Birchers Say Conspiracy Afoot to Form World State
By STEVE LEWIS
Kansas Stiff Reporter
Kansan Staff Reporter
There is a conspiracy in the United States to create world government and destroy individual freedom according to the John Birtch Society. The society says participants in the conspiracy include President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
The society claims that the conspiracy is being led by what they call insiders—a group of national financiers and the 1,300 members of Foreign Relations, a group that Kissinger was previously a member of. Their goal is to create world government, the Birchers
There are two active chapters of the John
Birch School in Lawrence. They meet separately once a month to discuss issues and organize letter-writing campaigns to government officials. Each meeting begins
The John Birch Society is named after an obscure fundamentalist missionary who was a captain in the U.S. Intelligence Service and died before World War II, but never eroded by the Chinese Communist
The society was founded in 1958 by candy manufacturer Robert Welch to expose the trend he $ ^{w}$ w toward more government and less freedom in the United States.
"LESS GOVERNMENT, more responsibility and with God's help, a better way to work."
Two local members of the society. Robert
Elder, a chapter leader, and Ed Jacobs
snake of their crusade in a recent interview
"I think the government should get out of everything." Elder said, "as far as controls are concerned."
Calling President Nikon a "big lurian" and a "big crook," Elder said he like to see him impeached. He said the presidency had been criticized by the organized Congress for allowing that to happen.
Eilder called Nixon's revenue sharing "deficit sharing" and a box. He also said that Nixon was a big fan of the economy.
"There's only one thing that has caused inflation and if President Nixon will look in the mirror he will see it." Elder said. "The facts are alike, we allies—you can't believe either of them."
JACOBS CALLED the Vietnam War "a war on the American people by the American government." He said it served only to make millionaire richers. Only with congressional approval, he said, should America enter a war.
Elder said the major news media were dominated by the insiders. As a result, he said, people weren't being warned about the conspiracy to arrest freedom.
He said that the American people had their heads "barred in the sand" and that that influence of Sir Richard Schieffler was to make people aware that this government was being eroded as government shifted toward both Washington and the United Nations. Jacobs said, "What the government pays for is not what it was."
you have in Communist Russia is controls and more control."
Jacobs said there was a conspiracy in this country to gain more control over the American people. He said, for example, that the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie militant groups so as to induce the government to put more restrictions on freedom.
"There's pressure from above and below," Jacobs said. "The pressure from above is financing the pressure from below. The pressure from below is gaining more control over the people."
"WHEN YOU HAVE all the money you need, you then try to control people."
Elder said Ralph Nader was actually making money for the auto industry as well
as helping the insiders gain more control over the people.
"All these safety control devices put more controls on the American people," said Elder. "We cannot afford what it's going to cost for the government to protect us."
"They make it sound as though we have accidents deliberately."
Jacobs said the insiders were pushing for gun control and consumer protection legislation. He said one consumer protec-
tion Congress required that a homeowner allow a compliance officer to inspect his home for violations of a minimum code.
Elder said the energy crisis was promoted and restricted by BIRCHERS袋.
Forecast: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 40% low in the lower 20%. 84th Year, No. 93
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 19. 1974
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Living 'Sanely' Chief Concern, Says Berrigan
Knight Starts KU Fastbreak
Danny Knight knelt downscour for the most pass after grabbing a rebound in the Jayhawks' 89-90 win over the Oklahoma Sooners last night. Knight outscored Alvan
Adams, the Sooners' all star center, 24-23 and outbounded him 14-9. The win lifted KU into a first place tie with Kansas State in the Big Eight.
Hearst Pledges $2 Million
He said arrangements had been made for the money to be delivered to a tax-exempt, charitable organization approved by the attorney general of California, capable of making a distribution for the benefit of the poor and needy."
SAN FRANCISCO (CA) — Newspaper magnate Randolph A. Hearst pledged $2 million yesterday to feed the needy as a first effort to help his kidnapped daughter Patricia.
"This is a gesture of good will," Hearst told a news conference at a downtown hotel. "There is no guarantee Patricia is going to get home on this."
HEARST SAID HE was still looking for a suitable organization to administer the food giveaway demanded by the terrorist group. "The terrorists say it kidnapped Miss Heart on Feb. 4," he said.
Hearst said the $500,000 he was giving was a substantial part of his personal assets. He said the remaining $1.5 million from the William Randall Hepdell Hound Foundation had been donated to the charitable organization after the family members disguised themselves.
Heartst said he was donating $50,000 himself and that the Heartst Foundation was the first to do so.
"The money will be available tomorrow, but we have to find the proper conduit," the gray-haired editor and editor of the San Francisco Examiner said.
The SLA had given Hearst until today to devise a sweeping food giveaway estimated to cost as much as $400 million. Heearst said that it would be a modified plan for the poorest of the poor.
"THIS IS A HONEST effort on my part to do what I can, and that all's可我可 I can do. I do."
