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Opinion

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Published quarterly by Acacia Fraternity, a college social fraternity, founded at the University of Michigan on May 12, 1904. Acacia is a charter member of the National Interfraternity Conference.

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The Acacia Fraternity in cooperation with several of its brother and sister groups participated in going to Washington D.C. and appearing before members of the Judiciary Committee to document the invasion of our affairs. The House passed an amendment to the Civil Rights Bill which was subsequently passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Johnson on July 2nd thus protecting Fraternal organizations.

ONGRESS ays Hands Off The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which brought out the Civil Rights Bill is Rep. Emanuel Geller, of New York. Other Representatives participating in the discussion and debate were the following: Edwin E. Willis, Louisiana; Clark MacGregor Minnesota; George M. Grant, Alabama; Gillis William Long, Louisiana; George Meader, Michigan ; James Roosevelt, California; William M. McCulloch, Ohio; James C. Corman, California; Chet Holifield, California ; Roman C. Pucinski, Illinois ; and John Bell Williams, Mississippi.

A transcript of the proceedings taken from Th e Congressional R ecord follows: AMENDMENT OFFERED

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MR. WILLIS

Mr. Willis. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.

The Clerk read as follows : Amendment offered by MR. WILLIS : On page 60 after line 10, insert the following: " (6 ) not authorize any investigation or study of the membership practices of any bona fide fraternal, religious, or civic organization which selects its membership."

MR. WILLIS . Mr. Chairman, I shall not take the 5 minutes.

To understand the structure of the amendment, you have to start at page 59, which starts, "The Commission shall" and then my amendment would say "not authorize any investigation or study of the membership practices of any bona fide fraternal, religious, or civic organization which selects its membership."

The reason for this amendment is this : it was, as I understand the understanding of our committee, that the Civil Rights Commission did not have this authority. However, the Commission, as I understand, ordered or at least authorized an advisory committee of the Commission in Utah to look into activities of the fraternities and sororities on the campuses. This brought about quite some apprehension that the Commission might embark into these investigations, and hence this amendment.

I wish to say that I have received considerable correspondence on this subject matter from fraternities and sororities, et cetera, expressing the apprehension I have indicated, and I

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would hope that the committee would accept my amendment.

MR. MAcGREGOR. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. WILLIS. I yield.

MR. MAcGREGOR. Mr. Chairman, may I say to the distinguished gentleman from Louisiana that because of the noise in the Chamber I am sure that not all of us heard the amendment itself and the gentleman's brief explanation. If he would be so kind as to repeat it, I should appreciate it.

MR. WILLIS. The amendment would provide that the Civil Rights Commission shall not be authorized to conduct an investigation of fraternities, sororities, and civic groups, civic organizations. It is to negate this authority. I do not think it is controversial and I should hope that the amendment would be agreed to.

I wish, at this point to commend two of my colleagues, Congressman GrLLis LONG of Louisiana and Congressman GEORGE GRANT, of Alabama, for the great interest and long arduous efforts they expended on this problem.

Like m e, they too were concerned at the activities of the Civil Rights Com-

m1sswn in investigating fraternal oro-anizations Both gentlemen conferred :ith me o~ my amendment frequentl y and constructively; both contributed to my proposal here. I am indeed o-rateful to them and acknowledge pub"'licly at this time my appreCiatiOn .. to each of them.

MR. CELLER. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. WILLIS . I yield to the gentleman.

MR. CELLER. The Judiciary Committee has been in receipt of a number of complaints about the activities of the Utah advisory committee of the U.S . Commission on Civil Rights, in the sense that they had sent out certain questionnaires to certain sororities in the various colleges. I have made on behalf of the Judiciary Committee a complaint and I indicated that I felt the committee had gone too far and had exceeded their authority. I received a letter under date of January 29, 1964, addressed to me as chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary which reads as follows : U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS Washington, D.C., January 29, 1964.

RoN . EMANUEL CELLER, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, H ouse of R epresentatives, Wa shingt on, D.C. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This is in repl y to your letter of Janua ry 21 inquiring about a qu estionnaire sent to fra ternities a nd sororities. This Com mission has recei,¡ed a nu mber of cong ressional inquirie a bout this ma tter, a nd I am enclo ing, for your information, a typica l congressiona l letter and our repl y.

As the letter indicates, this was a very li m ited inqui ry by this Commision's U ta h advi ory committee into th e racia l p racti ces of fraterni ties a nd ororities loca ted a t the Sta te uni verity. Th e tah comm it tee wa not intere ted in the p ractice of fra ternities !)r ororities :t t pri vate coll ege . Tor was

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the committee interested in the practices of adult fraternal organizations. uch as the Masons, which are unconnected with public institutions of higher education. Finally, the Commission has no plans to pursue even the limited Utah inquiry into the racial practices of fraternities and sororities at the State university.

At the same time, since I wanted you to be apprised of the legal basis for the inquiry which the Utah commitee made, I asked the Commission taff to prepare a memorandum on the ubject. I am forwarding this memorandum too, for your information.

I hope that this information is helpful to you. If you have any further questions on this matter, please do not hesitate to call or to write agam.

Sincerely yours, HowARD W. RoGERSON Acting Chairman.

THE CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Louisiana has expired.

(By unanimous consent (at the request of MR. GELLER) MR. WILLIS was allowed to proceed for 5 additional minutes. ) MR. GELLER. Mr. Chairman, I communciated with the acting chairman of the Commission on Civil Rights, and I said that I felt the letter I had received, dated January 29, was insufficient and unsatisfactory because it did not indicate what the plans were with reference to the activities of the Utah advisory committee. I wanted to know whether they were going to pursue further this matter. He told me they were not, and that they were instructed not to .

I said I should like to have another communication. He sent me a letter dated January 30, 1964, which reads as follows : U .S. CoMMISSION oN CiviL RIGHTS Washington, D.C., January 30, 1964 HoN. EMANUEL GELLER,

Chairman, Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN : This is in further reply to your letter of January 21, inquiring about a questionnaire sent to fraternities and sororities.

As noted in our reply of January 29, the Commission has no plans to pursue even the limited Utah inquiry into the racial practices of fraternities and sororities at the State university.

Nor does the Utah committee intend to make any further inquiries of fraternities and sororities. The Utah committee has no authority to take any action if the questionnaire is not answered and it does not plan to seek further information from fraternities and sororities. Finally, no other questionnaires are being sent by any of the Commission's advisory committees to fraternal or social organizations.

Sincerely yours, HowARD W. RoGERSON, Acting Chairman.

In the light of all this I felt it was essential that we get embedded in the statute not correspondence or promises, but some definite prohibition against some of these activities which have been complained of with reference to the Civil Rights Commission.

The amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana, it strikes me, will be satisfying to me, and it is satisfying to me, and I think will afford the Congress an adequate remedy to portend against any action of that character which I complained of that might be acted upon by the Commission on Civil Rights. Therefore, I am happy to accept the amendment offered by the gentleman from LouISiana.

MR. WILLIS. I thank the gentleman .

MR. GRANT. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. WILLIS. I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.

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(MR. GRANT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks. ) MR. GRANT. Mr. Chairman, I wish to congragulate the gentleman from Louisiana for submitting this amendment on behalf of the Judiciary Committee. Also let me thank the chairman of the committee for accepting this amendment.

I talked with the chairman several days ago and also with the ranking minority member, the gentleman from Ohio (MR. McCuLLOCH ), and they both assured me that they would have no objection to this or any similar amendment. I had such an amendment prepared myself and would have introduced it had not the gentleman from Louisiana, who is a member of Judiciary Committee, volunteered to introduce it himself.

This amendment recognizes the fact that the Civil Rights Commission has gone too far in inquiring into the activities and membership qualifications of Greek letter college fraternities and sororities and also into the status of membership in other organizations. I do not believe that this Congress ever intended, or now intends, for this Callimission to inquire into the race, color, or religion of the membership of any particular fraternal organization. This applies to all college fraternities and sororities whether Greek-letter or otherwise, and also to the Masons, Elks, Moose, Knights of Columbus, Woodmen, Knights of Pythias, Eagles, and all other like and similar fraternal organizations. Also it applies to the membership qualifications of any church or private club organization.

At a hearing on this bill before the Rules Committee, a member of that committee asked the chairman of the Judiciary Committee if the Commission had the right to cite for contempt, if subpenaed, parties who refuse to testify to produce the documents. This

was in reference to the right of the Commission to question any of the foregoing organizations.

