The Independent-News, Volume 88, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 June 1964 — Page 4

- THE INDEPENDENT NEWS — June 25, 1964

Let Freedom Ring

The ringing of bells throughout this entire country will again be heard this coming Fourth of July to celebrate the birthday of these United States. What started out as a small scale Idea, has now spread to national participation. Through the years, the sound Os bells has been the sound of freedom. It still is, but for a while, some of the meaning went out of our Fourth of July celebrations. It may have been because guns and firecrackers were a reminder of war. and our generation is sick of wars. But the sound of bells has no such association for they are the sound of freedom, a plea for peace. The idea for ringmg of the bells began two years ago when Eric Sloane of Connecticut suggested the idea to a friend who had a daily radio show. The simple idea was for everyone, everywhere to ring bells to celebrate our country’s birthday. The response was tremendous and Sloane asked a friend and neighbor, Eric Hatch, to assist in a national campaign for the ringing of bells. Hundreds of patriotic organizations were willing to assist. The late President Kennedy endorsed it. ‘'Bells.” he said, “mark significant events in man’s lives. Birth and death, summon the community to take note of things which affect the life and destiny of its people. “The Liberty Bell rang to tell the world of the birth of a new country’s freedom. Next Thursday. the Fourth of July,’’ he said last year, “when bells will ring again, think back on those who lived and died to make our country free, and then resolve with courage and determination. to keep it free and make it greater.” Every bell that rfhgs on Independence Day Is a spiritual descendant of the Liberty Bell, and every bell ringer should know a little of its history. There is no proof that a bell was rung July 4. 1776, but it did the following Monday, July 8. to call the people to hear a reading of the Declaration of Independence. And for a quarter of a century before that, the Liberty Bell had been heard in Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell was ordered from England in 1751 with a portion of the Biblical passage engraved upon it: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.’* (Leviticus XXV: 10). Upon being tested, it cracked but was twice recast. Weighing

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a ton, it was small compared to Big Ben which weighed thirteen times as much. But it was large enough to annoy some townspeople who thought it to be too loud and too large aa to be dangerous. The bell must have sounded to Call the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. John Adams stated, “The second of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by successive generations as the great anniversary festival.” But he was two days early and it was not until July 4th. that the whole Declaration of Independence was adopted in the form in which we know it today. On the following Monday, the Liberty Bell rang to summon the people to hear the reading of the Declaration. Bells rang all day and almost all night. By the end of the Revolutionary War when the Liberty Bell rang once again, the custom of celebrating the Fourth of July had spread through the land. This year, the Fourth of July will fall on a Saturday. If each one of us took the trouble to find a bell, however small, to ring it. to explain to our children why we rang it. to read to them, perhaps, a paragraph or two from the Declaration itself, what would happen? Nothing visible, certainly. And yet. each one of us would have done something of deep significance. It would be an affirmation, a symbol, to use Lincolns words, of a high resolve “that this nation, under God. shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." So — Happy Birthday. United States of America. On this, your one hundred and eighty-eighth anniversary, let the bells ring out in every city, town and hamlet in the land, and let us resolve, from this day forward, to guard our precious heritage with the courage and determination of our forefathers. LET FREEDOM RING, loud and clear, as we join together in the ringing of the bells. Participating in the bell ringing In this vicinity, will be the Orville Easterday Post and Unit 189. the American Legion and Auxiliary. The churches of the community will be contacted to participate also.. Let everyone ring their bells July 4th at the designated time, 1:00 p.m., and let them ring for four minutes.

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Ball State Seeking To Become '’University" With Wider Curriculum

