Daily hansan
54th Year, No.91
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Feb. 22, 1957
1957-58 Seen As Adjustment Era In U.S. Economy
American economy is entering the period of the amber light," Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, vice chairman of the Joint Council On Economic Education, told students and faculty this morning.
Dr. Nourse sees the years 1957 and 1958 as a "rest period," a time for making adjustments in our economy. He said the lag in housing, automobiles and durable goods caused by the depression and the war has been remedied. The upward surge in the standard of living has meant increased purchases of durable goods. He used the meteoric rise of the automotive and housing industries as examples.
—(Daily Kausan photo)
Business Expects To Drop
GROUND HOG DECEIVED — Rain glistened on the road Thursday and spring beat a retreat from the weather. Today the suit jacket of this unidentified man would not be warm enough. The Topeka weather bureau reported one-tenth inch of rain fell in Lawrence.
Business Expects 10 Drop "We have moved into the period when a great number of our working people are in the $5,000 a year level." Dr. Nourse said. He attributed this rise in the wage scale to the big powerful unions. These people represent great buying power. Dr. Nourse said he doesn't think business can do as well in the years ahead as it has done while the nation was "catching up."
"A large portion of men's incomes was committed during years of easy credit to pay for durable goods." There is little "stretch" left, and it is unrealistic to attempt to stretch buying power too far. We must make adjustment on the basis of less consumer buying, he said.
In a public lecture Thursday night, Dr. Nourse said that "bleeding heart policies" are undercutting the uselessness to the nation of the economic planning techniques that have been so successful in business.
Emotion Over Intelligence Dr. Nourse cited the maintenance of parity prices for farm products and efforts to maintain a stable dollar as policies based on initial soundness, but which had been badly weakened because the government in yielding to pleas of special interests had "put emotion ahead of intelligence in managing our affairs."
Crack Drill Team To Perform Here
He warned that economic and social planners cannot be expected to solve the problems of full employment and continued growth of the economy. Rather they can only keep the problems under survey and study and provide the facts upon which the nation can act.
The crack drill team from St. John's Military Academy in Salina will perform at half-time Saturday at the Kansas-Nebraska game.
The drill team has made several appearances throughout Kansas and is regarded as one of the top academy drill teams in the country.
This will be the second appearance for the team at a basketball game in Allen Field House.
The young music education instructor, receiving no reply to her call to "come in" walked to the door and opened it.
To her astonishment, she was greeted by a statue of Mozart holding a birthday card in its outstretched hand.
Strange Visitor Brings Greetings
There was a knock on the studio door.
Her students had remembered.
Officials Review Counselor Study
Four government officials visited the campus this week to review the progress made in developing the rehabilitation counselor training program of the University.
The men were Leonard Miller from the United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Paul Reid, assistant regional director; Norman Evans, supervisor of Kansas Vocational Rehabilitation; and Harry Haves, director of Kansas Services for the Blind.
Ways of improving the program and the possibility of increasing the number of trainees were discussed with William C. Cottle, professor of education and director of KU's rehabilitation counselor program, and Gerald Green, instructor of education and co-ordinator of the program.
A teaching grant given to the University by the United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation makes the program possible. In addition grants of $1600 to $2800 annually are awarded to graduate students to permit them to train for rehabilitation counselors.
"Any graduate student is eligible to apply if he has completed requirements for admission in psychology and education courses. However, usually only those with an undergraduate degree in education, psychology and social work apply," Mr. Cottle said.
Explosion Iniures Seven
PASADENA, Tex. — (UP) A tank filled with 100.000 gallons of caustic acid exploded today, sending fire through the Champion Paper & Fibre Co. plant. Seven men were injured in the blast.
Engineering Show Deadline Changed
The deadline for application for director and business manager of the Engineering Expositoin has been extended for another week.
Applications should be submitted to the office of the School of Engineering and Architecture, 111 Marvin.
Tommy Griffith, Pratt senior, president of the Engineering Council, said so few applications have been received that the deadline was extended to noon Thursday.
Weather
KANSAS — Cloudy and cold through Saturday with intermittent light snow or freezing drizzle west and south. Colder east and south today and southeast and extreme east tonight. Slow moderation beginning extreme west tonight and spreading over west and central portions Saturday. Low tonight 10-15, high Saturday in 20s.
2 Injured In Fight With Five Youths
By PAT SWANSON
A University student and another youth the registrar's office has no record of were taken to Watkins Memorial Hospital late Thursday afternoon after a fight with five Lawrence High School students
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Speaker Outlines Geography's Economic Role
He described the world as consisting of five forces which make up the natural environment: nature, the productive plant, man's occupations, governments and social thought.
Geography was described by Dr. Colby as the science dealing with the relation between the features of the earth and the forces that have and are producing them.
