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Tuesday, November 2,1971
University Daily Kansan
Haste Makes Waste
The equivalent of five million tons of TNT will explode Thursday under the Aleutian island of Amchitka, a high court order intervenes soon.
The five-megaton blast is supported by President Nixon, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense, and is opposed by the entire Alaskan congressman and the governor of Alaska, numerous environmental groups and the government of Canada.
The question for the courts to consider is: which takes precedence, U.S. national security or the environment? The answer, for several reasons, should be the environment.
AEC scientists, despite their vaulted reputations (remember the
salt mines?), are not sure enough that the blast may not cause permanent and disastrous damage to our environment. The possibilities of the explosion triggering an earthquake or leaking radiation into the atmosphere cannot be equified off lightly. More study is needed to determine if even any underground blast would be ecologically dangerous.
"Haste makes waste," despite being a well-worn cliche, would definitely apply to the Amchitka situation.
For far too long, the precedence of national security has gone unchallenged by Americans. Witness monstrous Defense Department budgets, witness Vietnam, and now witness Amchitka.
—Pat K. Malone
Our Historic Issues
Feb.20.1946
March 4.1946
The Douglas County Commission passed a rule prohibiting dances in July.
Protest petitions were being circulated on campus protesting the commissioners rule.
Beer places, given the choice of
betting patrons dance,
banned dancing
M. N. Penny, speaking for the commissioners, said that many members of the board appealed to the commissioners asking that all beer places be closed.
March 6, 1946
The Jayhawk Veterans, the Merchant's Bureau of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Young Republicans were all addressing the commissioners and protesting the action.
March 12,1946
The commissioners were not moved by the petitioning and the protesting. Penny said, that he had nothing against dancing, but it is a combination of beer and dancing, that "apparently resulted in five deaths from a disease originating out of the city since the beginning of the year."
The veterans suggested a "more direct attack" on the venerable neural network.
"You are turning my place into a beer hall," said Roy Borgen, Dine-A-Mite owner. "I've sold more beer, but I'm interested in the principle of the thing—these students have built my business."
April 11.1946
The commissioners partially lifted the ban. Beer drinking and dancing were now allowed in the same establishment but not at the same time. It wasn't a no drinks in dancing hands rule. It allowed beer drinking and dancing in the same building but on separate nights.
April 29,1946
Judge Hugh Means set May 9 as a hearing date for a petition filed by Borgen to prevent the commissioners from enforcing their law.
Borgen said that the board members were opposed to dancing, and that the rule was directed at dancing by individuals, and not at beer. He said the law violated the 14th amendment.
Mav 9.1946
The petition hearing was delayed and no hearing date was set.
Borgen amended his petition to say that the rule was aimed at the individual conduct of his customers. This made another hearing date necessary. It was not set immediately.
Mav 22.1946
Sept.12.1957
Under a strict licensing system beer sales and dancing in the same establishment at the same time were allowed for the first time since Feb. 20, 1946. The issue had changed from a county issue to a city issue. It was the city that decided to allow dancing.
Borgen had petitioned the city commission during the summer to have his establishment at 23rd and Louisiana streets annexed to the city. The licensing system called for the place of business to be certified by the police chief, fire chief, a sanitation inspector, and the Board of Health. The rule said that the owner must be of good character and the dance floor must be 500 square feet.
Mayor John T. Weatherwax of Lawrence said "the chief duty of the amendment is to keep a clean fringe and to discourage the fringe operator."
Eric Kramer
from Daily Kansan excerpts
Peking in the U.N.
I feel sorry for the Right Wing, which must manufacture indignation over the expulsion of Taiwan from the UN. All of the publicly viable forms of that indignation go against long-standing international principles.
For years these people have said that the UN is irrelevant; not only imponent but unimportant; and not basked whenever our national interest is at stake. They have a point, but it is hard to argue from that point to the importance of the United Nations, because anything is a failure, how can you get
OR TAKE ONE of George Bush's stronger arguments for keeping Fomnia in the General Assembly; he said expulsion of any nation would set a dangerous precedent. But it is a precedent that some on the Right have asked to be set over the years. He said they to be a realistic force for peace. Russia should be expelled from it, if on the other hand, why keep communist China out?
two Chinas, or one? For decades the anti-communist argument has maintained the mystical unity of China. China "soul," as well as its army divided; and where it was—even on a small island—China was.
