Ike Decries Loss of Old Virtues
By Ron Gallagher, Bill Mullins and Karl Koch
ABILENE—Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower condemned some surface practices of America, but expressed optimism in the country's future, in his speech at the dedication of the Eisenhower Library.
Speaking extemporaneously before 30,000 spectators, he asked, "What has happened to our concept of decency, beauty, and morality?"
After an hour-long parade complete with floats depicting Eisenhower's boyhood, the former president took the stand and contrasted America of the past with America of today.
HE SAID, WE THINK of steadiness, self reliance, and faith in God when we think of the pioneers of the past.
"I wonder what they would think
if some of them could come back today and see us doing the twist instead of a minuet," he said.
He said the twist represents a change in our attitude.
But, he added, "We are about to see a renaissance in America's pride in America. America is the strongest nation in the world. She will never be defeated or damaged seriously by someone from the outside. Only Americans can hurt America."
He ended with a plea that America will "Be inspired by those men long gone," and this will give "inspiration in our material achievement."
HE SAID HE WAS confident that the morale in America was just as strong as it was in the days of Lincoln and Washington.
"As long as this is true, America will always be the greatest nation," he said.
Chancellor W, Clarke Wescoe, the dedicatory speaker, stressed the conservation of Kansas resources and pointed out that "the ideas that we leave to our children are the most important."
"TODAY WE DO more than dedicate a building; we dedicate a state.
"This is an unusual kind of library," Chancellor Wescoe said, "Repository, a priceless storehouse available nowhere else.
"But a dedication, if it seems like an ending, is an illusion. It is a beginning, a flowering of opportunities for generations of scholars to come. an inspiration from the boy of Abilene to the boys and girls, the young men and women of all future time."
Governor John Anderson, speaking for the state of Kansas, presented the Eisenhower Library to the United States government.
Bernard Buton, head of the United States General Services, who will operate and maintain the library, accepted the presentation.
HE READ A telegram from President Kennedy who welcomed the library as "a valuable cultural asset to our country." He then presented two gold keys to Eisenhower which would "open every door in the place."
The archivist of the United States, Wayne Grover, said the government would add continuously to the holdings of the library so that it would become what its builders intended, a national center for the study of the period of history of the Eisenhower administration.
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59th Year, No.129
Communist World Displays Arms in May Day Celebration
By Donald R. Shanor United Press International
The Communist world today paraded its armed might in May Day celebrations from Moscow to Peiping, Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky reviewed lines of rockets and tanks and warned the West that Russia could "crush any aggressor."
In Tokyo, snake-dancing leftist students protesting U.S. nuclear tests clashed with police. Students parading in a 3,000-member demonstration attacked policemen with bamboo poles and police struck back. There were no injuries.
WEST BERLINERS used the labor holiday for a giant rally near the Communist wall, proclaiming that "Freedom knows no wall."
Malinovsky charged that the United States is prepared to wage a "preventive nuclear war" if necessary, but he said Soviet power could defeat any aggressor.
In the Western Hemisphere, Premier Fidel Castro sent trucks and buses into the countryside to round up tens of thousands to watch Havana's parade and hear him speak. The Argentine government deployed 10,000 troops around key points in Buenos Aires to prevent possible anti-government outbreaks by Peronists.
THE SOVIET UNION stressed peace and prosperity in its celebration, but it also rolled out Red army tanks and troops for the annual
military parade past Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders watching from atop Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
Malinovsky spoke of "labor enthusiasm," "new successess" in agriculture, and "creative initiative among the Soviet people" in his May Day speech last night.
But he also charged that the United States and its allies were "hatching plans for surprise nuclear and rocket attacks on the Soviet Union."
Russia's armed forces, he said, "are always ready to deal a crushing rebuff to the aggressor."
COMMUNIST CHINA'S Foreign Minister, Chen Yi, proclaimed the unity of the Communist camp in a speech in Peiping, the New China News agency said.
But the Chinese contradicted his words by putting up a giant symbol of Communist disunity — a portrait of Stalin in *Peiping's Tienmanman Square*, where hundreds of thousands massed for the May Day rally. It was a direct affront to Moscow, which has removed statues and pictures of Stalin from all public places after Khrushchev's denunciation of the late Russian leader.
In Tokyo, an estimated 220,000 persons, most of them leftists and socialist union members, marched and cheered speakers urging a stop to
JAPANESE POLICE estimated that a million persons were taking part in demonstrations and rallies throughout the country.
the nuclear testing at Christmas Island.
Tens of thousands of policemen were mobilized throughout Japan, but several hours after the demonstrations started there had been no incidents.
Recalling the violent riots that developed out of the May Day demonstrations 10 years ago, Tokyo authorities deployed 17,000 policemen at potential trouble spots, including the U.S. Embassy, scene of antibomb demonstrations last week.
Berlin's rival May Day celebrations on both sides of the Communist wall were less than a mile apart, and West Berlin's entire 19,000-man police force was put on alert status early in the day to prevent possible clashes between West Berliners and Communists.
IN EAST BERLIN. Communis District Leader Kurt Thieme said the West Berlin city government would bear "full responsibility for the consequences" of any clashes that grew out of what he called the "provocative hate rally."
West German President Heinrich Luebke and West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt headed the list of speakers at the Western rally, along with President Kennedy's retiring personal representative, Gen. Lucius D. Clav.
