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The Daily Iowan
OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENT
Page 2  TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1964
Iowa City, Iowa

Soviet fight with religion changes
   SOVIET OFFICIALDOM’S running fight with organized religion has taken a wry turn. After condoning -- if not encouraging -- intensified attacks on the churches during recent weeks, it has suddenly issued a stinging attack on what it calls “red-tape atheists.”
   Atheism, of course, is what the Communist hierarchy preaches. Indeed, the Soviet leadership would have completely wiped out organized religion within the Soviet Union, if it had been possible to do so. But such is the hold of religious faith that after more than four decades of atheistic propaganda, members of all three of the great monotheistic religions still attend places of worship in the Soviet Union.
   The Soviet Communist Party has been much exercised for the past 18 months about ideological contaminations which might prevent full development of the “perfect Soviet man.” Anything unorthodox in the arts has seemed particularly suspect to the more unimaginative party dogmatists. And they, too, have probably been most concerned about even the small measure of freedom (and the greater measure of success) allowed the various churches.
   But as in other fields, the bureaucracy below the top has rushed ahead in blinkers and -- according to Komsomolsakaya Pravda -- has pushed the campaign too far to be wise. It tells of a young girl with a fine school record who was ostracized and hounded by her teachers merely because her father was a clergyman. And the writer of the article clearly sides with the girl, not with the teachers.
   That does not mean at all that the Soviet Communist Party has dropped atheism. Yet it shows that in trying to hold the front against religion, the human factor with which the party leadership is doing forces it -- as in other areas -- to open the concertina again after having squeezed it in. 
The Christian Science Monitor

University Bulletin Board
University Bulletin Board notices must be received at The Daily Iowan office, Room 201 Communications Center, by noon of the day before publication. They must be typed and signed by an adviser or officer of the organization being publicized. Purely social functions are not eligible for this section.

   INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, and interdenominational group of students, meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in 203, Union. Meetings are open to the public.

   THE SPECIAL PH.D. GERMAN examination will be given on Friday, Feb. 14, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in Room 101 Schaeffer Hall. This exam is for those students who have made prior arrangements to prepare the work privately. Bring books and articles to the exam. All those students planning to take the exam must register prior to Feb. 14, Room 103 Schaeffer Hall.

   BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL PLACEMENT OFFICE -- All registrants are asked to report their new class schedules and any change of address immediately. Grades received for Fall Semester courses should be reported as soon as received.

   STUDENTS REGISTERED with the Educational Placement Office (C- 103 East Hall) should report any change of address and record any academic data necessary to bring their credentials up to date for the second semester.

   CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION holds a testimony meeting every Tuesday in CR 1. River Room.

   WOMEN’S RECREATIONAL SWIMMING will be available 4-5:15 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Women’s Gym pool for students, staff and faculty wives.

   SUNDAY RECREATION HOURS: The Field House will be open for mixed recreational activities from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. each Sunday afternoon. Admission to the building will be by ID card through the northeast door. All facilities will be available except the gymnastic area.

   PARENTS COOPERATIVE BABYSITTING LEAGUE. Those interested in membership should call Mrs. Charles Hatrey at 8-6622. Thise desiring sitters should call Mrs. Robert Gates at 7-3232.

   BABYSITTERS may be obtained by calling the YWCA office during the afternoon at x2240.

   COMPLAINTS. Students wishing to file University complaints can now pick up their forms at the Information Desk of the Union and turn them in at the Student Senate Office.

   PLAYNIGHTS of mixed recreational activities for students, staff, faculty and their spouses, are held at the Field House each Tuesday and Friday night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. provided no home varsity contest is scheduled. (Admission by student or staff ID card.)

   UNIVERSITY LIBRARY HOURS: Monday-Friday: 7:30-2 a.m.; Saturday: 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday: 1:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Service Desks: Monday-Thursday; 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 7-10 p.m. (reserve only). Photoduplication: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 6-10 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. until noon, 1-5 p.m.; Sunday: 2-5 p.m.

   IOWA MEMORIAL UNION HOURS: Cafeteria open 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Saturday: 5-6:45 p.m. Monday-Friday: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday. Gold Feather Room open 7 a.m.-10:45 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 7 a.m.-11:45 p.m., Friday; 8 a.m.-11:45 p.m. Saturday; 1-10:45 p.m. Sunday. Recreation area open 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 8 a.m.-midnight, Friday and Saturday. 2-11 p.m. Sunday.

