University DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1945
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
43rd Year No.54
Lawrence, Kansas
Clamp Price Lids On All House Sales
Washington. (UP)—President Trueman today announced the government would place price ceilings on old and new dwellings and would reinstate government priorities on building materials.
The President said he approved the program, aimed primarily at curbing inflation in the real estate market, and that it would be put into effect as rapidly as possible.
Washington. (UP)—Secretary of State James F. Byrnes left by plane for Moscow today to seek a Big Three understanding on atomic bomb controls and the calling of a general peace conference for Europe.
Kansas Incorporates Pre-Paid Medicine
Topcka. (UP)—The Kansas Physicians Service, incorporated today, had an authorization from State Insurance Commissioner Charles F. Hobbs, to provide low cost medical and surgical care in return for a small monthly premium.
The organization, acting in cooperation with the Blue Cross, was formed by Kansas physicians to provide medical care for a charge of 00 cents a month for single persons and $2.25 a month for married couples and families regardless of size.
Paris. (UP)—More than 1,800,000 police and other civil workers will hold one-hour token strikes throughout France today to protest the government's refusal to grant general $20 a month pay raises.
Washington. (UP)—President Truman told a news conference today that he will announce a complete policy regarding China when Gen. George C. Marshall leaves for his new post as Mr. Truman's personal ambassador.
Jap Sub Commander Called for Testimony
Washington. (UP)—The Japanese submarine commander who claims he torpedoed the cruiser Indianapolis will be called to testify tomorrow in the court martial of Capt. Charles B. McVay III, the cruiser's skipper.
The Jap captain, Cmdr. Ike Hashimoto, was flown to Washington from Japan last week after he claimed that it was his submarine that sank the Indianapolis in the Philippines sea July 30.
Heidelberg, (UP)—A late afternoon bulletin today said that the condition of Gen. George S. Patton, gravely injured with a broken neck and partial paralysis, is unchanged.
Senate Drops Investigation Of Hurley's Charges
Washington. (UP) — The senate reign relations committee today dropped its investigation of charges by ex-Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley that state department career diplomats undermined U.S. foreign policy throughout the world.
For three hours today the committee examined secret state department records. Then chairman Tom Connally announced that no further hearings or closed sessions on the matter were planned.
This was tantamount to rejecting Hurley's complaints.
Dramatic Workshop To Give Three Plays
"Men interested in appearing in Dramatic Workshop plays will have a chance to try- out this week," Virginia Urban, president, said today.
Try-outs are for three one-act plays to be presented next month.
The time and date of try-outs will be announced later.
Eisenhower On GM Probe Board
Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State college, was named today by President Truman as a member of the fact-finding board appointed to probe the General Motors strike.
(Bu United Press)
At the same time, Ford of Canada rejected the CIO United Auto Workers offer to end a three-months strike at Ford plants in Windsor, Ont.
In Pittsburgh, CIO President Philip Murray announced that the United Steel Workers will strike the nation's steel, aluminum and iron ore industries at 12:01 a.m. unless demands for a $2-a-day wage increase are met. Work stoppage would involve upwards of 700,000 workers in 27 states.
Mr. Truman admitted that the fact-finding board will have no authority to examine the books of General Motors, without the legislation he has asked Congress to pass, but he said he expected cooperation on both sides.
Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach told Congress today the nation was in "critical need" of President Truman's fact-finding labor program.
The wage issue, based on organized labor's campaign to maintain wartime pay levels, was responsible for the vast majority of strikes idling 469,000 American workers.
Despite the union's action in ordering a general strike in the nation's steel mills, CIO President Philip Murray opened the way for further negotiations when he told a press conference that the union's $2-a-day demand was "negotiable."
Snow White,
Snow Bright,
First Snow--ment from the bacteriology department was moved in to establish a 24-hour laboratory.
Woodrow Wilson Returns To Geological Survey
Woodrow W. Wilson, recently released from the army, has been reinstated in the United States Geological survey department, according to V. C. Fishel, engineer in charge of the department.
Mr. Wilson, who also will be taking special work at the University during the spring semester, was in military service three years.
"Gee, it's really white."
Patricia Tomlinson, Ft. Worth,
Texas, College freshman, looked out
the classroom window today, and
saw her first snowfall.
The true whiteness impressed her, So—but ir's a different way—did the promise of a "snow initiation" from her sorority sisters, who were threatening to wash her face in the stuff and drag her through it by the heels.
Several weeks ago, when the weatherman promised snow during the night, Miss Tomlinson tried to stay up all night and see the flakes in action. She dozed off, instead, and slept all through a slight fall.
"I can hardly wait to get into a good old snow fight and to see my first snow man," she laughed today.
In fact, she said, she's almost as excited about this first date with the young man of snow as she was with that first 14-year-old back in junior high.
'Early to Bedders' May Miss Serenade
And with this, she promptly slipped and fell again.
A suggestion to those who believe in "early to bed." "--you might miss something worth while on Tuesday, unless you stay awake to hear the carols of Phi Mu Alpha, music fraternity.
"There will be lots of caroling this year of course," George Yeckel, the secretary, said, "but the unusual thing about ours is that we do it in four-part harmony."
Melvin to Speak In Fraser Tonight
The next evening the fraternity will furnish a part of the program of Christmas and fraternity songs for a University club party at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Liddy,
Kansas—Cloudy with snow, not much change in temperature tonight. Low 25-30. Thursday mostly cloudly with snow north, rain or snow south. No decided temperature change.