THIS WAS LIKE saying, after the amputation of a toe, that the toe was the man, and the rest of his torso should be thrown out while the toe is given the whole man's name and preserved.
worked up about a pheripheral absurdity?
To maintain this position for so long, to exclude vast mainland China while calling Cheng Kai-shek's Formosa the 'real'
but the central issue is that on which the Right is weakest. That point is, simply put: are there
Garry Wills
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James J. Kilpatrick A Prothonotary Warbler
WASHINGTON—Alger Hus turned up in an England last week, after playing in a tour. And sure enough, Alfred Friendly, senior correspondent for the Washington Post, taught him to write a friendly piece about him.
question arriving guests: "Do you believe in the innocence of Alger Huss?" "I believe." "Then enter the inner sanctum."
China, was a tour de force on our part, a tribute to American clout. (If they would accept that from you, I would swallow anything.)
There is one thing to say for the old Libs: They never quit. They will go to their graves defending the freedom of this century, this has been their ultimate touchstone. One imagines that whenever the United Nations Council of Foreign Relations convenes, a guard is posted to
YET IT IS a curious thing—one of those rainy-day reminder of approaching age that a whole generation has grown up that knew no Alger Hiss. I put the question to a young lady of 25. She thought he was the Nazi, who kept so many books so many years in prison. And Chambers? Whittaker Chambers? A dead blank.
downtown for Peace Peace. In the summer of 1948, when the drama began to unfold, he was 43, and the world was his beautiful oyster.
Friendly's interview brought it all flooding back. For the record, my children, Hiss was the impceable young lawyer who emerged from Johns Hopkins and Harvard Law to become a later high-ranking attorney in the State Department, adviser in 1945 to Roosevelt at Yalta, president of the Carnegie En-
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS was known that summer, to the extent he was known at all, as a teacher in his native country, a puddy man, squat and homely; his background was obsure. He had joined the Communist Party as a young intellectual in 1925; he was imprisoned for three years. For the last three years of his membership he had served in Washington as a secret courier and minor functionary, attached to what was known as the Harold
On Aug. 3, 1948, Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which then was investigating Communist infiltration of government. Chambers came
unwillingly, in one sense, for he knew he himself would be doomed; but he came also from a powerful motivation to bear witness, to make atement: "I sensed, with a force greater than vision, that it was for this that my whole life had been lived."
CHAMBERS PUBLICLY identified Alger Hiss as a member of the Harold Ware cell. four days later, in executive relationship with Hiss in meticulous detail; he told of the Hiss apartment, the Hiss cars, the Hiss dog, the Hiss hobbies. He recalled that Hiss, an amateur rare prophylactic warrior, a rare prophylactic warrior,
But Chambers at first was not believed. Hiss denied everything; and Hiss was —well, he was Algerian. But the man went on to mention leaped to his side. Then
IT WAS THE beginning of the end. In January of 1950, His was convicted on two counts of persecution for years at Lewisburg. Chambers died in 1961. To this day, the record still rings with the truth of Chambers testimony; and it still holds with the stench of Hiss's lies.
Hiss came before the committed in executive session on August 16, Congressman John McDowell put the question casually: "Did you ever see a protonotary warbler?"
The revisionists hint at nothing of this. To them, Hiss remains a formidable figure and a source of grace." He is gentle of manner, soft of voice. A sense of injustice and outrage still burns in his chest. "I am consuming hope of ultimate
"I have," said Hiss, "right here on the Potomac."
vindication. He is still bewildered at what he believes was a monstrous and deliberate frameup. He surmises that Chambers was psychotic. Or perhaps Chambers rigged a certain Woodstock typewriter that figured significantly in the trial.
"It won't do. Chambers was among the saintest, purest, and noblest men of America in this century," he wrote in a typewriter that trapped Alger Hiss. It started with a tiny warbler, "beautiful yellow head, a gorgeous bird." And so long as he remained in hiding defame the memory of Whittaker Chambers, those of us who respected that brave and brilliant man will remember that warbler will remember the stress to the guilt of Alger Hiss.