, MUNCIE, Ind. — When the State Teachers College Board meets at Ball State Teachers College in June, three major orders of business are on the agenda. The 46-year-old college is seeking a name change to Ball State University and is interested in adding two more professional schools to its curriculum. Ball State is a serious contender for the proposed new state School of Architecture and for Indiana’s second state-supported School of Medicine. The Chicago management and educational consultant firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, will visit Ball State this week on the latter program. The State Legislative Commission’s survey team will visit the college on June 30 in connection with its bid to have the School of Architecture. . The college has a nine-member Committee on University Status preparing recommendations for the name change to present to the State Teachers College Board whose encouragement is expected In this move. With the Board's approval, the way will be cleared for the college to go to the 1965 Indiana General Assembly for the name change. President John R Emens says. “It’s easy to change the name of an institution, but it’s harder to build a program that has university status. That’s what this committee is intent on doing. Ball State has enjoyed an international reputation for a number of years as a first class teachers college. We don’t want to sacrifice this reputation that we have earned. “When we become a university, we want all of the colleges to maintain and uphold the same high standards and to establish the same renutation for excellence that Ball State Teachers College has earned. We won’t be satisfied with less.” Four college- are proposed for the university: Teachers College. College of Sciences and Humanities. College of Business, and College of Fine and Applied Arts. Dr Emens listed several strong assets which the college ba c . making it in a good position to become a university and to support schools of architecture and medicine. 1. A rapidly spiraling enrollment which will reach over 10.200 studenta by fall—an increase of

805 percent since the end of the World War 11. This is expected to increase several thousand more students by 1972. 2. Strong programs in education, liberal arts, business adminstration, nursing, medical technology, dietetic and all of the preprofessional courses: medicine, law. engineering, dentistry, social work and the ministry. 3. New undergraduate and graduate programs are being developed for non-teaching majors in a number of areas-eco-nomics, journalism, international studies, music, political science and several areas of science. 4. A doctoral program leading to Ph. D and Ed. D. degrees in addition to the 8.A., 8.5., M.A., and Ed. S. (education specialist) degree. 8. A well-qualified faculty with more than half holding earned doctor’s degrees from most major universities and colleges In the U-S- and some from abroad. 6. A growing program of research, particularly .in science, supported by National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health grants. 7. A well equipped library with over 250,000 volumes, thousands of professional periodicals, microfilms. slides, motion pictures, and other valu^b|ej^search materials. 8. Cultural urograms bringing the best talent in opera, ballet, concerts and theatre to the new 3.600 seat auditorium. 9. Campus radio and television facilities for closed circuft instruction as well as other types of programmed instructional devices, audio visual and other electronic instructional eauinment. 10. A large data processing center for research. 11. A 10-year plan for campus development on the 455 acre site Plans include a residence hall each year for the foreseeable future. classroom buildings, and other facilities to meet the expanding enrollment. Dr Emens points out that Ball State has a unique geogranhical position drawing its students from the North. Fast and Central sections of the state This area, he notes, has 3 3 million of Indiana’s 4.8 million people Ball State is the only state-supported school in the area east of a line drawn from Lake County to

Switzerland County. The Ball State president notes that in addition to having the heaviest concentration of population in this area, this is where new business locating He referred to a story released by Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine which said that during April nine nationally known firms announced that they were locating new plants in this area of Indiana or they are enlarging existing plant facilities. “We feel that we are ideally located for a second medical school or the school of architecture. This is where the people live and work,” said Dr. Oliver Bumb, coordinator of public affairs and campus development. “This is where we feel that we can serve them.” Ball State has strong community support for both professional schools. Committees headed by Mayor John V. Hampton are preparing studies to support both requests. Working with the mayor are the Chamber of Commerce, Delaware-Blackford County Medical Society, Board of Realtors, a number of service clubs, business, labor and the press. In addition to the 600-bed Ball Memorial hospital, located adjacent to the Ball State campus, the college would expect to build a 500 or 600-<bed hospital for its medical center if Ball State gets the legislative nod for the feecond school. I “Ball State has a number of undergraduate and graduate programs now, plus the supporting staff and facilities., in paramtdicine to support a medical school program We are willing to add more.” said President Emens.■ He noted that Ball State is in addition to its nursing, medical technology. dietetics and, science research programs, offering programs to prepare specialist to work with the deaf, orthopedic and health handicapped children and adults, mentally retarded, emotionlly disturbed, and In speech and hearing. Currently, the college’s large department of industrial education and technology is offering many of the basic courses which are inrinded on the architectural curriculum. “We're growing and adding new programs. We want to be considered for both professional schools.” he added. A renutatinn for honretv I s one thing money cannot buy.