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Resolved
Resolved: Lyndon Baines Johnson be re-elected presi
dent of the United States.
This will be the topic of a debate between members
of the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats Octo
ber 27. Two members from each group will laud the efforts
of their respective candidates.
Before the elections the candidates from major state
offices from both parties will have been on campus. There
will be a Republican parade Thursday; last week several
students attended a speech by Goldwater in Omaha.
The opportunities are available on both sides. But the
attendance is pitifully low, considering the total number
of students on campus. Is there a reason?
SUSAN SMITHBERGER
Political Contrasts
Democrat Republican
By Bob Cherny
The junior Senator from
Arizona has gone on record
as stating, "I favor a sound
social security system and
I want to see it strength
ened." He also said, "The
only question I throw at my
opponents is: If I'm opposed
to social security, why
have I been so active in
my voting?"
Reaching near - Biblical
eloquence, he cc- -ted, "By
our votes you can judge us,
not by our talking." And
judging by the temporary
Republican spoke sman's
votes, our judgment must be
harsh indeed.
For the Senator has voted
AGAINST strengthening so
cial security in 1956, 1958,
1960, 1962, and 1964, includ
ing the Kerr-Mills Bill.
The Democratic Party
holds firmly to the convic
tion that the advancing
years of life should bring
not fear and loneliness, but
security, meaning, and sat
isfaction. Despite lip-service to the
social security principle,
the GOP record of obstruc
tionism to strengthening the
system is clear and docu
mented. The Democratic Party
has had twenty-four years
of experience in dealing
with the farm problem.
Drawing on this experience,
the Kennedy-Johnson ad
ministration has succeeded
in raising total net farm in
come an average of nearly
a billion dollars a year in
the period 1961-1963.
Total net income per farm
was 18 higher in 1963 than
in 1960. Grain s u r p 1 u s es
have been brought down to
manageable levels, result
ing in an accumulated sav
ings of about a quarter of
a billion dollars in storage,
transportation, and interest.
Total farm exports have in
creased 35 in 4 years,
and have reached a record
high in fiscal 1964 of $6.1
billion.
The junior Senator from
Arizona has his own solu
tion to the farm problem.
He has gone on record,
purely and simply, as say
ing, "I would get rid of the
Agriculture Act."
This amazing solution has
come from his own exper
ience with the problem,
which he summarized when
he said, "I'm not a farmer
and I don't know anything
about farming."
Rational Americans clear
ly have but one choice. If
we are to continue to grow
as a nation, we must vote
Democratic on November
3rd. The stakes are too high
to stay at home.
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By George Duronske
In spite of terrific at
tempts to campaign on is
sues by Senator Goldwa
ter, many of the issues of
position in this campaign do
not stand out as well as
they should.
Many Americans have
found it much easier to
"pass the buck" and excuse
themselves from wading
through the propaganda
barrages of this campaign
to search for reasons why
one man should be elected
president over another man.
Today I would like to con
sider two issues the farm
problem and social security.
The farm problem is to
day great and growing. As
Sen. Carl Curtis pointed out,
"The parity ration for farm
prices has gone down every
year under the New Fron
tier," (from 84 per cent to
about 74 per cent. )
In addition, the income
has declined, the number of
farms has decreased and
the expenditures of the Ag
ricultural Department
have increased eight per
cent to take care of fewer
farms.
It is Goldwater's position
that if elected, he will em
phasize higher prices for
agricultural products in
order to avoid control for
control's sake.
The Democrats have
stated that Goldwater has
changed his policy on reduc
tion of price supports and
this is true. However, is it
wrong for a man to change
an idea?
Social security provides
another area of clash. Gold
water challenges Johnson
on the question of placing
an inflation-creating plan
such as Medical Care for the
Aged under social security.
The reason is simple. Our
dollar, under largely Demo
cratic administrations has
been devalued to 44.7 cents
since 1939. Goldwater con
tends that a person living on
a fixed income, this includes
the elderly persons in our
society, are hit hardest by
inflations. They can't parti
cipate in the inflation
spiral to re-equalize their
position. Therefore, those
for whom help is intended
are hardest hit by the gov
vernmental action.
Senator Goldwater stated,
"I favor a sound social se
curity system. I want to see
every participant receive
all the benefits this system
provides. And I want to see
those benefits paid in dol
lars with real purchasing
power."
I invite you to join me in
analyzing the Goldwater
postion, and I firmly believe
you will come to the con
clusion that this country
needs the leadership of the
undenied, integrity of Sen.
Barry Goldwater.
CHRISTIANO'S
An Issue?
Dear editor:
In her . recent editorial,
"Not an Issue," Miss Smith
berger has attempted to es
tablish several trends in
thinking which I consider
unhealthful to student gov
ernment and the Universi
ty. The most detrimental as
sertion made is that "there
are no political positions to
he taken on council issues."
This is a narrow-sighted
view. We must realize that
the political nature of stu
dent government cannot be
as obvious as in the larger
units of government; but
the same basic differences
of opinion and background
which are reflected in na
tional and state politics will
also be reflected in the sen
timent and action of Uni
versity students.
To demonstrate that stu
dents do possess political
orientation, consider a re
cent council meeting, in
which debate originated per
taining to the number of
delegates to the convention.
