It's what's happening Dad
Come on over and sit down Dad, because there's something I would like to try to explain to you. We've sort of a misunderstanding between you and me that I'd like to clear up.
You've been reading a lot lately about something called the "new morality" adopted by my generation. Many magazine writers, newspapermen and barbershop philosophers have rendered their analyses of this code, so Id like to tell you mine.
ALL THOSE MAGAZINE stories about sex on campus and the like might lead you to believe that the new morality is just an experiment in sex conducted by a generation that has lost the old values you once cherished.
I've seen you shake your head at those stories about student demonstrations over this issue and that saying. "What's the matter with those kids. Don't they know what's right."
WELL DAD, these may be part of our new morality, but don't let your mind stop seeing beyond these points. Don't get bogged down with the superficial part. The sex and the demonstrations are only small isolated symptoms of the new morality blown out of proportion to sell magazines.
Dad, I'm trying to say that the new morality of my generation is made of sturdier stuff. It goes deep under the surface of the superficial.
To me, this term, new morality, is the curiosity of young minds in America at full bloom. It's an exciting thing, Dad. It's like waking in the morning and taking a shower of new ideas and different trends of thought. It's a world where values turn into shades of grey, instead of black and white.
AFTER YOU FOUGHT in World War II, Dad, you found yourself at the helm of the most powerful and prosperous country in the world. To keep this position, you thrust your hands into world politics with only your old morality to guide you. Sometimes, you used your old code and wondered why the rest of the world scorned your actions. So, in many cases you modified the old.
Dad, your technology and communications shrunk the world that my childhood dreamed in, and I peered at a world of many peoples with many ideas. The prosperity that you forged out of these times you lavished on me and sent me to the arena of these different thoughts and ideas the university. Your old codes lost their reason and validity in my world of many people and ideas.
I have observed that in many cases our complex world offers no clear-cut right and wrong, black or white. In trying to understand this kind of world, our new morality lets us see in shades of grey. It provides a wide set of values between right and wrong.
THIS IS A GREAT thing, Dad, because it gives us a greater flexibility in dealing with situations. It cuts away old codes of prejudice from our thinking and, as sad as it may be, has also cut away religion for many of us.
All I want in the future is a good life for me and all peoples of the world. Maybe, when my generation becomes as yours, my goals will be a whole lot closer. Thanks Pop.
By JIM SULLINGER
Progress comes slowly
Government scientists recently announced a breakthrough in crop pest control, using gamma irradiation, which requires less time than fumigation, leaves no undesirable residues and might be as effective in eliminating insects as any of the present control techniques.
News such as this reaffirms one's faith in the progress we are slowly making toward creating a better place in which to live. So much more agreeable it is to read about constructive happenings, than to read the usual destructive news.
BUT SOMEDAY headlines and stories concerning scientific victories over microscopic enemies, diseases and poverty conditions will become more frequent. Strengthening America at home through positive action against poverty,
stums and diseases will come after we win the Asian conflict and have a billion dollars a month to spend on ourselves.
Common sense tells me that first we should heal our domestic wounds completely at whatever the cost, and then look to the stars.
Reality reminds me, however, that we have to preserve Asia from Communist domination, and we have to beat the U.S.S.R. to the moon. In other words, you starving people will just have to wait and you thirsty people must continue drinking bad water a while longer. Help is coming someday, rest assured, because some-day science will have the funds to accelerate its painstakingly slow pace.
By JOEL AHLBRANDT
"Er----maybe I can be of assistance."
Official Bulletin
Composition & Literature Conference. All day. Kansas Union.
TODAY
Sigma XI Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Dr. Molvin Kranzberg, national lecturer, "Unity of Science & Technology." 303 Bailey.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "A Raisin in the Sun," Dyche Aud.
Film Series, 7.30 p.m. "The Rest is Silence." German. Hoch Aud.
SATURDAY
National Press Women Workshop, 9:30-11 a.m. 250 Flint.
Science, Mathematics & Engineering Day, All day. Hoch Aud.
Kruf Fresh-Junior College Invitatio
tal Cross Country. 10:30 a.m. 23rd
& Iowa
Football. 1:15 p.m. Oklahoma State at Stillwater.
Early Primary Education Conference. All day, Kansas Union.
Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "A Raisin in the Sun" Dumy C Aud.
University Lutheran Church, Discussions, 9:45 a.m.; Sunday worship, 11 a.m.; Gamma Delta, 5:30. 15th and Iowa streets.
Oread Friends Meeting, 10:30 p.m.
An unprogrammed meeting for worship followed by discussion of topics current interest. Everyone welcome.
National College Honors Council, All day, Kansas Union.
NROTC Welcome Aboard Reception,
3 p.m. Kansas Room, Kansas Union.
Carillon Recital, 3 p.m. Albert
Gerken
Faculty Club Special Lecture, 5 p.m.
Dr. John Cairns, KU, "Pollution:
Who's Responsible?" Buffet supper follows.
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editorial page
Friday. October 21, 1966
The 89th reviewed
McCormack: hit the mark
Editor's note: Speaker John W. McCormack for the Democrats, and House GOP leader Gerald R. Ford for the Republicans, have prepared for United Press International their separate and conflicting appraisals of the achievements of the 89th Congress. Their reports follow.
by Speaker JOHN W. MECMACK House Democratic Leader
WASHINGTON—(UPI) — The great accomplishments of this session coupled with the unequaled record of the first session suggests that we must once again remind all Americans that the 89th Congress has truly earned the title of the Congress of fulfillment.
THIS CONGRESS demonstrated that it recognized its responsibility to the American people and it met that responsibility.
This Congress took dead aim at the major problems plaguing this nation—and it did not miss the mark.
And it gives me a special sense of pride to be able to tell you that in the achievements of the 89th Congress, the Democratic Party has again found political and social immortality.
WE HAVE renewed our pledge to the principles of the Democratic Party—principles that are dedicated to securing equality of opportunity for all and protecting the people against the power of special privilege.
Through Medicare, the Democratic Party has helped tackle the problem of providing adequate medical and hospital care for our fellow Americans who have reached the golden years.
THROUGH the elementary and secondary education act, we have provided the means of insuring that every American child—regardless of his economic status—is the best educated in the world today.
Through the higher education act, we have provided the facilities required by our colleges so they will not have to turn back the thousands of young men and women who will be waiting at their doors in the coming years.
THROUGH the housing act and the rent supplemental program we have sought to provide a minimum level of decent housing for every American family—including those who are not so fortunate as ourselves.
Through the voting rights act, we have granted every citizen the sacred right of exercising his judgment at the polls—regardless of the color of his skin, or his race or his religion.
Ford: sees one glaring failure
by Rep. GERALD R. FORD House Republican Leader
That failure was the refusal of this Democratic Congress, this Congress with greater than 2-to-1 Democratic majorities, to come to grips with inflation and thus strike a blow for the little people and the aged.
WASHINGTON—(UPI) — This session of Congress has not been without its accomplishments, but it will be most remembered for one glaring failure.
THE DESTRUCTIVENESS of the inflation now plaguing this country is worsening. The cost of living is continuing its sharp and steady climb. Yet this Democratic Congress refused to help hold down prices by cutting several billions in unnecessary federal spending. This Democratic Congress instead insisted on further inflating President Johnson's already inflated budget.
The nation has just suffered through a nearly 10-month legislative session with the "spend-ingest" President and Congress in our country's history. Together this combination spells Johnson-Democratic inflation, and that is the story of the second session, 89th Congress.
THIS DEMOCRATIC Congress recorded another failure closely related to Johnson-Democrat inflation. The Congress did not increase Social Security benefits this year. Johnson-Democrat inflation demanded that there be action. Republicans urged passage of Social Security legislation at this session and introduced bills providing for automatic increases in benefits tied to the cost of living.
FRESIDENT JOHNSON and Democrats in Congress ignored Republican pleas. Then Mt. Johnson suddenly—near the end of the session—called for congressional action next year on a benefits increase effective not now but in January, 1997. It was an increase to be financed by a payroll tax increase. When the Republicans then demanded immediate action on increased Social Security benefits, Democratic leaders laughed it off.
Repeatedly during this session of Congress, President Johnson himself has hung a spender tag on his lopsided Democratic majorities. Yet in a recent campaign speech, Mr. Johnson said the historians would rate the 89th as "the great Congress." The President really ought to make up his mind. He can't have it both ways.
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