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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Great American Presidents have come from the ranks of the Democratic party, John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, said last night.
Bv Roy Miller
Thursday, Feb. 28, 1963
Ise Comments On Presidents
"The record of the Democratic party is rather impressive," Prof. Ise told KU Young Democrats." After the Civil War, all the great Presidents were Democrats. $ \textcircled{4} $
Prof. John Ise
"The Republican party turned up none. Why? Well, I think the Republicans are the party of wealth and the great businessmen don't want great Presidents. The great Presidents won't follow orders at all.
Prof. Ise, who kept his audience laughing—as usual—most of the evening, was making his second talk on campus this year. The 77-year-old professor emeritus retired from KU in 1955.
"WE HAVE two parties in the United States." Prof. Ise added. "We have the Republican party and the Democratic - Socialist - Communistic party."
"So, I say, in general, a great man cannot always be elected President."
"Cleveland had a clean slate, except for one thing. I think he had an illegitimate son.
Prof. Ise said he wouldn't comment on state politics, but made one passing remark on Kansas matters.
"A majority party often seems to offer the worst man they think can be elected." Prof. Ise said. "The little man who will follow orders has been in demand.
"Grant was a fine man, but, Lord, he was a horrible President. He looked about like the littlest man you could have—about the worst they (the Republicans) and, therefore, the one they wanted.
"Hayes was a pretty decent man, but he was running against Tillman who was a more imminent and more distinguished man. Hayes didn't win the election, he stole it. Everybody said it was okay and they put him in office."
About Garfield and Arthur — "These are Republicans, you understand.
PROF. ISE turned his comments to an evaluation of American Presidents.
"I don't like our one-party system, I must confess. It reminds me of Hitler and Stalin."
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Skies will be partly cloudy today and temperatures are expected to be much colder.
Weather
The highs today should reach the upper 30's.
Forecasters said winds pouring through Kansas may leave local traces of light snow.
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Kennedy also asked for federal technical and financial assistance to school districts which need help to desegregate. And he requested four more years of life plus expanded powers for the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
JFK Proposes New Civil Rights Measures
Describing these as "a list of priorities," Kennedy said he knew his proposed and past actions "do not constitute a final answer to the problems of race discrimination in
The first two provisions would apply to federal and state elections, the latter only to federal balloting. Administration officials described the first two as new ideas and the other two as revisions of proposals which were made previously but got nowhere in Congress.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy asked Congress today for a series of new laws to protect Negroes from "the cruel disease of discrimination" in voting, schools, and other activities.
The President outlined his proposals in a 6,000-word special message, his first on civil rights. The message hailed the administration's non-legislative accomplishments in the past two years.
HE CALLED FOR laws providing
- For temporary referees to make it possible for Negroes to vote in state or federal elections while their lawsuits are pending against officials who deny them the ballot.
- That voting suits "be accorded expedited treatment in the federal courts" as a further step toward avoiding "the usual long and difficult delay" in such litigation.
- For a legal “presumption that the applicant is literate” if he has completed the sixth grade — unless state officials can prove that he has flunked his voting literacy test.
- For a ban against requiring Negroes to meet different standards from whites in applying to register and vote. Kennedy cited cases of Negro college graduates being denied voting rights for failure to give a "reasonable" interpretation of the Constitution.
this country." He promised to sign, if enacted, any "other measures directed toward these same goals."
"THE PROGRAM outlined in this message should not provide the occasion for sectional bitterness." Kennedy said. "No state or section of this nation can pretend a self-righteous role, for every area has its own civil rights problems. Nor should the basic elements of this program be imperiled by partisan-hip."
The President's failure to ask for civil rights legislation until now has brought criticism from some Negro leaders and some Republicans, including New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
"PROGRESS HAS been made— through executive action, litigation
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Action On Union Race Bias Sought
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy said today he has asked the Justice Department to seek "appropriate action against racial discrimination in unions."
He reported in a special message to Congress on civil rights that he also had directed the Department "to urge the National Labor Relations Board" to act in such cases.
"It is my hope that administrative action and litigation will make unnecessary the enactment of legislation with respect to union discrimination." Kennedy said.
He asserted that 117 labor unions, representing about 85 per cent of the membership of the AFL-CIO, had signed non-discrimination agreements with his committee on equal employment opportunity.
Everybody has a cause. With the Missouri attorney general, it's enforcement of the Elue Laws. In Kansas, it's making sure that no one under 21 purchases cigarettes.
