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University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 6, 1963
America to Bestow Medals of Freedom
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — America pays its highest peacetime tribute to 31 men and women today in ceremonies at a White House draped in mourning for the man who conceived the unprecedented awards.
The late John F. Kennedy, whose idea it was to honor the group with a new Presidential Medal of Freedom, had wanted to present the awards himself. President Johnson is doing so instead.
FURTHER SADNESS came into the occasion yesterday when one of the recipients, former Senator and New York Gov. Herbert H. Lehm, died of a heart attack while preparing to leave for Washington.
Johnson said the 85-year-old Lehman's best epitaph was the citation he would have heard today: "Citizen and statesman, he has used wisdom and compassion as the tools of government and has made-politics the highest form of public service."
Singer Marian Anderson and United Nations troubleshooter Ralph J. Bunche, both Negroes, were among the better known medal recipients selected by a special board named last February by Kennedy.
RETIRED Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, AFO-CIO President George Meany, cellist-composer Pablo Casals, French statesman Jean Monnet, and playwright Thornton Wilder were other famous recipients.
But there were lesser-known people too: Genevieve Caillieu, 73, a "one woman peace corps" who has been blind almost since birth but founded and operated schools for the sightless in Thailand and Viet Nam. And Annie Waunkea, a 53-year-old Navajo leader who worker all her life to improve the lot of her 100,000-member Indian tribe on its 24,000-acre reservation in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, a blue and white star on a red and gold background, is the highest civilian honor the chief executive can confer in peacetime. It was originally devised in 1945 as a
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PROF. HARRIS said it has been argued that the moral ideal is characteristic of the West, but it is not the Communist ideal. The argument, he said, is that it might be logical for Western countries to renounce war and power politics, but it is not logical for the Communist to do so.
Some Christians have attempted to justify war when it is against a non-Christian or anti-Christian enemy, he said.
The Soviet Communists, however, are just as opposed to nuclear war as is the Western world, he said. No Marxist could consistently advocate the slaughter of the workers, even in foreign countries, whom they say belong to one class irrespective of nationality, he said.
On stricty Christian principles, Prof. Harris said, it is doubtful if any war could be justified. "Where nuclear war is concerned, there can be no doubt at all that justification on moral grounds is impossible."
IT IS also argued that war is forced upon a nation by the threats and machinations of others, he said. A nation will shield itself from aggression perhaps behind an atomic deterrent, while it strives to keep its way of life, culture, and moral order intact, he said the argument goes.
This argument is partially tenable, he said, but there is a moral obligation to seek a way out.
"If we recognize the situation for what it is and still resort to the nuclear deterrent we become, as we now are, obsessed with the anxieties, suspicions and antagonisms of the cold war and allow our judgment to become distorted by them."
Violence or the threat of violence has undermined the moral ideal and tradition which is being protected, he said. On this ground some have adopted the pacific and non-violent creed. Prof. Harris said.
Prof. Harris will discuss and criticize the case for non-violence in his lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dyche auditorium.
"Medal of Freedom" for civilian acts in wartime, and was revised in 1952 to recognize superior performance in the interests of national security.
KENNEDY, last February, changed this concept entirely. He ordered a new medal designed, changed its name to the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" and broadened the standards of eligibility.
It can still be given for distinctive contributions to national security but also to world peace, or to "cultural and other significant public or private endeavors."
Under this mandate, Kennedy's board selected today's list of 31 American and foreign citizens from the diverse fields of public affairs, education, science, health, letters, and the creative and performing arts.
ONLY 21 PERSONS, including the late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, had received the former medal from presidents in the past. Now, however, the new award is to be presented annually by the chief executive.
A few of the recipients were listed as unable to attend today's ceremony —Pablo Casals, who was being represented by Gov. Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico, himself an award winner; editor-author E. B. White of North Brooklyn, Maine, and author-critic Edmund Wilson of Wellfleet, Mass.
The late J. Clifford MacDonald, a Templa, Fla., humanitarian and civil leader, was to be represented by his widow.
MEDAL RECIPIENTS expected to attend were;
Miss Anderson; Bunche; diplomat Ellsworth Bunker of Putney, Vt.; Miss Caulfield; educator-scientist James B. Conant of New York; medical researcher and teacher John F. Enders of Boston.
Also, Frankfurther; Karl Holton of Los Angeles, former director of the California youth authority; former Yale swimming coach Robert J. Kiphuth of New Haven, Conn.; inventor-industrialist Edwin H. Land of Cambridge, Mass.
FORMER Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett of Locust Valley, N.Y.; diplomat-banker John J. M.Cloy of Stamford, Conn., a member of the special commission investigating Kennedy's assassination; Meany; educator-author Alexander Meikle-john of Berkeley, Calif.; architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe of Chicago.
Monnet; Munoz-Marin; industrialist Clarence B. Randall of Chicago; pianist-conductor Rudolf Serkin of Brattleboro, Vt.; photographer Edward Steichen of Ridgefield, Conn.; labor-management arbitrator and scholar George W. Taylor, of Philadelphia; Alan T. Waterman, former director of the National Science Foundation; author-journalist Mark S. Watson of Baltimore; Mrs. Waunkea; Wilder, and artist Andrew N. Wyeth, of Chadds Ford, Pa.
POTPOURRI WINNERS—These five students are winners in this year's Speech I competition. They are: (back row, left to right) Richard
Hawkins, Mike Grady, James Pitts III, and (front row) Yvonne Sutter and Linda Gilna. Mary Tate, also a winner, is not pictured.
Educational TV For View Here
Kansas City's educational television station, KCSD-TV, channel 19, may soon be viewed more extensively in the Lawrence area.
Clyde C. Howe, chief engineer for the station, said the station had received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to increase its power from 17,400 watts to 200,000 watts.
The school district of Kansas City, Mo., operators of the station since 1960 when the first signal was transmitted, is awaiting approval of an application to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for a $92,250 grant to finance the power increase.
The grant is part of five million dollars appropriated by Congress in a proposed 32 million dollar program for the expansion and development of educational television.
Several KU faculty members and students are included in the present limited viewing audience of channel 19. Fred Samson, chairman of
the KU department of biochemistry and physiology, when informed that the station could not be received in the Lawrence area had to see for himself. He had a UHF antenna installed on Haworth Hall and attached it to a TV set. Prof. Samson said channel 19's reception is as good as that of the three Kansas City commercial stations.
Channel 19 provides classroom instruction to students in the Kansas City school district's elementary and secondary schools.
Zoel Parenteau, the station program manager, said that 100 schools outside the district make use of the telelessons broadcast from 8:25 a.m. to 2:55 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Each weekday evening beginning at 6:30, the station presents programs from National Educational Television. These programs are produced nationally and are programmed for viewers of all ages.
Widow Leaves White House
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Mrs. John F. Kennedy moves out of the White House today, leaving behind a personal touch and taking with her the bittersweet memories of her nearly three-year stay.
With her two children, Mrs. Kennedy will live in a house lent to her by Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman.
BELL'S
HER LAST-OFFICIAL ACT will be a farewell to the household staff, which stays on to serve President Johnson and his family. Johnson is expected to move into the 150-room mansion over the weekend.
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He frequently served as an arbitrator in labor-management disputes. in 1941 President Rosevelt named Morse the chairman of the National Railroad Emergency Board and, shortly thereafter, to the National War Labor Board.
Morse ran for the U.S. Senate in 1944 on a program of "principles above politics."
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