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OCTOBER 10. IMS • THE MERCER CLUSTER • 2
American Political Gaff:
From Hubert, Dick, & George
This is one of those election years when
honest and discerning men should take an
extended vacation to parts unknown where
* there are no newspapers, radios or televi
sions.
The major candidates, and there are
three, are concentrating on arresting any
tendencies toward reaction away from our
eighty odd months of constant prosperity
and over twenty years of acknowledged
world leadership. The candidates do v not
seem interested in any long range proposals
toward progress but seem intent on stem
ming the disrupting extremists on the far
right and those on the far left.
Humphrey wants to maintain the na
tion’s progress in civil rights and welfare
legislation — he has not proposed any cogent
moves forward but has concentrated on talk
ing about our “happiness” and its necessary
maintenance.
“Tricky Dick” Nixon is intent on keep
ing our international influence credible and
{ irevent any further unfortunate mistakes
ike'Viet Nam by using some magical “power
wand” to blow away all communist and pop
ular front revolts against world American
ism.- This smell of Dulles’ discredited “brink
manship.” Maybe not.
It looks like Americans want another
“return to normalcy” and this is felt by the
major campaign headquarters. The concept
of “law and order” is an index of the strength
of the notion that this year’s national poli
tics should be dominated with the concept
of maintaining the status quo in the face of
fierce and rapid dissent from the far right
and far left.
What these happy men running for office
seem to have forgotten is that despite the
groaning problem of Viet Nam and problems
in the city streets the next four years will be
for the large part concerned with other
things.
The moment Is very confusing and tends
to lav a smoke screen over the other national
problems:
Our surpluses are dwindling. There
is the problem of urban expansion.
There is the issues over the uneffective
ness of the department of HEW. There
is the problem of the rising Soviet in
fluence in the Mediterranean area and
its consequences in Italy and Turkey.
There is the growing deafness in Latin
America to United States’ claims of help
and the reality of our paltry actions.
There is the obsolete character of NATO
alongside the obvious need for some
thing to fill the vacuum left by its obso
lescence.
American skies are filling with traf
fic and no landing places. The housing
problem is catching the smaller urban
areas now and will only expand. Are we
actually going to have an anti-missile
system and if so, why; and if not, why
not? There is the actual fact that the
Defense Department cannot function
very much longer with effectiveness and
according to Adm. Rickover it doesn’t
do much of a job now. Are American
schools going to suffer with every budget
cut?
This election has proven .so far that the
Roosevelt coalition is no longer a viable com
bination in the election returns and it should
also be the year that the President-elect,
who ever he may be, will realize the Roose
velt concept of departmentalized administra
tion is also obsolete; what can and will take
its place?
The vocal gaff of the candidates is getting
too rapid and repititious to be real. Will this
campaign ever come down out of the dust
clouds created in Chicago and settle on facts
and viable proposals or will it continue on
the greatest hoax of all time: Namely that
Viet Nam and Law and Order are our Prob
lems?
The problems are not law and order or
Viet Nam. Those are only symptoms of the
sickness, the sickness is the method in which
things have been run in our executive gov
ernment since Yalta.
We need preventive politics, like preven
tive medicine. If we continue to only treat
the symptoms the sickness will continue ad
infinitum. We need a serum to prevent the
virus of administration which allowed the
debacle at Chicago and the incalculable mis
takes in Viet Nam. Our candidates are nine
teenth century doctors, they only talk about
the present situation and do not try to find
ways of preventing the symptoms from re
occuring.
I WONDER WHY
Ah! Crisp Fall air, flying birds, thick
green bushes, lucious grass, shredded cam
paign posters. Yes, H-Hour was 12:01 A.M.
Monday, and the preparations had been go
ing full speed all the preceding week: nubile
young ladies using all their innate charms
(and some of cotton) to persuade the burly,
non-restricted men to tape up those sweet,
non-repetitive, entirely original posters.
While standing near the student center
yesterday, I was startled to hear a “Swoosh!”
Nearly two feet behind me lay a pile of rusty
tin cans and tom Macon newspapers. And al
though neither is anything worth looking at,
I looked up toward the benevolent donors in
the sky. The small winged craft obviously
mistook the campus for a junkyard. I won
der why.
Academy, Hospital
Need Student Aides
Georgia’s Academy of the Blind
hero in Macon and the Mliledge-
ville State Hospital in MUledge-
ville have sent out an appeal to
interested Mercer students to as
sist in training the blind and the
educable mentally retarded. In
both pieces, assistance It needed
for teaching the children social
skills and manner*.
At the Academy of the Blind,
there are children in all age levels,
but help is primarily needed for
those in the age rang* four to six
year*. Because of the ratio of about
twenty-five children per bouse pa
rent, the staff and personnel are
too limited to roach each child
properly.
A. similar situation exists at the
MiUedgeville State hospital where
there are many educable mentally
retarded children, hut because it
is so crowded the staff is not abl#
to reach them individually and
give them proper training. These
children have ant tear
simple social skills and
to
—but they are capable of learning.
Both institutions appeal to in
terested students for help. There
are no qualifications; everyone is
welcome to help.
Dr. Jean Hendrick* of Mercer’s
psychology department, has set up
a schedule whereby interested stu
dents may work with the MiUedge
ville project Friday afternoons
and/or Saturday mornings. The
exact time of departure caa ha ob
tained from Dr. Hendricks. Stu
dents interested in working with
children at the Blind Academy can
contact David Hyar, at the Acade
my. at 746-9347, or at his home
at 746-3685.
Mr. Hyar can sat up tutoriag
sessions from four to five in the
afternoons. Inch person will ha
aafced to Work with one child.
Traaaportatioe will ha provided
for anyone to and from the Acad-
not be expected to weaken a ediad
to
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"Cinema is the at
of our time, die youngest and
moat vital of the arts.’’ It speaks
louder and mare dearly than much
of the great literature. In raalie-
ing this, Mercer's Student Union
has arranged for the showing of
the “New Cinema” an exciting col
lection of award-winning short
films, from Nn»onfioc31-33.
Another coflectiou of the asms
type will ha shown during winter
quarter. Then films have net yet
been released to commercial thea
tres. They Soatnm image* of pm*
. in
artiatie
meet every majar rim* fiha award
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One Does Find Himself Wonderin
By Julian Gordy
The Sophomores and Freshmen
presented a vary entertaining even
ing last Tuesday, the Freshman
talent show. Although the show
was five minutes lata in getting un
derway, and though there worn
several technical difficulties at the
beginning, the evening’* entertain
ment proved to be worth the time.
The diversity of the acts proved
to be a gnat asset One doss find
himself wondering how the judges
could correctly Judge between a
folk-song act, a piano solo, and
a comedy monologue. However, no
one could greatly criticise their de
cisions.
Taking third place among the
more than fifteen acta was folk-’
singer Carol Strange, who wrote
one of the two songs that she sang.
Second place went to a boy'
has mad* hi* voice wall known
the Meaner caaspua during the i
three weeks. This talented
tone la Georg* Htndersoo.
Henderson’s rich veto* hushed i
crowd m ha aang "The Lord
My Light" and "Moon Riv
George has never had any fon
voice training. He got in floe
sic game when he began riagini
the church youth choir and
high school chorus. George si
for enjoyment, and he
plan to major in a music field.
“Habanera,” mag by Gfiald
Neely won first place. Mias No
has studied fat two yaaie un
Prof. John VaaOum. A* mi
expected after hearing Gei
dine'a beautiful votoo, she plan
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