4 Wednesday, November 3, 1971 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Lowenstein Sees Hope The Countdown 72 coordinators couldn't have found a more appropriate speaker than Allard K. He spoke in Manhattan last Saturday night. Perhaps he, more than anyone would politically effective sludgeCMM4A1 In 1963 and 1964 he enlisted the help of northern college students to work on the voter registration drive in Mississippi. He is still actively working on voter registration there while campaigning for Charles Evers in his bid for the governorship. It was Lowenstein who organized the college students for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 with the help of his brother, John, on the primary in New Hampshire. He believes that primaries can mean something and that with good organization students can effect change by working within the system. In his speech Saturday night at Manhattan, Lowenstein said that it would be possible for students to send as many as 300 young delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Miami next summer. Lowenstein brings a refreshing attitude to politics. His is the politics of hope, reminiscent of the woods (hudded Eleanor) and the Kennedy's. He is not a partisan politician by any means. He is an active Democrat, but he won't follow the party all the way down the line. In 1867 he started the "Dump Johnson" campaign and was treed with Johnson's Vietnam policies. In 1968 he successfully ran for congressman of the fifth district of New York. He ran for reelection in 1970 but was defeated because his district had been gerrymandered by New York Republicans, placing him in a heavily Republican district. Saturday night he told the audience that his term in Congress was a frustrating period. He is angry because military aid and money allow little money for anything else. He is angry because the archaic structure of Congress prevents many things from getting accomplished. He is angry because if you happen to be "Lockheed or Penn Central the Congress will find money for you, but if you're a corner grocer the money will already have been spent." He is angry because President Nixon cut out funds for the Job Corps proposal. He is angry because Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., gets $164,000 a year as compensation for not growing crops on his land while the welfare in Mississippi gets $8 per month for the hot lunch program. He is angry because it is unlawful for a man to relieve himself in Lake Michigan while nothing stops him from consuming all of waste into the lake every day. But nothing would soothe his anger more than to see students organizing to change the disparity between the promises held out to the party and the promises in society and the inequity that they offer at the hands of our government. —Robin Groom. Kansan Staff Writer James J. Kilpatrick Man and Men In 2000 A.D. WASHINGTON — Seventy-five of the most distinguished scientists and thinkers of the Western world turned up in Washington recently as guests at the National Science Foundation. Their purpose was to think aloud for a few hours on some of the gravest questions ever raised. They were not concerned with science fiction; they were interested with science reality instead. Very few persons, outside the scientific community, have given much thought to these questions. We have more immediate things to consider: "Who Should be Born?" It is fearfully hard work to grapple with such a topic as "The Ethics of New Technologies in Beginning Life." Few persons are equipped to comprehend this complex word "gene," in a word association test, most of us would respond, "McCarthy." The time is at hand when a great many Americans, at every level of public and private life, must begin to interest themselves in the frontiers of science that are widely explored. Yet the science they are perhaps the least complex. Embryologists already know, in general, how to make a "test-tube baby." It is only the technology that remains to be solved. The moral and social questions are infinitely more important. Who decides that such a baby shall be made? Or consider, if you will, a less shocking prospect. It is only a matter of a few years before the mystery will be revealed and an aspect of child-bearing, Eventually–certainly by 2000–parents will be able to choose boy or ‘girl’ as their baby. Do not throw the dinner. Should this determination be left solely to parents? Or does society as a whole, through some agency of government, have a right to exercise control? War, it is said, is so tender to be left to generals. By the same token, is parenthood too sensitive for parents? Within the next chapter certainly by 2000-new techniques of contraception will be universally available. For example, simple, foolproof, and for all practical purposes, free. The moral implications to one side, what the social and economic implications? Who is to say that a person should not be conceived? Should the number be left simply to chance? Such questions barely cross the frontier. The day will come when genetists will be able to concoct a fertilized egg in a certain pre-selected property, insertion, of gene deletion, even of gene surgery, are still primitive and experimental. bees. — art. A beautiful, terrifying vista can be seen. Hereditary defects may be ended; hereditary assets may be enhanced. But who is to define an hereditary asset? Let your mind wander in another field: mood control. Here the chemistry is far more powerful than drugs—they are marketed by the billions-intended to tranquilize or to stimulate. It is but a step (the step can be taken if we choose) to the development of drugs more precisely intended to suppress aggression. Should boxers, or football players, or soldiers be given "aggression pills" to improve their performance? Would the Attica uprising have occurred if violent groups were treated methodically, as a conclusion to their