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Kennedy Plan Is Expected To Satisfy Labor Leaders
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy's plan for a big spending make-work program of public improvements should appease some unhappy leaders of organized labor. They have been insisting that the administration is not aggressively attacking the problem of unemployment. This appeasement easily is predictable although it may not last.
This is a proposal lifted from that old frontiersman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose basic remedy for unemployment in the 1930s was spending government money to make work and create jobs. This was part of the New Deal pump priming policy.
AS A REMEDY for unemployment, FDR's spending was an unhappy bust. Great sums were spent. Great construction projects were put in being. The government money passed through a great many hands. And, somehow, the unemployed mostly remained without jobs.
Whether, when and how many jobs will be created is not predictable at all. The President has proposed a fast-moving, 18-month $600 million program. This proposal is not part of the substance of the New Frontier.
The problem of unemployment remained acute and beyond FDR's ability to handle until the United States slipped into the role of arsenal of democracy in the late 1930s. Then came the war. War absorbs manpower into jobs, into armies and, too often, into graves. The numbers of unemployed melted away until in 1944 there were fewer than 700 thousand employables without jobs.
Too bad that these 700 thousand could not be identified adequately
Prof., Students Show Jewelry
Four students, a former student and a professor from KU are among 50 persons who have had work accepted for the first annual Jewelry Makers Show at the State University of Plattsburgh, N.C.
Robert W. Ebendorf, Lawrence graduate student won an award for enameling on a pin and honorable mention for a cast ring.
Klaus Kallenberger, Topeka graduate student, entered a pin and a ring.
Curtis K. LaFollette, Paola senior received an honorable mention for a gold pin and also entered a ring
Dennis L. Weathers, Topeka senior,
entered a pin and two rings.
Carlyle H. Smith, professor of design, entered a pendant and ring, Clarence Alling, former graduate student of Topeka entered a necklace and bracelet.
New Registration Avoids Credit Loss
Summer School students can avoid taking courses that will not apply toward their degree by following a new registration procedure.
The new system allows students to borrow their folders and have enrollment cards signed by their advisers before the end of the present semester.
GEORGE B, SMITH, dean of the University and director of the summer session, said that many students registering for summer school in the past have consulted advisers who were not familiar with the students' study programs.
As a result, students sometimes find that courses they have taken in summer school do not apply toward their degree, Dean Smith said.
The new procedure helps the student make certain his summer study plans will earn credits he needs.
THE PLAN was announced by Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in a letter sent to all students now enrolled in the College.
Students in other schools will be able to take advantage of similar plans, Dean Smith said.
men or now. It has been suggested that the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics' standards are not satisfactory for determining just who is employable and who is not employed.
The argument is that individuals who are not truly part of the employable labor force are counted among the unemployed in the Bureau's reports. There are two sides to this argument. Against the validity of the bureau's figures is the fact that there were 700 thousand reported as unemployed in 1944, a time of all-out war when industry and the fighting forces wanted men, men, men and women.
HOWEVER that may be, there is no argument about FDR's inability to spend the United States out of unemployment. He could and did improve the situation. The peak depression unemployment was 12.8 million in 1933. That was 24.9 per cent of the civilian labor force. In 1940 the unemployed had been reduced to 8.1 million, 14.6 per cent of the civilian labor force. The arsenal of democracy jobs were beginning to take effect.
Police Halt Lisbon Strike
LISBON — (UPI) — Portuguese police cracked down on demonstrations at Lisbon University today by seizing more than 1,000 students and members of their families, including 85 who had staged a hunger strike in the university canteen.
Police moved onto the campus at dawn after the University senate said it could not maintain discipline and appealed for government intervention. Up to that point police had stayed off the school grounds.
First the 85 hunger strikers-five of them coeds—were taken from the canteen. Then other student sympathizers and members of their families who had assembled on the school grounds were rounded up.
Many of them were whisked off to the police training barracks at Parede, a seaside village 18 miles west of Lisbon. They were herded into a large square under the guard of 40 police carrying rifles.
The action was carried out without violence and the campus was quiet after the demonstrators had been taken away.
The 85 strikers, who were protesting government interference in academic life, had vowed to continue their hunger strike even if jailed.
Thereafter the trend steadily was down through 1844 in the period of forced draft munitions making and all-out war. FDR spent annually much more than Kennedy's proposed $600 million to make jobs. Kennedy's plan is to spend that sum in 18 months. It is impossible to determine during an administration so delicately attuned to political necessities whether the expenditure is in expectation of reducing unemployment substantially or is intended to appease the union leaders in a congressional election year.
