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Tuesday, February 11, 1975
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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Viet enigma grows
As it has for years, the policy of the executive branch of the government in regard to South Vietnam remains an enigma. Not only does President Ford insist that the United States continue to support a government that inevitably will fall, he appears to believe that the corrupt government of Nguyen Van Thieu, actually is worth saving.
Even more puzzling is how this blind spot has spread into other government departments, these three in the Department of Immigration and the State Department.
A few months ago six students from South Vietnam were threatened with deportation unless they stopped speaking out against Thieu's corrupt government. The students persisted and eventually their papers were revoked, despite their pleas for asylum.
If these dissidents are returned to Vietnam, they will face certain punishment. The immigration department has ignored their pleas and contends that the South Vietnamese government will be fair.
Obviously, it has forgotten that Thieu's last opponent in the national election ended up in jail. Other Thieu opponents and dissenters have mysteriously disappeared or have been found dead. The government has alleged that they were victims of the Vietcong.
So far the students have received little support from the press, with the exception of the support they've received from Theodore Jacuency, editorial page editor of the Elizabeth, New Jersey, Daily Journal, and he hasn't been very successful.
Jacqueline, a former volunteer worker in South Vietnam who helped homeless civilians, sent a letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a U.S. official, from Vietnam. In the letter he argued for mercy for the students,
whom, he said, only had been exercising their right of free speech. The students had been going to school on the west coast.
He received a letter in reply from Carol Laise, assistant secretary for public affairs in the State Department.
An interesting footnote to the letter is that Laise is the wife of Ellsworth Bunker, the former ambassador to South Vietnam and a supporter of and apologist for the Thieu regime.
She wrote that the State Department was aware of no case in which persons returning to South Vietnam had been persecuted for political activities carried on outside the insidiction of that country.
For years the repressive government of South Vietnam has been a source of embarrassment to the United States, but the immigration and state departments refuse to realize the dangers that these six Vietnamese students face if they are forced to return home.
The action also sets a dangerous precedent for other aliens and nationals living in the United States. If they think that the dangerous to them is a threat, and what the United States, the public will lose a valuable source of opinion.
In addition, the United States can hardly be considered the bastion of freedom by foreigners if they fear their own country could result in deportation or worse.
Foreigners aren't protected by the Bill of Rights but they certainly shouldn't be deprived of their freedom of speech because they weren't born in the United States. If the United States is to gain any respect from foreign nations, it must uphold its basic freedoms.
In addition, it might not be a bad
choice to break forever always with the
South Pacific.
—Kenn Louden
Mirth is medicinal
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble, enough of its own.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laughter is the best medicine. It really is, you know. Haven't you ever noticed how much better you feel after you've had a little laugh? You've been worried seems a lighter load after a few laughs with your friends.
If you can't remember the last time you laughed with your friends, you are a perfect example of a malady I have recently discovered. People do it enough. Most people take things too seriously, even themselves.
The severity of the lack of mirth came to my mind several months ago while I was watching the movie *Bachelor*. On television. Between hilarious and interviews with the team members conducted by Howard Cosell.
Meadowlar Lemon, the bub of the Globetrotter wheel, told Cosell that it was the Globetrotters' intent to take a little laughter to as many people as they could. Cosell was almost speecheless when
Meadowlark said that if anybody could get the whole world to laugh at the same time, there would be no more wars.
From the mouths of babes. In my naivete I wonder why the solutions to all the world's serious problems must be serious themselves.
If everyone could take a step back from the serious way he conducts his business, he might be able to see the earth as his personal earth-shattering problem.
I realize that many, perhaps most, of the world's problems shouldn't and can't be laughed away. Hunger, disease, war and death, the four riders of the Apocalypse, aren't funny in any way.
They are real problems and need real solutions.
But the picyayne problems of everyday life can be cured by a giggle or two. Look at yourself. What are you self-conscious about? Look at it a little differently. Is the problem that's bothering you really important? Are you being too self-conscious? No? Then why worry about it, why waste time being serious about something that's comical? Laugh at yourself.
Learn to laugh, learn to live.
Learn to laugh, learn
Tom Billam
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Mrs. Moore began sending money to Rev. Ik. She said, "God blessed me with three cars, three bank accounts, good faith and a job in one of the banks where I have an account."
If your problem is poor health, Rev. Ike has a Prayer Cloth that he'll send you. A man in Florida testifies, "Ever since I became a member of the Blessing Plan, my life has changed for the better . . . I was first hardened by having to be living the Prayer Cloth on the diseased area and believing in God-inmei. I was healed of a stomach ulcer in the same way."