Kennedy said this committee headed by Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, had "taken significant steps to eliminate racial discrimination" not only by unions but also by companies which do business with the government.
By Zeke Wigglesworth
The 'Naked Facts' Are Shown
But with a bunch of people headquartered in New York City, it's quite an udder case entirely.
The morals of America, they say, are slipping because cows and other animals "standing more than six inches" are running around in the nude."
This is the word being spread
Man...
by the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA) and its president. G. Clifford Prout.
"Nobody realizes what a terrible moral menace naked animals really are." Prout says. "People go to zoos and leer at naked gorillas and monkeys without knowing how these animals are undermining their morals."
Prout took this bit of inheritance in his mouth and SINA now claims 40,000 members in the United States. He says the SINA organization is quite active in seeing that animals are clothed to protect our children from the sight of naked horses, cows, dogs and cats."
Prout started SINA in 1956 when he inherited $400,000 from his father. According to stipulations in the will, the money has to be spent by 1966, and it must be spent for "improving the moral climate of animals."
SINA has a lobby in Washington, and operates "emergenvclothesmobiles" which are "rushed into areas where animal morality is low."
Prout is constantly on the look-out for moral violations of this kind. Last summer, for example, he wrote to Radio Corporation of America head David Sarnoff complaining about the RCA dog. "Immodest," he said.
Another candidate for a Prout attack on immorality was the San Francisco zoo.
"San Francisco is a moral disaster area," he said. "There are 700,000 naked animals running around loose."
He told the zoo's directors, who "disagreed with Prout's views," that "the sight of so many naked animals also helps explain there is so much juvenile delinquency and adult crime."
gone so far as to write a marching song to instrument their activities. It goes, in part, "High on the wings of a SINA, we fight for the future now . . . let's clothes every animal whether dog eat horse or cow."
The SINA people have even
The Kansas staff has tried various methods to find out if the SINA organization is bona fide or whether our respective legs are being pulled . . . thus far with no results.
Man's Best Friend...
In any event, you believe, as does SINA, that "Decency Today Means Morality Tomorrow - CLOTHE ALL ANIMALS," you can see Prout next month. He is reportedly coming here to begin a campus SINA organization.
persuasion and private initiative in achieving and protecting equality of opportunity in education, voting, transportation, employment, housing, government, and the enjoyment of public accommodations." Kennedy asserted. He pointed to his recent executive order banning discrimination in federally aided housing.
LAST YEAR, the Justice Department proposed a bill to bar use of literacy tests to block voting by Negroes, but it was not enacted. However, as Kennedy noted, Congress did approve a Constitutional amendment to prohibit the levying of poll taxes as a condition to voting.
"Already 13 states have ratified the proposed amendment, and in three more one body of the legislature has acted," Kennedy said. "I urge every state legislature to take prompt action on this matter and to outlaw the poll tax — which has too long been an outmoded and arbitrary bar to voting participation."
In the field of education, Kennedy said "the shameful violence which accompanied but did not prevent the end of segregation at the University of Mississippi was an exception" to progress elsewhere in the South.
KENNEDY CITED several recent examples of peaceful desegregation, including state-supported universities in Georgia and South Carolina, and public schools in "Atlanta, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis and elsewhere, with over 60 school districts desegregated last year."
But he said problems still exist— in the North and South — and he proposed:
- A federal program of "technical and financial assistance to aid school districts in the process of desegregation in compliance with the constitution."
- Elimination of federal sanction for "separate but equal" land grant colleges, in line with the supreme court's ruling that this concept is unconstitutional.
The President said the five-year-old civil rights commission, scheduled to go out of existence Nov. 30, should "be placed on a more stable and more permanent basis." He proposed extension of its life for at least four more years.
Kennedy also said the commission should be empowered to provide "technical assistance to any requesting agency, private or public" as well as to "serve as a national civil rights clearing house" for information and advice.
KU Police Check Reported Assault
Campus police are investigating a report that a freshman woman was mcelested Tuesday evening in the 1100 block of Louisiana St.
The woman was walking north on Louisiana when a man parked his ear on the east side of Louisiana and crossed the street in front of the woman, the report said.
HE TRIED TO force her into his car, a 1959 or 1960 white Chevrolet, the report said.
The woman ran south on Louisiana until she met another woman, and the two walked back north along Louisiana, the report said.
The man was described as about six feet tall, about 200 pounds, with blond hair, long in front and short in back.
A friend of the woman reported the incident, but refused to give police the name of the molested woman.