Meet Post-War World Now--Krueger
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
41ST YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1943
Homecoming Queen to Be Chosen By Committee of Three Nov.19; Deadline for Entries Nov.17
Names of candidates for this year's homecoming queen must be in the office of K. W. Davidson in the Journalism building by Nov. 17, according to an announcement by the homecoming committee.
All organized houses were called last week and informed that they could each put up one candidate for queen.
The candidates will be judged the afternoon of Friday, Nov.
19 in Robinson gymnasium by a committee consisting of one faculty member, one naval off-
nessman. The queen and her two attendants will be selected at that time, but their identities will be known only by the three judges until that night at the homecoming rally and basketball game when all the candidates will be presented on the court at the half.
The next day at the Kansas-Missouri football game the queen and her attendants will be honored at the half.
After they have returned to their seats in the audience, the judges will announce their selections and all the queen and her attendants back to the basketball court for presentation.
British Lend Lease To USA Arranged
NUMBER 34
Washington, (INS) — President Roosevelt reported to congress today the completion of new "reserved and lease" agreement with Great Britain under which the United Kingdom and British colonies are furnishing quantities of raw materials to this country without payment to balance off the huge outgoing of lend lease paid from the United States.
FDR Leads Country in Memorial Service
Washington, (INS)—Under cold bright skies, President Roosevelt astood before the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington cemetery and led the country in solemn reverential observance of Armistice Day.
This year, with American forces engaged against the Axis on battle fronts of Europe, the Southwest Pacific and Asia, the President re-trained from any Armistice Day address.
Homecoming Activities
Cancelled in St. Louis
There was no homecoming celebration at Washington University in St. Louis, because there are too many alumni in the army,navy,and marines, and too few students in the University who displayed enough interest in the activities of the school to warrant such a program.
One-Page Gadfly Appears Today For First Time
The first issue of the Gadfly appeared on the campus this morning. The one-page paper carried two editorials, "Armistice Day, 1943" and "100 per cent Americanism?" attacking racial discrimination and nationalism. It is called the student paper of independent thought.
Funds for the Gadfly were transferred by the All-Student Council from the funds for the Dove, a slightly "Pink" paper formerly published by students and professors on the campus. The editors of the Gadfly said that it is not the Dove under another name. "The Dove was a pacifist paper," said Carol Kent.
The editors are Bob Gibbon, Jack Ramsey, John Michener, Evan Hollingsworth, Cynthia Smith, Carol Kent, John Scurlock, Betty Kalis, and Cara Shoemaker.
A number of vacancies in both the band and orchestra has been announced by Russell L. Wiley, director. Instruments for most of these positions can be furnished for anyone who will play them, he said.
The orchestra is especially in need of a bassoon player, and the instrument will be furnished. Other instruments needed are violas and cellos. Mr. Wiley said that the orchestra is playing some popular numbers and lighter selections. Among them are "Symphony in B Minor" (Franck); "Sleg fried Idyl" (Wagner), and "Sorcerer's Apprentice."
Places are open in the band for bassoons, tenor saxophone, alto and bass clarinet, and a string bass. These instruments can be furnished for anyone who wishes to play them in the band.
Vacancies Announced In Band, Orchestra
Kansas State College publishes a "K-Book" containing information concerning carpus life designed to help the new students to become acquainted with the college more quickly.
K-State Publishes "K-Book"
Chinese Is Proud of KU Training
By Jacqueline Nodler
By Jacqueline Nodler
"Since I left the good old Snow hall, I have had a lot of happy experiences that make me proud of my K.U. training," writes Wong Yan Wai, graduated from the university in 1937, in a letter written Sept. 30 from Bombay, India, to Dr N. P. Sherwood, professor of bacteriology.
Wai, with a major in bacteriology,
returned to China after his graduation and has been for the past six years at the government institute in Kunming where he was in charge of producing vaccines and serums. Just recently, he relates,
his director granted him a year's leave of absence so that he might take advantage of a Rockefeller scholarship to the Haffkins Institute in Bombay. In peacetime, Wai says, he would have gone to Harvard for his graduate work through
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Yanks Attack In Solomons
The 25th anniversary of the armistice which ended the first world war found American forces and troops of their allies pressing the enemy hard on various fronts of the present conflict.
Attention was centered on the Solomons where United States army troops went into action anew while American forces and their British allies battered the Germans in Italy, and the Russians made things hot for the Nazis on the Eastern front. Yanks in Bougainville
Adm. William F. Halsey, commanding operations against the last major enemy stronghold in the Solomons, said that the Yank doughboys had gone ashore at Boughinville and already were fighting beside the marines who last week established a bridgehead at Empress Augusta bay.