Argument centered
around the timeless contro
versy of whether govern
ment lies with the select,
small group or is set in a
trust of a large, more
representative body. The
University is a concentrated
miniature of society, and
includes society's political
tendencies. To deny or sup
press this aspect of the Uni
versity is to reduce it to a
mere physical location
without identity !
Thus, how can we say
that the University is a
homogeneous community?
It is definitely heterogene
ous. Each student, coming
to the University, brings
his own background of fam
ily, religion, education, ge
ographic locality; he is an
individual with a distinct
philosophy that may even
tually manifest itself in na
tional politics, but is now
developing itself in campus
issues. To insist and to pre
tend that all students are
carbon copies, and thereby
in constant harmony,
clamps student government
in a stranglehold of hypocrisy.
When will University
leaders realize that differ
ences of opinion are bene
ficial, and indeed vital, for
a creative, dynamic, and
productive student govern
ment? Representation is the crit
ical factor in active student
government. But represen
tation across lines of "aca
demic choice" is lukewarm;
this abortion called repre
senation by college tends to
decentralize and divide the
real groups of common in
terest, the living areas.
If tradition could accept
proportional representation
by living area, this fault
would be eliminated: each
living area could express it
self as a united group or
could reflect any internal
disagreement.
A simple "cross-section ot
students," which the pres
ent system supposedly (but
does not) obtain, implies
nothing more than an inac
curate opinion poll a rath
er limited form of govern
ment. Again, the currently pop
Expanding
career
Sign
U.S.
ular concepts of student
government, as reflected by
Miss Smithberger, 'absorb
and neutralize efforts to
ward a flexible political
personality at the Univer
sity. Our student govern
ment ought to be and shall
become our central and re
spected expression of pow
er and action.
Mark Beech
Name Missing
Editor's Note: An excel
lent ballad, "A Ballad of
the Goodly Fear," written
to the lyrics of "Mary,
Mary, Quite Contrary" ap
peared on the editor's desk.
However, it can not be
printed without a signature.
If the author would like to
have his name omitted in
publication, this can be
done, but the editor must
know the author of every
thing printed. If the author,
who signs himself "Folk Mus
ic Lover," would come to
the office and reveal him
self, or herself, the letter
can be printed.
CHEMISTS -B.S. M.S. & Ph.D.
utilization
research
opportunities for
basic and
development in
ORGANIC"
Structure, synthesis,
research.
PHYSICAL
Polymer structure; solution and solid state properties.
BIOCHEMISTRY-
Proteins, enzymes, natural products; isolation, struc
ture, and properties.
.ANALYTICAL-
Development and application of instrumental methods.
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up
fot
an interview with our representative
October 22, 1964
At your placement office
Or write to
Northern Regional Research Laboratory
1815 North University Street
Peoria, Illinois 61604
Department of Agriculture,
Bought a candy bar the
other day. Its brown gooey
chocolate oozed into my ea
ger mouth and over my
taste buds as I walked my
way to the Social Science
building.
Got there, all right.
Finished the last morsel as
the door of the building
came within opening dis
tance. But there I was with
a messy piece of paper in
my hand, bits of chocolate
smearing themselves on my
previously clean hands and
spilling over to my immacu
late books. (Thought I'd
keep them clean this year.
Maybe I'll get more when
I sell them.)
I looked around in anxie
ty for a trash can. I became
panicked. No trash can in
sight. The bell rang and in
utter frenzy I stuffed the of
fending paper into my coat
pocket, and ran to class.
I sat in misery during the
rest of the class, praying
Campus Coloring Book
See the breakfast line-Color it decreasing with ac
celerating rate.
See Cather Hall What color willa color it'
This is homecoming Color it too darn earlv.
This is a new outfit-Color it my roommate's.
See the fish-Color it Haddock (For that's the Halibut.
(Oh my Cod) ).
This is ad breath Hold your nose and color like mad.
See the
colors.
primer Color it
See your advisor Color
This is a cigarette Color
See the water Color it gold
See the bust of Shakespeare To color
color it, that is the question.
See the streetlights Color them off when you
them on, and on when you want them off.
This is a crosswalk Color
between the lines.
This is a crossword puzzle Color
across and six squares across.
See the lunch line Color it stop, go, stop, go. stop, go.
See the switchboard operators Color them loose coa-nections.
KOSMET KLUB
WORKERS
MEETING
Tomorrow 7:00 P.M.
In The Union
program has created
applied chemical research and
diversified field?
derivatives; basic and
Agricultural Research Sen
that my new coat would not
show a dark smear by the
end of the 50 minutes. Final
ly the bell rang and I nade
a bee line for the door.
I began hunting again. I
began to feel like Sherlock
Holmes in search for the
missing murderer. Still no
trash can. I hiked to t h e
library, Burnett Hall, An
drews', Avery, Stout, L a vr
College. In desperation I en
tered a building, entered an
office and kindly asked for
a wastebasket.
I'm still searching. The
only one I've found so far
is outside of the Union, the
origin of my predestined
agonizing day.
That's funny. They built a
new parking lot so we'd
have a pretty campus. Must
have run out of funds to pro
vide trash cans.
Next time 111 find the
nearest piece of gravel and
anchor it under there.
if you can still find vour
him if you can find him.
it charcoal (Isn't this a lark.)
it or not to
want
it any color, but stav in
it five squares
challenging
applied
on
ice