4 Thursday, March 15. 1973 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment The recent acts of terror perpetrated by members of Black September and the "Provisional" wing of the Irish Republican Army, have been, to a large extent, ignored by many members of the world community. So far, only the United States and its allies themselves to an uncompromising approach to dealing with international terrorists. Terrorism Ignored This lackadaisical attitude on the parts of the governments of the world indicates one thing: we can never stop terrorism during coming months. No one can deny that it is impossible to guarantee that organizations such as Black September will be destroyed. As long as there are a few maniacs roaming around, there is chance that they will organize for the purpose of committing atrocities. This is a fact of life. The question that world leaders should be asking each other is, why make it easy for these organizations to operate? The prevalent attitude seems to be one of apathy. World leaders should pressure the opposition that if they accede to the demands of the terrorists, the terrorists will leave them alone. As long as these governments are willing to lie down and let the terrorists roll over them, why shouldn't the terrorists do just that? If we publicize the fact that this country will no longer punish kidnappers, murderers and thieves, we can expect some of these individuals to have a heyday terrorizing the inhabitants of our country. This situation is analogous to the situation that exists when a man discovers that he has a nest of rattlesnakes under his house. The presence of the snakes constitutes a dangerous situation, but one that is easily ignored. Ignoring this problem will only make it worse. From the beginning, there is a danger that one of the man's neighbors will be bitten by a snake. The danger is always there anyway, but it is enhanced by the presence of the nest. There is also the danger that a member of the man's family or even the man himself may get bitten. It is the duty of the man, whose house the snakes infest, to alleviate the danger. Sometimes, if he is fortunate, there will be a professional who is trained to deal with problems of this nature. At other times, the man must deal with the problem himself. This is dangerous, but it must be done. If the man adopts a lackadaisical attitude about this problem, it is the responsibility of his neighbors to encourage him to take action, even to the point of sharing the information. When you are taken, then all must share the risks involved. This, too, is a fact of life. For over 20 years, vast numbers of Palestinian refugees have rotted in refugee camps along the borders of what used to be their country. For over 20 years, the governments of Israel and Palestine took a positive action concerning the fate of these people. Left in idleness, these people have nothing to work for. Instead of making any real attempts to absorb these people, or to provide some other place for them to go, many Arab governments have chosen to irritate this problem by channeling the energies of these countries into the Israeli rael. So, for over 20 years, the only thing these governments have been able to do has been to lose two major confrontations with the Israelis. It is time that world leaders joined the fight against idiocy. This should be accomplished by banding together to halt international terrorism by whatever means necessary, while contributing to a positive, long-term solution for the refugee problem in Arab countries. From Mv Files The time has come to tell everyone "how it all works"—thereby blowing my cover throwing my head on the ground and asking for a ticket to Osawatomie in the process. John Bailey I am weary of the combat in Ireland that has been going battle that has touched my life. The questions posed seem nominally to be couched in terms of historical religion, but not in the sense of I am weary of the manifold struggles in which now includes the United States. Look at it this way, be you praise the Israelite Jewish, Moslem, Buddist or whatever; God is a universal information source. Religion may or may not be the appropriate vehicle for each of us Projectiles, literal or verbal, offer no access. There is a life during and after the one we're living. The former question is far more interesting, but is rarely posed these days. The thoughts and acts of our lives contribute to the sum available for tapping in the cosmos, God if you prefer. If you live a "bad" (negative) life, you do truly perish: your thoughts and acts, being negative, do not register with the great computer in the sky (although they may do so in the thoughts of others or in print, depending upon just how forcibly negative you are). That ethereal computer essentially rejects all that is not of positive value You can think of the entire process as a communications net, as a flow chart or as a tree; it depends upon what you think, drink, smoke, drop or inject. Hell is a brief awareness at the moment of death that there is a life beyond, that one has doomed (the one's acts and thoughts) to exile. The preceding hypothesis neatly explains ESP life, death, heaven, hell, religion, war but most significantly, peace. I may return to my own planet soon if you don't all quit this nonsense. Happy St. Patricks's Day, to you and st. residents of Falls Read and the Bogside Assorted editorial aberrations from mice files for consideration over spring brochure. ★★★ —Women's-Men's lib: Investigate the Brehon Laws of Ireland, which established women's property rights some centuries ago. —Fiat 850 Spyder owners: If you think that's a helicopter following you, you're mistaken. It's your generator munching its bearings. -Women: Was Peppermint Patty right when she told Charlie Brown that he could take it when a boy gets philosophical? —Those suffering from disenchanted enniu; Sex personalizes. Do some research, get it straight or apply for a grant. —Dope fiends: Why wasn’t the term historically “dope lovers?” —Dope lovers: See me if the word "done" still means innocence to you. "done" watches. "Count your minutes in a year." "Count your minutes in a year." "Count your minutes in a year." ("that's" "zulut" to you military freaks). —Some of my current friends: Nuns, ex-nuns, ex-whores, gamblers, bankers, government officials, artists, spoiled children, addicts, writers, merchants, teachers, gays, straights, builders all, if they but had the plazas. —How to make the taxpayers happy: Issue play money, close to the authentic stuff but visually attach the amount of each individual's taxes. Supply matches and appropriate instructions to minimize pollution. —Hearse owners: Are there more of you these days? Is it coincidence that I am many of you? Are you following? Do you know something I don't? —Past, fondly remembered acquaintances; all the preceding, plus an ex-President, certain U.S. flag officers, some corporate heads (?), United States a Maltese cabbie, a Middle Eastern minister of finance, among others. - McDonald's: Lessee now much of pound of hamburger costs how much to pay? "cheep, cheep, cheep," "Step down to my place baby?" Print this in full, not for the sake of my ego or freedom of the press, but your readers comfortable in their own intimities. Or you could always fire me. P. S. to the Editor: I just got these new glasses and they seem to have come in a berry, but somehow all the preceding makes a peculiar integral sense to me. —Cynics: Those who don't recognize an honest man. "CCC's guiding philosophy: Keep only the things you can carry or what you can afford to buy." - Results of my 1967 poll on the question, "Is there life on earth?" : 39.0 I think you'll admit it's a fair argument and, what the hell, the paper's free. Where can you even buy this much entertainment? P. S. to Springfolk: My thanks to those who've finally made it possible for me to rejoice in my life as a certified loon. -C. C. Caldwell James J. Kilpatrick Carnegie, Greece Intertwine It should not be forgotten either that the word man originally meant "human being regardless of race or gender or male person." This original meaning is in fact still preserved in expressions such as the fall of man, not good for man or beast, is a talking animal, and the like. SCRABBLE, Va.,—In the Oklahoma City of my youth, the old Carnegie Library at Third and Robinson streets was, culturally speaking, pretty much the be-all and end-of-the-world library of the colored brick, conceived in what the Oklahoma architects of 1900 may have regarded as classic Roman. In any sophisticated view, it must have been I woke up this morning, thinking of the Carnegie library, and thinking as well of Greece. The connection may seem objectionable, but I rolled back to 1924—i was five-years-and-a-half years old that summer, and already in thrill to books—when my mother took me downtown and left me for a few hours in the hospital who managed the children's room. It was a room of golden oak chairs and golden oak tables, and on one of those tables was a child's account of the tworion house where I grew up were easy, and the pictures boggled the This same meaning also accounts for the word woman, which was originally wif-man, a term derived from a woman and man. If the sylable man is to be universally tab whenever it designates something other than man, then we should suggest that we give full rein to our verbal superstitions and coin mind, Suitable arrangements were made, a library card was issued and I trothed The book was the making of a love affair—a love affair with Greece—and perhaps it put me on the road to the pumkin's trade. It marked the beginning of taking sides: I was all for the Greeks at first. But after all, said my mother, it was the Trojan's city, and they fought very bravely to defend. And what about that Greek? It was the war, he said heroes win wars by sneaky tricks? After a while, when I got into Virgil, I shifted my allegiance, but I never solved the problem of ethics. That library became a home away from home. Every Saturday morning found me tailor-legged in the stacks. I remember going to the library and And so little time to read them all! In summers you could sit by a green cast-iron easel, sit on my lap and watch the snow. In winter you could meet a girl in one of the classic niches in the lobby, I wandered like Ulysses himself through the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, skipping the hard words, loving the action. Similar definitions can be in "webster's Dictionary" and the "American College Dictionary." As the years passed, and I grew taller than the golden oak tables, the librarians put me into Thucydides, which was tough going, and into the life of Alexander, which was all excitement. We got into the Greek myths, in Sophocles, into the rapturous tales of Antigone and Creon and Oedipus or Orestes. The librarians did their job so well that I find myself falling into metaphors of siren songs and