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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 2, 1964
Religious Leader Disapproves Of 'Birds-and-Bees' Approach
"Sex education does not consist of a single birds-and-bees talk," Rev. Francis L. Filas, chairman of the Loyola University theology department, said here last night.
"If the children are old enough to ask a question, they are old enough to get a suitable answer. Refined, technical language should be used as soon as the first baby-talk references can be out-grown," he said.
Speaking at Lawrence High School before an audience largely composed of KU faculty and students, Rev. Filas maintained that only parents can know the child intimately enough to give a boy or girl norms governing deen personal drives.
In the family circle," he said, "the whole subject is taken for granted as something good as God made it, and sin and evil-doing can enter only when God's creation would be misused."
A member of the board of conductors of the Cana Conference of the Chicago Roman Catholic Archdiocese, Father Filas has addressed more than 175,000 people on the topic of sex education. He began his Christian family life crusade 16 years ago when he introduced the Cana Conference movement for husbands and wives in the Detroit area.
Commenting on criticisms he has received for his frankness on the subject, Father Filas said, "So much ridicule of the body and of sex has already been spread through public channels. Should we not use the same media to counteract what we consider poison?"
The essentials of sex should be imparted before puberty, Father Filas continued-birth, the origin of life, the different physical make-up of male and female, their different temperaments, the ways in which the
husband and wife help each other in family life.
"This physical information, of course, is always to be presented against the background of God's love for and plan for us," he said.
"The reverence for the body that is part of all true sex education should be strengthened by the knowledge that true love should exist between the husband and wife who symbolize their love by means of sex," he said.
"Love means the forgetting of oneself for the sake of the beloved, whoever that person may be. True love is therefore independent of sex, and superior to it," he said.
Father Filas joined the Society of Jesus at the age of 17, was ordained in 1945, and since 1950, has been stationed at Lovola.
His visit here was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus in Lawrence.
Most people get gifts on birthdays Heidi Pfaff, Hugoton senior, wil give one—a vote to President Lyndon Johnson.
Nov.3 Birthday a Present for LBJ
Miss Pfaff will be 21 on election dav—Nov. 3.
"It's kind of a fun election for my first election," Miss Pfaff said. "It not a cut and dried election—you really have to think about it."
"I think it's a real interesting election because Goldwater is so radical but he's brought up some things the public hasn't thought about," continued Miss Pfaff.
ALTHOUGH MISS Pfaff is a registered Republican she is planning to cast her first vote for the Democratic candidate. "Some political science professors say that's worth six votes," said Miss Pfaff.
Although not active in campus politics this year, Miss Pfaff has worked for both the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats here at KU. "You see, I'm engaged to Max Logan, last year's president of Young Democrats," Miss Pfaff said. "He had some influence on my political beliefs."
When Miss Pifaff was a junior she went to the national Republican convention in Chicago, along with about 200 Kansas Young Republicans. "We
all campaigned for Nixon at the time, which is no feather in anyone's hat now," Miss Pfaff said.
Campus GOP's To Host Coffee
Congressman William H. Avery, Republican candidate for Kansas governor; Congressman Robert F. Elssworth; and Robert C. Landerholm, candidate for state attorney general, will be guests at a coffee here tomorrow morning.
The informal coffee, sponsored by the KU Young Republicans, will be at 9 a.m. in the Eldridge Hotel.
After coffee, the male members of the club will put up campaign signs along highways leading into Lawrence and distribute yard signs to various residents.
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Goldwater Charges LBJ With Blocking Congress
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CAIRO, Ill—(UPI)—Sen. Barry Goldwater charged today that President Johnson is blocking a congressional recess because the administration is "intent" on ramming through a medicare program that is "no help to anyone of any age."
Goldwater made the charge at an eye-opener rally to kick off a two-day whistle stop bid for Illinois' 27 electoral votes.
about 2,000 people filled the football grandstand at Shultz Field x the rally.
He has listed Illinois, Texas, Ohio, and California as his major campaign targets.
GOLDWATER SAID THE administration's proposed medicine bill "will get you into the hospital and that's the end of it." He added that the doctor bills and medical expenses are not provided under the program.
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