Dolbee Writes for Magazine
F. E. Melvin, history professor, will speak on "Is America a Part of an Atlantic Community," in Fraser theater at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
Miss Cora Dolbeer, former English teacher at the University, is author of "The Long, Long Voice," a discussion of the poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, which appears in the December issue of the 1946 Kansas magazine.
WEATHER
He will discuss the part the United States will play in future peace projects involving the Atlantic ocean.
Speakers Urge Peace Plan
A plan to insure future world peace was presented by speakers Ely Culbertson and Lewis Browne in a discussion of the question, "What of Russia?" held in Hoch auditorium last night.
Mr. Culbertson then discussed his peace plan, "The quota force system,"
Mr. Browne, English-born author and lecturer, opened the discussion with an analysis of the forces trying to drive us into war with Russia. Both he and Culbertson said they felt that such a war would be catastrophic.
He expressed his belief that warfare could be controlled and peace could be insured by creation of a central authority among sovereign states, a world federation.
Mr. Culbertson's world federation plan would follow the general framework of the old League of Nations with three important amendments. The three main points of his quota force plan are:
ONE. A federative government
A federative government with fair representation for all states, acting by simple majority vote within the scope of specific, delegated powers.
TWO. Nationwide quota limitations of the products of atomic and other scientific weapons.
THREE. A world peace force, separate from the armed forces of the member-states, to suppress aggression or illegal production of scientific weapons.
Kansas Debates Nebraska On Military Training Tonight
Debaters Floyd Krebiel and Richard Schiefelbusch today for Lincoln, Neb., where they will represent the University in a debate tonight.
K. U. will take the affirmative side on the question of compulsory military training.
The K.U. Dames will meet at 7:30 tonight in Myers hall.
K. U. Dames to Meet
Jayhawker 'Not Representative,' Council Charges
The 1945 Jayhawk magazine fall issue "does not present a representative picture of University campus life." All-Student Council members commented in their weekly meeting in the Union last night.
Council members also suggested the Jayhawker contents indicated favoritism in the selection of authors, and resolved unanimously to have the Council publicity committee compose a "resolution of constructive criticism" for the Jayhawker staff.
Hanna Hedrick, College senior and layhawker editor, had "no comment" oday on the Council action.
Other council decisions included conversion of the navy storeroom in the Union basement into a recreation room with space for dancing, perhaps on weekend nights. Robert Witt, graduate student, was appointed prosecuting officer for the student court, and Council members decided to go carolling instead of holding their regular meeting next week.
Discussion of the magazine was introduced by Anne Stevens, College senior and Council auditing committee chairman, after she reported that the financial statements of the Jayhawker and the WEC. book exchange were the only two of their kind on the campus which are not audited. The Council arranged for such auditing by a senior student working through the University business office.
Miss Stevens declared "It seems to me that the Jayhawker magazine his year is not a true representation if what life is like on the University campus.
"There seems to be too much of what this club did or that security or fraternity is doing, and not enough of the real stuff that college life is made up of.
"Who cares whether the Beta'd this on such and such a day?" The fall 1945 Jayhawker looks more like a literary magazine for the special friends of the staff of the magazine, rather than an all-campus publication."
Wendell Nickell, freshman medical student, answered "it is supposed to be a literary publication, at least that is my impression."
Miss Stevens said "yes, but not the type of literature that appeared in
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17 Years Ago Today (Alas, Alack), School Was Dismissed
Thad Code Id You Node Id Bad But Be Glad 'Tisn't'28
The flu bug has hit the campus again and many students are missing classes to stay home in bed or to drag up the hill to the University's overcrowded hospital.
BUT it isn't as bad as Dec. 12, 1928—17 years ago today—when school was dismissed until an influenza epidemic could be controlled.
The season's flurry of the annual disease hasn't reached epidemic proportions but the number of bleary eyes and sniffling noses recalls the campus flu epidemic of 1928, and a previous one in 1918.
Beginning in October, 1918, flu hit a thousand University students, many of whom were enrolled in the
Student Array Training corps. Approximately 3,000 men were enrolled in S.A.T.C. and nine barracks were being constructed on the grounds east of the stadium.
Few facilities or medical personnel were available to meet the emergency. Faculty members of the School of Medicine were called in to assist; the army detailed a captain and four lieutenants from the medical corps to serve as aides; arrangements were made with local physicians to accept half-time appointments.
Senior medical students from Kansas City were sent to act as internes; the barracks were converted into a hospital, and equipment from the bacteriology department was moved in to establish a 24-hour laboratory.
As influenza struck more persons, a special pneumonia ward was established on the upper floor of one of the barracks. Among the pneumonia patients was the present chancellor, Deane W. Malott.
The epidemic was conquered by the latter part of November, 1918, after the armistice ending World War I had been signed, but not until after several student had died.
Ten years later on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1928, influenza again had become so serious among students that school was dismissed until Jan. 2.
A medical survey was conducted
Dec. 11 to learn the extent of the epidemic. It revealed 500 cases of flu in organized houses and dormitories, Chancellor E. H. Lindley dismissed classes at 11:30 the next day upon the recommendation of the University Health Committee.
The University's hospital was filled so hospital facilities were provided in Corbin hall. There was discussion of opening still another emergency hospital after 340 students had called at the hospital in two days.
Christmas party plans were postponed and Christmas programs were cancelled. The University high school was closed. Only the basketball team was unaffected by the epidemic and practices and out-of-town games were continued as scheduled.