Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No.125
Wednesday, April 25, 1962
ASC Election Total to 2,194
The voting turnout in the ASC elections has slowed down considerably since yesterday.
As of 11:30 this morning, 538 students had voted as compared with 687 at the same time yesterday. This, coupled with westerdays turnout of 1656 votes, brings the total vote in the first day and a half of the two day elections to 2194.
MEL SAFERSTEIN, St. Joseph,
Mo., graduate student, and election
chairman, said that if the present
rate of voting continues, the total
vote for the two days should be
approximately 3100.
He said that three schools have not yet had the required number of voters to receive an ASC representative. He said that the School of Journalism needed 15 more votes, the School of Pharmacy needed 17 more and the School of Law still lacks two votes.
THE ASC CONSTITUTION states that in order for a school to be represented on the All School Council, it needs either 50 votes or one-half of the students enrolled in the school to vote, whichever is less. The rest of the schools have received their required number of votes.
The sophomore class officer candidates still lead the other classes in number of votes received. The sophomores have 828, the junior 675, and the seniors 495.
SPU Decides Against Walk
The Student Peace Union last night decided to distribute pamphlets explaining its position against nuclear testing as soon as the United States resumes testing.
They will not make a public demonstration or "peace walk" on the KU campus because, as one member said, "Right now we can't afford to alienate people." The SPU will not oppose demonstrations but will not participate in them as an organization.
SOME MEMBERS OF THE group wanted to picket the Military Science Building, but the idea was rejected.
Larry Laudan, Lawrence graduate student and acting chairman of the SPU, said the group must avoid the 'rabble-rouser' image.
"We are not trying to awaken people and convert them to a completely different view," he said. "We want to arouse their interest in the problems involved so they will not shut these problems out of their minds, which happens all too often.
Laudan stressed that SPU members must be well-informed themselves if they are to discuss testing and disarmament problems with others.
The group did not decide on a policy on disarmament. A wide variety of opinions were expressed and agreement could not be reached.
The group decided on a definite action for May 1 to 4, when the Navy recruiters will be in the lobby of the Kansas Union explaining their officer candidate program for college graduates.
The Navy recruiters will show films about the Navy program, and the SPU will show films on the destruction and loss of human life in a nuclear war.
U.S. Fires Noon Bomb Shot At Christmas Island in Pacific
Weather
Fair this afternoon and tonight,
becoming partly cloudy tomorrow.
Cooler Northwest Kansas and extreme West tomorrow with scattered thunderstorms likely Southwest portion by tomorrow afternoon or evening. Low tonight generally in the 50s. High tomorrow 70s Northwest to near 90 Southeast.
PEACE MARCHERS—Ruth Epstein, assistant instructor of English; Philip Rhoads, Overland Park freshman; and Charles McReynolds, Coffeyville graduate student, led the march yesterday from 7th and Massachusetts Streets to the Chi Omega fountain. They carried signs that condemned nuclear war.
Marchers Protest Tests But Get Mild Reaction
By Walt Blackledge
Nineteen persons walked down Massachusetts Street, up 14th and across the campus yesterday in protest of the resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests by the United States
WHEN NATALIE Jarman, assistant instructor of Western Civilization, joined the marchers, they continued walking down Massachusetts Street. The police officers got into their car and followed the procession.
SOME OF THE marchers carried placards. McReynold's sign said, "Halt Testing — Stop the Arms Race." Bonnie Laudan, Lawrence senior, carried a sign reading, "The Arms Race or the Human Race? Turn Towards Peace!"
Charles McReynolds, Coffeyville graduate student, led the march. He announced Monday that he would walk in protest to nuclear testing and invited others who were interested to march with him.
Ruth Epstein, assistant instructor of English, carried a sign reading, "No Nuclear War." Philip Rhoads, Overland Park freshman, carried a two-sided sign. One sign read, "Love Your Neighbor." The other side read, "Isn't Russia a Neighbor?" Both sides of the sign also bore what appeared to be Russian writing.
A woman sitting with a man in a car said, "We couldn't tell what it was about."
MEMBERS OF THE group leaned against the corner of the Eldridge Hotel waiting to start the march. A few persons stood down the street, eyeing the group curiously. Two police officers in plain clothes stood near their unmarked patrol car.
The group started down the street at 1:30. The police officers got into their car and followed the procession.
A BARBER stepped out of his shop and asked, "What are they advertising? I didn't get to see it."
A shoe repairman said, "It's an interesting group."
A druggist asked, "What the hell is it?" When he was told, he said, "I think it's all right if they want to go to Russia to do it, too."
TWO WORKMEN were sitting in front of the city hall. One said, "I think they're like me — they don't know what the score is." The other said, "As long as the Russians test, I figure we've got to test."
