Daily hansan
59th Year, No.42
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, November 13, 1961
Day May Be Devoted To World Issues
A suggestion that KU set aside a class day for discussion and debate of the international crisis is being circulated among faculty members.
Early indications from a limited sampling of the KU staff indicate some reservations about the plan, at least in its particulars.
THE CONCEPT WAS conceived at Cornell University, where classes will be suspended November 17 to focus academic attention on the world crisis. A mass meeting of students and faculty is also planned there.
The idea reached KU by a letter to Howard Baumgartel, associate professor of Human Relations and Psychology, from a Cornell faculty member, William Delany.
Prof. Baumgartel duplicated a statement contained in the letter and has begun its circulation among KU faculty members.
OF MORE THAN 50 memoranda circulated by Prof. Baumgartel, by Friday only seven had been returned with comments and impressions concerning the idea.
"We feel that the threat of global war, the effect of nuclear testing, and the attitude of helplessness in the face of these perils are subjects of the utmost importance.
The Cornell statement, as presented in the memoranda said in part:
"We believe that it is appropriate for the academic community to express its anxiety. Civilization is in danger... Our conscience dictates that, as part of our teaching obligation, we raise these issues as forcefully as we can."
SIMILAR NOTES have been sent to persons at other universities to encourage similar programs.
Prof. Baumgartel said he liked the idea in general but thought KU might develop a plan of its own.
"If we wanted to do something about it perhaps something could originate from our own staff," Prof. Baumgartel said.
He said of those who answered his inquiry, most seemed in favor of the concept behind the plan "but raised questions of procedure."
WILLIAM EPSTEIN. assistant
professor of psychology, one of those who received a copy of the suggestion, said "I think you can say I favor the proposal. However, I would like to see some of the details for procedure spelled out."
Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, and Robert Lawrence, assistant instructor of political science, said they favored an alternative plan for "bearing to bear the academic influence" on problems creating world tension.
"IF SUCH A PROGRAM was to mark a serious and prolonged effort and concentrate on what might be
Mr. Lawrence said he favored the concept of Peace Research Institute, a private institute with headquarters in Washington, D.C.
done, I think the idea has merit,' Prof. Laird said.
"The idea of the institute is to create enthusiasm for concentrated, long-range research on problems surrounding the cold war by people from the various disciplines," he said.
Three other faculty members who were asked for their impression said they hadn't had time to study it sufficiently.
Group Plans Day For Special Talks
Tentative plans to set aside a special day to discuss the alternatives to nuclear war and life in a bomb shelter were made last night.
Howard Baumgartel, associate professor of psychology and human relations said that he had already contacted several faculty members who had shown interest and support for the idea.
A group of 14 students and faculty members decided to follow the example of Cornell University and suspend normal academic activities for the special day if such arrangements can be made.
RAYMOND O'CONNER, assistant professor of history said that he had approached the Chancellor and that he was interested in the idea.
PROF. O'CONNOR SAID. "If this is going to be successful it has to be a cooperative effort. Both students and faculty must work for the program."
Prof. Baumgartel explained that the tentative plans include bringing speakers to the campus. Following the principal speeches, discussion groups with University faculty members serving as chairman could be arranged. The professors would chair groups discussing topics about which they are informed, he continued.
The committee suggested the following topic for the special day:
"What are the alternatives to nuclear war and life in a fallout shelter."
A second meeting of the group will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union. All interested students are asked to attend.
Kansan Presents Focus on Elections
The executives of the University Daily Kansan interviewed the candidates for living district representatives to the ASC last Thursday in an effort to determine which ones were best qualified.
The Kansan's editorial comment and candidate recommendations appear on pages two and three of this issue.
Each candidate was questioned on re-affiliation with the National Student Association, the Human Rights Committee of the ASC, the campus traffic fine system, the stadium seating plan and the ASC investigation of Watkins Hospital and the Kansas Union.
Opinions Differ on P-T-P
Varied reactions to the Liberty Memorial Rededication and National People-to-People ceremonies Friday were expressed today by several KU foreign students who attended the gathering.
"The fact that there were so many people there shows that a lot of people are interested in international understanding. I hope the University will find the backing of so many national leaders helpful."
Shafiq Hashmi, Hyderabad, India graduate student and president of the International Club, said:
"I expected it to be greater and I was a bit disappointed. We heard, or least I heard, so much about the rededication and I expected more people and more personal contact (an estimated 40,000 people attended although expectations were for 200,-000).
BUSHRA KARAMAN, Haifa Israel, graduate student, said.
"WHEN I WENT TO SPEAK to my ambassador," she continued, "I told him I was from Israel. He said, 'That's nice' and that was all. I did enjoy it, however."
Jalal Razzak, Baghdad, Iraq,
graduate student, said;
"I think it was very interesting and Eisenhower's speech was also very good.
"I WAS DISTURBED, however, because we didn't have a representative from my country there. I don't know if one was invited or not. People-to-People say they are not involved with politics, but Iraq, UAR, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon were not there."
NEARLY 60 AMBASSADORS and other diplomatic representatives, the largest delegation of diplomats ever assembled in the Middlewest, gathered in Kansas City for the rededication of the Memorial to international understanding.
When contacted, William Dawson, Kansas City senior and chairman of KU's People-to-People, explained that every nation in the United Nations was invited.
"Those countries which were not represented were probably unable to send anyone," he added.
Former President Dwight D Eisenhower gave the principal address.
"A program such as People-to-People offers no spectacular and revolutionary change in the world climate, to be seen or felt at once.
