Daily Hansan
62nd Year, No. 26
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Fridav. Oct. 23.1964
Modern Europe May Be Partner or Competitor Down Slip Policy Changes This Year
By Susy Tichacek
The United States has had a great deal to do with the new Europe since the war—now Europe could become a powerful partner or strong competitor according to Dr. Philip E. Mosley, who spoke last night at the Kansas Union.
Dr. Mosely, director of Columbia and professor of international relations, pointed out the mixture of problems and benefits the unity of Europe could pose to the United States.
"Europe in 1945," Moseley said, "was divided between two spheres of influence. Eastern Europe was under Communist influence and Western Europe was protected under British and American forces. There was a great contrast between the East and the West."
MOSELY POINTED out that before 1914 Europe was the center of world politics with five or six great powers. After 1945 Europe was divided and each part existed apart because of the two great powers.
Party Methods Said Distinguishing Factor
The major difference between the Republicans and Democrats is the methods by which they seek to resolve the same major issues, said a representative from each party to the American Association of University Women last night.
Francis Donnelly, Democratic candidate for state attor. gen., and Charles McAtee, Kansas field representative for the Republican National Committee spoke at the legislative meeting of the AAUW, on the country's need to unite in solving its major problems such as poverty and education.
Vox Adds Three To Run for ASC
The executive council of Vox Populi announced three additional candidates for living district representatives to the All Student Council at the party meeting last night.
Mike Hubbard, Wichita senior, will be a candidate from the married district.
Mike Shinn, Topeka junior, will be running from the unmarried-unorganized district.
Dee Dee Davis, Shawnee Mission freshman, will be a candidate from the Freshman Women's Residence Halls District.
McAtee, a graduate of Washburn University, said, "First, we are all Americans. But we are deeply divided as to what steps the country should take to solve the problems facing us as a free society."
MCTEE STRESSED that the Republican party was not unconcerned about social and educational problems.
"We recognize the needs", he said, "but we ask can that need and should that need be met at local level or by the corporation?"
McAtee suggested that the government "nudge" corporations into the right direction.
"THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT should help solve the problems and sponsor research programs," he said, "then turn their findings over to private initiative."
McAtee attacked the relatively new system of progressive education and urged a return to the "old-fashioned" method of education, primarily because of the 25 million functionally illiterate in the U.S.
Children are growing up, he continued, learning a number system or base five to teach them to think yet they graduate from high school unable to spell or read decently.
Donnelly, a graduate of St. Benedict's and the KU Law School has served as county clerk and prosecutor in Wyandotte.
"The question is," Mosely said, "will Europe once again become a big power and if so what will be its relation to the U.S. and the Soviet Union?"
"The U.S. has led the way to promote cooperation in the free Europe," Dr. Mosely said.
Mosely pointed out the reason for this action by the U.S. "First of all," he said, "The U.S. felt a NATO Europe would soon be able to defend itself without American troops. Also, if we could overcome new wars in Europe, this would be a great gain for the West."
"All European countries felt the sting of defeat after World War II," Mosely said. "Many were ravaged psychologically, not just economically, which made Europe much more nationalistic than ever before."
MOSELY POINTED out that many people are asking if the United States really wants a united Europe. Some people feel a united Europe would turn against us.
The questions which arise according to Mosely are: "What would be the future strategy of Soviet Russia toward Europe? Under Soviet pressure would Europe unite and fight or would it once again divide them?"
"The question we face now is, will the European economic community continue to grow-together or it this possible only with political unity?" Mosely said.
Mosely pointed out some of the achievements Europe had accomplished toward integration. "The most effective achievements have been in the economic field," he said."
"I would predict," he said, "the economic movement for integration will continue but the essential question is will Europe back into integration by economic paths or will there be political moves also?"
Journalism Dean Dies
COLUMBIA, Mo., —(UPI)— Dr. Frank Luther Mott, dean emeritus and professor emeritus of the University of Missouri school of journalism died today after a long period of failing health. He was 78
A new policy on down skips for seven University schools and colleges and a suggested change in the date for ending formal classes at the close of the fall and spring semesters in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was announced yesterday.
Under the new plan, down slips will be issued only to the parents and advisors of students enrolled in courses numbered below 50. These lower division courses will
The new down stip policy, which affects all University schools, except the Graduate School, the School of Medicine, and the School of Law, was announced by Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
AT&T Chief Speaks Here
Frederick R. Kappel, chairman of the board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, will be the second speaker in the annual Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial Lecture series.
Kappel will discuss the importance of corporate research when he speaks at KU at 3:30 p.m., Nov. 5, in the University Theatre. A public reception for Kappel following his lecture will be held in the Murphy Hall Student Lounge.
THE DIRECTOR of a great economic empire with more employees and a larger annual budget than many nations began his career in the communications industry at the bottom—as a groundsman for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. He joined the company immediately after his graduation from the University of Minnesota in 1924 with a bachelor's degree in engineering, and worked at that position and a variety of plant craftsmans assignments until February, 1925.
Kappel moved up through positions of interference engineer, foreign wire relations engineer, transmission and protection engineer, commercial survey engineer, equipment and building engineer, and plant engineer until he was named assistant vice-president in 1939 and vice-president in 1942.
continue under the same down slip policy as in the past, Lewis said.
The plan evolved from a recommendation by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in November, 1963. Other schools and colleges in the University were polled, and all seven with a previous down slip policy agreed on the procedure.
