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A Time to Speak
A presidential election is drawing near, and
The Red and Black feels this is no time to go
fishing, no time to promote a dynasty of do-
nothing smugness.
We feel it is time past time for responsi
ble leadership to retake the helm of a country
which will run in neutral gear until it realizes
it will decline with complacency.
It is no time to promote a false sense of
security for the sake of political expediency.
It is no time for clever political protegees to
trade repartees with Communist lenders, while
never taking any positive and dignified action
to make such pantry squabbles unnecessary.
It is no time for vice presidents groomed
to keep one political party in power, rather
than to serve the nation as it has a right to
expect to be served.
We place our faith in Senators John P.
Kennedy and Lyndon 11. Johnson to jerk us
out of the mood of apathy and false content
ment prepet rated on us by a lethargic, stale
mated candidate whose attitude is see no evil,
hear no evil, speak no evil.
Certainly, the nation is not presently on the
brink of social or economic ruin. But to
imply that we can do no better than we are
now doing, while allies are becoming neutral
and neutral nations are siding with Com
munism. is a political illusion designed oidy to
make the most of the least amount of vision for
a country which must always have a future.
This is no time to straddle a fence, nor a
recess to lie in the shade while the arch-enemies
of freedom grab the opportunities which right
fully belong to us.
This is the time for Jack Kennedy and Lyn
don Johnson, and finally- a time for the
United States.
Letters to the Editor
Kclttor:
On September 14, 1960, llryant Hodgson, secre
tary of the Student Council, mailed a postal card
to me asking Hint I "notify all Independent moil
and women concerned about Student Council meet
ing Sept. 15 at 2:30 p.tn at Memorial Hall.”
I was not In town when the letter arrived, and,
even If 1 had been, It would have boon Impossible
to notify all Independent students on the Connell
because they were scattered throughout Oeorgla
(this was during the summer holidays) Further
more, it Is not my responsibility to notify members
of the Council of meetings. Mr. HodgBon was
elected secretary of the Council, and notifying
members of meetings is one of his duties.
Another meeting of the Student Council was held
during orientation week. Independent students
were not notified of the meeting.
On October 6, another meeting of the Council
was held and still Independent representatives
were not notified.
It appears that Mr. Hodgson is deliberately re
fusing to notify Independent representatives on
the Council of the meetings or that ho Is incom
petent and lacking in initiative and ability.
The Student Council has long served as a sound
ing board for those who create III feeling between
the political parties here. Action such as that
by Mr. Hodgson adds to the strife between stu
dents. It. would be In the beat Interest of the Coun
cil nud the University If he resigned.
Lowell Kirby, Campus Leader
Independent Men
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Editor:
The officers and some members of the Cosmo
politan Club were quite surprised when they read
the article. "University Lists 43 Foreign Students”
In your last Issue. Please accept our gratitude for
writing something about us foreigners, who nre
proud to be students at the oldest state chartered
university. Hut we are not Just 43.
This year, parallel to the new height of 7,265
students at the university, we also have n record
enrollment of foreign students. With the excep
tion of the Law School, there ate international stu
dents registered in every school or department at
the university. Altogethei there are 9S students
from 39 different countries representing five con
tinents.
If you are interested In meeting the majority of
the foreign students, why don’t you come to the
meetings of the Cosmopolitan Club? They meet
every other Monday night at Memorial Hall, room
407.
We would consider it a pleasure to meet more
and more Americans, to have more and more the
chance to learn about your country, and to tell you
something about our homelands.
Frit* J. Stockmann. Vice President
Cosmopolitan Club
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Editor—Letter* should be limited to 200 words
Cflf Efi) an»i iBIacf!
. . . But you said you wanted to eat out!
Terry Hazelwood
Lots o’ Luck
Nikita Khrushchev is picking up the k en
pieces of his threats, tirades, and desk pi nding
diplomacy at the U. N. Just what he will i :,i e
to come up with now seems a little indefinite
He has suffered severe
matic setbacks. In fact,
have been so numerous that they
have caused him to make even
more, impossible demands to
justify himself on the home
front. He has put up a big
bluff, and the member nations
have seen through his sch(
and called his hand.
President Eisenhower let
have a taste of his own medicine at the very begin
ning of the world court sessions. British Prime
Minister Macmillan fired both barrels at him in
a piercing, well-worded address just days after Mr.
K's two-hour harang. To this attack, Mr. K. pro
ceeded to pound his desk vigorously. Macmillan
hit him whree it hurt most, as only a Briton could.
Khrushchev has been unable to muster enough
support to seat Red China in the General Assem
bly, to oust Dag Hammerskjold as secretary gen
eral, or to make a withdrawal of the U.S.K.R. from
the U. N. worthwhile, much less change the struc
ture of the governing body.
Mr. K. is not out of the picture yet, but at least
he’s not controlling things as he would like to.
Best all all, he’s on the receiving end of criticism
and ridicule for a change.
