University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, November 5, 1945
43rd Year No. 30
Lawrence, Kansas
Bus Strike Spreads To Kansas, Missouri
Tula, Okla. (UP)—Hundreds of travelers were stranded temporarily today as the strike of Southwestern Greyhound bus drivers and maintenance men spread to other states.
Union spokesmen at Kansas City, said today that the Southwestern Greyhound walkout would affect some 1,500 drivers and maintenance men in eight southwestern states including Kansas and Missouri. The Union is demanding wage increases and improved working conditions.
Washington. (UP)—President Truman, opening the labor-management conference, declared today that industry and the working people must get together and end current industrial strife, saying that government wartime controls over industrial relations soon will be ended.
British Tighten Lid On Tense Near East
Jerusalem. (UP)—The coastal area of Palestine was under a dusk-to-dawn curfew today as British forces stepped up precautions against any new violence by Jewish extremist
Dispatches from Egypt said Cairo was quiet today after several days of Anti-Jewish demonstrations by Arab extremists.
Washington. (UP)—The Supreme Court today refused to review the Government's wartime seizure of Montgomery Ward properties.
It dismissed the case as "moot" since the properties have been returned to the company.
Washington. (UP) —The wind played tricks on Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle yesterday and prevented him from setting a new, non-stop transcontinental flying record.
Flying in his B-29 superfortress and averaging about 350 miles an hour, he fell short by a minute and nine seconds of breaking the record set by the Lockheed constellation in April, 1944.
Batavia. (UP)—A British communique said the situation throughout Java was tense today following a new outbreak of shooting in Batavia and rumors of Indonesian preparations for fresh attacks in Soerabaja.
Kansas City Greets General Wainwright
Kansas City. (UP)—Bunting flew overhead on Kansas City streets today as the city went all out to greet another war hero—the 'hero of Bataan' Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, who arrived at 3 p.m. today.
A celebration was being prepared for Wainwright that equalled that given Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in his homecoming last summer.
Saligon, French Indo-China. (UP) —Annamites have renewed attacks on British and French troops west, north and south of Saligon, it was reported today.
Heavy fighting broke out last night west of Cholen which is now offlimits for all British troops except officers on duty.
Manile. (UP)—Lengthy cross-examination failed today to shake the testimony of two Filipino collaborators that Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita personally ordered the sack of Manila and slaughter of its inhabitants.
Is the Situation Better Than After World War I?
How Close Are We To World Peace?
Is the world closer to international peace today than it was two or three months after World War I?
Armed with this question, Daily Kansan reporters have been interviewing representatives of nine University departments and schools the past week.
They queried a philosopher, a political scientist, a psychologist, the chancellor, a sociologist, a chemist, lawyer, an historian, and an engineer.
lawyer, an historian, and an enginer Seven of the nine answered "Yes." Two, the historian and the engineer, answered "No."
The seven who believed we are closer to world peace today than after a similar period following the Armistice which ended World War I, based their reasons on five main points:
ONE. This time, the main centers of aggression will be incapacitated.
TWO. This time, there is an effective international machinery set up to maintain peace.
THREE. This time, there is the atomic bomb.
FOUR. This time, the troubles and disagreements are small compared with the dispute about the League of Nations and Wilson's 14 Points.
the world's problems.
The two who believed we were closer to world peace in 1919 than we are today based their reasons on four main points:
of Nations and Wilson. This time, we are more realistic, more aware of the world's problems.
ONE. The current United Nations organization offers less hope for peace than the League of Nations did.
TWO. The economic and industrial ruin caused
by World War II is so much deeper and farther-reaching than the 1914-18 devastation.
THREE. The atomic bomb makes even small nations potential aggressors capable of blotting out an entire country.
FOUR. Russia is holding up the peace.
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Reporters who participated in this survey were Jean Murray, LaVone Craig, Marian Thomson, Neal Sheehan, Lelia Strayhorn, Catherine Osgood, Barbara Ewing, Annabelle Saylor, and Paul Conrad.
The answers they received follow.
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The philosopher interviewed was Prof. E. H. Hollands.
"I think the world is nearer peace now than after the first world war in two respects," he said. "Whether these two will balance all the other items that must be considered, I'm not sure."
be considered. "One thing that wasn't completely done at the of the last war was the incapacitating for war of two of the main centers of aggression. So far as we can see now, Germany and Japan will not be able to make war for a long time to come.
"The other accomplishment is the setting up of the United Nations organization, including the United States, which at least provides some of the machinery for cooperative maintenance of peace.
Kansas: Fair to partly cloudy and continued mild tonight, low temperatures 45 to 55. Tomorrow partly cloudy and becoming colder by afternoon except extreme southeast. Much colder northwest and north central.
"But unless we make effective use of the United Nations, it won't be anything more than a paper
U.S. Troops Aid Chiang, Reds Say
WEATHER
BULLETIN
Washington. (UP)—The White House announced today that President Truman received word this morning from Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, commanding American forces in China, that "there have been no clashes between Chinese Communists and the Marines."
North China's second largest mine, at Tsaochang in southern Shantung, has been surrounded for 85 days by Communists, he said.
Communications Minister Yu Fei-Peng, however, revealed that U.S. marines were accompanying each coal train traveling from North China's largest coal mine at Kailan southwest to Tientsin. Marines also garrison the mine, he said.