Chairman CELLER answered in the negative and stated that this would be what Justice Frankfurter called the fruit of a poisoned tree and added: It could not be done- it should not be done. As we indicated, we are checking on that with the Commission itself so that there will be no repetition of anything like that. They have no such right.

As I stated on the floor here several days ago, Chairman CELLER told me that he had written the Commission and that he had a reply to his com- , munciation in which the Commission assured him that the rights of these organizations will not be violated, and I am asking him to kindly insert these communications in the RECORD in order that there will be no further question as to the intent of Congress.

(MR. LONG of Louisiana asked and was given permission to extend his remarks at this point in the REcoRD. ) MR. LONG. Mr. Chairman, this ¡ ame?dm e~t ';'ould deny certain specific mvest1gat1ve power to the Civil Rights Commission, as it is set forth in title 5 of the bill. Congressman WILLis is to be complimented on introducing this amendment and also for his inspired leadership in this proposed so-ca lled "civil rights" legisla tion.

This amendment prevents a serious b~e~ch ?f constitutional liberty b y the C1vi! R1ght Commission. Within this legisla tion, there a re more constitutiona l p itfall than in any single measure ever before introduced to this House of R epresenta tives. This bill is r ife with the errors of mi placed empha i ; it is a n a ttempt to do b y force wh~t ca ~ only be done effectively b y choice; It would gra nt license not liberty ¡ it would endow privileu~ not "' ' conn.g h t . T he e are my deeply held victions about thi measure¡ I am well 1

aware that the opm10ns are disputed by many Members of this body-for reasons as different as human nature.

But here we have an opportunity to find common cause in our widely varying beliefs. For I believe that this amendment will serve as a guardian of the civil rights of the majority as well as the minority. I specifically refer to the freedoms guaranteed by the 1st and 14th amendments to the Constitution. There is, in this measure, specific and implied authority for investigation by the Civil Rights Commission into the admission policies of private fraternal organizations. The Civil Rights Commission, in correspondence with some of my esteemed colleagues in the House of Representatives, and with other interested parties, has declared that it has the right to investigate these private groups. As a matter of fact, such investigations have already been made in the States of Indiana and Utah by an arm of the Civil Rights Commission. The Commission says that it has the authoritv to investigate these groups ; that it ca~ subpena officers of private oruaniza. and demand to look at"' their t10ns records ; and, if these people refuse to comply, can even seek contempt citations against them. This matter requires amendment even today and the la nguage of the proposed act makes it importa nt. With the added power of "clearinghouse" sought in the measure before you today, the Commission may be expected to further its exploration of these private groups, in defiance of the will of Conuress a nd in defiance of the courts. "' This, despite the proscription of the U .S. Supreme Court in Gibson against Florida Legisla tive Committee against investigations which violate the rights of association, a nd despite the assura nce of the gentleman from New York (MR. GELLER) and the other framers of this bill that .....,,.~~......

was intended or desired.

If this obvious contradiction of purpose is allowed to stand, every church, every Masonic lodge, every group, no matter how private its functions, can come under the scrutiny of this investigative body, contrary to all rights guaranteed by our_ Founding Fathers.

To cite the Supreme Court decision that I mentioned: This Court has repeatedly held that rights of association are within the ambit of the constitutional protections afforded by the 1st and 14th amendments.

It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an ins.e parable aspect of the "liberty" assured by the due process clause of the 14th

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amendment, which embraces freedom of speech.

The 1st and 14th amendment rights of free speech and free association are fundamental and highly prized, and "need breathing space to survive."

Freedoms such as these are protected not only against heavy handed frontal attack, but also from being stifled by more subtle governmental interference.

The Court is explicit in its defense of free association-the backers of this bill have said that the Civil Rights Commission does not have the authority to investigate private fraternal groups-therefore, I can see no basis for real opposition to an amendment which simply verifies a common desire of the Congress to avoid interference in areas which impinge on the most elemental part of that share his common ideals.

Surely no one in this body would suggest that the prohibition of unwarranted and unconstitutional investigations by the Civil Rights Commission would do injustice to anyone; allowing these investigations into our private sanctuaries could do irreparable harm to the whole fabric of our society.

MR. MEADER. Mr. Chairman, I offer a substitute amendment.

The Clerk read as follows: Amendment offered by MR. MEADER as a substitute for the amendment offered by MR. WILLIS. On page 60, line 2, after the semicolon strike the "and," and on 60, line 10, the period ¡ on

into or practices fraternal

fraternity or sorority, any private club, any religious organization, or any other private organization."

MR. MEADER. Mr. Chairman, I offer this substitute because it is aimed at the same objective but I believe the phraseology is preferable. This amendment was worked out several days ago with the assistance of the counsel of the committee and the legislative counsel, and I believe it would attain the objective that I believe is universally acceptable to this body in a better fashion.

The only major difference between the Willis amendment and this amendment is that while the Willis amendment would apply to membership practices, my substitute would apply also to internal operations of these various fraternal organizations, sororities, and so on.

I must say that I agree with the chaim1an of the committee in the light of the correspondence and the memorandum of legal opinion that was sent to him by the Commission. The Commission on Civil Rights think they have every right to do this under the existing 1957 authority. I will just read the final paragraph of this memorandum he referred to: We do not recommend that the Commission add a survey of practices at the State universities to its present program, but all of the factors discussed above indicate not only that there was a legal base for the U tab questionnaire but that the Commission would have amp le authority to inquire further into this matter if it chose to do so.

In the light of the statement of the ch airman of the Judiciary Committee' that he did not believe that the law gave that authority, in the light of the chairman's addressing inquiries to the Commission, and many other M embers wrote to the Commission, this kind of reply, it seems to me, shows a case of

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the most arrogant treatment of Members of Congress that I have ever seen.

I believe this language should be tightened so there is no chance they can escape the will of Congress again.

I believe that the internal operations of these organizations as well as their membership practices, if that is not inclusive, should be free from the inquiry of either the Commission or any of its advisory committees or any other person under its supervision or control.

I think the language is preferable, and I hope the Committee will adopt it.

MR. CELLER. Mr. Chairman, there was so much confusion in the Chamber that it was very difficult to understand the nature of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan. I ask unanimous consent that the substitute amendment be again read.

THE CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the substitute amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisia na (MR. WILLIS ) will be again read.

The Clerk again read the substitute amendment.

MR. RooSEVELT. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. MEADER. I yield to the gentleman from California.

MR. Roo sEVELT. What is the definition of a private organization?

MR. MEADER. I would say it was one that had no relationship with any governmental body, an organization of private citizens formed together for some purpose or other, and not in control of a governmental body.

MR. RooSEVELT. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. MEADER. I yield to the gentleman.

MR. RoosEVELT. May I ask the gentleman whether a union, therefore, is a private organization?

MR. MEADER. I would have some question with respect to that, except

the unions are regulated by the National Labor Relations Board and other statutes of the Government as well as of State governments. I would think they are private organizations the same as corporations are. But I do not think the Civil Rights Commission is going after them anyhow as to their membership practices or internal operations.

MR. RoosEVELT. I am a little worried about the broadness of the term because I can conceive that General Motors might be considered a private organization. It is not a governmental organization either. I am wondering if lacking a clearer definition of the words "private organization" whether the gentleman does not accomplish his purpose if he would delete the words "private organization."

MR. MEADER. If the gentleman thinks it is subject to that interpretation, and that, of course was not the intent of this amendment I would be willing to ask unanimous consent to delete the words "private organization."

MR. RoosEVELT. I would appreciit because then I would certainly feel fa r freer to support the gentleman's amendment.

MR. M EADER. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that my amendment be amended so as to have a period after the words "religious organization" a nd strike out the remainder of the amendment.

THE CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Michigan?

MR. CoRMAN. Mr. Chairman, reserving the r ight to object, can we hear the names of the organizations again ; that is, a ll the different kinds of organizations and then which owaniza• b t10n or organ iza tions are to be stricken?

THE CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment offered by the gentleman from Mich iga n (MR. MEADER ),

as a substitute for the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana (MR. WILLis ) is amended in accordance with the gentleman's request.

There was no objection.

MR. MEADER. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the Clerk rereport the amendment in the form in which it was first offered and then the part that I suggested be deleted.