Rill Hoaqland
Man of the Hour
Ken Barnes
The Fever
Next month's election is kind of a referendum which will show
just what the American people are made of.
Are we bigots, blinded from ex- visions or policies of the last eight
aminlng all important issues and
principles in a glare of religious pre
judice?
Are we like a 'possum, content to
hang by our tails while politicians
tell us It is "dangerous" and un-
Ameriean to critically examine our
falling prestige umong nations of the
world?
Are we fools,
failing to realize
which party It is
that really has the
more obnoxious
civil rights plank
in Its platform,
which party It is
whose administra
tion called forth
the nefarious
situation In Little
Rock and the 1964
Supreme Court decision?
I’m for Jack Kennedy for presi
dent because he has the insides to
take command in positions of leader
ship where Nixon would remain "the
great partaker.” Even President Elsen
hower, no real devotee of his pre
sumed successor, has admitted that
Nixon has had no real part in de
years.
I'm for Jack because of the other
great minds which are sure to sur
round him—as advisors, not dicta
tors—if he is elected: Adlai Steven
son, Johnson, Truman, Rayburn. The
Republican party has its politicians,
but no great statesmen to take the
initiative Nixon is sure to share.
I'm for Jack largely because I
rebel at bullying tactics when per
sons with no other bond than nega
tive religious bias align with one
another to gang up on Kennedy be
cause he is a Catholic. Who knows
but what A1 Smith might have taken
a place in history with Washington,
Jefferson, and Jackson? I don’t
want to be cheated or limited in the
future by the hatred of preachers
who dabble in politics.
I’m for Jack because I trust him.
What reason has Nixon given us to
feel we can rely on him when the
chips are down? The new image he
attempts to project for himself may
fool some people, but others remem
ber his political cutthroat tactics of
years gone by.
Jack says we can do better as a
nation, and I agree. Truly It is a
time for greatness, and Sen. John F.
Kennedy is the man of the hour.
<£>lb Cbitors &peaU Hdrold Martin
Progress and Prohibition
(Our second Old Editor speaks this I reek of the University in the lean
ing days of the prohibition era. Harold Martin of Com merer, editor of
The Bed and Black in spring lt>Si. teas o member of Gridiron. Blue Key
Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and a founder of X Club. He is presently a
contributing editor of The Saturday Evening Host and a columnist for
The Atlanta Constitution.)
It’s that time of year again. Lunch hours are
being cut short, afternoon class attendance has
dropped, television parlors in dormitories, frater
nities, and sororities are now on a standing room
only basis during the afternoons.
The cause for this disrupted routine: the great
classic, the World Series is upon us once again.
Over in the American League,
the New York Yankees have
emerged the pennant winner once
again. This being only a mat
ter of routine in New York few
eyebrows were raised.
The story in the National
League is entirely different, how
ever. The Pittsburgh Pirates
have Just won their first pennant
since 1927, and the Iron City is in quite an uproar.
These same New Yorkers eliminated the Pirates
from the Series in 1927 in four straight games,
and the men from Pittsburgh are out to atone
for this humiliation of the pirates of yesteryear.
The experts are picking the Yankees with their
awesome power to emarge as champions. Since
I don’t like so-called experts or favorites, I am
going with the Pirates and their great pitching
staff.
Be you a Yankee or Pirate fan, one thing is
for sure! That regular daily schedule will suffer
until the new world champion has been decided.
Tl\)t &eb anb iHack
Bill Hoaqland
Editor
Guy Ebekhardt
Business Manager
Terry Hazei w.od
Managing Editor
Alan Wexler
News Editor
When I came to the University
some 30-odd years ago, the whole
student body was about as big as
today's freshman class. It was a
shabby old place then, for its great
building program was still to come,
and the years of its surging growth
lay far ahead.
We were pretty "collegiate" in
those days. I'm agraid. The men
wore baggy knickers, though they
were fast going out to be replaced by
the equally monstrous bell bottom
trouser with cuffs 22 inches wide.
I don't remember what the women
wore, but they must have worn some
thing. or I would have noticed it.
Causing most of us campus dwellers
to lose sleep at night was the in
cessant war that went on between
freshmen and sophomores, the howl
and clang of battle between the
denizens of New College, which in
my time was a pig sty. and Candler
Hall, a slum.
There were other distractions that
by night would interfere with an
earnest student’s labors: the joyous
cries and caterwauls of the brethren
returning from their fraternity
houses where they had touched
spirits. Prohibition held the country
in its grip la my day, and many a
man who’d never touched a drop be
fore he came to college, and re
mained a tee-totaler thereafter, felt
constrained to strike a blow for
liberty by swilling some poisonous
concoction which made him gay. The
fraternity house builders were the
bootleggers in those days, and some
of them made more money than did
the president of the University
I understand that now that there
is no law to challenge them, students
at the University do not touch spirits
any more, and I am very glad to
know that this is so.
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