Rev. Ke's main appeal has been among blacks, but he has a growing number of white contributors. Many of his contributors undoubtedly benefit from his practical teachings about hard work and positive thinking.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Moore didn't explain how she acquired her sudden weight or whether her three cars were clunkers.
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Nevertheless, Rev. Ke miks his simple-minded followers out of thousands of dollars by leading them to believe that success will be theirs only if they send him cash.
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When you get on that bus, they want money, money, money, money, money!!!
Rev. Ike milks followers
BY STEVEN LEWIS Contributing Writer
The latest issue of Action magazine is about "Money. What it is and how to get it." It is a must-read for any action magazine are about money,
Of course, how to acquire and invest money is a theme of many publications. Nevertheless, Action magazine is unique because its editor and writer are Dr. Frederick Everver and Father-in-Lod. His Divine Emilience, Dr. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II.
For the sake of brevity, he calls himself Rev. Ike.
Once a small-time fire-breathing fundamentalist, Rev Ke rechanged his ways in 1965. Instead of preaching pie in the sky by and by, Rev Ke adopted pie and ice cream on top." Now he can afford all the pie and ice cream he wants.
Few, if any, preachers are as flamboyant as Rev. Ik. He is a lavishly groomed 40-year-old black man who scorns Black Power and preaches Green Power. His favorite Bible verse
Rev. Ike's theology has proved popular. His crusades across the United States indicate that he is second only to Billy Graham in crowd-drawing ability.
Rev. Ikeb has built one of the biggest rackets in all of Christendom. By connecting the words "God" and "money" in his name to four followers, Rev. Ikeb has made a fortune in less than 10 years.
In this month's issue of *Action*, Rev. Ike writes, "Everywhere you go and for everything that you do in life, there is money. There's a bus that stops money. There's a marquee of United Church at United Palace in New York city, and as soon as you step on that bus, the first thing they want is money. They don't care how much money they pay for prayed and praised the Lord while you were in church."
Rev. Ike is no philanthropist.
If you want to prosper, he says,
you have to send him hard cash
regularly. He calls it "The
Blessing Plan." It consists of
believing that the successful
man to rev. Ike. Ike, prospers from
the whole experience.
His followers probably would be as well off to enroll in a Dale Carnegie course. At least it would cost less.
is "Money answers all things"
(Ecclesiastes 10:19)
"POOR LITTLE FELLÁS STILL HUNGRY"
The Blessing Plan certainly has been a blessing to Rev. Ike, and he provides testimonial after testimonial to show that the people who give are more likely to issue of Action, Mrs. Pauline Moore of Charlotte, N.C., testifies, "I am the mother of four children but I had been unable to work. My medical and household bills were piling up, and I was broke."
Readers respond
To the Editor:
Unfortunately, Buser speaks from a male Catholic point of view which denies women full status as human beings. Because in a single letter I cannot hope to challenge all the inconsistencies inherent in such a view, I must content myself with abortion as a selfish, unconsidered act.
More about women editors of the Kansas. I'm fairly certain the first was Eulalia Dougherty, of Logan, Kans. Sometimes around 1923-25, as editor she put the paper on the press on time and made it easier to help the helm, something few, if any, of her male counterparts had been able to do. That was quite an accomplishment, too, considering the clumsy printers they had in the back shop at the local paper company. In example-best at being the clumsiest, that is.
And anyone who cares to examine the record will find that during World War II, almost the entire Kansas staff, both editorial and business, was on the verge of suicides in the supervision of the late Elmer F. Beb, they did a commendable Bod under trying circumstances.
No, Mr. Buser, I don't deny your right to express your opinion, but please, don't delude yourself that your efforts are successful. Do children. Your article is useful in the proves canks readers with a perfect example of the fallacies that pervade the "pro-
Thomas C. Ryther Professor Emeritus of Journalism
Fallacies
To the Editor:
I contend that the welfare of human beings already born must take precedence over that of potential individuals. Even Buser doesn't deny that unmanaged children can devastating effects on the women involved. Yet the effects on the unwanted child can, and very possibly will, include neglect, poverty and abuse. What about the right to a parent? Is it fair for Buser? This right is denied both mother and child if legal abortion is unavailable.
In response to Stephen Buser's editorial, I respectfully suggest that he re-examine many of his anti-abortion marriage stability, individual freedom, ability to care for the unwanted, child and, significantly, the "welfare of society in general" as insufficient reasons for abortion, I believe he should care for the welfare of society in general. Yet, in his fourth paragraph he states his interest "in the welfare of human beings, born or unborn." What distinction there may be betrayed by his emphasis on the beings and the welfare of society isn't specified.
life" arguments. If you're really concerned with life, speak out against hunger, smuggle food and most of all, overpopulation.
