Monday, Nov. 18, 1946
University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, Nov. 18, 1946
44th Year No. 40
Lawrence, Kansas
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
DIDLER CO. POWLY KANSAS
"Gee, Coach, is this the way to Skonk the Jayhawk?"
U.S. Gets Injunction Against Lewis
Washington. (UP)—The government today obtained a temporary injunction requiring United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis to uphold his end of the contract with the government for operation of the soft coal mines.
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough signed the temporary restraining order against Mr. Lewis and his union in response to a petition filed by Atty. Gen. Tom Clark.
The proceedings were designed to prevent the nationwide soft coal mining shutdown threatened for Thursday.
The court ordered a hearing Nov. 27 on the government request for a permanent injunction.
The office of defense transportation today ordered coal burning railroads to reduce their passenger service by 25 per cent, effective next Monday, because of the threatened stoppage in soft coal production.
Mine Walkouts Begin In Coal Showdown
(By United Press)
Premature work stoppages spread through the nation's soft coal fields today as the deadline for the showdown between the A.F.L. United Mine workers and the government coal administration neared.
In western Pennsylvania, at least 10 mines were closed with 4,000 idle and the daily production loss mounting toward 20,000 tons.
The U.M.W. members stayed away from their jobs in defiance of a government plea by Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug to keep digging coal.
In Illinois, scores of mines were reported closed when miners refused to report to work.
In the rich southwestern Pennsylvania field, five of the 14 miles of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal co. largest producer of bituminous in the world, shut down. Two pits of Jones & Laughlin Steel closed.
Rittsburgh-Consolidated reported that at two of the five pits closed the miners appeared at the pits, but refused to enter. At the other mines, the workers simply failed to show up.
Physical Therapists Meet
The Physical Therapy club will meet at 7.30 tonight in Watkins hospital.
Musicians Present 90th Vespers Sunday
Organizations taking part include the Women's Glee club, directed by Prof. Irene Peabody; Men's Glee club, directed by Prof. Joseph Wilkins; A Cappella choir, directed by symphony orchestra, directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout; and the Prof. Russell L. Wiley.
About 400 School of Fine Arts students and faculty took part in the 90th All-Musical vespers Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium.
K.U. Bridge Players Begin Tomorrow
Also featured on the program were Prof. G.C. Simpson at the organ and the University string quartet.
The all-school bridge tournament, sponsored by the Union intramural committee, will get under way at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow as 48 of the 96 couples entered meet in the Kansas room of the Union.
The second group of 48 contestants will play at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
'Future War Not Inevitable'
Appoint Student Directors
Marcus Hahn and Erwin Schneider have been appointed student directors of the University symphony orchestra.
But World Hasn't Peace Yet, Hambro Declares
"If all nations can live up to the ideals in the American Declaration of Independence the United Nations will succeed and no future war will be inevitable," Dr. Carl J. Hambro, Norwegian delegate to the United Nations conference, said at convocation this morning.
These ideals, he said were expressed most admirably by President Abraham Lincoln's speech in 1861 in which the president inquired of himself what had made it possible for the American states to remain together so long. It was the promise, the president concluded, of the better life for all men for all future time as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Dr. Hambro, who is chairman of the League of Nations assembly and is presiding over the liquidation of the League, was preceded on the convocation program by a vocal duet by Ruth Reisner and E. M. Brack who sang "O Soave Fanciulla" from Puccini's "La Boheme." They were accompanied by Edward Utley.
We will not have a legal and lasting peace for some time he added. The Paris peace conference, in which most people and newspapers were disappointed because it did not live up to their romantic ideas, did not even take up the question of peace with Germany and Japan.
"We are not living in peace, today," Dr. Hambro said, "but in a truce which is not yet well balanced."
"It was not even a real peace conference, because no delegates had the power to make binding decisions," Dr. Hambro continued. The recommendations made at the conference must be approved by the foreign ministers and then ratified by each country before they are legal."
Kansas-Fair and warmer today, tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight near 40.
Dr. Hambro stressed his "heterodox conviction that "the political work at the United Nations conference is secondary. The subsidiary organizations, such as the UN Educational Scientific, and Cultural organizations, are doing and will do the most important work."
WEATHER
These organizations, he believes, will have their finger on the factors of the everyday life of the people from which spring the causes of peace and war.
'Papers Are In,' Elbel Insists
Everyone Blames Everyone Else For Delay In Veterans' Checks
Latest reports from the veterans' 'Battle of the Budget" front-line:
"Every veteran whose records are in order will be certified for payment by today"-an official of the Veterans Administration regional office in Kansas City.
