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9. 20.17
Better late than never
All you unmarried couples living in sin in Lawrence can breathe easier now. Open up your blinds, unlock your doors and let the sun shine in. The Lawrence City Commission has struck from the dusty old ordinance books in city hall a law barring men and women not married to "abide or cohabit unwilfully with each other in this city." Now the only people you may have to fool are your parents or relatives.
And readers of those hurdic crime tabloids, the ones with the photos of terrified, half-dressed young women being trussed up and terrorized by a slobbering maniac on the covers, no longer have to ask for a paper bag. The commission also cut an ordinance banning the possession and sale of publications devoted "wholly or principally to the publication of criminal news, pictures or stories of bloodshed or crime."
NAKED WOMEN should beware, however. After city librarians and bookworms recently endured the sight of a young woman's bare breasts in the book stacks, the commission decided that women as well as men should be liable to prosecution under the city's indecent exposure ordinance. The commission also said disrobed because it was hot in the library and because the city's laws were unclear. Now she and we know where the city stands.
The language of the law all too often is clouded by vague loopholes and technicalities. Reading the law, therefore, can be quite tedious and pedantic. But sometimes, the reason, the justice and the beautiful logic of the law can inspire one and give one a sense of its felicity and pertinence to life. The commission's amendment to a law that is said to "uphold the image of the police force" is a good example.
The change forbids the police from entering "any house of prostitution except in
discharge of their duty." The old ordinance had "hawdy house or house of like resort" instead of house of prostitution. Who will enforce the law is left unsaid, but as far as anyone at the Kunzman knows, the police lack hawdy houses in Lawrence to tempt them.
CUSSERS, LOAFTERS, vagrants and fulltime patrons of the Bierstub also can rest easier now as the result of the city's liberal revisions of its criminal code. Previously, the city's vagancy ordinances covered "any person living idly, without employment, or who habitually associates with persons having a reputation of being burglaries, pickpockets or bootleggers." If they meet such idlers or rap-scallons tell them the heat up. Welfare chiselers are still in open season for conservatives and rednecks, though.
In every circle of friends, especially in college circles, there are those who periodically insist on making a nuisance of themselves publicly. Friends who like to turn over pool tables in bars, eat Moonies' flowers out of their hands on Massachusetts Street or make lewd noises in movie theaters no longer have access to "committing nuisances publicly." This doesn't give them license to go on drunken rampages, it just means that they'll be charged with disorderly conduct instead of the more quaint violation.
Several of the city's other outmoved laws and ordinances were also revised or put in the legal graveyard where they should have been long ago. The city commission is to be congruent with the city government. It indicates that the commission cares about making the law responsive to some of the changes that occur in society. It's better late than never. By John Fuller
Contributing Writer
'SOME ASS TOLD YOU THAT? HURMPH! WE'LL JUST WAIT AND SEE WHO'S AROUND LONGER!'
The airing of accusations that South Korean wheeler-dealer named Tongsaun Park may have bribed more than his allotted money, an investigation by American leaders has set off reactions unlike those most
Bribes bring Americans down
allegations of this kind do. The proper response would have been to send the South Koreans a note threatening the withholding of their pay, but the bribes we pay their leaders unless they immediately pass a
Parking decisions on weak ground
I felt some sympathy for fraternity members who lost their parking spaces on Edgehill Road, the same place I was going to.
Oh, how we ignore matters until they affect us personally. I had been only fairly interested in the Lawrence City Commission's decision to park law parking on several streets near campuses.
law making it illegal to bribe us. That was our response to earlier revelations that some of our corporations were indulging in what the Securities and Exchange Commission somewhat euphmetically calls "improper payments."
MY THOUGHTS were aroused Monday, however, when I got a ticket for parking in my usual spot on 17th Street. It seems the commission, when the Edgehill Road decision was made, also wiped out daytime parking on 17th and 18th streets from Louisiana to Alabama streets.
But should that decision be the city's, or should rest with the fraternities? The members? The community?
The reasons for all this sound good at first, but when analyzed they grow weak. The Edgehill Road adventure was made because a fire truck can't make up the road when cars line its sides. The city is protecting those poor fraternity boys, whether they like it or not.