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In tribute--
Lincoln's Birthday pushes rights bill
By RALPH MCGILL
   It was the approach of Mr. A. Lincoln’s birthday that moved House Republicans into action to release the civil rights bill from a committee bondage and to the floor for debate. Had they not done so, they could not have made birthday speeches honoring the Great Emancipator on Feb. 12 without being left out of the hall. (That they thus have provided us with an example of callous cynicism does not seem to trouble the congressman.)
   Mr. Lincoln died of an assassin’s bullet more than 98 years ago, but his birthday still has power to get action in the area of conscience and human rights.
   As we take a look at Mr. Lincoln and his impact on the events of his time, we see very plainly that his decision to save the Union, even though it meant war, served to confirm and establish a Federal Union. Until the conclusion provided by the four years of war and its impact on law and mind, we were a country of petty sovereignties, each avoiding the facts and meaning of the Constitution accepted in 1789.
   Mr. Lincoln saw this plain when he said, “My paramount object is to say the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . .” Lincoln became almost literally the incarnation of the Union, its meaning and purpose. Segregation extremists today take delight in lifting this declaration of Lincoln’s about slavery out of context. They ignore the central fact . . . that Lincoln had earlier proclaimed and affirmed -- the nation could not exist half slave and half free.
   When confronted with the issue of the breaking up of the nation he could, without any contradiction whatever, say that his paramount object was to save the Union. A Union providing free government was in jeopardy. The barbaric custom of African slavery was already on the way out. Even Russia’s czar, confronted with world opinion, has freed the serfs from the bondage of centuries. Chattel slavery was making a last, futile stand in the United States because there were enough men whose greed had blinded them to the present reality and to the forces of history then loose in the world. All reality was directed toward eliminating the enslavement of human beings. Lincoln knew that if the Union died in the war, then freedom and the Government instituted by free men would also fail. So, there is no mystery in the Lincoln statement that his paramount objective was to say the Union.
   Lincoln’s political development as revealed by his speeches shows him to have been a Henry Clay Whig, with definite feelings for emancipation. (Such Whigs Jews Whigs were described as “Conscience Whigs.”) He was an anti-slavery man, but not an abolitionist. He was for an orderly process of emancipation.
   But Lincoln was destined to be a spokesman for a trend that was felt then in all civilized countries. By the time he was debating Douglas, African slavery have become the central issue. It was this fact that so handicapped Douglas in his debates with Lincoln, and, later, his hopes to be nominated by a whole party. The Democratic party was divided. Douglas, a patriotic man with undoubted love of country, also wanted to save the Union. He saw, and said, that the Southern Democrats who were then proposing to bolt the party and to lead their states out of the Union were advocating disaster and defeat. They were.
   Lincoln, a “Conscious Whig,” hated slavery, but wanted to win, if he could, voluntary agreement to a abolition. He tried to do this as late as the Hampton Roads conference on Feb. 3, 1865 when he and U.S. Grant met with the Confederate Commissioners headed by the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens. Lincoln had then in his pocket a written proposal to end the war, to abolish slavery by paying the owners with federal funds, and to bring the states honorably back into the Union. Jefferson Davis had forbade any such agreement.
   Today, the birthday of the “Conscious Whig” has power to activate congressmen who are not personally committed to the Lincoln principles. There are 19 million Americans who are denied citizenship rights that are routinely those of 172 million. Voluntary negotiations are being scorned. “My rights are mine,” some are saying, ignoring the force of opinion on conscience that weighs so heavily on us today.
   (Distributed 1964, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)

A very nasty man --
Richard Burton, stay in England!
By ART BUCHWALD
   WASHINGTON -- Everytime we start to worry about morals in the United States, a Congressman comes along to give us faith in the American system. Congressman Michael Feighan of Ohio, who is chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, has announced that he is opposed to giving Richard Burton of visa.
   “It’s a question of protecting public morals,” the Congressman said after a closed hearing. He said it was particularly important to keep Mr. Burton out of the United States in order to guard the morals of young children.
   He added that he had received letters from many people “who were outraged at Miss Taylor’s and Mr. Burton’s conduct.”

