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Thursday, November 6, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Ford all politician
Columnist Anthony Lewis wrote recently that if you could peer Gerald Ford layer by layer, all you would find would be politician.
It's a sad fact that a man untarnished by the corrupting influences of a presidential election can act like a man who is a veteran of one. Gerald Ford wants to be elected President in 1978 more than he wants anything else.
When Ford took office 15 months ago, there were high hopes that he could provide leadership to help solve the many problems that had been shelved because of the Watergate trauma. Judging from Ford's recent actions, it's apparent that he's fighting for leadership of the Republican party and that he's using those unsolved problems to win the fight.
His attitude toward New York City's financial plight is a prime example. Ford is playing up to conservatives in opposing federal aid for New York City. Ford is being laid down the possible presidential candidacy of Ronald Reagan.
Ford's motives in his recent trips to California, Reagan's own backyard, are shamefully obvious. He has blasted the supposedly reckless fiscal policies of New York politicians while wrongfully praising San Francisco for rebuilding itself after the 1906 earthquake. In fact, San Francisco did receive federal aid.
More recently, Nelson Rockefeller made the startling announcement that he didn't want to be considered as a Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1976. Now Ford has denied that he forced the move by saying Howell's clear Mr. Ford didn't try to hard to talk Rockefeller out of his decision.
The move by Rockefeller will give Ford increased maneuverability before and during the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., next summer. He can compromise with the conservative wing by agreeing to place one of its members in the No. 2 spot on the ticket.
Ford's wholesale shuffling of the cabinet is further proof. He claimed he wanted his "own team," people with whom he could work intimately. Actually, he wants people he can control and manipulate to his advantage. That's hard to do with holdovers from a previous administration.
It's not that Ford hasn't always been a politician; as Republican majority leader in the House he was the archetype of one. It's just that one hopes a call to higher service might elevate a man to loftier considerations and more honorable actions. Maybe that's too much to expect from a president.
David Olson
Contributing Writer
KU visit ages alumni
It was a beautiful November day, crisp, clear and just right for Homecoming. That day, Uncle Henry and Aunt Gertie left 50 years of seclusion on a boat to take them behind them and returned to their alma mater for the first time since their graduation.
Crimsoned by blue
"Do you remember the day we met, mehen?" Aunt Gertie asked aloud. "I was a nice day just like this, way back in '23."
Uncle Henry and Aunt Gertie walked along, arm-in-arm, the dead leaves under their feet crushing with a soft sigh. Both were reminiscing to them-selves.
As they heared the stadium, a young girl bounced by, defying the cool autumn breeze in a room where eyes nearly popped out of her head and Uncle Henry had to steer her through the throng of people to keep her from bumping someone while in her of shot.
"Huh?" he said. His mind had been on a 1924 football game and the wild party he'd been to before it.
The air was charged with excitement as they walked down the hill toward the stadium to watch the football
Jain Penner Contributing Writer
They entered the gate of the stadium and, on the way to their
team take on the visiting arch rivals from upstate.
seats, Uncle Henry paused at a concession stand.
"Want a hot dog, Gert?" he asked. "I think I have a little change."
Sheepishly, he slipped the dime in his pocket and took a dollar bill out of his wallet.
He ordered the hot dog, extracted a dime from his coin purse and was nearly ready to eat. "I'll put that in $60 cents please." "That'll be $60 cents please."
"Keep the change," he muttered. "Fifty cents for a lausy hot dog, indeed!" He said to Aunt Bettie with a gist.
The game was exciting—exciting that Uncle Henry nearly forgot how winded he was after climbing up 50 steps to get to his seat. He tried hard not to notice how红 Aunt Gerte got when the students besieged him, yelling a cheer. He was successfully ignoring her until, midway through the third quarter, he felt her hand on his arm.
Uncle Henry looked over at her. Aunt Gertie's face was dead white and she looked like she'd just seen a ghost.
"Are you okay?" he asked, then he followed the gaze of her eyes skyward.
An airplane was drifting through the cloudless sky, dragging behind a banner that beaded behind it. "Gay Dance, Tonight at 8 pm."
"Oh, Henry!" she moaned.
Ford still partisan, negative
WASHINGTON—If you were listening to him on the stump and didn't know who he was, you'd say he was a man who had little to do with what is going on in the country.