sentences, with non-aggression drugs? The possibility of putting tranquilizers in water supplies has been discussed at scientific meetings. It could be done. Crime, presumably, is a matter of public concern. The most absorbing questions, perhaps, go to the limitations that should be imposed, if any, upon the process of discovery itself. Is there some point at which the moon or Mars could have there frontiers that ought never to be crossed? Some eminent scientists believe that even now, they may have gone in far playing God. Is it possible for life, or vastly to prolong life? Yet who can extinguish Prometheus fire? The scientists who met out at the Shoreham put in a skull-cracking afternoon. Most of the rest of us were watching college football on the boob-tube. For their thoughtful labors, some grateful thanks are due. Copyright 1971 The Washington Star Garry Wills Laurel and Hardy on Vietnam The Right-Wing analysis of what went wrong in Vietnam is contained in two words: incremental escalation. destruction routines. The classical and purest statement of that routine is in Big Business (1929), widely available in libraries and from Blackhawk Films. And what does that mean? The best demonstration of it is given by Laurel and Hardy in their AP News Special Bumbling Christmas tree Business Slows for Mod Bawd By JEANNINE YEOMANS SAN FRANCISCO—Promoters of hardcore sex entertainment are crying about hard times, and they have to take the role of 'Smut Capital of the U.S.' Five "adult" theaters have closed in less than one year. Others are playing mostly to empty seats. The pornography promoters blame a variety of things: too much competition, police brutality, two years—public apathy. Among those leading the first against the pornography purveyors is Ast. Dirst. Ait. Jerome Ayer, who has involvedions involving sex entertainment. whether there is any relation between pornography and crime. EXPERTS DISAGREE about However, the San Francisco Crime Commission, appointed by the city's mayor, has three-year study of the city's crime problems and reported last fall. between pornography and crime. Benson says the sex shows "definitely cause a hike in crime." Guest Editorial Impact of College Vote Reprinted from the Wichita Eagle Reprinted from the Wichita Eagle An attorney general's opinion that college students can register and vote where they attend school is likely to have far-ranging political, social and legal consequences. For example, the House Reapportionment Committee has begun work on new district boundaries, and the panel is shooting for a median population of 17,994 persons per district. The city of Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas, has a population of nearly 46,000, while the fulltime student enrollment at KU is the more than 18,000. So, the student residence in Lawrence another seat in the Legislature if all the students chose to declare their residency there. The same thing could happen at Manhattan where nearly 15,000 students are enrolled fulltime at Kansas State University. College and university towns could be faced with a heavy influx of new, young voters who might support paying them to pay taxes to support them. On the other hand, with the new voters being counted for census the truck to rubble, is rolling on the ground in an ecstasy of the holiday spirit, tearing up Christmas trees. Stan is so busy gutting the home's interior that he does not see the huge bulb of a policeman at his side (when he enters), but is distracted by a showy pass at reassembling the smithereens into which he has just smashed the piano). County officeholders might benefit from an inflow of new voters because their salaries and the distribution of funds all depend upon the population. purposes, college and university towns could realize substantial population increases since those new houses were located at the residence of their parents. Larger populations could mean increased funds from the state under a variety of distribution formulas that use population as a factor. The rule is, according to the attorney general, that if a student acquires residence in a college town it acquires it for all other purposes as well. That means that the student car owner might be liable for registering his vehicle in the county where he resides and not being able to contact the county's local property tax. The student may choose where he wants to register and vote, but once that decision is made, it becomes his residence for all purposes. So, the establishment of residence can't be taken lightly either by the students or the communities in which they reside. evidence demonstrating a causal relationship between pornography and victim crime." Information gathered from the police Bureau of Criminal Investigation of a direct relation between the pornography business. DURING THE PAST two years the number of sex bookshops and shows remained about the same. In 2013, five crimes also stayed at about the same level during that period. Police and legal troubles are not the only problems for the number of sex shows and bookstores. "Small time operators have glutted the market," moaned Raymond "Tiny" Becker. 