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University DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 22, 1946
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, November 22, 1946
44th Year No. 44
Lawrence, Kansas
23 Houses Enter Booths in Carnival
Twenty - three organized houses will have booths or entertainment at the Union carnival tomorrow night in the Military Science building, Keith Wilson, social chairman, announced today.
Houses are sponsoring a marriage booth, a roulette wheel, kissing booth, a dice game, fortune telling booth, a thumbnail variety show, and a caricature booth.
The "Karnival Kup" will be presented to the organization sponsoring the winning booth. Party chaperones will act as judges selecting first, second, and third place winners. Construction and decoration of the booths will begin at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning.
At intermission time the "Missouri valley championship breath-holding contest" will be held with a $2 prize for the man or woman who can hold his hed submerged in a bucket of water for the longest time.
Besides the concessions, booths, and sideshows, music for dancing will be provided by Charlie Steeper's orchestra.
Organizations who will have booths include Alpha Tau Sigma, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Delta Chi, Chi Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, Triangle, Sigma Kappa,Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi.
Templin hall, Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Upsilon, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Beta Theta Phi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Delta Gamma, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Delta Delta Delta.
K.U. Fails Veteran, Friesen Declares
Hal Friesen, College sophomore blasted the University for its "failure to re-educate the battle-weary veteran," in his winning campus problems speech Tuesday night.
"After years of war training and endurance of untold hardships, the veteran returned to K.U. to find it still in a war-time state. A specific example, he said, is a required text of the English department, "John Brown's Body." It is a story of war with all the misery and suffering in it that the veteran is trying to forget.
"War-time training was in opposition to the constructive ideas of prewar education. It was mere blind obedience, hate, killing, and destruction. Battlefields were the laboratories for that training and should be left there," he said.
Friesen concluded his speech with a quotation of Gen. William Sherman: "I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is only moonshine. It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
Women Allowed Serenade Or Caroling Each Semester
One serenade or one caroling will be permitted each women's organized house every semester, Anne Scott, publicity chairman of the Women's Executive council, announced today.
By Bibler
Closing hours on nights of sere-
nades or caroling has been extended
to 1:30 a.m. because of the increased
number of men's organized houses.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair today, tonight and Saturday except becoming partly cloudy western quarter of state Saturday afternoon. Warmer Saturday. Low tonight in 20's.
Little Man On Campus
"Of course I'm getting an education, mother."
Lewis Is Served U.S. Summons
Washington (UP) - Two burly deputy U.S. marshals today served John L. Lewis with papers ordering him to appear in federal court on Monday to answer contempt charges for refusal to call off the national coal strike.
Barring a surprise legal move by Mr. Lewis, the next round in the government court attack on the mine chief would await a hearing Monday before Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough.
Establishment of a "Utopia College" in a southeast Kansas area which would be "relatively free from atomic attack" has been planned by a group of Massachusetts men.
At the time Mr. Lewis will have a chance to show why he should not be tried for contempt of court—and possibly be fined or jailed—for failing to keep his 400,000 United Mine Workers (AFL) on the job.
The strike, continuing in its second day, already was depressing the nation's economy. Steel mills planned cutbacks up to 40 per cent.
The group, which includes business statistician Roger Babson, has been granted a state charter for the founding of a liberal arts college in Eureka.
Massachusetts Men Plan Utopia College In Kansas
The household fuel problem was complicated by continued sympathy walkouts in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania. Although not directly affected by the dispute, at least 6,000 hard coal miners were off the job today and five big coal mines closed.
The government made plans for power dimouts, and a freight embargo on non-essential items. Passenger service on railroads will be cut 25 per cent at midnight Sunday.
Voluntary rationing, limiting coal deliveries to consumers with less than 10 days supply was placed in effect in several cities, including Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
4,800 Students Sign Priority For Basketball Tickets
Forty-eight hundred students have made applications for basketball tickets which means a possible attendance of 2,400 of each home game, Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager said today. This leaves 1,100 tickets to be offered to the public next week. Students may apply for tickets next week also, but they won't be given priority.
"The student body has been cooperative despite the "odd-or-even" system of basketball distribution," Mr. Falkenstien said today.
The students realize that with a gymnasium seating capacity of 3,500 everyone can't see all the home games, and so far, no resentment of the system has been shown at the box-office.
Call K.U. 25 For Grid Scores
The student priority deadline, previously set at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, was extended to 5:30 p.m. Thursday to take care of some last minute applicants, Mr. Falkenstein said.
The Daily Kansan will conduct its weekly football scores service from 3:30 to 6 tomorrow afternoon.
A call to K.U. 25 will get the score of any college football game covered by the United Press wire service. Scores by quarters also will be available.
Because of the time difference, most West coast final scores will not be available.
Underclassmen To See Advisers
Freshmen and sophomore students should make appointments with their advisors as early as possible for the College advising period scheduled on Nov. 25-26 and Dec. 2-3, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, said today.
