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Tuesday, December 11, 1973
University Dally Kansar
KANSAN Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Other Guv's Problem
To almost anyone born in the United States after World War II, the consequences of the energy crisis, especially gas rationing and heating oil shortages, have as much significance as a parent fable about walking 10 miles to now five feet deep to get to school.
The fuel shortage is an anachronism, something that belongs to the Depression and World War II, an era of "buy a day, pay later."
Even though broadcasters flood newscasts with information about what to expect from gas rationing and heating oil shortages, a lot of people think there really is a problem. How can there be a shortage in the land of plenty?
This disbelief became apparent recently when the heat in McCollam Hall failed to work for two hours; failure there was a snowstorm that caused a power failure for half an hour the next morning.
Some residents (the lucky late sleepers) never realized that any problem had existed. Both the city and the heat were back on by 9 a.m.
The thought of turning off unnecessary utilities did not occur to most residents. The heating concern of the maintenance men.
However, those that were awake expressed astonishment, resentment and even anger that the heat was off. The possibility that a heating fuel shortage might cause heat to be turned off or fail most nights was too incredible to believe.
Conserving energy in the home or residence hall, like conserving gasoline on the highway by driving at a 50 m.p.h. speed limit, is still the other guy's responsibility. No one thinks his own small excesses in the expenditure of energy will hurt.
Only after people have received their first taste of the fuel shortage personally, as have the residents of McColum Hall or those who lived through it will the meaning of the energy crisis become real.
To hope for successful fuel conservation is unrealistic from people who have never learned to do without.
—Carol Gwinn
Guest Editorial Uncommon Criminals?
In a time when the words "cover up" are fresh in the mind of each American, and when it seems that each day a new scandal is unseen among wonders where scandals end and organized crime begins.
The moderate citizen may still refuse to recognize the fact that crime not only exists in the street but also occurs and is overlooked in closed offices such as those occupied by top officials in Washington, D.C., and in state and local institutions; where human life is affected by people who are regarded with little more respect than that of a specimen used for a laboratory experiment. He needs to be educated.
For instance, what do you call it when the President of the United States is allegedly involved in caper after caper of which he claims to know nothing? Such capers include trusted members of his administration who, it seems, could not have carried out these actions. He is President having no knowledge of them. He admits these aides are guilty but admits to no participation at all on his part.
A president, who in slightly more than one term has elevated himself so far above the law that he is able to withhold evidence that could possibly lead to his own impeachment, has at least partial control of whether he will be impeached.
What do you call it when the vice president admits to income tax fraud and to receiving political kickbacks from the time he was governor of Maryland up to and including the time he served as vice president of the United States? Is it really possible that the President had no knowledge of this either? Why is it that after pleading no contest the vice president was released with only a token fine?
On a local level, what would you call it when a 7-year-old girl is taken from her parents because of a speech problem, state authorities incarcerate her for six months and, during this period, systematic attempts are made to break the social bonds between the girl and her parents? This process has been so efficient that at one point there was no longer any kind of love or bond between the girl and her
family. At the age of eight her mind was hopelessly confused and her reality totally distorted. She died at a state hospital.
Maybe you haven't heard about the operations that doctors are now performing called psychosurgery. When a person finds it too difficult to adjust to this unbelievable procedure, they literally cut out a portion of the person's brain to make him adaptable to society.
Maybe these experiments can be termed justifiable in the name of science, just as the release of Spiro Agnew can be termed good diplomacy for the United States. Because no president has ever actually been impeached, it seems that Congress is not sure whether presidents are, in fact, impeachable.
There seems to be some confusion of principle when it comes to discerning exactly what constitutes crime in this society. When a common man in the street steals $50 with hunger as his prime motive he is handed a five to 10 year jail sentence. Another man, not so common simply because he happens to be vice president, pleads guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars with greed as his prime motive and he is 'released with only a fine.
When a common man in the street takes a human life he goes to jail for 10-20 years, but about one year ago the President ordered the most massive non-nuclear bomb ever estimated 1,000 North Vietnamese civilians a week. The only place he goes is to Camp David. The only place he goes is to Camp David.
