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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Oct. 16, 1959
57th Year, No. 21
REPUBLICANS MEET—Members of a "Recruits for a Sound America" squad met today with the state chairman of the Young Republicans, Julie Casterman, Pittsburg senior, and Rep. William Avery (R-Kan), right. Left to right
are Rep. Albert Quie (R-Minn), Rep. Melvin Laird (R-Wis), Miss Casterman, Rep. Robert Griffin (R-Mich) and Rep. Avery. The squad spoke this morning in the Green Hall court room.
GOP Legislator Blames Demos for Space Lag
A Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee today blamed the Democrats for the United States' seemingly losing battle in the space race with Russia.
Rep. Melvin Laidt (R-Wis) said the Democrats on the appropriations committee "decided to cut 65 million dollars from the administration's requested 565 million dollars for space development in order to try to balance the budget."
Rep. Laird is a member of the "Recruits for a Sound America" squad which spoke today in the court room of Green Hall. The Congressmen's trip was sponsored by the KU Young Republicans.
Four Congressmen Here
The other members of the squad are Rep. Robert Griffin (R-Mich)
and Rep. Albert Quie (R-Minn). Rep. Laird also spoke of United States' foreign policy.
"The Khrushchev — Eisenhower visit did not just happen. It was part of a shift in policy from one of containment to a more active foreign policy."
Personal Contact Needed
"Containment is not enough by itself today. We need more person to person contact." he said.
Rep. Griffin, who is a co-author of the Landrum-Griffin Labor bill said the labor bill proved the "American people are still the boss when they want to be."
"There hasn't been so much mail since former President Truman fired Gen. MacArthur," he said.
can people had not gotten behind it." he added.
"This bill is a longer and more constructive step than if the Ameri-
Rep. Que spoke on the economy of the government.
Partly cloudy east, considerable cloudiness west, tonight and Saturday. Colder today and tonight and most of state Saturday. Low tonight 30s to lower 40s.
"The government is the biggest season why we have inflation. People no longer have confidence in government bonds. They are using speculative rather than productive measures," he said.
Weather
Hall Defends Regents' Stand
The proposed $16,168,000 five-year educational building program for state colleges and universities has been defended by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Regents Chairman Clement H. Hall of Coffeyville expressed surprise Thursday that some "administrative source" at KU was taking issue with the program.
The article reported that a KU administrative source complained that the board's $16,168,000 building plan was inadequate because it did not meet the physical needs of the University, nor did it suggest a satisfactory method of financing the needed building.
Mr. Hall was referring to a newspaper article appearing in the University Daily Kansan which alleged that KU administrative sources disapproved the building program adopted Oct. 10 by the regents.
The regents adopted the report which outlined a building program
Adopted 8-1
AGI Votes To Disband
The Allied Greek-Independent political party voted last night to disband.
In a meeting of the AGI Forum, which consists of the party officers and representatives from member houses, the party voted unanimously to discontinue operation after all current bills are paid.
Ronald Barta. Salina first-year law and president of the party, was not present at the meeting.
Jack Salmon, Elkhart junior and vice-president of the party, said he knows of no plans by any of the party officers to try to form a new campus political party.
"In other words we won't come out under another name," Salmon said.
The death of AGI leaves the campus with only one political party — Vox Populi.
at seven state institutions The vote was 8-1. The report has been submitted to the legislative budget committee and the governor for appraisal.
"I didn't know that disagreement existed." Mr. Hall said.
"I had the impression that the report was received with wide acclaim among the people of the state and the educators."
Some Kansas college and university officials have expressed concern that the schools have been inadequately supplied to take care of the enrollment surge expected by 1962 when the first draught of "war babies" will enter college.
Mr. Hall said that he thought the expected enrollment increase could be handled if the proposed building program is completed.
The buildings are expected to be completed by 1965. They are to be financed mainly out of the Educational Building Fund (EBF).
The regents' report asked for $15,393,000 from the EBF. It requested that the legislature appropriate $775,000 from the general fund for improvements at the state schools for the blind and deaf.
Financed by Tax
The EBF is financed by a ¾ mill state property tax. Approximately $3,300,000 is placed in it annually.
The Daily Kansan story maintained that while the proposed building program may take care of the 1962 enrollment, students are still attending classes in condemned buildings.
"Many classes are still conducted at KU in temporary classrooms constructed behind Strong Hall during World War II, the story pointed out.
Mr. Hall replied that the regents agreed that the proposed buildings are needed.
Agree Buildings Needed
"When these buildings are completed, we will take care of the other needs," he said.
"What we have planned in the way of buildings and completion dates is the result of concentrated effort—it is the best effort of a nine-man committee."
Humorous Verse Is Just Nonsense
By Carol Heller
KU poetry enthusiasts met at the Poetry Hour yesterday to hear an hour of humorous verse — but they weren't allowed to laugh.
"I shall think you are frivolous if you laugh," said Dennis Quinn, instructor of English, as he greeted students.
So then followed an hour during which carpenters working on the union hammered out a rythmic beat while Mr. Quinn read about men who went to sea in sieves with green-ribbon soils and about oysters who wore polished shoes.
"Humorous verse is not humorous,
it is just nonsense," he explained.
The students laughed, but softly Student J. Huron
"I chose to read humorous verse because students have an infinite capacity for humor," said Mr. Quinn.
"And it is not necessary to define nonsense — it is what we all are engaged in most of the time."
Mr. Quinn said that the Golden Age of humorous verse — if it had Golden Age — was during the grim
Most of the poems read were written by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, two 16th Century poets whom Mr. Quinn said probably wrote their humorous verse in reaction to Victorian somberness.
and serious days of the Victorian period.
Mr. Quinn read Carroll's "Jabberwocky," a fairytale about a beamish boy who sword-in-hand snicker-snacked through the mimsy borogoves and killed the burbling, flame-eveed Jabberwock.
Boy Kills Jabberwock
Then he read Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat."
No One Wants Nonsense Mr. Quinn said that the present age is so nonsensical that no one wants to write nonsense verse.
No One Wants Nonsense
"And yet it is felt that most serious verse must contain nonsense," he said.
"This is bad. Nonsense is not found in the serious poetry of the 19th Century
Mr. Quinn termed limericks the exclusive property of nonsense writers.
ONE OF THREE — Senior queen finalists are Elizabeth Robinson, left, Cedar Vale, Delta Delta Delta; Peggy McCormack, Kansas City, Mo.,
Alpha Chi Omega, and Lyndon Bailey, Topeka, Kappa Kappa Gamma. One will be crowned queen tomorrow at the KU—K-State game.