Daily hansan
61st Year, No. 108
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 20,1964
Pickets Seen As No 'Aid' By Sigma Nu
The president of Sigma Nu fraternity said yesterday the pressure of pickets will not help Sigma Nu in removing its discriminatory clause.
John Elwell, Wichita senior and president of Sigma Nu, said the following is a statement of Sigma Nu's policy;
- "We must bargain from a position of strength at our National Convention. We do desire to stay in our National.
- "Fressure and publicity in the form of pickets will not help Sigma Nu in removing the discriminatory clause.
- "Pickets during rush week or rush weekends will weaken our chapter.
- "This will lower our strength within our national and impede or halt our progress.
- "We are only one of 134 chapters. If we are forced to close our doors or go local, 133 chapters on other campuses will continue to operate under the discriminatory clause. So in effect, the program outlined by the CRCC will not accomplish the ends desired."
George Ragsdale, Lawrence senior and president of the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee, said he thought the picketing would help the Sigma Nu's get their clause removed.
"THEY (SIGMA NU) can say nothing else publicly. If they condone civil rights movements, they will probably lose their charter," Ragsdale said.
Ragsdale said the CRCC will carry out its plans to picket the Sigma Nu fraternity, Saturday.
Weather
Snow on the ground and drizzle in the air marked the first day of spring today.
Skies will clear tonight with colder temperatures down to 20 degrees expected. The high tomorrow will be in the 30s with fair skies.
SPRINGTIME AT KU?—Spring arrived today with snow on the KU campus. (Photo by Charles Corcoran)
Gains State Stature
YD's Growth Rapid
One of the smallest clubs in Kansas only three weeks ago, KU Young Democrats is believed to be the largest collegiate Democratic organization in the state today.
The club had a membership of 120 persons three weeks ago. The club's membership now is 293, enough to allow the club to have the maximum number of votes (10) in the state convention April 24-26 at Topeka.
(Jacquelyn Thayer, Ellsworth freshman, was elected secretary of KU YD's Wednesday. It was incorrectly stated in yesterday's edition of the Kansan that Martha Allen, Lawrence junior, was elected secretary.)
Mike Rogers, Hutchinson junior and newly elected president of the Young Demos, said last night the sudden increase in membership was caused by a campaign between he and George Groneman, Kansas City sophomore, for president.
"This boost in membership is a good thing that came out of our campaign." Rogers said. "We got out and found Democrats on the campus, believe it or not."
Rogers said the club will help the Douglas County Democratic party organization in polling and in a voter registration drive.
Baccalaureate Speaker Chosen
The minister Time magazine called "the most influential leader of world Protestantism," the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, will give the baccalaureate sermon May 31 to KU students who will be receiving their degrees the following evening.
The Rev. Fry is serving as the first president of the new 3,200,000-member of Lutheran Church in America.
As a young student, the Rev. Fry watched from the sidelines at the great merger of 1918 that united the General Synod, United Synod of the South, and the General Council in the United Lutheran Church. The Rev. Fry's father wrote many of the documents of the early merger
He was elected at the constituting convention of the LCA in Detroit, Mich., in June, 1962, after having served since 1944 as president of the former United Lutheran Church in America. The new church was created through the merger of the ULCA with the Augustana, American Evangelical, and Finnish Lutheran Churches.
THE LUTHERAN and ecumenical tradition started early in the Fry family. The Rev. Fry's grandfather was Jacob Fry of the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary. His father was the churchman, Franklin Foster Fry.
Forty-four years later as a new Lutheran Church became a reality, it was his son who fashioned much of the constitution and by-laws of the new Lutheran Church.
He later became president of the ULCA's New York and New England Synod and the first secretary of the ULCA Board of American Missions.
The Rev. Fry addresses hundreds of church, civic, and educational groups each year. He served as chaplain at a session of the 1950 Democratic national convention.
He carries on his duties in church administration in addition to scores of meetings of boards and agencies of his own church, the National Lutheran Council, the Joint Commission on Lutheran Unity, the National Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, and the
World Council of Churches.