He said:
"But as it grows and spreads and becomes sturdier, both in spirit and in size, the curve of progress will be sharply upward."
"The People-to-People program was originated by President Eisenhower in 1956. It has resulted in millions of grass-roots friendships. When you look into the hearts and minds of men of any race, color or belief, you see that they have more in common than they have in difference.
JOYCE C. HALL, president of Hall.mark Cards and chairman of National People-to-People also spoke at the rededication.
Mr. Hall said:
"But all of us who have participated in People-to-People realize that only the surface of the possibilities has been scratched."
Following Mr. Eisenhower's speech the flags of more than 100 nations were raised as the newly installed carillon played "Bells of Liberty."
Friday's activities were part of a three-day ceremony.
Weather
More cold weather is predicted for tonight and tomorrow with occasional light rain and possibly snow.
The low tonight will be in the 30's.
Ten per cent of the ballots cast in the primary election were not counted because they were turned in blank or were voided by election workers.
190 Ballots Voided On Voting Errors
Errors on the part of the voters caused 190 ballots out of 1889 cast to be voided.
RICHARD HARPER, Prairie Village senior and chairman of the ASC elections committee, said ballots turned in blank accounted for most of the errors.
Another error was marking more than one choice for an office. For example, some students marked a person both choice one and choice two. Several marked two candidates for choice one.
Harper said voter preference is the main criteria, and even though the ballot is in error it will be counted if what the voter wants can be clearly seen.
Write-in candidates caused many errors, Harper said.
BOTH THE NAME and a vote must be written on the ballot. If only the name is written in, the ballot will not be counted.
Spelling of write-in candidate's names caused some of the primary ballots to be voided. Harper said the spelling "must be reasonably close."
The voting procedure used in the primaries will also be used in the general election Tuesday and Wednesday. The procedure is:
1. The voter goes to the basement of Strong Hall and picks up an IBM card. This card gives his name, student number, address, and year, classifying him as to voting district, and designates whether he gets a freshman ballot.
2. The voter goes to the first floor of Strong Hall to any of the three polling places.
3. He gives one of the poll workers the IBM card and his student identification card. He then receives a ballot and a special marking pencil. He signs a register of all voters and goes to one of the voting booths,
leaving his IBM card and student ID with the poll worker.
4. After marking the ballot, he returns to the polling place and deposits his ballot in a ballot box. He then returns the special pencil to the poll worker and receives his student ID card.
The number of ASC representatives each district will elect is determined by the number of votes cast in that district.
The following tabulation shows the number of votes needed for a given number of representatives.
representatives Number of votes
0 under 75
1 75-200
2 201-425
3 426-675
4 676-950
5 951-1250
6 1251-1575
7 1576-1925
8 1926-2300
9 2301-2700
10 2701-3125
The number of votes for over 10 representatives is not defined because no district at present could poll this many votes.
The number of representatives elected from each district last fall is as follows:
No. of representatives No. of votes
Fraternity 4 950
Sorority 3 450
Men's large dormitories 3 445
Men's small dormitories 1 157
Women's large dormitories 1 155
Women's small dormitories 1 136
Freshman Women's dormitories 2 311
Co-op and professional fraternities 0 26
Unmarried-unorganized 1 110
arrived 0 39
The United States has been a socialist country since the Constitution was ratified in 1787, a visiting representative of a right-wing school of economic thought said Friday.
The tax, Mr. Berveiler argued, would not interfere with individual property rights because land—unlike other forms of property—was not created by man's labor and therefore does not belong exclusively to him.
Speaker Attacks U.S. Tax System
Robert Berveiler, director of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City, spoke before about 60 students and faculty members at the Minority Opinion Forum.
MR. BERVEILER said the present system of taxation should be replaced with a single tax levied on the value of land in this country.
He told his audience the existing U.S. tax structure is socialistic because it interferes with the individual's exclusive right of ownership to anything produced or earned with his own labor.
"We in the United States are now entering our 175th year of American socialism," he said.
"Untold Community Chests, doogers and racketeers are now engaged in an effort to keep an enslaved people (the citizens of the United States) from uprising in the face of the most fictitious (financial) boom in the history of man.
"SOCIALISM HAS solved nothing Let's abolish socialism and try freedom."
The land tax proposed by Mr. Berveiler is based upon the writings of Henry George, an American economist who published most of his articles from 1870-1905.
THE SINGLE TAX on land, he said, would be levied upon the value of the land itself. Any improvements upon the land would not be taxable.
because the improvements are the result of human labor.
One benefit of the tax, he said, would be to destroy the power of large landowners, who now hold idle land in anticipation of selling it at a profit later. The heavy land tax, he said, would force these landowners to make their land available to private industry or suffer economic loss.
"Landlordism is the sire of all socialism and the basis of all corruption in the American economy today," he said. "We must make land common property by abolishing all taxes except those on land values."
MR. BERVEILER concluded by urging that his somewhat skeptical audience expose themselves to the ideas advocated by Henry George.
"I'm not so naive as to think that you will immediately accept so novel an idea as the Henry George philosophy," he said.
"You've been exposed for too long to socialistic instruction. But I urge you to expose yourself to new ideas such as this one. Once you've accepted and formed clear ideals yourself, you can begin to spread them in the hope of improving social conditions."
War Unlikely, Nehru Says
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India said today that "war is unlikely in the foreseeable future."
He told a news conference that the way to "some kind of solution" of the Berlin crisis "is gradually opening out."
Nehru, who will be 72 tomorrow, made his remarks before visiting a movie studio on his first trip to Hollywood.