Daily hansan
57th Year, No. 45
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Nov. 19, 1959
"QUIT BELLYACHING”—Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) urged KU students to get "busy and do something" in politics this morning at a convocation in Hoch Auditorium.
Sandelius May Make TV Plea for Daughter
Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science, said last night that he is considering issuing a television plea in an attempt to locate his missing daughter Carol.
Miss Sandelius, 24, has been missing from the Topeka State Hospital since Oct. 28.
"I'm debating about going on TV. I talked to a TV representative (WIBW) about it and he said he would be glad to cooperate if her doctor and the state police say it is OK." Prof. Sandelius said.
"At the present time her doctor is against it, but I am going to see him tomorrow morning (today). The state police said I should get all the publicity I can," Prof. Sandellius explained.
Prof. Sandelius said that he has had no word from his daughter and nothing has turned up in the way of clues.
"The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the state police are looking for her and the KBI sends bulletins out to its counterparts in other states," he said.
Prof. Sandelius said that it was strange she has not gotten in touch with him or his wife.
"She was writing every day before she disappeared. It is strange that she hasn't written these three weeks," he said.
Miss Sandelius disappeared about 8:30 p.m., Oct. 28. Prof. Sandelius said that she had been upset during the day and went out that evening to get a Coke. Miss Sandelius told an aide she was going to leave and then disappeared.
"She might have decided to slip away and get a job somewhere. We just don't know. For a while we thought she might have struck out for California to visit her aunt but we phoned, and she hasn't heard a thing," he said.
Sen. Humphrey Sees Policy Fragmentation
Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) said this morning that the United States needs to take government planning out of the "dog house" and put it back in the White House.
In a convocation speech delivered to more than 3,000 students and faculty members, Sen. Humphrey stressed the need for a plan of action to win the cold war.
"We are the victims of fragmentation policies. We have no one body in our government which can plan our national strategy. No planning, no program, it's just hit and miss."
Leadership a Problem
Sen. Humphrey is a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for president although he is not an announced candidate.
Sen. Humphrey said the fundamental problem in regard to national strategy is governmental leadership.
He said:
"No less than half a dozen agencies are involved in distribution of surplus food and fiber abroad. No
less than half a dozen agencies are involved in our foreign aid program. And so it goes. With no firm hand at the helm, we are drifting. We know it and our allies know it," he said.
Proposes New Agency
Sen. Humphrey then proposed the creation of a new agency within the executive branch of government that would be charged with the responsibility of comprehensive national strategy.
"By comprehensive strategy 1 mean all essential elements in domestic and foreign policy—economic, military, scientific, political and psychological," Sen. Humphrey explained.
He said the new agency, the Joint Committee on National Strategy, would not be a substitute for politics or political leadership.
"This new agency would not be an ivory tower inhabited by egg heads thinking about American strategy in the splendid isolation of a country manor house. It would be
made up of the men who are in intimate contact with the fateful problems facing our government, but who would not have the responsibility for day-by-day policy decisions," he said.
Agency Gives Perspective
Sen. Humphrey said that such a research and policy analyzing agency would not solve the problems of fragmentation, but could help give perspective and a sense of purpose to many agencies now operating at cross-purposes.
"Let's face it, we have entered a new dimension of competition between free nations and the communist world. This new dimension will be an era of mobility and movement. It will require a revamping of our thinking, our planning, our strategy," he said.
Russians Meeting People
Bibb Asks No Hike In Faculty Salaries
James Bibb, state.budget director, said today he recommended no salary increase for administrators and faculty members.
The State Board of Regents has sought a seven per cent increase in salaries over the current year's allocation.
Mr. Bibb submitted his recommended budget figures in a 1:30 p.m. meeting with the Board of Regents and the governor's hearing committee in Topeka.
Bibb was not definite about his recommendations for KU employees with "classified" salaries.
"People getting classified salaries are maintenance workers, secretaries and employees under civil service."
He said there is a proposed reduction in capital improvements.
Bibb said he wouldn't have time to give the KU budget figures over the
Weather
Partly cloudy this afternoon through tomorrow. Warmer east this afternoon and over central and east tonight.
Russia on 'Catch-Up' Program
All over Russia there are signs declaring:"We shall catch up with America."
Sam F. Anderson, instructor of German, showed slides of Russia at the faculty-forum dinner yesterday in the Kansas Union. Mr. Anderson toured Russia last summer.
"The catch-up" signs are everywhere," said Mr. Anderson. "They urge the Russian people to produce more milk and to raise more corn for people instead of stock." "America act, corn," she the
"Americans eat corn," coax the signs."
put in spite of the signs, the Russians lag in consumer production. The slides showed horse-drawn wagon transportation.
