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Humanities Forum Discusses Liberalism
Individuality and the emancipation of man characterized liberalism from 1830 to 1870.
These were but two of the views expressed in last night's Humanities Forum. Speaking on the subject "1830-1870: Liberalism and Anti-Liberalism" were Aldon Bell, assistant professor of history; Richard DeGeorge, associate professor of philosophy; W. D. Paden, professor of English; and Michael Scherer, associate professor of German.
Prof. DeGeorge said liberal thinking of the time was reflected in four ways: man's personality as his basic value; the destiny of the individual; the emancipation of the individual; and the relative authority of the church, state, and political parties.
PROF. Paden said the liberal movement was characteristic of England, while the continent was anti-liberal.
Prof. DeGeorge pointed to Karl Marx as anti-liberal.
"Liberalism was for the capitalists," said DeGeorge. "Marx opposed the capitalists and looked to the masses: thus Marx was anti-liberal."
Prof. Bell said liberalism was characterized by two facts—it was destructive, and it was a middle class movement.
ACCORDING to Prof. Bell, liberalism attacked all the established institutions of the time. It deplored social laws such as the Corn Law and child labor laws. Liberalism was also opposed to many of the doctrines of the church, and to the union of England with Ireland.
"Government institutions were supposed to prevent encroachment on the individual," said Prof. De-George, "and not to correct the evils of the day."
Liberalism in Germany was short lived, according to Prof. Scherer. Individualism was suppressed in all literature such as essays, newspapers and books. Censorship was rigidly enforced by the Hapsburgs.
PROF, PADEN described two aspects that characterized the liberal period in English literature.
"There was a new value placed on the individual." Prof. Paden said. "Literature now incorporated the idea that human nature varies from man to man. The people began to see that the world was constantly changing, and that man must come to accept this fact."
Prof. Paden pointed to writers such as Robert Browning as having been familiar with ideas regarding a changing world.
"These ideas were before the time of Darwinism." Prof. Faden said, "and they reflect the thinking of the liberalist movement."
Airlifted Troops Return Casually
BERGSTROM, Tex. — (UPI) — Screaming Jets brought parts of the globe-hopping 2nd armored division home today but the return was almost casual compared with the split-second timing of its departure less than a month ago.
The first of 87 scheduled jet transports touched down yesterday and others followed at irregular intervals.
The mass movement of the battle ready division was a reversal of gigantic operation Big Lift, in which 220 planes transported 16,000 troops to West Germany Oct. 21-24 in the largest trans-Atlantic peacetime troop flight ever attempted.
THE FIRST JET home, loaded with 74 men, made the flight from Rheinmain- air base at Frankfurt, Germany, in $10 \frac{1}{2}$ hours.
Upon their arrival, the men were rushed through customs and boarded buses for their home base of Ft. Hood. 60 miles away.
Brig. Gen. Keith L. Ware, assistant division commander, was aboard the first C135 jet. Commenting on the trip and the maneuvers the division participated in, Ware said "It exceeded all our expectations."
THE DIVISION held atomic maneuvers with the third armored division while in Germany. The two divisions roamed terrain as close as 20 miles from the Communist German border.
About 500 men of the division were left in Germany to clean up but the others will be home for Thanksgiving. The cleanup detail was expected to be home by Christmas.
Rights Battle Moves Into Courtrooms
By United Press International Courtrooms are serving as back-rops for the latest civil rights struggles.
Justice Department attorney's appeal to the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans today for a temporary restraining order block-ing an Alabama grand Jury investigation. A federal district judge yesterday refused to grant such an order.
A GRAND JURY at Selma, Ala., is investigating the free government transportation given Negro leader Martin Luther King, Jr., last month from Birmingham to a civil rights rally at Selma. The justice department contends the probe amounts to harrassment of federal officials.
At Clinton, La., yesterday state judge John Rarick, in defiance of a federal order, renewed an injunction against racial demonstrations by the Congress of Racial Equality CORE).
