University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1945
43rd Year No. 53
Lawrence, Kansas
Security Assembly Patterned After UNO K-State Has Peace Meet
Manhattan. (UP)—The first plenary sessions of the Kansas State college International Security assembly, which is patterned after a general assembly of the United Nations organizations, will be held in the college auditorium here Thursday night.
The meeting will climax a semester's study of different nations by campus organizations belonging to the International Security assembly. Each organization will represent the country it is studying, and members will wear the native costume.
Approximately 750 students will take part. About 30 countries will be represented.
The students will set up a United Nations international court of justice, secretariat, security council, and an economic and social council. A secretary-general will be elected.
A. B. Sageser, professor of history and government, is the group's faculty adviser.
World May See Atomic Test
Washington. (UP) — Progress of plans for international control of atomic energy may determine whether the world will have grandstand seats when the United States conducts its great atomic bomb experiment on ships at sea.
Formal announcement that the U. S. is preparing for a gigantic naval test of atomic bombs was made last night by the army and navy both of whom will take part in the experiment. The results are expected to have an important bearing on the future of navies, their size and nature and disposition in warfare.
months of preparation will probably be needed before the requisite ships, men and scientific equipment can be gotten together. The announcement said the operation will involve "large problems of logistics, including the assembly of many naval vessels, extensive instrumentation for measuring results and assembly of necessary personnel."
During this period plans for some sort of world control of atomic weapons will be going forward. The United States is pressing for international action. It has already talked with Britain and Canada, its partners in atomic bomb development, and is bringing Russia into the discussions next Saturday.
Stephenson to Attend Meeting
Dr. Eugene A. Stephenson, professor of petroleum engineering, will attend the Interstate Oil Compact commission meeting to be held in Wichita, Wednesday. He will be the engineering representative for the state of Kansas.
K.U. Discussion Group Talks Atomic Bomb
In an effort to direct student thinking toward constructive uses of the atomic bomb instead of thinking of it in terms of a destructive force, a discussion group composed of students and two faculty members has been meeting once a week to discuss the problem informally.
Letters from student groups at Wellesley and Barnard colleges asking what students at Kansas were doing concerning the atomic bomb issue prompted the organization of this campus discussion group.
The first meeting was held Dec. 3, at Henley house. The next meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday in the English room of the Union, and is public.
Mrs. Patton Certain General Will Recover
Frankfurt. (UP)—Mrs. George S. Patton reached Gen. George S. Patton's bedside today and expressed full confidence that he would recover completely from the broken neck which has almost completely paralyzed him.
General Patton was slightly improved today but doctors still refused to forecast his chances for recovery.
Melvin Talk at 7:30
Prof. F. E. Melvin will speak Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Fraser theater and not at 8 as previously announced.
He will talk on "Is the United States Part of an Atlantic Community of Nations," in the third of the "America at Peace" series.
Don't Go Into Business Without Experience, Stockton Tells Vets
"Veterans—don't go into business for yourself until you have had experience," Dean Frank T. Stockton, of the School of Business advised today.
"Unless you have had business experience, statistics are stacked against achieving success in a new business," Dr. Stockton explained.
Every day more veterans are coming to Dean Stockton for advice on what courses to take in the School of Business to prepare for careers in business.
"I always advise that education is not enough for the average student to prepare himself to build his own business—he should have some experience working for a reliable and well-established firm first," Dean Stockton declared. "The largest percentage of business failures are not due to uncontrollable factors. They result from ignorance of good business practice."
The veterans on the whole are recognizing the value of a good education, Dean Stockton said. As to what kinds of jobs they are looking for, the dean believes they are about evenly divided in their preference for desk jobs and jobs which are largely contact work outside the office.
Marjorie Bentley Serves on Four ASC Committees
MARJORIE BENTLEY
Marjorie Bentley, who prefers being called Peg, is the co-operative housing association's representative to the All-Student Council. She is a member of the wage study, co-operative book store, public relations, and convocations and lectures committees.
Peg, a senior psychology major,
lives in Tacoma, Wash., but she says,
she "heard of Dr. Wheeler's fame
and loud ties and to K.U.
to see." She formerly attended the
University of Washington at Seattle
and the College of Puget Sound, at
Tacoma.
Peg is vice-president of Henley house, chairman of the Y.W.C.A. Life of Jesus workshop, and belongs to the Psychology club, the Music Appreciation club, and the Congregational Fireside forum.
She lists ceramics and writing poetry as hobbies, says her favorite sport is hosteling, and plans to work with the Christian Youth movement in the future.
'Miss Student Union' Crowned Tomorrow
Dean Henry Werner will introduce and crown "Miss Student Union" at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow. The candidates are Virginia Joseph, Kappa Alpha Theta; Beth Eloise Hodgson, Kappa Kappa Gamma; and Barbara Ann Varner, Pia Beta Phi.