HE HAS LED delegations to South America and to South Africa. In its cover article about the Rev, Fry, Time magazine said he was "more familiar these days in Washington, London, or Africa than in New Rochelle" and one of "the two or three American churchmen with a wide international reputation."
The Rev. Fry was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1921, studied at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens, was graduated from the Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1925, and was ordained by the United Lutheran Synod of New York and New England.
He served for four years as pastor of Redeemer Church at Yonkers, N.Y., then for 15 years as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Akron, Ohio, before resigning to accept election as president of the United Lutheran Church in America.
Vox Lashes UP Platform
The president of Vox Populi said last night some of University's planks aren't too bad, a factor which is "very unusual" for UP.
In addition to discussing UP's platform, Vox also ratified the affiliation of Stephenson and Douthart scholarship halls.
Douthart is the only women's scholarship hall to affiliate with either political party this year.
TOM BORNHOLDT, Topeka senior and Vox president, said many of UP's plans had been tried unsuccessfully or were already in effect.
"For example, the idea of student employment emphasizes what Vox is stressing continually," Bornholdt said.
"If UP had any continuity, they would know that the ASC once had such a committee which was abol-
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De Gaullism Threatens Key Free World Defenses
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
In Europe and in Asia, three alliances which are keystones of free world defenses against Communism are under strain or in danger of collapse.
They are NATO, SEATO and CENTO, forged in years of crisis under United States leadership and based on a policy of containment which would meet Communist force with force anywhere in the world.
The strains arise from aggressive De Gaullism and its repercussions in both Europe and Asia, from the growing influence of Red China in Asia, from neutralism and a whole new set of related circumstances.
IN EUROPE, NATO is in disarray because of President Charles de Gaulle's determination either to stand aloof or to use it for his own purposes.
In Asia, SEATO—the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization—is imperiled by U.S. reversals in South Viet Nam, by De Gaulle's call for neutralism there and a growing doubt that Western-sponsored alliances, geared to repel attack from the outside, can meet the more insidious danger of infiltration and subversion from within.
CENTO—the Central Treaty Organization—the Mid East link between NATO and SEATO, is threatened by Pakistan's antagonism toward the United States for its aid to India and by Pakistan's increasing friendliness toward Red China.
Economically, Britain, France and West Germany already are competing for trade with the Soviets.
CHARLES DE GAULLE . . . alliance critic
BRITAIN IS REPORTED ready to grant the Soviets $200 million in long-term credits for a fiber factory, with
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other agreements to follow. France also is reported ready to complete a major trade agreement.
French recognition of Communist China places new pressures upon Japan to let down its trade barriers with the Reds.
Free world unity has been the goal of every U.S.
president since World War II, pursued at a cost of U.S. lives and more than $100 billion.
NATO was born in 1949 out of the fear which swept a demobilized Europe when an aggressive Soviet Union, its World War II armies still intact, imposed the Berlin blockade.
THE BIRTH OF SEATO, extending Western protection to the nations of Southeast Asia, came in 1954 after France lost to the Communist-supported forces of Ho Chi Minh the final battle for Indo-China at Dien Bien Phu.
In 1955 came the Baghdad Pact, predecessor of today's CENTO, after the crisis over Suez.
But the earth has turned as no man could have foreseen since completion of those globe girdling alliances.
In 1956, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles thunders that neutrality is both "obsolete" and "immoral."
YET IN 1961,23 non-aligned nations are able to meet in Belgrade and criticize with varying degrees of neutrality both the United States and the Soviet Union. Nearly all receive both U.S. and Communist aid.
The once-monolithic Communist world splits and as the United States and Russia build their nuclear arsenals to the point of overkill, there is in Europe added an intangible which perhaps hastens the decay of unity.
That is the belief that neither nuclear giant will risk a global war and that Russian freedom of movement is limited by her quarrel with Red China and economic and agricultural problems at home.
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