But apart from the sheer muscle we used to keep Taiwan in and Peking out, our whole position depended on the proposition, urged and repeated in every way, that there could only be one legitimate China, one true spokesman for all the Chinese people, one China seat in both the Security Council and the United Nations, the rules of the game as we ourselves had established them.
(C) 1971 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
(C) 1971
WE WEERE BOUND to look silly, therefore, deciding overnight there should be two China, so far as the UN was concerned. All our arguments looked as well as they were, when witted on your own low insistence that at least a China policy would be evil.
Calling a man's toe the oean man was sadd enough. It is not more absurd, I guess, to come out of the operating room and say "I wanna do it," or one in the toe, and one in the rest of the body. But what is more
absurd is to maintain the second judgment, of all a sudden, after study, including the first one. The defendant was insulted that they were made aware that they are at the least, mutually exclusive in our lives. I we have embrace them both.
So we not only lost by the rules of the game we had established—which might have been done with dignity; we also lost while trying to change our own rules in the very middle of the game. That why it is so hard to work up a convincing indignation at our opponent when a host too badly deserved, too neat and symmetrical in its pattern of historical revenge upon unreality.
Copyright, 1971 Universal Press Syndicate
Readers Respond
Stern Vern . . .
To the Editor:
What with so many crises on the KU campus including well-staged knock-down dramas such as *Girl Genius* and *Kansan*. I think it makes just as justified illogical logic to turn to the less serious, lighter side of politics and comedy to release a distraction of our turbulent times
As we all know in the KU community our esteemedAtty. Gen. Vern Miller has established his own criminal crime fighter on the Lawrence experimental stage. So perfectly masterful and dominant has Mr. Miller been that not even civil rights could get a hit role. Surely with a solid reputation as the good guy in the KU community, he raads across the Kansas plains,
only greater things await Mr Miller.
If Governor Wallace, way down in Alabama, has not road the hill, or Miller's briller, I suggest he use a role or instant replays, and then another negotiating a contract to dismiss the boss. "Assusus for vice-president or at east a U.S. Attorney General. For here is a man at long last who has become an effective Wallace script, with the keen instinct and talent to rival evenICK Tracey the glitter the bitter man. If you win an Oscar; if not for the best actor, then for the best actor in a supporting role.
Timothy R. Rake Prairie Village Junior
AP News Analysis
Politics Destroys Welfare Reform
BUT MANSFIELD had to concede last week that it now is impossible for the Senate to act on the measure this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -Senate action on welfare-reform legislation now has been put over until 1972 and is doubt the bipartisan coalition backing it against either in a national election year.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield had persistently scheduled the bill for action this year, declaring President Nixon is entitled to a vote on his top. The house passed it June 12.
However, he sought to nail down early consideration of the much-disputed legislation in the 1972 session by announcing that the Finance Committee had recommended it be passed to the Senate adjournals this year.
But the Finance chairman,
But Russell B. Long, D-La., a bitter foe of the administration's welfare plan, said at once he knew of no commitment for this brush its work on the bill to finish it.
IN AN EFFORT to resolve this, a meeting was arranged during the week attended by Mansfield.
Ribblecote said Long plans to hold two weeks more of public hearings on the bill later this session, then two or three weeks of executive meetings to vote on it next year. He said that under this schedule the Senate probably would be able to tie it between Feb. 13 and March 1.
BUT HERE AGAIN Long came up with a different version.
He said the hearings probably would last a month or more and made no pledge they would be held this year. He explained it is not because of out of the committee by March 1, but that he could not guarantee it.
Afterwards Ribicoff reported a commitment by Long not to delay the hill and to get it out of the Committee as soon as possible.
Griff and the Unicorn
Supporters of welfare reform believe that the timing is all important. We measure's chances may diminish next year the closer the floor debate gets to the national vote, and the presidential campaign.
Long and Sen. Abraham A. Ribbeck, D-Conn. a leader in the fight to enact welfare reform in the Senate.
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