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Young Demos Deny Defeat
The president of the Young Democrats denied claims made in press association and Topeka Daily Capital stories this morning that the Young Republicans had won a political debate by default.
The Capital said:
Capital Criticized
"A scheduled debate between Rep. William Avery (R-Kans) and a Democrat tonight has been cancelled and the Republicans are claiming victory."
Edward Graham, Belleville third-year-law and president of the Young Democrats said:
"The story in the Capital further proves that the Capital is a Republican propaganda organ which is unfortunate for the people of Kansas as well as the Democratic Party."
Graham said the story was untrue first, because it was not a debate, but rather an open forum.
The United Press International said;
Weather
"Republicans claimed victory by default today in a scheduled political debate."
Graham said:
"Bill (William Cronin, Kirkwood, Mo., junior and president of the Young Republicans) and I discussed this last spring and decided we would have an open forum because a debate did not ever solve anything."
Graham said he and Cronin had set today as an open date. Rep William Avery from Kansas had agreed to represent the Young Republicans.
No Democrats Around
Graham said he attempted to get a Democrat, but was unable to because "All our good Democrats seem to be going to Washington for committee meetings."
He said he told Cronin last week that he had been unable to get a Democratic leader from either Kansas or Missouri and Cronin had told him the groups could have separate meetings. Plans were to be made later for the forum.
"I tried to work with Cronin, but he has taken unfair advantage of us. Obviously, they (Young Republicans) have not tried to work with us." Graham said.
Cronin said:
Fair and cooler tonight. Warmer west and north tomorrow. Low tonight 20 to 30. High tomorrow 50 to 60.
"They cancelled out on us. We had Avery and he was hot to go. Evidently they backed down on us, which is the same as forfeiting."
McElroy Resigns As Defense Head
WASHINGTON—(UPI) —President Eisenhower today announced the resignation of Defense Secretary Neil H. McEloy and named Undersecretary Thomas S. Gates, Jr. to succeed him.
The announcement came after a National Security Council meeting this morning where the President presented the Medal of Freedom to McElroy "in recognition of his outstanding service to his country and his dedication to his task."
Effective Today
McElroy's resignation was effective today.
In an exchange of letters between McElroy and Eisenhower made public by the White House,
Socialist to Visit Campus Tomorrow
An independent American socialist will visit KU tomorrow.
Prof. Nearing writes a column on world events for the periodical, "The Independent Socialist." He has taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, Toledo University and Temple University. He is now in residence at the Social Science Institute, Harborside, Me.
Scott Nearing, sociologist, economist, author, and pamphleteer, will speak at a coffee in Summerfield Hall tomorrow at 4 p.m. and will address the International Commission of the KU-Y at 7:30 p.m. in 305-B of the Kansas Union. The evening meeting is open to the public.
Prof. Nearing and his wife toured the Soviet Union and Communist China last year. In 1956-57, they toured Europe and Asia. He was a socialist candidate for congress in New York in 1919.
McEllroy said that "personal reasons of an urgent nature" necessitated his resignation after two years in the top defense job. He said he would leave the department with "feeling of deep regret."
Word of his resignation plans had come earlier today from informed sources here. McElroy had said previously that he hoped to resign by the end of the year.
McElroy, 54, plans to return to Procter & Gamble, the soap manufacturing firm he headed before joining the Eisenhower cabinet in 1957.
In his letter accepting the resignation, the President expressed "deep appreciation" for McElroy's "distinguished service." He said he was "indeed sorry that personal considerations compel your departure from the government at this time."
President Appreciative
CHRISTMAS CHEER—Jim Linenberger, Hays senior and a member of Kappa Alpha Mu, professional photography fraternity, snaps a picture of Martha Crosier, Lawrence senior and promotion manager of the Daily Kansan. Members
of the fraternity were experimenting with poses to be used in the Miss Santa contest. Pictures of the contestants will be taken tomorrow and Thursday. Miss Santa will be announced in the Kansan December 16.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1959
57th Year, No. 49
Dormitories Blamed for Fall KU Rushee Decline
Fraternity tomfooolery and low scholastic standings may have caused the decrease of rushees at other colleges but not at KU.
This is the opinion of five fraternity leaders given during interviews last night. Four house presidents indicated that competition with university and private housing caused the 15 per cent drop in the number of rushes at KU as compared with 1958. The president of the local Interfraternity Council said the decline was just "fluke."
