Daily hansan
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1965
62nd Year, No.85
(Photo by Harry Krause)
Past U.S. Justice Frankfurter Dies
KU students huddle under any available protection as the first of a big snowfall, predicted by the Topeka Weather Bureau to bring at least four more inches, hits the campus. Temperatures will drop to about five degrees by tomorrow morning, with snow ending tonight, leaving the roads slick and dangerous. Tomorrow will be colder with diminishing winds.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, the diminutive immigrant who became one of the giants of American jurisprudence, died Monday at the age of 82.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Frankfurter died at 5:05 p.m. EST at George Washington University Hospital. He was taken there Sunday after the last of a series of heart
As of noon today no official notification had been received that Justice Frankfurter's death would affect the scheduled speech by Justice William O. Douglas at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium.
seizures which forced his retirement from the bench Aug. 28, 1962. The hospital said death was caused by an acute heart attack.
Mrs. Frankfurter, the former Marion Denman of Longmeadow, Mass., has been an invalid for a number of years and was unable to be at her husband's side. She was told of his death at their home by hospital physicians. The couple had no children.
President Johnson expressed sorrow at the death of Frankfurter, who he said, "did so much to preserve freedom through wise interpretation of the law." Chief Justice Earl Warren called Frankfurter "a great man of the law" who left an indelible stamp on the Supreme Court and on the Constitution.
After graduation from Harvard, he served for a time as an assistant U.S. attorney for New York City, legal trouble-shooter for the Interior Department and Harvard law professor before becoming chairman of the War Labor Board during World War I. He accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Versailles peace conference in 1919.
Frankfurter was a Harvard Law School professor when he was named an associate justice of the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. When he retired 23 years later, the then secretary of labor, Arthur J. Goldberg, succeeded him.
Born in Vienna, Nov. 15, 1882,
Frankfurter spoke no English when
he came to the United States with his
parents in 1894. But he managed to
work his way through the College of
the City of New York and Harvard
Law School a few years later.
During the 1920's, Frankfurter back at Harvard, was regarded as a flaming liberal. He fought bitterly but unsuccessfully to prevent the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.
When Roosevelt inaugurated the New Deal in 1933, Frankfurter was an important member of his "kitchen cabinet." Many of his Harvard protages—called by critics "Frankfurt's happy hot dogs"—exerted profound influence on New Deal policies, and held high posts.
Before being named to the Supreme Court he turned down appointments as U.S. solicitor general and as Massachusetts Supreme Court justice.
"As judges we are neither Jew nor gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic . . ." The Austrian-born Jew once wrote in a dissent: "As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them nor how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
He was notified of his appointment to the nation's highest court during a telephone call from FDR. As he remembered it later, the President called while Frankfurter was dressing for dinner, then bantered with him for a time before informing him of his appointment.
Dean Logan said Frankfurter's philosophies, while on the Supreme Court, never changed but that the issues before the Court changed over the years.
Frankfurter was an intellectual with a great appetite for living. He firmly resisted intruding his own personal views into his judicial opinions.
James K. Logan, dean of KU's School of Law, said "His death was a great loss to the world of law. In the opinion of most legal scholars he will be ranked among the top ten justices of the Court."
"There I stood in my BVDs and the President was teasing me," Frankfurter recalled.
"Self restraint" was the watchword of the short, bird-like justice when it came to interpreting the Constitution and state and federal laws.
"Frankfurter's opinions were based on the law as he saw it . . . sometimes this opinion came up liberal and sometimes conservative," Dean Logan added.
--tee on committees and will come up as an old bill next week to be voted on.
ASC Bill Defects Stall Chancellor's Signature
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said yesterday that he is in accordance with the principles of the ASC's human rights bill, but he can't sign it until the bill is again submitted to him.
The original bill was returned to the ASC by Wescoe at the end of the semester. "Legislation must be as accurate as possible so that interpretation at a later date is clear," Chancellor Wescoe said.
THE CHANCELLOR listed several defects in the bill which make it vague and obscure. "This is an amendment to an already existing bill and properly should be passed as an amendment."
ASC Bill Number 7 which dealt with discrimination on the campus was passed originally on April 9, 1947. The present bill, also called Bill Number 7, is a much longer and more comprehensive version.
Since the 1947 bill is already in effect, another bill with the same title cannot be passed unless it is passed as an amendment or the existing bill is repealed.
The chancellor felt that vague and obscure wording was included in Chapter 3, Section II, Sub-Section C, which deals with the actions the ASC can take against an organization which violates the bill. He suggested that the wording be changed to make the bill more accurate and more easily interpreted.
