Editorials
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Cogito ergo finique
Author's note for publication: Opinions expressed herein are in terms of Irony, Sarcasm, and/or Irreverence.
CONSERVATUS:
We're distributing free copies of that great American novel, "We Don't Dare Call It Gospel," because we hope it will start apathetic people like you, sir, thinking.
LIBERALICUS:
Haven't I heard something about that book? I think it's on "comrade" Chief Justice Warren's list of publications not to be read by the "faithful" or given as Christmas gifts.
LIBERALICUS:
This may be true, but my organization is trying to establish a better image by means of this book. We're cleverly sponsoring an "objective" essay contest in which a contestant must read this book and write whether or not he approves of its controversial accusations (although I don't see how he could disapprove). Of course, the usual "conservative" standards of documentation will be observed. I might also add that in the past we've never found an essay that was critical of the book that used the proper standards of documentation.
CONSERVATUS:
We're not giving a blanket endorsement of some or the over-zealous sentiment occasionally expressed, you understand. Actually, most of us think it has just gone too far in two or three sentences.
Well, I don't know. Your group has got some pretty "right-o" tendencies. I just don't think an anti-flag, mother-hating, apple-pie-disdainting leftist like me should be reading something like this book. Somehow it might get out and it could ruin me. Besides the idea of getting connected with any "Fascist-leaning" causes is really frightening. I could get "black-listed" or "branded" a reactionary or something.
CONSERVATUS:
Don't you see, that's what we're fighting against! People must realize that conservatism is the wave of the future! We get new strength daily. Just yesterday a new branch of our movement, the Student Mars Society, picketed a missile factory that was behind in its quota. How's that for activism? LIBERALICUS:
LIBERALICUS:
Don't try to kid me. I know about the real move behind your group — intellectualism. You're simply trying to cover up for those fuzzy intellectuals in the background of your movement—Bill Buckley, Robert Welch, George Lincoln Rockley, John Wayne and the rest. You're just a coog in the wheel in another of those "egghead" movements that want to change the world and the status quo without thinking.
If we let irresponsible people like you take over the government, who knows, maybe tomorrow the mail would be delivered by a private company like A.T. & T. Social Security would either be abolished or administered by Welch's Candy Company—no sir, I don't want your book!
CONSERVATUS:
Why don't you look at this from a more "materialistic" standpoint (that word "materialistic" always gets to these pinkos)? All you have to do is read the book and write a little of inoffensive essay saying it is the greatest thing since "Wealth of Nations" and you might make all sorts of money.
Besides, don't you want to know all the marvelous truth about all the dirty reds and traitors in Washington, all about wonderful of "Genial Joe" McCarthy, all the simple methods the U.S. can use to run the world? Honestly, even if you don't write the essay, you can't afford to miss this book.
LIBERALICUS:
Well, maybe I'll take one—just skim it, you understand. — Terry Joslin
The People Say...
To the Editor:
THIS IS IN REPLY to the editorial by Jane Larson, "Welfare Aims Miss Target," which appeared in the Friday, Dec. 10 UDK. The point of this article was very well taken. By making a short term cut in a budget, we do, many times, defeat our purpose by gaining long term financial dependents. No social worker would ever disagree.
However, this editorial seemed to place the blame for the budget-cutting in the wrong place. The social worker in a public agency has no control over her budget. The elected officials, legislature and county boards of commissioners determine the budget within which the worker must operate. Neither can the worker det mine the number of people whom she must serve. Any Kansas resident falling below a certain economic level is eligible for financial aid. Thus, the social worker is caught in a situation of having to make a small amount of money stretch over a large number of people. She is forced to make budget cuts she does not wish to make because there simply is no money to be had and there is nothing else she can do.
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Another problem is that each social worker has far too many cases under her jurisdiction and there is no money legislated to add enough caseworkers so that each worker can do a satisfactory job with her cases. The average caseworker is now carrying a caseload of between 80 and 90—if she is lucky. This is cases, not people. Her caseload may include as many as 300-500 people. These are most often people with not one, but many problems. The social worker is faced with the dilemma of knowing many services which should be given to these people to increase their self-esteem and improve their functioning in society, but she does not have enough time to devote to each of the 300 or so people to accomplish these goals.
The article pointed out the very crucial fact that we are not saving money in the long run by cutting welfare expenditures now. But this should be pointed out to the boards of commissioners, the legislatures, and the governor. These are the people who hold the pursestrings. Social workers can't help the situation until they have more adequate operating funds and lower caseloads. Until everyone realizes this and works for more money, the problem will remain chronic.
sharon Galichia Girard senior
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Monday. January 10, 1966
"SOMETIMES I THINK THE PRESIDENT KEeps TOO CLOSE TAES ON THE FACILITY."
Bellow excellence marks "Herzog"
One of the paperback publishing feats of the fall has been Fawcett's acquiring of Saul Bellow's Herzog (Crest, 95 cents). Already it's been on the drugstore and bookstore shelves for several weeks. It burst forth a year ago and began to create discussion—mainly, what's this book all about? There's reason for a more than vague suspicion that many people bought it and read it (or read at it) as they bought and read at Katherine Anne Porter's "Ships of Fools."
For most readers "Herzog" is pretty obscure. None of Bellow is easy going for most readers; Augie March and Henderson are fascinating characters but they don't go down simply. Likewise with Moses Herzog. He's an academic type, an urban sort Montreal to Chicago and New York. He believes in the brotherhood of man, simply and honestly, even though there would be considerable evidence to persuade him otherwise—the genocide of his own people, for example. And he is a failure himself.
Through his ramblings, his discourses, the endless letters to many persons, great and small, living and dead. Herzog is revealed. The book is marked by the beautiful style of Saul Bellow and his excellent timing. He may be the best writer on the American scene today.
Quite different among new volumes is a collection edited by the distinguished Louis Filler, author of works on the Civil War and American liberalism and professor of American civilization at Antioch. It is called Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom (American Century, $1.95).
Garrison and most other abolitionists ended their battles when the war was over. Wendell Phillips, the "patrician agitator" of Hofstadter's work, kept on, as a pioneering protagonist for civil rights and the Negro, as well as for labor vs. capital. Filler has taken the Phillips' writings from Phillips' speeches, lectures and letters.
The old man has wild and funny tales to tell, all in picaresque fashion. His friends and enemies include the Indians, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, General Custer, Calamity Jane—that bunch. It is in the tradition of American frontier humor and for many readers it will recapture the mood of those wild old times.
Among the new books is a delightful satire on the old West that succeeds a good part of the time. It is Thomas Berger's Little Big Man (Crest, 95 cents). Here we have western comedy couched in the supposed reminiscences of Jack Crabb, age 111, oldtime frontiersman who dictates his story of the good old days.
Another volume of fiction may be billed as mystery but it's a cut better than most such novels in its originality, style and humor. It is Harry Kemelman's Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (Crest, 50 cents), and it won first place in the Mystery Writers competition. Briefly, it's about Rabbi Small and a body found on the temple grounds and how the rabbi works with the Catholic police chief to find the killer.
In non-fiction there is Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos (Crest, 95 cents). This will appeal to a good many readers. It's a combination of fiction and non-fiction, a book of exotic appeal but also practical in its meaning. There also are two works in the "Profiles in Science" series: Gerard Lauzun's S'gmund Freud: The Man and His Theories (Premier, 60 cents) and Michel Rouze's Robert Oppenheimer: The Man and His Theories (Premier, 60 cents). The layman can manage either, and the student of history, psychology, Western Civilization—you name it—should find the volumes beneficial.