The people of this country have got to start realizing that crime is crime, regardless of what form it takes, because the "not so common people" already know it. The common people have got to become more involved in law enforcement and see that the law is enforced.
In a country that leads the world in every phase of development, except human relations, it would seem that the people should realize that crime today has been taken up by all kinds of criminals. Some kinds of criminal activity are so well organized that even scandalous behavior is accepted by the majority. —David Crockett
Guest Editorial
(David Crockett is a junior in the School of Journalism.)
Settlement in a Secular Israel
The fact that history; does not develop in monolithic blocks or clearly defined stages, but unevenly and on many complex levels, makes it impossible for a critical historical event to be understood until all those levels are analyzed.
The present situation in the Middle East is unfolding on three such levels: 1) contention between governments of the Arab states and the United Nations; 2) contention between the Arab governments and the Zionists and most importantly, 3) the Palestinian people's struggle for freedom.
As the profit motive increasingly predominates in the Soviet economy and as Russia wears further from the path to socialism, the need for easily exploitable resources such as human labor becomes acute in the U.S.R.
The American corporate interests (very distinct from the American people) has only one preoccupation, namely, profit. The owner of oil, is only another name for money.
American big business and its state apparatus supports Israel and Iran in the Middle East for the same reason it does so in Asia. In Asia, Without that steady outflow of cheap resources and armament spending (that is, without a successful imperialism) American business will have to adapt itself to the sucker out of higher profits.
Work speed-ups, mandatory overtime and a lower standard of living for some employees are already happening. Besides, from the point of view of business interests, it's much more profitable to engage in immigration than to risk an open class war all
The Arab governments have only limited aims concerning Israel, as was shown during the recent war, since they are threatened from above and below. The major threat at present is the expansion of Israel, not its existence.
Despite all the playing at detente, the Russian government is competing in the Mideast for the same reason as American business.
When (Egyptian President) Sadat aborted the recent war, it was with the implicit guarantee by the United States that Israel would not be excluded, Palestine would be able to
To the extent that the Arab governments fight to regain lost land, their power is progressive and democratic. But the government's failure to such a just cause, the Arab ruling classes run the risk that the masses will extend the struggle to the logical conclusion: the overthrow of the reactionary Arab regimes themselves through a popular mobilization.
The confusion implicit in the Zionist argument is that Israel's right to exist as a Zionist state negates the right of the United States to exist. The Zionists support their position with liberal doses of World War II guilt and a few well-chosen historical documents. It will do no harm to look over these documents, but it will prove, what rights the Zionists, in fact, have.
Israel does all it can to legitimize expansion, not just its existence as a state.
a state. It was in clear violation of the rights of the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine to self-determination, a principle recognized by the U.N. charter.
reclaim all territory lost in the 1967 war.
Moreover, the Partition Plan was suspended by the General Assembly in order to examine a recommendation for a possible trusteeship over an undivided Palestine. Thus, when Zionists invoked that Partition Plan in their unilateral statehood, they invoked a defunct proclamation; they invoked a defunct retracted by its very proponents.
"While the United Nations was debating trusteeship," wrote Chaim Weizman, the first President of Israel, in his autobiography "Trial and Error," the Zionist plan "was to create facts, to confront the world with these facts, and to raise awareness." The policy of "creating facts" is a fixed one which Zionists have pursued faithfully to bring about the inception of Israel, and now to defend it.
Where terror failed to achieve the objective of uprooting the Palestinians to make "Israel as Jewish as England is English," Israeli armed forces resorted to forcible expulsion.
The Balfour Declaration, which promised a national home for world Jewry in Palestine, has neither legal nor moral justification since Britain possessed no sovereignty over the area to make such a promise. (Palestine at the time formed part of the Ottoman Empire.)
More importantly, the promise was made against the will and consent of the indigenous Palestinians (92 per cent of Israel's population) and Jews. Even after Palestine became a British Protectorate under the mandate system, the mandated power gave no authority to annex or to divide the land alone impose an alien people upon it.
This policy is dramatized in the following salient events: Even before the British Mandate in Palestine ended, the Zionist terror machine, which was operated by three paramilitary organizations, "e.g. to sow fear among Palestinian Arabs in order to 'liberate' Palestine" (Brown and Sperry, 1976). Notorious of these terrorist acts was the massacre of 300 men, women and children in Deir Yassin.