THE CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the Clerk will report the substitute amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan, and then the Clerk will report the substitute amendment as it would be modified by the unanimous-consent request of the gentleman from Michigan.

The Clerk again read the amendment.

THE CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will now report the substitute amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan as modified by his unanimous consent request.

MR. MEADER. Mr. Chairman, in addition to striking out the words "or any other private organization" the comma should be deleted after the word "club" the word "or" inserted so that it would read " any private club or any religious organization" .

That is merely a technicality, Mr. Chairma n.

THE CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the amendment will be corrected accordingly.

There was no objection.

T HE CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will report the substitute amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan, as modified by the two unanimous consent requests.

The Clerk read as follows: Amendment offered by MR. M EADER as a substitute for the amendment offered by MR. WILLIS: On page 60, line 2, after the semicolon strike the word "and", and on page 60, line 10, delete the period, insert a sem icolon,

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and the word "and" and after line 10, insert the following: " ( 6 ) Nothing in this or any other Act shall be construed as authorizing the Commission, its Advisory Committees, or any person under its supervision or control to inquire into or investigate any membership practices or internal operations of any fraternal organization, any college or university fraternity or sorority, any private club or any religious organization."

MR. MEADER. Mr. Chairman, has my time elapsed?

THE CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has just expired.

Mr. Meader (at the request of Mr. Willis ) was granted permission to proceed for 3 additional minutes.)

MR. WILLIS . Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. MEADER. I yield.

MR. WILLIS. As I see it, the difference between my amendment and that of the gentleman from Michigan, who is my good friend, is the difference between tweedleedee and tweedleedum.

I ask the gentleman if he will repeat the exact organizations to be exempted.

I would appreciate it. He talked about fraternal organizations and what else?

MR. MEADER. Fraternal organizations. College or university fraternity or sorority. Any private club or any religious organization.

MR. WILLIS. Mr. Chairman, the only difference between m y amendment and that of the gentleman from Michigan, as I see it, is that mine does not include the words " private club" or "internal operations."

I shall read my amendment. It says the same thing in different words.

M y amendment provides that the Commission shall not authorize any investigation or study of the membership practices of any bona fide fraternal, religious or civic organization which selects its membership. I take it, therefore, the alternative between

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my amendment and that of the gentleMR. MEADER. I wou ld not believe man from Michigan would involve so. only the words "private club" and MR. CELLER. Is it a fraternal or"internal operations." Therefore, I ask ganization? unanimous consent to amend my MR. MEADER. Well, I never belonged amendment to read as follows: to it, and I do not know much about MR. McCuLLOCH. Mr. Chairman, it.

I regret that I must object to the unaMR. MEADER. I will tell you what nimous-consent request, for reasons "internal operations" was intended to which are well known by people who get at. The Masonic Order, Knights should know. of Columbus, and many internal orTHE CHAIRMAN. Objection is heard. ganizations like the Eagles, Elks, or MR. WILLIS. Mr. Chairman, I still secret clubs. It is not only their memsay this is the difference between bership practices which should be tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum. Which protected but all of their internal opamendment will you vote for ; the sub- erations. stitute or mine?

MR. CELLER. But I am concerned THE CHAIRMAN. The time of the that if you exempt internal operations gentleman from Michigan has agam then you are going in effect to exexpired. empt certain operations of organiza(By unanimous consent MR. MEA- tions of the type that I have indicated, DER (at the request of MR. CELLER ) which might involve encouragement was given permiSSion to proceed for of segregation and the like ; and the 5 additional minutes.)

Civil Rights Commission, which is supMR. CELLER. Mr. Chairman, will posed to be a clearing house for the gentleman yield? information on the subject of desegMR. MEADER. I yield. regation and civil rights, would be MR. CELLER. I should like to ask precluded from inquiring into the acthe gentleman if it is not true that tivities of those organizations that I his amendment contains the words "in- have mentioned. I wonder whether ternal operations," which are absent that is sound and logical and proper in this day and age when we know from the Willis amendment? what those organizations have been MR. MEADER. That is correct. guilty of. I would be perfectly willing MR. CELLER. Let us assume a state to accept an exemption with reference of facts. Let us assume that the Ku membership practices, but am very to Klux Klan or a white citizen's council much concerned about the words "inengages in a campaign or encourages ternal operations" of these organizaengagement in campaigns involving tions. I think you would be greatly segregation. Would that involve inhampering the Civil Rights Commisternal operations? sion if you would preclude them from MR. MEADER. It might, if they were making inquiries as to the internal a college fraternity or sorority. I do operations of these groups. That is not believe the Ku Klux Klan would what worries and concerns me, and I come within any of the other cate- would be perfectly happy to accept gories of organization. the gentleman's amendment if he MR. CELLER. Is it a private orgawould strike out "or internal operanization? tions."

MR. MEADER. That is out.

MR. MEADER. Let me just read this questionnaire that was sent out and MR. CELLER. Is it a private club?

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see if you think it would cover it. "Our organization accepts Jews as members locally" . "Our organization does not accept Jews as members because of - - " "A provision in our local chapter governing document" is in one box.

In another box " A provision in our national organization governing document. " Then next "A copy of our local government document is attached." "A copy of our National Government document is attached." "A copy of our local and/ or National Government document may be examined" at such and such a place.

Another one says "We do not wish to make our national and local documents available for inspection."

MR. CELLER. On the first portion of that question, that would indeed be a membership activity, and I would be perfectly willing to exempt that type of operation, but as to the others, I do not know whether I would want to exempt them . That is very serious.

MR. MEADER. In other words, you would like to have them explain about their membership practices but have them subject to a subpena to obtain their Government document and any other internal operations?

MR. CELLER. The Government documents may be highly important and they may contravene some of our statutes.

MR. MEADER. W auld you permit a Civil Rights Commission to demand a document of the ritual of a secret society or fraternity or sorority or Mason ic order?

MR. CELLER. No I do not think that should be proper, but I wonder whether or not the words "internal operations" are not so broad as to encompass almost everything that organizations like the Ku Klux Klan or the White Citizens Councils may do.

It is a very broad and sweeping thing.

MR. MEADER. "Internal operations" would be something within the society.

(MR. MEADER (at the request of MR. WILLIS ) was given permission to proceed for 3 additional minutes.)

MR. WILLIS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. MEADER. I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana.

MR. WILLIS. Now I said a while ago that it appeared to me that the difference between my amendment and that of my good friend from Michigan was Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum. As far as I am concerned, I do not want to quarrel over the authority of an amendment. At least, we are seeking to accomplish the same things. Therefore, I accept the substitute of my friend from Michigan and now if we are to polish it up and improve it, why, let us amend it, but I will do that to be a good sport.

MR. MEADER. I want to say I thank the gentleman, and if the amendment passes we can both have credit for getting at least one amendment in this bill.

MR. GELLER. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. MEADER. I yield to the gentleman from N ew York.

MR. GELLER. In light of what the gentleman from Louiiana said, I am perfectly willing to accept the substitute amendment.

MR. WILLIS. Mr. Chairman will the gentleman yield for one more statement?

MR. MEADER. I yield.

MR. WILLIS. I want to assure the gentleman that I was not without ability to off r my own amendment to conform so close to the gentleman's amendment that mine probably would have preva iled.

MR. CoRMAN. Mr Chairman, I move to trike out the requisite number of word.

Mr. Chairman I would like to inqu ire at thi point, do we till have in thi prohibition that we cannot in-

vestigate the internal operations of the organizations which are covered, or are we dealing solely with their membership?

MR. MEADER. "The words internal operations" are still in the amendment.

MR. CoRMAN. Does that mean that the Civil Rights Commission could not investigate whether or not an organization was set up to deny the equal protection of the laws or to deny people the right to vote because of race, creed or color, or the other specific reasons that the committee can conduct investigations?

MR. MEADER. I think with these specified organizations, religious organizations, university fraternities or soronties, private clubs or fraternal organizations, they could not. And on what foundation should they investigate them?

MR. CoRMAN. If a fraternal organization is organized for the purpose of denying a person the equal protection of the laws because of color, should that organization be subject to investigation by the Civil Rights Commission- that is, if it is organized for that purpose?

MR. MEADER. If they have violated any law in doing so, even after this act becomes law, certainly we should have methods of dealing with them, as they are engaged in some illegal activity. That does not say necessarily that the Civil Rights Commission should have the jurisdiction to go into a private organization of this type.

