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  • Icul THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Thursday, October 12, 1972 page 5 The Cullowhee Conservative By Michael C. Tuggle Here's something we can all agree on- we want peace, an end to military conflict. We all want to live undisturbed and untroubled. Everyone desires a quiet world free from nuclear pandemonium. Who's the man of peace In '72? McGovern? No, George McGovern is not the man who can best assure the world of a peaceful future. "But he says he Isl" True, McGovern says that he Is the one who will save the world, but his past and his proposals fail to back him up, McGovern has the idea that cutting our capabilities to defend ourselves will insure world peace, McGovern proposes that America must cut her Navy by 134,000 men, her Army from 2.5 to 1.7 million, and her Marines to only two divisions. Also, McGovern would dump most shipbuilding programs and our B-l bomber program. Where does this leave us? As far as conventional weapons are concerned, we would be in pitiful shape. But what about nuclear arms? Imagine that a crisis popped up during McGovern's administration, one similar to the Cuban missile crisis. If any confrontation arose, we would have no choice but to use what we had left, the nuclear monster. President Kennedy was hardlya paranoid anti-Communist, but he understood what an ambitious bunch of rascals the Communists are, thus the showdown over Cuba in 1962,, McGovern Is In a world all his own, because he fails to understand Communism's aims. Without an adequate supply of the best conventional weapons, we shall place ourselves in a potentially disastrous situation. Hypothetical nightmares aside, how sincere is McGovern about his commitment to end the war in Vietnam? From what we have seen so far, his commitment Is very limited. George McGovern voted in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which was an approval of the sending of troops to Vietnam. How hard has McGovern worked to end the war? Last year his roll- call attendance was a disgraceful fifty- two percent, which was the next to the worst in the Senate. Recently, McGovern outraged the anti-war faction of the Senate when he failed to appear for the Brooke amendment. This amendment would have required an immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam. It was killed by the close vote of 42 to 45. Senator Brooke, the author of the amendment, felt that if McGovern truly wanted an end to the war, he would have used his Influence to pass the amendment, Brooke explained, "The war is McGovern's main campaign issue. He had an opportunity to be effective but he was out talking about it when he could have been here voting against the war." If we want a responsible, reasonable peace, George McGovern's candidacy must be resisted. President Nixon has proven himself to be willing to negotiate for the kind of peace we can all live with. Special note to Stephen Gheen, professional McGovern fanatic- Gee, Steve, "Confuse the enemy" is an old political ploy. Had I known that the enemy was capable of writing a letter to the WESTERN CAROLINIAN, I would have told you to simply check your July 20 issue of the DAILY WORLD. As General Secretary, Gus Hall is the absolute boss of the American Communist Party and its newspaoer, the DAILY WORLD. In the July 20 edition of the DAILY WORLD, an editorial urged mobilization "to defeat Nixon's bid for another term." Also, there were numerous articles praising two international unions and several steel unions for supporting McGovern. So you see, Steve, I'm not so "yellow" after all. I'll even let you watch me next time I prepare my column. The Liberal View 1 By Gary Richardson Liberal economist John Kenneth Gail- braith onee said, "There are only three people in the world who really understand ecomonics and they will not speak to each other." I give you this quote for two reasons. First, I will point out that I am not one of the three. The second reason is to demonstrate that in a science of such limited vision as economics there are many schools of thought with renowned economists subscribing to each one. I can assure my readers that for every Nixon economist such as Milton Friedman who would refer to McGovern's policies as "irresponsible" there is a McGovern economist of the caliber of M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson to give an instant rebuttal to the charge. McGovern's economic and fiscal policies have fallen under fire as being radical. This is simply not so. His policies can, however, be described as sensible and refreshing. Wall Street knows that McGovern cannot be placed under their thumb and they dislike him for that reason. As John Westergaard, president of Equity Research Associates says, "My heart is with McGovern but my pocketbook is not," I think it would be reasonable to assume that most Wall Street financiers and econ- omicists put their pocketbook before their heart. George McGovern knows it is senseless for large corporations like ITT not to pay taxes while the a- verage working man has to give a fifth of his paycheck to Uncle Sam. George McGovern is accused of being a radical because he advocates the taking a- way of incentives for investment significantly by reducing