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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 1, 1962
The Standard' Views Economic Problems
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By Tom Winston
The Standard is a journal of opinion published by a group of KU students and circulated to all colleges and universities in Kansas.
In the October, 1962 issue a number of rhetorical questions are asked concerning, "Why the Standard?" Some of them are:
"Why do most discussions of basic political and economic issues evolve into the emotional hurtling of little-understood cliches?
"Why are individuals losing their basic principles and clinging to irrational dogmas?
"Why is laissez faire capitalism still criticized with fallacious economic theories?
"Why have men given up their standards?"
THE STANDARDS that "The Standard" speaks of are expressed in the Declaration of Independence: that the individual has inherent rights, that they are supreme, and that man has moral right not to be pushed around by other men.
The Standard tells that this nation's founding fathers thought that this basic liberty was "the essential condition for man's fulfillment within society."
THERE ARE SEVEN ARTICLES:
"The Great Research," by Robert C. Tyson, chairman of the Finance Department, United States Steel; "Those Who Protest" by Robert LeFevre, an editorial writer for the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph; "Debate: Are Labor Unions Necessary in a Free Society?" the yes by Kenneth Ciboski, Lawrence graduate student in political science, the no by Marick Pavton, Lawrence resident.
"Cliche; If Free Enterprise Really Works, Why the Great Depression?" by Paul Poirot; "The Communist Idea," quotations from Karl Marx; "Violence As a Way of Life" by David Jackman III, Wichita sophomore and current editor of The Standard, and "The Elite Under Capitalism" by Ludwig von Mizes.
“THE GREAT RESEARCH” contains reference to communism, without actually naming it, as a “Godless and alien philosophy, whose established and steadfast purpose is the destruction of our kind of society.” It also attacks the wartime slogan of the four freedoms saying “limited freedom is not freedom.”
"Those Who Protest" states that "It is the individual, not the government who is the sovereign. . . Government, conceived either as a welfare agency or a police agent of aggressive potential, is invalid. . . A 'strong-man' government, even for the purpose of sustaining it, would dethrone human liberty."
IN THE DEBATE on the worth of labor unions, the case for them is more strongly and clearly written than the case against them. The affirmative seeks to tell why, but the negative case, though it sets forth background, never comes to grip with the purpose it was supposedly written for: why labor unions are not necessary.
"The Elite Under Capitalism" states: "Men are unequal and the inherent inferiority of the many manifests itself also in the manner in which they enjoy the affluence (prosperity) that capitalism bestows upon them.
The article, "If Free Enterprise Really Works, Why the Great Depression," actually says, "If government control (socialism) is so wonderful, why the Great Depression." When politics interfere with production and leave idle plants and idle men, the fault is that of socialism, not free enterprise, the article says.
"THE COMUNIST IDEA" emphasizes that we were warned of the factors that make a successful communist revolution.
Editor Jackman's editorial "Violence As a Way of Life" says:
"Only to the extent that men cooperate voluntarily with one another for mutual gain without the intrusion of force and violence is civilization, security, and a higher standard of living possible. Philosophically this means individualism; economically it means capitalism. Until these abstract ideas are understood, violence will reign as a way of life."
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GOP Stresses Cuban Subject; Elections Near
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Republicans today continued to keep the Cuban issue alive during the closing days of the current election campaign.
"I think there is only one issue and it is Cuba," Goldwater said in Little Rock, Ark.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., produced the hardest statement.
But the leader of GOP conservatives declined to predict what effect the Cuban situation will have on the election.
"It's the biggest guessing game going," he said. "In a tight race the incumbent might be favored. But it will be unfavorable for those who have been calling us warmongers, amateur generals and the like."
Democrat Rep. Frank Thompson of New Jersey took an opposite view.
"We are now hearing great choruses of 'I told you so, from those militarists who had advocated a blockade or even invasion of Cuba months ago.'" Thompson said in a newsletter. "The events of recent days have shown how foolish that counsel was."
Thompson said recent events showed that "we must be prepared to withhold action until the time for action is precisely right."
Republicans also questioned whether the crisis has actually passed.
Sen. Alexander Wiley, R-Wis., said yesterday the situation "remains alive, explosive and dangerous." Wiley said his view was strengthened during a talk with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Unstable Silence Surrounds Indian-Red Chinese Conflict
NEW DELHI, INDIA—(UPI)—An ominous quiet settled over the fighting fronts today in India's undeclared border war with Communist China.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID there were no Indian casualties from the mortar fire.
An official spokesman reported in Ladakh in the northwest Chinese mortar firing on Indian patrols in the North East frontier agency (NEFA) area of Jang in the northeast. Jang is about four miles east of Towang, an important monastery town which fell to the Reds more than a week ago.
"Chinese casualties were considerably higher," the spokesman said without giving any figures.
He reported, however, that 10 Indians were killed and 10 wounded in fighting near Damchok in southern Ladakh before the Indians withdrew Oct. 29.
An official spokesman reported there was no change in the situation in Ladakh in the northwest. He reported only some minor Chinese men.
This report was in sharp contrast to the figure of 2,000 to 2,500 dead and wounded which India previously was reported to have suffered in the first 10 days of fighting that started Oct. 20.
MEANWHILE, the Indian government thanked the United States for offering military supplies and said that further requests would be placed as the need arises.
The United States already has announced that it will begin an emergency airlift of weapons to beef up India's badly outgunned army by the end of this week.
The poor showing of the Indians in initial battles with the invading Communist Chinese has been attributed to their antiquated weapons and poor organization under ousted defense minister V. K. Krishna Menon.
Krishna Menon was demoted to the job of minister of defense production yesterday by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who assumed the defense post himself.
Nehru moved quickly in that role today by summoning the chiefs of the three armed services to a staff meeting designed to map strategy for beating back the Communist invasion of Northern India. Krishna Menon was excluded from the session.
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