The relation between geography and the complex economic nature of this world of our was discussed Thursday night in Bailey Auditorium by Dr. Harold F. Colby, the sixth International Geophysical Year lecturer at the University this year.
Dr. Colby explained how the energy minerals such as coal, iron etc., are found in most abundance on the earth between the 70th and 50th parallels and that these minerals lay very heavily at the basis of our economy.
Dr. Colby, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Chicago, was introduced as the dean of American geographers.
Included in this definition are the changes man is constantly engaged in producing on the earth. They include man's building of transportation systems, of dams, of waterways and of his utilizing the vast metal and mineral deposits near the surface of the earth.
"This belt of energy minerals which completely encircles the globe is also a belt of high per capita production," he said.
Engaged In Production
As far as the U.S. is concerned Dr. Colby thinks it is probably one of the world's most fortunate areas. The Great Lakes alone are reputed to contain about half the earth's fresh water supply and this country needless to say, is well endowed with numerous minerals in abundance.
U.S. Fortunate Area
They Settle Rule Disputes
"The U.S. has all the middle latitude types of climate and is a very diverse country in terms of a nation," said Dr. Colby. "It is the only major nation with ice-free access to both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans," he said.
He went on to explain how no other country lies so squarely and definitely in the middle latitudes between two oceans with such an advantageous relation with the tropics.
Another job is to assign officials to the ball games and to make sure here are always officials available. They have a staff of 8 regular and about 20 part-time referees.
Regular referees have already
Watching 35 basketball games a week for two months is only part of the job of Ray Cox, Lawrence and Don Lamb, Leon, both seniors.
The two are in charge of the officiating program for intramural athletics at the University although Lamb has been practice teaching recently and Larry Bale, Omaha, Neb. graduate student replaced him.
One of them was present at every intramural basketball game played this year. Their job is to settle disputes and interpret the rule book. They handle all team protests at the game if possible.
taken an officiating class. The rest of the staff is made up of students taking the officiating class this semester. They must officiate at 16 basketball games to get credit for the course.
Regular referees and officiating students who have worked over 16 games get paid $1 a game for regular season games. Referees in the playoffs get $2 a game and $5 a game in the finals.
One of the headaches of the job occurs when officials can't make it to the games and Cox and Lamb have to referee.
Although the job calls for the men to put in five hours a day watching basketball plus more time to organize the program, both men agree that it is a lot of fun and provides its own entertainment.
John R. Bryant, Merriam freshman, was treated for cuts on the face and released, said Dr. Beatrice Lins, University Health Service physician.
The other youth, Richard Kent Troughton, suffered bruises on the face and is still in the hospital. Troughton is listed on Watkins Hospital records as a Seneca junior, a spokesman said, but the registrar's office said it had no record of any such student.
Dick Stanwix, Lawrence detective, said the fight took place on Missisippi Street just north of the Student Union. The University students were parallel parking, he said, and the high school youths had to slam on their breaks to avoid hitting the first car.
Remarks were made by both sides, Detective Stanwix said, Bryant and Troughton got out of their car and began walking toward the Student Union. The high school students turned their car around and two of them got out.
Detective Stanwix said the high school youths claimed that Bryant and Troughton made the first move by grabbing one of the boys around the neck. Bryant and Troughton charged that the high school youths first made abusive remarks, the detective said.
Bryant and Troughton will meet with campus police, Detective Stanwix, and City Attorney Wesley Norwood Saturday to decide whether or not to press charges.
Six students and faculty members will appear as soloists on the band and orchestra tour. March 18-22.
Band, Orchestra Will Tour State
Soloists will be Norman Chapman, Manitoba, Canada graduate student, piano soloist; Gewinner, Webster Groves, Mo. senior, cello soloist; Charmaine Asher, instructor in percussion instruments, cimbalon soloist; Carolyn Craft, Junction City senior, mezzo soprano; L. Don Scheid, instructor in band and orchestra, clarinet soloist and Edward L. Masters, assistant professor of band and orchestra, trumpet soloist.
The tour will include Topeka, Abilene, Hays, Colby, St. Francis, Goodland, Oakley, Beloit and Minneapolis.
Enrollment Up In Engineering
The School of Engineering and Architecture reports an increase of 21.5 per cent in the enrollment of this semester over last spring's enrollment figures.
The school has 1970 students enrolled as compared with 1621 last sorring or an increase of 349 students. The freshmen enrollment figure is up 31.9 per cent.
All but three departments report increases. Architectural Engineering has had a drop of 6 per cent, Industrial Management has dropped 26 per cent, and Mechanical Engineering has the same number of students enrolled this semester as last year.
There has been an increase of 120 per cent in the enrollment figures since the spring of 1952 or an increase of 1,073 students.
Want To Teach In California?
WANT TO TEACH IN CALIFORNIA
Robert C. Morton, director of
school personnel at Torrence, Calif.
will interview seniors in the school
of Education in 118 Bailey Wednesday.