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Thursday, November 30, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Degrading Freedom
As a nation, we are indebted to the women's liberationists for forcing a new and needed equality in employment education and interpersonal relations. For that we thank them, but we also owe them a few bitter words for the effect we can expect their fanatic preachings to work on the next decade's college women.
Overall, women as a sex are no more talented than men. Certainly there are some women, just as there are some men, who have exceptional intellects and exceptional motivation, who possess the capacity to their natural positions of eminence as leaders of state, as professionals and as artists.
What some liberationists seem to overlook is that the great mass of people, both men and women, are—and by definition will continue to be—unexceptional. These people, for the most part, will not be admitted to the elite ranks of the politicians, the professionals, or the artists; nor should they be. These are people who are not capable of leading or even of conversing with the exceptional minds of this or any other decade.
To these people, the liberationists, by thoroughly and quite unjustly dishonoring a great disservice. The bright eyed school girls who might have once found challenge, fulfillment and happiness in being a housewife, mother, and lover, will now instead grow up knowing only the frustration of being a mere housewife
No longer protected by the conde-
nies socialization process of male cha-
vinusist society, these young girls will suffer the same socialization that boys have for some time been suffering. Like their male counterparts the girls will now be taught to drive only for the highest goals, when they are competent to the struggle. They will be drilled again and again in the necessity of being number one and in the unacceptability of anything less
... thanks to the polemic of the feminists.
And in the end, the mediocre of these women will join the mediocre of the men in the frustrating realization of their mediocrity, and their insignificance. In their frustration these socialized women will add to the already distinctive achievements of the nation by contributing their share in the criminal crime problem, the national drug crisis, the mental illness rate and the national rate of heart disease and chronic disorders.
Without a doubt, women have a right to strive for their personal fulfillment. But that right hardly will be protected by submitting them to the same crippling, frustrating socialization process now faced by men. Not just women, but all women will fulfill liberation from a social structure deprives the mediocre of their sense of human dignity. Shaming and degrading the woman who enjoys being a housewife is not the answer.
Robert Ward
ProcrastinatorGets Ahead Through Falling Behind
By KEVIN SHAFER
Kansan Staff Writer
I didn't recognize him at first, probably of the barrier of the pressure that he held unsuccessfully hide himself from the throne; reporters that had gathered over reports that had
1. myself, as a reporter and for several occasions to obtain interview with Jimmy "The Pro" Coxstratton who favored his work for the FBC.
THE HELP (Higher Education's Longest Procrastinator) is the University of Kansas and requires that a student has much training, stamina, qualification in order to be its recipient.
Rumor has it that Jimmy was secretly nominated for the HELP award last semester during final teachers were recorded his final year.
But because Jimmy is a senior this year and is very outspoken in all of his classes are not the only reason he will be nominated. The HELP Committee has professed all during the year that unlike previous years, this year's Award recipient will be the winner of any popularity contest.
Jimmy was one of 15 students summoned in the morning. During the summer months, when no one was around to argue, the field was narrowed.
The final five candidates are never officially notified of their status. The four must sit six hours to register and enroll Allen Field House in that grueling steam of late August, the one that he had made the cut.
From then on it was an uphill climb to fame and fantasy for the departmenters we followed him who would confront him on campus with victory slogans as such, "Go home," win this one for the Ginner.
Just looking at him sipping his glass of water the preferred Dr. Pepper but the soda machines in his store out of order since his freshman year to look busy, I could just feel the qualities eminating from his disqualified body that had rightly earned him the nickname
I could tell that Jimmy, the jotting down a list of important things to do before writing his term paper, I could imagine what he would be.
Putting together tips and extensive research, I found out that heuser-Busch brewing company (Jimmy always has been content with his business) could often be found checking the status of his stock with a broker.
That task usually took most of the afternoon and very often extended well into the night. The kids were so excited. Pro from Kokomo (his home
town) has little time for minor details such as final examinations and term papers that he has investments such as these.
But the character itself is what has made the Pro the leading contender for the annual HELP award. Everyone knows that he has been training for three years, night clubs and various private parties to bedh his credentials of best college putter offer.
But the Pro's quest for the championship has not been solely an individual effort. Roommates who have made efforts beyond the call of duty to make sure that Jimmy can keep "fun" at the top of his priority list and work" stuffed in their backpacks antiquated quest for success.
