College Support Seen for Barry
By Roy Miller
The group of six KU faculty members huddled over a couple pitchers of beer discussing, among other things, the weather and politics.
The men, most of them wearing suits or sport coats, paused from their discussion of last night's rain storm ("you'd think it was a tornado") and the existing drought conditions ("you should have seen me stick a curtain rod in the ground") to comment on the forthcoming presidential campaign.
"HE'S A Goldwater Democrat," one of the men said loudly before the conversation returned to the weather and numerous other things.
Nearby sat a first-year law student and the chairman of the National Federation of Collegiate Young Republicans.
Dressed in blue jeans, a striped shirt with flaps on the pockets and a pair of cowboy boots, Jerry Dickson was also talking about the 1964 presidential race.
SINCE HE was elected to head the collegiate Republican clubs in June, Dickson has made numerous speaking trips across the country. He doesn't plan any jaunts this month, but trips such as one planned for Nov. 6 to Arizona cause him to call himself a part-time student.
From his observation in the last few months, Dickson believes American college students are solidly behind Barry Goldwater, the Arizona senator who is considered the front-runner for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination.
"I have no doubt there'll be a reaction among faculty members against Goldwater, which no doubt will have some affect," Dickson said. "But, I don't feel it will make a significant impact on college voting patterns. College students are generally Republican. Sixty per cent of the college students who could vote in 1960 voted for Nixon.
"THE KU FACULTY is a representative example of every college faculty. Most of these people grew up during the depression. They have prejudiced attitudes against the Republican party.
"Something which cannot be overlooked, particularly in the East, is the tremendous amount of money the government spends for research of all types. This tends to prejudice the faculty against those who favor a limited government."
"Most of the KU faculty are reasonable men, and I have made many friends among the faculty. The greatest single objection I have to faculty members is the fact that, in considering man's economical, political and social life, they tend to forget the human drive for power when they're considering many of their grandeo proposals."
DICKSON is a conservative at heart, but he hasn't endorsed Goldwater for the GOP nomination. Of Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York and another Republican being mentioned for the party's nomination, Dickson said: "Don't discount Rockefeller because he has tremendous drive and ability."
The former chairman of KU Young Republicans and former student body president is also kept busy these days helping Rep. William Avery. Dickson feels the Wakefield farmer is a strong possibility for the state gubernatorial nomination.
Dickson has instituted or plans to initiate several new features for the nation's 60,000-70,000 Collegiate Young Republicans in 800 clubs before his two-year term ends.
He has created the position of executive-secretary of the national organization to improve communications among clubs. Art Groesbeck, an alumnus of Kansas State University, was appointed to that position.
DICKSON plans mock presidential nominating conventions and
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61st Year, No.21 24
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1963
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
OLD TIMERS—The Phi Delta Theta men of 1892 look as if they knew then they would be front-page news 71 years later. The man in the
derby hat on the porch and the man in the bow tie suggest an air of self-pride. Has anything changed but the styles? (See page seven)
Lower House Elects Erhard As New Chancellor of West Germany
BONN, Germany—(UPI)—Ludwig Erhard, who as economics minister engineered West Germany's postwar boom, was elected the nation's second chancellor today to replace resigned Konrad Adenauer.
The Bundestag, lower house of parliament, voted 279 to 180 in favor of Erhard.
The Christian Democratic Union which Adenauer and Erhard turned into the most powerful vote-getting machine in German history, voted for Erhard along with their coalition partners, the Free Democrats.
THE OPPOSITION Social Democrats voted as a bloc against Erhard
crats voted as a bloe against Erhard
Speaker of Parliament Eugen
Garstenmaier turned to the stocky
Erhard and said:
"I ask you, member Erhard, do you accept the election?"
In a strong voice, Erhard replied,
"I accept the election."
A storm of applause swept the hall.
IT WAS A FAR larger margin than Adenaer himself had received in his first election to the chancellorship. At that time, in 1949, it was his own single vote that put him in power.
Adenauer stepped down yesterday at the age of 87 after 14 years and one month in office, but he promised
he would continue to speak "often and well" from the back benches in Parliament, where he will represent the Bonn are as a Christian Democratic deputy. Erhard had the support of the Christian Democrats and their Free Democrats coalition allies.
