Smile-you're on police file Policemen can be a very funny lot. They rightfully clamor for the people's respect and support, but, on occasion, they wheel about and knock the very foundations from under that respect and support with the most callous acts. Witness recent incidents which the Lawrence and campus police departments were caught, pants down if you will, openly photographing students protesting the Vietnam war by holding a silent vigil. Keeping in mind that photographing criminal suspects is and has been a legitimate police practice, it seems that photographing people dissenting against a governmental policy hardly falls in that same realm of legitimacy. But of course, there may have been a good reason for the police snap shots. After all, those demonstrators may have been felons. They may have been enemies presenting a clear and present danger to the state. But what if the silent vigil-keepers were simply protesting in a peaceful and orderly manner? Then what justification can there ever be for subjecting these people to the obvious intimidation of a policeman taking pictures for someone's "file." Justification, my law-abiding friends? There is none. Never, in the legal or political history of this land, has the interference of policemen—and such picture-taking is interference—into the private and lawful business of citizens—and peaceful protest is lawful—been justified. Courts and legislatures have gone to wordy extreme to insure the people protection from similar over-zealous police acts. When a man puts on a uniform, wears a weapon and is given authority above that of an ordinary person, he also acquires a responsibility to the people who grant him such an authority—regardless if he walks the beat on Jayhawk Boulevard or Sunset Strip. He has the responsibility to uphold the law, not circumvent it, not trample it with callous indifference. —The Editors Half of Senate may be crooked suggests Senator Russell Long The Widening War By LYLE WILSON United Press International It is a depressing sign of the times that the Democratic assistant leader of the U.S. Senate may suggest that half of his senatorial colleagues are crooked without arousing much if any dissent, public or private. The assistant Democratic leader is Sen. Russell B. Long of Louisiana, son of the preposterous Louisiana kingfish, the late Sen. Huey Pierce Long. The kingfish used to brag that he could buy Louisiana legislators like sacks of potatoes. HIS SON spoke some days ago in defense of Sen, Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., whose censure by the Senate has been recommended by an ethics committee. The committee voted unanimously that Dodd's conduct was contrary to accepted morals and tended to bring the Senate into disrepute. Long challenged this finding. He told newsmen that half the members of the investigating committee couldn't stand the kind of investigation to which they subjected Dodd. Later he upped this estimate to half the Senate. Long said he would vote against the censure motion, partly on grounds that the committee had sacrificed Dodd to public clamor. Long is entitled to his opinion. The voters are entitled to know whether his estimate of the integrity of the U.S. Senate is accurate. The senator subsequently apologized for his wide swing at the investigating committee. His language, however, did not appear to absolve the Senate from the implications of his previous remarks. THERE ARE not many newsmen around Washington now who were assigned to the Senate press gallery when the Louisiana kingfish came swashbuckling into Washington nearly 40 years ago. Your correspondent was there. The Senate of the early 1930's would not have accepted from the kingfish any such adverse criticism as it now supinely takes from the son of the kingfish. Sen. Huey Pierce Long was tolerated but not much applauded. Least of all did his Democratic colleagues tap him for any leadership or major chairmanship chores, In the Senate of which the kingfish was a member, there were senators who might have run him right out of town if he had challenged their integrity. One such senator was the late Hiram W. Johnson of California, a quick tempered, bull-necked man with whom the kingfish would not have cared to tangle. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS "—AN' YOU'll FIND THAT WITH OUR CLUB YOU'LL HAVE A UNIQUE SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP WITH TH' DORM NEXT DOOR." IF HALF the membership of the U.S. Senate is guilty of the practices which have invited the censure of Thomas J. Dodd, the voters are entitled to know who they are and what they did. If Russell Long has any facts bearing on the matter, he is entitled to a forum in which to present them for public scrutiny. If the Senate membership consisted of more big guns and fewer pop guns, Russell Long would be under oath at this moment to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The depressing aspects of this situation are that the people seem not to care at all that the Senate carries its honor so lightly as to be unaware when it is lost. What price a democracy so little interested in its own well being? All is not well on Capitol Hill. The U.S. House of Representatives labors under the burden of the incredible Powell. The U.S. Senate labors under the burden of its own insensitivity. The patient people labor under the burden of an administration which does not come clean with the facts, small or large. In the Washington, D.C., of the second half of the 20th century there is not much that is inspirational. Not much? Not anything. Study Abroad: '68-69 competition for F.S. & foreign grants, univ. & private donor grants is officially open, with applications, 220 St., for into & Applications Official Bulletin Psychology Colloq. 4:00 p.m. Jacob Gwirtz, Nat, Insti. Mental Health. "Stimulation in early Human development." Dyche Aud. Lecture, 4:00 p.m. James G. McManaway, Wash, D.C., "Changing English Stage, 1600-1700," Forum Room, Union TODAY Classical Film, 7 & 9:00 p.m. "Viridiana" Snailish, Dyehe and Uwv. Th., St. Paul-Proof, Featurity Personnel Adults - 7:00 p.m. Union. Speech I Potpourri Finals, 7:30 p.m. Univ. Theatre Senior R-cital, 8:00 p.m. William Ason, 12:00 p.m. Zoezo- sophron, Swabout R-cital, R-cital, R-cital Daily Kansan 2 Wednesday, May 10, 1967 NEW BOOKS JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE NEW FRONTIER, edited by Aida DiPace Donald (Hill and Wang, $1.95)—A comprehensive new volume to join earlier works on the presidents. The editor has compiled writings that attempt to assess the nature of Kennedy and his leadership as president, his accomplishments, his goals, his spirit. The authors are quite an assemblage themselves. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. appraises the Kennedy intellect. Louis Koenig treats Kennedy as administrator and party leader. Other segments include the Congressional relationship, Carroll Kilpatrick; economics. Seymour E. Harris; defense and peace, Theodore Sorensen and McGeorge Bundy; civil rights, Alexander M. Bickel and Koenig; foreign policy, David Horowitz and William E. Leuchtenburg; science, Jerome Wiesner; the New Frontier itself, William G. Carleton, Douglass Cater, James Reston, Richard E. Neustadt, Richard H. Rovere and Sorensen. CRITICISM AND FICTION, by William Dean Howells, and THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NOVELIST, by Frank Norris (American Century, $1.95)—Two standard works of literary criticism, by two of the giant names in our literature. Though Howells has been scoffed at in retrospect for views expounded in his essay, he made a sound case for realistic writing, and he gave more encouragement to young writers than probably any other American critic. Frank Novis makes his case for naturalism, which was the literary mode of "The Octopus" and "McTeague." In his time he tried to go beyond the details of realism, preferring to describe not the wallpaper but the wall behind it. The student in literature has been done a special service by the publisher who brought these two works together in one attractive paperback volume. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving Kill for 77 at its 101 Years Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years KANSAN TELEPHONE NUMBERS Newsroom—UN 4-3646 — Business Office—UN 4-3198 The Daily Kansan, student newspaper at The University of Kansas, is represented by National Advertising Service, East 50th Street, New York, NY. 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