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BUCHWALD

We happen to agree with Congressman Feighan, because we have three young children, and if Richard Burton is permitted to come to the U.S., we have no idea what would happen to our youngster’s morals.
   Just the other evening at dinner we happened to mention that Mr. Burton was coming to Broadway to play in “Hamlet.” Our wife clutched the children to her bosom and said, “How could they let him do it after all he’s done?”
   “What has he done?” our son wanted to know.
   “He got a divorce and he wants to marry Elizabeth Taylor,” we said.
   “Please,” our wife begged, “not in front of the children!”
   Our daughter, who is nine, said, “If he comes to the United States, won’t that hurt our morals?”
   “That’s what Congressman Feighan of Ohio says,” we told her.
   “I don’t want my morals hurt.” Our eight-year-old started to cry.
      “Nobody’s going to hurt your morals,” we assured her. “That’s why we have Congressmen. They’re there to protect us.”
   “How?” our son wanted to know.
   “Well, they know more about morals than anybody. They’re always protecting each other’s morals, particularly during an investigation, so they’re well equipped to protect ours.”
   “Why would keeping Richard Burton from playing ‘Hamlet’ protect our morals?” our nine-year-old daughter wanted to know.
   “ ‘Hamlet’ is that kind of play,” we said. “Shakespeare was a very immoral writer and if we can keep Mr. Burton out of the United States, then we wouldn’t be subjecting anyone to an immoral production.”
   “If we don’t see ‘Hamlet,’ will our morals still be hurt?” our eight-year-old demanded.
   “Yes. You see, if Mr. Burton comes to Broadway, Miss Taylor will probably come with him, and that is what Congressman Feighan is worried about.”
   “I don’t understand,” our son said.
   “It’s quite simple. If it gets out that Mr. Burton and Miss Taylor are in New York together, one kid will tell another kid and that kid will tell another kid and pretty soon all the kids in the country will be corrupted.”
   “What will they do?” our nine-year-old asked.
   “They’ll drink and steal cars and sneak off to motels and stop going to church and heavens knows what. It just takes one visa to set the whole thing off.”
   “What can we do to prevent it from happening?” they all chorused.
   “Let’s each write a letter to Congressman Feighan and tell him how outraged we are,” we said.
   “Yippee,” our son said, running for a pencil. When he returned he said, “Daddy? What does outraged mean?”
© 1964 Publishers Newspaper Syndicate

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Wednesday, February 12
   12 p.m. -- Engineering Faculty -- Union.
   8 p.m. -- Four Saints Concert -- Union.
   8 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre.
   Public Safety Management Institute -- Union.

Thursday, February 13
   12 p.m. -- Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium -- Union.
   6 p.m. -- University Research Club dinner -- Union.
   7 p.m. -- Research Club Meeting -- Pentacrest Room, Union.
   8 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre.
   Public Safety Management Institute -- Union.

Friday, February 14
   3:30 p.m. -- Studio Matinee -- Studio Theatre.
   4 p.m. -- Zoology Seminar: "The Organization of Development in Ciliate Doublets," Dr. Joseph Frankel -- 201, Zoology Building.
   8 p.m. -- Concert: John Beer, trumpet; John Hill trombone -- Music Building.
   8 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre.

Saturday, February 15
   9 a.m. -- Journalism Job Opportunities Seminar -- Communications Center
   10 a.m. -- Alpha Psi Chapter of Phi Upsilon Omincron (Home Economics), Founders' Day Celebration -- Macbride
   1 p.m. -- Track: Purdue and Northwestern -- Field House
   2:30 p.m. -- Swimming: Northwestern -- Field House
   6 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre

Sunday, February 16
   2:30 p.m. -- Iowa Mountaineers Travelogue: "Adventure in Indonesia, Helen and Frank Schreider -- Macbride Auditorium.
   7 p.m. -- Union Board Movie: "Bitter Rice" -- Macbride Auditorium.

Monday, February 17
   6 p.m. -- Greek Week Banquet -- Union.
   7:30 p.m. -- Basketball: Ohio State.
   8 p.m. -- Humanities Society Lecture: Professor Eugene Helm, "On the Persistence of Music as Number -- Art Auditorium.
   "New Dimensions in the Care and Treatment of the Chronically Ill and the Acutely Ill, " Session I -- Iowa Center.

Letters to the editor--
Are opinions really facts?

To the Editor:
We would like to add our voices to those protesting the irresponsible journalism displayed by The Daily Iowan in its reporting of Kenneth Keat’s “investigation” of the SARE book drive. The reporting implied that there was an element of irresponsibility or deception and the book drive. Such has been and will be further proven not to be the case.
   The Iowan should not have posed the question of a “need” for books in Greenwood in an ostensibly factual news story. The story was actually based on the opinion of certain individuals. Is the opinion of the mayor of Greenwood on the “goodness” of the Negro library facts? Is the opinion of the editor of the Greenwood newspaper on the “equalness” of the Negro library facts? It seems to us that there are two basic fallacies in your assumptions of what is factual. First, that the opinion of a non-objective individual can be without bias; and, second, that “separate but equal” can be truly equal.
   Mr. Keat’s “investigation,” aside from implying that SUIowans were “given false information,” increased the potential danger of the students who took the books into Mississippi. Fortunately, they were able to avoid physical harassment (not an unlikely possibility for whites bringing education material to Mississippi Negroes.)
   Mr. Keat stated, before revising his statement in the light of controversy, that “he investigates things for the fun of it.” (The Iowan, Jan. 31.)
   Know this, Mr. Keat: SNCC workers in Mississippi do not daily subject themselves to physical violence and death threats “for the fun of it.” They don’t suffer beatings in jail “for the fun of it.” SNCC field secretary James Travis was shot and seriously wounded just outside of Greenwood, but not “for the fun of it.” SNCC officers in Greenwood weren’t burned “for the fun of it.” And of course SARE members did not collect books or volunteer to truck them into Mississippi “for the fun of it.”
   We would not deny Mr. Keat the right to conduct an investigation, were it properly carried out. But we suggest that The Daily Iowan not raise questions of this nature without an adequate factual basis. In our opinion articles of this nature should be hereafter placed on the editorial page.
Seymour Grey, A4
421 So. Dubuque
Ed Spannaus, A3
219 E. Bloomington