School board attorneys asked a federal court at Greensboro, N.C., yesterday to dismiss a desegregation suit by more than 100 Negroes on grounds Caraburus county schools will lower racial barriers in September. The Negroes are seeking immediate desegregation.
THE MISSISSPIPI Supreme Court ruled yesterday that former Marine Byron De La Beckwid was mentally capable of standing trial on a charge of slaying Negro leader Medgar Evers at Jackson, Miss., June 12. The court, in a 6-3 decision, said Beckwid could not be forced to undergo a mental examination against his will.
Elsewhere in the nation:
LEXINGTON, N.C.—A police official testified yesterday that one of three Negro youths charged with second degree murder admitted shortly after his arrest that he fired several rifle bullets into a crowd of whites during a June 6 race riot. It is alleged that one of the bullets killed mechanic Fred Link, 24; and another wounded Art Richardson, a photographer.
Birmingham, Ala—Five men connected with the National States Rights party yesterday asked that federal district judge Clarence Allgood be disqualified from holding their trials on charges of trying to block desegregation. The segregationists said Allgood was "personally biased and prejudiced" against them, and they could not receive a fair trial.
Prince George, Ga.—Negroes picketed the Prince George county courthouse yesterday for the second consecutive day in a drive for complete school integration and equal job opportunities.
Andrew Cairncross, Shakespearean scholar and editor, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Friday, in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
Shakespeare Scholar Speaks Here Friday
Chicago—A Knights of Columbus council officer denied accusations yesterday that a Negro was rejected for membership because of racial bias. Earl R. Reynolds, advocate of the Chicago council of the Knights of Columbus, charged that integrationist "pressure groups," including the Catholic interracial council, sought to force acceptance of Joseph Bertrand, a sales executive and former Notre Dame basketball star.
Statesville, N.C.—A local integration leader said yesterday Negroes in the city were urged to make long distance telephone calls only when absolutely necessary. The Rev. Wilson Lee, a Negro minister, said the action was taken because of the alleged refusal of Southern Bell telephone company to hire "at least one Negro" above the janitorial level.
"Shakespeare's Text: Some Unresolved Problems" will be the subject of Cairncross' speech which concerns attempts by scholars to reconstruct what Skakespeare actually wrote from the early printed editions of his plays.
Cairncross received the Doctorate of Literature from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is currently a guest professor of English at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1963 University Daily Kansan
He has edited all three parts of Shakespeare's history play "Henry the Sixth," for the Shakespeare Series. Te he also published articles in the "Shakespeare Quarterly" and "Studies in Bibliography," a publication dealing primarily with textual problems.
Top-Notch Excuse
TURNBRIDGE WELLS, England—(UPI)—Keith Hall was acquitted of brunken driving charges yesterday when he testified that "my eyes are always red."
Market Conferences Affect Pocketbooks
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
In Brussels and Geneva deliberations are under way which eventually will effect the pocketbooks of more than 185 million Americans and more than 172 million Europeans.
Eventually, the outcome could affect the price of such widely diverse items as an Italian necktie on sale in Kansas City and an American frozen chicken in Munich.
In Geneva a panel of experts appointed by an organization bearing the formidable title of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is attempting to arbitrate the "chicken war" between the United States and the six European Common Market nations.
THE UNITED States charges that Common Market levies against American frozen chicken literally has frozen American producers out of the community. And, unless the Common Market community makes some sort of amends, the United States threatens retaliatory tariffs on
two dozen or more items imported from Europe.
At stake is much more than the frozen chicken market. The United States annually sells to Europe more than a billion dollars worth of agricultural goods. The fear is that a high protective tariff system eventually could bar a large portion of that total from Europe.
The Geneva arbitrators may come up with a decision this week. For the future of the Common Market, and its ultimate hopes for a politically united Europe, the problem under study in Brussels is even thornier.
FOREIGN MINISTERS of West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg are attempting to agree upon a Common Market agricultural policy.
French President Charles de Gaulle, with ambitions to make France the breadbasket of Europe, has hinted he may pull out of the Common Market altogether unless agreement is reached by the end of the year.
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