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Show - - t 'Mm Daily ' U'- BUSES'" . f K 7fiJjfS ' A C V-i ; h 1 v itU . -''A'' ' '3f&' ' P . ' s :!"'' -u) A ;Mtea8illwa Iflm , m,r Oct. 15 Moratori u m p,10to by DUANE abhibald BY MIKE WHITNEY ( Staff Writer , Cries of "End the war" echoed across University campus, Reservoir Park and the streets of Salt Lake as 4,200 people peo-ple gathered Wednesday to participate in we Vietnam Moratorium. The Moratorium drew participants not Vfrom the University, but from high See related stories Pages 6, 7, 8 and 9 grade schools, the business world Th EV6n nousewives participated. hpM Moratorium began with a teach-in less m Unin baUroom- Students, pro-v.ors pro-v.ors and fl campus people spoke on -ious aspects of U.S. involvement in letnam during the five hour long teach-in. umversity student Laury Hammel said u-s- involvement in Vietnam amounts to economic imperialism. "Vietnamese "Viet-namese people are working in U.S. owned factories for a few cents a day when otherwise other-wise they would be working in rice paddies that we have destroyed with our bombs," stated Hammel. Victor Gordon, center staff member of the Central City Community Center, spoke of the need for peace among men and then asked the audience to observe two minutes of silent meditation. Dr. William Wisner, Department of Philosophy, Phi-losophy, stated that not only is the war immoral, it is not even practical economically economic-ally or advantageous on the basis of gaining gain-ing world power. Besides the speeches, members of the University music faculty performed "A Musical Offering" by J. S. Bach. Members of the English faculty contributed con-tributed to the teach-in with poetry reading. read-ing. The last poem read, which was written writ-ten in the form of a telegram, ended with the line, "STOP REPEAT STOP REPEAT STOP." After the teach-in, moratorium participants partici-pants gathered at Reservoir Park and marched from there to the Federal Building Build-ing in downtown Salt Lake. Salt Lake City policemen rerouted traffic traf-fic to keep the path clear for the marchers, who formed a 10 block, double file column. Along the march route, some of the participants par-ticipants sang songs like "All we are saying, say-ing, is give peace a chance." Others chose more bitter songs, such as "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag," with lyrics like "One, two, three, what are we fightin' for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six seven, open up the pearly gate. Got no time to wonder why, whoopee, we're all goin' to die." When the marchers reached the Federal Building, they filled all the space in front K7 of the building and spilled over into State Street. More short speeches were given, and Karen Phillips played her guitar and sang. University student Jeff Fox told the mor. atorium participants that the people who oppose the war in Vietnam are now in the majority. He went on to slate that "if the government won't listen this lime, we'll come back again, and again, and again, until they do listen." A student from BYU said "Despite threats from the BYU administration, we are here as individuals to express our opposition op-position to the war, and we know that our position is right, because we have the Prince of Peace on our side." Rev. G. Edward Hallet, of the St. Marks Cathedral, read the names of a few of the 300 Utahns who have died in Vietnam to a silent audience, and ended the Federal Building ceremonies with a prayer for peace. |
