Weekly Publisher Assails Campus SDS
By Lee Byrd
A Topeka publisher has attacked the KU chapter of Students for a Democratic Society as a sequel to his allegation two weeks ago that communists were active on the KU campus.
Bert C. Carlyle, publisher of the weekly Topeka Pictorial-Times and the Lawrence Outlook, 1005 Massachusetts Street, issued an appeal to Governor Avery and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to "stop this movement (SDS) before it snowballs."
The protestation appears in the current edition of both the Pictorial-Times and the Outlook. In a Sept. 16 issue of the Pictorial-Times, Carlyle assailed at what he called "one of the most active Communist cells in the nation" at KU.
IN A COLUMN entitled "Briefs by Bert," Carly discusses a KU-SDS resolution on Viet Nam which appeared in the August 28, 1965 issue of the Kansas Free Press, a local publication edited by former KU student, Laird M. Wilcox.
The column asserts that the SDS resolution, and a SDS cartoon in the same issue, match material printed in the Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper. Carlyle also refers to an editorial from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that is titled "SDS Borders on Treason" and calls SDS members a "pack of ingrates."
Carlyle also includes a reference to a statement made by Communist leader Gus Hall. "Fronts are a thing of the past." Hall said, "We don't need them. We've got the W. E. B. DuBois Clubs, the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee, and the Students for a Democratic Society going for us, but they're not fronts.' They're just a part of the responsible left."
CARLYLE SAID that SDS "is
currently thriving on the University of Kansas campus." It is header, he said, by Donald Olson, a San Diego, Calif., sophomore. (Olson, though an SDS member, is no) an officer of KU-SD.)
Carlyle emphasized that Olson is publisher of the Kansas Free Press, which he had attacked in the earlier column as a publication "which follows the Communist Party line to the letter."
Carlyle referred to national SDS plans for mobilizing opposition to the Viet Nam war, and said "... we be forewarned that we are all headed for trouble—now, in October—and for a long time to come, unless we stop this movement before it snowballs."
Carlyle addressed his warning specifically to Governor Avery, Chancellor Wescoe, and the Board of Regents.
"What harm can the Kansas University SDS organization do—besides attempt to convert our sons and daughters to the Communist and socialist causes?" Carlyle asked.
JOHN GARLINGHOUSE, KU-SDS president, issued the following statement concerning Carvle's allegations:
"One, of course, always expects a certain amount of shricking when one sets out to analyze and constructively change an existent situation. Mr. Carlyle, though, has gone too far.
"A criticism of SDS is his privilege, and one should not be shocked with this man and his like when reason gives way to innuendo, and rationality to hysteria; but Mr. Carlyle shows his true colors when he attacks the University and its administration for allowing SDS to exist. Were he in control, one can only assume, then, that he would "purge" SDS — and, implicitly, anyone else that upsets his sovereign proto-mentality.
"Mr. Carlyle's quotes from Gus Hall and The Worker were almost amusing." Garlinghouse said. "I wonder if he'd use the same sort of logic to interpret the Klu Klux Klan's support of Barry Goldwater in 1864?"
"IF MR. CARLYLE were to quit banding about these cowardly innuendoes, and put his money where his mouth is, he would first find himself held responsible for proving as truth the insidious obscenies he deals in; and secondly, ironically, end up making substantial financial contribution, at court order, to SDS," Garland县 stated
Herman D. Lujan, assistant professor of political science and faculty advisor to KU-SDS, added his response to the new Carlyle column.
"As advisor to KU-SDS, I categorically deny that there are any Communists in our chapter. In addition, the KU chapter, though affiliated with national SDS is, in terms of its policy statements and positions on issues, clearly independent from domination by the national group, and it will remain so as long as I am faculty advisor to this group," Prof. Luian said.
WILCOX, editor of the Kansas Free Press, who last week threatened a libel suit against Carlyle for Carlyle's column of Sept. 16, also reacted to the column on SDS.
"Carlyle seems to be getting desperate." Wilcox said. "So far his approach has been entirely ad hominem—guilt by association. His editorials have been so full of half-truths, misinformation and pure innuendo that I find them hard to take seriously.
"For a man who claims to have a direct pipeline to the alleged 'communist cell' operating on the KU campus, it seems strange that
Death Penalties; Justice or Not Grad Forum Fails to Decide
By Earl Haehl
Several diverse opinions on the morality of capital punishment in the Roman Catholic Church were discussed Monday in a graduate forum at St. Lawrence Chapel.
Don Kelly, Chicago, IL., graduate student, led the discussion. The Rev. Brendan Downey, OSB, Catholic chaplain, sat in with the group.
Kelly said there are many persons who advocate the death penalty; among them, J. Edgar Hoover.
There are and have been those who oppose the death penalty. Kelly read quotes from Thomas Jefferson, the Rt. Rev. James E. Pike, Episcopal bishop of California, Albert Camus. Eleanor Roosevelt, and Caryl Chessman, an executed kidnapper.
He then remarked that lately some priests had said that the position of the Catholic Church was wrong. They had declared that capital punishment was morally indefensible.
After giving a brief history of capital punishment in the modern world, Kelly passed out two magazine articles to stimulate discussion. One expressed an opinion for capital punishment; the other against. Both were written by Catholic priests.
(Kelly said the church relied on "scripture and tradition" to justify the belief that nations have the right to impose the death penalty.)
As discussion increased, Kelly sat back and the others argued back and forth, voicing opinions from both sides.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 5, 1965
Arguments for capital punishment were:
- Capital offenders forfeit the right to live in society.
- Self defense is morally justifiable.
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- Life imprisonment is not effective since the average prison term is only 10.1 years.
Those opposed to the death penalty argued that;
- There are methods other than death to isolate defenders.
- Murder is not repetitive so self defense is not a necessity.
- Murder is committed for a reason and the spree-killers are mentally ill.
- The death penalty is not a deterrent to crime.
The death penalty gambles on a man's soul.
- Capital crimes are arbitrary.
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he (Carlyle) would confuse Donald Olson, the Kansas Free Press publisher, with John Garling-house, the KU-SDS president," Wilcox said. "Personally, Idon't think Carlyle knows what in the hell he's talking about."
Wilcox said. "Personally, I don't decided whether to file a libel suit against Carlyle. "Personally,
I believe Carlyle should have the right to make a fool out of himself if he wants to." he said.
"However, the nature of his accusations can be extremely damaging to the individuals involved. I can say that if he ever personally calls me a Communist, I'll have him in court that same week," Wilcox said.
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