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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 20, 1968
Doing the splits
Once upon a time there was a party in the apartment upstairs.
Knocking on the apartment door, the landlord asked that the noise be kept down, since there was also a big party going on across the hallway.
"C'mon in," said someone who answered the door. "our party's getting bigger all the time."
"That's just the point," said the landlord, but he came in and joined the fun. The center of attraction seemed to be a man called Elbie Jay who wore lampshades and dominated most of the conversation with his ideas about war.
The party was beginning to split up like this when a man named Senedy Kenator saw how much success that Mac Harthy was having in getting people to join his party, so Senedy Kenator decided to start his own.
But over in the corner, a large number of people were listening to Mac Harthy, who disliked war experiences, not to mention hawkish lampshades.
This was too much for the landlord, who had the deciding vote in such things. He suggested that if the people in the whole apartment want to have a more successful party than the people in the grand old apartment across the hall, they better not split up their party, even though they were having fun.
Who, pray tell, is creating a better party across the hall, asked the people of the landlord.
They're having a dinner party, he said, and the last time I looked, Nick Rixon was helping himself to seconds while Wocka Feller was still dawdling over his appetizer.
The interest turned back to the original party, which was really in full swing by now. It was even getting complex, since Kennedy Kenator said he would help with Mac Harthy's party if he could, and this was clearly his primary thought.
All the people who were listening to Elbie Jay gradually began to drift over to either of the other two parties.
What we have here is a failure to consolidate, said the landlord, who was having fun but decided it was time to split.
On his way down the hall, he passed the grand old apartment and listened for a moment at the party inside, and realized that the first party, no matter how many pieces it was in, was doing better than he thought.
Moral: When you split your party,you don't stop the fun, but simply have a party-within-a-party.
Assistant Editorial Editor
John Hill
Letter to the editor
On protesting protesters
To the Editor:
I have been a student at the University of Kansas for four semesters and have become very well acquainted with certain personages such as Hamilton Salsich, Miles Coiner, and others of that nature although I have never met them personally. This has been accomplished by the UDK which appears to be the Campus Voice of Dissent. As a dissenter on the Right I would like to voice my opinion as an American citizen. I do not advocate burning draft cards; marching down Jayhawk Blvd.; carry a torch made from U.S. fragmentation bomb parts or other such foolish acts. However, I do advocate our government stepping up the current
war we are involved in with everything needed to achieve a quick and decisive military victory over our communist enemies. In this way our "picketing" friends would be paradoxically placated, not by a military withdrawal, but by a military victory.
History is a cruel but good teacher; her lessons in the past have been taught with agonizing clarity—appeasement equals slavery and negotiated withdrawal is equivalent to surrender. These lessons have been proven again and again in our century, from Hitler to the 38th parallel in Korea. If Vietnam is to end as Korea then we must face the fact that many thousands of American
GI's in that country have died in vain, as did over 30,000 of their compatriots in the Korean debacle.
We must realize that the stated aims of the International Communist Movement amount to domination of the entire world: that job is now half completed. It is only a matter of time before these aims are accomplished, unless we, as free people, stop aiding and trading with the very barbarians who are at this moment killing our boys on the battlefield.
"Yeah, you're doing badly, but you oughta see the guy down the hall."
As an ex-service man with more than four years on active duty I would say to those who are opposed to the Selective Service, enlist and thus avoid the draft! There is even a place for pacifists in the Medical Corps. Millions of Americans before you have answered the call to colors voluntarily. Thousands upon thousands of them have willingly given up their young lives for flag and country, making it possible for we Americans to have been born into a nation of free men.
In spite of the U.S. government's "no-win" policy in Vietnam, more than 19,000 dead Americans needed complete support at home, which they did not get. Currently the living Americans in the fields and rice paddies of Vietnam, among whom are many destined to die, still do not get essential support at home, thus giving the enemy the endurance and belief in drawing the war out until as they believe, apathy takes the place of patriotism and we withdraw from Vietnam.
Finally, I have met many people at this university who appear to be dissatisfied with our system of government. This could be solved very quickly by instituting a permanent student exchange with Poland. Many young Poles appear to be dissatisfied with their system of government and would undoubtedly gladly give up their present residence for this country. They would appreciate the freedom that many of us don't.
Jim DeArmond Kansas City sophomore
"Which party split are you afraid of splitting . . . ?"
Editorial essay
Kennedy in 1972?
By Allan Northcutt
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy may be the only man this year running for two Presidential nominations simultaneously.
Some observers say the Presidential hopeful has started campaigning too late to win the Democratic nomination in 1968. Regardless of the outcome, however, the 1972 Kennedy is likely to profit from 1968 efforts.
Seeing Opportunity Knocking in the New Hampshire primary's Democratic split, Kennedy now bases those 1968 efforts on the theme of much-needed change in U.S. administration. "We can do better in this country," he emphasized here Monday.
He has assessed the American public accurately. By nature, Americans want immediate solutions; they find waiting uncomfortable. Thus, to capitalize on Johnson's failure to solve problems both at home and abroad, Kennedy—and Sen. Eugene McCarthy—propose a "change in the direction of the United States."
But it may be asked, "How does Kennedy hope to gain the nomination by openly supporting McCarthy and thus having to share the anti-LBJ delegates?" Although on the surface it appears foolish for an astute politician to support his opposition, such strategy may prove profitable for Kennedy. Observe:
First, Kennedy is considered by both Republicans and Democrats to be a more serious threat to President Johnson than McCarthy. It may be hypothesized that McCarthy supporters—many of whom are more anti-LBJ than pro-McCarthy—may simply switch to Kennedy as a better bet to defeat the President.
Obviously, Kennedy must make himself available for such support or lose the nomination. So Kennedy told the KU audience he'll campaign for McCarthy in the Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts primaries. Kennedy's object, of course, is to identify with McCarthy's anti-Johnson supporters in hopes they'll switch to the stronger camp.
McCarthy, of course, realizes this and has made no such "friendly" overtures to Kennedy. In fact, McCarthy commented on the Kennedy strategy as "fattening me up for the kill."
Defeating an incumbent President within his own party is another question, however—and certainly a more difficult one.
Despite Kennedy's popular appeal, the President still controls the Democratic party. As chief administrator, Johnson has accumulated numerous political IOU's. Kennedy, by his own admission, starts the campaign "from about zero."
So 1968 may not be the Kennedy year as Presidential candidate. If not, 1972 is not so far away—and an early start usually helps.
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