Response to M-Day And there are those of us who love our enemies and those of us who hate them. And some who waver in the middle, unable or unwilling to form a response to the question: Is containment or obliteration of Communism sufficient reason to bear arms against our brother Man? The Moratorium, now approaching its second month, has provoked these questions and some answers. Today again is the Reader's Day—it's the Reader's Write. Joanna K. Wiebe To the editor: Thank you for your editorial page of Oct. 13. Sorel's cartoon and Howard Pankratz's reminiscence (which I share in a small way) were delights. I must argue with Danna Santee's letter; she should be allowed to set up her anti-war booth if others are allowed to conduct similar operations. I cannot remember seeing any such in my year in Lawrence, but then I am inclined to ignore such propagandizing, whether in regard to the Second Coming, flouridation or anything else. One statement, however, struck my attention and compelled this letter: that her action was her right and duty as a citizen. It was indeed. So it is my right and duty to voice my dark thoughts regarding Vietnam and the Moratorium. If I sound like a tired old Jeremiah, it should be noted that I am still a few years on the bright side of the Thirty Gulch. If those of us who support the purpose of the war and the foreign policy of containing aggressive Communist powers were not so apathetically resigned, we should be operating booths, and holding discussions, publishing our views, too. I will not support the Moratorium. It was planned to force our immediate withdrawal from Vietnam. Most demonstrators by far will be simply expressing their desire for an early end to the war—but the inspiration and much of the impetus comes from those who want our enemies to win, and not only to win but to humiliate us as brutally as possible. Regardless of their feelings for President Nixon, Americans must not beg for peace on any terms, even surrender. Our part in the war must be terminated, but at a pace flexible enough to extract some concessions from the enemy—or else to make him pay an ever higher price for his rapacity. It was his aggression that started the war; it is especially his intransigence that is now prolonging it needlessly. The demonstrating should be directed against the Communist side. It is said that a huge majority of young Americans in general, and of KU students in particular, support the Moratorium. It they think it through, I hope that they will not. It would be a wrong moral choice, and would bode no good for our country's future; for its will to defend anyone in the world, even itself. The basic demand of the Moratorium is peace now, at any price. In spite of exhaustion with the war, it is a fanatical demand. In spite of their understandable reluctance and dismay at having to fight and perhaps die in this enigmatic war, college students in particular should reject fanaticism of any kind—even fanatic love for peace. Rather than a Christian call for peace, the Moratorium is a call for us to be pusillanimous to the point of betrayal. Steven Smith Instructor in Piano Sorel's News Service Said the Scarecrow, "I am going to Oz to ask him for some brains." "But after all," said the Tin Woodman, "brains are not the best things in the world." "Have you any?" inquired the Scarecrow. "No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman. The Wizard of Oz WASHINGTON—Hubert Humphrey told reporters last week that the President was "proceeding along the right path" in Vietnam. M-Day memos To the editor: A few of them were singing and knew what they were singing about. Some were just mouting the words. Most weren't even bothering to do that. Instead they giggled self-consciously like children daring to be bad—their expressions silently screamed, "Hey, look at me, man, I'm cool." But being able to walk isn't necessarily the ticket to being cool. And that's all they were doing—just walking. They came, in mass, down Jayhawk Boulevard. About 20 in the front cried "Remove the troops" and later, "Withdraw!" They apparently didn't stop to wonder who was going to hear them or who, in Lawrence, has the power to withdraw a bullet from Vietnam, let alone an army. About 15 in the back were holding hands and singing "We Shall Overcome." They never said what, but maybe they didn't know. In between, they were talking—about their majors, their homes, their boyfriends, their problems—about almost anything but their war. The Moratorium was a good idea. It didn't work The people who really think about the war—who will, perhaps, try to do something about it—who are, in short, concerned, think about it every day. It is their problem, just as much as why K-State won last week's game. For the others the day was a holiday, a lark. Some of the more honest slept late and used the day to laze. But lots came along for the ride. They went the whole route—picking up literature, listening to lectures, and finally marching from Wescoe Hole to the Union and never thinking, or feeling or even caring very much. And tomorrow their words will again center around their majors, their homes, their boyfriends, their problems—almost anything but their war. Mariel Bimm La Grange, Ill., freshman To the editor: I find it difficult to resume business-as-usual the day after the Moratorium. (I understand it was meant to end the war in Vietnam.) I believe there have been several quotes of figures lately, regarding the number of human lives that have been ground into the earth with spiked shoes, just like so many cockroaches. At the Moratorium activities, everyone got together to argue, to "discuss," to debate, to express "their side of the issue." This is always nice. We love to get together to rap and smoke and groove. It always does the trick. I wonder how many more human ants fell dead and screaming yesterday a few hundred miles away? The Moratorium was "peaceful" yesterday—so far, said the evening Lawrence paper. I guess it meant "Phew, good thing everybody's being so diplomatic—so peaceful. Good thing there's no trouble." Ladies and gentlemen (as the opening cliche), there is trouble already. Unless you consider mass murder under orders as something other than trouble, unless you consider it "our duty in Vietnam," unless you consider it "patriotism," unless you consider it "unfortunate," unless you consider it "natural." Did you hear anyone argue that war was only natural? Did you hear anyone say that they had fought in one, so why shouldn't you? Did you hear anyone tell you how the war started, what we could do about getting it over, that it would be difficult, that it would be painful? Yes, the war is all those things. I guess. Isn't English wonderful? I've written letters before. They've all been so peaceful and so logical—like all the business-like, mathematical analysis of the war yesterday. I can't do it any more. I can't talk to myself about it any more. Just because I'm only a woman, and just because I'm not standing in Vietnam quicksand with my bloody head rolling into the sea, or watching it happen to somebody else, I'm afraid I'm going to let myself feel bad, and I'm afraid I'm going to try like hell to make as many people in this country feel just as bad about it. What are you going to do? 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