Daily hansan
62nd Year. No. 82
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Feb. 18, 1965
SUDLER HOUSE...Memory of KU dean lingers.
Half-Hidden Home Marks KUEpisode
Bv Jacke Thaver
Sudler House, former home of a much-maligned, much-lauded KU medical dean, stands today behind Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, hidden from all but the most astute campus observer.
Striking in its native stone structure, Sudler House was left to the University by the late Mervin T. Sudler, dean of the KU School of Medicine and prominent Lawrence physician. Originally, it was hoped that the house could be used to lodge visiting professors and their families. When investigation showed this plan was not economically feasible, the home was utilized for much-needed office space.
THE UNIVERSITY received the house in 1960, after the death of Mrs. Sudler. It now houses the Greater University Fund, accounting and bookkeeping offices of the Endowment Association and the occupational therapy department.
Inside, the house has been altered very little.
The English walnut paneling, the drapes and curtains, the landscape wallpaper in the breakfast room all remain. So does the apartment above the garage in the backyard.
"Many a KU student has lived there in the past," Maurice Barker, director of the Greater University Fund, explained. Often student residents of the apartment have performed janitorial duties at Sudler House to defray rent costs.
No one has hazarded a guess at the age of the house, but the story of its original owner, Dean Sudler, constitutes an exciting chapter of KU history.
Dean Sudler came to KU in 1906 at the urging of Chancellor Frank Strong, and was largely responsible for the establishment and growth of the School of Medicine. He was professor of surgery from 1906 to 1911 and dean of the school from 1911 to 1924.
WHEN HE arrived here, Dean Sudler later reported, he was appalled at the lack of facilities and support for the medical school, and asked to be relieved of his position. When Chancellor Strong outtalked him, he decided to do everything in his power to establish a school of nationwide reputation. Known as "The Builder," he operated the school on a $30,000 a year budget.
In 1919 he again asked to be relieved of his administrative duties because of inadequate support. E. H. Lindley was then chancellor and, with Gov. Henry Allen, pleaded with Dean Sudler to remain. The three men succeeded in getting tentative approval for a $2.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for the school.
But chances for the grant, and Dean Sudler's career as dean, were ended in 1924 by a political tempest that swept Kansas, and KU in particular.
Gov. John Davis was having trouble keeping his support unified in the primary election that year. One answer to his problems—the shortage of prospective jobs for political friends, and the KU Klux Klan—suddenly came to Gov. Davis. He and the Board of Regents fired Dean Sudler and John Shea, long-time superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.
NEWSPAPERS ACROSS the state waved crusading banners in defense of Dean Sudler and Shea. The regents chairman admitted the
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CRC Asks King to KU; Plans March
The Civil Rights Council (CRC), decided last night to file a formal protest to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe about the unsigned human rights bill of the All Student Council, invite Dr. Martin Luther King and Pete Seeger, folk singer, to KU, and propose measures, to be taken, on discriminatory practices in housing and Lawrence businesses.
Carol Borg, Manhattan junior, and vice-president of CRC, said the organization believes the deadline of Sept. 1, 1965, set for compliance in the ASC human rights bill, is adequate.
SHE SAID her group will send a formal written protest to Chancellor Wescoe, who said he did not sign the bill. The deadline for compliance with its provisions on discrimination in campus organizations should be set for Feb. 1, 1966.
The CRC is inviting Dr. King and Seeger to the campus to aid in their protests against discriminatory practices at KU, Miss Borg said.
Letters which the group sent to the men stated plans to have Dr. King give a "keynote address," April 24, followed by a march to the library grounds and a sit-in with organized folk singing, lasting around the clock.
Miss Borg said the letter stated the inability of the ASC to pass "major legislation" in areas of fair housing and integrated campus organizations and that action must be taken to "liberalize administrative policy and attitude . . . as to the national scope and significance of this seemingly local problem."
THE GROUP also decided to attempt to see that the University Daily Kansan not accept advertisements from businesses practicing discriminatory policies. The CRC also proposed that the University require people who list off-campus housing facilities to sign a notarized statement of non-discrimination. Compliance of this statement would then be inspected occasionally.
The CRC also voted to submit a letter to the Kansan, endorsing the principles advocated by Rick Mabbutt in an editorial last semester. Mabbutt was placed on disciplinary probation Feb. 2 by the School of Journalism.
Viets Withstand Guerrilla Force
By United Press International
A guerrilla offensive southwest of Saigon fell apart today in the face of a strong show of force by Vietnamese troops.
The successful government operation was reported amid charges by Communist North Viet Nam that U.S. and South Vietnamese warships attacked a North Vietnamese coastal installation early this morning.
