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Birch Society Defended
As the only true John Birch member on campus, I have been finding out more information about the society I belong to than I ever thought possible. I find that our Blue Book, based on U.S. Government documents, is a book of half truths and lies. It is a piece of literature that terrifies every reader. I'm finding the J.B. Society to be, to coin a word "McCarthy-istic." From your editorial on March 15, I find that we thwart the truth, smear people, and use political leverages. This is indeed impressive since I believe I have read more about my society than have the editors of the UDK, and have never learned these "truths."
Editor:
To let you know what I've found—the John Birch Society is not a "McCarthy-istic" group. The society does not purge anyone, but asks the public to study the people and issues and form their own opinion. The society's monthly bulletins suggest these figures and issues who might be put into the lime-light by public reading.
In Wichita, one society member has a collection of approximately 8,000 books which circulate throughout the city. These books are by some of the best authorities in the world. Examples of some of the books would be: "Masters of Deceit," by J. Edgar Hoover; "Collectivism on the Campus," by Merrill Root; "Collectivism in Churches," by Merridith; "The Conscience of a Conservative," by Barry Goldwater; "The Mainspring of Human Progress," by Henry Grady Weaver; and "Essays on Liberty," by statesmen of the centuries. To obtain an intelligent viewpoint, the society also encourages reading of books on the other side of the issue.
To the charge of the Blue Book outlining an iron constitution of the society, I answer, "It does not!" The Blue Book is an outline of the history of our society and an outline of the history of Communism as it has engulfed the world. People are sometimes shocked by the Blue Book because the book does go into detail and tell exactly how far the United States and other countries have been taken over by Communism. Yes, it is terrifying. Communism itself is a terrifying proposition. The individual does not exist except as an embryo which slaves for the state. This is the reason. Professor Laird, that Communism cannot exist in a Democracy. You, as a history professor, should realize that democracy cannot exist under the Communist line because Communism does not recognize the individual.
Other statements by both the UDK and Professor Laird are shocking. Both the UDK and Professor Laird have warned the society that we should not go "McCarthy-istic" and yet they define us as a RIGHTTEST ORGANIZATION and fuzzy-faced monsters. One could ask who was using the "multiple truths, amear, coercion economic and political" so ably described in the UDK's March 15 editorial. A rightest organization is merely conservative. Should we not be allowed to follow such men as Senators Barry Goldwater and Byrd?
To the smear being used against us of Eisenhower being a Communist. I must say I've never seen or heard anything about it from the society. Some of Eisenhower's decisions concerning foreign aid and the Korean War have been debated by the society, but I've never heard as much as a whisper that Eisenhower was a Communist.
To the foreign student, Herman Scheel, I would ask: If you have been in this country just six months, how can you profess to know so such about our trouble with Communists in Washington? It has been brought out in Senate subcommittee hearings (you may refer to the Congressional Record) that the company servicing the telephone lines in and out of the Pentagon is run by known Communists. The Congressional Record also shows that these lines have been tapped, but nothing as yet has been done about the situation.
In conclusion, I would like to say that I joined the John Birch Society to fight Communism in an organized, effective way and have not observed any methods which could be classified as "McCarthy-istic" or rash.
Ronald J. Reed
Wichita freshman
the took world
By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
MIRROR FOR MAN, by Clyde Kluckhohn. Premier Books (Fawcett), 50 cents.
Here is a book about anthropology that is written for the layman, for people like me, who don't know much about anthropology but find it an exciting subject. Putting aside the glittering cover endorsements by Margaret Mead and Stuart Chase, I still feel that "Mirror for Man" is an excellent introduction to the subject.
It reveals the enormous complexities and challenges of anthropology. Here is a field that embraces everything—customs, art, music, architecture, literature, implements of field and war, language. The anthropologist casts aside nothing.
He is an enormously practical person, a good man to have around. The government finds use for him. Industry has use for him, and so do science and medicine. His findings have meaning to history, considerable meaning, one should add. We need the findings and insights of anthropology to avoid blunders in the under-developed areas of the world, and had we known and used such insights many times in the past we might have avoided many troubles.
Clyde Kluckhohn has the daring to move out of a Samoan or Middletown context and take big looks at the people of the world. He is not so bold as to say that he can come to any synthesis about man in the mass, but he does recognize that wider understanding of man in all areas of living is necessary before world harmony can be achieved.