IT WAS ALSO suggested by the chancellor that the deadline for compliance with the bill be extended for one semester since the legislation could not be passed until second semester.
The chancellor's reasons for not signing the bill and his suggestions for improving it were contained in a letter to Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman.
"To conclude, I find myself in accordance with the principles of the bill, but I believe these defects should be considered and acted upon before it is resubmitted to me for my signature." Chancellor Wescoe said in concluding his letter to Miner.
Mike Miner said this morning that the bill has been sent to the committee on committees and will come up as an old bill next week to be voted on.
"I think the chancellor was perfectly within his rights in not signing the bill, because the form and style were bad. I think this can be easily changed." Miner said.
MINER SAID he didn't think that the committee on committees would agree with the chancellor's suggestion to delay the date the bill would
take effect until the Spring semester of 1966.
"The reason for changing the date is to give everyone involved a year's notice. I think it's been up in the air for two or three months and people know about it by now." Miner said.
CHANCELLOR WESCOE said this morning, that although he suggested the human rights bill shouldn't take effect until Spring of 1966, he would not insist on it.
Anonymous K-Stater Tells Prank Methods
With 8:02 left in the half and 15,-800 fans looking on, Kansas State pranksters Saturday night triggered two signs over the east and west sides of the scoreboard in Allen Field House.
Apparently 10-12 K-Staters, blueprints, 400 feet of cable, four curtain rods and four 16-oz. weights, were involved.
In a phone call from Manhattan from one "Tom Jones," the Topeka Capital-Journal gained insight into the situation yesterday.
How did they know the scoreboard would hold the weight of the two students and the signs? "We had blueprints,""Tom" said. The group knew the 50' high board would hold 1000 lbs.
The bottoms of the signs were held up by monofilament fishing line running across the top of the scoreboard. Attached to the fishing line and running across the top of the fieldhouse was 400" of $ \frac{1}{8} $” telephone cable. The signs were released by sending an electrical charge through the cable to burn the monofilament. The opposite end of the cable was located in a crowd of K-State fans.
E. P. Moomau, chief of the campus police, verified the use of the monofilament, curtain rods and weights, but said he knew nothing of the telephone cable.
How did the pranksters gain access to the arena? "Far be it from us to get anyone fired for inefficiency," said "Tom." "Just say we gained access mysteriously."
"It didn't hurt anyone except the pride of some 15,000 people. We got a great deal of pleasure out of it. Pure satisfaction."
The remaining unanswered question is "when?" "Tom" declined to say because "they could trace us through cut classes."
Appeal for Mabbutt Scheduled Friday
The KU Disciplinary Committee will hear the appeal of Rick Mabbutt, Shoshone, Idaho, senior, Friday afternoon, according to L. C. Woodruff, Dean of Students.
Dean Woodruff said the appeal will be held in secrecy unless the committee, composed of students and faculty members, decides otherwise.
The dean said no procedural changes could be made until the committee met and, if they decided to disclose proceedings, it would break a long-standing precedent.
Rock Chalk Fractures Flicks
A "Cinemascope" low-budget movie on the KU campus? Starring James Bond? With girls, bungling policemen, Oddjob, and special "guest" stars in situations Ian Fleming never dreamed of in his novels?
All this will be part of Rock Chalk Revue's between-acts "fractured flicker," March 5 and 6.
Hoite Caston, Independence graduate student and Rock Chalk Revue producer, will not say who his "guest" stars are, but only says, with a smile, that "students and faculty will be rather surprised."
THE CAST AND CREW have been trying hard to stay within budget limits, but last week's demolition of a jeep did not help the situation much. Most of the other props have been made by the production staff, and are more expendable.
"We've had a lot of kicks, and more physical exertion than most of us have had in a long time," said student body president Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and cast member.
The cast has been shooting film for the last few weeks all over the campus, including Strong Hall, Summerfield residence halls, and other places which will be revealed in the film.
production has been getting the staff together for filming. Most of the filming had to be done following afternoon classes and on Saturday mornings.
ONE MAJOR PROBLEM in the
"Most of the University people
have been extremely cooperative," Caston said.
Stewart said the University needs satire and "a film such as this one shows that everyone doesn't take himself too seriously."
ROCK CHALK—The candid cameras of the Rock Chalk Revue catch Richard Pratt, Olathe junior (left) and Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, senior and student body president in the act of not being themselves. Camermen are Hoile Caston, Independence graduate student and Rock Chalk Revue producer; and Charles Eugene Boomer, Kansas City graduate student.