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GOING TO THE DOGS—Assisting in the composing room of the University Press is "Pooch," who belongs to Jim Gentry, 1629 Oxford Road. He is easily recognized among other Linetype operators by the green visor he usually wears at his work.
Study Of Asia Aim Of KU Institute
"An increased interest in the Far East since World War II has been responsible for the establishment of Asian Institutes at colleges throughout the United States," said Sydney D. Brown, visiting assistant professor of history.
Prof. Brown, who is a professor of history at Oklahoma State University, is acting director of the third Summer Institute on Asia here.
The KU program is operated in cooperation with three independent organizations that specialize in the history and culture of the Far East. These three organizations, the Japan Society, the Asian Foundation and the Asia Society, provide financial and educational aid to the Summer Institute.
Operated as non-profit agencies, the three organizations strive to improve the general knowledge and the understanding of Asian history, culture and values. Two of the groups, the Asia Foundation and the Asian Society, are
sponsored by business firms who have dealings in the Far East. The Japan Society is largely the product of the interest in Asia of John D. Rockefeller III.
Nine $250 scholarships are provided each summer by the cooperating organizations. Graduate students, teachers and journalists are eligible for the scholarships.
In order to provide the student a comprehensive introduction and a broader understanding of Asia, the institute offers three history courses concerning modern developments in the area.
Student Loans Increase
The institute also provides special exhibits of Japanese art, shows selected movies of Asian origin and maintains a list of teaching aids which are available to interested clubs and study groups.
The amount of student loans at KU have greatly increased over the past few years and a greater percentage of the available funds were used here than at Kansas State College.
At KU over 95 per cent of its available funds were loaned out, said Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Assn. For the year 1957-58 students at KU held 2.833 loans for a total of $389.874.
In 1958,43 per cent of the available funds at K-State were in use with a total of 348 students and former students holding the loans.
To show the increase in the amount of loans, in 1954 student loans at the KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., were $11,-563. In 1958 this figure had increased to $62,831.
"The necessity of securing loan funds is one of the most pressing needs of the school—and if we are to do the job of helping the deserving student satisfactorily in the coming school year, we must increase our resources substantially,"Mr. Youngberg said.
Labor Amendment To Be 'Bitter Struggle'
By ROBERT LYNN (Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
"The right-to-work amendment will be an increasingly bitter struggle between now and November," James W. Drury, associate professor of political science, said. However he went on to say he thought it would pass.
The amendment Prof. Drury referred to is a proposition to amend article 15 of the Kansas state constitution by adding a new section relating to the rights of individuals to join or not to join a labor organization.
The proposed amendment to be put before Kansas voters in November is as follows:
"Section 12. No person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of membership or non-membership in any labor organization, nor shall the state or any subdivision thereof, or any individual, corporation, or any kind of association enter into any agreement, written or oral, which excludes any person from employment or continuation of employment because of membership or non-membership in any labor organization."
The greatest immediate effect of the proposed amendment, if passed, would be the adjustment of existing labor-management agreements.
Since bills for enforcement of the new law would almost certainly be passed at the next session of the legislature, industry and the unions would have until that time to make new contracts.
The effect of the amendment, if passed, on new industry in Kansas is a controversial question. Supporters of the amendment contend that more industry will move into Kansas because it will find labor is easier to deal with. Those opposed say that industry will shun Kansas because of the absence of a large labor force due
to the passage of the amendment.
to the passage of the amendment. Prof. Drury said he felt the amendment would pass because "while the people of Kansas are not a rural people any more, their thinking is still that of a rural people.
"Kansas is not yet industrialized or unionized enough to gather enough opposition to defeat the bill. As an additional factor the climate of opinion in the United States right now is against unions," he said.
When asked his opinion on the subject, Ralph Rupp, secretary of Labors Construction in Lawrence, said, "If this amendment is passed, it will hurt all the labor unions. We won't have any bargaining powers left."
Mr. Rupp didn't seem to think the labor investigations of recent months would hurt the union cause in the coming election. He pointed out that there are "a few bad apples in every barrel and these must be cleaned out."
Although he admitted that there were not enough labor votes in Kansas to defeat the amendment, he felt that "the farmers who worked in the factories during World War II and had felt the benefits of organized labor would come forward and help the laboring man."
Justin Hill, part owner of the Jayhawk Paper Company is a strong supporter of the proposed amendment. When interviewed on the subject, he said, "We are not worried about the labor situation as it stands now. What we are worried about is the future."
"We feel that labor should be strong enough to help a company and itself in the process but we feel that labor unions should not
be strong enough to wreck a company at will."
Mr. Hill felt that the unions have not "cleaned house as they should have in the light of the recent investigations" and "if this amendment is adopted, the unions will do more to satisfy the members they have instead of spending so much time recruiting new ones."
JAMES W. DRURY
He also stated that "if the laboring man has a right to quit the union when he wants to and still keep his job, then the power of the union will return to the 'rank and file' where it belongs. After all, any union can have a union shop by simply getting all the workers to join the union."
Weather
Scattered showers and thunderstorms mostly north and west today. Continued warm.
WHAT ARE THEY WATCHING? - Several of the women participating in the ballet division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp watch
some of the other women perform. To see the women dancing turn to page 5. (Summer Kansan photo by Ron Miller)