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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 it k BA "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 i% tha world. • ' 4 /• 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 iai -’-be GLENN YARBROUGH Interview Continued From Page One ANSWER: ”1 had originally hoped to make the trip all at once, spending perhaps years sailing from place to place . . . staying awhile at thorn places that most appealed to me. I'd decided it was a pretty big ocean and I could stay on it a long time. However, when my first record came oet and wee a respectable hit, I real ised that 1 could not run a career from the deck of a boat and that this, too, would have to be post poned for awhila." QUESTION: Hue you’ve given up the idea? ANSWER; “No. not at alL It’s just that now Fm making the trip on the IntiHmat flln I made tire first pert of the trip ... Ban Diego to Hawaii ... two year* ago. I left the boat in Hawefi and flew beck to tbs amtalnad to 4a a concert tour. I bod hoped to make the Tahiti leg of the Janiaay this peat n time nr. bat at the last minute darided'to trim it aaay and A QUESTION: Ten dent slag many canto Eg* people know. Why la AMT tan who think hr these terms though I must admit, good m ■own to ha popping up n mote them days. Things that written primarily for impact, * not any teal raMUringiaas to I ring anyti that haa a no tern*, gt Isaat to anyway. Red McKean** work alway* had riopth and omMam that’* why I da an many of son William* and Heyt Axtcn piihiilgMriI if lull ii QUESTION: What are i ANSWER: "My ha going in several dhsation natty. In addition to moon far Warner Bn not town, I have mended th -nw It wetod be rim* c. and filmed nor. or I pin to dee m weS. Ar del n tin -TET as weS. A< who I’m wi|km to tor W* .•■**(“ *