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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year. No. 32
Audience Enjoys English Humor At Oxford Debate
England blitzed America - or at least that part known as Lawrence, Kan. - Friday night with a series of rhetorical bombings and punches of explosive wit.
Alan Jupp and Anthony Newton, Oxford University graduates, breezed into the Forum Room of the Kansas Union to face Patricia Eliot and Richard Johannesen, KU graduate assistant instructors in speech, in a debate on "Resolved: that Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations."
While the issue was not resolved, the audience of 250 was won over by the pungent humor of the Britishers.
Newton, a younger version of Peter Townsend, spoke of the warning the two visitors had received from their Canadian hosts in Montreal about the use of statistics by American debaters.
"They told us the Americans may wheel in filing cabinets of facts," he said, "and if they did, just to invent our own."
Jupp opened the affirmative's position by stating although they advocated the admission of Red China, they were neither anti-American nor pro-Communist.
Red China Defended
"We too feel a sense of moral outrage at the aggressiveness of the Communists and know that they are cruel, wrong, bad, unjust and other adjectives you may wish to use," he said.
"But this, in no way justifies their exclusion from the UN. We (the Western nations) just can't align our foreign policies with our emotional predilections."
He said the admission of Red China to the UN would be advantageous for the West because "we have no ruthless economy or enslaved peoples. The liberality of our systems is of immense importance in this debate (between communism and the West), but we must have a chance to show it."
"If we don't admit them, we will be throwing away one of the greatest weapons in the battle for peace," he said.
UN Helped or Hindered
Johannesen's initial presentation emphasized the fact that the United Nations was founded upon basic moral principles contrary to those of Communist China.
UN Helped or Hindered "We wonder if admission would boost the efficacy or good will of the UN." he added.
"We do know it will help Red China's prestige and propaganda program."
"Essentially, the principles of the UN are to solve world problems by peaceful means," he continued, "and to take action against tyranny anywhere in the world.
"The prerequisite for admission is to be a peace-loving state and to carry out the stipulations of the charter.
"Red China gives no indication they are in harmony with these principles."
Newton, the third speaker, reassured the opposition that the aims of the foreign policies of both England and the U.S. are akin, are inter-dependent, and are actually:
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Weather
Generally fair west and central, clearing extreme east this afternoon. Fair south partly cloudy north portion tonight and Tuesday. Warmer west this afternoon and over state Tuesday. Low tonight 30 northwest and in mid and upper east and south. High Tuesday lower 50s east to around 60 west.
QUEEN HOPEEULS - The ten semi-finalists for KU's 1960 Homecoming Queen are left to right, 1st row, Marcia Mericle, Greenleaf s phomore; Sally Colladay, Hutchinson junior; 2nd row, Barbara Schmidt, Kansas City sophomore; Sherryl Duckworth, Fredonia sophomore; Janice Guyot, Arkansas City junior; Sharon O'Neal, Kansas City sophomore; 3rd row, Janet Johnston, Topeka sophomore; Norma Jean Kelly, Kansas City; Dorothy C. Jones, Marshall, Mo., and Evelyn Sue Jones, Caracas, Venezuela, all juniors.
Candidates Enter Final 8 Days With Optimism
By United Press International
Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen, John F. Kennedy entered the final eight days of the presidential election campaign today convinced the race was close and equally determined to gain the upper hand.
Kennedy returned today to his weekend stumping grounds — the Philadelphia area — in an attempt to nail down Pennsylvania's 32 electoral votes for the Democratic ticket.
Nixon prepared a foray today into New Jersey, before going tonight to Philadelphia. He planned to work in Washington early today on television speeches to be shown national audiences later this week.
IN PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Ken-
Plans for Fifth Debate Collapse
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy will share no more television screens before Americans choose between them for the presidency.
Efforts to arrange a fifth "Great Debate" TV meeting between the Republican and Democratic candidates collapsed in a welter of angry charges and counter-charges during the weekend. Barring a reversal by both camps, the matter appeared settled — no more debates.
Nixon's representative at the negotiations said Saturday there would be no further discussions until Kennedy apologized for accusing the GOP of "bad faith" in the talks.
Kennedy's reply was blunt: "I'm not going to drag him up in front of the microphone."
Each side charged the other with being unwilling to take part in another of the unique face-to-face encounters — and both sides went to work planning the final week of campaigning without another TV debate.
nedly began his final week of campaigning for the presidency with firm insistence that the nation "cannot possibly afford four years of Republican leadership" under Vice President Nixon.
Sen. Kennedy made the statement before some 4,000 persons at a shopping center rally in southwest Philadelphia after motorcading through that area and populous south Philadelphia in his fourth day of bidding for Pennsylvania's vital 32 electoral votes.
The Democratic presidential nominee drew enthusiastic crowds as he toured through the low-income, heavily Democratic residential areas. The turnout at first, though relatively sparse, increased as Kennedy's motor caravan advanced.
SEN. KENNEDY MOVED into the downtown business district during a crowded lunch-hour and will wind up his Philadelphia stay tonight at a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner in Convention Hall. He makes an overnight flight to Los Angeles, where he will start a day of campaign in southern California tomorrow.