Is tuition rise really necessary?
Open Letter to President Hancher
State University of Iowa
Dear Sir:
   I, as most students, am displeased that the University has announced another raise in tuition, the second in three years. Since I plan to graduate this spring, my displeasure arises not because it will cost me more money, but rather that it is another installment of a trend that will eventually work against the best interest of the University and the people it serves. That trend is this: in meeting the growing demand for higher education by an expanding population, the University is gradually substituting an economic standard for an academic standard in determining who shall receive the benefits of a college education.
   That an extra $50, $70, or $200 per year means more to a student who is financing his own education and it does to a student who has the backing of a wealthy family is a fact that only the least experienced among us would not admit. As this trend continues it will be more and more burdensome to the student with minimal backing to get a college education. That this works against the student should be obvious. That it works against the University should be equally clear. As the bright but poor find it increasingly difficult to complete four years of college, it will be the University’s loss, particularly if his place is taken by the mediocre but moneyed.
   What other choice is there, you might rightfully ask, in a state that is possessed of a legislature which chronically fails to appropriate sufficient funds to allow the University to meet its growing enrollment, than to continually raise the tuition? The answer is obvious; restrict the enrollment to comply with the funds appropriated, and further, make sure that this enrollment includes the brightest applicants. The advantages are also obvious. First, if there must be discrimination in selecting those who will receive a college education, then let that discrimination be on the basis of human talents instead of golden ones. Second, if there must be a change in the quality of students, then let it improve rather than decline.
   Finally, if the guardians of the public purse find that young men and women in this state may not be able to find a place at the seat of learning unless enough places are provided; then, and only then, do I think such places will be provided. Then they will not leave the burden to students or hard pressed families to meet the growing cost of education, but they will draw from the common wealth to provide for the commonwealth.
Jack Dodd, M4
1034 Finkbine Park

Claims debate over
To the Editor:
   The controversy concerning the SARE book drive seems an entirely futile debate. Two authorities give two contradictory reports: SNCC says there is a need for books; the mayor of Greenwood, Miss. Says there is no need. Someone is obviously lying. The question is, which concern would gain from giving false information?
   The purpose of SNCC is supposedly to educate the Negroes to a level equal to the majority of whites in this country, so that they may gain equal opportunities. I wonder why SNCC would falsify and need for books. What, aside from their stated intention, could they be planning to do with six tons of books from Iowa City? This could be somewhat easier to understand. Isn’t part of the job of a mayor public relations? Isn’t this particular mayor a member of the White Citizen’s Council?
   Of course, there is no positive verification of the validity of the SARE book drive. However, I would venture to suggest that the Greenwood mayor might profit more from misrepresenting facts than would SNCC.
Sara Jacobson, A1
4402 Burge

Stop the (pork) bubble machine!
To the Editor:
   I wish to thank you for printing recently an article entitled, “Off Campus Cookery” by A.Q. Smith, student writer and gourmand. His recipes, dedicated as they were “to (robust, hearty) cooking for men, by men,” intrigued us so we tried one. We have had to seal off the kitchen until the older quiets down but the Pork Shoulder Viennese was superb. If Mr. Smith has developed others of these bubbling wonders in his Finkbine gustatorium, let’s hear about them.
   I should add (blush) that my wife did the cooking and most of the eating.
Eugene Spaziani
Associate Professor
Dept. of Zoology

End of One China?
   After some 15 years of solidarity among western nations in opposing the Chinese Communist regime, a slight crack has appeared in the armor. France, under the headstrong leadership of Charles de Gaulle, has announced formal recognition of Mao Tse Tung’s government, amid howls of unfair play from the United States.
   As it has in the past, the U.S. government has remained strongly opposed to any admission that Red China exists, preferring to keep its collective head buried in the sand. The State Department, calling De Gaulle’s move “unwise,” said that it is “an unfortunate step, particularly at a time when the Chinese Communists are actively promoting aggression and subversion in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.”
   This is isolationism of the worst sort. We could just as easily say that we don’t recognize snow in the winter and won’t clear it off the streets because we don’t know it’s there. Closing our eyes won’t make the snow go away, and that won’t keep people from falling on it. Telling ourselves that the Red Chinese are no real threat and don’t deserve recognition as a nation can only make the inevitable adjustment more difficult later on when they have become even stronger and even more dangerous than they are now.
   American refusal to face the facts of political life can not in any way help our diplomatic position. The one - China policy should be discontinued, at whatever loss of face may be necessary, without any further hesitation.
-Michigan State News

