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Tuesday, November 29, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Senate President Ross Doyen's admitted violation of the state campaign finance act and the state Governmental Ethics Commission's handling of the case will help show whether Kansas is ready for open, accountable government.
Two weeks ago, the ethics commission found probable cause to believe that Doyen, R-Corcordia, had failed to give his treasurer $1,225 in campaign contributions on time. The money allegedly came in nine contributions from August through October 1976 but was not reported until Nov. 15—13 days after the election in which Doyen regained his position as mayor. It does not indicate that Doyen should have filed a report on the contributions seven days before the election if those contributions were received by Oct. 23 of that year.
Doyen has admitted that the contributions were not reported on time. But he prefers to call the omission merely a technical violation that was "an honest mistake."
Doyen will have to answer to the commission at a Dec. 14 hearing. He faces no criminal charges if the charges are substantiated, but whether the commission can properly handle the case—or even whether it is allowed to do so—is important.
ALREADY, THE commission is suspect
allowing its members, Lowell
allows it to vote.
Abeldt was Doyen's campaign manager during the period in question—but Abeldt says this is no conflict of interest because it is Doyen's activities, not his own, under investigation. Nor did Abeldt think it necessary to excuse himself from voting
because Doyen appointed him to the commission.
It comes as no surprise that Abidt and Ernest Unruh, another Doyen appointee on the commission, voted against the motion saying that they were probable cause that related the lawsuit.
The commission apparently allowed Abeldt to violate the conflict-of-interest standards to which it tries to hold candidates, and may well be will be added to the commission's problems.
Already this fall, an interim legislative committee has overridden the commission's recommendations to stiften lobbyist financing and to make it less likely to make the lobbyist controls even less strict.
LEGISLATORS AND two governors have publicly supported the spirit of the commission, but attempts have been made to cut its budget so severely that it would become only a repository for campaign financial reports. And that is just what the commission's foes hoped to prevent. The government unable and unwilling to check campaign financial records for validity or legality.
Kansas politicians have given themselves plenty of credit for establishing the ethics commission but seem unwilling to live under its scrutiny.
If the commission never receives the support it deserves—indeed, if the commission cannot hold its own members to standards of accountable government—it will be evildoing. It still live in a time when honest government is neither widely cherished nor expected.
Cooking becoming necessary evil
I remember vividly when my cousin came home once to visit me, and I saw her in the occasion with such clarity because she chased me down the road—and I have never been more terrified. I do not understand how she did it.
WASHINGTON - When I was growing up in Plains, Ga., I did not hear the words "mental health" or "mental illness." My friend, a neighbor of ours had had something called a "nervous breakdown," that another friend was "not quite right" and that a distant cousin was locked away. Even though we assumed, everyone was crazy.
By ROSALYNN CARTER
AS A NATION, we are still running away from persons who have had or still have mental and emotional disorders. And the stigma attached to their condition is an undeserved disgrace.
It hurts me now to consider that my cousin probably needed nothing more than friendship and recognition from another person, "and different," and when he ran toward me, my compulsion was to flee.
Thanksgiving scenes this year probably were nothing unusual; grandmothers, mothers and aunts scampering about in the kitchen, comparing taste tests and glimpsing at yellowed recipes that have survived the ages.
The fact is, we are discriminating against ourselves.
Of course, mental sickness sometimes means schizophrenia, manic-depression, paranoia and other severe and frightening psychoses. But today at least one in four families is touched in some way by depression, marital stress, drug use, and other factors, the inability to cope as a result of a death or a serious accident or illness, or simply low self-esteem.
Unfortunately, this generation's elders are probably the last of the great middle-class cooks. Consequently, the stomachs of future generations may be in for a blah time.
Cooking used to be an art. It was something to place time and pride in, and the sighs and yummy sounds evoked by a fine meal were synonymous with respect and enjoyment.
Now, however, cooking is a pain in the neck, except to the last remaining few who still practice the art.
WOMEN'S LIBERATION also has a take on cooking. As a domestic art, cooking became associated with dreaminess, suppression and slavishness. Perhaps some women were scared to learn to cook. Others probably just
THE REASONS seem clear cut. The time needed to pre-heat the sandwich after a fine meal are substantial. A fast-paced society considers such time a waste, as one-years once-a-year. Thanksgiving feast.
In supermarkets, Hamburger Helper, instant meals and the gamut of frozen foods make cooking a breeze. The ingredients, temperatures and time are taken care of; it's a skill that goes for it for the cooking instincts of one's own tongue and mind.
Restaurants such as McDonalds, Wendy's and Burger King dot the landscape, taking the tedious chores out of eating and cooking. Flavor is planned. You're a smart, bench and leave; it's a sad evolution of the American meal.
