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It Looks This Way...
By Catherine Weinaug
The play, "Between Two Thieves," was a just indictment of every man's betrayal of his brother, and of those who sit silently by as well.
Our double standard, racially, is apparent, especially in Lawrence where representatives from many countries have a first-hand view of the violation of the principle of equality in the areas of housing, etc. Many of us would like to say to those who watch and wonder that we are not merely trying to buy your good will. We send our dollars to your countries because we do care what happens to other human beings; and we are ashamed of the inconsistencies which you see.
May I present, therefore, the following article as a reminder of the teachings of Christ in regard to the question, "Who Is My Brother?"
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A teacher tells this story of an incident which occurred in her classroom. One day a small colored girl was missing from her desk. After a search, she was found outside behind a door, crying. Her hands were scarified and bleeding. The teacher inquired what had happened. The child sobbed, "I'm trying to scratch the black off!"
"AND BEHOLD, A CERTAIN LAWYER STOOD UP, AND asked, 'Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'
"But he said unto Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?' "
"Jesus answered, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: And thy neighbour as thyself.'
Jesus told him a story. It might have been about someone next door, or his dearest friend, or perhaps a member of his own family. He chose, instead, someone from another race. The Samaritan was the epitome of all the Jew hated and loathed. Jesus said to love him as his very self . . . if he wished to inherit life eternal, for "by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples."
THE CRITERION, "LOVE," IS DEFINED AS "A FEELING of strong personal attachment induced by sympathetic understanding or by ties of kinship; strong liking; good will."
How is love, as myself, shown? It cannot be expressed in intangibles, for "faith without works is dead." Christ did not classify the priest or Levite as neighbors to the man who fell among thieves. As Christians confronting the issue of race, we cannot "pass by on the other side." Pilate tried to straddle the fence to avoid making a vital decision. By passing the decision on to the people, did he not in fact make his own choice? Can we, as Christians, silently acquiesce exclusion and denial of opportunity to our brother, which would build in him the character and provide for him the training he is criticized for not possessing? In a "Christian" nation how can the constitutional rights of freedom and equality be explained in still segregated classrooms?
"AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?" AND HOW IS THE Christian to "keep" his brother?
In the gospel of Jesus Christ, said Paul, "There is neither Jew nor Greek; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Can we therefore truly worship God—behind doors that bar ANY brother for whom Christ died? ("For whosoever doeth the will of my father which is in heaven, the same IS my brother, and sister, and mother.) Will our brother's soul be saved when the Christian allows to be turned away, from any institution, the body God made "to be a temple of His Holy Spirit?"
At Joppa Peter saw a vision of a sheet let down from heaven—three times for emphasis—in which were represented the races he had termed outcast. And then he said, "God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is accepted with Him."
We seek to appear before the court of world opinion as a good neighbor; but can the dollars spent for any purpose justify that claim in the face of exclusion of the neighbor in our midst? And can we individually answer God's question, "Where is thy brother?"
How has HE been kept? Do we love him as ourselves?
Whatever happens, don't be seduced by your audience.—Gertrude Stein
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The Rough Edge By Bill Mullins
By Bill Mullins
Campus politics will soon be stillborn.
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The New Mexico board of regents condemns the University of New Mexico yearbook for not being a credit to the university. That shows you what can happen when a public relations sheet gets too big for its britches.
After thoughtful observation of various and sundry student couples, we have reached the conclusion that romance is a state of idiocy.
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No one can accuse KU students of having partisan views on any subject. They are equally apathetic to everything.
Khrushchev implores God in his speech before the Communist Party Congress. Naughty Nik will be burned at the stake for heresy if he is not careful.
A new dance called the Twist has arrived at KU, and from the descriptions of it, it sounds like a rain dance we once saw some savages doing around a campfire.
We were counting up all the queen titles recently and it seems to us that it would be much simpler if all the KU coeds simply drew straws to see which title they get.
Short Ones
Question: What makes bees hum?
Answer: They don't know the words.
Question: What did the swan say?
Answer: Take me to your Leda.
Question: What did the rake say to the hoe?
Wednesday, October 25.1961 University Daily Kansan
Answer: Hi, hoe.
Women, who are, beyond all doubt, the mothers of all mischief, also nurse that babe to sleep when he is too noisy.-Richard Doddridge Blackmore
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.—Alexander Smith
Letters to the Editor
Red China and the UN
Editor:
With reference to the NSA resolution to exclude Red China from membership in the United Nations, I would like to mention the following lines for consideration.
The exclusion of Red China from the United Nations will accelerate the tension between the East and West, and help all the more to throw Red China into the arms of Soviet Russia. According to article I, the United Nations is to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of the people, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen the Universal peace.
NOW IF RED CHINA IS excluded from being a member of United Nations, how can article 1 of the charter hold good? The very name United Nations has become a misnomer and a mockery for what would more appropriately be called "Disunited Nations." According to Bentwich and Martin, what was designed to be an Institute of World Peace will prove to be a forum of world conflicts. In other words this has been almost solely political consideration to the determination of the membership of the United Nations. Almost one-fourth of the population of the world is at present excluded from membership through attempts to impose political conditions which have no relevancy to the provision of the charter.
I PERSONALLY FEEL THAT extraneous political consideration must be ignored by the Security Council while making recommendations regarding the admission of
new members, and "Package Deals" which are the result of hard bargaining between the rival groups in the United Nations must not be encouraged. The exclusion of Red China from the membership of the United Nations and the Security Council is contended that it is only hatred and suspicion of Communism that has been responsible for the present attitude of the United States towards this issue. But the anomaly of Nationalist China continuing to occupy a seat in the Security Council is too self-evident to require any explanation. It is a clear case of bolstering up forcibly for political reasons by the United States, with a view to strengthening her own position in the Security Council. This is devoid of logic and justice and has dealt a mortal blow to the prestige of the organization.
The only solution of such problem will be that the United States, the people of the United States, and the United Nations must function in the spirit of love, truth and non-violence, as not only preached by India, but also followed by her in her plans, policies, ideals and their execution. Racial arrogance and feelings of political domination must give away to the emphasis on a ceaseless endeavor to establish world peace. What is required is a necessary good will among the nations and it is only then that peace and prosperity can be possible in the world. Lastly, let me pray to almighty that the minds of the people be changed in such a way that their feeling may change hatred into love, fears into confidence, right into duty and exploitation into service.
Vinod Patel
India graduate student
S. U.A.
PING PONG TOURNEY
Nov. 1, 1961
Wednesday, Nov. 1. 1961
Big 8 Room Kansas Union
6:30 p.m.
Register in Information Booth or in Union TROPHIES & REFRESHMENTS
Direct From Carnegie Hall - The New Music Sensation
19 RCA Victor Recording Stars
featured in
Dick Schory's "Pops" Orchestra
with Percussion and Brass Ensemble
Guitars
- Organ
- Harp
- Trumpets
- Trombones
- String Bass
- Tubas
- Marimbas
Piano
- French Horn
- Vibraphones
- Xylophones
- Percussion
in Spectacular Concert
Friday Evening, Oct. 27 Music Hall — 8:15 p.m.
KU Students with ID Cards $ \frac{1}{2} $ Price
119 Musical Instruments Played by the 19 Virtuosi Musicians
Tickets: $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS . . . Music from Broadway (76 Trombones, The Sound of Music, Camelot) . . . Till There was You . . . Gershwin's "An American in Paris" . . . Irving Berlin's Diablo . . . Can Can . . . and lots more!!
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