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scribed by the Communist newspaper New China Daily, which joined Radio Yenan in making the charge, said that American troops helped the Central government's armies capture two Communist-held villages in northeast China near the Manchurian border.
Chungking. (UP) — Communist sources charged today that American forces were fighting in China's undeclared civil war on the side of the central government, but a government spokesman said the accusation was groundless.
churchian border. Information Minister K. C. Wu of the Chungkwing government categorically denied the charges.
was groundless. American correspondents returning from North China denied that American troops had entered the civil war and said they had heard no reports of such fighting as described by the Communist quarters.
What Do You Think?
Editor's Note: These have been the samplings of the opinions of a small portion of the faculty. What do students believe on this subject? The Daily Kansan will welcome letters giving student views on the subject and will print them as soon as practical. Address your letters to World Peace Survey Editor, and limit them to 100 words, please.
Corbin President Represents Dorms
Helen Stark, 20-year-old College senior, is the Inter-Dormitory Council representative to the All Student Council. She is a member of the Council's finance committee.
HELEN STARK
Helen is majoring in bacteriology and is secretary-treasurer of the Bacteriology club. She also is president of Corbin hall.
She came to the University from her home in Sabetha as a freshman in 1942. A brother, Bob, was graduated from the University's School of Medicine last year. Her sister, Marjorie, is a freshman this year, majoring is,
30 to Decorate For Homecoming
Thirty organized houses will compete for three cups awarded for Homecoming decorations, with the theme Jayhawkers vs. K-State Wildcats, Jean McIntyre, decorations committee chairman, said today.
Decorations will be judged Nov. 16 and 17, on originality, cleverness, beauty, and appropriateness.
Houses competing are:
Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi,
Alpha Omicron Pi, Battenfeld hall,
Carruth hall, Chi Omega, Corbin
hall, Delta Gamma, Delta Tau Delta,
Delta Upsilon, Foster hall, Gamma
Phi Beta, Harmon Co-op, Hopkins
hall, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa
Kappa Gamma.
Kappa Gamma
Loksley hall, Miller hall, Phi Delta
Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa
Pi, Psi Beta Pi, Ricker hall, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma
Kappa, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Tipperary
hall, Watkins hall, Wright place.
WSSF Drive Ends With $2,400 Total
"The World Student Service Fund drive ended officially Friday with $2,400 collected, but pledges still are being solicited," Jeanne Blanchard, chairman, announced today.
With the drive's office in the Memorial Union closed, pledges may be paid at Henley house, Miss Blanchard said.
cheard said.
"Many pledges have not been paid," she added.
Student Speakers Will Meet Tomorrow
Students interested in any forensic or extra-curricular speaking activity will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the little theater of the Green hall, Prof. E. C. Buchler, of the speech and drama department, announced today.
Freshmen to Vote For Councilmen, Officers Tuesday
Voting will be from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Freshmen may vote at whichever place is most convenient. Miss Templeton added.
Freshmen will elect class officers and All-Student Council representatives tomorrow at polls set up in the basements of Fraser hall and Frank Strong hall, Jean Templeton, chairman of the A.S.C. elections committee, said today.
All freshmen wishing to vote are to bring their activity books for identification, Miss Templeton said. The candidates are
Men students are to vote for a man representative and women are to vote for a woman representative. For class officers, students may vote for either a man or a woman. Complete voting instructions will be posted in the booths.
The candidates are
President: George Gear, Pachacamac,
mac, and Boyd Duane Adsit, P.S.
G.L.
Vice-president—Joanne Cockreham, Independent, and Patricia Elledge, Greek women's party. Secretary-treasurer—Duke Burt, Pachacamae, and Margaret Elisabeth Van der Smissen, Independent. All-Student Council representatives—Alice Jane Moore and Frank Davis, Greek women's party and Pachacamae.
Busses Offer Service To West Hills, Sunflower Village
Regular bus service for West Hills and 12th street and to Sunflower Village began today.
The new West Hills bus, running in addition to the K.U. bus, goes from the campus to West Hills, back through the campus, along Oread to 12th street, and turns at 12th and Ohio streets, joining the K.U. route at 11th and Tennessee streets.
A commercial bus line provides transportation from Sunflower Village, home of some University student veterans, to Lawrence, leaving Sunflower at 7:45, 8:15 and 10:30 a.m., and 12:30, 6:45, and 11:15 p.m.
The Independent and P.S.G.L. parties will sponsor a dance from 7 to 8.15 tonight in the Union lounge to introduce their candidates for the freshman election tomorrow, William Vandiver, secretary of the P.S.G.L., said today.
am, and 12:00 Return trips to the village are scheduled at 3:05, 5:45, and 10:15 p.m.
Parties Will Sponsor Political Rally-Dance
Mary Jo Cox, president of the All-Student Council, will speak, and Rosemary Harding, independent political chairman, will introduce the women candidates. Vandiver will introduce the men candidates. Two short skits and dancing will
Two short skits and dancing will make up the entertainment, Vandiver said.
Men's Glee Club Tryouts
Offered Throughout Week
Tryouts for the Men's Glee club will be at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and at 10 a.m. Saturday, in 132 Frank Strong hall, D. M. Swarthowr, dean of the School of Fine Arts, announced today.
Five Bits, hits and College credit will be given for membership after one semester, Dean Swarthout said.