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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 14, 1967
Congressmen call for Hershey's resignation
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey is provoking mounting criticism in Congress with his insistence that student antidraft demonstrators be punished with induction into the Army.
Eight House liberals called for his resignation Wednesday, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., introduced legislation to prohibit such use of the draft.
The 74-year-old Hershey meantime canceled all interviews, including a scheduled television appearance.
The eight congressmen, all of whom oppose President Johnson's Vietnam policy, urged the President to order Hershey to rescind his Oct. 26 memorandum suggesting that local boards reclassify and declare delinquent those students who violate draft laws in demonstrating against the draft or the war.
In any case, they said, Hershey must go.
"For close to two years he has chosen to distort the purposes of the Selective Service System in
order to curtail dissent," their statement said.
The signers, all Democrats, were Representatives Wm. Ryan, Benjamin Rosenthal and John Dow of New York; John Conyers of Michigan, Robert Kastenmeier of Wisconsin, and Don Edwards, Phillip Burton and George Brown of California.
Rep. Johnathan Bingham, D.N.Y., although not part of the larger group calling for Hershey's resignation, said that if it became a choice between Hershey staying or the memorandum being withdrawn he would rather see Hershey depart.
French playwright called outcast
French playwright Jean Genet was different from other French playwrights because he was a social outcast, a Rose Morgan professor said last night.
Speaking on Genet and the New French Theatre Wednesday night in the Kansas Union Forum Room, Jacques Scherer said Genet began his life as an outcast, an illegitimate child abandoned by his mother.
"At the age of 10 he became a thief, and in his adult life he wished to continue on an evil road," Scherer said as he told how Genet deserted the French army in WWII and traveled through the underworld of Europe.
In Germany during the war Genet was "fascinated with the triumph of evil." Scherer said
Scherer described Genet's plays as "a turn-
style of being and appearance, imagination and reality" and said Genet's theatre shows images and ceremony instead of reality.
Jean Paul Sartre, French existentialist, felt it was the false and artificial which attracted Genet to the theatre, Scherer explained.
"Genet's characters are victims of social order," Scherer said. "And his plays show the conflict between the blacks and whites or the ruling class and the oppressed class."
Scherer said Genet is not concerned with what happens in his plays but rather wants to show that life is false.
"Though one does not sympathize with the moral and political ideas of Genet, he is bound to sympathize with what he has brought to the French theatre," Scherer concluded.
"This would be a sad way for his long service to the nation to terminate, but the basic principles he has offered by his actions must be preserved intact," Bingham said.
Hershey, an Army lieutenant general, has headed Selective Service since 1941.
Kennedy told the Senate his proposed amendment to the Selective Service Act was intended to prohibit use of the draft to punish demonstrators. It says that only federal courts can determine whether protesters' activities are illegal and mete out punishment if they are.
Opera tenor dies in crash
Poleri, 40. once described by soprano Mary Garden as "the
The pilot, Dennis Akkola, 23, was seriously injured.
LIHUE, Hawaii—(UPI) —Famed operatic tenor David S. Polei and his wife, Ise, whom he had just remarried after a 13-month divorce, were killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday night in a remote valley on the island of Kauai.
crown prince of grand opera,"had just remarried his wife last Sunday. They were on their second honeymoon when the tragedy occurred.
The copter went down in rugged terrain in Hanaei Valley, a secluded and lush area on the island. Kauai is the northernmost of the major islands in the Hawaiian chain.