MR. CoRMAN. Then the gentleman makes it clear that a private organization may be organized for the purpose of denying to people their right to vote because of their color and they would not come under the inquiring eye of the Civil Rights Commission? Is that a correct statement, as long as they are a private organization?

MR. MEADER. If it is a private or<Yan ization which conforms to what the

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law wants to promote, if it is a private organization and does not advocate the overflow of the Government, or something of that kind, they would have the freedom to do that in this country, if they are not acting illegally.

MR. CoRMAN. Mr. Chairman, I sincerely regret th4t there is some indication that the committee is going to accept this amendment. I think it will greatly hamper the activities of the Civil Rights Commission and its inquiring State dvisory committees.

I would like to say further that I wish everyone who has read the letter about infamous inquiry made in Utah would read the rest of the Civil Rights Commission's report because in the year 1963 the inquiry referred to a sorority in Utah is not the only thing the Commission did and I suggest there are some other facts that the Civil Rights Commission discloses that should be of interest and concern to this House.

I hope we will give a little more thought to what kind of restrictions we are putting on the Civil Rights Commission if we eliminate from their area of inquiry any private organization that might be organized for the specific purpose of frustrating this civil rights bill. The Members who are so concerned about sororities in Utah are really straining at a gnat while they swallow a camel.

MR. HoLIFIELD. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. CollMAN. I yield to the gentleman.

MR. HoLIFIELD. I am somewhat concerned about the meaning of private club. In California we have what is known as the Minuteman's Club.

This is a private club which has accumulated stocks of guns and other instruments of warfare for the purpose of using them sometime in the future, when they will decide.

I do not know what the words "private club" mean and for legislative

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history I would like to have specified what a private club means. I will ask the gentleman from Michigan (MR. MEADER ), if h e can give us some assurance that the words "private club" do not embrace private clubs such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizen's Council, the White Camellias, and the Minutemen.

MR. M EADER. Whether they are a private club?

MR. HoLIFIELD. Or the NAACP chapter of a certain town.

So I believe under the present law that is why this whole matter came about. They have no such authority.

What they have authority to do is study and collect information concerning developments comprising denial of equal protection of the law under the Constitution and third, appraise the laws and the policies of the Federal Government with respect to equal protection of the laws under the Constitution. W e know that equal protection of the laws is a State action under the 14th amendment. What they have done is stretch the authority we gave them.

The gentleman from Ohio agreed.

They did not have the authority and these two clauses did not give them the authority to do what they did m Utah.

MR. P uciNSKI. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of words.

MR. CHAIRMAN. I can understand the situation of the gentleman from Louisiana (MR. WILLIS ) who wanted to prohibit the Commission from investigating private organizations, fraternal organizations, and religious organizations. I believe this is a good amendment and shou ld be adopted. But, I would like to ask the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, who is willing to accept the amendment, and the gentleman from Michigan (MR. MEADER ) , how they can justify ac-

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poses a bar against a ny investigation by the Civil Rights Commission of college fraternities and sororities when the Federal Government now spends millions upon millions of dollars in these universities for all sorts of activities-research activities, fellowships, and various other things.

V ery often membership in these fratermties, especially the professional fraternities, becomes an integral part of the student's status and progress.

But even if it did not, how can we bar this Commission from investigating discriminatory practices in fraternities and sororities when Federal money today plays such an integral part in these universities?

I believe the Commission should not have any right to investigate a private organization, a religious organization, or a fraternal organization where no Federal funds, directly or indirectly, touch it. It is for this reason that I think the original amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana (MR. WILLIS ) was the correct amendment which should be adopted because he limited it to organizations that were in no way touched by the Federal Government. But the gentleman from Michigan broadens that. I know from my own experience on the Committee on Education that the Federal Government is perhaps the greatest contributor to many of these universities and colleges. But we say under this amendment tha t while the Federal Government can spend millions of dollars in these institutions, the Civil Rights Commission ca nnot investigate discrim inat ion in these fraterni ties.

I hope the aentleman from New York (MR. CELLER ) , will be good enough to explain how we can reconcile thi problem.

MR. CELLER. In the first p lace, sororitie and fraternities are not upported by the Government. They

receive no loans or funds directly from the Government.

MR. PuciNSKI. That is correct but being on the campus of the university benefiting from these taxes, they are a part of the university and indirectly benefit from Federal assistance.

MR. CELLER. I do not think that is correct. I have been in receipt, and the gentleman from Ohio has been in receipt, of a great many complaints, orally and in writing, about some of the activities of the Civil Rights Commission, particularly the activities of the Utah advisory committee. The feeling is expressed in these complaints that unless something is done, and some language placed in the statute which would prevent some of these activities, we would not get this bill passed at all. I am interested in 0rretting this bill passed. I do not want to encourage so much opposition to the wording of a particular section that it might jeopardize the entire bill. I am a pragmatist. Although I may not be thoroughly in accord with this amendment, I believe it proper in order to get this matter expedited and get this bill passed and on the way to the Senate. I would accept it and concur in the gentleman's wishes.

MR. PuciNSKI. I thank the gentleman from New York and yield to his judgment in crrettina better . ~ c this leal's e latiOn approved.

THE CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired.

MR. GRANT. Mr. Chairma n I move . ' to stnke out the requisite number of words.

Mr. Chairman, I want merely to ask the author of this substitute amendment to be sure tha t this does include fraternities and sororities, and that is exactly why this amendmen t is here today. R egardless of what the gentleman from Illinois said, the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisia na did include fraternitie a nd sorori-

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ties, and that is why I supported it.

This Commission has no more base for planting these young boys and girls on the campuses of these universities, public or private, in America, than they would have on a church which was situated on the campus of the university. So I would like to ask the gentleman from Michigan (MR. MEADER ) if this does cover college fraternities and college sororities.

MR. MEADER. Of course it does, but if the gentleman wants to pi~ that down, why not ask unanimous consent that that amendment be rereported, and everybody will hear it.

MR. GRANT. I understand it does.

I certainly take the gentleman's word for it.

MR. WILLIAM .<;.. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?

MR. GRANT. I yield to the gentleman from Mississippi.

MR. WILLIAMS. I think it also miaht be well to inquire of the gentle~an from. Michigan if under the lanrruaae c c of h IS amendment the Commission is prohibited from meddling in the affairs of such organizations as the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts, the Future Farmers of America the 4-H Clubs, that type of organiz~tion.

MR. MEADER. That would be cov~red under the term "private club," hke the Kiwanis Club, the Lions Club, and so forth.

THE CHAIRMAN. The question is on the substitute offered by the rrentleman from Michigan (MR. MEADJ~R ) to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisia na (MR. WILLIS ) .

The substitute amendment was agreed to.

THE CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the rrentleman from Louisiana (MR. WIL~s ) as amended by the substitute.

The amendment as amended was agreed to.

Top in Regional Group

Receives Citation

Peter Spaulding, New Hampshire served as Regional Chairman of the Eastern District o.f fhe Associated Student Governments of the United States which covers six regions of the United States.

Pete also was Chairman of the University's Parents Day and served as Co-chairman of the IOth annual Masonic Smoker of the New Hampshire Chapter of Acacia.

Leland D. Case, Northwestern, was the recent recipient of a trustee citation from Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas; presented by Ben Hibbs, former editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Case was given an illuminated scroll expressing for leadership in religious journalism as founder and editorial director ( 1956-63) of Together magazine, the mid-month magazine for ~ethodist families.

Vice President at Indiana National Bank Indiana Acacian J. Fred Risk has recently been appointed senior vice president of the Indiana National Bank in Indianapolis.

Risk is head of the Metropolitan Division which handles all the corporate financial needs for business located in Metropolitan Indianapolis. Prior to joining Indiana National in 1956 he had been with the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago and the W.T. Grimm & Company, Chicago. Brother Risk graduated from Indiana cum laude and received his LL.B from Indiana University Law School and did graduate work at Northwestern.

Wyomin ,g Starts on New House The architect's plans and final details have been completed and work has started on Wyoming's new $155,000 structure. The new house which will grace Fraternity Park will be a departure from the conventional design of other housing now present. Where possible, the ideals of Acacia Fraternity have been embodied in the actual design. The 'h ouse will feed 70 and accomodate 32 , with room for expansion for an additional 32 members.

Long Beach State Goes Really Big Acacia at Long Beach State College (just changed to California State College at Long Beach, sponsored an all college dance, which brought out over I I 00 students, a record attendance for State's history.