In one bitter fight the marines defeated the enemy and killed approximately 150 Japs with only light losses to themselves. Medium bombers and fighter craft of Admiral Halsey's command gave support to Yank ground troops and struck at targets behind the enemy lines.
The landing made Monday was effected without loss of a man, and greatly reinforced the marines' position.
Jap Planes Destroyed
Many Nipponese barges which were used to put ashore some 600 enemy reinforcements were blasted by the American airmen.
At least 26 and possibly 33 enemy craft were destroyed out of a force of 60 Jap fighters and dive bombers which sought to attack Allied shipping. Only eight Allied planes were lost.
Other United Nations fliers in the (continued to page four)
Idealism Practical In Working Cure Of World's Ills
The post-war world is here in conquered territories, and the solution of its problems on a basis of Democracy lies not in the war-breeding isolationist procedures of the past, but in idealism which finds practical application in international money, demolition of trade barriers, and abandonment of imperialism, Maynard C. Krueger, Chicago University economist, told a large Armistice Day convocation crowd this morning.
Council Studies Retirement Plan, Control Revision
Mr. Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, and Mr. E. B. Dade of the department of economics represented the University of Kansas yesterday in a meeting at Topeka with the Kansas legislative council at which representatives from the five state schools presented proposed retirement plans for state school employees.
Mr. Stockton, chairman of the policy committee for the study of the plans, said that although two other attempts have been made to introduce similar legislation, this is the first time the Legislative Council committee had given formal recognition to his committee.
A former member of the University of Kansas faculty, F. H. Guild, now on temporary leave from the department of political science, is the director of the Research Bureau of the legislative council, the body which will take further action upon the retirement proposal.
"In the pot of international organization, where money is involved, we must trust others and have them trust us, at it."
A proposal to abolish the present state board of education and place the Board of Regents in charge of all public school education in Kansas was handed the council yesterday.
Asserting that such a plan would "strengthen supervision of our state educational system and give us a real department of public instruction," Sen, Kirke W. Dale of Arkansas City, chairman of the important federal and state government committee, outlined the plan for the radical change.
Would Enlarge Board's Duties
The duties of the state superintendent would be enlarged under this plan, but there would be qualifications for holding the office. His actions would be subject to the approval of the Board of Regents.
Complaint that there is little coordination now between the work of the superintendent and the state board has prompted the plan to abolish the board in favor of the regents and give the superintendent power to adopt text books and courses of study, and appoint supervisors and administrators.
Rep. Edwin F. Abels of Lawrence suggested the name of the lay-policy-making board should be changed from regents because the name now is so closely connected with colleges.
Weather Forecast
Fair, not quite so cold tonight. Friday, partly cloudy, warmer in East and Central portions.
organization, where money is and have them trust us, at it is mathematically impossible to control our own standard," said Mr. Krueger. "The value of a dollar is nearer the symbol of the American people than the crest or the flag." he stated.
Considering secondly the importance of international trade Mr. Krueger feels the producer minded people can lick the tar out of themselves every day as consumers if they do not toss trade with specialization out of the window or abandon their prejudices against it. Rather, he proposed treating other countries as we would trade among ourselves in our own home brain, for which we are now psychologically and morally unprepared.
"Post War democracy must provide a substitute for the present method of organizing advanced countries and backward countries with the former politically and economically dominate way of imperialism," continued Mr. Krueger, "which is not a system of peace, but leads to future wars. The price of peace and democracy must be paid by those countries who are beneficiaries as Britain, United States, Belgium and Holland. Otherwise we can have no moral conflict over it with the German if we do not demonstrate that backward countries won't be exploited by us."
Prerequisites for post war democracy include general agreement with democracy as a goal of human life, and moral connotations, according to Mr. Krueger. Everyone is for it at a verbal level, but people must be treated as human beings and
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American Casualties In Italy Are 8,666
Washington, (INS)—Secretary of War Stimson disclosed today that British and American airplane losses in the Mediterranean area totaled 1,545 in the past year, but that the enemy lost 6,251 aircraft.
Stimson also reported that American casualties totaled 8,666 in two months of fighting in Italy. Of this total,1,295 were killed in action,4,764 were wounded, and 2,497 were missing. Secretary Stimson said British losses exceeded American losses in the Italian campaign.
Milk Rationing Nears As Production Drops
Washington, (INS) — Civilians were a step closer to milk rationing today as Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard revealed sharp declines in production during October.
With many authorities predicting milk rationing inevitable, milk production declined much more rapidly than usual.
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