The Pro's ability to convince
the employee of the work that
has to be done thankless also
has certainly proved to be a
key in his popularity with
his staff.
The Pro's talents have won him several minor awards in the past which might add to his already long list of qualifications.
Just last weekend the pro was commenting to a compatriot on the great amount of work that he did in him for the following Monday.
"Man, I've got so much to do for Monday, I doubt if I sleep at this weekend. I have to give an oral presentation in the class, a paper that was due last Wednesday that I haven't even started yet, and to top it all off, I have a 300-page book to read for a day. "Man, I'm morning," he said silly.
"Wow, man," his match con-
spirations sympathetically. "What you need is a relaxing break.
We can take it." We can leave tonight and be back
Tuesday or Wednesday."
"Sure, we're there," the Prosa said triumphantly.
The weekend turned out to be a bad one. He fell back and he fall even farther behind in his work. No doubt this looked good to him, already warm HELPМИ the morning
Jimmy's test is far from over. Undercover members of the HELP Committee will be spying on the Pro at local night spots to get information. It is not succumbing to all of the pressures of the college student.
The Pro won't know if he won the battle until he tries to sell his book to a local store. Spring is. The Book Store refuses to buy back any of his books, then Jimmy will know that he has received the coveted reward and privilege of attending this unwed University one more year.
Each agent will take notes and glossy photographs depicting the flaws in their equipment. Pro rather than the flawed faculty members have elicited the faculty members have elicited the
The final voting will not be until the annual faculty yacht race at Potter Lake in April, but, seen to bother the brother on the one bid.
Jimmy vowed at a press conference to keep no drinking, dancing and singing having fun until the end of the spring semester of his senior year.
Just recently the Pro was asked if he would cherish the HELP Award if, in fact, he did become this year's winner.
"Wow, man, like I think the honor would be far out but I just got too much to do in think about it right now," he said.
Spoken like a true Pro from Kokomo.
Jack Anderson
WASHINGTON - New Orleans
Mafia king Carlos Marcello once tried to get Rep. John Dowdy, D-Tex, to fix his immigration case for him. Dowdy refused to intervene for love or money.
Rep. Dowdy Refuses Fix
The scheme was hatched six years ago. Marcelo was being hounded by federal immigration agents to leave the United States, but he was only an eight-month-old when he first arrived here.
The anatomy of the fix that failed, however, remains an intriguing story of gangland's ways in Washington. The police officer recently convicted for taking a $2,500 bribe in an unrelated case, recalls the tale with wry humor, "If I'd been willing to help him and if I'd been so inclined, I guess I could have gotten anything I wanted," he opened from his home in Athens, Tex.
Once, federal agents had whisked him off to Guatemala without so much as a by-bour-
leave. Ingeniously, he made his way back.
As Day recalls it, he nee Marcelo in a sumptuous office at the Town and Country Motel in New York and outpoured out his tale of federal harassment and his wish to spend his last days in New Orleans with happy ever amid his alleged vice and gambling operations.
Day's soft Texas heart quickly melted, he recalls, and in his hand danced molecules of a sugar-paml fee of $2,000 if he could push through a bill to keep Marcello in the United States.
"I never mention a figure," I told us, "until I am successful. I mentioned it, but I planned to get a fee just like I would on anyone
Next time he was in Washington, where he lobbied for optical interests, Day dropped in on his good friend, Congressman Dowdy. Day was a contributor to Dowdy's campaigns and Dowdy represented Day's father-in-law as a private lawyer.
Day unfolded the story of Marcelo's woes to the sympathetic members of the House Judiciary Committee had considerable impact over what private imagery hills get through Congress.
The Texas congressman promised to consider the request for friendship's sake. Both Day and Dowdy insist no talk of money suilled the conversation between these two old cranies.
A few days later, Dowdy called Day to say he couldn't help out the New Orleans mobster. "I told him it was something I couldn't have anything to do with," recalled Dowdy. "When I
checked into it, I found out what he (Marcello) had done. I said I couldn't do it."
America's pharmaceutical firms pump out enough barbiturate pills "for everyone in this country to commit suicide twice," declares a secret House crime committee staff report.
"The barsb" or "downers," as the pills are called, flood into high schools at 25 cents each. They find their way from the pharmaceutical companies into the black market that caters to youthful "pill-popper."
