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(Continued from page 2) fraud in my opinion. Those who teach it are usually so biased in one direction that they can hardly express themselves except in their own limited opinions. Political Science, in most universities today, is merely an indoctrination of the left wing into the students. To show politics as a science gives an indication of how far we have drifted off the track. Dr. Ise also advocates hurrying to total socialism so we can avoid communism. The only difference in the systems, according to George Bernard Shaw, is that you will be liquidated peacefully under socialism, but under communism it will be rather violent. In any case, you will be liquidated, if you are not considered worthy of the trouble it takes to make you a model citizen.
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE with Harvard accents who are taking to communism than those who wear overalls. The poor have never taken to communism except with reluctance. It is not in the city slums, but it is on university campuses that socialism and communism have been received most cordially. The average working man understands the leveling down process and he is not willing to work for the same wage as someone else. According to the theory, from each as he is able—to each as he has need, socialism appeals to the intellectually lost. It appeals, not where poverty is in material things, but where poverty is intellectual. The institutions of higher learning are actually halls of cultivated skepticism. Many of our youth lose the simple faith of their childhood, because of the browsing through the contradictory philosophies of confused intellectual giants. In their search for the truth, they merely establish their own confusion. Having lost their philosophical anchorage and their theological orientation, because doubts are continually thrown at them in terms of cultivated skepticism, they are ripe to conversion to socialism or communism. The scientifically proved dogma of dialectic materialism, supposedly proves everything, and they think they have a cause to live for—that is, the conquest of the world. Are we going to eliminate poverty in the Congo over night? Will these social planners not wait? Are they going to be able to explain that it was not the Belgians in the Congo who made the sun so hot, the rain so wet and the jungle so dense? What will be their excuse as they fail completely and as the people in Africa find out that socialism and communism are devoid of all humanitarian thoughts and that, in these two systems, man exists only for the state?
IT MAY BE, in our system, that some screens need fixing and the faucets may leak. But, if the roof is on fire, where should our attention be focused? And I ask, are those who insist on distracting us with leaky faucets really performing a great service?
None of us have the privilege, no matter how good we believe we live our life, to tolerate the injustices being inflicted on the world by the Communist-Socialist planners, who intend to rule everyone by force.
Robert D. Love Wichita
(Editor's note: Mr. Love is a member of the hierarchy of the John Birch Society. He spoke on the Birch Society at a recent Minority Opinion Forum.)
On Housing
Editor:
The weak housing policy of the University gets weaker and weaker. What is happening? Has the great University lost its courage of conviction? You say that you do not condone segregation, you say that you abhor the practice of it, but yet every instrument of the institution bans out a louder noise in advertising segregated housing. Why is this? You cannot say one thing and mean another. Are these frivolities and technicalities that must be overlooked? Is this the price that must be paid to satisfy our good neighbors? No!!
Let's get out and clean our house, and do some leading and maybe our neighbors will be shamed into doing a little cleaning of their own.
Farewell to Hemingway
There was no eulogy at the graveside for Ernest Hemingway. There was no need for one.
Ivory V. Nelson Shreveport, La. graduate student
There are two things in "A Farewell to Arms," and they are the same two things that are in everything Hemingway writes—love and war. We must admit that the affair with Catherine Barkley didn't do the same thing to us this time that it did when we were much younger. There is a reason. Let's face it, Hemingway's women are projections of the erotic imagination. Catherine Barkley says as much. "I want what you want. There isn't any of me any more. Just what you want." Young men, like older men too long at the front or too long in a hospital from wounds, all dream of having a Catherine Barkley some day. Most of them don't, at least not for long, and eventually they learn to accept real women, and even to enjoy having them around. Hemingway appears never to have given up that dream. Under it all, the tough guy is an incurable romantic. Let those who have never known that dream call it a fault in his writing.
Thursday, October 12, 1961 University Daily Kansan
HEMINGWAY IS A romantic about war, too, and no other living writer has been able to remember and to write about the terrible beauty of the old-fashioned kind of war that was still human so well as he. At one point in his magnificent description of the retreat from Caporetto he tells how he does it: "I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages . . . the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."
Simplicity, economy, and precision enable Hemingway to control actions and emotions that tend otherwise to become chaotic. This is both his style of writing and what he is writing about. If Hemingway may be said to have a message, it is surely that in a world of uncertain values a man must have at least some kind of discipline for himself, one small piece of order amid the general chaos. It may be fighting bulls, it may be catching a big fish, it may be whatever the man himself chooses. And if a man has that discipline, as Hemingway has to a degree that approaches perfection in his writing, if he is serious about even one thing that is important to him, then it doesn't matter if he is foolish about other things. (Reprinted from The Reporter, July 20, 1961)
Draftees Wanted by Defense Dept.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)The Defense Department asked the selective service system yesterday to provide 20,000 draftees for the Army in November.
The same quota previously was set for October. The September draft totalled 25,000 inductees.
touthern 125000 in draft quotas set since the start of the Berlin crisis—the four months beginning in August—
now stands at 78,000.
Before the crisis, the draft was calling up men at a rate of 6,000 a month.
The department said the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps will continue to rely on volunteers through November.
The November quota brought the total Army draft since September, 1950, to 2,680,950 men.
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