The U.N. General Assembly Partition Plan of 1947 has no moral or juridical validity either. The plan itself was in violation of the U.N. Charter, which does not confer any authority upon the General Assembly to create or partition
Where terror failed to achieve the objective of uprooting the Palestinians to make "Israel as Jewish and England is English", Israel armed forces resorted to forcible expulsion, destruction of homes and entire villages, expropriation and confiscation of Arab property, and annexation and settlement of Arab land.
By 1948, Zionists occupied 80 per cent of Palestine; by 1967, they occupied the entire area of Palestine and expanded those frontiers by their occupation and
The expansionist reason of the Zionist state is further underscored by the omission of delineated frontiers in its constitution. The Israeli government evident in the words of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; "Our fathers reached the borders of 1494, we reached the borders of 1495, you reached the borders of 1497, you reached the borders of 1807, you reached the borders of Israel to where they belong."
Aside from tampering with the historical record, the apologists for Zionism have created an array of moral disputes. For example, the tiny Jewish state surrounded by huge and powerful enemies. By their logic we should also defend the apartheid government of South Africa; which, after defending itself against the black borders.
The Palestinian question is the most crucial factor in the resolution of the present crisis. The goal of the Palestinian problem is to resolve the crimes perpetrated against them.
settlement in Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian territories
It is because their struggle, like the struggle of the Vietnamese, is against both an imperialist power (Israel-United States) and domestic reactionaries (Hussein-Sadat) that the Palestinian masses are the true heroes of the day.
Griff and the Unicorn
The Arab states are justified in liberating their territories occupied by the Islamic State, in rearmament of the territorial integrity of the Arab states is only one step toward a just and equitable settlement of the Mideast conflict. The restoration of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian state should eradicate the cause of the conflict.
A secular state where Jews, Moslems and Christians enjoy equal democratic rights would ensure that human dignity is protected and not misused as solution of the Palestinian people.
To fight for such a democratic solution is to expose the bogus identity between Judaism and Zionism and to unite the Arab and Jewish masses in a common struggle against the vested interests of all ruling classes in the area. The Palestinians are at the forefront of that struggle.
—Tom Clark
(Tom Clark is a former KU student living in Lawrence.)
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
by Sokoloff
The "screamers" may have offended,
embarrassed, annoyed and insulted many.
Free Speech in Religious Freedom
In the past few weeks I have read articles, editorials and letters to the editor in the Kanans on the subject of those zealous persons who can be seen and heard in front of you. They have been labeled screamers, preachers, prophets, self-appointed evangelists and crusaders by readers and are normal and predictable, but unjustified.
In the Dec. 4 Kansan, Lynne Miller wrote, "I want to suggest that the disturbance (the preaching) be stopped by some official means, such as charges of disturbing the peace or any applicable University regulation."
To my eyes, this looks a lot like the denial of an essential freedom guaranteed in the constitution, freedom of speech. And if one were to look a bit further, something about religious freedom would be found in there too.
any rate, since these "screamers" have made it a point not to disturb any class by preaching only during the brief ten minute break between sessions—when God only knows what the noise level is. I find it all that disturbing. That means that their "nose" is all that disturbing.
In the Dec. 6 Kansan, writer Linda Hales asked, "… if Christ was not a humanitarian, then what was he? In answer to her question, when Christ was a humanitarian—He still is."
In fact, to have something that is so good that you would want to yell about it to the crowds instead of keeping it to yourself seems to be quite unselfish and Christian. It would like any skeptic to read one of the books in our new Testament and the Acts of the Anostics.
More important, what distinguishes Him from other humanitarians, such as the Savior Jesus, is that he Assisi, is that He is also the Savior. Because Jesus is the Savior, and the ruler of every Christian life, it is the joy and duty of every one who believes in Him to share His
There was an editorial written by Linda Hales commenting on Christian witnessing on campus. I would like to reply to it. These men are preaching the gospel because they can make no other choice and still retain their integrity. They have made a decision
but that a response to be expected from those who have already formed prejudices on the matter from context rather than from text. Many others have come to know happiness and peace through "campus" experiences, too, contrary to the opinion of some. do care.
