, College senior,
representative to council and vice-
president; Patricia Graham, College
junior, representative and social
chairman; and Paul Briley, business
senior, activities chairman.
Those who gave talks were William Tincher, Herbert Cole, Elaine Sawyer, William Conboy, Harold Harvey and Mary Helms. All prospective members are required to give one speech during the first six week period and to attend four of the six weekly meetings. New members will be announced after all the preliminary speeches have been given.
The third round of speeches by Forensic league pledges were given Thursday night in the Little Theater of Green hall.
A mass meeting of all independent students is to be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday to ratify the ISA constitution.
Forensic Pledges Give
Third Round Of Speeches
World Federation Committee Holds Initial Meeting
The initial meeting of the World Federation committee was held last night in the Mission room of Myers hall. The committee will be sponsored by the Young Men's Christian association.
Planes Over Scene Of Crash In Alps
Paris. (UP)—Aerial searchers today found in the Alps the wreckage of a transport plane missing three days with 11 Americans, at least four of whom were seen on the snow blanketed mountainside.
The fortress which discovered the missing transport was piloted by Brig. Gen. Ralph A. Snavely, husband of one of the three wives of generals aboard the C-53 which went down in the Alps while flying from Munich to Italy.
Food, clothing and medicines were dropped in answer to a message from the craft on the mountain, "need food and clothing."
Russia Engaged In War Of Nerves
Washington (UP)—Louis F. Budenz, Catholic convert from the Communist party, charged today that the Soviet Union is engaged in a "war of nerves" against the United States which "could go to military conflict."
American communists, he said, use other organizations and individuals to do the things for them they themselves wouldn't try to do. The communists refer to these people, Mr. Budenz said, as "soft-hearted, soft-headed liberals."
Mr. Budenz is a former editor of the Communist Daily Worker in New York.
Camera In V-2 Rocket Takes Earth's Picture
Washington. (UP)—For the first time, the Earth has been photographed from an altitude of 65 miles in a picture that takes in 40,000 miles of the globe's surface.
Johns Hopkins University said the shot was taken by a camera mounted in a German V-2 rocket.
"If there had been an observer in the rocket, able to look in all directions at once," the laboratory said, "he could have been approximately 1,600,000 square miles of the Earth's surface and have had a clear view of San Diego, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and San Antonio."
Russian Troop Count Plan May Reach U.N. Vote
Lake Success. (UP)—The United Nations political committee pushed toward climatic debate and a vote today on Russia's plan for an inventory of allied bases and armed forces on foreign soil.
The major powers were agree that the proposed troops inventory overseas was but the first step toward a joint program to provide the UN with the forces it requires to keep peace, and to lead individual nations on the path to disarmament.
Key West, Fla. (UP)—President Truman returns to Washington tomorrow to assume on-the-spot direction of the government's legal battle against John L. Lewis.
Mr. Truman was said to be keeping quiet because he felt anything he might say would be superfluous inasmuch as the government's position is manifest through the steps taken by Attorney General Clark and Secretary of the Interior Kruge.
Truman Will Return
To Washington Saturday
C.I.O. Demands A Halt In Stocking Of A-Bombs
Atlantic City, (UP)—The CIO today demanded a halt in the stockpiling of atom bombs but only after CIO president Philip Murray took two votes to determine that a majority supported the resolution.
Meanwhile Jack Knoll, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee, warned that labor faces a "fight for its very right to live."
These Three 'Operate' For Kansan
Three K.U. working women who are more than holding their own in these days of surplus males are Adrea Hinkel, Edith Stodard, and Ruby Olson, shown above, who are linetype operators for the Daily Kansan.
Miss Olson, College freshman, is sitting at the linotype keyboard. Behind her, from left to right, are Miss Stodard and Miss Hinkel, both College sophomores.
According to T. C. Rythe, University press superintendent, only half a dozen other women linotype operators have applied for jobs here in his 20 years experience, and only three of those were good enough to stay on the payroll.
"And then these three, all darned good operators, showed up in one year," he said. (Daily Kansan Staff photo.)
Women Try For Years, Finally Greeks-Independents 'Bury The Hatchet'
Tomorrow will be a big day in the history of K.U. women when the sorority and independent girls socially "bury the hatchet."
University deans of women have tried to form this non-political combination of Greeks and independents since the first sorority and the first group of independent women set up housekeeping on the campus.
Twenty-three years ago, Dean Agnes Husband called a meeting of all sorority presidents to discuss cooperation with all K.U. women. She urged the fostering of a democratic spirit throughout all school activities and pointed out that the narrowness of the small group could not offer everything that student life holds.
In 1934, Dean Husband appointed a committee "to investigate inter-sorority and non-sorority relationships in order to democratize group relations" on the campus.
In the summer session of 1942, a new step was taken when the I.S.A., Pan-Hellenic, and the Inter-Fraternity council formed the Independent-Greek association to "better acquaint the independents and Greeks socially."
"There should be no circles within circles, no cleavage in campus society," she said in that meeting 12 years ago.
This program grew out of the need for social recreation in the summer session, but that fall the Greek and Indenbends returned to their old social set-ups and both Greeks and Indenbends were the losers.
Tomorrow Greek and Independent women will launch the next effort for non-political cooperation in their organization of a new council.
Dean Margaret Habein, the newest dean of women to desire mutual understanding between sorority and non-sorority women, says about the new council. "This is one of the most forward steps in human relations that has ever taken place on the K.U. campus."
N.R.O.T.C. Approved By Capt. Durgan
The N.R.O.T.C. unit here and the University have my highest approval, Capt. E. R. Durgan, director of training of the bureau of naval personnel, said Wednesday.
"The unit here is in fine shape," Captain Durgan said, "and I would say it is above the average for the country. The building in which the unit is located is one of the best I've seen."
The purpose of Captain Durgan's tour is to discover and suggest ways to increase interest in the N.R.O.T.C. program, not only in the schools, but in surrounding areas.
Captain Durgan is making a tour through the country visiting units at 12 universities.
Twente Speaks In Texas
Prof. Esther E. Twente, head the graduate department of social work at the University of Kansas, will speak at the Texas state conference on social welfare in San Antonio, today. Miss Twente is the founder of the Kansas state council for children and in assisting in setting up a similar agency in Texas.