Page 8 University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 7.1963
Martin Luther King Called Effective Leader
The full support that Martin Luther King receives in the South is indicative of his effectiveness as an integrationist, Lacy Banks, Kansas City sophomore, said last night.
Banks, chairman of the KU-Y Great Men of the 20th Century Study Group, spoke on "Martin Luther King as a Leader."
HE SAID THAT King was an effective leader because;
- He is outspoken, he speaks up quickly but intelligently.
- He is president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).
- He is respected by the people of Georgia.
Barns said that in 1954 when the 50,000 Negroes of Montgomery, Ala. tired of racial abuses, the MIA was formed and King was elected as its president.
ONE OF KING'S first undertakings was to end segregation on Montgomery's buses. Banks said. He said that King staged a successful boycott in that city and the buses were opened.
Hanks said King exemplifies "democratic leadership." "He works to achieve the goals of the people skillfully, speaking out against violence and unorganized demonstrations."
King is respected by the people of Montgomery, Banks said, because as a preacher he has built up a "Christian love" among the people "that no physical violence can crack." Banks quoted King as saying "Christ furnished the spirit and the motivation, and segregation fell."
"One of King's main concerns is advocating Christianity among men here on earth." Banks said.
HE WOULD integrate men with God and men with men." In 1954, when King took his office, he saw the Negro as "passive victims" of segregation. Banks said.
He said they accepted torment because they feared losing jobs, homes, and even their lives; "they were conditioned to segregation."
The leadership of King reduced this intra-racial complicacy. Banks said. King is a sociological worker and he provided the necessary incentive for successful racial battles.
"It is amazing to see how 50,000 Negroes through his (King's) leadership took to heart the principles of non-violence and fought with the weapon of love, and in the process acquired a new estimate of their own worth.
"KING MADE the Negroes of Alabama into geniuses of love." Banks said. He referred to the calm manner in which Negroes walked to and from work during the bus strike.
He quoted one woman as saying "My feet are tired, but my soul is at rest . . . I am not walking for myself. I am walking for my children and for my grandchildren."
Banks said that King also has improved voting conditions for the Southern Negro as well as schooling, education and home facilities.
"How one leads determines how the people follow." Banks said, and the success that King has promoted is indicative of his quality as a leader.
Green Apples, Small Boys
LOS ANGELES — (UPI)— Kelly green applesauce didn't appeal to George Martin, 49, or he might have become the most relaxed man around.
Martin's mother put the applesauce in a plastic container for his lunch and didn't notice that 15 of her muscle relaxant pills were still in it. But the pills turned the sauce green—keeping Martin from a relaxing afternoon and probably an unrelaxing stomach ache.
It Pays Not to Smoke at Work
TORQUAI, England — (UPI) — Harry Wheaton said today he gives all apprentices at his boat-building firm $1.40 a week extra if they work without smoking.
Sorority to Present Story of U.S. Music
Sigma Alpha Iota professional sorority will present "Music Through the Years." a history of American music, at the International Club at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. The program will be followed by social hour dancing in the Jayhawk room.
French Miners Disregard Pleas
PARIS — (UPI) — Nearly 200,000 miners in France's state-owned coal mines carried their defiant strike into its sixth day today despite government attempts to get them back to work by threats and gentle persuasion.
Union officials rejected the latest government overtures, terming the situation a "dialogue between deaf men." The strike is labor's strongest challenge to President Charles de Gaulle's authority since he took office in 1958.
De Gaulle said following a cabinet meeting yesterday that if the miners did not return to work "in two or three days" Premier Georges Pompidou would announce new measures to enforce a requisition order;
The miners want an 11 per cent increase to keep up with inflation and a reduction in the work week from 47 to 40 hours. The government has offered a 5.77 per cent wage raise over the next 12 months and promised to continue negotiations if the men will return to their jobs.
The requisition order technically went into effect Monday, providing possible jail sentences and loss of jobs for miners who continued the strike. But the miners' militant attitude and widespread public support for their demands have kept the government from carrying out the order so far.'
Representatives of the three striking unions — with Catholic, Communist and Socialist affiliations — replied that their men would stay out until their demands were met.
A workshop designed for educational secretaries and other office personnel will be held at the University of Kansas, March 15-16.
Two-Day Workshop Scheduled
The program, sponsored by the Kansas Association of Educational Secretaries, will include talks on the ideal educational secretary, and a panel discussion on the role of the educational secretary.
Guest speakers include Miss Helen M. Sims of the K.U. Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.; Georgia Lee Rockwell, clerk of the Independence, Kansas Board of Education; Catherine M. Worley, president of the Kansas Association of Educational Secretaries; Jeanne Oliver, executive assistant on the Kansas State Board for Vocational Education, Topeka, and Dr. Merle R. Bolton, superintendent of Topeka Public Schools.
K. U. faculty members participating in the program will be Vice Chancellor James R. Surface, Dr. Frank E. X. Dance, and Miss Loda Newcomb.
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