In East Berlin, Communist leader Walter Ulbricht led the group on the reviewing stand at the broad Marx-Engels Square, where an estimated 250,000 gathered.
Segregation Leader Urges 'Freedom Buses North'
NEW ORLEANS — (UPI) — A New Orleans segregation leader left today on a swing through Dixie to try to sell other segregationists on the idea of shipping Negroes north with a one-way ticket despite the poor showing of the campaign in Louisiana.
George Singlemann, 46, mastermind of the "Freedom Bus North" plan, said more Negroes would have accepted the one-way bus and train rides out of the South if they had not been afraid.
He blamed "intimidation by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" for more Negroes not accepting the offer. Singlemann is a board member of the New Orleans Citizens Council.
HE HAD PREDICTED more than 125 Negros would leave New Orleans yesterday in an all-out push by the council to show the campaign was not a hoax. Only 28 Negroes left.
Singlemann planned to speak tonight to the Little Rock, Ark., Capital Citizens Council. Later this week, he is scheduled to speak to Citizens Councils in Birmingham, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Jackson, Miss., and Shreveport, La.
Six of them left by bus for New York, two went to Chicago and 20 got tickets for California.
Singlemann said an official of the NAACP was at the bus station yesterday "intimidating" Negroes into changing their minds about the trips. He said the official had "better not show up again . . . or there will be a black corpse."
NEGRO LEADERS said the plan will be unsuccessful. They said only
Leon Horne, 25, was one of the six persons who accepted a ticket from the Citizens Council to New York. He came South on a "freedom ride" paid for by the Congress of Racial Equality last year. He said he wants to go to drama school in New York, and "neglected" to tell the New Orleans council about his past as a CORE freedom rider.
Although yesterday's showing was not what Singlemann had predicted, there was evidence the program was getting support from other states... Mississippi in particular.
a few curious and jobless Negroes would accept what they called a "cruel and inhuman" offer.
The Mississippi senate adopted a resolution praising the "freedom bus north" idea and urged Mississippi Citizens Councils to initiate similar programs.
Sorority Pledges Negro in North
BELOIT, WIS.—(UPI)—A college president has demanded that Delta Gamma sorority explain its action in placing its Beloit College chapter on probation for pledging a Negro girl.
Dr. Miller Upton, president of Beloit College, asked Mrs. Robert Preston, national president of Delta Gamma, for a "full bill of particulars."
The Beloit Delta Gamma chapter was placed on probation after it pledged Patricia Hamilton, a Negro coed from Madison, Wis.
MRS. RUSSELL W. NASH, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, accused the national group of racial discrimination in a letter of resignation sent to Mrs. Preston last week.
Upton sent his request through Dean of Students John Gwin. Gwin said Delta Gamma has "no restrictive clause" about membership in its constitution.
"I understand the chapter has been given a full bill of particulars about being placed on probation." Upton said, "but I haven't asked the chapter about it. It's not up to the chapter, but the national headquarters to make the reasons public."
Upton said he had learned of the probation a few days ago, but had heard only rumors as to the reasons for it.
HE SAID THE CHAPTER WAS "trying to work this out" with the national headquarters and "didn't want to break faith" by revealing the reasons for the probation.
The probation, in effect for three months, bans rushing, pledging, initiation and social and business meetings during that period, but it was understood the chapter was continuing to meet and go ahead with planned functions, though not as a Delta Gamma chapter.
Miss Hamilton, 21, a liberal arts junior who is president-elect of the Associated Women Students, campus governing group for coeds, was taken into Mortar Board, a national honor society yesterday.
SPU Protests Navy Film Now Showing in Union
The Student Peace Union (SPU) protested today to the use of Navy recruiting films in the main lobby of the Kansas Union.
Larry Laudan, Lawrence senior and temporary chairman of SPU, made the protest to Frank Burge, Union director. Laudan based his protest on two charges.
"First," Laudan said, "we feel that they (the Navy) are not legitimately there. They are using the Union facilities free of charge and the Union is supposed to be free only for student groups.
"Second," he continued, "we object to the type of films they are showing. The films reflect only the glamorous parts of the Navy."
The protest came following SPU's failure earlier today to get permission for a projector adjacent to the Navy's in order to show a film that would depict some "of the less pleasant aspects of the military."
Burge replied to Laudan's charges saying, "The Navy scheduled the use of the lobby several weeks ago. We received a request for the reservation through the Dean of Student's Office and for that reason they (the Navy) are not being charged. This is proper procedure."
Burge said the SPU did not request space in the lobby, which they were refused, until this morning.
They were, he added, offered the Forum room for showing their film.
"As building director I have to use my own judgment. I felt that it would not be compatible to run two films side by side."
Laudan said he felt that no one should be allowed to disrupt the lobby of the Union by showing films, but if the Navy is allowed to show films, the SPU should be allowed to present a film showing other aspects of the military.
He said that the SPU was not against military recruiting but only wanted to present both sides of the military. He added that the film SPU wanted to show was also made by the military.
Burge was asked if he would be willing to ask the Navy to move their projector to some room rather than showing the films in the lobby.
Burge replied that he was willing to ask them but pointed out that the Navy had made proper reservations and could not be told to move.
Laudan said that if some arrangement is not made, several SPU members are considering a protest demonstration.
In a statement received from Frank Burge, Union director, shortly before press time, it was learned that the
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