A song will be sung and dedicated to the queen by a Sigma Chi quartet consisting of William Richardson, Eldridge King, Dean Patterson, and James Conard.
Students are requested by Joan Woodward, chairman of the Midweek committee, to cast their votes during the first half hour of the dance.
WEATHER
Accompanying the debaters to the annual speech conference held in Columbia was E. C. Buchler, professor of speech. Professor Buchler spoke on "Voices in History" and "Ten Commandments for Debaters."
Orville Roberts and Jean Moore, representing the department of speech, won a debate on compulsory military training at the University of Missouri, Saturday.
K.U. Debaters Win
Kansas—Mostly cloudy with occasional light snow west tonight and in west and south Wednesday. Slowly rising temperatures. Low tonight 20-25, except 15-20 northeast.
Students Win Demand for Football Holiday
M.U. Vacation Extended
Columbia, Mo. (UP)—The committee of deans at the University of Missouri today extended the Christmas vacation at the institution two days as a student demand for extra holiday time appeared to be growing on the campus.
In a special session the deans heard Ray Taylor, president of the student government association, speak in behalf of the student body for extra time so that students could attend the Cotton bowl game between Missouri and Texas at Dallas on New Year's day.
Talk of a strike by students Jan. 2, had grown over the weekend and letters were mailed earlier today to leading papers of the state urging editorial support of students seeking the enlarged vacation.
Classes will end at noon Dec. 21, and resume at 8 a.m. Jan. 4, the deans decreed after acting favorably on Taylor's request. The administration last week declined to extend the vacation.
Navy Gives Up Search for Fliers
Browne is known as an author and lecturer. He is the author of a dozen books, including "This Believing World" and "See What I Mean."
Activity tickets will admit students to the discussion by Ely Culbertson and Lewis Browne of the question "What About Russia" tonight in Hoch auditorium. The lecture will begin at 8:30.
Activity Books Good For Tonight's Talks
Culbertson is the son of an American engineer who founded the Russian oil fields of Grozny. Although he is famous as the originator and dramatizer of contract bridge, Culbertson thinks mass psychology is his real vocation. He devotes his time now to the expounding of world organization through his own plan, known as total peace.
Naval officials called off its greatest peacetime search party yesterday when planes and surface craft reported they had found no trace of the missing planes.
Miami, Fla. (UP)—The navy listed as an unsolved mystery today the fate of 27 navy airmen who disappeared aboard six planes off the Florida coast. The group included Ems. Joseph T. Bossi, former University student and brother of Catherine Bossi, college junior.
Manhattan. (UP)—The first of 100 trailers leased from the government to house married veterans at KansasState college will reach the campus Thursday from Great Bend, A.R. Jones college comptroller, said today.
Trailers at K-State
Holiday Vespers In Hoch Sunday
The annual University Christmas Vespers with Tableaux will be presented at 4 p.m. Sunday by the School of Fine Arts in Hoch auditorium.
Participating will be the University Symphony orchestra of 75 players, the vested A Capppeila choir of 90 voices, instrumental ensembles, vocal soloists, and students from the departments of design and drawing and painting in four elaborate living tableaux depicting Christmas scenes.
Starting at 3:40 p.m., chimes and Christmas music will be sounded over the campus and valleys by amplification from Dyche Tower on ML. Great! Christmas music from a brass quartet on the outdoor balcony of Hoch andellium will greet visitors as they enter the building. After the opening organ prelude at 4 p.m., the candle lighting and candelight processional begins.
Prof. Joseph Wilkins, tenor, of the Fine Arts faculty, will sing two solos from "The Messiah," and the Symphony orchestra will present the "Pastoral Symphony" from that work.
Among other selections, the choir will sing the newly composed Christmas cantata, "O Wondrous Star" by Dominico Savino, the first time this number has been presented in this area. Dean D. M. Swarthout will direct.
Dr. John C. Frye, assistant director of the State Geological Survey, attended a meeting of trustees of the Midwest Research institute in Kansas City early this week.
Frye To K. C. Meeting
Our 'Lady in the Dark' Produces A Million Photographs A Year
Lady in the dark—that's Miss Burch Brown, director of the University Photographic bureau.
During her three and one-half years as University photographer, Miss Brown, with her assistants, has developed more than a million prints in the laboratory tucked in beside the Watson Library subbasement.
Thousands of students have smiled for Miss Brown as she took pictures for their activity books, and will again next year when film is available.
"The freshmen always want to take off their coats and comb their hair," she said today. "They get over that by the second semester, when it's an old story."
But this is only one phase of the bureau's work.
An English professor doing research wants pages of a library book photographed, so that he will not have to carry the heavy volume from the library. The University publicity bureau wants pictures of campus buildings and activities. A history professor wants slides made from pictures of historic spots. They all go to Miss Brown.
Henry Brown, College junior, is Miss Brown's student photographer, while Mrs. Donna Frazer assists in the laboratory.
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