Providing the entertainment was the surfer's idol here on the West Coast, Dick Dale and the Deltones. While Dick Dale sang, played the trumpet and guitar to such hits as the "Wedge." dancers overflowed into an adjoining corridor.

IOWA IS BLACK JACKED The gambling instincts of several Acacians and their dates is evidenced by the pix. Iowa recently became a replica of a Las Vegas Casino, courtesy of Harold's Club of Reno. They supplied the Chapter with posters, matches, placemats, and game formats. Each person was provided with one million dollars as an incentive to invest in a casino.

Scottish Rite Passes the Paint

Washington Elects Sweetheart Washington Chapter's "sweeter than ever" Sweetheart is Connie Foster. Connie, a member of Alp'ha Chi Omega Sorority is from Richland, Washington, where her father is in charge of Radiology at the Hanford Atomic Works. As her picture shows, her "high energy" personality and "radioactive" smile are enough to reverse any "critical ra.action."

Knapp Represents United States National Treasurer, "Pete" Knapp recently represented the United States in Health and Safety Conferences in Germany and Switzerland. Pete's first stop was Geneva, Switzerland, attending a meeting sponsored by the International Labor Office and was attended by representatives of Russia, United Kingdom, Argentina, Poland and other countries.

Following Geneva was a meeting in Bad Kreusnach, Germany and a visit to the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering at Silsoe in Bedfordshire, England.

The Tucson Valley Bodies of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry led

by Brother John D. Dyer, Arizona #137, recently contributed funds for paint and equipment for the Chapter house at Arizona.

Then during the semester break, the men in the Chapter spent their free time putting the paint on the walls, (and on themselves). Results were a fine new coat of paint for the house.

UCLA Chapter Honors California Grand Lodge Officer

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KANSAS ACQUIRES NEW HOME The Acacia Educational Corporation of Kansas has recently purchased the 60 man Phi Kappa Psi house. This new asquisition should help the

Sweetheart Time at Oregon State At the annual Sweetheart Ball, Veronica Ellis was crowned

by Venerable Dean, John W .

Carnegie in the Masonic Temple.

The men of the Oregon State Chapter always hold their sweetheart dear to heart inasmuch each year a crippled girl between the ages of 8 and 13 who, though young in years, has truly exemplified the inner qualities of beauty, virtue, and womanhood in coping with her problems. The event took place during the Chapters 40th anniversary with guest speaker, Harvey Amos, National Rrst Vice-President.

forward surge of the Kansas Chapter since it more than doubles their capacity. Especially since the University expeds a housing shortage for 500 Freshmen this coming year.

It was Masonic Night at the Acacia house at UCLA in los Angeles when Venerable Dean John Cooper welcomed the Right Worshipful Myron Smith, Senior Grand Warden of the California Masonic Grand Lodge.

Accompanying Smith were other Masonic officials including Dr. Frank Reinsch, Masonic Librarian and Research authority, as well as Brother Homer Rathbun, chief executive officer of the Southern California jurisdiction of DeMolay, largest in the world.

After an open house and banquet Mr. Smith spoke on Masonic history and its ties with Acacia.

He emphasized the Masonic influence in the creation of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence when the three basic Masonic ideals were indelibly included in these documents, namely: I. There is a God 2. Man receives his rights from God, not man.

3. Government's position is to protect those rights.

A tour of the chapter house followed the banquet including an exhibition of photographic displays of chapter activities and functions. Many UCLA alumni joined the chapter in the event.

Three Times Winner Colorado State College Chapter won first place for the third year in a row with the song "I Hear A Voice A Prayin." The Brothers were directed by Don Shupe. The Songfest was judged on appearance, pronunciation, pitch, tone and difficulty. A recording was made and is available for other Brothers.

MOTHER OF THE YEAR HAS 3 ACACIAN SONS AT PENN STATE

Iowan Slightly Busy Bruce Kienapfel, Iowan Chapter has been appointed Chairman of the Iowa IFC Public Relations Committee. Bruce is also acting chairman of the Cooperative Buying Committee, a program of mass buying to institute lower prices for the Fraternity System. His other extra-curricular activities include playing forward on the Varsity Basketball Tearn and shooting regularly on the Varsity Rifle Team.

It Is All In A Name The Acacia National Council has granted approval to rename the University of Southern Mississippi Chapter to the Luther A. Smith Chapter in honor of their first initiate. Name changing is not new since the Chapter first went by the Mississippi Southern nomenclature when first chartered in 1962.

Mrs. Clyde S. Jackson, class of 35 has been chosen 1964 Pen!1 State Mother of the Year. The former Elizabeth Commons married Clyde S. Jackson a '3J graduate.

Their twin sons, Guy and George who were active i!1 Acacia and on campus graduated in June in business administration.

One of the twins, George was President of the Student Body, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Beta Gamma Sigma, Distinguished Military Student, Lion's Paw,

' Who 's Who Among College Students and will attend Carnegie Graduate School next year.

Guy, who is going into the army was President of Acacia , College of Business Administration Student Council, and Board of College Counc il Presidents and a member of Omicro n Delta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, B::!ta Gamma Sigma, Lion's Paw, Who's Who Among College Students, Scabbard & Blade.

Mrs. Jackson's third son, is a sophomore and presently Houso Manager, just recently initiated.

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One of the services to the Chapters is the information and assistance furnished by the Field Staff. Such help covers the entire field of Chapter operations. Traveling by car, plane or train, somebody from the Chapter is always willing to go down and pick up the VIP visitor from "National", Don Shupe.

Then before you know it, someone remembers that Don had wanted an appointment made with the proper University official, to discuss the local Chapter situation. In this case Don Shupe meets with the Admission Counselor, Gary Miller of Colorado State College.

A problem? Nothing new for the Field Man -just routine duties. There is always someone who wants a private chat for that overwhelming problem or that personal advice.

Then there are the meetings with the Executive Council to preparing for the weekly meeting and of course those extended sessions with the Chapter Adviser, in this case, Max Lubbers of Colorado State College.

Those famous Monday night meetings where the Chapters hear the suggestions advice and the latest news about their Fraternity around the country.

One of the many rewarding experiences of being a Field Secretary is being able to congragula te new pledges and to welcome new Brothers into Acacia ....

.... And of course if you can find time during that 13 hour day and 8 day week there is time for the truly enjoyable advantage of being from Acacia National as the girls from Alpha Sigma Alpha show!

PYTHAGORAS RETURNS TO MEMPHI

60th Anniversary Conclave

and Pharaoh never had it so good !

We're all waiting for you in Memphis.

August 23-26

Venerable Dean, Dick Bingham with Conclave Harem '2.3

Civil Rights! A term that stirs every man's blood. A facade behind which hides the leaders of an insidious attack on the fraternity system. Yes, an attack to deny Acacians and all other fraternities the right of fr eedom of association, of the choice of who would be your fraternal brother. This letter is to those who would, as I, defend the right.

An alum expressed himself to me after learning of this attack on our rights for the first time, "But what can I do about it?" Perhaps you have asked the same question. What can you, as an individual, as an Acacian, as an American do about it? I would suggest that your first source of inspiration be the Preamble to the Acacia Constitution: . . . to seek the truth and knowing it, to give light to those with whom we may be asso ciated . . .

What does this mean to you? First, ASK. What do yO'U know about the attack on fraternities? What don't you know about it? Who are the attackers? What methods of attack are used?

What is happening at your University?

So fine, you have asked these and other questions. Where do the answers come from? Some might be answered by the Alumni Association President, others by the Active Chapter. Have vou asked them? So you can't find all ~he answers there, have you tried National Headquarters? Many answers can come from observing the community around you. Some of the questions may not have answers.

Very important if you live near one - support your active Chapter. The a ttack today is upon the undergraduate chapter, not yet against the alums.

A college education is the supreme goal of all und ergraduates Acacians.

U n i v e r s i t y Administrations have threatened to expell or suspend active m embers of Acacia for defending their right of freedom of association. What has happened on your campus? The active Chapter needs your support.

Today!

By following these few steps, you too can contribute to the defense of Acacia from the insidious attack destroying our Civil Rights . LEARN, TELL, and Support the undergradua te Chapter-in this way you too can do your part to help.

Bruce Gardiner Washington Chapter

I want to congratulate you on the very stimulating and interesting issue of the TRIAD for the spring 1964.