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The Daily Iowan OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENT Page 2 TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1964 Iowa City, Iowa Soviet fight with religion changes SOVIET OFFICIALDOM’S running fight with organized religion has taken a wry turn. After condoning -- if not encouraging -- intensified attacks on the churches during recent weeks, it has suddenly issued a stinging attack on what it calls “red-tape atheists.” Atheism, of course, is what the Communist hierarchy preaches. Indeed, the Soviet leadership would have completely wiped out organized religion within the Soviet Union, if it had been possible to do so. But such is the hold of religious faith that after more than four decades of atheistic propaganda, members of all three of the great monotheistic religions still attend places of worship in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Communist Party has been much exercised for the past 18 months about ideological contaminations which might prevent full development of the “perfect Soviet man.” Anything unorthodox in the arts has seemed particularly suspect to the more unimaginative party dogmatists. And they, too, have probably been most concerned about even the small measure of freedom (and the greater measure of success) allowed the various churches. But as in other fields, the bureaucracy below the top has rushed ahead in blinkers and -- according to Komsomolsakaya Pravda -- has pushed the campaign too far to be wise. It tells of a young girl with a fine school record who was ostracized and hounded by her teachers merely because her father was a clergyman. And the writer of the article clearly sides with the girl, not with the teachers. That does not mean at all that the Soviet Communist Party has dropped atheism. Yet it shows that in trying to hold the front against religion, the human factor with which the party leadership is doing forces it -- as in other areas -- to open the concertina again after having squeezed it in. The Christian Science Monitor University Bulletin Board University Bulletin Board notices must be received at The Daily Iowan office, Room 201 Communications Center, by noon of the day before publication. They must be typed and signed by an adviser or officer of the organization being publicized. Purely social functions are not eligible for this section. INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, and interdenominational group of students, meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in 203, Union. Meetings are open to the public. THE SPECIAL PH.D. GERMAN examination will be given on Friday, Feb. 14, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in Room 101 Schaeffer Hall. This exam is for those students who have made prior arrangements to prepare the work privately. Bring books and articles to the exam. All those students planning to take the exam must register prior to Feb. 14, Room 103 Schaeffer Hall. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL PLACEMENT OFFICE -- All registrants are asked to report their new class schedules and any change of address immediately. Grades received for Fall Semester courses should be reported as soon as received. STUDENTS REGISTERED with the Educational Placement Office (C- 103 East Hall) should report any change of address and record any academic data necessary to bring their credentials up to date for the second semester. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION holds a testimony meeting every Tuesday in CR 1. River Room. WOMEN’S RECREATIONAL SWIMMING will be available 4-5:15 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Women’s Gym pool for students, staff and faculty wives. SUNDAY RECREATION HOURS: The Field House will be open for mixed recreational activities from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. each Sunday afternoon. Admission to the building will be by ID card through the northeast door. All facilities will be available except the gymnastic area. PARENTS COOPERATIVE BABYSITTING LEAGUE. Those interested in membership should call Mrs. Charles Hatrey at 8-6622. Thise desiring sitters should call Mrs. Robert Gates at 7-3232. BABYSITTERS may be obtained by calling the YWCA office during the afternoon at x2240. COMPLAINTS. Students wishing to file University complaints can now pick up their forms at the Information Desk of the Union and turn them in at the Student Senate Office. PLAYNIGHTS of mixed recreational activities for students, staff, faculty and their spouses, are held at the Field House each Tuesday and Friday night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. provided no home varsity contest is scheduled. (Admission by student or staff ID card.) UNIVERSITY LIBRARY HOURS: Monday-Friday: 7:30-2 a.m.; Saturday: 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday: 1:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Service Desks: Monday-Thursday; 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 7-10 p.m. (reserve only). 