The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1969 Page: 4 of 4
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to all concerned
Virtues of moderation
The United States is patiently enduring a num-
ber of vocal radical organizations at both ends
of the political spectrum. These groups, such as
the SDS, the John Birch Society, the Black
Panthers, and the Minutemen, never have and
probably never will make a major constructive
or relevant contribution to the cause of social
change.
This is an era which desperately needs con-
structive dialogue, creative ideas, and above all
a moderation which is so necessary for a demo-
cratic people. These seemingly diverse groups,
polarities apart in politics, nonetheless are
amazingly similar in practice. Many of the mem-
bers of these organizations, both black and
white, refuse to accept as an equal a man
whose color differs from his own. Whites try
to legitimize their manias by contriving "com-
munist conspiracies." Negroes try to rationalize
their excesses with "black identity crises." Re-
gardless of how it is termed or explained, this
is unadulterated bigotry. There are also organ-
izations beset with messianic complexes and
illusions of infallibility.
It would be a boon to all mankind if the
clarity of thought claimed could be realized.
These men and women are unable to tolerate
divergence of opinion. He who dares to disagree
is variously branded 1) a pig 2) a fascist 3)
a *) ? (■ 4) a */x! 5) a communist 6) a pinko
7) a lackey 8) virtually any other disagreable
term available. This also is bigotry.
The radicals will have little influence over
society because they fail in presenting a relevant
alternative to the present and probable future
social structure. This is the twentieth century
and the industrial revolution is here to stay.
Man has no alternative but to coexist with and
master the machines and the problems resulting
from them. It is not a question of dropping out
and turning on, it is a matter of staying in and
turning to.
This is a high pressure world which mankind
inhabits. Unfortunately the wide range of social
and psychological problems arrising from com-
petitive and often restrictive social environments
have resulted in the destruction of many human
beings. For many it is a frightening experience
when they begin to realize the jungle of corpora-
tions and government bureaus, the nerve shat-
tering competition, and the very complex foreign
involvements which are characteristic of the
world today and which produce its leaders.
Granted this, are the radicals then not correct
in what they habitually regurgit^e ? Should so-
ciety be restructured by flower children, men-
tally warped drug addicts, transcendental gurus,
and shaggy self-proclaimed messiahs of the
'New Left? Alternatively, should the reaction-
aries of the right be allowed to lead the world
forward into the nineteenth century and inter-
national suicide? No, both of these alternatives
would be the antithesis of progress; each would
be a mindless absurdity.
Regardless of the country, whether it be the
United States, Sweden, the Soviet Union, China,
or Poland, the future will produce an industrial-
ized space age society many magnitudes more
complex and demanding than anything that is
known today. The types of government and
economics are of little consequence. Whether
they are democratic-capitalist, totalitarian-so-
cialist, the societies of the future will be in-
creasingly centralized and automated. The pres-
sures in such social organizations will be in-
credible; there will be a multitude of human
problems pertaining to identity, relatedness, and
existence. The problems of today and the future
will be met and solved with or without the help
of the radicals, however.
The lunatic fringe partisans never will be lead-
ers in the higher sense of the term, nor will they
ever have anything but a negative influence on
public policy. They will be in the end, as they
are today, social parasites dependent upon the
society they abhor for their sustenance and the
freedom to "do their own thing." In the mean-
time the scientists, engineers, and dedicated
academs will be making this earth and this entire
universe a better, more creative, more productive,
and a more challanging abode for mankind.
The radicals have done their part in creating
tensions in a society that is trying hard to be
multi-racial opportunity. The pure co-existence
of diverse races and people has never been ac-
complished and the United States will be the
first to succeed.
The lunatics of the right are of more sub-
stantial concern. The lunatic left is so far out
in left field that about the only serious threat
that they pose to society is that as their noise
increases, the radical right grows exponentially.
Unlike the left, the John Birch types often find
themselves in positions of authority in the
military and in business. They refuse to coexist
with anyone to the left of Barry Goldwater
which means that 50% of the population of the
United States consists of "pinkos" and "card
carrying communists, agents of the international
communist conspiracy and dedicated to the over-
throw of constitutional government in America."
Composed-of hard core bigots and racists, they
serve to perpetuate narrow minds and social ills.
Let the lunatics of the New Left and the
Radical Right heed this advice; stop hindering
social change, and "step into reality." Help to
solve a few problems instead of creating them.
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thursday, sept. 11
' "I'syirheilclic Druiis 1'oril or
l'vomise." I)r. Walter I'ahnke,
Chape]. ;"rec.
' ::;(>pm. Rice Harper School Tutors
nu'c'tiriur, Fomlren Library Lecture
Loimtre. All interested people wel-
i umed.
:pni. "Hello Hamlet," Wiess Table-
Kip Theater. Wiess Commons, $1.
:00pm. Three Films: Unsere, Afrikan-
reis.se, Valentin de las Sierras, Hio-
ioiry Amp.
;l.ripm. Pianist; Drusilla Huffmaster,
Junior League.
friday, sept. 12
:00pm. Teatro Campesino. Casa do
Aminos Community Center, Lorraine
and Gano.
:OOpm. "Hello Hamlet," Wiess Table-
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8:30pm. "Carnival," Miller Theater,
Hermann Park, free.
!l :00pm. "Associates" and "Rosencrantz
and Guilderstern are Alive etc." Au-
try House.
Saturday, sept. 13
8:00pm. Theatro Campesino. CsOsa de
Aminos Community Center, Lorraine
a/id Gano.
8:00pm. "Hello Hamlet," Wiess Table-
top Theater, Wiess Commons, $1.
8 :.'H)pm. "Miss Julie," Alleyway Book
Shoppe. 508 Louisiana.
8:30pm. "Carnival," Miller Theater,
Hermann Park, free.
!) :00pm. "Associates" and "Rosencrantz
and Guilderstern are Alive etc." Au-
try House.
Sunday, sept. 14
3:30pm. Organ recital by Karl Hoeh-
reither from Berlin, Chapel.
5:00pm. Dedicated to John Edmonds,
KLKF plays Zender's "Chess Game."
7:15pm. Tommy James & the Shon-
dells, Music Hall, $2, 3, 4, 5. What
a day!
monday, sept. 15
Fall Semester of the Fine Arts Museum
School begins for children and adults.
tuesday, sept. 16
7:30pm. Panel discussion on* "Presi-
dential Selection at the University"
by the Presidents of TSU, St. Tho-
mas U., Houston Baptist College and
Rice's Acting President. Chem. Lec-
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U. of H. Oberholtzer Ballroom, 75
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Murray, Jack. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1969, newspaper, September 11, 1969; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245059/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.