Minion mazes. If all goes well, I hope to revenge in the land of Ulysses when this appears in print. An earlier trip to Greece was all work; this is to be at least half joy—the joy of basking in a legendary land. And at some point, perhaps at Delphos, I propose a small prayer to the shade of Andrew Carnegie and the librarians of 1926. Jack Anderson Connally Rakes in the Green WASHINGTON - Debonair, dynamic John Connally has always had an affinity for money and wealth. He is also clear in a clear line between the two. While he was Secretary of the Treasury, his former law partners filed applications for three national bank charters. All three were approved, more than any other. The tax law firm was able to wangle a few other bank charters and granted to his political associates. (C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc Connally is now back with his law firm, raking in the green. One of his law partners has boasted around Washington that so many corporations are clamoring to get Connally on their We couldn't reach Connally to ask how much he charges, but a spokesman for his firm denied that the former treasury secretary collects a flat fee. He serves on many boards, the spokesman acknowledged, but any fee would not part of the tender paid to the firm. boards that he has set a minimum $50,000 fee for the privilege of listing him as a director. "Connally has gotten us new business," admitted the spokesman. But he insisted it wasn't "the only influence that attracted clients." "In the business world today on the highest levels," said the spokesman, "there is a lot of just --wo-person, hu-person, and on. Perhaps the University Daily Kansas could show its public relevance in the new trend in its next issue. Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name, year in school and home town; faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address. LETTERS POLICY + Readers Respond Editorials, columns and letters on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. In recent weeks I have noticed a curious tendency on the part of University administrators to re-examine how the chairperson, "chairperson," allow me to inveigh gently against what seems to be a rather unnecessary impo- To the Editor: To begin with, the word "chairman" has never been applied exclusively to males. An interesting confirmation of this fact is provided by the way the word is defined in the *Oxford English Dictionary*. When out, was compiled in the very beey-day of male ascendancy; "Chairman—The occupier of a chair of authority; specifically the person who is chosen to preside over a meeting, to conduct its proceedings, and who meets with the seat provided for this function." Wo Is Me W. Keith Percival Associate Professor of Linguistics The spokesman also denied that Connally intervened while he was at the treasury to help the ferry wangle bank charters. plain horse trading, putting to gather mergers, oil consortiums. Connolly is a good lawyer, persu- sive, immensely knowledgeable, a good host trader, a good good friend, a good horse good name and a lot of clout." "If we were going to use Connally in the role of treasury secretary," explained the spokesman, "there are better ways than bank carters. You can go to bank or drink so many times." It remains a fact, however, that the Connally firm — Vinson, Elkins, Searls and Smith—branched out for banks in Houston, Texas. The Reymondville charter (For the purpose of forming a holding company) was approved in a record three days. Connally's former press secretary, Mike Myers, also was granted a charter for the Love Field National Bank in Dallas. Connally and Myers were former partners in the Trinity Mexican restaurant still associated in a real estate development in Fort Worth. The name of another close associate, Robert Sturmawr, now Democratic national chairman, appeared on an application to the Justice Department in Dallas. An earlier application, filed in 1970 before Connally became secretary, was disapproved. But after Strauss joined Connally in 1972, he finally took charge of the treason, the charter was approved. Two other Connally loyalists, Tom W. Miller, of a former Austin muster, and Horace Hall, a power in Laredo, were involved in successful application for the post-connally base and Laredo, Texas, respectively. don Johnson's political protege. "Big John," as Connally is often called by his associates, has come a long way since he first began the campaign in 1940s. He came out of rural Texas, with the taste of poverty that made him a formidable name for himself as the late 1940s-50s. and Johnson's balanced praise, the Texas oil millowners for him and he caught the fancy of the late oil tycoon Sid Richardson. Oil and politics mixed well for Connally, who acquired the same rights as the oil he promoted and quickly up a millionaire himself. Those privy to the smoke-filled backrooms say it was his oil credentials as much as his political credentials that got him appointed Secretary of the Navy under John Kennedy and later Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon. The oil industry has a big stake in naval oil reserves and perhaps an even greater interest in favorable treasury rulings. Both Myers and Straus denied that Connally had helped them get bank charters. A treasury spokesman said the comproller of Connally had helped the charters and the secretary 'has no part in the decision-making process.' 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