A complete list of all underclassmen, individual advisors and the counseling hours of each have been posted on the College bulletin board.
Unsatisfactory reports will be mailed to the parents of students with as many as five hours of F or those with more than 40 per cent below C. These will not, however, be mailed from the College office until after Wednesday, Dean Ulmer pointed out.
"This will give students an opportunity to discuss the matter with their parents before the reports are mailed." he added.
All unsatisfactory grades for juniors and seniors will be mailed directly to the students at their Lawrence address.
Hungarian Leader To Speak In Fraser
Ida de Bobula of Budapest, director of Sarolta college for women, and democratic leader in Hungary, will speak on "Problems Facing Students in Hungary Today" at 4 p.m. Monday in Fraser theater.
Dr. de Bobula, who came to the United States to attend an International Assembly of Women in New York, is a leader in the small holders party, a democratic organization in Hungary.
Prior to Nazi occupation, she was a member of the Ministry of Education in Budapest, and the first woman to hold an important governmental post in that country.
Coal Strike May Stymie Vacation Jaunts
K. U. students living west of Lawrence may find their Thanksgiving vacation jaunts affected by the United Mine Workers' strike. Because of the coal shortage, two passenger trains operating between Kansas City and Salina will be discontinued Nov. 24 and 25, the Union Pacific railroad announced yesterday.
The trains are no. 39 which leaves Lawrence at 7:30 p. m. and no. 40, leaving at 11:25 a. m. Local Union Pacific officials believe there is little chance of the schedules being resumed before Thanksgiving day, Nov. 28. Two passenger trains, no. 69 leaving at 11 a. m. and no. 37, leaving at 12:25 p. m., will remain on schedule.
If student travel is heavy, the Santa Fe Trailwalk will add extra buses to its 10 westbound runs but no new schedules are anticipated, J. R. McKinley, manager, said.
Jones, Moore To Run In N.C.A.A. Meet
Earl Jones and Hal Moore, K.U.'s top distance runners, will represent the Jayhawkers at the NCAA cross-country meet at East Lansing, Mich., Monday.
Thirty-five squads will compete in the eighth annual meet which will approach pre-war standards with representatives from schools all over the country.
Jones, former Missouri state high school half-mile record holder, has been outstanding in his first autumn on cross-country routes. The hard-running freshman finished second to Nebraska's Bobby Ginn in the Big Six conference meet last Saturday and has won two firsts over the two-mile distance this season.
Moore finished far down the line at Norman but has been plagued by a pulled muscle for two weeks. He placed sixth in a field last year as the Jayhawkers finished seventh as a team,
Both Jones and Moore have bettered 22 minutes this season for the standard four-mile distance which indicates they should finish high in the national meet.
Murray Re-Elected
Atlantic City. (UP)-Philip Murray today was re-elected president of the Congress of Industrial Organization for the sixth time today.
You Can Believe These Signs:
Sunnyside Project, Men Working . . Slow
To a person driving past the Sunnyside housing development, the situation is clear.
A large sign proclai that here is being constructed a to provide housing for veterans and their families.
Right beside it is a sign
It says, "Slow."
The Daily Kansan, wondering why the apartment buildings look exactly the same day after day in spite of the many workers employed, found it's not always a case of men leaning on their shovels. Often they don't have shovels to lean on.
Flanked by Tom Yoe, the K.U. news bureau chief who incidentally is waiting for a Sunnyside unit himself, the Kansen emissary invaded the office of Irving Youngberg, housing director.
Mr. Youngberg, who is no doubt
fed up with hearing pleas for housing at the rate of fifty a day, was willing, even eager, to give us the done.
"Back in January, 1946, a man from the Federal Public Housing authority came to see me," he said. "He was enthusiastic and bubbling over with promises about the fine emergency housing we'd get by the summer session."
By September there were three shells up. The next deadline, this
"By that time," he said, "I could see the handwriting on the tarppaper wall. When optimists insisted there would be some units ready by September, I just waited."
So, Mr. Youngberg said, the University laid the utility lines, graded the sites, and were waiting in early spring for the contractor. He arrived in mid-July.
time only for the "most needy faculty members," was set for Nov. 1.
"Since then I've had promises of 'probably in two weeks' but no one tells me when the two weeks date from." he added.
Since the site was prepared last spring, the project has been out of the University's hands. Mr. Youngberg has no control over any unit until it is completed and the contractor hands him the key.
Meantime, Mr. Youngberg has run up a whopping toll bill making telephone calls to expedite construction, trying to cut through what he calls the "red tape connecting the housing program, the Fort Worth F.P.H.A. office, and the contractor."
But Mr. Youngberg revealed the faith his office has that the housing program efficiency will win out with his final statement:
"I won't believe it until I see it."