Unemployment seems to baffle JFK as it did FDR. There are about as many jobless today as when Kennedy was elected.___
International Group Forms
Jannik Lindbaek, Oslo Norway graduate, started the group on campus. Jerald Pullins, Council Grove sophomore; Dennis Nelson, Clifton sophomore; Carolyn Toews, Inman junior and Charles Graham, Lawrence senior are working with the president, Grover Askins, Joplin, Mo., junior.
Six KU students have organized a branch of AISEC, the Association of International Students of Economics and Commerce.
AISEC provides an opportunity for American and foreign students to work in each other's countries in managerial or executive positions.
Commerce Trust Company has already agreed to take a trainee for the summer. Ten other firms have expressed interest in the program. In turn, a KU student will be working in a Scandinavian country this summer.
Askins said, "Next year we hope to send 20 business or economics students to Europe to work."
Only upperclass or graduate students planning careers in business or economics, and who have had some practical business experience are eligible to participate in the program. All applicants are carefully screened by joint student-faculty committees.
Marbles for Men, British Says
TINSLEY GREEN, England — (UPI) — George Birbridge stood firm in defense of one of the last of England's "men - only" sporting events today—the "British Marbles Championship."
Organizer Burbridge said: "Women are out."
Your leisure moments in the cool comfortable atmosphere of the Jay Bowl where we have twelve lanes, 6 billiard tables, and a ping pong table to help you pass those relaxing moments. Try it this afternoon.
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The University Concert Band will present its annual spring concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in University Theatre.
Concert Band Will Present Yearly Spring Concert Sunday
Robert Isle, Lawrence senior, and William Booth, Sedalia, Mo., sophomore, are the featured soloists. Isle is the trumpet solist in Clifton Williams' "Dramatic Essay." Booth is the trombone soloist for "Concertino, Opus 4" by Ferdinand David and arranged by James Eversole.
The Concert Band's finale is a march, "Citation." by Claude T. Smith, a former KU band member. Smith's march is dedicated to the Midwestern Music and Art Camp upon its 25th anniversary this summer.
The program will also include "The Tsar's Bride" by Rimsky-Korsakov; "William Byrd Suite," arranged by Gordon Jacob; "Excerpts from Manzoni Requiem" by Verdi-Mollenhauer; "Toccata Mariazale" by R. Vaughan Williams; "Pictures of Exhibition" by M. Moussorgsky;
Pep Club Members Receive Awards
Awards to outstanding pep club members were given recently by the Frosch Hawks and Jay James. Awards were presented to Sally L Sponable, Paola senior, J. Joyce Mortenson, Paola junior, and Mary L. McDonnell, Kansas City, Mo. freshman.
Other Frosh Hawks receiving awards are:
Miss Sponable was named outstanding senior pep club member. Miss Mortenson is Jay Jane honor initiate, and Miss McDonnell is outstanding Frosh Hawk.
Mary Beth Weston, Overlano Park; Judith A. Watson, Wichita; Maralyn Pat Wyles, Ft. Leavenworth; Anne P. Garlinghouse, Toppea; and Mary C. Morozzo, Council Grove, freshmen
and "Old Panama" by Kenneth J. Alford.
Russell L. Wiley, professor of band, is director of the Concert Band.
There is no admission.
KU Pershing Rifles Elects Fall Officers
Edwin Hodges, captain and Lawrence senior was elected company commander; Phillip Knedikl, 1st Lt. and Coffeyville senior, was elected special officer; Stuart Schlemmer, 1st Lt. and Shawnee Mission junior, executive officer.
Company 7 of the National Pershing Rifles Association held the election of officers for the fall semester last night. The Pershing Rifle Association is a national tri-service drill team.
The following second lieutenants are the staff officers: David Cassell, Bartlesville, Okla. sophomore S-1; Kent McCoin, Akron, Ohio, sophomore, S-2; William Dickinson, Kansas City freshman, S-3; and John Wettack, Coffeyville junior, S-4.
The outgoing company commander, Christian Berneking, Lawrence senior, was presented a silver medal for his outstanding service.
Mussolini's Mistress To Remain in Film
ROME — (UPI) — Mussolini's mistress, Claretta Petacci, is part of history, according to the ruling of an Italian court.
Her family had asked the court to cut sequences of Claretta out of the documentary film "Benito Mussolini. Anomy of a Dictator."
The court turned down their request on the ground that mention of Claretta's role in Mussolini's life was necessary to a historical understanding of the dictator.