4 Wednesday, September 27, 1972 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Editorial Defense It is not generally Kansan policy to answer letters to the editor. This is the first time I have felt inclined to answer criticism with an editorial. Ken Reeves, Lawrence second-year law student, takes me to task ("Readers Respond" Sept. 26) for an editorial titled "GOPPipe Dream" (Sept. 20). Reeves calls the piece in question a "primary example of how we can both truths and innuendo," and later, after allowing that "The editors of the Kansan have a right to express their views" and reminding me that there "are those of us on campus who see events through different colored glasses," concludes—"the sort of content that Slaughter engaged contributes little to what could be an intelligent discussion of issues." Mr. Reeves' comments raise a larger question than a simple personification or a misplaced problem of editorial comment—a problem especially confounding in an election year. I am of the opinion that few readers differentiate between news coverage and editorial comment. The layman sees little difference, while those in the business see the chasm of opinion separating this deed, most newspapermasters cherish this separation. The editorial page is for opinion, news columns are for news. I have a notion Mr. Reeves objects not so much to the facts, but to my opinion and conclusions drawn on the facts. Mr. Reeves refutes none of them. My own challenges my responsibility because I express an opinion. Rather than challenge my right to opinion, Mr. Reeves challenges my command of the facts. I stand behind the facts—the opinion is right and it will not to attack opinion by discrediting fact in order to mask that attack. —Thomas E. Slaughter U.S. Stake in Wars Guest Editorial - Bv ERICKRAMER There's a war going on in East Africa. It is a complicated thing involving various tribes, several governments, an overthrown military dictator and the man who overthrew him. There have been several conflicts between tribes and countries in the area since they were formed, but they aren't throwing spears at each other anymore. Besides having hundreds of automatic weapons, the Ugandans had 12 M4 tanks, 15 scout cars, 36 armored personnel carriers, 21 combat planes and various other weapons. All of these arms certainly didn't come from the United States. Britain and the Soviet Union contributed their share. But no one would dispute the fact that the Pentagon is the world's largest junk dealer. Before the Vietnam War pushed our military grant-in-aid program out of sight, the Pentagon gave away $17 billion in arms from 1952 to 1960 by bringing the same period up to $5 billion worth of arms. A quick look around the world shows a frightening number of people under military dictators holding their power with American arms. Why are we doing this? In a 1965 press conference Robert McNamara, who was secretary of defense, said, "In those cases (underdeveloped countries) our first objective is to use influence that we gain through the military assistance programs and occasionally through the military export sales programs to work with them to reduce the burden of their material capital on defense and to increase the portion of their human and material capital that is allocated to economic and social programs." This would be good, but it just doesn't work out that way. When you give an African leader a couple dozen tanks or planes, he is likely to increase his armed forces to man the new weapons and he is likely to pay out something for maintenance. If the United States hadn't given him the weapons, he couldn't afford to buy them. He just would do without. In many of these places we have no military or political interest. The U.S. ambassador to Uganda has said that President Nixon and his national security expert, Henry Kissinger, have told him the United States has no interest in the outcome of the war. Why do we give these leaders more time? We are a long way from knowing how to avert war ourselves, so why do we send arms to a mad man in Africa? The government is going to have to learn there is a difference between giving a country's dictator a couple pandas and giving him a couple dozen tanks. James J. Kilpatrick Nixon's Motives Above Question WASHINGTON—If it were written or said of George McGovern that the Democratic nominee "doesn't really want the war in Vietnam to end—not until we get rid of that statement would be untrue. Whatever you might say in criticism of McGovern, and a vast deal can be said, it would be infamous to imply that he wants to see this miserable struggle for his own political advantage. It is equally untrue, and equally infamous, to say of President Nixon that he has failed to end the war because of his determination to uphold the Constitution; his phrase is McGovern's "of South Vietnam's President Thieu. And to charge that Nixon has prolonged the war out of sheer vanity, out of some distorted ideology, in commendation, is to engage in contumely on a monstrous scale. It is too much to ask, of both sides, that we give credit at least for sincerity? Isn't it time to hail this incessant questioning of motives? Senator McGovern, in my own view, is a humane and decent person who believes deeply that U.S. involvement in Vietnam must be endured at the earliest possible moment, under virtually any terms and conditions. The President, in my own words, said that I will remain decent, equally eager to end our commitment. The disagreement comes down, in