PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948 Needed-An Underpass By Daniel Bishop, St. Louis Star-Times The Editorial Page The Meaning Of Liberty In the past 35 years the word liberty has had a curious and diverse career. It has been championed in many strange tongues, and it has often played a shocking, incongruous role in the world drama. It has been Democracy's shibboleth and Fascism's cudgel; free men have wooed it and slave men reviled it. Some nations have claimed it for their very own —a possession no one else must be allowed to share, a glittering treasure which was their exclusive trust, while other nations have offered it to those who have been denied it as a steady anchor to grip in a world tossed by war. It has been perverted, distorted, and scorned, but it still remains a word with a positive quality unsullied by its questionable associates of today and yesterday. For those who would misuse the term, let them be reminded that their purposes will not be served. Men are beginning to know what the word really means and to recognize its antithesis. Liberty Means Freedom Primarily, liberty means freedom, but not the freedom of unbridled individualism unrestrained by any mores or ideals. It is not the right to terrorize, intimidate, coerce, or subjugate one's fellows. It is not immunity from convention or the social niceties. It does not exempt those who accumulate great wealth from responsibility to those who live in poverty and rags. It is not to be found in the arrogance of those who, in its name, unleash great wars upon a hapless world, although the spirit of such wars may be proclaimed in all the high-sounding phrase in Christendom and "justified" by every sophist who does not have to fight. No liberty is none of these things, for liberty must be tempered by law to be the thing which the word implies. Liberty And Law Liberty and law are indivisible. It is the tradition of international law that bids the warmonger to the conference tables. It is this same law that guarantees all men the right, the liberty, of building homes and raising families without fear of world disasters threatening their security. It is constitutional law that guarantees the citizen the liberty of worshipping, reading, writing, and speaking as he pleases—as long as he does not trespass upon the rights of his fellow men. It is municipal law that protects public property from wanton destruction, and allows the father to send his children off to school each day confident that they will return safely from city streets crowded with automobiles. Thus real liberty is to be found in all the laws that guarantee it. For liberty is restraint upon license for the benefit of all men. Here's Ducks again, the tavern with the Waldorf complex, with steaks, frog's legs, shrimp. Dear Editor, Dear Editor Duck's Tavern 824 Vermont People's Business Noticing the recent exchange of letters between Ralph Moberly and Harlan Lill on democracy and government in business, I must say that I find it extremely difficult to discover any logical reasoning in Mr. Lill's statements. Mr. Lill has committed the error of identifying a governmental system with an economic system. He says that government ownership of business destroys democracy. But democracy happens to be a governmental system in which the people chose their government; it is to be Jewish Student Union Elects Two Representatives The Jewish Student Union electe representatives to the student religious council and U.N.E.S.C.O. recently, Ira Gissen, College junior, will be on the student religious council, and Donald Oppenheimer, education sophomore will represent the group in U.N.E.S.C.O. Both vacancies resulted from the resignation of Joseph B. Manello College freshman. THE STATESMAN ensemble, matching pen and pencil in contrasted with totalitarianism, in which the people have no choice in their government, and not contrasted with government ownership or socialism. Socialism or government ownership of business is to be correctly contrasted with capitalism, and not with democracy; socialism and capitalism are economic systems in which there is a difference of degree in government intervention in business—they have nothing at all to do with methods of selecting governments and types of government. THE SOVEREIGN ensemble, a easy-writing pen and penil $1275 handsome gift box ... $1400 Probably what Mr. Lill is trying to say is that if socialism comes, capitalism will go, which is natural, logical, and perhaps more desirable. It is truly a shame that Mr. Lill must identify capitalism with democracy and use the two words interchangeably. I, as well as Mr. Moberly, am quite sure that democracy can prevail just as well under socialism as under capitalism, if not more so. For isn't it better to have government run business for the good of the entire people, rather than have corporations run business for their own selfish interests? When It Comes to Writing, Come to Us for Sheaffer's. Perhaps "Road to Serfdom" supports your reasoning, Mr. Lill, but have you read "Road to Reaction?" College sophomore University Daily Hansan Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn., Inland Day Press Assn., and the Associated College Press. Represented by the National Ad Press. Represents the 429 Madison Ave, New York City. Editor-in-Chief William C. von Maurer Managing Editor Alan J. Stewart Asst. Man. Editor Cooper Rollway Asst. Man. Editor Laura Tackett Gene Vignery Asst. City Editor James Robinson Telegraph Editor Wallace W. Abbey Asst. Tel. Editor Clarke Thomas Asst. Tel. 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