After the 1961 election, Adenauer opponents in the coalition forced Adenauer to make a written promise to resign half-way through the four-year legislative period to give Erhard time to get settled into harness before the 1965 election.
ADENAUER received tributes in Parliament yesterday to his career, which saw West Germany rise from the ashes of total defeat to a place among the great nations of the world.
"You can leave office today." Parliament Speaker Eugen Gerstenmaier told him, "in the knowledge that the foundation has been laid, the framework drawn, the path prepared and the goal determined toward which Germany strives during the second half of the bloody century."
Adenauer, in reply, noted that Germany has not achieved reunification "even though I believe that we can see the possibilities of a reunification approaching the horizon, if
we remain alert and careful and patient."
Then he mentioned one of his greatest achievements, the reconstitution of Germany with its World War II enemies.
"A SOLUTION of this question (reunification) is possible only with the help of our friends," the old man said, "and we thank God that we have again found friends in the world.
"Precisely this friendship in Europe, and beyond Europe with the United States, with all the free peoples of the world, precisely this friendship gives us a right to expect with certainty, that reunification in freedom will some day come about."
. . .
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The State Department paid tribute to retiring Chancellor Konrad Adenauer yesterday and expressed confidence that West Germany would continue to thrive under his successor, Ludwig Erhard.
"One of the most significant aspects of the Chancellor's retirement and the approaching appointment of Dr. Ludwig Erhard to the post is the fact that executive power in Germany has for the first time in many years changed hands.
Pearson, Hashinger Plan to Beat Phone Record
LEE COHLMIA Well. are you set to break the record
By Don Black and Charles Corcoran
A. Lee Cohlmia, Wichita senior and JRP social chairman said both halls agreed unanimously to try to break a national "talkathon" record of 421 hours and 52 minutes. The record was set by Olin Templin and Luther N. Lewis halls at KU in December, 1961.
Residents of Margaret Hashinger and Joseph Pearson residence halls are trying to make the world's longest phone call.
"WE THOUGHT that it would be a great way to get to know people in our dorm and in JRP," Judy Phipps, Wichita junior and Hashinger social chairman, said.
Carl Lindquist, Prairie Village junior and JRP president, said, "The 'talkathon' appeared to be a cause that all the men in the hall would work on and thus build dorm spirit.
"We're going for the record for the same reason that men climb mountains, because it's there," he said. "Besides it's fun. The closer we come to breaking the old record, the more fun it will be."
THE "TALKATHON" is believed to have started at the University of Illinois. Students there set a record of 120 hours in November, 1961.
record of 168 hours, but shortly after students at Western Michigan College claimed a record of 401 hours.
On December 13, 1961, Carruth and O'Leary men's dormitory and Chi Omega sorority ended their attempt with a record of 193 hours. Lewis and Templin halls continued to set their standing national record at that time.
The earlier KU talkathons were begun as a means to collect money for the Campus Chest. Men in Templin hall were charged 50 cents to talk for an unlimited time. The hall residents raised $115 for the campus charity fund.
EACH MAN and woman who takes part in the new "talkathon" will talk for 30 minutes. Hashinger resi-
Weather
It will be partly cloudy through tomorrow with widely scattered thunder showers occurring mainly tonight. Temperatures were cooler today with the highs today and Thursday about 80. The low tonight will range from the middle to the upper 50's.
Michigan State University set a dents will begin talking on the quarter-hour and men in JRP on the hour and half-hour. Each person will speak to two individuals.
The telephone hooks in both halls have been taped to prevent any accidental disconnection of the call.
The phone in Hashinger is located between its dining rooms in the basement. JRP's phone is in a booth in the dormitory's second-floor lounge.
UNLIKE THE Lewis-Templin "talkathon" where any resident could speak on the phone, the Hashinger-JRP "talkathon" is on a schedule. Each person has signed a list specifying time and day when he is to talk.
The halls are planning a party it they beat the present record.
KU's first "talkathons" were widely publicized. Both the Associated Press and United Press International wire services carried news of the event. The National Broadcasting Company television station in Kansas City, Mo., featured a film of the feat.
"Hashinger's president, Nancy Johnson (Caldwell junior), and I will end the call with plans for a victory party," JRP president Lindquist said.
JUDY PHIPPS
. . . Yes, only 422 hours to go!