"We will have checks in the mail within a maximum of four days after the VA send us the payrolls"—the U.S. treasury disbursing office in Kansas City.
Gunn, Bridge Partner Place Fourth At K. C.
"It should take a maximum of seven working days for us to process a veteran's papers, authorize payment to him, send that authorization to the disbursing office, and have the money on the way back to the veteran"—another VA official in Kansas City.
The $6.61 a semester hour compensatory charge requested by the University's board of regents has been approved by the Veterans' Administration, Karl Klooz, bursar, said today.
$6.61 Fee Approved As Charge To Vets
The $6.61 figure, which replaces the $60 a semester fee, was allowed by the St. Louis V.A. office nearly three weeks ago when it instructed the regional office at Kansas City to pay the University on the revised charge.
This semester-hour figure is the latest in a series of changes in the compensatory fee. The charge is made against the $500 allowed for two semesters for books, fees, and supplies.
"We had all the papers of the great bulk of our veterans in Kansas City five weeks ago"—Dr. E.R. Elbel, head of the University veterans affairs
JAMES GUNN
The first compensatory fee was $40 a semester. Later it was ruled the University could charge out-of-state fees to all veterans. Then the V.A. ruled the University could charge $50 a semester for all veterans but only out-of-state veterans would pay out-of-state fees.
Now, the V.A. rules that the University may charge either out-of-state fees or the compensatory charge, but not both. The ruling, which will require many changes on records in the University, will entitle a very few students to a rebate on cash paid for exceeding the $500 limit last year.
Medical students will not be charged any compensatory fee, Mr. Klooz stated.
The new system means that a student taking 12 hours will have $79.82 charged against his account, while a student taking 18 hours will have $118.98 charged against his $500.
The compensatory fee is authorized by the V.A. and is in addition to all usual fees.
James Gunn, College senior, who retired Friday as editor-in-chief of the Daily Kansan, made good use of his free time over the weekend by taking fourth place in the regional American Contract Bridge league tournament, in Kansas City, Mo.
Playing with Milton Bierbaum, a St. Louis bridge player whom Gunn had never met before, he scored 384 points. The winning pair, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lees, of St. Louis, scored $393\frac{1}{2}$ points.
The pair may play together again in the St. Louis regional next June, he said.
The team of Gunn and Bierbaum had a 61.5 percent game, which means that their scores were consistently better than 61.5 percent of the other teams playing. In a field of 68 teams, the pair finished third in the preliminary round and fourth in the finals.
"I was really surprised at how well my partner and I got along, playing together for the first time," Gunn remarked.
And there it stood today.
In an effort to discover just what is causing all the delay, the Daily Kansan telephoned the VA office in Kansas City.
Representatives of the newspaper talked to five different officials. They gave five different answers to the same question.
Some of them blamed K.U. handling of the veterans papers.
But Dr. Elbel came back with written proof that the only papers still going in to the Kansas City office were those of "strugglers"—men who had to wait for supplemental certificates to their original authorization to attend a school—and some few medical students.
For that, there was no comeback.
Other VA men frankly said "we've been snowed under, just like your teachers at the University."
The VA men pointed out that the final list of K.U. veterans eligible for subsistence payments didn't get to them until Nov. 4.
And Dr. Elbel answered that "this list had on it only 425 names, and still the bulk of our other 5,000 veterans are without money."
Those 425 men, incidentally, originally were thought to have gone over their annual education allowance. They were freed from this "excess cost" classification when the University learned that it could not charge out-of-state veterans both an out-of-state fee and a compensatory charge of $6.61 a credit hour, which it takes from every veteran.
VA officials weren't particularly positive over the future of the payments, either.
"It will be mid-December before some of the first checks get to the isolated cases," one asserted.
Payments for November, due during the first week of December, should continue "on schedule" for those men who already have received their first checks, the VA said. Second semester class changes should cause no interruption in payments, they added.
Government Stops Flight Instruction Aid
Flying under the G.I. bill has been permanently discontinued at K.U. and other universities because of a recent interpretation of the bill in Washington, E. R. Elbel, director of the University veterans office, said recently.
It is possible that a more lenient interpretation may be forthcoming, Dr. Elbel said. The only schools not affected at present are those teaching commercial flying as a full time course.
Nursery Parents Invited
Parents of children in the University nursery school have been invited to a home economics department showing of two films on child development in 110 Fraser at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow.