THE CARDINAL UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION
VOL. XXIV THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1953 NO. 15
Marshall-Bullitt Speaks
On Hiss-Chambers Case
DAE Leads A&S In Enrollment
By CORKIE KIRKHAM
William Marshall Bullitt III, nationally prominent lawyer,
spoke in the Allen Court Room of the Law School last week on the
Hiss-Chambers case. Bullitt is listed in Who's Who in Amm·ica
and is a senior partner in the Jaw firm of Bullitt, Dawson and
Tarrant.
Mr. Bullitt, born in 1873, did
undergraduate work at Princeton
and received his L.L.B. in 1895
from the law school here. He has
practiced since his graduation. He
has tried 50 cases before the U.S.
Supreme Court and is the author
of many books in the field of in­surance.
A member of the Amer­ican
Bar, Kentucky Bar, Louisville
Bar, and the New York City Bar,
Bullitt is a trustee of <the Amer­ican
Surety Co. and Carnegie En­dowment
for International Peace.
In his speech Bullitt stated that
Alger Hiss made three grave er­rors
in <testifying on Whittaker
Chambers' statement that Hiss
was a Communist. These errors,
Bullitt pointed out, were the same
as those made by Oscar Wilde in
England.
From 1935 to 1938 Hiss gave
Chambers a great number of
stolen documents from the State
Department files, including those
at the Yalta Conference during
the presidency of Franklin Delano
Rooselvelt. Hiss took the papers
from the government files and had
them typed by his wife. Cham­bers
acted as a courier and gave
the papers to Communist contacts
to be sent to the U.S.S.R. Hiss did
not take any papers from the files
after 1938, Bullitt said.
In 1939 Chambers became edirtor
of Time magazine. Chambers went
at the beginning of World War II
to a government official and told
him about the infiltration of secret
documents. The government offi­cial
later gave the notes to the
F.B.I.
In the summer of '48 Hiss was
put under surveillance by the
F.B.I., but he had risen so high
in the administration that nothing
was done at this time. On Augusrt
3, 1948, Congress began an investi­gation
of the infiltration of U.S.
papers into Communist hands.
Hiss made his first error after
the newspapers came out the next
morning telling of the investiga­tion,
by calling the investigating
committee and demanding to test­ify.
Here Hiss stated, "Of course
I'm not a Communist."
The second error that Hiss made
was that when he was on the wit­ness
stand, Chambers made a com­ment
to the effect that Hiss was a
Communist. Hiss then replied,
"You wouldn't dare say that out­side
the Court Room, but, if you
do, I'll sue you for libel." Later
Chambers made a broadcast say­ing
that Hiss was a Communist.
Another error made by Hiss was
that, if he had waited until the
committee had called on him to
testify, he could have brought wit­nesses
and sued Chambers for
libel. "Hiss didn't have common
sense and didn't go to good law­yers,"
Bullitt said.
Bullitt also explained that Hiss
had three choices of avoiding the
issue. The first was that a federal
statute barred any criminal prose­cution.
Hiss could have admitted
the stealing of the documents and
the government couldn't have
done a thing about it. Hiss would
have lost his job if he had taken
this course.
The second was that Hiss could
refused to answer any questions
on the grounds of incrimination.
Hiss would have lost his job in
this case also. Three, Hiss could
have committed perjury.
-(Cardinal Photo by Metzner.
WILLIAM M. BULLITT
-(Cardinal Photo by Metzner.
PERPLEXED • • . Alas, but so i:t goes. At least, this chap has
three and one half years to un-do his balled up schedule.
Student Council Decides
Football Should Remain
By JIM WEBB
The University Student Council went on record with only
negligible opposition as favoring the continuance of football at the
University of Louisville.
They further voted to recom­mend
to the Board of Trustees
that additional support be granted
to the basketball team.
The action was stimulated by a
discussion led by President David­son
and Dean Stevenson, in which
they attempted to present the
present and past athletic problems
which have been ,confronted.
President Davidson presented
three alternatives in the athletic
program:
1) Continue the present pro­gram
which will lead to the
reduction of both football
and basketball to amateur
levels.
2) Continue basketball at the
present level and abandon
football.
3) Maintain the present pro­gram
and continue football
on a moderate basis.
The President pointed out that
the present facilities for men's
intra-murals are almost non-exist­ent,
and facilities for women are
even worse.
The one great limitation of the
physical education plant is the
same for the rest of the U of L,
and that is the lack of space. It is
hoped that a quarter-mile track
around the baseball diamond will
be constructed on the corner near
Brook and Eastern Parkway.
The President readily admitted
that the University's position on
athletics should be decided. He
said: "I personally favor the
maintenance of basketball at its
present level, and a modest foot­ball
program on the same level
as Eastern, Centre, Murray, and
T.P.I.
University eouncil Members Debate
National Student Association's Aid
Bonds Go To Court
In Law Technicality
"The University has not yet lost
the bonds that were voted to the
University on Nov. 4 by the peo­ple
of the city," hinted Vice­President
Strickler. Last week the
bonds were contested, and Judge
McCaully Smith ruled against the
University's bond.
By RON MYLES
"Action" appears to be the by­word
of University Student Coun­cil
members these days. as issue
after issue is tossed ont~ the floor
for debate in mee.ting after meet­ing.
Latest issue, and a very popu­lar
one for many years, was the
subject of NSA, the National Stu­dent
Association.
For a long time now, NSA has
been brought to the floor of the
Council for the purpose of evalu­ating
its worth as a service to the
Council in relation to actual cost
of NSA membership. NSA sup­porters
have thus far managed
to keep their heads above water
in the struggle, and NSA has
florished as a Commission.
A few weeks quiet on the issue
was abruptly ended when a mo­tion
hit the floor of a recent Coun­cil
meeting which spoke not
against NSA per se, but rather
in favor of a popular Council func­tion,
Leadership Camp. The mo­tion
was so worded as to direct
NSA Commission subsistence in
the form of budget allotments into
a fund labeled "For Leadership
Camp Development Only."
The motion was quite skillfully
presented since the supporters
were not asking ·for a change in
the budget itself (which would
have taken two weeks and a two­thirds
vote) but were merely di-recting
the NSA's budget allot­ment
to its use "by NSA." The
motion required a simple majority
and after much debate and parlia­mentary
law-slinging, the motion
passed.
On February 4 the Nursing
School of the U of L was tem­porarily
closed. If and when
the school will be opened again
remains to be seen. Last se­mester
only a small number
of students were enrolled in
the school. The Cardinal was
unable lo reach Miss Ann Tay­lor,
Dean of the Nursing
School, for comment.
"The University," Strickler said,
"will have to appeal the case of
the bond <to the Circuit Court of
Appeals. If this court rules against
the bond, then we must take out
a new statement to be submitted
to the Board of Aldermen for a
vote, rather than to the people.
This would take from 30 to 90
days." "This," concludes Strickler,
"is a legal technicality in court
room procedure."
. Too Bad Boysl
Male vs. female
Odds Going. Up
As in the September registra ­tion
figures again indicate that
the University of Louisvil1e men
students outnumber women stu­dents
more than 3 to 1. Regis­tration
results r eleased F ebruary
14, show a total enrollment of
4,212 students, including 3,312
men and only 900 women.
The Division of Adult Education
led all other schools with 1337
enrollments, while only 1152 stu­dents
enrolled in the College of
Arts and Sciences.
Nol So Very Bad ..•
Registrar John M. Houchens an­nounced
that his office was very
pleased with the registration and
that the percentage fall in enroll­ment
was much less than had been
anticipated. There has even been
an increase in Law and Graduate
schools attendance.
Law school reported 113 day
students and 64 night students.
The four graduate school divisions
had the following enrollment:
Arts and Sciences, 288; Speed, 47;
Medical, 4; Music, 2.
Professional schools enrollment
remained about the same, with
233 in the Dental school and 380
in the Medical school. On the un­dergraduate
level 11 enrolled in
Medical Technology, and 11 in
Dental Hygiene.
Schools Report In
Kent School announced 51 reg­istrants,
and Music school enroll­ed
75 regular students in addition
to 192 college preparatory and
private students.
Speed School which registered
on Jan. 7, reported a classroom
enrollment of 353, with 74 more
students registered for co-op.
There was no significant de­crease
in enrollment in any of
the divisions of the University of
Louisville.
USC Planning
New Section
Applications are now being
accepted for chairman of the
new Leadership Commission of
the University Student Council.
They will· be accepted in the
USC offices, located in the base­ment
of the cafeteria, by Presi­dent
Thomas Pfau until Febru­ary
26.
The commission is designed to
plan the 1953 Summer Leadership
Camp and other related projects.
The chairman will be expected to
audit or otherwise attend the new
leadership class, which is current­ly
offered in the Education De­partment,
conducted by Dean of
Men Dave Lawrence.
Applicants will be asked to at­tend
the University Student Coun­cil
meeting of February 26, at
7:00 pm in the Student Lounge
to read their applications to the
Council. At this meeting appli­cants
are \ to express their ideas
regarding improvements of the
Leadership Camp, before the
chairman is selected by Council.