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Wednesday, September 8, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Poll helped parks
Being behind in the polls sometimes causes politicians to do extraordinary things.
Take President Ford, for example. Until last week, Ford's record on environmental issues was mediocre at best. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups were unanimous in giving him poor ratings.
IT WAS almost as if Ford had been frightened by a bear or something while he was a ranger at Yellowstone National Park in the 1930s and had borne a grudge against the park system ever since.
But now all that has changed. Last week Ford stood between Yellowstone Falls and a line of television cameras poised on a $1.2 billion park program.
Admittedly, most of the parks to be purchased would be in Alaska, converted from existing government-protected wilderness areas. Admittedly, the proposal was announced too late in the year for it to have a chance of going through Congress before the election day. The answer is at most, a couple of used B-1 bombers.
AND, OF course, Ford's proposal would do nothing at all to solve the shortage of park personnel, the system's main problem. The parks we live are being slowly crushed by unsupervised and often messy hordes of tourists.
All complaints aside, however, Ford's proposal is far better than nothing. Political and weak as it may be, the proposal is a welcome one.
By Jim Bates
Apparently, Jimmy Carter frightened Ford worse than the bear did.
By Jim Bates
Editorial Editor
Better Union look
A remodeled Kansas State will greet students, alumni and other football fans after the Washington State game Saturday. The lobbyobby and northeast entrance have been undergoing a face lifting since May 25.
The improvements should make the Union, which is supposed to be a focal point for student activity and alumni relations, a more attractive building.
THE OLD, dangerous center stairway has been replaced by extending the floors on four levels to the west wall. Picture windows on the west side of the building will provide a view of the Campanile and Memorial Stadium.
The remodeling was long overdue. The center steps were worn from the shoes of many students tramping up and down between floors.
Because the Union is on the extreme east side of campus many students don't visit it except to buy books once a semester. A more attractive attachet can also attract more students to SUA films and the other services the Union offers.
A REMODELED Union also should be on or in prospective students. The Union is often
the first place many students considering KU visit. A good first impression never hurts, and the Union good recruitment point for KU, officials.
The same thing could apply to alumni. The dinners and other events sponsored by the University of Kansas Alumni Association are often in the Union, and the remodeling should make a good impression on them.
The Hawks Nest, which is becoming a fairly popular place for students to drink, and the Prairie Room, where student politicians and University officials often eat, have been remodeled at the cost of $40,000.
A BRICK and steel canopy will cover students waiting on buses at the northeast entrance to the Union, the student offices below the main level have been moved to the Flatteness and souvenir shop in the Trail Room are to be completed next spring.
Overall, the remodeling seems to be a good thing for the University, as well as making the Union a more attractive place to visit.
By Carl Young
Contributing Writer
U.S. religious revival explained
Like the gypsy moth and other cyclical pests, "religious enthusiasm" is again flourishing among us. A recent Gallup poll reports that 94 per cent of the American people believe in God and that, as Western Europe continues its into agnostic socialism, Americans joying a spiritual renewal. The old moral fibers have not trolled out from under us after all.
That's when Billy Graham first made it known that he was a spokesman of the Lord, and countless collegians, their ears cleansed of wax and other impurities, dedicated themselves to Christ, who, we will assume, was suitably touched by such large hecatombs of Anglo-Saxon American youth.
Although it would be a mistake to think that this is a youth movement, it could be significant that the intervals between these expressions of religious fervor are just about
Since colonial times, the white inhabitants have enjoyed renewals, revivals, birrishs or rebirth of plant species that almost predictable periodicity. Every 30 to 40 years—during these manifestations is imprecise—we have these up-grades of our lands after the Second World War.
Nicholas Von Hoffman
Features Soundtrack
(c) 1976 King Features Synd
IN DUE course, the same Christians went forth to build shopping center and suburban apartments where their larvae in these less than urban places. They have now grown into a youthful portion of the revival.
the time it takes to grow a generation.
It is as though there are certain elements in the structure of our society that cause infestations and manifestations in the same manner as insect infestations are caused. It's hard to think what those elements might be. The society that fostered the invasive Revolutionary War period was so different from our own that it is scarcely possible that the same elements are at work today.
melancholia for which there seems to be no good reason and from which there seems to be no escape. It is common and useful, but not for which Jesus may be better therapy than electric shock.