Mary McGrory
He talks about bureaucrats, with the trendy sneer in his voice, as if he had no more power over them than his audience.
It is when he talks about problems like New York City and busing, which he always describes as a business to achieve racial balance in the public schools," that he sounds most like the congressman and Goldman who never really left the well of the House.
sound Republican doctrines, it will come out of it. Ford's responsibility seems to end, however, with taking polls in other cities, seeing his anti-New York bias reinforced and announcing that he finds no sentiment for "bailing out New York"—which makes it sound like a drunk in the tank.
When Phase I began last year, he said he disagreed with
It's the same way with "court-ordered buses to achieve racial balance in the public schools." He isn't the president of Roxbury and South Boston and Charleston. He has no time for those frightened children and their mothers praying against them in the street—not because he is racist or mean, but because busing is a good Republican issue.
"Watch the game, Gert," he replied.
the court decision. When Phase II began in September, with maximum dread and fear, be the judge of the courts, not the agitators.
The glow of reminiscence lasted for approximately a block-and-a-half, then Aunt Erna and she'd been in her tracks with a gas.
He talks about regulatory agencies torturing businessmen and says they must stop, as if it were a gun. He had read in the papers.
always the helicopter warming up to take him to some cover where legions lean against the fence to scream at his coming.
He talks about Washington as if he didn't live there.
After the home team had severely thrashed the visitors, Uncle Henry and Aunt Gertie went to a stadium, dodging the drunkards and little kids with bright blue and purple pompons. They decided to stroll across the field and see if it had changed.
His obligations as President remain what they always have been in his long political career. His constituency is big business, the military and the Republican party. His philosophy is limited to a belief that the least government is the best.
For 27 years, Gerald Ford's mission in life was to discomfit and defeat the Democrats. It wasn't an awesome respon-
sibility and now that he is President he hasn't raised his sights.
If New York City adopts
of New York is that their leaders have strayed from the paths of fiscal righteousness and must be punished.
Being leader of the Western world does not seem to impress him as much as being leader of the Republican party.
New York is a Democratic city, it has a Democratic mayor. In Grand Rapids they hate New York, and they don't think much of it in the Republican state. Their pervasive effect from the White House is the same. The presidency is not "a bully pulpit" for Gerald Ford. It's not a pupit at all.
If he wears lightly burdens and temptations of the presidency, he wears even more burdens. He is also the President of all the people.
They headed the opposite direction rapidly. When they got to a corner, they looked down a long hill and saw a teeming mass of people milling about in it. They quickly blocked off by barricades and policemen were stationed at both ends.
He isn't, for instance, the president of New York City. His mandate doesn't run to the East River. He is not a cruel or an unfeeling man. But the only thing he has to say to the people
Aunt Gertie's eyes lit up and her smile softened when they passed the little chapel where Uncle Henry had been married.
When he speaks of his aversion to government, it isn't an act. Vetts mean power to help the loves crowds more than power.
He may be right and the American people may agree with him, but while we're switching gears many lives will be jolted. Telling people what not to do when it too late for them, rather than allow presidency, Gerald Ford hasn't learned that less government doesn't necessarily mean less leadership.
"What is that, Henry?" she cried.
find pompum girls or yell leaders anywhere. The only "spirits" they saw were in the music cans that said "COORDS."
He feels sorry for the people—he was wague about just how many there were—but he has no comfort for them. Kicking a city when it's down isn't helpful, and Ford sees the matter as he did when he was on the House floor, as a partisan issue.
When one young man pushed a Budweiser cup at Aunt Gertie and said, "Here, Grandma, a beer," she nearly fainted.
Ahead of them, squarely in the center of campus, stood an
enormous structure, truly a mammoth monstrosity of modern architecture. With its hallways adorned in fluorescent paint brilliant enough to ename the dead, the building looked like a hidious giant nest to the peaceful old structures beside it
"The splendid misery" of the great office he never expected to hold has passed him by. He is vastly enjoying himself, his work and life. But he speaks his pleasure. When the problems press in, there is
Homecoming was over. As the 1957 Chevy rolled into the set sun that evening, Gertie and Gertie discussed the events of the day.
Ulence Henry and Aunt Gertie immediately turned, headed up the hill as fast as their aging brothers to make them and went to their car.
