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The Conservative Viewpoint Editor:
Kenneth Ciboski's letter of January 10 most effectively points up some typical liberal misconceptions. We all wish to eliminate poverty from the lives of everyone, but redistribution of wealth will solve nobody's problem.
In the same token, it is inordinately foolish to suggest that the ageless principles of individual liberty embodied in the United States Constitution are made invalid by the passage of time. Certainly the needs of people today are not the same as those of the eighteenth century. But principles cannot be altered to meet changing circumstance.
METHODS NATURALLY can be changed, though there is a limit beyond which one cannot compromise one's methods and still remain true to principle. I believe we have most surely passed that limit when, for instance, we say that placing the support of education in the hands of the federal government is only a change in method or interpretation. Somehow I cannot believe that republicanism and welfare socialism are merely differing means to the same end.
Mr. Ciboski is fond of charging Senator Goldwater with attempting to implement a philosophy of "freedom for the few." However, Mr. Ciboski seems to welcome the New Deal-Fair Deal-New Frontier policies of slavery for all. This is what Senator Goldwater is trying to combat. He is not, as Mr. Ciboski implies, a monopolis, since he is opposed to concentration of power anywhere. Huge business monopolies were indeed a menace to our freedom. But there is no gain in breaking them up only to hand the same power over to government.
Mr. Ciboski says that "Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and to some extent Eisonhower, have used their office...to eliminate restraints upon the individual," and that "their philosophy has furthered the opportunity for fuller development of individual capacities."
IN MY OPINION, it is not lessening of restraint to put the farmers under a quota system, business under the thumb of Big Labor, and all the people in general under the thumb—benevolent though it may be—of Big Government. The only development, furthered by the programs Mr. Ciboski mentions, has been the development of bigger and more bureaucratic government.
THE ONE CORRECT statement of Barry Goldwater's policy made by Mr. Ciboski is that "He is working to eliminate and to reduce welfare programs and social services and to increase Constitutional restriction on the government's power to tax." This policy will, of course, be rejected by many modern philosophers and political scientists, since they are arguing for the Marxian equality of condition, while Senator Goldwater maintains his belief in equality of opportunity. Their disapproval will never detract from Goldwater's greatness.
As for the implied insult of comparing Manick Payton to Barry Goldwater, I am sure Mr. Payton regards it as a high compliment, and rightly so.
Leanna Koehn
Dodge City freshman
A Student Speaks on Fees Editor:
A situation exists, in the matter of assessment of fees, which leads to confusion and possible overpayment of fees by some students. The general information bulletin contains a statement on page 20 which leads one to believe that a decision of the KU Committee on Residency cannot be appealed.
THIS IS not true. If a petition is turned down by reason of the committee's interpretation of the residency statute, the student can send a copy of the petition, including all the facts of the case, along with a letter of explanation, to Mr. Max Bickford, Secretary of the
Kansas Board of Regents, who will refer it to the Attorney General for an opinion.
A recent result of such an appeal is the following reinterpretation of the residency statute: The student entered KU as a resident, and neither was suspended nor left the university as a student. The Attorney General ruled that the student did not lose his status as a resident (as far as fees are concerned) even though his parents moved from the state while he was still a minor. Other students in this category should check with the registrar to see if a refund is due them.
Robert R. Redding Lawrence senior and certified Kansas resident
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Thoughts on the KU International Club
Editor:
I was sorry to hear that some American students were so thoughtless as to capture three offices in the (International) club this last election.
I was also sorry to hear that some foreign students feel that an American should not ever be a president of the KU International Club because an American would not know the problems or understand foreign students.
I agree that no one group should dominate the KU International Relations Club, yet I feel that all should have equal opportunity to win any office for one semester, but not be permitted to run for the same office for at least four (4) semesters.
I suggest also that the social committee have representation on it from all the countries represented on the KU campus—as it usually has.
Remember the KU International Relations Club reflects to the campus the feelings of your and my countries' attitude toward world Government of Tomorrow.
Henry Cleaver
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If there's anything I can't stand it's phonies. I mean it. You know the guys who think they're terrifically intelligent and parade their brains. They kill me. Like the other night we were sitting around and one guy starts in on me. "Who are you, really?" Well, for crissake, who am I?
Your real name is Holden, isn't it? Boy, who would want a name like that. Not that you can do anything about it when you're just born, you know. But a guy's parents would have more sense than to give him a name like that. I mean I could stand a name like Bernard, or Oswald, or maybe even Herbert. Then he says, S. F. and laughs and shouts until I feel like giving him a poke. I wouldn't do it, but I felt like it, because he starts shouting J. D. at me, and I may be a real wastrel—I think I am, if you want to know—but I'm sure as hell no juvenile delinquent.
SO I ASK him to cut it out, everyone knows who I am. But he keeps it up. You know, the persistent type. You should see him go at it. A real phony if I ever saw one. I know who you are, he tells me. And then he starts playing games with me.
WHO AM I TO seek an answer to the perpetually persistent question which all of us, whether we confront our true selves, in a reflected eye of our conscience or through the words of others, or deliberately avoid confronting, foolishly seek?
S. F. Rude (a pen name)
By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM, by William Dean Howells. Doubleday Dolphin, 95 cents.
Among "the more smiling aspects of life" is the fact that people are reading Howells again. In fact, as one reads Howells' novels he might be puzzled as to why this has been an almost forgotten name. "The Rise of Silas Lapham," in particular, is absorbing, believable, understanding, meaningful and even, at times, entertaining.
As a purveyor of the realistic in writing and one who scoffed at the romantic it is to be expected that Howells would not indulge in romantic touches. This is only partly true. "The Rise of Silas Lapham" has conventional romance and it has contrivances. But it has bright commentary, as well, on literary fashions. Take one passage in which the characters are discussing a new novel called "Tears, Idle Tears." The daughter of Bromfield Corey comments that the book should be called "Slop, Silly Slop."
SOON A MINISTER OBSERVES: "THE NOVELISTS might be the greatest possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation, but for the most part they have been and are altogether noxious."
"The Rise" of Howells' title is not just a rise in the predictable sense. Silas Lapham has arisen out of poverty and social ignominy to become a man of wealth in the paint business, though he has no aristocratic pretensions. The real "rise" is a moral and symbolic one, when Silas comes to the realization that his financial rise had been due to chicanery.—Calder M. Pickett, Professor of Journalism
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