University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 26, 1962
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White House Pickets Multiply; So Do Headaches for Police
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The White House did not even exist in 1791 when the founding fathers guaranteed "the right of the people peacefully to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
But over the years — and particularly in recent months — the executive mansion has become a national rallying ground for citizens exercising the Bill of Rights' provision for freedom of speech and assembly.
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Shaffer Poses World State
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ing . . . people all over the world
. . . will be able to live in both
perpetual fear and perpetual danger."
he added.
"DON'T FORGET, the Russians don't want peace. They gain by turmoil. And any time you have a crowd and you have just one man in it who is intent on having a fight—you're going to have a fight."
Prof. Ise said he held little hope for the human race.
Discussion and questions from the audience followed these opening remarks by the panel members.
He said he had read widely but could not decide which of the many varied opinions on the subject to believe.
On the topic of testing, Prof. Ise said, "I don't know anything about this subject, but of course being a professor I don't worry about that."
Asked if disarmament would not present insurmountable economic problems, Prof. Shaffer replied, "If we continue this armament race its going to solve all our economic problems—and all others as well."
Asked if it is not better for the United States to be ahead in the arms race than for Russia to be ahead, Prof. Strassenburg answered, "Two people can't have a gunfight if only one of them has a gun."
Prof. Shaffer added that if Russia really wanted to destroy the United States, the Soviets could agree to our disarmament proposals, hide 50 compact 25 megaton nuclear bombs and then wipe us out after we had completely disarmed.
Prof. Ise interjected, "The error in your (Prof. Shafer's) thinking is that we wouldn't hide 50 bombs too."
During the discussion on the growing activity of the military in the field of public relations and propaganda, Prof. Burke described a sign he had seen outside a Strategic Air Command 'base as "Orwellian doublethink." The sign said, "Peace is our profession."
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TOPKEA — (UPI) — Clear skies and brisk southerly winds were reported over Kansas this morning, but the fine weather of the past week was rapidly coming to an end.
A well-established wind flow out of the south was bringing increasingly moist and unstable air northward into the central plains, and a low pressure cell over northeast Colorado, with accompanying cold front, will move eastward across the plain in the next 24-36 hours.
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Stover, chief of the White House police, groups of pickets paraded in front of the White House on 96 days in 1960, and on 229 days in 1961. In the first two months of this year, there were sign-carrying marchers on the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk on 31 days.
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"It seems like its getting to be a national habit or something," one veteran White House police officer commented.
Ban-the-bomb demonstrations are a major factor behind this rise, but many additional issues have aroused recent picketers: disarmament, racial integration, Fidel Castro, the Congo and Katanga, jobs for unemployed Teamsters, and the imprisonment of espionage conspirator Morton Sobell.
President Kennedy has yet to meet a picketer, although he has acknowledged the presence of some in different ways. He once said he saw some ban-the-bomb women marchers from his window. He sent coffee out to some freezing college students. He had aides talk to the young leaders of several marching organizations.
VIOLENCE, OR ARRESTS, have been few and far between on the White House sidewalks. Police are stationed there to prevent incidents.
One of the most volatile picketing episodes occurred about 10 years ago when some 7,300 sign-carriers paraded outside the White House pleading for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were subsequently executed as atomic spies.
The pickets must follow ground rules. No shouting, singing or chanting is allowed. Pickets must stay within the sidewalk space allotted by police. Persons carrying placards or banners must keep moving. And if a pedestrian drops a picket's handbill the picket must pick it up.
That day, there were anti-picket pickets who were kept on the opposite of broad Pennsylvania Avenue. Police, sensing possible trouble, deliberately diverted traffic to this street so that the constant flow of vehicles would prevent a mob from crossing.
The largest outpouring of pickets since the Rosenberg demonstration came only two months ago, when some 4,000 students from a number of colleges and universities combined in a "turn toward peace" movement against atmospheric nuclear tests and for disarmament.
It was to the vanguard of this two-day picketing movement that Kennedy sent coffee. It also was leaders of this group — as well as a previous "fast for peace" delegation from Grinnell College, Iowa—who had an audience with Kennedy aides, including McGeorge Bundy, special assistant for national security affairs.
Why don't pickets pick on Congress as well as the President? It has been tried on occasion, but there is a law dating back to 1882 which bans demonstrations or displays of signs and banners on the capitol grounds. The same applies to the Supreme Court. But it's open season, every season, for pickets at the White House.
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