THEN THE fraternity members were denied alternate parking on Louisiana Street because that street would then be unsafe narrow. Of course, the only people who have any reason in
the world to use that stretch of Louisiana Street are the fraternity members, the residents of four or five homes, and any others who want to park there.
It would be narrow, granted, but not too narrow for anyone who deserves a driver's license to be able to drive there safely. And the parking there could be outlawed during semester break, when most bad weather occurs and fraternities are closed.
Furthermore, I know of more than a dozen
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bouses in Lawrence that a big fire truck has no chance of reaching. Does the city think these people should have to move? Or should the city get with it and get a smaller fire truck to reach out of the way places? Then Edgehill Road could be parked full and Marine Argeringer could rest easy, knowing a mini-pumper could prevent fried Phi Delts or Phi Kana Sigs.
CONCERNING 17th and 18th streets, the commission decided that those streets weren't meant to be used.
One city commissioner told me little old ladies were afraid to drive on those streets when cars were parked there. Just too many accidents occurred around there. I was told. The commission had decided unanimously that streets were for driving on, not parking on. Safety first.
It is strange that I have never had any problem on those streets, even though I once drove a huge old Rambler. The speed limit on these streets is 30 miles an hour, and could be lowered to 20. Both 17th and 18th are interrupted by stop signs. That one dreamed of driving fact on them is a play.
EXCEPT THE past few days, that is. With the cars no longer parked there, high school and college students have been whizying by like crazy. They get their phones safely on these streets now, so they don't.
Unfortunately, many more students now have to pay to park in KU lots. I can't wait until next semester so I can be forced to buy a parking pass, adding to the huge slush fund that University Parking Services likes to call a badly needed surplus contingency emergency fund.
But then again, perhaps I should be glad that I have nothing more to gripe about than the loss of my father.
Contributions of blacks recalled
By A.B. LEE
Guest Writer
The American Bicentennial is a time of celebration for all. This is my bicentennial, and it is a black Bicentennial. Despite the difference in race, shouldn't participate in this celebration, I know differently.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chast'ning rod
Yet with the steady beat, have not our weary feet
Felt in the day when hope unborn had died,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watery.
We have come trodding our past thro' the blood of the slaughter, Out of the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
Where would America be if there hadn't been a James Healy, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Roberto Clemente, James Weldon Johnson, Dorie Miller, Adam Cayton Powell
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
Jr., Marcus Garvey, Garet Morgan, Lorraine Hansberry, Edmonia Lewis, Ida Wells, attacks or Diane Hale Williams?
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears.
Thou who has brought us this far on our way.
Lest our feet stray from the place, our God, where we meet thee.
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
on our way,
Thou who hast by thy might, led
us unto the light,
Lest our hearts drink with the wine of the world we forget thee.
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We should pay tribute to those blacks who were the first in their fields of endeavor and those who were the achievers. Though their names are unknown to many, the list is among the most accomplished sculptors, writers, inventors, heroes, athletes, politicians, entertainers, explorers and religious leaders who excelled.
There is Benjamin Bannek, Matthew Henson, Charles Winslow, Cushing, Jean Baptiste, Harriet Tubman, Alaise Gibson, Jesse Owens, Mary McLeod Bethune, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, James Patterson, Louis B. Bing Billy Excelson and Julian Bond to note a few.
Turned to out God, true to our native land.
Anglo-Saxons, aren't on the take. People from Ivy League schools don't steal.
Lift every voice and sing,
Tlath earth and heaven ring.
Ring with the harmonies of
liberty.
Let our rejoices rise
High as the listening rate.
Let it resound loud as the rolling sen.
We've always excused bribing foreigners by saying everybody does it, it's the only way you can do business there, we don't have our standards. It's a variant of what we used to say after a particularly bad spell of bombing during the late Vietnam war. We'd explain to them that we cheap in the Orient, they don't have the 'big man's aversion to dying.
