Monday, Oct. 29, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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More on Abortion Editor
Letters to the Editor...
I admit that, in his letter about legalized abortion (Daily Kansan, Oct. 22) the argument advanced by Larry Page does follow from his false premises. It seems to me, however, that the truth of the matter is the following:
A human being does not have a "soul" which transcends space, time, or the human body. I hold the theologically sound and orthodoxly Christian view that the human being is a unified (integrated) organism which decomposes in its entirety soon after death. The human being is in no sense immortal.
A FETUS has only a biological existence and it is biologically a part of the mother. It does not become a human being in its own right until birth, in effect, until it ceases to be a fetus.
Abortion is morally equivalent to appendectomy.
SO THE SOUL does not exist. It cannot be the case that it is the soul which gives existence to the fetus on two counts:
1) If this were the case, then since the soul does not exist, neither could the fetus. This contradicts the observable fact of the existence of the fetus.
2) If this were the case and even if souls exist in the way that Larry claims, a stone could not exist since a stone clearly has no soul of any kind, whether a human being has one or none.
Franklin Shobe Great Bend junior
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Wigglesworth Criticized Editor:
I would like to comment on Mr. Zeke Wigglesworth's Comment "Shut Up and Deal" in the Oct. 23 Daily Kansan. I don't know who Wigglesworth is but I assume he is a student of political science.
I don't know whether I am entitled to comment on the style and language of the aforesaid writer, but if I am to say anything on the matter, I say it frankly: that if Mr. Wigglesworth's writing is any indication of growing popular style and language, then I am afraid American English is no longer English. As to the content of Wigglesworth's article, it is obvious that it demonstrates the bankruptcy in ideas of the writer.
AFTER READING all that he had to say, I was not sure of what he wanted to say; perhaps he, too, was not. He writes "Ahmed Ben Bella . . . has goofted. He needs someone to take him by his little hand and tell him all about the facts of life." This is a flat statement and I must admit that he
needs someone to pat him on the that there will be others who will react to his utterances? If so, let him digest the following:
It is my belief that one of the sources of major trouble in the world is that the stupid are so coocksure and the intelligent so full of doubt. This was precisely my first reaction to Wigglesworth's article. Wigglesworth stages his wonderful drama on the basis of this narrow understanding of neutrality. Neutrality, as I understand it, means pro one's self, people, and country. Neutralism does not mean non-action. On the other hand, I believe that refusing to accept orback for being so outspoken! But did he ever think, for a minute, ders from Moscow, Washington, Peiping, or anywhere else, and acting on the basis of one's own conscience and in the interest of one's own people, in itself constitutes a positive action. This is what Ahmed Ben Bella, premier of free Algeria, has done and what Nasser, Nehru, Nkruma, Sukarno, etc., have done.
To receive aid from the U.S., Premier Ben Bella has nothing to do with a 21-gun salute at the White House or at Havana, Hugging (or embracing) Mr. Castro or anyone else is a polite courtesy of the Arab from centuries past. If you lack this form of courtesy, Mr. Wigglesworth, and if you are tolerant about it, please don't forget that other people feel the same way about your behavior too. Aid, if it is to come from the U.S. or U.S.S.R., should and must come with due respect to the recipient country's needs and in conformity with its goals and aspirations.
MR. WIGGLESWORTH, no two persons think alike nor do two nations. We are conditioned by our immediate past and the distant past too. Accepting aid does not mean shutting one's mouth or mind or, for that matter, bending on one's knees. If Senator Goldwater and his mates, including you, feel that way about it, then surely you have failed to understand Ben Bella, just as you failed to understand Nasser before him.
You, too, were cocksure in your assertion that Ben Bella needs a spare Hoyle, but I wouldn't take the risk to be that sure to think of you needing one either! Perhaps you need more of your professors to take your "little hand" and tell you "all about the facts of life." However, it would be appropriate on my behalf to give you a friendly advice: Don't brag over things you do, and learn to be humble and tolerant.
Ahmed Hamdani
Aden, Yemen, graduate student
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Blunders In Letter
It is pathetic that a high school principal, such as the one whose letter was printed in the Oct. 17 Daily Kansan, should substitute emotional babble for a sound argument against enforced integration
Editor:
The author of that letter made several rather obvious blunders. He asked, "What would happen to the South if all ignorant Negroes were forced or allowed to vote?" Did this infer that it is right that ignorant whites be allowed to vote in that blissfully Utopian section of the country.
His description of the nine Supreme Court judges was extremely colorful. It must have taken a good two seconds of rational thought to originate the analogy.
The award for using the most words to say nothing should be given for the statements: 1) "It is fine to be idealistic in upholding human rights; it is another thing to be practical;" and 2) "What will be accomplished? Nothing but a point." It is, of course, unfair that this criticism be given the gentleman without some suggestion of
how he may remedy the affair he finds so distasteful. I, therefore, suggest that he go straight to Mississippi, for as Tom Lehrer has so aptly observed, "Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home."
Dick Obenchain
Pittsburgh, Pa., freshman
Dick Obenchain
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A Thorough Job
As I was walking to class one day this week, I glimpsed in the distance a large band of men surrounding one of our beloved traffic stations. I quickened my pace in anticipation that some of the notoriously fiery students of KU were slamming "tyranny" and destroying one of the "defamatory" huts. However, my enthusiasm was deflated as I neared the mass of people and there came into focus not a spirited rebellion, but a large group of building and grounds workers complacently milling about the area.
The problem they seemed to be
pondering was how to place nine
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Unfortunately, I did not have the time to remain and observe the outcome of the throng's conglomerate assault on those noble little plants; nevertheless, I feel confident that the twelve men, two trucks, etc., in all probability, accomplished the task in a thorough, magnanimous manner.
Likewise, I am sure that all fair-minded taxpayers would laud a planting job done in this crowning manner. It adds dignity to a university.
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