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Moeller, School of Journalism; Prof. Lauren A. Van Dyke, College of Education. Dial 7-4191 if you did not receive your Daily Iowan by 7:30 a.m. The Daily Iowan circulation office in the Communications Center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday. Make-good service on missed papers is not possible, but every effort will be made to correct errors with the next issue. In tribute-- Lincoln's Birthday pushes rights bill By RALPH MCGILL It was the approach of Mr. A. Lincoln’s birthday that moved House Republicans into action to release the civil rights bill from a committee bondage and to the floor for debate. Had they not done so, they could not have made birthday speeches honoring the Great Emancipator on Feb. 12 without being left out of the hall. (That they thus have provided us with an example of callous cynicism does not seem to trouble the congressman.) Mr. Lincoln died of an assassin’s bullet more than 98 years ago, but his birthday still has power to get action in the area of conscience and human rights. As we take a look at Mr. Lincoln and his impact on the events of his time, we see very plainly that his decision to save the Union, even though it meant war, served to confirm and establish a Federal Union. Until the conclusion provided by the four years of war and its impact on law and mind, we were a country of petty sovereignties, each avoiding the facts and meaning of the Constitution accepted in 1789. Mr. Lincoln saw this plain when he said, “My paramount object is to say the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. . . .” Lincoln became almost literally the incarnation of the Union, its meaning and purpose. Segregation extremists today take delight in lifting this declaration of Lincoln’s about slavery out of context. They ignore the central fact . . . that Lincoln had earlier proclaimed and affirmed -- the nation could not exist half slave and half free. When confronted with the issue of the breaking up of the nation he could, without any contradiction whatever, say that his paramount object was to save the Union. A Union providing free government was in jeopardy. The barbaric custom of African slavery was already on the way out. Even Russia’s czar, confronted with world opinion, has freed the serfs from the bondage of centuries. Chattel slavery was making a last, futile stand in the United States because there were enough men whose greed had blinded them to the present reality and to the forces of history then loose in the world. All reality was directed toward eliminating the enslavement of human beings. Lincoln knew that if the Union died in the war, then freedom and the Government instituted by free men would also fail. So, there is no mystery in the Lincoln statement that his paramount objective was to say the Union. Lincoln’s political development as revealed by his speeches shows him to have been a Henry Clay Whig, with definite feelings for emancipation. (Such Whigs Jews Whigs were described as “Conscience Whigs.”) He was an anti-slavery man, but not an abolitionist. He was for an orderly process of emancipation. But Lincoln was destined to be a spokesman for a trend that was felt then in all civilized countries. By the time he was debating Douglas, African slavery have become the central issue. It was this fact that so handicapped Douglas in his debates with Lincoln, and, later, his hopes to be nominated by a whole party. The Democratic party was divided. Douglas, a patriotic man with undoubted love of country, also wanted to save the Union. He saw, and said, that the Southern Democrats who were then proposing to bolt the party and to lead their states out of the Union were advocating disaster and defeat. They were. Lincoln, a “Conscious Whig,” hated slavery, but wanted to win, if he could, voluntary agreement to a abolition. He tried to do this as late as the Hampton Roads conference on Feb. 3, 1865 when he and U.S. Grant met with the Confederate Commissioners headed by the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens. Lincoln had then in his pocket a written proposal to end the war, to abolish slavery by paying the owners with federal funds, and to bring the states honorably back into the Union. Jefferson Davis had forbade any such agreement. Today, the birthday of the “Conscious Whig” has power to activate congressmen who are not personally committed to the Lincoln principles. There are 19 million Americans who are denied citizenship rights that are routinely those of 172 million. Voluntary negotiations are being scorned. “My rights are mine,” some are saying, ignoring the force of opinion on conscience that weighs so heavily on us today. (Distributed 1964, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) A very nasty man -- Richard Burton, stay in England! By ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON -- Everytime we start to worry about morals in the United States, a Congressman comes along to give us faith in the American system. Congressman Michael Feighan of Ohio, who is chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, has announced that he is opposed to giving Richard Burton of visa. “It’s a question of protecting public morals,” the Congressman said after a closed hearing. He said it was particularly important to keep Mr. Burton out of the United States in order to guard the morals of young children. He added that he had received letters from many people “who were outraged at Miss Taylor’s and Mr. Burton’s conduct.” [photo] BUCHWALD We happen to agree with Congressman Feighan, because we have three young children, and if Richard Burton is permitted to come to the U.S., we have no idea what would happen to our youngster’s morals. Just the other evening at dinner we happened to mention that Mr. Burton was coming to Broadway to play in “Hamlet.” Our wife clutched the children to her bosom and said, “How could they let him do it after all he’s done?” “What has he done?” our son wanted to know. “He got a divorce and he wants to marry Elizabeth Taylor,” we said. “Please,” our wife begged, “not in front of the children!” Our daughter, who is nine, said, “If he comes to the United States, won’t that hurt our morals?” “That’s what Congressman Feighan of Ohio says,” we told her. “I don’t want my morals hurt.” Our eight-year-old started to cry. “Nobody’s going to hurt your morals,” we assured her. “That’s why we have Congressmen. They’re