Chuck Alexander Wichita Freshman
If these "street preachers" do disappear from in front of Watson Library because of questionable legal force, the rights of many people will be corner and preached will be in leopardy.
Hales reported an incident of a young man who was witnessing saying "I—you" to a disinterested passerby, and another incident of someone responding with an attacker who he wasn't coming across. I would like to apologize for these incidents on behalf of the Christian body of Lawrence. My God does not say "I—you," and He doesn't say "I don't care." He says, "Two thousand years ago Son died for you. Please accept Him."
I am sure this letter will offend some people, because they don't believe as I do. But in the final judgment, you aren't an audience for Jesus, and you encourage the guys who preach on campus. You are answerable to the ultimate righteousness of God and of His Son, the man Jesus Christ.
Answerable to God
to follow God, and wherever and however God leads them they must follow. I wouldn't necessarily recommend some of their methods of preaching, but I can't remain faithful to my beliefs. [Matt 10:27, Phil 1:18]. They consider themselves answerable to God, not to men.
I am a Christian. This means that I love Jesus, the Son of God, with my whole heart, and that I believe that He died and rose as an expiation for my sin and for yours.
Hales asked what Jesus was if not a humanitarian. He was, and is, the Son of God and the only viable hope for mankind. Not through everybody being nice to everybody else, but through everybody looking straight at God and letting His joy, blessings, mercy and compassion their lives. Then we will be able to see beyond the physical splendor of a beautiful day to the God who is the source of all beauty and who gives all beauty a meaning.
To the Editor:
" WE BUT ONCE WE DROP OUT THAT ONE LITTLE PLAW."
Baby Breeze
Shawnee Mission Junior
1. There was a mystifying triple killing in the Ottawa area. Three persons were found shot to death in an automobile in a field south of Ottawa. The killings remain unsolved, and there have been other unsold kills around Ottawa over the past year.
2. Storms broke loose over Kansas last spring, killing seven persons. Destruction was especially heavy in rural areas, the Kansas River reached record crests here in Lawrence.
Aj at La by Law 11th
3. During the early summer, while severe storms struck Lawrence, a record quantity
Slavings Top 1973 Kansas News
A wide variety of news went into the making of the 10 most stirring Kansas news stories in 1973. Of the 10 most important stories, four focused on political figures. Two involved political disputes, two were centered on violence, one covered a tragic storm, and one recorded a celebrated wheat harvest that broke records for convenience. it was difficult, at times, to haul and store the great quantity of grain.
The top 10 Kansas stories in 1973, according to students in an editorial and interpretive writing class in the journalism school, were the following:
BsTOM GAUME
BY TOM GAUMS and JEROME LLOYD
of wheat was being harvested across the state. At times there was some difficulty coordinating enough trucks, men and grain elevators to handle the harvest.
4. Kansas City Police Chief Clarence Kelley was named director of the F.B.I. Kelley won confirmation by a unanimous Senate vote.
7. Nancy Hambleton was chosen by unanimous vote to be mayor of Lawrence. She became the first woman mayor in Lawrence history.
5. State Atty, Gen. Vern Miller made headlines through a series of raids on pornographic bookstores and drug pushers. He also became involved in a dispute with Amtrak, in which he argued the state had imposed restrictions on mixed drinks on Amtrak lines in Kansas.
8. A number of studies were made regarding the establishment of an airport in Lawrence. There was talk of the airport as a convenience for commuters to Kansas City.
6. Gov. Robert Docking was inaugurated in January, elected to an unprecedented fourth term. In May, Docking traveled to Japan to promote trade between Japan and
9. Jimmy Essex, formerly a friendly and quiet boy from Emporia who had wanted to
become a minister, joined a group of black extremists in a shoot-out with the New Orleans police. The band killed and shot at two police officers, members of the group were fatally shot.
10. There was a great deal of talk about setting up a vast park in the Flint Hills that would be used for the days of sweeping grasses. But cattlemen and farmers were, for the most part, unwilling to exchange music for their livestock. The park was to be called Tallgrass Park.
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