ONCE UPON a time, and not so long ago, we used to look down on the French for taking it under the table. It was also a sign that the Egyptians would never learn to repair the tanks we sell them because from porter to prime minister you tipped them. Bakaheesh, we bakehosh, they said what the system was called, and it was perfectly acceptable to do it to a wog, Wogs, by definition, are people who lack our plumbing and our ethics.
MY GOOD, if they are really and truly bribing us, are they also sitting around and telling their little yellow wives and their little yellow children that THEIR standards, that it's the only way you can do business in Washington or New York?
We should be proud of the achievements of such people as Maynard Jackson, Sidney Potter, John Johnson, Jim Brown, Frank Robinson, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Jackson, Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad.
Until recently, law and tradition prescribed that whores got arrested but their johns never犯骚动 Our court has also treated the most culpable, but also as the powerful, dominant, masterful person and therefore the one to whom the rigors of the law apply is fitted applied with tender moderation.
That's why, despite the noise, people weren't too terribly upset when they were told that Lockheed and the rest of them were slipping it under the table to the Japanese, a woggish people even if Sow does build the best kitchen in the world. Bernhard, the consort of the Queen of the Netherlands, was scarcely better in his official conduct than an Egyptian customs inspector did bother people. Blond, blue-eyed people, even those who aren't quite
It's always been understood that what may be deemed acceptable behavior in some such godforsaken place as Tehanar or Santiago de Chile is a serious breach of etiquette here. The announcement by the Shah of Iran, Moussa NKVD, is called, spies on and terrorizes Iranians here, in this country, in the U.S. of A., just shows how you close we are to being treated as equals by that swarthy, Persian frog. The murder of Orlando Leteler, Allende's former foreign heir at the Washington most probably by Dina, the Chilean NKVD, shows you how close they are coming to treating our country as we have known to treat theirs.
Sing a song full of the faith,
 that the dark has taught us.
Sing a song full of the hope.
 that the present has brought us.
Facing the rising sun of our new day begin,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Honor is due Martin Luther King, Thurgoed Marshall, Barbara Jordan, Constance Motley, Ronald Dellums, Shirley Chisholm, Bill Russell, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T., Washington, Sammy Davis and Yvonne Braithwaite Burke.
And do they then explain how such conduct may be frowned on at home where the local dictatorship has brought honesty and order, but in America they shoot each other all the time and everybody knows the cops are on the pad?
SOME OF the inordinate irritation is accounted for by the fact that many Americans, perhaps not a majority but at least a plurality, either a Northern or Southern persuasion. They strike some of us as a brutal people without art or charm but with a natural aptitude to totalitarian thugging. If we now carry the South Korean fascists, a goodly number of Americans couldn't care less about what happens in a land they imagine is covered in three feet of guam and two inches of innocent Christian martyrs.
These people have contributed to the growth and development of black people have made great strides for the advancement of black people in America. We should rejoice for them in this Bicentennial. Let us remember because blacks played a major part in building this nation.
Americans have only heard the names of four Koreans, the Northern and Southern dictators, the disreputable Rev. Moon who is routinely accused of everything from kidnapping to brainwashing high school sophomores, and now Mr. Tongsun Park. The only time Korean's name appears in the classroom is some form of violence. It is painful for us to imagine that our leaders must accept bribes from such people.
It would be humiliating enough to be bribed by white
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men, but the thought of Asiatics slipping their grease, unpronounceable currency into our hands is to accept the thought that today we are neither as honest as our grandfathers nor as powerful as our fathers. He who takes a bribe confesses a certain sort of inferiority.
A. B. Lee is a Puduch, Ky., graduate student. The quotations are from "Lift Every Voice," the Black National Autumn, by James Weldon Johnson.)
**WHY CAN'T our people get their bribe money from citizens of liberty-loving democracies?**
**When you are a parishioner, English, who, in addition to being a parliamentary people, are white. It licks us to be bribed by yellow-skinned Asiatics, to be gored, as has gone decidedly out of style.**
In our culture it is considered that the bribe-giver is superior to the bribe-taker. Notice, for example, that the recipients' contributions scandals, the recipients go to jail, but the givers never do.
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