In a prepared text of remarks which were to have been given at the shopping center rally, Mr. Kennedy derided Mr. Nixon's strategy
"Most Happy Fella" Ticket Sale Today
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Tickets for the University Theatre's production of "The Most Happy Fella" go on sale today at the Kansas Union Ticket Center and Murphy Hall Box Office. Students with i.D.'s will be admitted free with ID. exchange for tickets. Other tickets are $1.50. The play will run Nov. 7-9 and 12. A special performance will be given Nov. 11 following the basketball game. No performance will be given Nov. 10.
Prohibitionist Says Liquor Is Deadly
By Frank Morgan
Jehu Jefferson Steele, the Prohibition candidate for governor of Kansas. does not expect to be elected.
He only hopes to make people "realize that the traffic in intoxicating beverages is a dishonor to Christ and civilization, inimical to the best interests of a society and a political wrong of unequalled
Reds Raise New Congo Charges
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. - (UPI)
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — (UPI)
—Top Communist delegates attacked Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold for withholding information on the Congo today and demanded steps to end Belgian activities there and restore the government of leftist Premier Patrice Limumba.
Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin and Bohdan Lewandowski 34-year-old Polish ambassador who is this month's security council president, both authorized letters critical of Hammarskjold.
Hammarskjold promised a new report toward the middle of the week "now that a stage has been reached in the Congo when some meaningful information can be made available.
THE NEW ATTACK on Hammarskjold's Congo policy coincided with an outpouring of abuse on the United States by Soviet propaganda outlets in advance of a general assembly debate on Cuba's charge that a U.S. invasion of the Caribbean Island is imminent.
The assembly will decide this afternoon whether to send the invasion charge to its political committee or debate it directly on the floor of the world parliament.
The main political committee continued its disarmament debate this morning with statements by Bulgaria, Guinea, Sudan, New Zealand and Sweden scheduled.
ZORIN'S LETTER, addressed to assembly president Frederick H. Boland, said publication of U.N. information on the Congo had been "greatly curtailed" lately and "many documents dealing with the activities of the U. N. secretariat and the U. N. command in the Congo are no longer made public."
"The situation in the Congo has sharply deteriorated in the past few days, which is causing more and more concern to world public opinion, since there is a real danger that the source of tension in the center of the African continent will spread further," Zorin said.
Governor Docking To Osawatomie
TOPEKA. Kan. — (UFI) — Gov.
George Docking campaigned informally in Topeka today before going to Osawatomie for an evening Democratic meeting.
The Governor is to return to Topeka for a senior citizens meeting tomorrow and attend a Shawnee County rally tomorrow night.
His itinerary for the remainder of the week is:
Wednesday — Night meeting at Leavenworth.
Thursday — Noon meeting in Fort Scott and a night meeting in Parsons.
Friday — Oswego, morning; Columbus, luncheon; Baxter Springs, afternoon, and Pittsburg, evening.
Saturday — Collegiate Young Democratic meeting at Pittsburg State, morning; and night meeting at Arkansas City.
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J. J. Steele—Rev. J. J. Steele,
an evangelist of the Church of the
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— spoke at the first Minority
Forum Friday afternoon.
He read his 12-minute address to an audience of 200 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Questions from those eager to challenge the Prohibition platform and candidate, followed.
"I am not a professional politician," he began. "The ministry is my first love. But the Prohibition Party asked me to run and since I've been a Prohibitionist all my life, I was happy to."
THE MINORITY FORUM replaces the Current Events Forum every fourth Friday. Originated this year, its purpose is to give members of any minority an opportunity to present their views before a college audience.
The Rev. Mr. Steele, well known in the state through his 21 years of Sunday afternoon radio broadcasts from Coffeyville, was an appropriate choice.
He explained his minority position:
"Because the national parties ignore this great and paramount question and absolutely refuse to do anything, we are driven by a powerful sense of duty to sever our connections with these political parties and organize ourselves into a National Prohibition Party having for our object, the entire suppression of the traffic in intoxicating drinks.
“THE MAJORITY of people has always wanted Prohibition,” he concluded, “but the utter failure of public officials to enforce the laws and the false propaganda of the wealthy liquor manufacturers forced them to accept what they considered the lesser of two evils—bootleg or legal liquor.”
He said that 90 highway deaths in Kansas last year — were directly caused by drivers who had been drinking.
"If a grocer, baker or druggist tried to market a product in Kansas that had killed that many people, he would be arrested, fined and imprisoned immediately without mercy," he said.
TURNING TO THE progress of the prohibitionist movement, the Rev. Mr. Steele reminded the audience that "every great reform for national betterment has had poor representation and been ridiculed at its beginning."
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Schoeppel Says U.S. Rights Cause Envy
SOUTHBEND, Ind. — (UPI) — Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel, R-Kan., said last night that those who down-grade America "apparently have not noticed that everybody is trying to get into our land and very few seem anxious to leave."
SCHOEPPEL, speaking on the Manion radio forum, did not refer directly to a presidential campaign issue over whether the United States has progressed and whether its prestige abroad has dropped. But he referred to "those who engage in destructive criticism of our society and are constantly attempting to downgrade America."