The National President of Delta Tau Delta, during an address before the National Interfraternity Conference in New York, said:
"On many campuses, in spite of swelling college enrollments, we hear the disconcerting news that each year a smaller number of men are going through rush."
He attributed the decline to tomofoolery and low scholastic standings. The number of rushees at KU declined from 518 in 1958 to 439 this September.
Mo, senior and president of Kappi Sigma, said that his fraternity did not have a decline in number or rushes.
Bob H. Kralicek, Independence
He said:
"As a whole I'd say the reason there was a decline (in general) this year was because of the new dormitories and the administration's pushing students to sign dorm contracts during the summer.
Wait on Contracts
"I think the Interfraternity council should send information to freshmen telling them not to sign a dorm contract until going through rush week."
Richard J. Rohlf, Kirkwood, Mo. senior and president of Phi Gamma Delta, agreed with Kralicek.
"I think the new dorms are a drawing card for the freshmen. The fraternities should make an effort to point out the benefits offered by fraternities as compared with the independent system," he said.
Rushee Drop Decisive
Rushie Drop Rescue
Lance Johnson, Wyman, Neb.
Senior and assistantIntern.
ternity council, said the drop in rushees was "pretty decisive."
"We hope this isn't a continuing trend. I think this is just a fluke. We are hoping for more rushees next fall." he said.
Donald A. West, Salina senior and president of Phi Kappa Tau, said that his house had a definite deficiency of rushees this fall.
"We frankly feel that the dorm system is responsible. I think that our rush program is better than we have ever had before," he said.
Must Become Competitive
Must Become Competitive William, F. Cronin, Kirkwood, Mo junior, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and secretary of the Interfraternity council, said that KU fraternities must become more competitive.
"There is competition between campus housing and the fraternities for entering freshmen. We are going to have to point out the advantages of fraternity life over university and private housing. We are going to have to do a little better selling job to the boys before they come here," he said.
'K' Blames De-Stalinization for Revolt
VIENNA, Austria — (UPI) — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev today blamed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on his own abrupt denunciation of Stalinism and the Stalinist "cult of personality" at the 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress in Moscow earlier that year.
"Following the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union," Khrushchev told a Hungarian Party Congress in Budapest today, "certain difficulties—something of a fever—were experienced by some parties, including our party
Communists Too Strong
He said the Soviet Communists were so strong they weathered the differences the denunciation brought although there was criticism that the abruptness of the break with Josef Stalin caused complications in other Communist countries
But Khrucheshv cev said, "It had to be done... it was necessary to get
cleansed and to throw off all the accumulated extraneous matter."
The throwing out of Stalinism led to a stronger party even though it brought difficulties to Hungary where the "class struggle" took the form of an armed clash. But the party won, he said, and imperialist hopes for the collapse of Communism in Hungary have failed.
Backs Puppet Regime
Khrushchev gave his full backing to the Communist puppet regime in Hungary and in a review of world affairs renewed his protests against continued allied occupation of West Germany.
Khrushchev, addressing a wildly cheering Communist Party Congress in Budapest, alternated between assurances that Russia wanted an early summit conference "at any time and place" and new accusations of West German interference in Berlin.
Though calling for peace he said "the Soviet Union has stockpiled
Has Summit Hopes
such a quantity of rocket and atomic and hydrogen warheads that if attacked we shall be able to raze to the ground 'all our potential enemies."
Khrushchev said "today each Socialist country separately and the Socialist camp in general are so powerful that our forces are invincible."
Khrushchev also showed that hard bargaining lay ahead at any summit conference when he emphasized "we shall never forego our ideological principles. We are waging and shall wage an implacable struggle for the Marxist-Leninist ideology, for the triumph of the ideals of Communism."
He turned then to international affairs and said the most important and most acute question of our time is that of relaxing international tensions, preventing war and establishing a stable and durable peace.
The Soviet disarmament proposal and his visit to the United States were only the beginning, he said, and expressed hope a summit conference would be a "new step forward in the struggle to peaceful co-existence, for total disarmament, for universal security."
Khrushchev denounced what he called "foreign press fabrications" that the Soviet had abandoned the idea of an early summit conference and said Russia was ready
He said his meeting with French President Charles de Gaulle was a "reasonable way" to approach a summit conference and then he reaffirmed Russia's strong stand on Berlin and Germany.
"We would willingly sign a treaty with Western Germany, together with our allies," Khrushchev said, "but if we do not achieve this we shall be obliged to sign a unilateral treaty with the (Communist) German Democratic Republic."