The group stopped in South Park to rest. McReynolds collected dimes from members of the group to send a telegram to President Kennedy. The message read:
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Blast Comes 19 Hours After President's Order
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States fired an atmospheric nuclear shot in the Pacific shortly before noon EST today, informed sources reported. It was expected the atomic energy commission would formally announce the shot later in the day.
There was no immediate indication of the size of the shot or its power.
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It was said the shot was fired at British-controlled Christmas
U.S. Decision Draws Anger
By United Press International
By United Press International Western Europe today generally defended the U.S. decision to resume nuclear testing but Japan expressed "deep disappointment" and the Russians put on a show of outrage.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin accused the United States and Britain of trying to "wash their hands" of responsibility for the tests.
In Japan a snake-dancing mob of about 100 leftist Zengakuran students staged a protest demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy, scuffling with 500 policemen.
India's delegation to the disarmament conference in Geneva made a final appeal for nuclear powers to refrain from testing "perhaps for a few weeks" during another attempt to write a test ban treaty. peal was futile.
AT THE SUPREME Soviet meeting in Moscow, a succession of delegates denounced the U.S. decision and expressed strong support for Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's announcement yesterday that Russian tests will follow the American ones.
The London Times suggested that the Russians might privately be welcoming the U.S. decision "as an excuse for a further round of their own."
A U.S. Information Agency survey of world press reaction last month reported "strong support" for the U.S. position in most of Latin America, the Philippines and Thailand; "overall opposition to testing" from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, and "reluctant acceptance" in much of Europe and the Far East.
at British-controlled Christmas Island 1,300 miles south of Honolulu.
The shot was reported a little more than 19 hours after President Kennedy authorized the AEC and the defense department to go ahead with the tests.
An AEC spokesman said only those tests which "might cause concern" would be announced in advance. He said this referred not to fallout danger but to tests which might be "visible" from nearby areas.
Kennedy's final go-ahead to the 12,000-man joint task force eight in the Pacific came at the end of a day of tension, not much lessened by the fact that the outcome had appeared inevitable for months.
AT 4 P.M. CST the AEC distributed a terse statement saying "President Kennedy has authorized the commission and the Department of Defense to proceed with a series of nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere over the Pacific" to begin "as soon as is operationally feasible."
Later, an AEC spokesman said the series would start "shortly, perhaps in one or a few days."
The hours leading up to the announcement were a time of waiting for a sign, not really expected and which never came, from the Kremlin.
THE AMERICAN TESTS are expected to continue for two or three months. There are two test sites, Christmas Island which, with its surrounding seas, was declared closed to shipping beginning April 15, and U.S.-owned Johnston Island, 500 miles from Hawaii, declared a closed area effective April 30.
Plans call for detonating nuclear warheads for all types of intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Two to three dozen tests were expected.
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Milton's Ideas Valid - Parker
A professor of English at Indiana University said last night at the Humanities Lecture that John Milton's ideas on education still merit consideration today, 318 years later.
Rather than follow Milton's rigorously outlined education program, William R. Parker, former chairman of the foreign language division of the U.S. Department of Education, suggested that educators "borrow his (Milton's) refreshing boldness, along with his scorn of mere novelty ... and share his readiness to adjust education to the known needs of an age."
PROF. PARKER SAID, in summing up Milton's message for today's time and generation, "Freedom cannot be conferred upon a people, but must be forever earned, and it is through a liberal education that we learn how to preserve it by living to deserve it."
He said that Milton "wanted a national education system with a common curriculum and with minimum standards nationally accepted." However, Prof. Parker said, "In current American education this is impossible at any level, be it high school, college or even graduate school."
IF MILTON HAD BEEN ASKED "Is the guaranteeing of minimal standards of education a proper business of Federal Government." Milton's answer would have been "yes," he said.
Outlining Milton's plan for the education of boys he said, that even though Milton attended 17th century Cambridge, he "hated the whole experience," since he felt that he was "neither delighted nor instructed." In fact, Prof. Parker said, "Milton would simply abolish Oxford and Cambridge."
SO, PROF, PARKED SAID. Milton suggested his own reforms for education.
Milton began his educational outline with the consideration of 12-year-olds, disregarding the problem of "petty school," or elementary education, Prof. Parker said.
According to Milton's plan, Prof. Parker said, the first year of formal education students would be devoted to a foreign language, arithmetic and the elements of agriculture and conservation.
DURING THE SECOND YEAR, Prof. Parker said, Milton's students continued their work in arithmetic and agriculture, adding geometry and a natural science. The text books would be in a foreign language, Prof. Parker said, and astronomy, geography and a second (Continued on page 8)
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