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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1957
Sense And Satellites
The first venture in human history into outer space has brought no universal feeling of release or jubilation.
For the people of the Western world, especially the people of the United States, the news of the satellite has created not only apprehension but shock. It is the shock that comes from the discovery that an adversary has been dangerously underestimated.
Stern things are being said now in America about the inadequacy of our own science and technology. This is not where America has been lacking. It is not our science and technology that have failed. Our failure—and it is a critical one—has been in our reasoning, in our judgment, in our moral imagination.
It is not an overnight failure. It goes back to 1945—back to the mold in which the atomic age began. We never paused long enough to think through the meaning of the nuclear explosives we so ingeniously created. We regarded the atomic bomb as just another weapon, rather than the beginning of a new age on earth in which vast intelligence and imagination would be required to keep the new force under control.
We created the precedent for the use of nuclear explosives against human life. We issued no ultimatum, conducted no demonstration, before dropping the bomb on a live target. In this way we deprived ourselves of the strength that we would have gained through a magnificent example of moral restraint. This kind of strength might have been useful in creating the effective agencies to prevent a world nuclear armaments race, of which the hydrogen bomb and the intercontinental missiles are the latest products.
Most serious of all was the national delusion produced by our success in atomic energy. We developed a policy based on the assumption that some sort of secret existed, which we alone knew or could keep, despite the warnings of many of our leading scientists that what we did others could do.
Then there was a period when, in our frustration, we turned our power on ourselves; we allowed knaves to define the standard both for the national security and the national morality. The result was
that scientists by the hundreds were driven from the government laboratories.
Two years ago, a group of scientists and laymen came together for the purpose of alerting the American people and government to the fact that the Soviet Union had an important jump in the development of intermediate range ballistic missiles and intercontentinental ballistic missiles. Once again, the confident voices of reassurance went out over the land. Russia make an intercontinental missile before the U.S.? Nonsense, went the argument; they couldn't even make a Model-T Ford.
And now a Russian earth satellite spins around the globe, sending out signals which mock our delusions of superiority. We are discovering, as have other nations, that a superiority complex comes at a high price.
To react to the Soviet satellite by calling for a crash program of our own for overcoming the Soviet lead does not by itself meet the need. The principal need is not to conjure up more effective ways of destroying the world. The principal need is to tap our intelligence and moral imagination to the fullest in creating a working design for a better tomorrow in which all the world's people can share.
It is what we are willing to give up in behalf of peace that will determine our effectiveness in pursuing the peace. We can give everything we have to the idea of a United Nations which has the powers and responsibilities of a world federation.
The advocacy of such a United Nations will not by itself bring it into being. But advocacy does not have to produce universal agreement in order to create a new sense of direction in the world. It need only define our complete commitment to a pooled sovereignty, to a sharing of world knowledge of the human good, and to the subordination of the nations to world law.
A great idea looking towards the development of a world community will circle the globe more rapidly than the fastest satellite. It will give us access to the majority of the world's peoples—on whom security really depends. It will also help to make life bearable on this planet before we take off for other ones.
—The Saturday Review
Stones In The Pathway To Peace
Two nationalistic, unstable Mid-East countries hold the peace of the world in the palm of their hand today.
Syria and Egypt's little games along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the borders of Turkey could at any time touch off the Third World War.
The United States is pledged to defend Turkey against any aggression. The Soviet Union is pledged to defend Syria against any attack. A false move by any power in this powder keg could plunge the world into war.
To make matters worse the longer Egypt and Syria work at these little border games, the greater the rift between the United States and the other Arab countries widens. The Arab countries are pledged to defend their own against aggression and
every warning to Syria from the U. S. makes a little more friction between the Arab world and ours.
A further possibility is that Syria and Egypt might be eyeing Israel while just making feints toward Turkey. After all, Turkey is too strong a country for even both Syria and Egypt to tackle at the same time.
Why have we allowed Egypt and Syria to receive help from Russia? They had asked our aid first. What puts Syria in the position it is in today? What type of government does it have? Who are the strong men behind Syria's rise to international importance? All these are questions we should be aware of, but many lack the capacity to form conclusions, for scarcity of coherent material on the situation.
Asian Flu? So What?
"What's all this fuss about the Asian flu?" "I had it but it didn't even bother me." "I can't imagine anyone actually going to bed when he has it!"
—Lee Lord
How many of you have run into the ever-present "I-was-sicker-than-you" type? With that kind you don't have a chance when you start to complain. He always had a higher temperature and it always remained up just a little bit longer than yours. But he never gave in to it and went to bed.
We keep hearing statements like these. Fellow flu-sufferers, band together! Down with those people who have had a slight cold and profess to having had the flu.
This may not seem important in the face of Sputnik, Little Rock and
Scoundrels, like those mentioned above, have hurt our chances for sympathy. Roommates show only slight concern for an Asian flu victim. Teachers are surprised that you have missed class and upon your return pat you on the back and say, "You look fine to me."
There must be an Asian flu education program for all those who haven't had the pleasure of having it themselves. We who really know about it must describe our burning temperatures, our throbbing heads, our aching backs and that ache-all-over feeling we know so well.
So men and women, get out your temperature charts and your empty aspirin bottles and let's show them what it's really like to have the Asian flu. But first, let me tell you about my temperature. It was 104 degrees and it stayed up for five whole days and ...
the World Series, but to those of us who have had it, these people pose a big problem.
—Mary Beth Noyes
Elevators of primitive types are known to have been used at least as early as the third century B. C. These early elevators were generally operated manually, although animal power and even water wheels were sometimes used.
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