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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
76th Year, No. 67
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Thursday, January 13, 1966
LISTENING, BUT NOT SEEING — These students were part of the overflow crowd of about 100 students who attended Robert DePugh's speech in the Forum Room of the
—Photo by Earl Haehl
Kansas Union. The speech drew more than the room could accommodate so many sat on couches and divans in two adjoining rooms, listening to DePugh over the intercom.
Guns Last Freedom DePugh Speaks Out
By Walt Jayro^
The right of private individuals to possess arms was termed the last means for securing individual freedom in a burgaucatic society by Robert DePugh, head of the Minuteur organization.
DePugh, whose organization believes in militancy and guerilla warfare by private citizens in securing their freedom, spoke before an overflow crowd attending a Minority Opinions Forum yesterday.
"One-fifth of the productive workers' income goes to pay these non-productive workers," he said.
HE SAID GOVERNMENT bureacuracy was the chief danger in destroying personal freedom as it crippled the free enterprise system by creating so many nonproductive jobs.
He referred to the bureaucrats as "parasites."
"They call their government socialism instead of parasitism," he said.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT
to the U.S. Constitution, which permits private citizens to possess arms, was termed by DePugh as the last guarantee to individuals against the bureaucrats.
"I was taught that you had to compromise, that you had to accommodate. This has brought us to a very dangerous situation," he said.
Speaking more directly to the students, DePugh advised them "to accept very little and question everything."
"YOUR EDUCATION will be of very little tangible value to you. Use your own reason and someday you'll have the chance to test it against the grindstone of reality," he said.
DePugh emphasized over and over again the need for maximum amount of individual freedom.
Following his speech, DePugh submitted to a question and answer session in which he voiced opinion on:
THE DRAFT: "I'm against the draft." However, he added
his son had volunteered for the draft and when the need arises other Americans would volunteer too.
- Militancy in overthrowing the government: "Any means are justified to save our children for generations to come."
- Protecting individual freedoms from bureaucracy: He admitted that there would have to be some bureaucracy, but "it should be kept as small as practicable. Agencies should be much smaller than they are now."
- The bureaucracy and the Army: He said he did not consider the Army as bureaucratic, and that it did not represent a threat to the bureaucracy. He then added, "I wish they did."
- Comparison of John Birch Society and Minutemen: He said the John Birch Society was merely an extension of Robert Welch's (the organization's founder and head) ideas and beliefs, while the Minutemen were constantly changing philosophies and ideas.
Johnson Pledges 'War or Peace'
WASHINGTON—(UPI)President Johnson has given North Viet Nam a choice between an olive branoh and the sword.
In his State of the Union message to Congress, the President emphasized this country's desire to reduce rather than expand the scale of hostilities in Viet Nam. He invited the Communists to move toward a cease-fire with or without a formal peace conference and promised that "we will respond if others reduce their use of force."
But in almost the same breath he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to stay in Viet Nam "until aggression has stopped"—even if the war drags on for years.
And he called on Congress to put muscle into the commitment by boosting U.S. defense spending $5.8 billion during the next fiscal year to a new total of $58.3 billion. This would be an increase of nearly $10 billion in military spending levels since last January.
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE estimated total federal spending at $112.8 billion but said the current prosperity would bring in $111 billion in revenue, leaving a deficit of only $1.8 billion. He called this the smallest deficit in many years.
DePugh also said he was against the present graduated income tax, but not an advocate of the "freedom movement," which would do away with the entire tax structure.
Mixed Feelings For KU Budget
By Giles Lambertson
Governor William H. Avery's recommended budget for KU is termed "good and adequate in some respects, disappointing in others" by Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance.
The budget request for $31,234,297 was part of a $569.9 million state budget. The 1967 fiscal year budget was presented to the legislature by the Governor yesterday in Topeka.
NICHOLS SAID he was pleased with the 6 per cent salary increase recommendation, which "will help" improve the quality of the faculty, and the $599,433 request for improving state libraries.
But he expressed disappointment at the one faculty for twenty students ratio for hiring more faculty members. The Regents requested a one-to-seventeen ratio.
"The change by the Governor, which would create 55 new faculty positions next year, will cause a reduction of about 10 faculty members to be hired next year. This is disappointing
Senator Harold Herd, D.—Coldwater, says Governor Avery is "holding line" on taxes during election year at Collegiate Young Democrats meeting. See story on page 5.
because in a university as complex as ours, we need to get the overall average down near the one-to-twelve ratio that prevails in most large universities." He said the present ratio is about one-to-sixteen.
NO FUNDS WERE requested for the installation of heating facilities in New Fraser Hall, Nichols said, on the theory the building would not be completed this year. This might prove to be an error, he continued, except that provisions were made for special appropriation for such a contingency.
The $306,000 slashed from the University request was termed a "substantial cut."
During a panel discussion on state education Tuesday, Nichols commented on university appropriations by saying: "There is not enough money to go around, never has been enough, and, in view of the rapidly increasing enrollments, probably never will be enough."
NY Strike Ends As Buses Roll
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Subways and buses rolled today for the first time in 12 days.
A strike by 36,000 transit workers ended at 5:24 a.m., when chief Transport Workers Union negotiator Douglas MacMahon announced that union leaders had accepted the recommendation of Mayor John V. Lindsay's mediation panel for a new two-year contract providing a 15 per cent wage increase.
THE STRIKE was estimated
to have caused a loss of $1.2 billion in business in the nation's largest city.
MacMahon said it was $70 million settlement, but the city Transit Authority said $60 million would be more accurate. Observers said an increase in the 15-cent subway and bus fare was inevitable and predicted a 20 or 25 cent fare, which would be more in line with fares in other large American cities.
'Poor Bookkeepers' —
Student Bad Checks Vex Shops
Bv Ierry Kern
The Lawrence merchant sees the student through different eyes than does the bank or finance company. Because many local merchants estimate they do about
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one-third of their business with KU students, the student-store relationship is unique and often perplexing.
According to Bill McNary,
manager of Raney's Drug Store,
25 to 30 per cent of the store's business is done with KU students. This increases the store's chance of getting bad checks.
"WE HAVE TWO or three student checks bounce each day. The situation is especially bad before Thanksgiving, Christmas, semester break, summer vacation, and the end of the month. The Student Union won't even cash checks after May 15. About 90 per cent of the checks which bounce with us are student checks," McNary said.
"We check a student's ID card, local address, telephone number, and we compare signatures when possible. We have had recent trouble with stolen ID cards. We have also had trouble in the summer with students who say they are attending summer school, when in fact they are just passing through. They show us a student ID all right, but it is not of the summer session. When the checks come back to us marked insufficient, we usually take the
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