But he wouldn't say world harmony can be achieved. The problem is too complex. Nor would he go along with those who say man can't be analyzed. Sociology and anthropology, he says, are babies among the sciences. It is far too early to say that they cannot become almost exact sciences. This man's optimism is exciting, his insights are penetrating and witty, his book is one that more Americans should read.
SHACKLES — Lowell Lee Andrews entered the hearing room yesterday bound in handcuffs and ankle shackles.
Andrews Gains Indefinite Stay
By Ralph Wilson
KANSAS CITY — Lowell Lee Andrews, convicted triple slayer, had his stay of execution continued indefinitely by Federal Judge Arthur J. Stanley yesterday.
The stay will continue until Andrews' attorneys are able to file for a writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court.
Richard C. Allen, professor of law at the University of Washburn, said yesterday in an interview:
"We WILL definitely take this matter to the U.S. Supreme Court. We feel that the McNaughten rule, which was used in convicting Lee (Andrews) is unconstitutional. It's bar to due process of law. I could think of nothing more beneficial to our system of jurisprudence than to have this law declared unconstitutional."
The McNaughten rule to which he referred was promulgated in 1843 and is used in the majority of our states as a legal test of insanity.
The test presents two questions:
- Did the accused know what he was doing at the time of the crime?
- Did he know what he was doing was wrong?
Testimony of two witnesses were taken yesterday, "merely to preserve evidence."
Allen called Merrill T. Eaton, Omaha psychiatrist and former member of the KU faculty, who has been studying Andrews' case, to give expert testimony. His testimony was, in part:
Q—"Can a person who is insane be qualified to stand trial?" (The state had proved Andrews qualified to stand trial.
A—"Yes he can."
Q—"Tell us what you observed of Andrews."
A—"An underproductive speech and lack of emotions which a normal person would tend to have."
Q— Could...
A— "May I be permitted to finish?"
Q—"Could..."
A—"May I be permitted to sniff!"
(A big smile broke across Andrew's face and he covered his mouth with his hand.)
A—"There was a looseness of association of thoughts and a juraping around of ideas. But no existence of fantasies."
Q—"You found all of these symptoms present in Lowell Lee Andrews?"
A-“Yes.”
(Andrews smiled.)
Q—"Would you say he wa ichizophrenic?" —Austin "No."
A—"Yes."
Q—Is he seriously mentally dis turbed?"
(By schizophrenic, Dr Eaton mean a loss of contact with environment through disintegration of the personality.)
A—(长 pause) “I would say he was mentally ill.”
Q—“Seriously mentally ill?”
A—“Yes.”
Q—"Do you believe he was suffer- ing from this situation Novem- ber 29, 1958 when he killed hi father, mother and sister?"
A—"Yes."
Andrews Breaks Impassive Mien
The stone face cracked for the first time, yesterday.
Lowell Lee Andrews display emotion and seemed to take interest in his court proceedings yesterday
Shortly before the proceedings be gan he entered the room, smiler then smiled again as he vigorous shook hands with his attorneys. H then sat down and displayed n emotion for five and one half hour:
Then, as Richard C. Allen, professor of law at the University of Washburn began to read from the minutes of the last trial and from minutes of police questioning following the murder, Andrews seems to take interest.
Allen continued to read and Andre continued to listen closely.
"After I shot them I went to Law rence and picked up my typewriter. Again Andrews smiled.
Friendship is love without wing
Lord Bvron
Model UN Membership Hits 82
Eighty-two countries are participating in the second annual Mode United Nations General Assembly a KU April 14-15.
The countries have delegations from 41 organized living groups. Nine delegations are also being represented by independent students.
EACH DELEGATION paid a $5 registration fee to the KU-Y. The money will be used to cover the expenses of the two-day meeting. The steering committee of the Model United Nations which consists of KU-Y members act as bloc advisers.
This year's Model UN has nine more countries represented than it did last year. Last year there were 73 countries who assembled in Allen Field House. Hoch Auditorium will be used this year because it is closer to the center of the campus. Students will have a chance to watch the proceedings.
Out of seven blocs, two are completely represented. The British Commonwealth and United States Bloc, and the Communist Bloc.
The African Bloc lacks six countries. The steering committee thinks that the bloc needs to be full because it is one of the most important groups in this year's Model UN, which is discussing the Congo crisis.
