Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 24
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1964
LBJ Pledges Strength; Barry Praises Hoover
Compiled from UPI Dispatches
President Johnson, drawing the acclaim of thousands in the industrial center of Akron, Ohio, said today Republican and Democratic leaders back his determination to use continued "strength and restraint" in dealing with Russia and Red China.
He threw this assertion at Sen Barry M. Goldwater, his GOP opponent who visited Akron last Saturday, attacking the Johnson administration for so-called "one-man one-thumb government."
IN WASHINGTON, it was announced President Johnson will suspend campaign activities tomorrow and Friday in respect to Herbert C. Hoover.
The White House said today President and Mrs. Johnson will fly to New York tomorrow to attend private family funeral services for Hoover in St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church at 6:30 p.m. CST.
The Republican National Committee said Goldwater had cancelled scheduled appearances in Las Vegas
and Cheyenne to attend the funeral. STREET CROWDS estimated at over 30,000 persons welcomed the President as he motorcaded into Akron, stopping four times en route from the airport to shake hands with hundreds and pass out "LBJ" lapel pins to excited admirers.
De Sade's Writing Claimed 'Scandalous'
Johnson told his University of Akron audience of more than 4,000 persons that both Republicans and Democrats who conferred with him in recent days on the Soviet and Chinese foreign policy developments "agreed that he should continue on the path of strength and restraint which we have followed for the past 20 years."
Kill me or take me as I am, I shall not change, the Marquis de Sade said in apparent appeal to posterity.
The Marquis de Sade, an 18th and early 19th century sadistic French author, was the topic last night of Georges May, dean of Yale College, in the first of this year's Humanities Lecture Series.
DEAN MAY, speaking on the topic, "The Malediction of the Marquis de Sade," characterized the Marquis' literary products as "scandalous and revolting," but like the Marquis himself, did not attempt to exonerate de Sade.
"The Marquis is not to be made respectable, any such attempt would wrong him," Dean May said.
Related story on page 8.
May outlined briefly the life history of the man from whom the word "sadism" is derived. De Sade's flights into sexual extremism, the cause of his long imprisonment, were no worse than many other young French aristocrats of the day, Dean May said, yet his punishment was far too severe for the crime.
IT WAS THE YALE DEAN'S thesis that the harshness of the punishment effected De Sade's moral health, and in an attempt not to let his mind be broken by the incarceration, De Sade was forced to seek an outlet through his imagination. This imagination was the basis for De Sade's sadistic publications and have earned him condemnation.
The malediction of De Sade continues now, Dean May said, but there is today a scholarly interest in De Sade and his publications.
De Sade is the author of such publications as 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, Juliette, plus many more.
MAY'S BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL sketch of De Sade included the sadistic reasons for which he was imprisoned. In these incidents, immoral as they were, De Sade's actions had an almost scientific approach. From the harshness of his imprisonment, posterity has assumed his offenses were much worse than they really were. Thus, his malediction is not totally deserved.
On the plus side, Dean May credited De Sade with being the fountainhead of a special and lively poetic school—a school which has not blindly followed the Marquis' excesses.
"His actual offenses, in comparison with his writing, were mere child's play." May said.
THE NEXT HUMANITIES series Lecture will be Nov. 17, when William McDermott, from the University of Indiana, will speak on "Caesar-Anatomy of Dictatorship."
With little question that he was referring to his GOP opponent, Johnson said, "But now there are those who do not follow this responsible course. They have placed under attack all of the policies which have brought us closer toward peace.
"THEY STAND IN opposition to the collective wisdom of both parties, experienced in foreign affairs."
Goldwater began using the recently deceased former President as a model of political morality in a speech before several hundred people who met him at the airport here. Goldwater planned a day of campaigning in the Philadelphia area with a couple of suburban stops and nationally televised speech here this evening.
"There is just too much immorality in the country today from the top to the bottom." Goldwater said.
He said he gets "sick at my stomach" when he hears the immorality explained away by such occurrences as school dropouts, sickness and poverty. Goldwater said those have been with us over the years.
"THE REASON THAT we have low morality." Goldwater said, "is that it trinkles down from the top. It isn't something that trinkles up," the senator said.
The weather bureau predicts fair skies and mild temperatures tonight with a low in the middle 40's. Partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures are expected tomorrow with the chance of a shower.
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Budget Matters Left Unfinished
The All Student Council budget is still not clear.
Although the budget session of the ASC was held last night, the council did not allot itself funds for operation, and People-to-People, which apparently must receive its money from the ASC, did not submit a budget. Until these two appropriations have been settled, the budget cannot go into effect.
THE COUNCIL DID set the amount of the allotments the eight groups who petitioned for ASC support will receive.
They granted the full requests of three organizations, Mortar Board, the combined pep clubs, and the Current Events Committee. The remaining five were cut by the ASC Finance and Auditing Committee, which investigated the requests and recommended action to the council.
The recommendations of the Finance and Auditing Committee were upheld in every case. A combined total of $3,940.15 had been requested by the organizations. This amount was trimmed to the final $2.570 by the committee.