there to protect us.” “How?” our son wanted to know. “Well, they know more about morals than anybody. They’re always protecting each other’s morals, particularly during an investigation, so they’re well equipped to protect ours.” “Why would keeping Richard Burton from playing ‘Hamlet’ protect our morals?” our nine-year-old daughter wanted to know. “ ‘Hamlet’ is that kind of play,” we said. “Shakespeare was a very immoral writer and if we can keep Mr. Burton out of the United States, then we wouldn’t be subjecting anyone to an immoral production.” “If we don’t see ‘Hamlet,’ will our morals still be hurt?” our eight-year-old demanded. “Yes. You see, if Mr. Burton comes to Broadway, Miss Taylor will probably come with him, and that is what Congressman Feighan is worried about.” “I don’t understand,” our son said. “It’s quite simple. If it gets out that Mr. Burton and Miss Taylor are in New York together, one kid will tell another kid and that kid will tell another kid and pretty soon all the kids in the country will be corrupted.” “What will they do?” our nine-year-old asked. “They’ll drink and steal cars and sneak off to motels and stop going to church and heavens knows what. It just takes one visa to set the whole thing off.” “What can we do to prevent it from happening?” they all chorused. “Let’s each write a letter to Congressman Feighan and tell him how outraged we are,” we said. “Yippee,” our son said, running for a pencil. When he returned he said, “Daddy? What does outraged mean?” © 1964 Publishers Newspaper Syndicate [cartoon] "New Pieces Keep Turning Up" OFFICIAL DAILY BULLETIN University Calendar [emblem] Wednesday, February 12 12 p.m. -- Engineering Faculty -- Union. 8 p.m. -- Four Saints Concert -- Union. 8 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre. Public Safety Management Institute -- Union. Thursday, February 13 12 p.m. -- Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium -- Union. 6 p.m. -- University Research Club dinner -- Union. 7 p.m. -- Research Club Meeting -- Pentacrest Room, Union. 8 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre. Public Safety Management Institute -- Union. Friday, February 14 3:30 p.m. -- Studio Matinee -- Studio Theatre. 4 p.m. -- Zoology Seminar: "The Organization of Development in Ciliate Doublets," Dr. Joseph Frankel -- 201, Zoology Building. 8 p.m. -- Concert: John Beer, trumpet; John Hill trombone -- Music Building. 8 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre. Saturday, February 15 9 a.m. -- Journalism Job Opportunities Seminar -- Communications Center 10 a.m. -- Alpha Psi Chapter of Phi Upsilon Omincron (Home Economics), Founders' Day Celebration -- Macbride 1 p.m. -- Track: Purdue and Northwestern -- Field House 2:30 p.m. -- Swimming: Northwestern -- Field House 6 p.m. -- Studio Theatre Production: "A Month in the Country" -- Studio Theatre Sunday, February 16 2:30 p.m. -- Iowa Mountaineers Travelogue: "Adventure in Indonesia, Helen and Frank Schreider -- Macbride Auditorium. 7 p.m. -- Union Board Movie: "Bitter Rice" -- Macbride Auditorium. Monday, February 17 6 p.m. -- Greek Week Banquet -- Union. 7:30 p.m. -- Basketball: Ohio State. 8 p.m. -- Humanities Society Lecture: Professor Eugene Helm, "On the Persistence of Music as Number -- Art Auditorium. "New Dimensions in the Care and Treatment of the Chronically Ill and the Acutely Ill, " Session I -- Iowa Center. Letters to the editor-- Are opinions really facts? To the Editor: We would like to add our voices to those protesting the irresponsible journalism displayed by The Daily Iowan in its reporting of Kenneth Keat’s “investigation” of the SARE book drive. The reporting implied that there was an element of irresponsibility or deception and the book drive. Such has been and will be further proven not to be the case. The Iowan should not have posed the question of a “need” for books in Greenwood in an ostensibly factual news story. The story was actually based on the opinion of certain individuals. Is the opinion of the mayor of Greenwood on the “goodness” of the Negro library facts? Is the opinion of the editor of the Greenwood newspaper on the “equalness” of the Negro library facts? It seems to us that there are two basic fallacies in your assumptions of what is factual. First, that the opinion of a non-objective individual can be without bias; and, second, that “separate but equal” can be truly equal. Mr. Keat’s “investigation,” aside from implying that SUIowans were “given false information,” increased the potential danger of the students who took the books into Mississippi. Fortunately, they were able to avoid physical harassment (not an unlikely possibility for whites bringing education material to Mississippi Negroes.) Mr. Keat stated, before revising his statement in the light of controversy, that “he investigates things for the fun of it.” (The Iowan, Jan. 31.) Know this, Mr. Keat: SNCC workers in Mississippi do not daily subject themselves to physical violence and death threats “for the fun of it.” They don’t suffer beatings in jail “for the fun of it.” SNCC field secretary James Travis was shot and seriously wounded just outside of Greenwood, but not “for the fun of it.” SNCC officers in Greenwood weren’t burned “for the fun of it.” And of course SARE members did not collect books or volunteer to truck them into Mississippi “for the fun of it.” We would not deny Mr. Keat the right to conduct an investigation, were it properly carried out. But we suggest that The Daily Iowan not raise questions of this nature without an adequate factual basis. In our opinion articles of this nature should be hereafter placed on the editorial page. Seymour Grey, A4 421 So. Dubuque Ed Spannaus, A3 219 E. Bloomington Is tuition rise really