The Hanoi regime called the alleged raid "a new, extremely serious act of provocation by the United States and its stooges." A Hanoi broadcast heard in Tokyo said two of the ships were damaged when they were intercepted by North Vietnamese patrol boats.
MOSCOW AND Hanoi have announced agreement to strengthen North Viet Nam's "defensive potential," but no specific measures have been disclosed.
It has been reported unofficially in Saigon that Soviet ground-toair missiles already have reached North Viet Nam.
President Johnson once again has affirmed U.S. determination to "persist in the defense of freedom" in South Viet Nam.
His statement came in remarks added to a speech he made on economic policy before a meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board.
JOHNSON TOLD the businessmen;
"As I have said so many, many times, and other Presidents ahead of me have said, our purpose, our objective there in South Viet Nam is clear. That purpose and that objective is to join in the defense and protection of freedom of a brave people who are under attack that is controlled and directed from outside their country.
"We have no ambition there for ourselves. We seek no dominion. We seek no conquest. We seek no wider war. But we must all understand that we will persist in the defense of freedom, and our continuing actions will be those which are justified and those that are made necessary by the continuing aggression of others.
In Washington this morning, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said the United States must continue its struggle to halt Red expansion in Asia and has little choice but to make its stand in South Viet Nam. He called the situation "grave but by no means hopeless."
Model Senate Opens Friday With Contest
A close balance of Democrats ano Republicans in the KU-Y's freshman Model Senate could cause a heated battle for control when the senate begins at 3 p.m. Friday in the Moot Court Room of Green Hall.
Republican majority whip, George Carter, Great Bend freshman, said nominees for presiding officer of the senate were selected earlier at separate Republican and Democratic caucuses.
The Republicans nominated Blake Biles, Hutchinson freshman, as their candidate for presiding officer of the senate, Carter said. Bile's Democratic opponent is Guy Mellor, Webster Groves, Mo., freshman.
The two parties also selected their respective floor leaders. Republican
majority leader is Bob Robert Swinney, Bartlesville, Okla., freshman. His Democratic counterpart is minority floor leader Stephen Sauder, Emporia freshman.
Carter said the model senate was patterned after the U.S. Senate. It is designed to give participating freshmen experience in government procedures and provide an outlet for opinions of KU students concerning national and international questions. The questions facing the senate are generally the same as those facing the U.S. Congress in Washington.
Members of the senate are chosen from the various campus living groups. They belong to the party they normally support.
Sturdy U.S. Justice Douglas Will Speak Here February 24
As they helped the 66-year-old man from the pony after a nine-hour ordeal on the side of the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, N.M., he smiled and said he'd like to try the climb again.
The man was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, William O. Douglas. Douglas and a hiking party were trapped in heavy snows until their rescue early Monday morning.
Justice Douglas will speak at KU at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium. His topic will be "The Rule of Law and Survival."
Justice Douglas will be present after his lecture for a question and answer period. Afterwards, a reception at the Union will be held. Justice Douglas's visit is being jointly sponsored by Student Union Activities and All Student Council.
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN Roosevelt appointed Justice Douglas to the post of associate justice in 1939, when Douglas was serving as director of the Protective Committee Study of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He is known as a member of the liberal bloc on the bench.
AT COLUMBIA, he specialized in the relation of law and business. After graduation he did a study on Wall Street finances for the Department of Commerce which led to the re-organization of the Stock Exchange.
Justice Douglas received his A.B. from Whitman College in Walla Wala, Wash., in 1920. In 1922, he went to New York to enroll in Columbia Law School, paying his fare by herding a load of Chicago-bound sheep.
From 1924-28 he served on the faculty of the Columbia Law School and taught at Yale Law School from 1928-36. From 1929-32, he conducted special studies in bankruptcy for the Department of Commerce.
JUSTICE DOUGLAS combines a love for travel and the outdoors with his legal career, and has traveled extensively throughout the world. His travels have led him from the bench of the nation's highest court to Indochina, Greece, Russia, and the Himalayas.
Justice Douglas has explained that his love of the out-of-doors dates from childhood days. At an early age, he was stricken with infantile paralysis, and to regain his health he
took up hiking and mountain climbing in the Cascade mountains near his home in western Washington. The 66-year-old justice is still an active hiker and climber.
The author of numerous magazine articles and legal case books on bankruptcy and finance, Justice Douglas has also written many books taken from his real-life adventures in countries around the world. He is noted for his attempts to meet the people of a particular country, and to know them personally. He has been photographed holding a Mongolian shepherd's child or riding a yak. These attempts to know peoples personally have made friends for him around the world.
He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, Delta Sigma Rho, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa.
Weather
Mild and mostly fair through Friday. Westerly winds 5 to 10 miles per hour today. High today middle 50s. Low tonight around 30.