300-796-7805. The Foeller's theater, Becker had just spent a night in jail on a charge of violating a court injunction against the ladies sex show He Xuan. A judge was not involved. Public anxiety is another wow. "THERE'S ONLY so much of this stuff the people can buy," said Phil Rosenberg, 62, owner of a downtown store selling adult of all ages more than 30 per cent and the people publishers are grinding out a weekly average of only 20 new titles such as "The Socially Active Housewife." "The Sex and 'The Urge to Punish.'" Rosenberg said many of the 100 who adorably book stores in San Diego down if they didn't sell sex gadgets and take-home sex gadgets. Rosenberg said his store used to get 75 or more new titles a week. salesmen Stan and Ollie have bumped, by a series of accidental disasters, into sulphurous homeowner James Finlayson. Soon the two men clashed as they trived each other's (and their own) ruin. With, at first, the most studious deliberation and restraint, Finlayson cuts only half of Ollie's tie with his pocket knife, and his pocket knife, very neatly nips the street numbers, one by one, on the house, not even disturbing the paint. Finlayson, bringing his shears out, cuts only half of Ollie's tie and borrowing his pocket knife, selects two prize hairs from the The aim of graduate escalation, or "gradual response" as it was called, is to limit war. Tacit agreement is assumed, not to "go the whole way," to kill and maim on terms of good faith. We'll do mayhem on each other's lightballs only, so "Business is way off. But how can we get the people in here to see what thing is getting so permissive?" Ms. Doyle had a nudge on the cover, Among those singing the blues is Pete Decenzie, whose Gayety Theater sign downwomen: "Is it true about life in the suburbs?" lamented Decenzie, a 40-year veteran of road shows, burlesque and now naughty movies. "IF THE NOVELTY'S not wearing out, it's sure spreading out," agreed Arlene Elster, 28, operator of the Sutton Cinema. The film is screening to audiences is screening sometimes 12 or less a show. She estimates her business and that of the 25 or so other adult theaters in town is doing as much as 50 per cent from last summer. Jim Mowell, who, with his bride, will own the O'Farrrell Theater, said he is one of two or three shows making money. **ARMED WITH** the state's obscurity law and a 1913 "red light abatement act" outlawing the public display of "lewd displays," the police shut down the Outer Limits and have a court order to close Beeker's New But the real permissiveness began about seven years ago when a dancer in a North Boach bar bonned a topless bath suit. Mitchell said the better-made mattress was too thick, and not just dirty old men, but he said these new audiences demand qualities such as plot, absent in the film. Becker has been arrested four times and other theater employees 21 times in junction. The Follies stay open "for your sake!" it adsl declare, while fighting the police action in grounds of freedom of speech. When topless was not enough and the swinging showjers even cocktails, the dancers went bottom up. The chef's varied variety continued as the aim of the game and live sex acts were then shown. SAN FRANCISCANS have traditionally attended the wakey sex business that has existed in New York since the 1950s and the bawdy Barbary Coast days. "He who lives by the slapstick, even when it is a man's own life," writes dies by the slapstick. "Garry Wills says. The nationally-syndicated columnist says this depicts the lesson of Vietnam scant few left on top of Finlayson's head, severs them, twiddles them into air with that exquisite flair only fat men who move gracefully can communicate. Finlayson is out now, circling the open truck with its Christmas trees, surveying this enemy installation, looking for its weakest point. Then he bounces, with a single headlight, which springs out into the victor's hands trailing electrical viscera. Stan and Olie have stood by, appraising with an expertise, even in their anger, calibrating the exact degree of this aggression. Then they return to the house, seeking the homeowner's analogue of a drunker's handkerchief at the front porch, lest the door pivot lamp must go. Almost sadly they do mavem on the bulb. But as the pace quickens, it is harder to match one act of escalation with another. Soon neither party has time to move back and forth, from truck to home, Finlayson, having reduced By Sokoloff Griff and the Unicorn the whole house doesn't get wrecked, the whole car blown up. "Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff." The trouble with this kind of agreement about these kinds of acts is made perfectly by the sight of Finlayson thrashing about in a ruin of yuletide wreckage—or by our program of vast 'defoliation.' It shines clear in Stan's stab at putting extracted piano keys back in the piano (hard as putting human teeth back in a head) or in our village-resettlement programs. But what if Finlayson had neighbors who would not permit the easy get-away? Then two explosions would begin the chain of retaliatory disasters, rather than end it. The true lesson of this routine is not to "get it over with" by landing your big punch first. The lesson is a harder and simpler one: why summon or contriate disasters when they come so suddenly. Older and Hardy never had to look for trouble. But they kept on looking anyway—and so do we. And so do we. Violence is irrational; those who try to rationalize it enter comedy's cruel world in instant nemesis. He who lives by the slapstick, even when it is a palam-and-mambon stick, dies by the slapstick. Both the house and truck come tumbling down. **What to do?** Forsake incremental advances, all such times timed escalating, and all such times tended to the Right Wing: escalation, if it comes at all, should come in quantum jump. Once Finlayson slipped off the lie, Stan and James climbed up and escaped in their undamaged truck. There would be less destruction in the long run (as the quantum-jumpers like to me) than they had, not a house and a truck. Copyright, 1971, Universal Press Syndicate America's Pacemaking college newspaper THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Kansan Telephone Numbers Newroom--UN-4 4810 Business Office--UN-4 4258 A published at the University of Kansas during the academic year except for a partial leave, to attend a conference, to work as a Second class student paid at Lawrence, Kan. 60444. Accommodations, goods, services and employment offered to all students without regard to college credit or national origin. Opinions expressed are not necessarily intended as professional advice. 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