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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Feb. 28, 1963
Official Says State Has Say on Equality
The Kansas Legislature has the unquestioned right to legislate in the area of civil rights, a civil rights forum member said last night.
Park McGee, Kansas assistant attorney general, told students that equal rights guaranteed to every man by the United States Constitution and the Kansas Constitution give the state this authority.
McGEE WAS one of three panel members who participated in the civil rights forum held in the Kansas Union. The event was sponsored by the Human Rights Committee of the All Student Council.
Other panelists were Homer Floyds educational director for Kansas Civil Rights Commission, and William A Binns, past president of the Lawrence Human Rights Commission.
The purpose of the panel was to discuss two civil rights bills that are
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Ski Club Plans Trip For Spring Vacation
The KU Ski Club will take a five-day trip to Colorado during the spring vacation, April 6-12.
Mike Cory, Wichita senior and president of the club, said this trip would be an excellent opportunity for those interested in learning to ski.
The trip, planned for 50 students and faculty members, will include visits to Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, and Vail.
The trip will cost $78 which includes transportation, lodging, meals, tow tickets, and ski lesson fees.
Those interested in the trip should contact Mike Cory at VI3-4811 before March 9.
presently before the Kansas Legislature. They are bills for equal accommodations and fair housing.
McGee explained the bills in terms of provisions and enforcement.
"THE EQUAL accommodations bill is modeled after one already in effect in Connecticut. This is the broadest of any legislation of this kind that exists in 27 states," McGee said.
The new Kansas bill seeks to broaden the already existing Public Accommodations law by bringing all facilities under an "umbrella" clause.
In the present bill public accommodations are listed by name. They include restaurants, taverns, hotels, schools, beauty parlors and barber shops.
In the proposed bill, accommodations are referred to as places of "public accommodation, resort or amusement."
"THE HOUSING bill is new. Only two states have tried anything in this area." McGee said. "If this bill were out into effect, it would extend civil rights to all real estate transactions."
McGee explained that both bills, if passed, will be enforced by the Kansas Civil Rights Commission through investigation of complaints.
Floyd, another speaker at the forum, represented the Kansas Civil Rights Commission established in 1961 to administer the fair employment law.
Floyd explained the necessity of civil rights legislation:
"Through our studies, we have become thoroughly convinced that wholesale violation of minority rights exists. I know they do. I have experienced them myself."
BINNS INTERPRETED the effect of the proposed legislation on local businessmen.
"The businessmen affected by these bills are about ready to change. But they are afraid to be the first ones." Binns said. "The existence of civil rights laws would provide the push that is needed to make them change their old habits.."
"I think they would welcome the laws," he continued. "They would offer a buffer. Businessmen would feel they were taken off the hook if they were merely accepting a law."
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LONDON —(UFI) — Communist China, spurning apparent Soviet overtures for peace in the Moscow-Peking dispute, insisted today that the United States and the West are merely "paper tigers" which deserve nothing but contempt.
A Peking radio broadcast monitored here was a summary of a massive statement from the Chinese Communist party which is to be published over the next few days.
The article will give a "thorough explanation of the Chinese Communist thesis that imperialism and reactionaries are paper tigers," the broadcast said. It will be published in eight parts in Red Flag, the leading Peking theoretical magazine on communism.
Authority on Logic To Speak March 11
Prof. I. M. Bochenski, director of the Institute for East European Studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, will lecture twice on a return visit to KU in March.
Prof. Bochenski, an international authority on history of logic on Soviet philosophy, will also speak to the Philosophy Club on Dialectic Logic at 4:30 p.m. March 12 in the Kansas Union.
Prof. Bochenski, visiting professor at KU in the fall semester 1960, will lecture on "Religious Discourses is Beyond the limits of Logic," March 11, in the Kansas Union.
Dr. Bochenski is the author of numerous books, including "Ancient Formal Logic," "Contemporary European Philosophy," "A Precis of Mathematical Logic," and "History of Formal Logic."
The statement came on the heels of a number of gestures by Soviet leaders, including Premier Nikita Khrushchev, which apparently have been aimed at quieting the ideological dispute between the two Communist giants.
It obviously ignored Khrushchev's plea at the East German party meeting in Berlin last month for a cessation of public name-calling among Communists.
It added however, that the current "great debate" within the Communist movement was started by the "clique" of Yugoslav President Josin Broz Tito.
Rock Chalk Tickets Available for Friday
At that time, Khrushchev warned that while imperialism may be a "paper tiger," it had "nuclear teeth."
Only 300 second balcony seats are available for Friday night's performance of Rock Chalk Revue.