the current 7 per cent credit for new capital Investment and reducing the 22 per cent oil depletion allowances to cover only actual costs. Businessmen need incentives to make investments about as muchas rabbits do to propigate. Sure there are risks involved, but one must understand that in any capitalist system an investor must take the chance of losing that which he has invested. Nixon is said to staunchly believe in "laissez-faire" capitalism although he was finally converted to what economi- cist Harry Johnson termed "the most vulgar form of Keynsianism." In my opinion, through the loan to Lockheed, allowing ITT to merge very indiscreetly with Continental Insurance Company and price-wage controls which allow profits to rise while wages remain stagnate - Richard Nixon has quite clearly shown he believes in free enterprise for the working man and socialism for the rich. George McGovern through his policies has demonstrated that he believes the opposite, George McGovern offers a viable welfare plan as an alternative to the wasteful one that now exists. He proposes a three part program of National Income Insurance. Part one is a $6 billion - a - year program to create 1 million new public service jobs for people who are now on welfare. These people would be put to work cleaning up this country's environment, rebuilding cities and doing other kinds of labor which would improve the nation. Senator McGovern would expand social security coverage to 3 million aged, blind and disabled people who would otherwise be on welfare rolls. An estimated 12 million would remain on welfare rolls. For these people McGovern would provide an annual minimum income of $4,000 and food stamps for a family of four. The Democratic Presidential candidate knows, unlike his opponent, that America is much too wealthy to allow its citizens to be poor or go hungry, or an able-bodied man to be unemployed. George McGovern's economics spell out a new fairness to the working man and a new decency to the impoverished. He has made It clear to Wall Street "that he Is a tough man to deal with and will not become its indentured servant as his opponent has. Confidential to Mr. O'JNeal and McGraw: Love means never having to say how much you make each other sick. Saturday is Homecoming. And it will be the final Homecoming in Memorial Stadium, which has always seemed inadequate. So much so, that game attendance In the past has often been poor. This Is undoubtedly due to Memorial Stadium's many inconveniences. After all, it is hard to concentrate on anon-academic, ex- ness that' citing contact sport while one is surrounded by such scholarly, dull structures as McKee", Stillwell, and The LIBRA RY. Fortunately, things will be different next year. That's right foot-ball lovers, there's a miracle happening in Cullowhee! It's so exciting we hope you all have seen it, In case you haven't noticed, it's just beyond the Belch Building where that dreadful bog used to be. At last our University has seen fit to clean out all those ugly weeds, annoying Insects, creepy lizards, frogs and salamanders. It's quite a relief to know that there's no longer a chance of any alligators livings here in Cullowhee, The whole thing was such an eyesore. Ooh. But thank good- all past history now, Less than two years, this formerly neglected area will have been miraculously transformed into an arena of athletic endeavor. Already the ground has been broken, and with each scrape of the bulldozer, all of us can visualize the glory and the splendor of the finished stadium. This magnificent erection will serve as an Inspiration not only to our art students, who will be uplifted to new heights of creativity while they are diligently working away in their own intricately designed arts complex adjoining the stadium site, but also to all the children of the community who will be inspired by the clean sportsmanship which their little eyes can feast upon there. Let's hope that the playing field will be covered with that beautiful, artificial Astroturf. It is so much more dependable than real grass. With artificial turf, there are none of those unsightly stains on the boys' nice clean playsults, And the color would be such a nice, uniform Green without any of the irregularities common to natural grass. But no matter what type of surface is used, the important thing is that the former natural marsh will be replaced by something which will be of direct benefit to all of us here in Cullowhee. Dear Eunice and Florence, My problem is simple. I mean I'm a neat looking dude, right? And sure I can draw and always know the right thing to say..,untll It comes to making out with a chick. I can't seem to find the nerve to ask. And I can't hardly find any Signed, Too Pooped to Pucker Dear Tired, Watch your language, young man. Dear Eunice and Florence, I am a girl with a problem who is a boy. Whenever I see him I smile and wink and do all the supposedly correct things that young ladies do to attract young men. But he remains uninterested. Should I keep trying or should I give up? Dear Eunice and Florence, Yesterday I was appalled to hear a young woman tell a young man to "jump up a cow's ass." What could she have meant? Couldn't help over-hearing.
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