Rick
Tbaemert
Editorial Writer
found the image of the new woman too exciting. Cooking wouldn't fit in because of its time and trouble.
Moreover, they probably couldn't care less if their mothers advise that liver dries out too much if it's frozen, or food coloring in the food coloring. It makes a banana cream pie look more appetizing.
It's sad in a way. Cooking was once a family event. Mothers enjoyed teaching their daughters how to cook. Daughters knew it would be useful should they marry.
THEY ALSO knew cooking and fine meals held an image of romanticism. Fine dimers by candlèment always have been a sign of affection. There was even a way for a man's heart is through his stomach. "Can as much be said of a Sara Lee Bunke Cake?"
Men obviously have a gut feeling now that home cooking is fading from view, and that they can't depend on a prospective wife to accomplish anything more than what's in the Betty Crocker cookbook. They don't buy high school cooking courses across the nation has more than doubled in the last few years.
Unfortunately, young men have few places to turn for help. The chances of finding male friends who have learned the ancient Pennsylvania Dutch language are their mother are slim. The chances of learning it from a female friend are just as slim.
COOKBOOKS TODAY are comprehensive, but rarely do they reveal the secret eccentricities and tricks that make a cook better. To be a conductor of family traditions and pleasants that separate
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neighbor, who is "safe", and will not brand us with disgrace. We need them. But in so many professional help is essential.
In sum, mental illness is still not acceptable in our society. It is not acceptable because we keep turning our back to the facts. We buy the myths. We are talking about each other.
As long as our most vulnerable citizens suffer from a stereotyped image, they will feel the need to reconsider zoning laws, rejection in the work market, and inappropriate facilities that do not meet their special language and cultural needs. If itself is tarnished, it will be impossible to attract adequate local, state and federal support for the estimated total of 20 million children who need mental-health care.
the Joneses' spaghetti from the Williamses'.
In short, with cookbooks,
whammo-zamo groceries and fast food restaurants, people get meals. But taste, per-
formance, presentation and drain like leftovers from an outdated time and lifestyle.
Perhaps people suddenly will realize that good meals are more fun, healthier, easier on dieters and more worthwhile than snack-knack, fast foods. But probably to most of today's eaters, cooking is a nasty chore that has to get done.
WITH SUCH an attitude, the stomach slump in America isn't likely to improve. Elders may pass from this world having never been asked by their offspring how to preserve the art of cooking. The secrets of delicately regulating ingredients, temperatures and times to transform a gagging meal into a exquisite masterpiece may die with them.
If that happens, American meals of the future may be nothing more than a low blow to the bellline.
As a nation, we are still running away from persons who have had or still have mental and emotional disorders. The fact is we are discriminating against ourselves.
We now know that mental health is much more than just the absence of mental illness. It is the quality of the life we lead. Still, we reject those who are the most vulnerable because their lives have been branded by the old labels that evoke fear or renunciation.
LISTEN TO THE problems of one of the members of our distinguished President's Committee to help the former mental patient, and this is what she said at our first meeting at the White House last week.
- Differences in cultural heritage are preventing Hispanic-Americans, Indians and Asians from adopting the health facilities, largely because fear, rejection and ridiculation are indicated in them through the use of
- Psychiatric care is considered "chic" among the wealthy, but a disgrace among others.
filled out the form. When I told him later, he said he was glad he hadn't known because he would not have let me in."
"I am half in the closet and half out. I am a former patient, and I intended to have everyone on the commission know that; that I was going to be the United States of America. I have been all over the United States—talking about mental health issues and about patients' rights issues. But the people in the place where I live are very hard to reach. I am a former patient. I didn't tell the manager this when I
This was the first time, but not the last, that the commission heard first-hand testimony from several hundred professionals and lay persons about the pain and the barriers facing mental patients in their own communities—those very com-munities where they need to be supported in the highest sense of the word.
- People are still afraid to live next door to patients and former patients because they worry that these might be dangerous and irresponsible members of society, that crime will rise, that the property will be harmed, that their property values will be reduced.
CONSIDER THE environment in our neighborhoods today:
ment still elude the honest person who admits to having had mental problems—and those who succeed usually do so because they have hidden their history.
- Zoning laws are being used as weapons in the fight to keep former mental patients away.
Each of us needs to be cared for and to care. Yet even when we finally reach out for help, we very often turn—not to the professional—but to the clergyman, family member, friend or
And so we need to adopt a new attitude that affirms that the mental health of a nation reflects the quality of our lives. A national mental-health care "them," but for all of us, "them." but for all of us.
