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Tuesday, February 1, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Garry Wills
KANSAN comment
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Freedom or Folly?
"You tell me law is above freedom of utterance. And I reply that you can have no "wise laws nor law free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people—and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive. That is the history of the race. It is proof of man's kinship with God. You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger. No one questions it in calm days, because it is not needed. And the reverse is also; only once the utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed, it is most vital to justice."
—William Allen White, from the Pulitzer prize winning editorial,
"To an Anxious Friend." July 27, 1872.
These are words U.S. District Court Judge George Templar should mark well. His move Thursday to forbid William Kunstler from representing the Lawrence Gay case in a high recognition poses a serious threat to those tenets of justice that the judge is charged to uphold.
The judge has the power, under U.S. District Court rules of procedure to prohibit an attorney from practicing in a court in a state in which the attorney is not licensed. However, if a lawyer appears with a unlicensed attorney the courts usually allow the unlicensed lawyer to appear.
Templar said that because of statements made by Kunstler criticizing the American courts, the Templar barred from practicing in his court.
Charles Oldfather, University Attorney, must be commended for his wise and courageous appeal asking Templar to reconsider his ruling. Lawyers and judges throughout the nation should speak
Kunstler had been at least informally recognized by the court in that he had received correspondence from the court, addressed to him as co-counsel for the Gay Liberation Front.
Nevertheless, because of his beliefs, not his actions in the Gay Lib case, Kunstler was not allowed to practice in Judge Templar's court. Within the very institution that is committed to encouraging divergent views with both justice may be ascertained, such conduct is unconscionable.
up in agreement with Oldfather in an effort to apprise Templar of the foolishness of his action.
Templar's action probably will be considered in other courts as Kunstler is planning to take legal action to force the judge to let him appear in the Gay Liberation case. This of course will only serve to increase the unwanted and unnecessary publicity surrounding a case that easily could have been decided on its merits, without the added confusion the Templar ruling will bring about. Such publicity can serve only to further damage the University's reputation.
However, the chilling effect on free speech that a rejection of Kunstler's efforts to be reinstated in the court would bring is more important than any effects the legal action would have on the University.
If Kunstler's plea is turned down it will be sad indeed. Such an action would only give added credence to those criticisms he is so notorious that he could be a blow the American system of justice would be hard put to survive.
That it was even suggested that the courts should suppress rather than encourage free speech is discouraging.
That the ruling could become a precedent, to be cited against any over committed to any cause with which the judge might disagree, is frightening.
That such a suggestion came from a Kansas court is embarrassing.
—Mike Moffet Associate Editor
Golly Gee Whiz Muriel
Poor Mrs. Humphrey, it is tough to be a politician's wife in the best of circumstances—and she has seen little but the worst as she trecked, for decades behind the ebullient man trying to give himself away to people who were not having any, thank you.
It is one thing for the candidate to be still, see whiz, pleased as punch, by gully. He is booked. Candidacy is a skill that is often valued in drug—just look at Stassen. Or at Gene McCarthy. Even Wallace is mainly running because he can not run any
But the candidate's wife!—if we are tired of Hubert, just think how weary she must be with us; trying to be edgily nice with us because we are only perfunctively nice to him; the double is soft and kindly; which is returned to her through the filter of a bored and worthless audience.
She is game, of course. These politicians' wives are, above all else, game. Even Jacqueline Kennedy would drag her dress up onto platforms to further the Great Man's career. But onewry remark slipped past Muriel Humphrey's brave front, recently, in a speech that "tis this trip really necessary"?
It was a fittedly outdated quote—at flat, now, as the punch that Hubert is always pleased as. "Is this trip necessary," was the gas-rationing drill, and Hubert belongs back with 'I'd walk a mile for it.' "Lucky Strike Green Has Gone To War." It is straight from the summer of 42—and so, in a way, is Humphrey himself. The only other place you can get that "Gee, fellahs, all's pitch in" is Humphrey's place outside of a Humphrey rally—is in Forties movies on the late show.