the end, to the terms and conditions. James J. Kilpatrick The problem that Nixon has had to wrestle with—and heaven knows he has weisted unreasonably, as much for the U.S. to get into this mess; but it has proved exceedingly hard to get. And the problem is rooted not in the vanity of Nikon or the greed of gunner Van Thieu, but in the侵略度 of the enemy in Hanoi. This is the one factor that has been consistently underestimated all along. Americans by nature love few things quite so much as a really big metaphor, for the metaphor, for their indivi­cious connotations, but Nixon came into office as a used-car salesman with a hot prospect on the lot. Nixon was ready to make a deal that the customer couldn't pass up. He would make a deal down. Nobody but the world could wield a better bargain. But Hanoi wouldn't buy. To listen to McGovern and his colleagues, the lost sale is entirely the fault of the salesman. We have ben regaled with accusations from Sargent Shriver, from Averell Harriman, from Cyrus Vance, that Nixon nudged his chance to close a deal as far back as February of 1969. If Nixon had thrown in anything—including fifty gallons of gas, an additional warranty—he could have had peace three years ago. I don't believe it. The one overriding conclusion that has emerged from these years of frustration is that Hanol simply doesn't want to buy—not on any basis, not even on the ground, could accept. The Nixon administration has made at least three separate and well-defined offers, each a little more irresistible (in our eyes) than the one before. If the enemy had been more insistent, these propositions, at the time of the war, the enemy today would be significantly better off. The most skillful salesman in the world cannot make a profitable sale—or even a break-even sale—to a stubborn prospect whose idea is simply, give it to me. This has been Hanoi's notorious suburb of The Communists' goal is conquest of the 39 southern provinces, complete and absolute, under a new government that was instituted. They have sacrificed one million men (it is as if the U.S. had lost 15 million men) in pursuit of that goal. And unless the recent flurry of private negotiations indicates, there will be no resolution, it is still "no deal." Nixon is nothing if not persistent. He is doggedly trying to come up with something. But it is no help to him in the midst of these earnest efforts he is hampered by Senate resolutions or by political catcalls from the opposition ranks. Letters Policy Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must submit their name to the school town; faculty and staff must provide their name and address; others must provide their name and address. (C) 1972 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. Jack Anderson Mafia Peddles Phony Securities For almost two years now, the staff of the subcommittee has been on the road here, in Canada, in Great Britain and continental McCillan's battle with the new breed of underworld financiers may be the last in his 18-year investigation of the Mafia. He would have been the head of the Senate Permanent Investigating subcommittee. WASHINGTON—Sen. John McCellan, D-Aark, the crime fighter who made Casa Nostra a family byword, is quietly preparing new hearings on charges of fraud and satricy in fraudulent securities. By DON JEFFERSON Kansan Staff Writer It's September again! American Mania Goes Stale Are the car makers on the wrong track? But please hold your applause. Amid the jubilation, ovations and triumph of the occasion, there is a pressing question that remains a question everyway is asking. No one is demanding an answer. It's time for a young man's fancy to turn to glitter and gasoline. It's time for a national mannet that has been an American icon since the 1950s, decades. It's time for Americans to recall fondly the words of Will Rogers who said, "We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in history of the world in history to oililv in an automobile." Again this year Detroit has built into each and every car a do- Detroit has rolled out the 1973 cars. it-yourself smog machine, the internal combustion engine. Europe. Their files are packed with case histories. What they have found is well over $10 billion in stolen stocks, bonds and other securities and the money they counterfeit and criminally inflated financial paper. The committee has traced the worthless and stolen paper to companies that figures and their men allies. Admittedly, auto manufacturers have at the expense of power and economy, cut exhaust emissions over the past several years and probably will meet the 1975 pollution standards in spite of themselves. The fact remains, however, that the internal combustion engine is a polluter and no smog reduction device can change that Detroit could end its stubborn love affair with the gasoline and a drive more effort instead of勇敢地 instead of improving one which is In a nation with 90 million registered automobiles and a growing number of automobile-tributable to automobiles, Americans must ask themselves if the internal combustion engine is acceptable for reduced reduction devices is acceptable. Granting that Americans need their automobiles, a number of solutions have been offered. inherently dirty. There are already great hopes for electric or steam engines. However, even these have their pollution problems. Porduction of electricity, aside from the question of supply, often is a problem in heavy production, which requires heat, also becomes a problem. The