Hearst also said he asked noted San Francisco lawyer William Coblentz to see that two SLA members charged with the killing of four men, Marcus Foster last Nov. got a fair trial.
Solzhenitsyn Will Continue Work
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said in Paris, where he was visiting French leaders yesterday, that Solzhenitza's files weren't known to many people and hinted it might be some time before they were allowed out of Russia.
Solzhenitsyn said he didn't have the strength to reassemble the collection of documents. If they are seized, he said, "then my remaining years and strength, being directed to Russian history, will be distanced from the present for which I need no architects."
ZURICH (AP) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn vowed yesterday to continue his work in exile and said he had as much right to live there as any other person. The audacity to physically throw me out."
In his first interview since he was expelled from the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn said he didn't know when his family would join him or where he would settle.
"If one is to believe the statements of numbers of the Soviet government, my task was to tell them that I said, 'But, without my presence, for two women with four children, it isn't easy to an existence of many years, to pack up in a moment when none of the children are ill.'"
Soltzhentyn, 55, seemed much the same as in Moscow—defiant of Soviet authorities who stripped him of his citizenship and held him and eager to get on with his writing.
Solzenhytan's wife, Natalya, their three children, a stepson and Solzenhytan's mother-in-law plan to join him as soon as he finds a place to live.
"If the Sveto authorities confiscate them, even partially, it will be spiritual murder";
The Nobel laureate voiced special concern for his family and for his literary artistry.
He accepted questions at the Zurich apartment of his Swiss lawyer, Fritz Heeb, and he gave him a speech.
Ignite, their 17-month-old son, has been sick with a cold for about a week.
As to his future home, Solzenhntyn said Switzerland had received him warmly and added he had invitations from other countries.
"I am most sincerely grateful to all those who invited me, he said." The decision will depend on the quality of the short time, rather spacious, calm quarters with some land, convenient for work and for living.
He said all his life, he had "lived without a house, cramped. I couldn't reconcile working conditions with family life. In the house, at least I would like to achieve that."
He said "the direction" his work takes now would depend on whether Soviet authorities released his archives. He said "October 1916," the second volume of the book, is the primary years, which begin with 'August 1914' and study and the third volume was under way.
The German news magazine Die Spiegel said Solzbiemsnt had already rented a country home 12 miles south of Zurich. It is unclear certainly in the vicinity of his lawyer.
As to the future, Solizenthym, who spent 11 years in Stalinist camps and exile in Soviet central Asia, declared, "I am an emperor of birth and don't consider my exile final."
HEARST MAIT ICE he didn't think the food giveway would be the last demand attached to his daughter's eventual release, but they said as much in one recent communication.
They said then that if Hearst met the food demand they would be able to negotiate the lease of his daughter, presumably meaning the first time he was implict in the first tape Hearst received from his daughter was that the release of SLA members would be tied to her release.
Hearst said the mechanics of how the money would be spent and the food distributed remained to be worked out. He met with reporters after a five-hour conference with leaders of activist groups designated by the SLA to monitor the food plan.
IN A TAPED MESSAGE received Saturday, Miss Hearst urged her father to develop a program "as fast as you can," even if it fell short of her capitals' initial goals.
The SLA warned that a failure to make an acceptable good faith gesture would be contrary to its objectives.
"prisoner of war." He heartst his plan known less than 24 hours before the deadline.
THE OPTIMISM of the Rev. Williams was also evidenced by the Hearst family after a communication from Patricia and the kidnappers was received last Saturday. In response, they spend the estimated $400 million to feed all the state's poor, aged and paroled, and a man identifying himself as an SAL agent would assess Hearst's good faith gestures.
The Rev. Cecil Williams, who organized a coalition of groups to oversee the food distribution, said earlier: "I am convinced that Patty Hearst is going to be released. I am also convinced that the peoples of this state that have gone hungry are going to be fed."
Announcement of the plan came after Hearst had met with several leaders of the activist groups. He came away from the meeting voicing respect for those persons.
HEARST SAID he hoped American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks and other members of the coalition of community groups asked by the kidnappers to
monitor the food distribution would be consulted in any final arrangement.
ASKED WHETHER he had set aside any additional funds to meet possible future requirements.
"I would like to say I may not be their friend, but they've turned out to be mine," he said of the groups. "If there's anything that I can do to help them in the future, whether Patty's in or out, I'm going to try and do it and understand their problems."
"I don't think at the moment there is any more in the kitty. I think people are making a mistake in thinking this is a ransom demand."
Hearst returned to his home in Hillsborough, 15 miles south of San Francisco, and told reporters he would have no further comment yesterday.
Heard say he had consulted with the California attorney general's office because its approval was necessary before a charitable foundation could be established to the state. He said the attorney general's office has been the mechanics of the food distribution plan.
"I need time to think some more," he said.
Job Market Influences Enrollment
Editor's Note: This is the first of two articles about shifting enrollment patterns
By SARAH WOHLRABE
Kansas Staff Remorter
As job markets fluctuate and student interests change, enrollment in the professional schools at the University of Kansas also shifts.