I hope it achieves the desired results .

George S. Toll Executive Secretary Alpha Epsilon Pi

Dontgiveadarnnism is an ideology which asserts that the individual in all of his actions simply doesn't give a damn, or at least if he gives a damn he doesn't give a damn about giving a damn. A dontgiveadarnnist is one who practices dontgiveadarnnism. A dontgiveadamnist doesn' t give a damn about sex, poverty, riches, politics, flagwaving, checkers, Mao Tse Tung, death, sin, religion, beats, fuzzworts, military, the color orange, mind, emotion, races, incest, logic, and especially the doctrine of Dontgiveadamnism.

The dontgiveadamnist is a paradox within a paradox without a paradox.

These are in no sense of the word, thoughts from the Oracle of Delphi, yet, if there is not a continuation of the type of reading made available recently to Acacians in the TRIAD, our youth of today will find themselves living in a bleak world tomorrow.

Frederick A. Johnson Washington, D.C .

I received my copy of the TRIAD today, read it irrunediately, and enjoyed it very much. I especially liked the articles about the problems of the fraternity system in general and Acacia's in particular. I thought the items were very thought provoking and necessary.

Frank Cochran Arkansas Chapter

I have just recei¡v ed the spring issue of the TRIAD and I certainly found my mouth dropping open at the forthright manner in which the civil rights issue was discussed. Although I feel that caution should be exercised on this subject, I can not refFain from expressing admiration for the forthright manner in which you all presented this issue on the controversy involved. I think you made your point very clear. I have taken the liberty of sending my copy to one of our interested Grand Lodge officials and wish that you would please send me an additional copy.

Charlen S. McGinness Topeka, Kansas

In terms of current incidents, your Spring, 1964 issue is a grave warning.

In the context of history it is the preface to a second Inquisition, to a still darker age of anarchy, despotism and the survival of the fittest. Keep fit, my brethren. Those who are qu.al.ified, may see the ultimate of this ClVJC paranoia in the DeMolay degree of that junior order. Absolute fidelity is the word. Courage, my brethren.

Roy M. Moffitt Assisting Supreme Deputy International Order of Job's Daughters

I have been receiving the TRIAD regularly since leaving Iowa State in '56 and have thoroughly enjoyed each issue. This enjoyment has been heightened somewhat by the change in format and content instituted a couple of years ago. But this is not what prompts me to write.

I read the Spring issue with greater than usual interest since civil rights happens to be one of the hottest questions for discussion locally. Like so many others around the country I believe that government interference with local situations has gone much too fa.r already and is just now gaining momentum for a really big drive.

Likewise, I cannot approve of the civil disobedience advocated an d practiced by many of the leaders of the Negro community.

But I view with the greatest alarm the current drive, so ably reported by the TRIAD, to destroy the fraternal movement on the campuses. If such ridiculous ideas as those practiced at the University of Michigan are allowed to stand unchallenged, it will mean the end of fraternities. They will become free associtaions of college students in which the next logical step toward complete domination by the university will be assignment of "quotas" of various racial groups, or worse yet, assignment of individuals to each fraternity just as students are now assigned to dormitories.

This will come if the student chapters and their alumni do not stand firm in their refusal to yield to the outrageous demands of university officials and their corrunittees. So far as I am concerned, the very heart of the fraternity system is discrimination. I

know for a fact that I discriminate every day in making a free choice of those with whom I will associate and those I will not. I discriminate when I select a church. I discriminate when I buy an automobile, a kitchen range, a suit of clothes, or even a tube of toothpaste. I discriminate when I select a neighborhood in which to live.

And every one of the university officials who adopts the holier-than-thou no-discrimination policy is the worst kind of hypocrite because he mouths the slogans and then practices what he preaches against.

It would be a tragedy indeed for the fraternity system to die. But like those who would rather be d ead than red, I would rather see the end of campus fraternal organizations than see them watered down to nothing more than another university housing unit.

I say that the end of fraternities would be tragic because of the value gained from my own fraternal associations. Up to the present in my business career I can truthfully say that my classroom education has been of less value to me than what I learned in my fraternity. Whether this will be the case ten years from now I don't know, but it is fact today.

Again I urge alumni and students alike to stand firm . Refuse to yield to the university. I see no reason why fraternities should not organize a unified resistance to the universities. I know for a fact that many schools would not dare throw fraternities off the campus because they depend on them to house a certain number of students.

On some campuses the situation with sororities is even more critical because women are not allowed to live off campus unless they live in controlled sorority houses.

I would enjoy seeing this issue disc ussed by other Brethren in this open forum .

Daniel E. Wise Iowa State 479

I just completed reading the Spring Issue of the TRIAD and I felt I must compliment you on it. It is truly a great issue, the best I have ever seen.

I feel that the impetus gained by anyone who reads that issue IDO're than pays the bill for its publication. I only wish that every Greek in the country could read it. It gives a very broad explanation of the problems confronting Greeks everywhere today. College a dministrators would do well to give some thought tO' the contents of it also.

As Justice Clark says, "it is time that Greeks worked together to " put over" our fraternal philosophy." Keep up the excellent work.

L yle R. Krewso n Iowa Chapter

First of all I would like to co ngratulate National on their choice of Phil Cramer as Editor of the TRIAD. The quality of the magazi ne has risen considerably over th e last several issues. After recovering from the initia l shock of seeing our out-dated format die and a new one take its place, I've grown accustomed to looking forward to the excellent articles appearing in every new issue.

Second ly, I wou ld like to inform you of the rece nt death of one of our Wisconsin Alumni , William E . Drips.

Brother Drips was a nationally know~ radio farm newsman and director of the National Broadcas ting Company in Chicago for sixteen years before moving to Partland, Oregon and working in a similar capacity on station KOINTV in 1953.

Neal E. Anderson Milwaukee, Wiscon in

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MEMO FROM THE EDITOR

Much has been said about civil rights, civil wrongs but in reading part of the debate relating to private groups, this editor noticed a reference to a Supreme Court decision mentioned several times by various Congressmen. Perhaps the most authoritative statement of the position of the fraternities and sororities may be found in this case of Gibson vs. Florida Investigation ..... .

Committee~ 9 L. Ed. (2d) 929, decided by the United State Supreme Court in March of 1963. It was there held that "groups which themselves are neither engaged in subversive or other illegal or improper activities, nor demonstrated to have any substantial connections with such activities, are to be protected in their rights of free and private association". In arriving at this conclusion, it is stated: "This Court has recognized the vital relationship between freedom to associate and privacy in one's associations. Inviolability of privacy in group association may, in many instances, be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association."

Mr. Justice Douglas, in concurring states: "Joining a lawful organization, like attending church, is an associational activity that comes within the purview of the First Amendment ...

The associational rights protected by the First Amendment are in my view, much broader and cover the entire spectrum in political ideology, as well as in art, in journalism, in teaching, and in religion. In my view, government is not only powerless to legislate with respect to membership in a lawful organization; it is also precluded from probing the intimacies of spiritual and intellectual relationships in the myriad of such groups that exist in this country, regardless of legislative purpose sought to be served ... The First Amendment in its respect for the conscience of the individual, honors the sanctity of thought and belief. To think as one _chooses, to believe what one wishes, are important aspects of the constitutional right to be let alone ... For the views a citizen entertains, the beliefs he harbors, the utterances he makes, the ideology he embraces and the people he associates with are no concern of government.

By the First Amendment, we have staked our security on freedom to promote a multiplicity of ideas, to associate at will with kindred spirits, and to defy governmental intrusion into these precincts."

Those are mighty interesting words.

Philip Wayne Cramer Editor

By JOHN ROBSON THOUGHTFUL

article sHrveying the status

of the fraternity system appeared reA cently in the University of Montana student newspaper, the Kaimin. It was significantly titled, "The Problem of the Greeks Is Communications," and the author Mary Ellen Myrene concluded with these paragraphs: "The weakness is that the Greeks cannot express the ::cope of their needs to the administration. They cannot express the scope of their motivations to the Independents.

And they cannot express the scope of their humaneness to other Greeks. The weakness is with sheet communication."

Dean Weldon P. Shofstall of Arizona State University before the convention of Kappa Delta last summer deplored the same shortcoming of Fraternity Row : lack of knowledge. Not knowing how to communicate. Not knowing what idealism and religion really are or how to use them.

Knowing how to fit religion into the Sunday

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Robson has degrees from Lawrence College and Columbia University. A former associate editor of THINK Magazine and a staff editor for other publications, he has edited the Sigma Phi Ep.!ilon Journal for twenty-two years. He has been managing editor of Banta's Greek Exchange since 1956 and is editor of tile recently published 17th Edition of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities.

scheme of things but not knowing its place in everyday affairs.

The fraternity world has not been able to make capital of the lesson that when there is no Altar the chapter dies, ormore accurately-never lives. The rock of strength that the Altar provides is shown by the good fraternity chapter as it rushes, pledges, properly trains, and initiates good men. Adherence to the Altar assures the supremacy of good conduct, leadership, scholarship, loyal alumni, and even good housing. But above¡ all it assures a joyous brotherhood whose gifts touch Eternity.

In the days of the Hebrew prophet Amos, the world of his people was askew, their institutions were riding a pendulum. Then, in a vision before Amos, God appeared standing astride the tilted city and its leaning walls with His arms outstretched and in llis hands a plumbline. And God spoke to Amos, saying, "I will set you, as a plumbline, amongst my people. " The plumbline of Amos is in the altar of the fraternities, and it tells them, as nothing else can, which side is up in this topsy-turvy world.

Certain chapters go on yoor after year maintaining their houses on the paramount living belief in the Fatherhood of God, training their neophytes accordingly, and giving their members an ideal fraternity experience. But with such chapters, ironically, communication so often is accomplished with little recourse to vocabulary ; the essential lessons are conveyed from one class

to the next to a large extent by wordless example, and also to a large extent by the language of the heart which is the language of the altar but nevertheless has no palpable tongue. These chapters demonstrate what a great thing a college fraternity can be when the altar is there.

It is Dean Shofstall's contention that fraternity leaders on the whole are ignorant of the proper methods of teaching their members, and they themselves too frequently fail to learn how to understand the ritual and practice what it preaches.

On many campuses the fraternity system is gradually being enveloped by an alien environment. The Greeks are threatened by a¡ growing complex of obstacles, and so long as ignorance with respect to obeying the ritual continues as the order of affairs, the future is not bright. Dean Shofstall, who is a Sigma Tau Gamma, believes that outdated methods of selecting members, immature methods of choosing either personal or group activities, and perhaps abo".: all superficial methods of training members may be laid at the door of ignorance. Yet nothing is done about it.

Time was when the aimless fraternity chapter could go on living a pointless existence, and unless it fell grievously out of line or failed under the burden of its own inertia and aimlessness it was tolerated and it went on.

But no longer. The world is in revolution and the campus is in ferment. Materialistic

·What's Happening to the Altar ccn.Lt:!.n !J.E'<.:.

The fraternity system has ideals ... are they being lived up to? forces, dynamic as they have become, threaten to turn over everything, thr. campus, where doublctalk gives birth to confusing and enervating value systems. and even the church where religion has been transmuted into a phony opiate. These basic institutions are askew. The language of brotherhood has become muffled . The college fraternity, helpless to command the tongue which explains the altar, or to follow it, fails to justify itself.

No one has described the job the fraternities must do better than John Henry Frizzell, former chaplain of Pennsylvania State University and ritual ist of Phi Kappa Psi, who puts it this way : "The American college fraternity system is living up neither to its job nor its opportunity. lt is not turning out men who stand head and shoulders in our American life above the run-of-themill citizens as examples of high character, sound ideals, and four-square America nism. , .. The tendency toward moral deterioration, particularly with respect to simple honesty, trustworthiness, and loyalty to principles, is not being combated in our fraternities to the extent that it should be.

The fr a ternity system has ideals and opportunities unequaled in the whole college setup for inculcating and developing these simple characteristics in the supposedly intelligent men who are its members. Is it doing it? You know that it isn't."

The solution? The altar, of course . Dr .

Frizzell urges: "Go back to your altars.

Listen again to those almost inspired words of your rit uals, of the charges. They are not mumbo-jumbo or hocus-pocus, they are practical ideals, creeds to live by, philosophies of life, which, if you'll let them, can change your whole life and make living a real, worthwhile adventure. In those rituals. you'll find God and the teachings of Jesu s."

Religion : Take It or· L~avc It?

As the campus is letting religion fade farther and farther into the background. the fraternities are tending to let it fade also.

Society as a whole is responsible too. A f raternity chapter without an altar is nothin g.

The campus which fails to place God above the curriculum isn't much either. Without religion, higher education has gone ludicrously off the beam. Dean Shof ·tall reveals just how disturbed he is by the problems of campus atheism when he says: "Many think there is some sort of compromise between atheism and religion.

Many think religion is a private matter and not of concern for everybody. Others do not even realize that religion is the essence of

our way of life. Very few even know how our lives, our fraternity, our university, and our nation owe their past. their present. and , above all else, their future to religion ."

The lesson is that we must make religious ideals and values of fraternities a link to the daily lives of the members.

"Fraternities are based upon a morality based upon religion which is based upon belief in God," Dean Shofstall asserts.

"Knowing God is not a single achievement in time and space. Knowing God is instead a process-a way of life." Pledge education fails unless this truth is brought home. He goes on to say that 'The fraternity is the essential bridge between the church and the university. However, the university is today unfriendly to the social fraternity in the same way and for the same reason the university is often unfriendly to all rel igious and spiritual values."

Dean Shofstall censures the paganism of Alma Mater in these words: "Higher education . . . has become nonreligious. The new or modern universit y is either neutral toward God or rejects Him. This is not as it should be!" And so the paganism of Alma M a ter may well be the most horrible living fact on the horizon of higher education today, for whe n paganism characterizes an environment. the language of brotherhood is discredited . It is made to see m unfashionable and in appropr iate . It soon falls out of use.

In their initiation ceremonit:s. the frater· nities light a candle in this darkness. but it should be a radiant, eve rl astin g light. Alas!

When the ritual is laid away, fraternity leadership. being so often tongue-tied. seems ignorant, agai n walks in ignorance. and talks in ignorance . And it is caught in the broad, swift current of material ism . Communication fails: the light goes out.

The Tyr·anny of 'Vorrls Twenty-five years ago, Stuart Chase wrote a book titled The Tymnny of Words in which he stated that many of the world's misfortunes were caused by the failure of language as a tool of communi~:ation. He

questioned whether modern methods of mass education promoted as much knowledge in the student's mind as they did confusion . "We need true meanincs for survival," he said. and lamented the fact that no teacher was teaching such meanings and that there was scarcely a chair of semantics (the study of meanings) in any college in the country. "We need protection from chasms made by words as well as from dangerous ditches across the highway." he asse rted. Chase represented the dangerous chasms as blabs--semantic blanks where no meaning comes through. He proposed that semantics would bring a standard into focus where man could "at least agree that this statement makes sense and that statement makes blab."

Fraternity leaders must lea rn with greater confiJence th at words which are learned at the altar are not blab; the job is to learn them well, understand how to use them well daily. to rely on them with complete faith. and not to avoid using them .

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By applying Gospel principles, the lie is given the assertion by foes of the fraternity system that the Greeks arc opposed to intellectuality. The Greek s do oppose an over-balanced intellectualization even as Jesus does--that is to say, intellectual pursuit at the expense of the proper share ot spirit and body has harmful results.

Over-intellectu alization on the campus is not the same thing as paganism or atheism. but both result from application of the princi ple. "The white heat of the intellect dries up th e red blood of the heart ." The heart !s needed for the enjoyment of life.

It is needed for God . lt is needed for brotherhood . Ironically it is even needed for true loyalty to Alma Mater. To be sure, over-indulgence in sensual pleasure takes the savor from the salt. to usc the Gospel metaphor, but equally so does overintellectualization. Illustrations proving this rule are so abundant that one might qui ck ly make a large book of them .

What the scholar gains by giving his all to the world of the intellect is usually of v.orth, but not always a re the human conseq ue nces favorable. Paul S. Henshaw, a scie ntist for th e Atomic Energy Commission , recentl y announced the development of a new achievemen t - "Information Science" - which promi ses to do for the human brain "in a twinkl ing" what it took evolution many hundreds of thousands of yea rs to do. Thanks to computer wizardry, made possible through intensive application of the intellect, there is early likelihood of bringing tota l accu mul a ted knowledge such as housed in the great libra ries to bear on a single problem or concept. and also for n single mind to probe all reco rded subjectmatter in se lected fields, irrespect ive of lol:ation or language. a nd to consider the results of analyses quite beyond the capabilities of the human mind. So says Dr. Henshaw, adding . " But science hasn't ·even im 3gi nccl what thi s wil l lead to in emotional experience.''

