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Thursday, Sept. 19, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
61st Year. No.5
FAR FROM PEACEFUL—Once a quiet area for struction men and out-of-place shelves, books study. Watson Library is crowded with con- and study tables. (See story on page 6.)
White House Conference Discusses Troop Intervention
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said today that people can't be led by bayonets and federal troops can never be a means of enforcing civil rights in the South.
Seven Negro leaders from the deep south are meeting with the chief executive (5 p.m. EDT) to urge the dispatch of federal troops to Birmingham.
The Cabinet officer's remarks, made in commenting on the violence in Birmingham, were seen by some as an indication that President Kennedy would not intervene with federal troops in the racially-torn Alabama city.
The group, headed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., contends that troops are needed to keep order in the city in the wake of last Sunday's bombing of a Negro church which killed four young girls.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, interviewed on nationwide television show said only a change of heart can bring about the changes needed in the South.
He said communications between whites and Negroes in Birmingham had broken down and must be restored before any steps can be taken toward easing the situation.
The attorney general noted that there was not a single Negro on the Birmingham police force and said this was one of the major reasons the Negro community in the city distrusts all law enforcement officials.
The whites have to accept the need to give the Negro his elemental rights. Kennedy said.
He recommended appointment of Negroes to the police force as the first step in restoring Negro confidence.
The attorney general indirectly slapped at Gov. George C. Wallace, saying you can't preach disrespect and not expect to have the violent reaction that has come in Birmingham.
KENNEDY SAID the FBI is continuing its intensive investigation of the bombing of the Negro church. But he declined to discuss the progress of the investigation.
The White House announced today's meeting with the Negro leaders shortly after Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) appealed to the President to cut off all federal funds to Alabama.
Wilkins, who held an airport news conference while on his way to Birmingham for the girls' funeral yesterday, also urged the administration to go for broke on the civil rights bill and make it far tougher than the one now before Congress. He also backed the plea for federal troops.
THE REV. FRED L. Shuttlesworth, a veteran of Birmingham's integration battles and one of the seven scheduled to see Kennedy, said that a small show of federal force would help ease the fears of possible new strife there.
The state troopers who are here now are threatening people and Negroes are not safe neither in their homes nor in their churches, he said. I realize he (the President) has many world problems on his mind and no citizen wants to unduly burden him, but the situation here in Birmingham is critical.
Wilkins criticized what he termed the hesitance and piecemeal approach the administration has taken toward protecting civil rights. He said the Birmingham church bombing was an act of war by civil rights foes. "We feel the federal government ought to conduct a war in our behalf. We are citizens too."
Washington Negro leaders plan to stage a silent protest march Sunday by some 3,500 persons to express sorrow and outrage over the church bombing. The marchers, probably wearing black armbands, will hold a 30-minute silent vigil without prayers or speeches in front of the White House. Kennedy is expected to be in Newport, R.I., with his family at that time.
THE PRESIDENT, he said, has authority under existing powers to refuse to continue subsidizing brutal acts of a police state.
For a start, Wilkins suggested the administration cut off every nickel of federal funds to Alabama, first by closing Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, the state capital.
By refusing to act in this way, Wilkins said, the government helps subsidize disregard for the constitutional rights of its citizens.
Wilkens also urged stiff new pressure for a strong civil rights bill,
regardless of political considerations He specifically asked Kennedy to battle for a law to permit the attorney general to file suit in any civil rights violations and to seek Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) law at this session of Congress.
The subcommittee has tentatively approved six of the bill's seven sections, but apparently still is wrangling over the constitutional basis for the measure to outlaw discrimination in hotels, restaurants and other privately owned public facilities.
Wilkins spoke as a House judiciary subcommittee worked at tying up some loose ends on the controversial public accommodations section of the President's civil rights package.
CHAIRMAN EMANUEL CELLAR, D-N.Y., adjourned the group until Monday, and said he hoped it would take final action on the entire package sometime next week.
Rights Declaration Follows HRC Poll
The FEPC bill Wilkins demanded is still being considered separately, as for civil rights suits the President has asked authority only for the attorney general to intervene in school desegregation cases without waiting for action by individual plaintiffs.
The Human Rights Committee (HRC) of the All Student Council will reveal results of its survey of student feeling toward human rights at KU Monday.
With this report as a basis, the committee will submit a "declaration of human rights" and a proposal for action at the first meeting of the ASC Tuesday.
THE IDEA FOR the survey was proposed by the HRC in 1962. Questionnaires were sent out, but the results were termed accurate and the survey was rejected by the ASC.