In three of the eight professional schools enrollment has increased over the last five years.
The number of people entering the School of Journalism declined in 1970-71 because of declines in the number of students.
Good job markets, successful placement bureau and success in employment are some of the reasons enrollment has increased in the School of Business, John Tollefson, acting associate dean said yesterday.
"A large fraction of our teachers have received University recognition," Tolleson said. "If a student needs good things about him then he will be more apt to enter the Field."
Tollison said there had been a 44 per cent increase in the number of students in the School of Business since 1986. The rate of graduation from undergraduate and graduate levels, he said.
TOLLEFSON SAID STUDENTS were becoming increasingly interested in programs leading to jobs with futures. But, he said, "I like to think that the increase in enrollment is due to the good reputation of the business school on campus."
dean of the school, said, but enrollment has been growing since then.
Bassett said that faculty had been instrumental in drawing new students into the program.
"THE FACULTY in the School of Journalism has a fine reputation," Bassett said. "The quality of students has increased also, and it is due to bring more students into the school."
A national interest in interest in the fine arts is one reason for the increase in enrolment in the School of Fine Arts, Thomas Gorton, dean of the school, said.
Gorton said the interest in visual arts had
grown so much that the School of Fine Arts placed a limit on enrollment in that
"Professional school degrees look so attractive because the schools are preparing students for careers," Gordon said. "Careers are increases for careers in the arts."
THREE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS at KU limit the number allowed to enter those schools. The School of Pharmacy has a limited enrollment of 245 students, said Howard Mossberg, dean. The school allows 85 new students in enter each year.
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Quakes Nothing New For Sunflower State
The earthquake that shook a wide area of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas last week is a reminder that earthquakes are no strangers to the plains.
Since Kansas became a state in 1861 at least 46 quakes have been felt in the state. At least 15 earthquakes have been centered in Kansas, particularly under part of eastern Kansas.
Compared with other areas, "that number would be on the low side," according to Mr. Spencer, who was a former executive of the company.
Charges Against Helicopter Thief Dropped
Pfc. Kenneth Preston, the soldier who flew a heliopter onto the White House lawn Sunday, was returned to the Walter Reed Army Hospital's psychiatric center yesterday after federal charges against him were dropped.
However, authorities said, Preston still faces possible prosecution for violating military regulations, including the charge of theft of government funds.
Preston remained silent yesterday during his appearance in D. C. superior Court. A U.S. attorney explained that the government did "wish to obtain facts about him."
Democrat Richard F. VanderVeen, a lawyer who had lost every previous race for office, scored a major upset yesterday by winning the Georgia Senate runoff with 61 percent of the vote.
Democrat Wins Ford's Place in Congress
Vardenveer had called the election a referendum on Watagete and President Nixon. He took an early lead in the vote counting in Michigan's 8th Congressional District and went on to defeat favored Republican Robert Laan, the former state senate mayor, who ran with Ford's support.
Meany Says U.S. Going into Recession
AFI-CIO President George Meany said yesterday at Miami Beach that the economy was going into a recession despite administration claims to the effect that Americans are no longer willing to pay.
Meany said the AFL-CIO would continue to push for President Nikon's impeachment despite an administration charge that the AFL-CIO was involved in the 2016 election.
Nixon Joins Wallace at America Rally
Stumping for the support of Southerners, President Nixon joined Alabama Gov. George Wallace yesterday in Huntsville before a crowd of 40,000 people.
Nixon made no direct reference to the Watergate scandal but accused the Washington news media of painting a distorted picture that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing.
LAWRENCE RESTS on the eastern boundary of the oval-shaped area which extends about 100 miles in a southwest to northeast direction.
A U.S. Department of Commerce earthquake risk map rates a portion of eastern Kansas as a two on a scale of zero to three. This means that moderate damage may result if a major earthquake occurs in the area.
However, the chances of a major quake are slim and it has been "thousands and thousands of years since what is today experienced a major earthquake." Peoples said.
People said it is obvious to anyone with a trained eye that it has been a long time since there has been a major earthquake in Kansas.
"JUST LOOK at the rock formations." People said, "You don't find lots of faults or distortion in Kansas rocks. If a major earthquake had hit Kansas you would find the evidence in the rocks. There just isn't much evidence."
Most Kansas earthquakes have occurred along what scientists call the Nemaha Anticline or Nemaha Uplift, under a portion of eastern Kansas. It is an updip or arch of layered rock in which beds or layers dip in opposite directions from the crest.
ONE OF THE EARLIEST quakes to have occurred along the Namah线 was on April 24, 1887. The epicenter, or point on the surface of the Earth, center of the quake, was near Manhattan
When the quake began early in the afternoon it caused the Kansas River to roll in a heavy wave two feet high. People rushed to safety. The bridge stopped. Farm animals near Manhattan
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