Ghost of a flea

Kenneth Born, member of the KU debate team, noted that $300 billion had been spent in the war, clearly a coup for profiteers. He also argued that the solution to preventing war lay in rationalism. The last speaker, Charles Hackler, a KU law student whose rhetoric was somewhat bolder than the previous two, pointed out that demonstrations against war were important for reminding people that armed conflict was not inevitable. ROTC parades, Hackler said, were a form of war propaganda as well as fronts for capitalists, munitions dealers, and other war profiteers.