If science hasn 't imagined it, there are qualified observers who have. In an address

which he gave in 1960 before the student body of Bowdoin College, Henry M. Wriston. a member of Delta Tau Delta, warned: "Tn the modern age there is no danger . that you will escape social contacts and social pressures, but there is grave danger that you will lose the flavors and the joys which are inherent in the pursuit of happiness, one of your fundamental rights." That is to say, the phrase, " Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," offers a better checklist of criteria towards which an institution's purposes are aimed than can be found in the body of the scientifically motivated directives of higher education . As an un identified sage has said. "Science and the Intellect can deliver only the facts; they do not bring Happiness."

Jesus said on the Mount: "Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing. but to be Cl!St out, and to be trodden under foot of men."

A letter-writer in the Pennsylvania State Daily Collegian , bewai ling " the stereotype th inking which is preva lent among the great masses of the school ," commented : "Blaming a few IBM machines for a lack of individual personality is analogous to the homely old maid who blames her ugliness on her mirror. Let's face the fa cts, brothers, at dear old State there is very little individ uality to be stifled."

The Drury Mirror editorializes: " Perhaps rather th an being stupid, Drury students are just too anemic, apathetic, and void of concern for the state of the world, and even the campus, to try to do anything abo ut it. " Recently at the University of Kansas, 600 students gathered to . hear a debate-"Resolved th at the Christian ethic should be adjusted to fit th e current American transition in sexual morality." At Montana, at Tuesda y Topic Night, Associate Professor of Philosoph y Cynthia Schuster contended that moral rules an: made and altered by man and are neither right nor wrong by any traditional set standards. ¡ At the Uni ve rsity of Nevada, the Sagebrush brgins an editorial: "Wh at is it th at ma kes stude nts have such an !-don't-care attitude about so many things?"

The college does not realize that it itself is often th e chief creator of "apathy" because it butters up the cand idate fo r intellectual achievement as though he were the sal t of the earth, when the truth is, far from being th e salt of th e earth, although he might be in so many cases he is rendered saltless. And at some colleges, only those students are admitted who m the hellbentfor- excellence high schools have already desalted. How ridiculous, then , for the president of the college to complain at length, "I cannot und erstand what has happened to the spirit of the student body!"

Yes, in many places, the campus atmosphere is good for nothing. and the students. save those who know the altar, have lost their savor. We are taught by a great teacher that those who labor to do ri ght, who strive to be just. who are magnanimous and pure in heart, who are good neighbors, who are humble rather than ar-

Why the 'I don't care' attitude so prevalent among today' s students? rogant of spirit, who walk daily with God. are the salt of the earth.

Such men are described as being upright and good besid~ the altar of the chapter house. The adjectives upright and good are of little formal consequence to Alma Mater.

On the other hand , the ultima thule of the scholar astride the pendulum appears to L<! mastery of a specific field of knowledge.

And so he leads his students down the garden path with respect to the proper meaning of life, for he confuses his own pallid goal with their own more sanguine one. Josiah Royce , an American philosopher of the early century, held that the permanence of a man's values and commitments is the measure of his immortality.

The good fraternity chapter has the man of the Beatitudes in focus; but the new,

over-intellectualized Alma Mater says, "We do not seek this kind of man - Suffocate him!"

The Meaning of the Altar Too little space remains for me to show the application of a fraternity discipline of semantics to the greatest of all teaching. In a manuscript titled Educating for Brotherhood, I discuss application of this teaching for collegians. I an icipate that a new type of manual must soon replace the old which has grown obsolete. The carry-over of the ritual into a true textbook of the principles of brotherhood brings the light of the Sermon on the Mount on many issues w!lich today harass collegians.

Often called the greatest truth the world has ever known, the Lord's commandment

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The truths of the altar can sustain fraternities on campus

IS a positively stated summary with psychological guidelines of the Ten Commandments. On the Mount, Jesus gave it during his sermon, when a lawyer of the Pharisees asked Him, "Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law " Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and

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great commandment. And the second is like unto it, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

A II! The so-called Christian world's great black mark is that so little effort has been made to communicate the truth of this commandment-that is, "to bridge the blabblab chasm" to the hearts and minds of men . A healthy society-and should not the campus be a healthy society?-has vitality in three realms: the intellectual, the physical , and the spiritual. Judea-Christian doctrine says that man is made of body, mind, and spirit. True health is possible only when all three dimensions of existence are healthy. Fraternity life respects all three dimensions.

George D . Stoddard, chancellor of New York University, a Sigma Pi, says the same thing when he advises us to go back, whenever we can, to the three-dimensional, nonmagical world of muscles, organs, and sensory perceptions. He explains, "Away from the clutter of wot ds, there is what the physiologists call the wisdom of the body. It is older than any culture. Its controlling mechanisms lie below the cerebral cortex, running deep into every fiber." Dr. Stoddard's warning concerning over-intellectualization is this : "Having gone from good specimens of animals-as a naturalist would rate them -to rather weak, pale, unexercised, dependent creatures-all in order to achieve the higher virtues of speech, history, and technology-man is now, through notable defects in social and spiritual quality, in danger of losing this new life."

In the fraternity leadership training program. despite scattered exceptions, the topics invariably dealt with-rush, pledge education, public relatio ns, alumni relations, scholarship, conduct and social affairs, and all the others-get seeds down only into barren soil where they die or lie until that soil can be prepared. It cannot be prepared by philistines. The discussants of the usual topics can prepare the soil when

they are familiar with the language of brotherhood, when in their hearts they grasp what lies behind it; then they can pass it along to others.

But because they eschew the language of brotherhood, most of the fraternity leadership schools, save in those instances where the heart itself is moved and the spirit of the man lifted, are abysmal, demoralizing failures . Despite the most painstaking planning and programming and the most gallantly extended effort of highly dedicated and gifted leaders, they fall fiat, and the time and money spent on them are an utter waste . Many observers try to say this, but here, too, the ears turned to catch advice are usually still echoing with irrelevant mumbo-jumbo--or blab-blab which has created a chasm.

Such phrases as "the principles of the founders," "the truths of the altar," and "the lessons of the ritual" have vital practical meanings. But these meanings too seldom get through to the heart at all. They should be thoroughly studied as a first step in fraternity education. Even on the most atheistic campus the case for fraternities should be stated. However it is not being stated there, or anywhere, and it cannot be stated without a superior command of an authoritative spiritual vocabulary.

In the shadow of a still far too materialistic world, the unknown language of brotherhood must be learned well; it is a language undeveloped and unrecognized, a language known for its sounds but not for its meaning. In the shadow of One World this language all the peoples of the world must come to know generally in order to communicate effectively with one another.

It is up to fraternity men to do their share-perhaps even to lead the way-in teaching it. In rushing, they should not be ashamed to emphasize what the ritual stands for. On the other hand, if they forsake their altars completely, the fraternity cannot possibly live: The Altar is the first fact of fraternity life.

WHAT's HAPPENING TO THE ALTAR? by John Robson is the first of a series of articles prepared for' fraternity magazines by " Operat ion Challenge," a project established by the 58 member College Fraternity Editors Association.

Operation Challenge came about as the result of Carl J. Gl adfelter, Editor of the Chi Phi Chakett, requesting Lucian Warren, Editor of The Phi G amma Delta, to conduct a survey of the Moonshooter project of the American Alumni Council and its associate, Editorial Projects for Education. As a direct result of his report to the 1963 annual meeting of the Editors, a resolution authorizing the project was adopted and a committee appointed by Association president, Harold Jacobsen, Editor of The Emerald of Sigma Pi to " make available to those fraternity magazines desiring it,. professionally written and edited material covering subjects of common interest and value to fraternities." .Permission to reprint the article or any portion thereof must be obtained from the Author and the Operation Challenge Committee.

The members of the " Operation Challenge" Committee are: Ralph F. Burns, Alpha Sigma Phi, Herbert L. Brown, Phi Sigma Kappa, Robert D. Lynn, Pi Kappa Alpha, Durward Owen, Pi Kappa Phi, John Rob son, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Francis Wacker, Delta Sigma Phi, and Carl J . . Gladfelter, Chi Phi, Chairman.

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