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mental efficiency and reduced federal
snendmg. He has enunciated a program
of tax reduction while still paying at
least lip service to the objective of re-
ducing the national debt.
Having considered, though briefly,
the alternatives presented by the two
candidates this year, I shall now present
an analysis of what I regard as the most
important and urgent problems facing
this nation today. The first of these is
the question of integration. In an age
whose phenomenal cultural potential was
pointed out to us here at the University
recently, ten percent of our national
population are being denied full par-
ticipation in the national culture be-
cause of the accident of skin color.
These people are being robbed of their
rights, and we of the whi,tes are depriv-
ing ourselves of a vast reservoir of
human potential. The problem is neither
purely nor primarily political; but it is
primarily social, and it is the very pur-
pose of government to provide society
with an effective arm for communal ac-
tion. For this reason, positive govern-
mental action is needed.
A second problem before us today is
that of the nation’s poor. These people,
too, represent both an unrealized po-
tential and a positive impediment to the
economy and to cultural development.
The philosophy of conservatism, which
holds that prosperous private enterprise
is the best antidote for poverty, shows,
in my opinion, a fundamental miscon-
ception of the nature of private enter-
prise. The primary objective of such
enterprise is the accumulation, not the
distribution of wealth. Good business
does, in fact, usually mean prosperity
for the favored region in which it
chooses to locate. But the areas most
assiduously shunned by private enter-
(A Lyric Ballad)
by Dick Baker
The night was quiet.
Jerome was entering the lounge;
Augustine was entering the lounge;
A few from the West began to scrounge-
They began the riot.
Oh, the shaving cream flew
And the whistles blew:
Everything there was white
That night, that night,
The night of the inter-dorm fight.
A freshman was walking
Down the second floor hall—
He turned to give a warning call
About Burma Shave upon the wall,
But the sophomores were stalking.
Oh, the shaving cream flew, etc.
Once their dorm was new,
Once the walls were shining white,
But lack of intestinal might
During that foaming night
Left a Pepto-Bismol hue.
Oh, the shaving cream flew, etc.
Everyone wore a smile
From ear to dripping ear;
There arose a heartening cheer
That erased the former fear
Of facing a trial.
Oh, the shaving cream flew, etc.
prise are precisely those in which the
economic elixir of business is most need-
ed. More simply, it is a matter of com-
mon sense and experience that the busi-
nessman or manufacturer has a distinct
preferance for locating in a prosperous
region.
A brief look at two forms of poverty
will serve to bear out this point. The
first is a familiar cuss-word in curreiit
political and economic discussions —
unemployment. We Americans often
judge the economic progress of our
country in terms tof the monthly fluc-
tuations of unemployment percentages,
but too often only those for whom these
figures are a matter of personal exper-
ience really appreciate their significance.
The rise in unemployment rates has in-
deed been shocking (the normal un-
employment figures of 1958 were equal
to the recession figures of ’49), but this
is only a minor part of the picture.
According to the Bureau of Labor sta-
tistics, this rise is entirely accounted for
by a much greater increase in long-term
unemployment. Herein lies the real root
of the problem: much of our unemploy-
ment is what is frequently referred to
as “structural” — that is, it is caused
by the very factors which account for
the advances of our economy as a whole
(e.g., automation). It should be clear that
the solution to such problems is not to
be found in the normal, unregulated
function of the economy.
Another form of poverty is that of
the economically oppressed worker. We
Americans pride ourselves on the work-
ing conditions of the great mass of our
industrial laborers. But in fact the sweat
shop, though no longer the basis of our
economy, is far from absent on the
national scene. Yet a more striking
example can be found — a huge seg-
ment of the work force contributing
substantially to the national economy
while being cheated of the fruit of their
labor. I am referring to the migrant
farm workers. The corporate fruit grow-
ers, in particular, represent a sizeable
and prosperous segment of our economy,
and their success is based on labor pro-
cured at slave-wage rates. Again, it is
obvious that, in this area of the economy,
no amount of prosperity will significant-
ly better the lot of the oppressed work-
ers.
Based on the above considerations, my
choice of candidates should be clear.
If I must choose between a liberal and
a conservative this year, I will choose
the liberal. Clearly, there are inherent
dangers in identifying the candidates so
closely with their respective political
philosophies. Yet, in the final analysis,
that is the choice facing each of us this
fall. A man looking for a taxi will ordi-
narily choose among them on the basis
of comfort, convenience, economy, etc.
But if all the taxis present insist on
traveling in different directions, his
choice is limited to the decision of which •
way he wishes to go. I cannot help but
feel that my situation is somewhat ana-
logous to this latter state of affairs. I
have chosen to ride the Johnson band-
wagon this fall, primarily because it
happens to be going my way. What
about you?
Going My Way?
by Mike McDermott
That magic period in the perennial
cycle is upon us again: we are nearing
the November of another election year.
We of the University of Dallas join our
compatriots throughout the nation in
what cynics consider an irrelevant game
and optimists regard as the ultimate
expression of the power of the indi-
vidual over the communal life of his
society. It is in a somewhat optimistic
vein that I undertake to expound and
explain my own personal views on the
campaign.
Much has been said to the effect that
this year, at last, the American elec-
torate is being offered a real choice be-
tween the two presidential candidates.
Some have denied this claim, first made
by the Republican nominee, but I feel
that there is little difference between
Goldwater the Candidate and his op-
ponent, but there is a world of differ-
ence between Senator Goldwater and
President Johnson. And it is between
these two that I will make my own
choice; for I feel that each candidate
has revealed his views more clearly and
accurately in his previous record than
in the statements of his campaign.
With the reality of my choice assumed,
I shall proceed to analyze the alterna-
tives as I see them. The reader will
please excuse me if I tend to consider
the platforms of the two candidates in
rather general terms. I believe, perhaps
too cynically, that many of the more
specific statement made during the cam-
paign are dictated by political exigencies
more than by the speaker’s true views.
I shall therefore consider the general
principles by which the candidates have
been guided in the past, and by which
I feel they would be guided in the White
House.
With this assumed, I shall presume to
categorize President Johnson as a lib-
eral. Whatever his earlier record in the
Senate, or his more recent statements
in the campaign, I feel that he has been,
during the past four years, a member
in good standing of the New Frontier.
Since his accession to the presidency,
he has carried on faithfully the programs
and principles of his predecessor. While
it is undeniably true that he has clearly
imprinted the LBJ brand where that
of JFK once reigned, he has noneme-
less made no radical changes in the
fundamental policy of the former man-
agement. He has pushed Kennedy’s two
pet projects, the Civil Rights bill and
Medicare, with energy (or “vigah”, if
you will) and, in one case, success.
In the same vein, I shall categorize
Senator Goldwater as a conseravtive.
There can be little doubt that the most
militant of the nation’s conservatives
regard him as such. It is also certain
that he has fostered this image for
years, both in his writings and public
statements and in his voting record in
the Senate. Even among the buffeting
influences of the campaign trail, he has
retained the basic tenets of govern-
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