"Wagons are the most common means of travel—the Russian Army even uses such wagons in its outlying posts," Mr. Anderson said.
One slide pictured a barefooted Russian woman drawing water at a well.
"The women carry water home in buckets slung on poles over their shoulders. This is one of their lighter jobs. The women are everything from ditch diggers to hod carriers."
Mr. Anderson said:
"They dump unthreshed grain on the highways and invite the traffic to drive over it. The women rake the grain to free it from chaff," he said.
Another slide showed an ancient wheat combine.
"The Russians chiefly use their highways for harvesting." Mr. Anderson said.
"The highways are like our unpaved country roads. We saw one farm truck bounce so much that the load of corn spilled out. But the corn was left lying in the road. No one seemed to care enough to pick it up," he said.
Sen. Humphrey warned that the Russians are meeting the people of the world and that their whole foreign policy is aimed at winning people.
The Ukraine, shown in the slides, looked like Western Kansas. There were tumbleweeds.
"We attracted crowds everywhere we went." Mr. Anderson said. The people wanted to know what we earned, how old we were, what American food and clothing prices were and how much the trip cost."
grain fields and elevators. A difference was that in Russia there were plowing oxen and straw-tatched roofs.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson, a representative of the University's visual instruction extension, also took the Russian tour. She discussed the trip after the slides were shown. She said:
"Although the Russian standard of living is low, the Russian people are sure things will be better.
"The people believe Russia will overtake America, especially the young people. "We know the Russians are ahead of us in some scientific fields, but in other ways they are centuries behind us—such as in plumbing and public health.
telephone but Ray Nichols, executive secretary of the University, had the numbers in his office.
Mr. Nichols refused to tell the figures to the UDK reporter.
No member of the Board of Regents would disclose the figures when asked.
Hubert Brighton, secretary of the board, said, "I do not have a thing to give you now."
Clement Hall, chairman of the board, said, "I would not want to make any comment before the meeting."
"They talk peace,peace,peace as they arm. We talk war,war,war as we cut the budget.
"Mr. Khrushchev never quits advocacy and proposing. He said he would bury us. He did not mean with bombs. He meant that he would bury us with education, propaganda, and science.
Sen. Humphrey said the United States must recognize the kind of opposition we face and seek the support of the masses of the people.
Sen. Humphrey said he is worried over a sense of cynicism that is in both parties.
"This sense of cynicism lends itself to the view that politics are dirty. Politics is just another word for power. Somebody is going to exercise it and always will. Are you going to sit by and call it dirty and do nothing. Quit viewing from the sidelines. Get in and clean it up if you think its dirty — quit bellyaching.
Phi Beta Kappa Elects First Semester Seniors
Phi Beta Kappa has elected nine first semester seniors for membership, C. P. Osborne, professor of philosophy and chapter president, announced today.
Election during the fall semester of the senior year is the highest recognition accorded by the KU chapter. Only those liberal arts and sciences students with cumulative grade point averages of at least 2.8 of a possible 3.0 are considered.
The students will be initiated at 4:30 p.m., Dec. 3, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. O. P Backus, professor of history, will be the speaker.
Those elected and their major course of study are:
Ann Cramer, Cincinnati, Ohio, French; Jane E. Crow, Topeka, mathematics and sociology; Alice K. Gould, Kansas City, Mo., English and history; Elinor A. Hadley, Kansas
Community Pep Rally Will Be Tomorrow
A community pep rally, for Lawrence residents and students, has been announced for 4 p.m. tomorrow at the practice field west of Allen Field House. The occasion will be the last practice session of the football team this year.
City, Mo., English; Marilyn M. Mull,
Chanute, zoology.
William N. Mullins, Kansas City, Kan., history; Cora L. Price, Lawrence, German; Richard L. Speers, Houston, Tex., German and mathematics; and Thomas Van Dyke, Kansas City, Mo., economics.
DG's, AKL's Win Drive
More than $3,036.56 has been collected in the Campus Chest Campaign. Don Logan, Prairie Village junior, campaign chairman, said donations are still coming in from city merchants and organized houses.
Alpha KappaLambda fraternity takes the first place trophy in the men's division by contributing $5.10 per person.
Delta Gamma sorority takes the first place trophy in the upper class women's division by contributing $2.40 per person.
South Corbin Hall, second floor, takes the first place trophy in the freshman women's division by contributing $2.10 per person. The pledge class of Alpha KappaLambda fraternity won top honors in the pledge class division by contributing $28.
Trophies will be presented at the Homecoming game Saturday.