Editor Says
Bad Communications Cause World Problems
A Negro editor told journalism students Saturday night that a communications break-down is one of the factors responsible for the many grave problems in the world today.
George L. Brown Jr., night city editor of the Denver Post, said at the Kansan Board dinner, annual awards ceremony of the School of Journalism, that the journalist must realize the challenges to society today and interpret them in terms the masses can understand..
"PEOPLE IN THE NORTH look at the South's racial problems today and say, 'We have no problem where I live.' If the problem exists anywhere in the nation, it exists for us all. People must realize this," he said.
Mr. Brown said that the explosive potential of the "sit-in" strikes is much greater than when trouble erupted in the bus boycotts earlier. He said the young people in the "sit-ins" don't have as much patience as others in the bus boycotts.
Mr. Brown said the lack of communications between people in different parts of the United States could be observed.
"These young people in minority groups know the date of the Emancipation Proclamation. They have waited for 97 years. They have finally decided to quit waiting," he said.
HE SAID democracy is in as bad shape in the United States today as elsewhere in the world because of lack of communications. People preach democracy in theory which says equality, but we practice prejudice, he said.
Monday, May 9, 1960
Mr. Brown, who was elected in 1957, to the Colorado State Senate said there is a connection between communications and education today. He said the Colorado legislature is trying to place heavy emphasis on education. He said that this could only be done with an active press.
"The concept of education today is wrongly interpreted. It is still progressing further toward specialization and compartmentalization.
MR. BROWN said there was an incident in Denver where a Negro was taking a picture of policemen forcibly apprehending a man. He said that the policeman saw the colored man taking the pictures and crossed the street, seized the camera, and forced the man into the police car.
"I sent a reporter to the station.
He was asked, 'Why are you interested in just a nigger with a goattee?'
"THE ANSWER is not developing men who are experts in one field and can appreciate the problems in only one scope of their complexity. We must educate whole men, well-rounded and capable of seeing situations in their right context," he said.
Mr. Brown also pointed out an incident where a Methodist clergyman delivered a talk at a Methodist convention in Denver saving all of God's children were equal. The minister reversed his stand four hours later when he spoke for 45 minutes on why the church should not integrate.
"THAT NIGGER was a newspaperman from Ghana visiting here on the invitation of the State Department. Of course, apologies were made and explanations attempted. But it was an international blunder," he said.
Mr. Brown said;
Mr. Brown said that the real calamity would have been if the colored man were "just another nigger." He said nothing would have been done about the incident.
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"Although some members of the faculty are supporting the petition, the number has not been determined. We are now in the process of screening out such names as Fidel Castro' and 'Nikita Khrushchev.'
"There is a general indifference to 'sit-ins' among residents in the organized houses," the KU-Y reported.
1,150 Sign Sit-in Petitions
Some 1,150 students and faculty members have signed sit-in petitions circulated on campus last week by an unorganized group of students.
"We, students of the University of Kansas, in opposition to the adopted resolution of the Big Eight Student Body Presidents Conference, are in favor of student 'sit-ins' as an effective, non-violent means of securing justice and equal rights for all."
The petitions read:
Officers in the KU-Y office said a number of lists are still in circulation. They estimated the final total of signatures would be 1400.
The KU-Y will meet tomorrow to decide exactly what to do with the lists. The petitions may be sent to the National Student Association, the other schools in the Big Eight and some southern universities.
The names of those persons who passed the spring English Proficiency examination will be released "sometime within the next week" W. P. Albrecht, professor of English, said.
Proficiency Results To Be Released
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Prof. Albrecht said that the grading of the proficiency papers is in the final process and should be completed within a week's time.
Two Graduate Students Disagree About Political Parties, Humphrey
Two KU graduate students disagreed about politics and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn) in particular.
Earl J. Reeves Jr., Lawrence, said. "I like Humphrey, but I do not expect him to get the nomination."
Ignatius Schumacher, Hays, Friday called Sen. Humphrey "irresponsible and the worst of the lot."
"Democrats try to look at things as opportunities. Agriculture is a mess but the solution to the surplus problem proposed by Sen. Humphrey is at least an attempt to bring relief.
"When you support the Democrats, you vote for something that is a detriment to the country and the people.
Government Provides a Utopia "The American public has been brainwashed to think that the government can provide a Utopia. They (the Democrats) adopted the platform of the Socialists, which is a product of the thinking men such as Hegel and Marx," he said.
At the Current Events Forum, the students discussed the Democratic presidential candidates and spent most of the hour evaluating the traits and records of the political parties.
Reeves said:
Reeves defended the Democrats, while Schmacher admittedly "an ardent Republican," assailed the ways of the Democrats.
Reeves, reportedly a Democrat, said any of the Democratic candidates would make a better president than Vice President Richard Nixon. He said the country probably would not be completely ruined if Nixon were elected.
"The Democratic approach is that in order to cure something, you have to make something else a little sicker.
Reeves Defends Democrats
Government Provides a Utonia
Schumacher said:
"The American government is a
machine whereby people can work together for a common goal, but the basic problem is to ask ourselves what goals we will be working for." Reeves said.
Questioned about a balanced budget, Reeves said he is "all for having a balanced budget," but that there are two ways of attaining its
"We can cut back (in services) and make things fit, or we can develop the economy to the place where we can go ahead."
Schumacher was critical of the Democrat-inspired social security system. He said that social security "would have come anyway," but it should be voluntary, not mandatory. He repudiated the Democratic contention that people will not by their own efforts infallibly provide for their old age welfare. He said:
*Incrass Alter Things for Selves*
*Schumacher said:*
"The Democrats) have taxed the rich to support the guy without any money. This takes the incentive away from the people. The Democrats tell us they will give education and medical aid to everyone, but some people do not want education and others do not want medical aid."