Day, his hopes of a fat fee dead, relayed the sad word to Marcello. The gangster gave up his hope of a quick congressional solution to immigration problem and is still battling the case in the courts.
Footnote: Marcello owes his upper hand in the 18-year fight to Roberts, who definately immigrated attorney named Jack Wasserman. On the Dowdy gambit, Marcello lost to him and his memory was "vague."
DOUBLE SUICIDE
The crime committee headed by doughy old chairman Claude Pepper, D-Fla., puts the blame for "harb" abuse on the 'ethical' drug houses. After two hearings, Peppers is convinced pharmaceutical companies are aware their outrageous profits come from saddling youngsters with the drug habit.
Among the horror stories outlined in the report is that of a California teenager, 64 percent of the drug cases involved barbiturates. The "barbies" are machines to secure corridors, on playgrounds and on outside elementary schools.
The Pepper report urges, "Government control over the production and distribution of these dangerous and often deadly drugs is, obviously long overdue."
Copyright, 1972,
by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.
James J. Kilpatrick
Union Order Breeds Conflict
WASHINGTON—An "Important Notice" recently recently up in my mail. It was not the first time I had ever hit the desk. It came from the executive secretary of the Washington-Baltimore local of the American Federation of Labor and a group called AFTRA), and it read in part,
"You and all AFTRA members are hereby ordered, pursuant to the resolution of the AFTRA National Board, to respect the boundaries of the Industrial Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) at CBS, or any other facility where programs or portions thereof are produced for broadcast over the facilities of CBS, and members are ordered to perform any broadcast or pre-broadcast services for CBS.
"This order is effective
Tuesday, November 21, 1972, at 6:00 P.M. . .
"You are advised that any member who violates an order of the AFTRA National Board may be found guilty of conduct unlawful or of violating the AFTRA member and shall be subject to disciplinary action."
After that Tuesday afternoon, late I had thoroughly lost my temper and spent two glum hours at the office. AFTRA secretary telephoned. A New York State judge, acting on a petition brought by CBS, had just enjoined the union from participating in "The issue is thus in suspense."
But the issue will be back, and the issue transcends this immediate dispute between CBS on the one hand and the two unions on the other.
What is involved here is a
conflict of principles. AFTRA's National Board is defending the principle of union solidarity. Some of us on the other side are defending the principle of individual freedom. When it gets close to the crunch, and it almost got to close, Tuesday afternoon, the principles cannot co-exist. Something has to give.
The problem arises from the contractual agreement between CBS and AFTRA. This contains a provision that every "artist" must have at least one commentator, or otherwise, "is or will become a member of AFTRA in good standing." Several years ago, when I began serving as a conservative on the Fox News program, my proposition was put to me squarely: Either I joined the union, in accordance with this
union shop agreement, or I could
stay off the air. Under protest, I
joined.
I do not mean to make any flaming statements, but I love freedom, I despise compulsion. The effect of these union shop contracts is to deny freedom to the business whatever field, who does not want to join the union. His chosen occupation may be thus closed to him absolutely; and this is true whether he is a grape picker in Bakersfield, who knows no other skill, or a TV commentator in his office that mandate must be paid to the union to no job, get in, or get out.
In the case of those workers who are actual members of a collective bargaining unit, and thus benefit willy-mily from whatever benefits a union may obtain, there may be some
defense for the "agency shop." Under the agency contract a worker pays union taxes, but is not required to become a union member. But AFTRA does not bargain for Waltier Cronkite or another union that matter, Bill Buckley or me. We make our own contracts.
The aborted "order" from AFTRA carries particular danger in this area of the news. If AFTRA can use its disciplinary force to persuade a particular expression of opinion off a network—if it effectively can throttle a voice—the First Amendment, to that extent, is a dead letter. Most members of AFTRA are liberals; I should ask them not to advocate an effort to embrace so illiberal an action as this.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
$ \textcircled{2} $ Universal Press Syndicate 1972
In any event, I cannot and will not obey the "order." If the injunction is lifted and AFTRA sends out a fresh notice, we will have to get into court, with compulsion on one side and freedom on the other, and find our whose orders at last will prevail.
Business Adviser Mel Adams
Business Manager Dale Pergergardens