No social functions were budgeted for in any organization, reducing the figure quite a bit. The number of students affected by the specific proposals outlined in each budget was another criterion for screening the requests.
The organization which suffered the most heavily from the trimming down process was the Student Bar Association. It originally asked for $1,050 to finance a 13-item program. Its allotment was $250.
THE ALLOTMENTS WERE settled without much debate.Many of the organizations did not have a representative present at the meeting to defend their requests.
The Student Bar Association had not appeared before the finance and auditing committee prior to the meeting. Consideration of their request had to be delayed until near the end of the meeting when Marshall Crowther, Lawrence, third-year law student, was contacted. He had never seen the request prior to this time.
Any deficit in funds suffered by an organization requesting funds was taken from their new account immediately after the council has set their budget amount.
THE COMBINED PEP clubs were the hardest hit by this policy. They had requested $218.45, but had a deficit of $118. Thus, according to the policy, their funds would have been cut in half.
"We felt such action would seriously hamper the effective functioning of the organizations," Ray Myers, Dodge City senior and treasurer of the ASC, said. "We decided to give them an extra $50 to help counteract the situation."
The pep clubs were allotted $260, but can only count on $142 for operation this year.
THE COUNCIL DELAYED allotting funds to itself because the exact total of funds received from the University is not known. The ASC gets 30 cents per student estimated to attend KU in the next school term. This amount is designated on July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year. There is a strong possibility that due to the enrollment increase, the ASC will receive additional funds.
People-to-People was the victim of a mix-up between the administration, the council officers, and the organization itself.
Last spring P-t-P funds were frozen by the ASC following the organization's failure to make a bi-monthly financial report to the council as all ASC supported organizations are required to do. Funds remained frozen for nearly three weeks before the report was made.
WHEN THEY APPLIED for their funds that fall, they stated that it would be on a temporary basis until the University appro-
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KU Students Supported Hoover in 1928
Rv Suzy Tichacek
Herbert C. Hoover, 31st president of the United States, died yesterday at the age of 90, but his memory lives in the minds of KU students and faculty.
Earl Nehring, associate professor of political science, said, "He'll be given considerable position as a man who did a great deal for his country for over half a century."
"HE'S AN OUTSTANDING example," Prof. Nehring said, "of a person who can recoup from personal attack which often comes to public officials."
Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science, said, "My own feeling is that his administration was not a political success but that his activities before and after place him among great men of our time."
"I think his work at Truman's request as director of the Hoover Commission resulted in more effective and efficient government in the executive department," prof. Ketzel said.
ACCORDING TO THE UDK dated Feb. 24, 1920, students were organizing to "boost the Hoover organization." Women were especially urged to become members and vote because their vote was "as good as a man's in Kansas, according to the Hoover men."
People were praising Hoover not only today, but KU students and faculty supported him in the 1920's and also during both election years.
time dean of the College, addressed the organization for Hoover. Dean Templin at that time held the office of the director of school activities in the collegiate department of the Food Administration and was associated with Hoover.
The late Olin Templin, at that
IN A LATER UDK dated March 11, 1920 it was reported a large
number of students and faculty showed their interest in national politics at a rally for Hoover.
Dean Templin mentioned Mr. Hoover's interest in KU. "He was closely associated with many students from this University," said the Dean.
Although Hoover was not a candidate for the Presidency in 1920, he was nominated on the Republican ticket in 1928, running against Al Smith.
New York Pays Final Respects
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Mourners from every walk of life filed today past the flag-draped, candelit bier of former President Herbert Clark Hoover in the byzantine splendor of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church.
NEW YORKERS have two days to pay their respects to Hoover before his body is flown to Washington for honors reserved for departed presidents, statesmen and heroes.
President Johnson and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater will come to St. Bartholomew's tomorrow to attend the brief Episcopal memorial service conducted by the Rev. Dr. Terence J. Finlay.
HOOVER'S BODY will be moved by train to Washington Friday morning to lie in state beneath the Great Rotunda of the nation's capitol. The coffin will be moved from the church to Pennsylvania Station here by hearse instead of horse-drawn caisson, an honor given only to presidents who die in office.
On Sunday Hoover will be flown to his hometown of West Branch, Iowa, to be buried beneath a simple headstone he personally selected. His wife is buried at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., but her body will be brought to West Branch and buried by his side.
IN OCTOBER 1928, KU students once again united to declare their faith in this presidential candidate. Although some were not of voting age they felt by expressing their opinion and giving their support would be of some aid in the election.
An essay contest, "Why am I for Hoover," gave a first prize of $100. Later an organization for Al Smith was formed and challenged the Hoover group to debate. The Hooverites won the political debate.
Hoover won again when a straw vote was taken among the students.
FOLLOWING THE BIG depression in the 1932 election, Hoover was not as popular at KU. However there was a hill debate between Democrats and Republicans on: "Resolved: That Franklin D. Roosevelt and not Herbert Hoover should be Elected President of the United States on Nov. 8."