The Klan has been a persistent, if unpleasant, part of American history for more than a century. The organization began in May 1866, when a group of former Confederate soldiers organized in Pulaski, originating intentions were social, but the group soon outgrew its purely fraternal function.
- Job security and advance-
The Klan was not long in assuming as its mission the re-establishment of the traditional South. The group became a potent force in politics and was credited with overthrowing the restoring many of the old names to power in much of the South.
THE ANTI-FAMILATION B League of B'aini B'rethly recently has estimated that the Alabama-based United Klan of Blacks in Chicago group with 3,000 to 4,000 members. There reportedly are 2,000 to 3,000 members of the Confederation of Independent Orders of Black Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which is based in Indiana.
Salylyn Carter is honorary chairman of the President's Commission on Mental Health.
Klan philosophy has not changed
The Knights of the Klu Kluan are the smallest of three Klan organizations that now exist in the United States. Its membership has been listed at www.klu-kluan.org, and will confirm that estimate.
One of the most disturbing trends in the news this fall has been the increased activity of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan, it seems, is one of its members. Its members have not changed their philosophy, only their tactics. And they're convinced that proper public relations can swing a majority of white voters over to their way of thinking.
David Duke, imperial wizard of the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan, said recently, "I don't think the Klukl philosophy has changed at all, except that the public is beginning to understand what we stand for." He has been making personal encounters across the country he把 the Klukl's point across.
Lynn
Kirkman
Editorial Writer
PRESIDENT ULYSES S. GRANT ordered the Klan suspended in 1871, and many of its reported 550,000 members were arrested. Convictions were obtained in 1,250 cases.
The Klan's disappearance was more technical than real, however, and the group was so well known to other names. Often there was no formal organization, merely a mob of men who roughly numbered thousands of moderate whites of their community. The Klan's legend
persisted into this century, in such manifestations as "The Chansman," a book by the Rev. Thomas Dixon of North Carolina was the basis of the movie "Birth of a Nation" in 1906.
On Thanksgiving night in 1915, William Joseph Simmons brought the modern Klan into being at Stone Mountain, just outside Atlanta. The new Klan drew its strength from a pro-America policy and a nationwide membership drive.
THE KLAN OF THE 1920s supported American values and morality, as defined by the Klan itself. New members swear that they would "most zealously and by all means hold and preserve, by any and all means, laws and methods, the sacred constitutional rights and privileges
of free public schools, free speech, free press, separation of church and state, liberty, white supremacy, just laws and rights, the right to any encoachment of any nature, by any person or persons, political party or parties, religious seed or people, native religion or民族, foreign religion of any race, color, creed, lineage or tongue whatsoever."
With that oath as their standard, Klansmen terrorized, tortured, mutilated and murdered blacks, bootleggers, pacifists, radicals, evolutionists, Jews, Catholics and any others who did not conform to their particular values.
The Klan disappeared from the scene in the mid-1920s, only to reappear in the 1950s as court
AFTER THE PASSAGE of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Klan membership was down. In 1965, an American Activities Committee investigated the Klan's activities in 1965, after the Klan reportedly was involved in the civil rights workers in the south.
Imperial Wizard Duke would challenge that. He said the Klan did not condone violence, and he blamed the attacks on blacks and civil rights advocates on individuals, not the Klan. He believed that the Klan would continue to grow as white Americans realized that the Klan was defending their interests.
decisions moved to end segregation in the United States.
"White people are beginning to realize that they're becoming second-class citizens," Duke said.
He said that the Klan was "the only organization willing to stand up for the rights of the white majority."
Statements like that should stand on their own merits—and be recognized for the narrow, thoughtless words they are. Duke and the Klan may appear on the podium at public gatherings sponsored by churches or schools and present their point of view. A Klan member could also program with a Black Muslim leader in the Kansas City area.
AND KLAN REPRESENTATIVES may continue to use the press to expound their point of view on America's race, busing, unemployment and affirmative action. Tensions in these areas are increasing, as whites begin to experience the frustrations that blacks and minorities have known for some time.
But there is real danger in the Klan's view that white supremacy is the natural order of the world, an order to be maintained at any cost. The Klan also has a delicate to lend themselves to racist arguments and exploitation, even when those arguments are cloaked in so-called reason and logic. Duke and others like him may wear business suits instead of white trench coat or fur intent is the same as the hooded night-riders of the 1860s.
A warning against the tactics of the new Klan comes from Irwin J. Snail, director of the Nazi group 'Siegge's domestic factor child unit.'
"We have seen no evidence that there's been a change of heart, only a change of tactics—a temporary change of tactics," he said. "If the climate changes, we have to be possible to perpetrate acts of violence and get away with it, we think they 'do it.'"