Funds to Rhodesia questioned
The Washington Post reported last week that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in his meeting with Trump, would discuss a British and American proposal to provide $1.5 to $2 billion in financial guarantees to 280,000 white Rhodesians to persuade them to remain in the million blacks in the country.
The money would be used to reimburse the whites for the loss of their jobs or property when it seems only a matter of time that the government finally take over the government after decades of white rule.
THE REASON given for the plan is it would keep bloodshed and a full-scale战军 war from both Rhodesia and neighboring Zimbabwe. United States' strategic position was damaged by the Cuban and Russian footnote in Angola and, if race war breaks out, the war can be contested and Cubans might successfully step in in Rhodesia and South Africa. American corporations also have millions invested in the area especially in South Africa, many millions they don't want to lose.
These are very good reasons. If peace and black majority rule can be established with a
YET IT rankles me at the same time. What we would be doing is essentially bribing the white supremist citizens of Rhodesia, and probably later, South Africa, to do what their
minimum of bloodshed by an injection of aid from the United States and Britain, then by allied troops. The money won't be spent on arms.
John Fuller Contributing Writer
might. What does it portend when we have so many folks popping up on platforms to urge Christians to public office?
senses of morality and justice failed to move them to do. That is, to stop the subjugation and the treatment of the black majority.
RHODESIAN Prime Minister Ian Smith has long encouraged whites to train themselves in the art of killing. He took a picture of him, taking a few shots with a pistol at a fair, was in the papers last week. He is justifiably notorious for his racial slurs but he has been less vocal in his criticisms as escalating guerrilla war is threatening his country.
However, in South Africa,
where more than 300 people
(mostly blacks) have been
killed in racial rioting this
summer, whites show no such
interest. Under the
following quotations.
What makes me feel even less charitable is the supremely arrogant manner in which the leaders of Rhodesia and South Africa conduct their governments.
Justice Minister Jimmy Kruer said that the black man "knows his place; and if not, I add tell him his place." He will tell them they say they will overcome. But I say we will overcome.
THE PATIENT or the convert lives in a self-centered universe in the eyes of those who haven't shared the experience. When they gather together, they appear to outsiders to be paranoid about their smugness, all of which is harmless enough unless the evangelism is translated into public life and politics. Then it can create the impression in sceptical minds that there are, "Tary Wills puts it," "secret churches between Christians in public life."
Vorster says, "The whites of South Africa understand the mentality of the black man."
And this last jewel, from a country that only recently allowed black citizens to buy their own homes: "We have no choice in what we want our science about anything." I want to make it clear that nowhere have four million (whites) done so much for 18 million (blacks) as in this case. We don't say about the summer's violent riots in the black district of Soweto. The irony is sinister.
WHEN KISSINGER recently said that South Africa apartheid held its own, he rejected with human dignity. "Vorser rejected the criticism, saying that 'moral lessons and moral' don't influence his government."
Conlan, who is a virulent reactionary, isn't representative of revivalism in politics, or so we can hope, although there have been stories in the papers that some business circles are preparing him to be THE Christian candidate for president. A few years ago, nevertheless, even in its milder forms, evangelical Christianity in public life has a nasty potential.
THE WORDS of the leaders take on their full and deadening significance when one realizes that most of the whites agree with them or Vorster and Kruger would have been replaced with more humane leaders. In fact, Vorster has been criticized by right-wing leaders in his country for granting to blacks cessions being given to blacks, and has been denounced as a "weak, ineffectual opportunist."
Kissinger's negotiations last weekend with Vorster showed how ready the whites were to compromise. Vorster said he didn't believe in boycots or economic sanctions, thus rejecting suggestions to cut off exports from China to exert other direct pressure to force it to turn over power to the blacks.
Photos in news magazines of such scenes as white Rhodesians carrying submachine guns to tennis matches have become familiar, and chase the players in South Africa his sister Amanda, lot of talk in the白斗鞋 of "killing Kafiris (blacks)."
jailing all of the black leaders and anyone who rises to take their places is soon in the same position.
HOW COULD WOULD persuade Smith to give up policies that are so like his own country? s' South Africa is still
It is obvious enough that the South Africans and Rhodesians don't want to yield. Their fear, prejudice and greed prevent them from learning new conditions don't change, history will take its inevitable course and the whites will be overthrown. Some of the injustice will be avenged, many will die before they can either learn cooperation and a measure of humility or they will suffer for it.