necessary? Open Letter to President Hancher State University of Iowa Dear Sir: I, as most students, am displeased that the University has announced another raise in tuition, the second in three years. Since I plan to graduate this spring, my displeasure arises not because it will cost me more money, but rather that it is another installment of a trend that will eventually work against the best interest of the University and the people it serves. That trend is this: in meeting the growing demand for higher education by an expanding population, the University is gradually substituting an economic standard for an academic standard in determining who shall receive the benefits of a college education. That an extra $50, $70, or $200 per year means more to a student who is financing his own education and it does to a student who has the backing of a wealthy family is a fact that only the least experienced among us would not admit. As this trend continues it will be more and more burdensome to the student with minimal backing to get a college education. That this works against the student should be obvious. That it works against the University should be equally clear. As the bright but poor find it increasingly difficult to complete four years of college, it will be the University’s loss, particularly if his place is taken by the mediocre but moneyed. What other choice is there, you might rightfully ask, in a state that is possessed of a legislature which chronically fails to appropriate sufficient funds to allow the University to meet its growing enrollment, than to continually raise the tuition? The answer is obvious; restrict the enrollment to comply with the funds appropriated, and further, make sure that this enrollment includes the brightest applicants. The advantages are also obvious. First, if there must be discrimination in selecting those who will receive a college education, then let that discrimination be on the basis of human talents instead of golden ones. Second, if there must be a change in the quality of students, then let it improve rather than decline. Finally, if the guardians of the public purse find that young men and women in this state may not be able to find a place at the seat of learning unless enough places are provided; then, and only then, do I think such places will be provided. Then they will not leave the burden to students or hard pressed families to meet the growing cost of education, but they will draw from the common wealth to provide for the commonwealth. Jack Dodd, M4 1034 Finkbine Park Claims debate over To the Editor: The controversy concerning the SARE book drive seems an entirely futile debate. Two authorities give two contradictory reports: SNCC says there is a need for books; the mayor of Greenwood, Miss. Says there is no need. Someone is obviously lying. The question is, which concern would gain from giving false information? The purpose of SNCC is supposedly to educate the Negroes to a level equal to the majority of whites in this country, so that they may gain equal opportunities. I wonder why SNCC would falsify and need for books. What, aside from their stated intention, could they be planning to do with six tons of books from Iowa City? This could be somewhat easier to understand. Isn’t part of the job of a mayor public relations? Isn’t this particular mayor a member of the White Citizen’s Council? Of course, there is no positive verification of the validity of the SARE book drive. However, I would venture to suggest that the Greenwood mayor might profit more from misrepresenting facts than would SNCC. Sara Jacobson, A1 4402 Burge Stop the (pork) bubble machine! To the Editor: I wish to thank you for printing recently an article entitled, “Off Campus Cookery” by A.Q. Smith, student writer and gourmand. His recipes, dedicated as they were “to (robust, hearty) cooking for men, by men,” intrigued us so we tried one. We have had to seal off the kitchen until the older quiets down but the Pork Shoulder Viennese was superb. If Mr. Smith has developed others of these bubbling wonders in his Finkbine gustatorium, let’s hear about them. I should add (blush) that my wife did the cooking and most of the eating. Eugene Spaziani Associate Professor Dept. of Zoology End of One China? After some 15 years of solidarity among western nations in opposing the Chinese Communist regime, a slight crack has appeared in the armor. France, under the headstrong leadership of Charles de Gaulle, has announced formal recognition of Mao Tse Tung’s government, amid howls of unfair play from the United States. As it has in the past, the U.S. government has remained strongly opposed to any admission that Red China exists, preferring to keep its collective head buried in the sand. The State Department, calling De Gaulle’s move “unwise,” said that it is “an unfortunate step, particularly at a time when the Chinese Communists are actively promoting aggression and subversion in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.” This is isolationism of the worst sort. We could just as easily say that we don’t recognize snow in the winter and won’t clear it off the streets because we don’t know it’s there. Closing our eyes won’t make the snow go away, and that won’t keep people from falling on it. Telling ourselves that the Red Chinese are no real threat and don’t deserve recognition as a nation can only make the inevitable adjustment more difficult later on when they have become even stronger and even more dangerous than they are now. American refusal to face the facts of political life can not in any way help our diplomatic position. The one - China policy should be discontinued, at whatever loss of face may be necessary, without any further hesitation. -Michigan State News