engine was similar to the internal combustion engine except that each cylinder was filled with the inert gas and sealed. The gas was superheated by means of an electrical spark, causing a momentary expansion of the gas. This was essentially what the internal combustion engine did with an explosion of gasoline. After expansion, the inert gas quickly contracted to allow recovery of the piston, and the Perhaps the greatest hope offered to choking Americans came several years ago with the car engine that ran on inert gas. process was repeated. Nothing was burned, horsepower was raised to 50 per cylinder, was satisfied, and the gas lasted indefinitely. Another more publicized hope was the development of the turbine engine. This engine, an afterburner device, emitted only warm air through the tailpipe. The criminals have learned how to manipulate the lax financial regulations of many lands, especially the United States, to corrupt whole economies with these "securities" and to destroy confidence in all financial paper. But this time, the troll must fight against the cause, not for mere improvement, but out of necessity. There has been a myth about the "Detroit Troll" who struck down anything that threatened him in his ivory tower. The troll has arisen again, striking back at the persecution and persecution and lame excuses. Upon consideration of these options to Detroit's smog control problem, one is reminded of the many years' automobile manufacturers with the disc brake and the torsion stabilizer bar suspension. In vastly oversimplified terms, they convert stolen, counterfeit and inflated stocks, bonds, letters of credit, escrow statements, accounts and other financial securities into cold cash or genuine assets. Sometimes, the mob's securities are used by mob-controlled business ventures as a means of protecting cases the securities are sold or "rented" to legitimate corporations in desperate financial straits which use them to arm a terrorist organization or acceptance of their balance sheet. The fraudulently inflated balance sheets can then be used to attract investment capital to the corporation, thus turning the phony securities into actual money. Inevitably, the bogus securities find their way into bank vaults, insurance company portfolios and the investment account of ordinary citizens. They are counted as actual assets. ruin many more. If an honest accounting were ever done on a national scale, it could cause a massive rejugging of corporate arithmetic, or even a Wall Street blunge. The ultimate effect on stockholders and consumers would be higher interest rates and higher prices, as companies staggered to make up the suddenly lost assets. Discovery that such assets are counterfeit or stolen and thus actually worthless has already bankrupted some firms and could Last summer, McCellaan long but preliminary hearings to expose some of the problems. Since then, his sleuths, through questioning of underground informants and other potential witnesses, have proved that a lack of crime is under the racket. They have also discovered that, while many businessmen are truly unaware of illegal assets in their sales, others are purposefully willing to buy the worth plummet on their books. At hearings in the next session of Congress, the subcommittee will deal with the effects of the Mafia paper explosion, Witnesses describe the depression coupled with the bogus floats of securities could cause a financial panic. When asked about citing individual cases that he never treated, the handsome chiropractor argued that the chronic condition "downloaded very similarly with cases that I have had." Committee investigators will name the shadowy organized crime figures, their con men allies and the businessmen they have corrupted in setting up their international conspiracy. Finally, such drastic remedies as computerizing all securities transactions instead of issuing documents will be explored. Shapp's Chiropractor A Pennsylvania chiropractor, who receives state funds to investigate chiropractic quackery, has himself used deceptive ad Footnote: The Texas-based Parker foundation has prepared a personalized advertising package, which is marketed to individual chiropractors across the country. Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley Committee Against Trauma has joined the Federal Tax Commission stop the Parker ads. But the FTC has refused to enter the controversy because of a "jurisdictional dispute." to bilk the public, but to tell the chiropractic story." By Sokoloff Griff and the Unicorn Schnierer admitted to us that he had placed a series of ads in local newspapers during 1969, stating he personally treated patients that, in fact, he never saw. These were ads, he said, prepared by the Chippewashelli Chiropractic Research Foundation of Fort Worth, Tex. vertising to bolster his private practice. Monroe Schneier, whose hands have pliied the bad back of no less than Pennsylvania's Governor Milt Shapp, heads the Middletown Chiropractic Center. Schneider's center has a $10,000 consultant contract with Medical Assistance to check up on fraudulent invoices submitted to the state by chiropractors. Copyright, 1972. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Schneier claimed he ran the advertising copy "innocently,not Universal Press Syndicate 1977 KANSAN America's Pacemaking college newspaper Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except holidays and examination periods. 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