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OF ST. MARY’S
Vol. XXIV, No. 2
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
October 28, 1960
YOUNG DEMOCRATS CLUB
^^nsor, Miss Tucker; Officers, Vickie Chubb, G. ('aimoii, Jajie Jloorc
trances Jones
YOUNG REPUBLICANS CLUB
Why I Am A Democrat
to
f'e Democratic Party appeals
me because it promotes the
rlosophy that government exists
the people and not just
privileged feiv. This philoso-
pC lew. ims p
frn been handed down to us
bpo^ founding fathers and has
eve^ ^Pbeld by our leaders in
Dp*^^ democratic administration.
legislation provides
he betterment of the ivork-
^ man’s condition, and fav-
ing
em an
the
Small f*^°?emy which permits t
fairl business man to compete
j)gj- ^ ''’^tli big business. The party
all equal opportunities for
Jjegardless of race or religion.
Veio ^°®®es conservation and de
ft j of our natural resources,
a ];i ^ progressive party, and it is
sdpp*?^^^ party. In his acceptance
in f^^e National Convention
eciio"^ 'Angeles Senator Kennedy
Amp • asjiirations of most
W’hen he spoke of the
tlin of the New Frontier of
His call w'as similar
by theme to that voiced
eallgu'^^*^^''^ d. Roosevelt when he
durin Americans to sacrifice
^Jenev^f n
the u ^°bmving the bleak years of
Vejp °°yor administration. Roose-
bold people and his
severe depression this
of i, P°bcies lifted our nation out
^ount^ ^^ost severe
As known. None of
great bved in that era, with its
forget of jobless people, can
Rooso,.„i. ® encouragement that
dh
j^osevelt gave us in his “Fireside
has a .^.believe that Kennedy
ipn ^^’*klar spark of greatness,
be spoke to the Greater
sociaf'^'^ (Texas) Ministerial As-
the' f °u September 12 he made
the ® m'^’ing assertion: “While
becp,f°'(i^^dd religious issue is
‘mily and properly the chief
topic here tonight, I want to em
jihasize from the outset that we
liave far more critical issues to
face in the 1960 election: The
sjjread of Communist influence,
until it now festers 90 miles off
the coast of Florida—the humili
ating treatment of our President
and Vice President by those who
no longer respect our power—^the
hungry children I saw in AVest
Virginia, the old people who can
not pay their doctor bills, the
families' forced to give up their
farms—an America with too many
slums, with too few schools, and
too late to the moon and outer
space. These are the real issues
which should decide this cam
paign. And they are not religious
jggues—for war and hunger and
ignorance and desj)air know no
religious barriers. But because I
am a Catholic and no Catholic has
ever been elected President, the
real issues in this campaign have
been obscured. So it is apparently
necessarv for me to state once
ug.jin—not what kind of church
I believe in, for that should be
im]:)ortant only to me—but what
kind of America I believe in. I
believe in an America where the
separation of church and state
is absolute—where no Catholic
ju-elate would tell the President
(should he be Catholic) how to
act, and no Protestant minister
woidd tell his parishioners for
whom to vote—where no church
or church school is granted any
j)ublic funds or political prefer-
(jnee—and where no man is de
nied public office merely because
his religion differs from the Presi
dent who might appoint him or the
people who might elect him.”
Kennedy favors aid to depress-
(Continned on Page 4)
Why I Will Vote For Nixon
It was George Orwell, I believe,
who said that of all professions
politics is the one profession ama
teurs know more about than the
professionals. The truth of this
statement I keep in mind as I pre
sent these generalizations and con
clusions.
The Republican ticket offers me
a chance to express approval of
several important points. Vice
President Nixon and Air. Lodge
with their unquestionable degree of
executive and legislative exper
ience are a distinct contrast to
Senator Kennedy and Senator
.lohnson. In foreign affairs the Re
publicans already have proven
their ability: Vice President Nixon
in South America, for example,
and Mr. Lodge in the United Na
tions. Despite the riots, Vice Presi
dent Nixon is respected highly by
the people of South America, a
grouj) whose respect will be need
ed acutely in all future relation
ships. As coordinator of the Unit
ed States nonmilitary programs,
which Vice President Nixon will
organize if elected, Mr. Lodge will
be an active leader in our “inter
national programs, both govern
mental and private.” Senator Ken
nedy’s voting record in the Senate
mirrors the Senator’s lack of ex
perience and interest. Senator
Johnson, despite his past exper
ience, seems to me to be on the
ticket only to comfort the South
on the segregation-intergration is
sue.
Senator Kennedy’s national and
international programs admittedly
will be more costly than the ones
advocated by Vice President Nix
on. In his national reforms for the
“little man” Senator Kennedy will
be taking money directly from the
pocket of the little man. Today one
does not get anything for nothing.
To finance any program one must
have money; the money must
come from the tax payer. The larg
er, the more expansive the pro
gram, the higher will be the taxes.
Higher taxes will be paid by every
one, but the wealthy will suffer
less than the little man. At the
moment the economy of the United
States is in a precarious state, a
condition not necessarily a direct
result of the present administra
tion. Can the present administra
tion help it if more people are buy-
mg compact cars, purchases which
m turn cut considerable the
amount of steel produced and sold?
With our shakey economy a con
servative program is the only sane
policy, as I understand the prob
lem, for the next year or so; and
conservatism is not associated with
either the Democratic party or
Senator Kennedy’s reforms.
Senator Kennedy’s stand on fed
eral aid to education demands at-
tention. Senator Kennedy approves
01 iederal aid to supplement teach
ers salaries; Vice President Nixon
disapproves. If federal aid is once
given to supplement salaries, I feel
sure the aid will always be given.
Control of what material is pre
sented in class and what text books
are selected can conceivablely pass
from the hands of the school or
state to the hands of the govern
ment. If a school or state wishes
to rip out a chapter on evolution
or communism in a college text
book before issuing it to students,
students of that particular school
or state will remain ignorant on
the subject. To be faced with the
danger that all students will re
main ignorant is vastly more
frightening. Vice President Nixon’s
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