The article is directed primarily at criticism of Communist Chinese policies from Italian Party Chief Falmirio Togliatti, the broadest said.
Some very good tickets for both nights are being returned, but they are sold as quickly as they come in," said John Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla., junior and Revue business manager.
Standing room and some Saturday night tickets will go on sale at 7 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
Ise Comments-
"McKinley wasn't too bad. He loved his wife, and, I believe his mother, too. But he was not a great President, despite his amiable ways.
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"Harrison was not too bad—for a Republican.
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"Teddy Roosevelt also was supposed to be a Republican, but I don't like to concede that. He used to talk to J. P. Morgan to get the right slant on things. He was a good President. He would have been a great President if he hadn't had such a warlike attitude.
"Taft was nice, good-natured and high classed. Not great, not terrible.
"Some historians rate Wilson as our greatest President; some rate him along with Lincoln. But, personally, I wouldn't put him in Lincoln's class.
"Harding was such a fine fellow. He had certain disadvantages, however. One was he didn't know much.
"Some say he took his whiskey pretty well. I don't think this whiskey hurt him much. As a matter of fact, I think it helped. I don't mean to criticize him, he was a kindly man. If he had had more knowledge and more backbone, he would have been okay.
"In Hoover we had a superman. There was a time when I thought Hoover was a great man—that was before he was president.
"Fortunately, Coolidge had a pretty smart wife. I think she did enough to cover up for what he didn't know
"Franklin D. Roosevelt came in as a conservative, so you don't know what you're getting when you vote for a President. Well, I think his wife got him thinking as a liberal. Occasionally, wives do some good things."
"Truman was the most misunderstood man we've had as President. The press set out to crucify him, and they nearly did it.
"The historians rate him as a good President. Some rate him higher, as a great President. I don't know which he was, but he was a Democrat and that's good."
"And, then when Truman left... if Eisenhower hadn't been great he couldn't have run the world's largest nation on a half-time basis. How the people did worship that man who worked half the time on the job.
"He couldn't work very much on the job, I don't suppose, but he could have worked some. I'd grade him as C-." I believe he could have stolen the White House and sold it at an auction and the people would have still liked him.
"We have plenty of time to assay President Kennedy. I don't know what he'll be like."
In a question-answer period following his talk, Prof. Ise said he liked President Kennedy's tax program.
"It's quite possible if we put out $10 billion in public works, or something, that might increase industrial output that could bring a good deal more than $10 billion in revenue," he said.
ASKED WHAT role he thought the John Birch Society played in the Republican party. Prof. Ise said:
"I'm no expert on the John Birchers. I wasn't a psychology major. I don't know anything about psychotheraphy.
"I think that people may be learning a little about these ultra-right groups, but I don't know."
One person asked, "Do you foresee that Congress will streamline itself in the next two or three—"
"Centuries?" Prof. Ise cut in.
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Amended WU Bill Passes Committee
TOPEKA — (UPI) - An amendment-laden Wichita University bill went to the House Ways and Means Committee today.
The bill to bring the municipal university into the state system left the House State Affairs committee yesterday by a 12-6 vote recommending its passage.
In the bill were Rep. John Gardner's, R-Johnson County, amendments deleting all references to "university" from the Senate-approved version.
Gardner's amendments revise the title, deleting "university" or "University of Wichita" from the measure. Section 14, providing for appointment of a president of the school, was eliminated.
GOV. JOHN ANDERSON said he was more concerned about the deletion of section 14 than any other changes in the bill. But he also called attention to the deletion of "university" from the proposition which the people of Wichita would vote on.
The governor indicated that perhaps the Ways and Means committee might reinstate both those parts of the bill.
Gardner had charged that references to "university" in the Senate version might cause the Board of Regents to accept Wichita as a potential third university.
"The Attorney General has held that this bill would not restrict the Board of Regents," Gardner said, "But I believe the wording of the bill would have a persuasive effect on the Regents."
ASKED IF he thought the amendments would discourage Wichitans from accepting the plan, Gardner replied: "I believe the voters of Wichita will go for it any way."
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Anderson said yesterday the amendments to the Wichita bill did not mean destruction of the measure.
"The intent of the bill is to give complete authority over the school to the state Board of Regents," Anderson said. "I don't view removing (excess) wordage as particularly damaging."
The governor said he was not giving up hope that the bill would be passed this session.
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ANOTHER AMENDMENT, which passed 13-2, provided that the board of trustees of Wichita could not disburse any funds without the approval of the Regents.
After Ways and Means consideration, the bill goes to the House floor.
If the amendments are left in the bill and it is approved in the House it will be sent back to the Senate for a concurring vote.
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