"You know, Henry, things sure aren't like they were when we were kids," Aunt Gertle said.
"Look, Gert, I'll bet it's a pep rally." Uncle Henry said. "Let's go see."
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
They picked their way through the crowd, but couldn't
ASK NOT WHAT THE COVER-UP CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT RATHER. WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR THE COVER-UP!
Readers Respond / Creationist theory full of holes
To the Editor:
The Kanan has carried a series of letters concerning Prof. Morris' lecture on creation and evolution. One letter called for academicians to step forth and debate this theory, another from a physics professor said it wasn't possible
to debate a matter of faith, a third pledged allegiance to the creation theory and a fourth called for the teaching of theology in the schools. I feel provoked to make the following remarks.
Prof. Morris, through the use of logical fallacy, false
assumptions, misapplication of present scientific thought, circular and vague arguments and forensic techniques gave a presentation that was an elegant web of complexity and that may have had terrific intuitive appeal, even to a well
'LOOK ROCKY, ALL THE FOOLS DOWN THERE CAN SEE HOW WELL. WE PERFORM TOGETHER!'
Creationists confuse the concept of scientific proof with the common connotation of the world "proof." Nothing in science has a definitive proof, and thus everything will remain infinitely unproven. The atom is defined by its existence exists only as an unseen theory; the "mind" is only a theory of psychology. Scientific evidence only establishes theories with increasing probability of truth.
educated person, politician or school board member.
Creationists claim that both evolution and creation are matters of faith and, therefore, beyond the realm of science. Biologists are free to accept or reject an evolutionary framework for their research. In contrast, creatistism creates human path of achievement commitment to the creationist theory, and hence will never find evidence that contradicts the theory.
The creationist theory is presentable in its simplest form as a comic book put out by the Creationist Research Institute. The fallacy of these arguments is exposed at a much more sophisticated level. For example: Creationists incorrectly apply the law of entropy to biological systems. How many educated people even know that less how many can evaluate the creationist's application of it?
The evolutionary theory has evolved by making observations of the world and proposing a unifying theory. The creationist theory was developed by and developing scientific sounding rationalizations to support the prejudice.
How many people know the nature of scientific proof? Creationists demand evidence of gradual transitions of biological forms as evidence of vertical evolution, but they have defended this view and existence by circular reasoning and undefined use of such terms as "horizontal evolution" and "kinds."
Orlando Schwartz
The creationist's argument involves concepts as complex as the species question, fossil formation, continental drift, teleology and radio-isotope dating. The latter is one of a debate between creationists and scientists is evident from the above examples.
I call for scientists to step forth and refute the creationist theory when given the chance, because it is wrong. Psychologists can teach about the soul and the mind, and physical scientists can teach biblical entheology and theories of human existence together by theological glue.
My purpose in writing this letter is to counter the demands that such an item of faith be required as it as a scientific resource tonic.
Orange School
Lawrence graduate student
To the Editor:
Having read your Oct. 29 article concerning the fiscal crisis in New York City, I am pleased to also disappointed about the data presented as possible solutions. The author, Paula Jolla, states that New York City's expenditures, the original cause of the crisis, are tolerated if equal sums of money are coming back into the
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city. She also argues that the financial backing, in the form of short-term loans, be stopped, and that the federal expenditures to the city should be discontinued.
The argument that continuation of funding to the city should be allowed only if New York "rearranges its fiscal houses," is a perfectly meaningless one. I ask what meanings one can attribute if funds are cut from the city completely?
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New York shouldn't be "punished" like a child, his candy taken away because he broke the plate. The problem is very much a real one, and it isn't one we should turn our backs on and ignore, hoping it will go away. If we run away from this problem now, we will have made surey signals that, we will have made a grave mistake.
New York City is a center for world finance and its importance can be felt worldwide in both trade and product marketing and production. More important, it is the home of the world's largest bank, which be greatly affected if the city falls to inescapable defeat. If the city is permitted to undergo economic disaster, I feel the result will also be tragic for the nation's already troubled economy. The first step in this process will be to find a federal funds going to the city, or as the author wrote, "letting the big apple rot."
I myself don't have the solution for New York's fiscal crisis, but I truly hope that few Americans will find opinion that Paula jolly does, concerning a city so important to the United States.
Scott A. Shreve
Ridgewood, N.J., freshman
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