YES, THE bailing out of the whites in southern Africa is probably diplomatically correct for the reasons mentioned. But I wouldn't be better spent helping wouldn't be better spent helping the black population set up a new government of their own choice and for providing the schools, hospitals and jobs that need countries need to get on their feet.
I'm not birththirsty, but I think the whites in southern Africa have had more than enough opportunities to salvage their positions. Why should we pay them for not realizing the glaringly obvious realities of their situation?
I MUST CONFESS—MOTHER RUSSIA HAS BEEN MUCH INFLUENCED BY THE CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE WEST.
WKDC/ Corry and Westphal
Without tampering with the First Amendment's requirement to keep the church out of the state's business, it can around it by building an internet lab. The test is a de facto political requirement for election to office.
WE BUY YOUR GRAIN, WE LEARN NEW AND BETTER FACTORY METHODS FROM YOU, WE EVEN PICK UP ON YOUR SLOGANS.
What might they be wigwagging about? In times past the suspicion directed against them was that they were scheming to sneak the Pope into the White House by the back door. The feelings of uneasiness inspired by the materials is harder to specify.
OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOW PRINTING DECALS OF OUR FLAG THAT SAU. "RUSSIА, LOVE IT, OR APPLY FOR YOUR DEPORTATION PAPERS."
MORE OVER, the evangelical's traditional insistence that you get up and start walking has always been an invitation to the rankest hypocrisy by which the vilest of men have been able to assume power merely by a verbal-minded verbal formulae.
A MORE likely explanation is that revivalism is an enduring cultural form that different generations of Americans put to different uses. There may have been time, for instance, when this sort of evangelical enthusiasm was employed as a call to action in economic suits unfavorable economic arrangements.
The statements of their intent can be ambiguous and dissimilar. Jimmy Carter says his burn-ageainess is a private affair and has nothing to do with the state, he said. He hand, we had Rep. John Conlan, an evangelical running for the Senate in the Arizona Republic on primary with the endorsement of Billy Graham. Conlan has been quoted as saying, "The state of the United States tween the 'Judeo-Catholic philosophy' and the 'secular-humanist-agnostic philosophy'."
Outwardly, at least, many of the symptoms of religious conversion and what the psychiatrists call depression are the same. The victim, patient or convert-call him what you will-suffers from the weep, an impotent and infinite
Whatever the comforts it brings to the individual, revivalist Christianity has worked out to be anti-intellectual, intolerant and antianthusan. And a nation that could believe in flower children is vulnerable to this older and more conventional plus side, however, is that, though born-again Christians have made life miserable for nonbelievers in particular, they have never come close to capturing the national government.
If you read Chuck Colson's confessional autobiography, you're aware that his acceptance of Jesus Christ as his personal savior also could be a socially awkward breakdown of having a nervous breakdown.
REPORTS out of Arizona indicate expressions of this sort have alarmed the Jewish community there, as well they
History grows in soil
SOIL OF OUR SOULS, by
Martha Parker and Betty
Laird, with illustrations
by Carolon (Corvona Press,
$1.50).
The book is a labor of love,
and a detailed, not though long,
story of the communities in the
Clinton area. The story is well
told, and the illustrations
portray well our pioneer past.
In a year that has brought us much ringuing of bells, sailing of ships, playing of fifes and drums, and recitations of the glories of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, it is well to know that there are those who know the history of the first celebration in the Bicentennial isn't restricted to the eastern seaboard of 1776.
This isn't to scout at the celebrations of our beginnings as a nation, but we need reminders that American history also has its Douglas county roots. But this week we call Bleeding Kansas. Soon, here in this part $^{1}$ the state, the Clinton Lake will cover a vast area of land where history was made more than 100 years ago and the South "$^{2}$ is about that area, and about the people of that area.
The communities treated are Bloomington-Clinton, Sigel, Greenwich Village, Mount, Belvoir and Lone Star. But Lawrance, as the headquarters of free state government, shows up on occasion, too.
So the reader will find here a portrait of life from the 1850s to the present. It is delightful to see how our culture has preserved pseudo-sophistication in looking
at the past, that they recognize how social affairs, church parties, house-raisings were a part of the past to be cherished. There may be even a bit of wistfulness in the proceedings. A book like the reviewer of this volume that more of the mood of those days could exist in our noisy avant-garde world.
By Calder M. Pickett
Professor of Journalism
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