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EDITORIALS
Student Peace Strikes
Perform Telling Results
When college students the nation over enter
into a protest against war tomorrow.in annual
peace assemblies or strikes, the right of the
state to claim the services of the citizen in an
offensive war will be again brought out into
ie state
Up until recent years, the right ol
to force citizens into military service has been
generally accepted. But peace movements such
as will be staged tomorrow, in which many students will take the pledge not to fight for their
country unless it is invaded, have placed a big
question mark about the state's moral and even
legal claim upon men within its jurisdiction.
The main argument that has served to give
the state its eminence in claiming the lives of
men in an offensive war 1
atate, because of the service and the protection
it gives to the individual, thereby establishes
the mutual right to its getting protection when
Such an argument, when closely examined,
appears to fall down miserably. No state gives
to its citizens any sen-ice or any protection out
of pure philanthropic motives. That Ls to say,
for the protection that a citizen receives, for
the governmental services he uses, he pays
every year in the form of so much in taxes. To
cast the argument in an analogy, we can say the
state and citizen enter into a contract, obliging
the citizen to pay for those favors which the
atate performs for him. At any given time,
then, citizen and state are even with one another. For the police protection the state gives
to the citizen, the state receives so much in
taxes. No unfinished mutual obligation remains
to be fulfilled.
It is not fair, then, to say that because the
state aids the individual -that the individual
can be called upon unconditionally to fight for
the state; because the individual has already
squared his accounts with the state in form of
the taxes" he has contributed.
There is. -therefore, no right of the state to
THE FRESNO STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIAN
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Listeners-ln Diary
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Peace War Declared mm on the radio .or n.« von
e individual's service because t
io corresponding duty to perfon
r the in
vidual. The stock argument that service and
protection obligate the citizen to repay the
state in form of enrolling in armies does not
hold because that service and protection are the
part of another agreement for which the citizen
has already paid.
It may be charged that this type of reasoning is merely a rationalization to reach a pre-
'arranged conclusion. But that is not the case.
At least, in a democracy where the balance of
tbe relationship of the state and the citizen is
supposed to be in favor of the citizen, this theory should hold.
There is no doubt that the ability of the
state in present times to force its men into
armies despite the existing of -public opinion
-against war is one of the greatest menaces to
world peace. It is in undermining the omnipotent position of the state in the lives of humans
for which peace movements such as will be
staged tomorrow are worth while.
A Spot
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PAGE THREE
Bulldogs trim Spartans In
Grudge Meet Friday Night
HANNER'S TRACKSTERS PULL SURPRISES
WITH COME-THROUGH PERFORMANCES
Coach J. Flint Mariner's Fresno State College track tt
sparked-by the come-through performances of Bill Steven
Tommy Nelson, Pat Zehal. and Evcrard "Buck" Jones, soui
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PortervilleJ.C. Sr^H^SS:
75-52 in Duel SS^SH
Hodges, Kastner Show      nelson wins pair
Improvement in Races      „,**,''*"", *h"n'1," ''*„ -^""Vi
'Tarzan' Skinner Heaves
8 to 1 Count
Sigma Delta Oops
Drop Sigma Taus
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250 College Men =5^rK
In West Coast s,ur""---=—
Relays This Year Racket Wielders
Wilbur Miller to Run . TrW l^da, 6*0
For Compton J. C.
History of
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.S.CArrowmen
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Archery Meet
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