THE HOUSES, and delegation chairmen participating by country this year are:
British Commonwealth and United States Bloc—Australia, Jim Crabtree, Joseph R. Pearson; Canada, Phillip Brooks, Lambda Chi Alpha; New Zealand, William L. Bryant; Triangle; Union of South Africa, John Letton, Beta Theta Pi; United Kingdom of Great Britain and North
Ireland, Dave Patterson, Alpha Kappa Lambda; United States, Don Hataway, Independent.
Western European Bloc — Austria, Sharon Berkstressor, Watkins Hall; Belgium, Stanley Seidel, Foster Hall; Denmark, Todd Cannon, Independent; France, Ralph Tremain, Templin; Ireland, Leslie Thompson, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Italy, Franklin Shobe, Joseph R. Pearson; Israel, Alan Gibbren, Phi Kappa Psi; Netherlands, Bonnie McNeish, Corbin, Norway, Sally Ann Brackett, Independent; Portugal, Nila Brauchi, Delta Delta Delta; Spain, Gwendolyn Smith, Douthart Hall; Sweden, Barbara Buesing, Pi Beta Phi; Turkey, Leland Cole, Delta Chi; Yugoslavia, Dick Epps, Grace Pearson.
Communist Bloc — Albania, Robert Strevey, Templin; Bulgaria, Frank Zanin, Sigma Nu; Byelorussian SSR, Hubert Granger, Sigma Nu; Czechoslovakia, Ruby Snider, Lewis; Cuba, Alan Latta, Alpha KappaLambda; Hungary, Carl Peck, Phi Delta Theta; Poland, Suzanne Runnells, Gertrude Sellars Pearson; Romania, Mike Thomas, Carruth-O'Leary; Soviet Union, Jim Coy, Independent; Ukrainian SSR, William Bailey, Sigma Chi; Communist China (an Observer nation) Cheryl Payer, Delta Delta Delta.
Arab Bloc—Iraq, Betty Reynolds,
Miller Hall; Jordan, Linda Horton,
Sigma Kappa; Libya, Diane Devine,
Delta Gamma; Morocco, Neoata Kain,
Gamma Phi Beta; Saudi Arabia,
Martha Graves, Sigma Kappa;
Sudan, Dan Patz, Phi Kappa Tau; Tunisia,
Stan Walton, Phi Kappa Tau;
U. A.R., Ward Sample, Wesley Four dation.
Asian Bloc — Afghanistan, Jane Bryan, Gertrude Sellars Pearson Burma, Dave Ainsworth, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Cambodia, Chris Hadsley, Stephenson Hall; Ceylon, Ka Consolver, Corbin; India, Elizabetkstrum, Sellars Hall; Indonesia Consy Hunter, Kappa Alpha Theta Iran, Judy Gail Harman, Independent; Japan, Eileen Maddock Independent; Malaya, Martha Bevacque, Alpha Phi; Laos, Ken Carlson, Alpha Kappa Lamba; Pakistan Nancy Lane, Lewis; Philippines Barbara Bacon, Alpha Delta Pi; Republic of China, John Stuckey, Foster Hall; Thailand, Barbara Gresser DeltaGamma
African Bloc — Central Africas Republic, Patsy Kelly, Alpha Phi Ethiopia, Dave Elliott, Grace Pearson; Republic of Gabon, Dorotha Hartbauer, Gamma Phi Beta; Ghana Robert A. Christensen, Sigma Alphai Epsilon; Guinea, Denis Kennedy Hilden Gibson Co-op; Liberia, Patricia Lanning, Kappa Alpha Theta Republic of Niger, Marcia Kyle Alpha Omicron Pi; Republic of Nigeria, Tom Miller, Phi Delta Theta Republic of Cameroon, Douglai Thiel, Joseph R. Pearson; Republic of the Congo (Brazaville), Marth Sipes, Lewis; Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville), Tracey West Stephenson Hall; Republic of the Ivory Coast Emerson Tjart, Pearson Hall; Republic of Mali, Russ D'Amun Independent; Republic of Somalia Reuben McCornack, Independent.
Latin American Bloc — Argentini
Jo Ann Brachi, Sellairs Hall; Bo
livia, Patricia Lynch, Gertrude Sel
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