"I am a conservative. A liberal is one who will alter things to suit his own ends."
"I do not blame Hoover for the depression. But the consensus of opinion was that his actions were not enough to effectively combat the problems."
Don't Blame Hoover
Reeves, said.
"The basic disagreement between the parties is the degree to which state action is necessary," said Reeves, "The Democratic party reflects the fact that much of its support comes from lower income groups. They must work through the government in order to have an impact on society, whereas the more wealthy people can make an impact by themselves.
Reeves said:
Earl J. Reeves Jr.
Ignatius Schumacher
U.S. Seeks Interview With 'Spy Plane' Pilot
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The United States plans to instruct its ambassador to Moscow to seek an interview with the pilot of the U.S. spy plane shot down in Russia, the State Department said today.
This will be done, a department spokesman said, after Russia replies to a U.S. note asking for information about the pilot — Francis G. Powers.
The proposed move was disclosed just before Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and intelligence chief Allen W. Dulles went into a closed-door session to give congressional leaders a top-secret explanation of the sensational plane incident.
India Spokesman Talks Tomorrow
India's ambassador to the United States will speak here tomorrow at 11 a.m. in Fraser Theater.
Ambassador Mahomedali Currim Chagla, who represents India in the U.S., Cuba and Mexico will speak on "India and Co-existence." His visit here is at the invitation of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy with whom he became acquainted in Washington. D. C.
The ambassador will meet with the Indian students at 10 a.m.
Before his present appointment in November, 1958, he was the chief justice of the High Court of Bombay University since India's independence on Aug. 15, 1947.
In addition to being chief justice, he has held various other positions, such as Vice-Chancellor of the Bombay University, president of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, chairman of the Legal Education committee, and member of the Law commission. He also acted as the governor of the State of Bombay.
Mr. Chagla visited the U.S.in 1946 as a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations.
For 19 years as a practicing lawyer and law professor in Bombay he earned numerous honors before appointment as junior judge of the Bombay High Court.
He is a graduate of St. Xavier's College in Bombay and of Lincoln College at Oxford University where he was president of the Asiatic Society and the Oxford Indian Mailis.
The lecture is open to the public, but KU classes will not be dismissed during the hour.
Earl Wilson Gets Stay of Execution
TOPEKA—(UPI) — The Kansas Supreme Court granted an indeterminate stay of execution today for Earl Wilson, 21-year-old convicted rapist scheduled to hang May 25.
The order stays the execution during the pendency of Wilson's Supreme Court appeal. He filed the appeal early last month.
Wilson was convicted by a Wyandotte County district court jury and condemned to hang for taking part in the kidnap-rape of an 18-year-old girl in Kansas City, Kan., last Sept. 10.
The governor's office said Wilson has not appealed to Gov. George Docking for executive clemency.
Docking recently commuted the death sentence of convicted killer Bobby Joe Spencer, also convicted in Wyandotte County District Court, and indicated he might take similar action on other clemency applications that come before him.
Weather
Partly cloudy and cooler west. variable cloudiness and scattered showers or thunderstorms east portion this afternoon and evening. Clearing and cooler tonight. Tomorrow fair. Low tonight 35 to 40. High tomorrow 65 to 70.
Herter and Dulles arranged the briefing in response to growing congressional demands for a further explanation of the plane incident. Congressional leaders of both parties and members of the House and Senate Foreign Relations and Military Committees sat in on the briefing.
There were these other developments:
- The White House clamped a lid of silence on public discussion of the incident, but denied that President Eisenhower had ordered a halt to all flights over or near Communist borders.
- The Norwegian ambassador, Paul Koht, asked to see Herter to discuss the U.S. spy plane flight which Russia claimed was to have terminated at a Norwegian base. Herter's office scheduled a 4 p.m. appointment for Koht.
- President Eisenhower scheduled an afternoon meeting with the National Security Council, presumably to go over the incident.
- The interview with Powers would be sought by and conducted by U.S. Ambassador Llewelln E. Thompson.
- The incident touched off a Senate debate in which Democrats, as well as Republicans, backed U.S. leaders and called for closing ranks.
Department press officer Lincoln White expressed concern that the Russians might try to whip up a propaganda "circus" using Powers as the key prop.
Moscow has hinted it might hold a public trial of Powers and possibly also out him on display at a news conference.
The State Department maintained silence on two questions — who authorized Powers' flight and whether the United State believes the Russians have staged similar flights over American territory.
In Moscow, Soviet Defense Minister Rodio Malinovsky said today that "anybody who raises the sword against this country will be wiped off the face of the earth.
"Our armed forces," he said, are equipped with nuclear weapons including intercontinental missiles which can destroy the enemy on any part of the globe. We are indestructible."
In a direct reference to the U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down in Siberia on May 1, Malinovsky told an audience in Moscow Sports Palace, including Premier Nikita Khrushchev:
"We are warning the accomplices of the misdeed — those who gave their air bases to the air pirates. Our technology is so perfected we can see not only where those airplanes start, but we can take measures to wipe out those bases altogether."
Bulletin
WASHINGTON—(UPI) — Two senators said today they have been informed that Russia has made "spy" lights over the United States.
The statements were made by Senator Styles Bridges (R-NH) and Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash) in TV interviews filmed for United Press-Movietone News, Both are members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Bridges said he had been informed that the Soviet flights were made "over the coastal area and some of our industrial areas."
"Most of the incidents I heard of were of flying over the territorial possessions of the U.S., Bridges said.