Beth Andes Lawrence Senior
Ad ethics
But never did we take a position on the touchy subject of who should be the next student and who purposefully avoided the issue.
Woman put Kansan to bed on time
To the Editor:
During my semester as editor of the Kansan last fall, we took some courses in diverse subjects. Some of our positions were wrong. Some were ill thought. Some dealt with questions we never should have discussed.
That's why I was shocked and amazed to learn that one of the candidates for student body president has been using an editorial from the Kansan in his political advertising.
The use of the editorial implies that the candidate, Lewis Gregory, had at least partial payment from the fall Kansan.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
When the editorial was written last fall, it was supposed to be a compliment to the entire country, but some of Gregory's opponents in this election. It wasn't intent just to praise Gregory.
Furthermore, the Kansan had absolutely no idea at that time that Gregory, who will graduate in May, would seek the student body presidency, a post that would require him to remain at the University for an extra two semesters.
So the Kansan couldn't have written the editorial as an endorsement of Gregory's campaign.
He didn't seek permission from the Kansan or from the editorial's author. He just went to the newsroom, where he编辑 in an advertisement.
But perhaps the most annoying aspect of the entire affair was the way in which appropriated the editorial.
In its original form, the editorial was reproduced with the name of the author, fall associate editor Jiff Stinson, on the editorial. The ad vertisement was ready to be printed before publication; this editorial was to be used in it. And he didn't learn this from Gregory; in fact, he had to call him.
In an attempt to avoid embarrassing Gregory, Stinson allowed the use of the editorial, but requested that Stinson's name be removed from it, since he didn't want anyone to believe he supported Gregory in the student body president's race.
The essential point is that Gregory worked behind the Kansan's and Stinson's back to advertisement. Erie Meyer
Eric Meyer Marion Senior
A funny oasis To the Editor:
When one hears "soap opera," one usually thinks of suffering. There is one on-going series, however, that is unique in both form and presentation. It splits comedy at its best.
The story centers on three (notice the symbolic reference to the Biblical concept of mucksterer) types who have profited in the oasis of "reality" in the desert of ignorance and confusion.
Secondly, it is performed live, right in our very own community and involves a cast of thousands (almost only of the players have very small roles).
The anatagoistines are the members of the "power establishment" who ruthlessly keep the subjects wandering aimlessly in the desert. The subjects are portrayed as oversized adolescents who are the primary story as "freshmen and sophomores" (the larger adolescents being the "already lost" juniors, seniors and graduate students).
An elaborate "litterry" system determines whether the highly innocent freshmen will even be given a chance to find the "oasis." All those who don't receive the correct directions to the waterhole are thereafter within the clutches of the "princes" of the different sand dunes (or the departments of the institutional system the "princes" use is to detain every subject that wanders onto their pile (of sand) until the heat causes many to see an oasis (which, of course, is only a mirage).
They are then shuffled off to another prince who does the same, and this process continues until the subjects leave the room. What does it mean out what an oasis is? This sounds tragic, but as the story unveils,
the wandering soon becomes comic in its absurdity and many of the more observant subjects provide the audience with the excitement they expound some of the most classic onliners ever heard.
The scene that really brings the house down, however, is at the oasis. Here the three muskeeters perform episode after episode of situation involving a dog possibly by the Marx Brothers. The lines are best illustrated by what has to be a landmark: "We say there is one truth, that it can be identified and that it can be funny, the role of the subjects will have you 'rolling in the aisles.' The subjects are required to keep straight faces (else the musketeers won't give them any of the water). They may expressions but they dace as priceless.
I advise everyone to see it—you'll hate yourself later if you don't. And you'll be happy to know that, due to the popularity of the subjects, a sequel is in the works. Here, the subjects migrate to other oases that have water, and to other warmer during subjects won't be able to distract them with their presences. It sounds as if keeping a straight face will be easier at these places, but these places have the best musketeers of all and they have been writing and rewriting their stories, accomplished could withstand such an onlaught of humor without breaking.
John Donaldson
Wichita Graduate Student
"AND HIM AT HIS AGE, A KENN IN MOVIE WITH THAT PUPP LITTLE SECRETARY IN THE MINI-SKIRT, THE ONE WITH THE DIMPLES IN HE KNEES AND HIM BEING MARRIED AND ALL, DONTGNA KOOK...""
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