Thursday, November 9.1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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'Do away with draft'
A group of faculty and students yesterday showed large approval to proposals to abolish the draft system and to resist any attempt by the government to draft individuals.
A student-faculty forum sponsored by the KU-Y at the Kansas Union dealt with the morality of the present draft system and the Vietnam war. Those addressing the audience were Col. William Brinkerhoff, professor of military science, Jim Powell, St. Louis junior, and Rick Atkinson, Belleville senior.
"I believe the draft is necessary only IF the United States is imperialistic and immoral, or IF it is defending itself". Powell said, following Brinkerhoff's talk on the history of the draft and its use in previous wars.
Powell said he not only opposed the draft but also war in general. He said "peace only through war" is not right and that he did not approve of what he called "legalized murder" now going on in Vietnam.
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Powell said the Biblical commandment "does not say 'Thou shalt not kill, except when ordained by Lyndon Baines Johnson.'"
To avoid this killing, he said, the draft should be totally abolished.
"A government that is so corrupt that it needs to impose a draft doesn't deserve to survive," he said.
Atkinson told the group that he felt the draft was very real to "those of us under 35," because they have to live under constant pressure when thinking of the draft possibility and the possible physical harm. He said if some gave up and did not resist the draft, there would be no motivation to the government to change it.
Top officials in the government are not directly involved in the fighting, so the draft situation doesn't bother them, he said.
Atkinson stressed resistance as the factor in making the government change the present system. "To me, it does not matter how you stay out of the draft," he said, "just so you do."
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One of the members of the audience asked the panel whether Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia could survive Communist aggression, if the United States pulled out.
Brinkerhoff said he thought this question was already settled just by the fact that there were troops from the Philippines, Thailand and other countries in the area right now, showing that, unless they acted immediately, they would not survive.
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One person in the audience advocated an "incentive program" which would motivate men to enlist and thereby gradually eliminate the draft system.
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Powell answered saying he thought the highest form of patriotism was not joining the military but to eliminate evils in one's own government. One of the evils in the United States government, he said, is the draft. Atkinson agreed, saying that a nuclear war possibility should eliminate any real need for a massive standing army, anyway.
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