Aircade Meet Attracts 286
Stimulating businessmen to think about public issues was the main goal of the Aircade Meetings for Citizenship Action held at the Kansas Union yesterday.
E. R. Zook of the sponsoring Lawrence Chamber of Commerce said the meetings were to inform the businessmen about public issues so "when they get back home they will be talking from facts, not just opinions."
A PANEL OF speakers sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told 286 businessmen from Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma how they could influence government, and then discussed such issues as proposed federal packaging laws, increases in the minimum wage laws and reapportionment of state legislatures.
Carl H. Madden, chief economist of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and a member of the panel, said an increase in the minimum wage law would only serve to cause inflation. The system of free enterprise should be allowed to control wages, he said, and increases would then come through competition and increased efficiency of labor.
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"At the moment, there are just too many dollars chasing too few goods," Madden said, "and increased minimum wages will aggravate the problem."
THE GOVERNMENT should control inflation by tightening monetary policies and cutting government spending, instead of instituting controls on price increases, he said.
Zook said although weather conditions prevented about 75 previously registered persons from flying to Lawrence for the meeting, he felt it had served its purpose of informing businessmen.
"WEVE BROUGHT facts to their attention and stimulated their thinking," Zook said. "Businessmen can now do a better job of shaping public opinion in their home towns."
Bob Tucker, a member of the Liberal Chamber of Commerce, said the facts he learned will be put to use by the government affairs committee of the Chamber.
The meeting helped him to understand public issues, he said. "When these things are explained by professionals, you get a better idea of what the issues are."
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The meeting was the first of 15 scheduled during February and March by the traveling panel and the first time in its 10-year history that the program has been brought to Lawrence.
Stampede is Steered In Model U.N. Drive
Members of KU-Y's Model UN Steering Committee will invade living groups on the Hill Feb. 18, 21 and 22 in a publicity drive for delegates to this year's Model UN, said Bob Ward, Wichita sophomore and chairman of the Model UN publicity committee.
ANOTHER DEPARTURE from the past is a Security Council in this year's Model UN, he said.
The members, who will be sitting in booths, will answer student questions about the Model UN, and hand out application forms for the general registration of delegates on March 2 and 3.
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"It saves the student time if we concentrate all activities about the assembly in the three days the assembly is meeting," he said.
WARD EMPHASIZED there will be no block meetings as was the case in previous years when participants had to attend as many as seven block meetings before the Model UN assembly.
There will also be a panel of judges to assure that delegates' voting behavior is consistent with the policy of the country they represent.
Off-campus delegates who can be here only at the time of the assembly, have also been a factor in the change from block meetings. Ward explained.
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"This is important," Ward said. "In the Model UN delegates learn to subject their views to those of the country they represent. It is good experience."
He explained that the purpose of the Feb.18 advanced registration is to give the student a better choice if his primary choice has not been successful. It is not to give the steering committee less work to do.
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THE CLASSICAL FILM SERIES
Feb. 16 Nicholas Nickleby
23 The Game of Love
March 2 Over There (1914-1918)
" 9 The Captain From Koepenick
" 16 Alexander Nevsky
" 23 Rasho-mon
" 30 Death of a Salesman
April 13 Bitter Rice
20 Ditte, Child of Man
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27 Beauties of the Night
May 4 Our Man in Havana
" 11 Ballad of a Soldier
” 18 Street of Shame
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