Last spring, interest in the need for a human rights declaration based on an acceptable survey was again revived.
"Such a declaration can define the goals that we ought to strive for and make our future programs more definite," said Frank (Bucky) Thompson, Iola senior and chairman of the committee.
Arthur Duvall, Prairie Village sophomore and member of the HRC, conferred with Raymond P. Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology, on the type of questions that would provide the most accurate sampling of student opinion. The two men finally drew up a list of about 40 questions.
With funds provided by the ASC, the committee obtained the use of an IBM machine to pick at random the names of 500 KU students. Eventually, 488 questionnaires were sent out. Twelve of the names chosen gave no address.
The questionnaire was divided into three parts. The first part asked general questions about the student—sex, martial status, minority status, year in school, and type of living group. The second part dealt with feelings toward the English, Italian, Negro, and Japanese in the fields of intermarriage, acceptance into living groups, and acceptance into the University as a whole. The third section was composed of 14 statements, to which the student
Weather
The weather bureau said today that continued fair weather is in prospect for the remainder of the day, with occasional showers forecast for tonight and all day tomorrow.
The low temperature tomorrow is expected to be 60-65 degrees, with the high temperature tomorrow expected to reach the mid-80s. Cloudy skies which are forecast for tomorrow will bring to an end the sunny weather enjoyed in this weather Wednesday.
could register degrees of agreement or disagreement. The statements concerned such topics as Negro and white intermarriage, discriminating against Negroes on campus and in Lawrence, and the Negro's position in reference to Greek living groups.
"We thought that if 60 per cent of the questionnaires were returned." Thompson said, "we would have a survey which would be about 90 per cent accurate."
THE COMMITTEE received 304 questionnaires, a return of 62.4 per cent. Tabulation of the answers continued over the summer to allow for making of comparisons on a wide range of levels.
"We found that the questionnaire really brought out the opinions of the students," Thompson said. "There were answers showing extreme feelings on both sides of the subject."
Harris Says Nuclear War Destroys Life
By Fred Frailey
Failure to solve the problem of survival in a nuclear age will bring destruction of human life, Errol E. Harris, Roy Roberts distinguished professor of philosophy, said last night.
Prof. Harris delivered the first of a year-long series of lectures on "The Philosophy of War and Peace." He told the audience in Dyche Museum that neither policies of violence nor nonviolence are wise in the day of nuclear bombs.
"IF WE USE force to protect ourselves and our institutions, we stand to lose everything in the holocaust that would follow." Prof. Harris said. "But if we adopt the policy of nonviolence or passive resistance, we invite despots like Hitler to take over all, that we cherish."
He said that any major conflict involving nuclear weapons would bring destruction of human life.
"The United States and Soviet Union possess enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other's population, not once, but many times. Man has never experienced such a situation."
The professor said the theory that another major war could be fought on a limited scale for fear of reprisals is not necessarily true.
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Jayhawker and AURH Disclose Liaison, Possible Inspection Pact
The Jayhawker magazine and Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) disclosed last night a tentative agreement to help ease former misunderstandings between the two organizations.
A contract, which awaits approval of the Jayhawker Advisory Board, will allow representatives of the 15 AURH member halls to inspect proofs of pages they purchase.
KAREN SHOOP, St. John junior has been named as the liasion between the Jayhawker and residence halls. Miss Shoop will be responsible for seeing that copy deadlines and length requirements are met and informing the halls of procedure for submitting photographs for
the Jayhawker's party picture section
"There were complaints last year from AURH members concerning lack of representation in the party pictures section and handling of copy submitted for their pages," Jim Tschechtelin, Shawnee Mission junior and AURH president, said.
Tschechtelin said that the liaison will probably stop the difficulties experienced in the past.
"We feel that most of this was due to confusion over deadlines and the amount of copy necessary. For example, a mixup caused one residence hall not to submit copy, and the Jayhawker staff had to revise the copy in the previous year's issue for that page. Other houses sent in too little copy."
He said the inspection clause of the agreement, if approved, would give the residence halls assurance that their copy is being used as submitted.
JOHN (TONTO) MAYS, Lyons sophomore and Jayhawker business manager, said the contract was a "mere formality".
"Both Al Stamper, the editor, and I are in favor of the agreement." Mays said. "We hope that this will end the unfair criticism made against us last year. Most of the persons complaining about exclusion of residence hall pictures from the party pictures section were not correctly informed. The pictures were simply not being sent to us."