Lewis said the philosophy behind the original recommendation was that juniors and seniors should be aware of their standing in a course without having to be reminded by a down slip. They usually take the initiative to talk to their instructors, he said.
Previously, after the student had been placed on the down list, specific appointments were then made for that student to see the course instructor and discuss the problems. Now this will take the artificiality out of such meetings for juniors and seniors. Lewis said.
In other action in the College, a suggestion has been made to College faculty members to cease formal class meetings on Saturday, Jan. 18, 1965, and Friday, May 21, 1965, for the close of the fall and spring semesters, respectively. These dates are one week earlier than the standard close of formal class meetings, and would give the student one week off from class sessions prior to final examinations.
This is merely a suggestion and an experiment, Lewis said. The individual instructor in the College will use his own judgment about the value of such a course of action.
Zambian Students Hail Independence
The African Club will help Zambian students celebrate their country's independence at a reception at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Union.
Zambia, an African country now a party of Northern Rhodesia, will declare its independence Saturday.
Burton Marvin, dean of the school of journalism, will speak to the students on the emerging new nations in Africa. Dean Marvin spent nine weeks in Ethiopia, Tanganyika, and Nigeria in the summer of 1963 conducting journalism workshops with three other American journalists.
ADA Swings Full Support to Johnson
WASHINGTON — UPI— "I would expect them to be against me. As a matter of fact, I would not feel very comfortable if I had their support."
The speaker was Lyndon B. Johnson, announcing his candidacy for the presidency in 1960. He was talking about Americans for Democratic Action (ADA).
Times, of course, change—especially in politics. Now, four years later, President Johnson's running mate is Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, a founder and former vice chairman of ADA.
Perhaps never in its 17-year history has ADA enjoyed so much publicity—or notoriety—thanks to Republican candidates Barry M. Gold-water and William E. Miller.
AND ADA IS "all the way with LBJ."
In his opening speech of the campaign, Miller called the ADA "unquestionably the most influential organization in our nation's capital attempting to subvert and transform our government into a foreign socialistic totalitarian."
AND, EVEN THIS WEEK, Goldwater has mentioned the ADA in connection with his "soft on communism" charge against the Johnson administration.
Why, Goldwater asks, does Johnson want "the most prominent left-wing ADA radical in this country to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?"
"Miller is a throwback to the kind of politician we used to have some years back—the kind whose idea of campaign debate is to hurl tart phrases at the opposition," he said in an interview. "I frankly think he has gone out of style."
All of this is not particularly disturbing to Edward D. Hollander, a gray-haired, ruddy-faced economist who is chairman of the ADA's executive committee.
It was founded in 1947 by union leaders, college professors and former New Dealers who felt the need for an independent political organization to fight for the ideals of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
THE ADA does not consider itself a "radical" organization, Hollander said, but it is unashamedly liberal.
Besides Humphrey, the ADA boasts support from such names as Adlai E. Stevenson, Reinhold Nieburh, Walter Reuther, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., James Farmer, Dore Schary, Wayne Morse and James McGregor Burns.
With a membership of only slightly more than 50,000, he said, "We deal in the politics of ideas rather than the politics of numbers."
"ADA has been outspokenly anti-Communist since the day it was founded," Hollander said. "Our constitution bars Communists from membership. We have always opposed all forms of extremism—the John Birch Society on the right as well as the Communists on the left."
"OUR CONTRIBUTION is to float new ideas and to help create a climate of acceptance for them, Hollander said.
He believes the ADA has been pretty successful at this goal. He cited the new Civil Rights law, whose
Weather
Generally fair weather has been predicted through Saturday with cooler temperatures tonight. Eastly winds will be 15-20 miles an hour. High today will be around 60 degrees with lows tonight between 25 and 30.
principles he said the ADA has fought for since 1948.
On the other hand, some of ADA's ideas are anathema to both parties, such as its call for a sharp increase in federal spending.
But, Hollander said, "We're not running for office, so we can afford to run our necks out in a way that a political candidate cannot."
Humphrey himself has said he does not agree with all ADA policies, such as its stand on Communist China.
He said, for example, that "Mr. Miller found it convenient to overlook quite a number of qualifications when he said that we advocate recognition of Red China."
HOLLANDER SAYS ADA leaders do not mind criticism, but that they do like to be quoted accurately.
Hollander read from a green pamphlet of ADA policy suggestions for the Democrats' 1964 party platform to show "What we actually have said about Red China." It said in part:
The threat to world peace, and particularly to peace in Asia, created by Red China, cannot be underestimated . . . it is thus essential that a policy of containment be devised for
Asia, one which simultaneously avoids the tactical absurdity of a jungle war fought by American soldiers and unthinking reliance on nuclear weapons . . .
"IT IS also important that there be regularized channels for communication with the Red Chinese
The ADA proposed bringing Red China into the Geneva Disarmament negotiations, permitting non-strategic trade with mainland China and lifting passport barriers against American travel to China.
it is vital that Peiping have a clear view of our resolution and intentions: ignorance could lead to disastrous miscalculations . . . "
It added:
"Should the over-all interests of the United States seem in the future to make a change in policy appropriate, we should be prepared to consider the initiation, together with our allies, of negotiations leading toward the diplomatic recognition of mainland China and its admission to the United Nations—not as indications of any moral approval of its repressive regime, but as a means of re-establishing normal channels of international communication."