It was a very good war. Little shortages made it easy to accept new affinence without guilt. There were jobs for everyone, bonuses and overtime. It was the beginning of the time when being in the Army did not have mean you actually fought. We had the moral feeling of a Crusade in Europe, with the
Prof. Andrew Hacker has argued that *Americans* unrealistic expectations, about themselves and about the world. The theme from that strangely happy war. The integration of jobs for mothers, of the seriousness of the world, of massive government support for college education—all these can be traced back to the saying "oreal." People traveled more north and south of industry and urbanism took place. We could help ourselves best by helping the world. Our picture of war, as noble and interesting—with men at a distance; no bombers in our air—was formed for a generation. Like campaigning, it could be a "habit."
end of depression in America
It is normally said that Humphrey is a throwback to the Populist Mid-West variant of New Deal reform. Perhaps, but he does not have the feel of the Thirties. He is a late show about the wife who goes off to the war—in Washington, she kept on back on the farm after the Purge. And Muriel is still the brave girl back home, who will (even now) go a mile for a Humphrey.
Copyright, 1972 Universal Press Syndicate
James J. Kilpatrick
They Ought Not to Have
WASHINGTON — With the coming of Advent last December, the Episcopal Church launched into the second year of a three-year period of worship. By comparison with the sweeping changes imposed upon Catholic ritual, the Episcopal "authorized alternate"慈悲, mild and unassuming, nonetheless, they invite comment.
Not comment in any doctrinal sense. To a large extent, what the episcopalians do with their forms of workings in the business world is more clergy and laity can fight out a format with the church's Standing Lutheran Commission than the General Convention of 1973.
Yet the Book of Common Prayer, like the King James
Bible on which it is based, is not exclusively the property of the Anglicans or of Protestant Christians either. It is part of the common inheritance of literate men. And when a committee of earnest bakers begins to hack bread for their customers, Prayer, critics from every denomination—or from none—have a right to be heard.
I speak as a conservative. It is
By Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
By contrast, the proposed new version offers little but store-bought piety, gift-wrapped in perfumery ribbon:
That is simple speech, direct and understandable. Though it is a general confession, couched in the first person plural, it is intensely personal. Every individual who makes that humble confession knows precisely those things which he prefers, or gets used to. The ordinary words evoke his erring conduct.
often said of us that conservatives tend to resist all change; but it is not so. What conservatives resist is thoughtless or needless change—change for the sake of change. We are governed by landlocked. We first control statecraft: Never without the strongest necessarily disturb a thing at rest.
What possible necessity could be advanced for tinkering around with the General Confession? Its beautifully cadenced lines have passed into the treasury held in the church, and "we have erred, and strapped from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offered against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and those things which we ought not to have done . . ."
"We have not loved you with our whole heart, we have not met you, we have not ourselves." Doubless these failures of love are shortcomings, but what do the words mean? "We don't know how a man really feels badly about
Take another example, from the best known of all prayers. Acting in concert with the
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ecumenical International Consultation on English Texts, the Episcopal revisors would rewrite the Lord's Prayer—tight it up a little, give it new paint job, get rid of the name" and put on chromium strip.
These are typical of the proposed revisions. They are the work of men with tin ears, good shoulders, and a knight ought to turn again to the old confession, down on their knees, for in recommending these changes they most surely and surely things they ought not to have done.
Under the proposed revision, "lead us not into temptation" becomes, if you will brace yourself for the challenge, not bring us to the test." This is a disaster. Men know temptation, which walks through their lives, most-lipped, wickedly inviting. No invocation in the great prayer holds deeper meaning than "lead us not to temptation," not bring us to the test." What do the words mean? Most of us rather like to be tested. The word has connotations of fair competition and appraisal—court laboratory test, test of skill. Should we not be brought to a test?
Every school child (until the Warren court came along) learned to pray: "Give us this day our daily bread." The busy copy editors of this revision would tinker it up: "Give us today our daily bread." It is a small change, but it is a poor change. The emphasis and immediacy of "this day" are stressed syllable is abandoned; and the poetry comes out wrong.
(C) 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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